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Zimbabwe is currently facing a financial quagmire. Stocks are falling, taxes have been raised, unemployment is rising and investment is not forthcoming. What then should the country do? Reserve Bank…

The die has been cast. "Land is the people's sovereign asset. It is their home, economic resource, a social and cultural asset, their religious shrine, their heritage and very likelihood.…

President Robert Mugabe and the war veterans must have been baffled. While the people agreed that war veterans should be paid gratuities and pensions, they emphatically said NO to the…

With the key industrial index at a 12-month low of 7699 points on December 10, one of the leading stockbrokers says investors should not be running off to offload their…

Only a few months after assuming office, Information Minister Chen Chimutengwende, fired the Posts and Telecommunications board. No reason was given. Had Chimutengwende still been deputy minister of Information before…

Predictions that food companies tend to thrive when there is news about a drought seem to have been confirmed with the recent interim report from National Foods showing turnover improving…

Susan George, a leading pro-Third World economist argues that, when the two Bretton Woods Institutions, the World Bank and the IMF, call for economic reform, they almost take over everything…

Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa seems to have been given the political clout he requires to steer the country out of its economic woes. He has been elevated to deputy secretary…

Southern Africa Printing and Publishing House publisher Ibbo Mandaza has fulfilled his ambition to own a national weekly newspaper. He launched the Zimbabwe Mirror on December 1 to provide the…

Zimbabweans still smarting from the effects of the 1992 drought which saw families surviving on yellow maize, mainly grown as stockfeed, have every reason to be worried about an impending…