Seven keys to better team meetings
Arthur Marara This week we want to round up the conversation we started last week on how to have better team meetings. The point was made in the last article,…
Ideal long-term investments
Blessing Nyatanga The best long-term investments include stocks, funds, bonds and alternative investments. Some of these investments, like stocks, typically comprise larger portions of an investment portfolio than other asset…
De Ruyter strikes back — blows the lid on ANC corruption, political interference
Outgoing Eskom chief executive officer Andre de Ruyter says that the available evidence shows that the governing African National Congress (ANC) sees the embattled power utility as an ‘eating trough’.…
Weakening consumer spending power a fallacy
Tapiwanashe Mangwiro Zimbabwe’s largest retailers through their quarterly business updates for the period to December, have been saying the country is experiencing a decline in consumer spending power, but the…
The classic 4Ps of marketing
Leslie Mupeti In this week’s article I have decided to go back to basics. All marketing starts with the 4Ps. The 4Ps were first formally conceptualised in 1960 by E.…
Huge companies that have never made a profit
Despite being household names around the world, some of the most well-known companies like Airbnb, Reddit and Deliveroo are yet to turn a profit. New research from Approve.com looked at…
Subscription fatigue: More companies charging monthly fees
Twitter announced last week that two-factor authentication by text would be available only to paying subscribers. Shortly after, Meta said it would begin testing a paid verification service for Facebook…
Insurance sector start preparing for compensation
Business Writer Insurance firms and pension firms have been advised to start preparations for compensating policyholders and pensioners who were heavily shortchanged during the conversion of their benefits at dollarisation…
Debt clearance key for the economy; Analysts
Tapiwanashe Mangwiro Analysts have been impressed by the government’s economic diplomacy with regards to the debt clearance strategy saying it is critical for sustainable development. This comes after the African…
Goldstar Sugars resumes operations
Business Writer Starafrica Corporation says it has resumed operations at its sugar refining plant at Goldstar Sugars (GSS) following a successful resolution of the pricing of raw sugar and trading…











