Victoria Falls Town Council to slash rates
Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter VICTORIA Falls residents could soon have a rates lifeline after councillors and municipal management agreed to review downwards the town’s $354 million budget for 2020.…
Australia announces full international summer schedule
CRICKET Australia has announced a full international schedule for the 2020-21 summer, underlining the organisation’s growing confidence the season will be able to proceed amid loosening Covid-19 restrictions. The full…
Farmers against tobacco ban
The ongoing tobacco ban is setting back transformation in the business environment and severely impacting black farmers and businesspeople, lobby groups have said.
NYSE opens with masks, plexiglass
The New York Stock Exchange, the symbolic heart of Wall Street, reopened its floor Tuesday after a two-month closure due to the coronavirus, with traders donning masks and separated by plexiglass.
First Covid-19 positive woman gives birth in Zimbabwe
Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau Chief FOR the first time in Zimbabwe, a Covid-19 positive woman has given birth. The baby was delivered through caesarean section at Gweru Provincial Hospital yesterday.…
China-US rivalry threatens ‘second globalisation’
We do not know. But one result is evident: a marked further deterioration in relations between the two superpowers. This is sure to have longer-term consequences.
Kolisi a fan of Jordan’s documentary
He is a Rugby World Cup-winning captain, a keen surfer, a cricket follower and a die-hard Liverpool fan, but Siya Kolisi’s sporting interests do not stop there.
Demographics, lower taxes and higher savings
On April 19, 2018, while in Washington DC, the Government of Zimbabwe unveiled the Vision 2030 document outlining Government’s desire to rebuilding and transforming Zimbabwe to become an upper-middle income economy by 2030.
New thinking, new possibilities
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do”.
Africa: New uncharted territory for SMEs
In the 1980s and early 1990s my sister used to participate in a foreign exchange programme. The aim of this programme was to enable foreign students to appreciate the diversity of African cultures. Every year, these impressionable young men and women from the Western world poured into Zimbabwe. To them, all African countries were named “Africa”. There was no delineation between individual countries such as Zimbabwe and Botswana or any African country.






