How Africa can benefit from digital age
Strive Masiyiwa How best can governments, business, and civil society ensure the extraordinary power of digital technologies is marshalled to grow prosperous economies that uplift lives for all citizens? And…
Schoolboys dragged into child marriages
Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter SOME teenage boys have reportedly dropped out of school after getting married at Matetsi Secondary School in Hwange District, amid concerns the whole district could have…
Locals tee off in AfrAsia championship
Takudzwa Chitsiga, Harare Bureau MARK WILLIAMS and the Mandhu brothers – Kayaam and Mohammad – will be the only local professionals at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open, which tees off this…
Tennis tourney to be held at Girls’ College
Ronald Mashinga, Sports Reporter THIS year’s Emakhandeni Tennis Open tournament will be staged at Girls College (GC) from November 29 to December 1. According to Emakhandeni Tennis Club chairman, Witness Jiyane,…
Importance of closing knowledge gaps in African agric
Efforts to modernise African agriculture continue to focus on the supply-side at the expense of the demand side.
Cassava’s avoidable PR disaster
When it comes to public relations, Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe and its EcoCash operation showed this week exactly what not to do, having already given a warning to other firms reliant on IT systems that pre-installation testing needs to be enhanced.
Did you know? First Mutual Holdings’ footprints
Zimbabwe Stock Exchange- listed financial services and insurance group, First Mutual Holdings Limited (FMHL), was established from the de-mutualisation of First Mutual Life Assurance Society, effective July 1, 2003, the year of its listing.
Why economists get things wrong
Economists have had a hard time in recent years, with Conservative politician Michael Gove famously saying that people were tired of “experts” during the Brexit campaign, branding them “distant”, “unaccountable” and “elitist”.
Stanbic kick-starts major health services initiative
Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe launched a Corporate Social Investment Flagship project, which debuted at the handover of the Cancer Association of Zimbabwe half-way house known as Tariro Hostel held recently.
Pension system being pushed to the brink
An extended period of negative or record low interest rates has put huge pressure on pension funds in the Netherlands, forcing them to alert retirees that their incomes could be cut.




