Food crisis to persist

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS Net) has recommended that the government remove price controls on food staples and other items to enlist the support of the market to…

Commodity briefs

A United States State Department report released this month says a campaign of personal plunder, masquerading as "land reform" was a tool for the government to steal, murder, abuse and…

When numbers lie!

Figures don't lie, goes the adage, but liars can figure. Which is precisely why we need to be a lot more skeptical of the numbers we publish... especially numbers that…

ZCTU to the rescue?

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), which gave birth to the Movement for Democratic Change, Robert Mugabe's biggest headache since its formation four years ago, is about to bail…

The Emperor without his clothes

Bill Clinton's famous statement about, and focus on, the American economy in the 1992 Presidential campaign more than any other factor probably secured his Presidential election victory. And more than…

Inflation, Bob’s worst enemy!

Inflation, considered by the World Bank to be the greatest tax on the poor, could President Robert Mugabe's nemesis. Despite the wholesale price controls his government introduced in November, inflation…

RTG optimistic

International tourism wholesalers are now beginning to believe and to accept that, contrary to some media campaigns, Zimbabwe is one of the safest tourism destinations in the world but the…