Cooperative makes it but ……..

An idea mooted by former detainees while they were in detention before independence has turned into a multi-million dollar cooperative running supermarkets, shops and a small-scale farming plot. In the…

Journey to Namibia

A visit to Namibia, the second last colonial bastion of Africa can be both exciting and frustrating, even nerve wrecking. Exciting by the degree of welcome from the ordinary people…

Zimbabwe guards its “secrets”

Zimbabwe is developing an animal vaccine against ticks and Australian scientists are doing the same thing "but Zimbabwe is unlikely to release its tick genes to the Australians for fear…

Companies keep their secrets too

A former director of a Bulawayo-based company who allegedly misappropriated more than $1 million and now runs his own business in the same city is apparently running around scot-free because…

NRZ ditches injured casual workers

In what amounts to blatant exploitation, the National Railways of Zimbabwe is deploying casuals to war-torn Mozambique to repair the Maputo-Chicualacuala line and then dismissing them once they have been…

Call to legalise gold panning

A local company has suggested that the government should introduce a two tier pricing system for gold with a higher price being paid to properly registered and lawfully operating small…

How is this for jargon?

Thank you for being a courageous defender of order, peace and security in the sea of disastrous interventions that provide directionless approaches to the affairs of State.- Bernard Chidzero after…