A girl’s uphill struggle for education

Angela Machonesa  Features Correspondent
Memories of my school days are not pleasant. The early morning house chores in the dimness of dawn left my tiny hands frozen. These duties I could not avoid, they guaranteed my early supper after school.

Good times beckon for ‘Sunshine City’

Square streets lined with flourishing jacaranda trees, tall buildings that somehow respect the sun and gives it its chance to smile all day long and highly tolerant and hospitable population have for long told and retold tell the story of Harare.

How fire changed their lives

Marshall Bwanya Features Writer

In Zimbabwe electricity power provides an essential social amenity for both industrial and domestic use.

Jessie Majome withdraws court application

Senior Reporter
WOMEN’S Affairs, Gender and Community Development Deputy Minister Jessie Majome yesterday withdrew the Constitutional Court  application she recently filed contesting payment of television and radio licences to the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.

Asset-backed financing the way to go

AS traditional funding sources continue to dwindle or become less attractive businesses and financiers have had to be more creative and innovative.
This has resulted in more practical and suitable funding structures, which have become the foundation of structured finance and allowed companies to fund growth and

How to change your brake pads

Fact Jeke Behind the Wheel
Recently I had a bad experience with my usual mechanic after I asked him to fit new brakes on my vehicle.
After assuring me that the job was complete I went about my business but as I was driving down Second Street I applied brakes as I was approaching an intersection and I

Why countries should adopt CSDs

Nyasha Mukura and Campbell Musiwa
What are the benefits of a Centralised Securities Depository? What is the value proposition for CSDs? Why should organisations and countries invest significant resources in terms of time, money, people and technology to set up and maintain CSDs?

ZEC has shown the way

We read with interest that Zimbabwe has once again beaten economic giants such as South Africa and Nigeria by maintaining highest literacy rates in Africa.
This is most welcome and points to our inherent capacity for leadership on the continent.

Recent trends in protectionism

Economic booms, financial crises and the effects of globalisation have resulted in many countries adopting deposit protection schemes with others changing the role of their respective deposit protection schemes.

A gem set high up in the mountains

Isdore Guvamombe Tourism Matrix
From the hotel verandah, there is an eye-jostling sweep of colours from flourishing vegetation that knows no season.
Here monkeys and baboons chat, quarrel among themselves while swinging nonchalantly and effortlessly on tree branches, as if the world belongs to them.

×