Private equity investor shares perspective on Zim

In 2017 there was new hope for the economy of Zimbabwe with a change in leadership. Last year, the Zimbabwe dollar was once again introduced as the official currency, but according to some reports has already lost 98 percent of its value on the black market. The country is currently also experiencing political instability.

IMF notes racial discrimination in Economics

Economists and policymakers need a wake-up call to root out racial discrimination.

PPC works to reposition business

PPC Limited, the South Africa headquartered cement maker with operations in Zimbabwe, has made headway in restructuring and financing its business, the company said in an update this week.

Coca-Cola bottlers feeling flat

Martin Williams’ great-grandfather founded their Coca-Cola distribution business in Corinth, Mississippi, in 1907, just a handful of years after Coke was first sold in bottles across the United States.

EPL presents marketing opportunities

Globally, football is known to be the people’s game because to play it, all you need is the ball and something to call a goal post. It is dynamic in the sense that you can play with as less as 5 people a side to the official 11.

Incredible rise of Ronaldo’s fiancée

The childhoods of Georgina Rodriguez and Cristiano Ronaldo — the man who would change her life — weren’t so different.

England stars linked with shock swap deal

England star Dele Alli is being touted as a potential makeweight as Tottenham attempt to bring former legend Gareth Bale back from Real Madrid.

UK: Sharing supermarket leftovers to fight isolation

Eating together is an important way of fostering social connections. In recent years, we have been researching, and working with, the social eating movement: community-based food projects that use surplus food from supermarkets to create affordable meal services and provide spaces in which to eat them.

MBA students thrown off course

Coronavirus led to an extraordinary and almost overnight shift to online learning at MBA programmes. Because of the overwhelming impact on business school education, this year Bloomberg Businessweek chose not to rank MBA programmes. Instead, we surveyed 3 532 first- and second-year students from 95 schools around the world to understand what was working in the now-online programmes — and where students felt shortchanged.

Why gold is a safe haven in times of crisis

“Gold” said famed investor Warren Buffett in 1998, “gets dug out of the ground in Africa or someplace, then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.”