Zimunya and Munhumumwe: The poetic kinship
Stanley Mushava Literature TodayZimbabwe’s highly regarded author Musaemura Zimunya once wrote a newspaper article entitled “Is Marshall also a poet?” but the artists’ lives and careers intersected in more enduring ways. Zimunya…
Julian Barnes de-constructs history
Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader JULIAN Barnes, an English author, is one writer who, like Zimbabwe’s Dambudzo Marechera, is content with de-constructing traditional norms of reasoning as a way of…
Gvt goes for the economic jugular -No less than 15 Bills aimed at improving economy, investment
Business Editor THE country’s Legislature will spend most of its time during the Third Session of the Eighth Parliament putting the legal underpinnings that are needed to make the local…
Minister proposes radical funding plan
Jeffrey Gogo Climate Story AS rich countries dither on climate finance, Zimbabwe has come up with radical proposals — taxing scores of international mining companies operating in Africa. Others will…
Tenants desert CBD properties… . . Rentals reviewed downwards . . .Companies try to lure SMEs
Africa Moyo and Enacy Mapakame THERE seems to be contrasting fortunes in the property sector as property developers are getting rich pickings from pent-up demand while real estate businesses are…
Sluggish uptake for high-value properties
Africa Moyo NICOZDIAMOND’S housing project in Hatfield, Harare, has been put on hold following the low uptake of the housing units which are priced at US$105 000, raising the spectre…
Women are integral to boards
ALTHOUGH there is growing advocacy for women to assume leadership roles in a world that seems to be heavily paternal, there is always inherent scepticism if there is empirical evidence…
China to build US$2bn dam in Guinea
GUINEA is in talks with China International Water & Electric Corp to build a US$2 billion hydro-power dam that would almost double the West African country’s energy output, providing new…
Why won’t parastatals publish their results?
BY publishing its full year financial report on September 6 2015, TelOne, the state-owned sole fixed telephone operator broke ranks with an infamous clique of parastatals whose financial health remains…
Dube, PSMAS bosses share US$22 million
Brian Chitemba Investigations Editor Eleven Premier Service Medical Aid Society executives, led by former group CEO Dr Cuthbert Dube, splurged US$22,8 million in “executive allowances” outside the payroll and evaded tax,…








