MDC says PSM is a damp squib

The Movement for Democratic Change has described the Production Sharing Model (PSM) announced by the government this week as a damp squib because investors do not base their decisions on explanatory notes. All they want is a clear policy and legal framework.

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Why can’t Tsvangirai take a bed rest?

I have been wondering what it must have been like living in Cuba under Fidel Castro? Forty-nine years under one leader! Was the life in Cuba centred around Castro like life in Zimbabwe is centred around Robert Mugabe who is still some 15 years short of reaching Castro’s record?

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Top stories for May 21-25

No need for Zimbos in South Africa to panic- Pretoria says- Zimbabweans who obtained work permits under the Special Dispensation programme in South Africa in 2009 do not need to panic. Pretoria has no intention of reversing the benefits of the dispensation. A statement by the Department of Home Affairs today said that the programme which allowed close to 250 000 Zimbabweans to be regularised had enhanced national security and the management of migration, It had also helped to mitigate widespread abuse of Zimbabweans illegally in the country by corrupt employers and officials. “It is not South Africa’s intention to reverse the benefits of the dispensation,” the statement said.

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How Zimbabwe can rise from the ashes

While there are manuals on how to put the most complex structures, there is no toolbox on how to rebuild a destroyed nation. “People have to look to their culture, their history, the nature of the crisis they face and come up with their own solutions.”

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