The prairie fire that swept Brazil

Laura Carlsen

WITH a million people demonstrating in the streets of cities throughout Brazil, everyone’s scrambling to understand how a twenty-cent bus fare hike turned into a social revolt.
Government officials are the most surprised.

Poverty, conflict hinder African growth: Report

AFRICA’S economy will grow by 4,8 percent this year and further expand 5,3 percent next year, but its progress has been accompanied by insufficient poverty reduction, a United Nations development report has said. The 357-page report compiled by the United Nations and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is

Donating blood pays off

Business Reporter
Mobile telecommunications operator NetOne on Tuesday handed over two desktop computers, two data dongles, a printer, 100 T-shirts, a shield and certificate to Nagle House Girls’ High School for donating the most blood units in the EasyCall top provincial schools blood donation awards for Mashonaland East. The awards ceremony was part of the

No need to rush into Comesa Customs Union

Gift Mugano Business Correspondent
THE Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa is made up of 19 member states. These are Burundi, Comoros, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Comesa was initially established

Time to beef up the dairy herd

Takunda Mugaga Economic Agenda
MILK and its by-products are an integral part of most Zimbabweans’ diet especially in the morning during breakfast. This has necessitated the huge demand for milk in the country which makes Dairibord a growth stock with fundamentals supporting a V-shaped recovery of the agro-processing industry in particular. Formed in 1952, the company

IT seminar to demystify code

Tonderai Rutsito TechSpot
The IT Governance and Cyber Security Institute in conjunction with the Zimbabwe Institute of Management will be holding a four-day symposium this week in Vumba to explore the challenges encountered by Zimbabwean organisations and other developing countries in the region in the process of adopting the corporate governance ideals.

The art of leadership

Firstme Vitori
“EVERYTHING rises and falls on leadership . . .” We are going to travel together on an exploratory journey of the famous and practical “21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” extracted from the book by the same title authored by Dr John C. Maxwell, an internationally recognised leadership expert, speaker and author. This is the first of a series

Murdoch’s British newspaper empire rebrands

LONDON. — The British newspaper unit of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire yesterday said it was changing its name from News International to “News UK” as it seeks to rebuild the brand following the phone-hacking scandal. The renaming of News International, which owns The Sun, The Times and the Sunday Times, comes ahead of the completion

Editorial Comment: Tobacco production figures vindicate land reform

Tobacco production figures that the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board released on Wednesday are very encouraging and help prove beyond doubt that the benefits of land reform are long term and not short term.

Indian rupee hits record low

MUMBAI. — India’s rupee touched a record low of more than 60 to the dollar yesterday as overseas funds continued to pull out money from emerging markets. Despite government efforts to slow the slide and interventions from the central bank in recent weeks, the rupee slid past its previous low of 59,98 against the dollar, struck last week,

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