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Old Mutual Group Chief Executive Mr Luke Ngwerume calls it quits this month-end after serving the organisation for 30 years, five of these as CEO.He is a man who has invested so much in the company and in the economy at large. As head of the largest insurance firm and biggest investor on
Want to end up in the right box?
Zachary Aldwin Milkshake in the BoardroomAFTER a stimulating piece last week I would like us to take part in a little demonstrative exercise. Take a piece of paper, divide it neatly into four sections (you can do this exercise mentally but its not nearly as fun). Now I want you to put a heading in each section; the headings are
Risks associated with property development
Vengai Madzima Property GuidePROPERTY development is generally the improvement or addition of value on a property through either sub-dividing, building or remodeling for the purposes of selling. Peter Jackson of the Urban Development Institute of Australia defines it as a financial risk with respect to the purchase,
Change is inevitable
Shelter Hamandishe-Chieza Change ManagementLike any investor, I expect good returns from my investment. But of late, there has been some companies that I have been investing in that are failing to perform. Year in year out, the story is the same of unfulfilled promises; there seems to be no improvement, despite management
Lonmin platinum miners end strike
MARIKANA. — Lonmin platinum mine workers in South Africa on Tuesday ended their strike in return for pay rises of up to 22 percent, after a nearly six-week stand-off that claimed 45 lives. Under a deal hammered out after more than three weeks of talks, and signed late on Tuesday by bothTaxation of retrenchment packages
Did you know that retrenchment packages form part of gross income and are subject to income tax like all other income? Definitions A retrenchment package is a payoff by an employer to an employee who has been laid off due to restructuring that has rendered the employee’s
President off to New York
Caesar Zvayi Deputy Editor
PRESIDENT Mugabe left Harare last night for New York to attend the 67th session of the United
Makandiwa opens lid on his life
Takunda Maodza Senior Reporter
United Family International Church leader Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa has thanked
You are a limited edition, special
Ozias MucheriwaWhen you watch television and follow sport, politics, religion, arts, science and inventions, you notice that there are individuals who are just extraordinary. Sometimes you wonder whether they were naturally endowed with an extra fineness in the texture of their brains or there is some
Marriage, politics, the blame game
The Arena HildegardeIn the book of Proverbs 1:20-22, King Solomon says, “Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares; at the head of the noisy streets she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech: ‘How long will you simple (denotes a person who is gullible,