Better prospects for coffee

The decision by the Coffee Growers Association to go it alone instead of having the crop marketed by the Grain marketing Board, as has been the case all along, should…

1992: a wasted year!

The year just ended will go down as one of the worst in this country's history. Nothing moved. The economy, agriculture and politics were all stagnant, if not declining. The…

Call for better youth policy

With the country churning out between 200 000 and 300 000 school-leavers each year, the majority of whom will not get jobs, there has been increasing debate as to whether…

Tough year for The Insider

Having been slapped with our first, and so far only, lawsuit towards the end of last year, 1992 was a very tough year for The Insider. Production costs went up…

Developers worried about phones

PROPERTY developers are now concerned that the shortage of telephone lines will adversely affect the lettability of new premises because chances of getting a telephone installed within a year, in…

Devaluation or not?

The Zimbabwe dollar, which has so far managed to stand its ground against major currencies since the 1991 devaluation despite the tumbling of, first , the US dollar, and then,…