adminZim to host premier security expo
Business ReporterZIMBABWE is set to host the inaugural premier SECURITEX 2012 Conference and Expo in August this year. As a prelude to the expo, the organisers are hosting a breakfast meeting in Harare tomorrow where Youth Development, Indigenisation and
Ghana to receive US$600m for food security
ACCRA. — Ghana is set to get at least of US$600 million to implement the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in the West African country, Food and Agriculture Minister Kwesi Ahwoi announced. This is part of the US$3 billion pledged by United States President Barack Obama. The funds will be added to the US$50 million being raised by government from the World
‘Cashless’ payment system unveiled
Tawanda Musarurwa Business Reporter
LOCAL firm Smart Payment Solutions (Pvt) Ltd has unveiled the country’s first universal electronic payment system (UEPS), expected to provide impetus for the establishment of a cashless transactions market. Zimbabwe presently lacks a truly mobile
G-8 leaders push for European crisis resolution
British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned that the economic and political turmoil in the euro area is having a “chilling effect” on the UK economy. The sterling pound has fallen by 1,3 percent against the euro to trade at 80,92 pence per euro. The G-8 leaders are pushing for a resolution on the European crisis and have made noise about the current crisis
If you believe, you will have it
Allow me to share with you my recent fishing experiences with my two mentees Chris and Alan. Chris and Alan learnt most of their bass fishing skills from me. After mastering the skill it became uncertain who among us would be the winner of the competition during our fishing days. An interesting event occurred last year, which upset the three-year status quo. Chris
Essar reshuffles management
A management reshuffle has been initiated at Essar Africa Holdings to address delays in completion of the group’s US$750 million acquisition of the former Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company. According to media reports from India, the reshuffle will
UN human rights chief’s visit providential
The visit by the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Navanethem Pillay, is providential coming as it does at a time forces of illegal regime change are grossly misrepresenting the nation’s human rights situation in a bid to create self-fulfilling prophecies ahead of elections scheduled for later this year. A case in point being the May 8 judgment by a South
Understand DNA of Indigenisation
Innocent Katsande
Edwin Land’s hypothesis exposes the reality that, in life we eventually begin to succeed when we start to drive out the incessant superstition that there are mysterious tribal gods against us in every step we take. Often when we fail to accomplish set targets we tend to pass the blame to an unknown enemy. Sadly we forget the hard truth that indeed nature
Zimbabwe needs a comic hero
Knowledge Mushohwe
Every country has its own heroes. Zimbabwe even has a special shrine where they are buried. In Western cultures, some of the heroes are not real people, but mythical personalities created by artists to illustrate how good will always triumph over
How Europe debt crisis affects Africa
Yang Jian and Zhu Zhu
Although military issue is a permanent topic of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, leaders from the world’s biggest military alliance are bothered much by economic problems at Chicago summit, which kicked into full swing on Sunday.