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Joram Nyathi Spectrum Initially I wanted to express my penny’s worth of thoughts on the vexed and vexing topic of indigenisation, an area of our economy I am very passionate about, but an area, it now appears, where the World Bank and the IMF, working in collusion with local revisionists and
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ZIMBABWE is making great strides in the protection of children and their rights and a landmark Constitutional court judgment outlawing marriages for children under the age of 18 is a major development that will safeguard minors from abuse. In a landmark
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Many Zimbabwean companies are struggling to survive with just a few managing to break even. A number of companies are failing to meet their financial obligations such as paying salaries, taxes, water and electricity bills as well as rates.
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WE applaud the police in Bulawayo for the swift manner in which they arrested nine men accused of raping two teachers and a woman at Luveve High School at the weekend. The suspects also stole household goods during their orgy of violence at the institution on Saturday night.
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Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu RECENT developments in the German city of Cologne where more than 500 complaints were lodged with the police by women alleging criminal and demeaning harassment by men of Asian origin were not at all surprising considering the large number of refugees admitted into Germany last year.
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Ben Schreiner Conventional political wisdom has long held Hillary Clinton to be the odds-on favourite to become the next president of the United States. But as was the case back in 2008, cracks are once again emerging in the façade of Clinton’s “inevitability.” Is history repeating?
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Parents have an obligation to pay for the education of their children and as such every start of the school term, it is incumbent upon each and every parent to ensure the school fees and levies are paid. Most schools want fees paid on or before the start of each school term.
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Lawrence Wittner A fight now underway over newly-designed US nuclear weapons highlights how far the Obama administration has strayed from its commitment to build a nuclear-free world. The fight, as a recent New York Times article indicates, concerns a variety of nuclear weapons that the US military is in the process of
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Winnie Byanyima The rich can no longer pretend that their wealth benefits the rest of us – the only thing trickling down is inequality. Welcome to the world’s inequality countdown. In 2010, some 388 people owned as much wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population. Jump to 2014 and that 388 is down to […]
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WE welcome Britain’s endorsement of Zimbabwe’s refined indigenisation regulations and hope other European nations will follow suit and plough much needed investment into the country’s economy. The Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act has been maligned by the West since its inception with
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Lovemore Zigara THE government’s decision to lift a four-year ban on exporting raw chrome mid-last year gave hope to a sector that was on the verge of collapsing. It was sweet music to the ears of most artisanal chrome miners and companies who were stuck with piles of chrome ore. The ban on exporting raw chrome, effected
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Hamid Dabashi None of its regional adversaries are a match for the Iranian version of soft and smart power. In a sudden, though well-choreographed and much-expected dramatic succession of news releases, Iran has emerged from years of economic isolation when the heavy shadow of crippling economic sanctions were lifted
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LEGENDARY Scottish pop music band Del Amitri penned a song dedicated to the Scotland national soccer team after they qualified for their first and only Fifa World Cup in France in 1998. The send-off song was titled Don’t Come Home Too Soon. Part of the lyrics say: “So long, go on and do your best, […]
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Jorum Nyathi So long as black people continue to believe the language of the oppressor that there is a nice formula to end oppression, black people shall continue to suffer oppression and the oppressor has no reason to stop enjoying that privilege.
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