Government spending too high

After two years of making unfulfilled promises most people are closely watching to see if the government will this time make tangible efforts to reduce its spending when Finance Minister,…

Sugar fad

With this year's sugar production standing at only 3 368 tonnes compared to a normal harvest of 260 000 tonnes and the situation only expected to return to normal in…

Bread price

The price of bread, the only foodstuff whose price has been static for the past 10 months, is likely double when it is reviewed next. With the price of wheat…

Finish yellow first

Zimbabweans will have to be more resourceful to obtain white maize meal as authorities are reported to have restricted the supply of white maize until the present stocks of yellow…

Whose insurance?

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…

ZUPCO should respond to demand

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 -…

Queen’s lingo

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…

Down the drain

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…

A Ndebele speaks his mind

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…