Zimbabwe: a hard sell

South Africa's Business Day of October 19, 1998 provided an interesting scenario of how difficult it must be to sell Zimbabwe to investors. On the front page was a story…

Mutasa shoots his mouth again

ZANU-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa and now confirmed Manicaland boss after his faction swept all the seats in the provincial elections held recently is once again shooting off his…

Mugabe in desperate moves!

The last 12 months have been a nightmare for President Robert Mugabe. Faced with probably the stiffest challenge to his leadership in the 18 years he has been at the…

Chiyangwa and indigenisation

When the Affirmative Action Group was formed in 1994, there was a lot of acrimony about the new organisation. Several questions were raised about why it had been formed when…

Rothmans predicts a bright future

While its major competitor British American Tobacco Zimbabwe is reeling under a $35 million doubtful debt, Rothmans of Pall Mall Zimbabwe has posted good results with the group's consolidated earnings…

ZNCC speaks out on price controls

The re-introduction of price controls on maize meal by the government and the intention to gazette the prices of other basic commodities is a complete reversal of the liberalisation programme…

Who is fooling who?

It took years to come on line. The job had to be re-tendered after objections from some donor governments. Although initially estimated to cost just over $400 million, the project…