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The announcement that the proposed National Social Security Scheme, which private insurance companies are strongly against, has been postponed for another year seems to indicate that the scheme may be…

The intransigence of the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company which insists on running empty buses instead of lowering fares is clearly proving what proponents of privatisation have always argued for -…

English, which is Zimbabwe's official language although it is a first language for only four or five percent of the population, is now the world's primary language. It is now…

The human race uses more water in washing away what it has consumed than on anything else, according to results of studies released to The Insider by a leading estate…

Twelve years of Zimbabwe's independence have witnessed the progressive marginalisation and domination of the Ndebele people by the majority dominant Shona groups. From 1980 to 1987 this process of domination…

Samson the talking bull is back and in full swing. The Cold Storage Commission, which has been in constant trouble to try and meet the country's beef needs in the…

Bulawayo's flat dwellers, mostly middle income earners and the elderly, are paying for the intransigence of the government to meet the city's water needs as they have been slapped with…

President Mugabe has managed to slightly trim his cabinet as well as fulfil regional balance but has created another dubious ministry, the Ministry of National Affairs, Employment Creation and Cooperatives…

In one of the most ambitious studies to establish the plight of disabled pupils the National Foundation for the Disabled is conducting a nationwide survey on how many secondary schools…

The proposed bill to enable the government to fund political parties should be widely debated, particularly in such forums as television programmes like Insight, Tonight or Issues and Views before…