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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Election rigging at its worst

In 1928, Liberian President Charles King put himself up for re-election.  He was returned with an officially stated majority of 600 000 votes.  King’s opponent in the poll, Thomas Faulkner…