Study or time wasting?

Reports that the French government is to finance an $8 million feasibility study of the Bulawayo-Zambezi water pipeline seem to be just another indication of how inefficient and undecided our…

PTC and privatisation

Plans to privatise the Posts and Telecommunications Corporation still seem to be on the cards but a number of questions remain unanswered. It appears when most people talk about the…

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…