MDC-T in financial ruin
THE turmoil rattling the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) has everything to do with a deepening financial crisis as the party’s traditional donors have turned off the taps, disillusioned by the...
View ArticleMugabe lays down the law
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has ordered Cabinet to stop further dissolutions of boards of parastatals, in a move meant to protect the remaining directors of State enterprises from indiscriminate dismissals...
View ArticleGovt in no hurry to give title deeds
BULAWAYO — Finance and Economic Development Minister, Patrick Chinamasa, says government will not immediately issue title deeds to thousands of farmers resettled under the country’s agrarian reforms...
View ArticleZim Sport: Whites racist, blacks corrupt
IF one is to describe Zimbabwe in terms of sport, one would have to say we flatter to deceive more than anything. That is not to say we do not have any successes to be proud of. We have the women’s...
View Article‘Indigenisation still a barrier’
BULAWAYO — The recent engagement with the European Union (EU) by captains of Zimbabwe’s industry has stimulated investor appetite from the economic bloc, but several handicaps remained, which could...
View ArticleMDC-T factions battle for assets
A BATTLE for assets looms in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) as the two warring camps jostle to outwit each other and seize control of the party, the Financial Gazette can report. Following...
View ArticleEmployee engagement trends 2013/14
We recently concluded the 2013 National Employee Survey. 4 115 employees drawn from 36 organisation from different sectors participated in the survey. The survey culminated in the Best Employers Awards...
View ArticleComing home (4)
Like the Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, who traversed the American hinterland with a notebook in hand taking notes in 1832, I devoted a whole month to travelling throughout Zimbabwe, listening to my...
View ArticlePray for more creativity in business
Ecclesiastes 7:10 Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions. While God is the uncreated creator who can create things out of nothing, man is a...
View ArticleMDC long dead: Stevenson
THE turmoil in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) led by Morgan Tsvangirai has generated both local and international interest. The Financial Gazette’s Assistant Bureau Chief, Ray Ndlovu (RN)...
View ArticleHeads up on health for women 40 and over
I am sharing health tips to women in their 40s, by one, Jenny Blake. Women in their forties are very active, often working and raising families, with little time to take care of themselves. At this...
View ArticleHIFA’s spirit of collaboration
The ongoing Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) has been in the past criticised for being elitist and providing little value to local artists. But, in this edition, several local artists...
View ArticleGovt evades advice
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe warned a fortnight ago of an accelerating economic decline in Zimbabwe, which critics blame on profligacy and corruption by ZANU-PF elites and their cronies in government....
View ArticleWe demand action from new ZMDC board
Mines and Mining Development Minister Walter Chidhakwa unveiled a new board for the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC), one of over 75 State firms badly affected by vice, mismanagement and...
View ArticleRenewal in body politic imperative
TENDAI Biti and his renewal team are not going backwards. The MDC-T secretary-general has embarked on a countrywide drive for support. He is adamant that democracy is now just a farce under Morgan...
View ArticleHow Biti caught Tsvangirai flat footed
“WE are going to do it differently from Welshman (Ncube) and others… We will get them out,” one of the key members of the leadership renewal team in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) told the...
View ArticleWho is more democratic than who?
THE leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) Morgan Tsvangirai has come under fire from several sources accusing him of being undemocratic. Throughout the 15–year life of the party,...
View ArticleZANU-PF to review status of suspended members
WITH the clock ticking towards ZANU-PF’s elective congress, suspended members are holding their breath in the hope that the revolutionary party would rescind its decisions before the convention....
View ArticleCompanies in US$170m pension arrears
PENSION funds are struggling to collect contributions from the country’s troubled corporate sector with figures from the Insurance and Pensions Commission (IPEC) indicating that US$170 million was in...
View ArticleElectoral reforms to be challenged in court
A NEW voting system unveiled last week by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) faces legal hurdles amid indications that the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) will soon approach the courts to...
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