M-Net Africa finally wakes up

Jonathan Mbiriyamveka Television
Welcome to this week’s edition and I do hope you had a blessed week. Just to recap on the week that was, I am happy that M-Net Africa have finally realised that there is more to movies than “Nollywood”. In

‘Zimbabwe not on Sadc summit agenda’

Takunda Maodza Senior Reporter
THE extraordinary Summit of Sadc heads of state and government set for Angola this Friday will discuss the Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan with leaders brainstorming on ways of enhancing economic co-operation between member-states.
The plan outlines policies, strategies and priorities for achieving deeper regional integration and poverty eradication.

Foreign Affairs Secretary Ambassador Joey Bimha yesterday said regional integration was the only item on the agenda of the summit.
“In the customary Sadc tradition, extraordinary summits are one item agenda and in this particular case regional integration is the agenda for Sadc,” he said.

Gold deliveries decline

Tawanda Musarurwa Business Reporter
ZIMBABWE’S total gold deliveries for April declined by 2,9 percent to 1 112,4kg. The decline was largely caused by a dip in the fortunes of the primary producers. But the African Development Bank, in its

Managing ethical dilemmas in the workplace

In the workplace today, employees are continuously faced with ethical dilemmas. They are confronted with situations that require sound ethical judgment but in most cases find it difficult to do so because they lack the requisite skills. The cases range from simple situations of an employee deciding on

Zim’s sugar production increases

Business Reporter
ZIMBABWE’S sugar production contributed 372 000 tonnes to Tongaat Hulett’s total sugar production of 1,15 million tonnes for the year ended March 31. The Zimbabwe operation’s output reflected a 12

Gono slams banks

Martin Kadzere Senior Business Reporter
RESERVE Bank Governor Dr Gideon Gono has slammed banks for high bank charges, saying such “extortionist tendencies” were discouraging deposits, especially from small to medium companies.

Myanmar learns the lessons of Libya

Stephen Gowans
Strike Myanmar from the regime change list. Only two years ago, the resource-rich country located between India and China was practising the kind of economic nationalism that got Libyan leader

ICTs can improve life in rural settlements

Maxwell Mago
ICT is an acronym for Information Communication Technology, which is the methodology and systems applied in the organisation, manipulation, transmission and interpretation or reception of

Guards strike, inmates set free at Norway prison

Convicted sex offenders and violent criminals were let loose from a Norway prison this week when guards went on strike, forcing authorities to free 52 inmates, officials said. “Some of these are prisoners convicted for violence, drugs, economic crime and sex crimes,” Harald Aasaune, the manager of the

Man discovers he’s actually a woman

A man who went to hospital with a kidney stone was left stunned when his ultrasound revealed that he was actually a woman. Steve Crecelius, who is a photographer from Denver, Colorado, was born with both male and female traits but has been repressing his feminine side for a long time. But after an

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