Investing: Making money grow
Investment is an action done to grow money. This can be money originating from working or saving or a donation, any source really. The intention is making more money, and at the very least preserving value and beating inflation. There are several avenues of achieving this which are often called investment products. Anyone can invest — you need not wait until you are a millionaire.
Chinhoyi turns back the clock
THERE were so many stories to come out of the recently held Basketball Union of Zimbabwe National League Championships.
The finals — held in Mutare a fortnight ago — saw the new format continue. While Manicaland powerhouse, Mercenaries, finally reached the promised land and won the coveted men’s title, beating Foxes 75-60 in the final.
Fourie lauds his ladies
ZIMBABWE indoor hockey ladies team coach Chris Fourie has lauded his ‘brilliant’ team, calling them ‘queens of balancing their lives’ ahead of the country’s test series in South Africa next week.
Zim activates the World Donor Day campaign
Every year on June 14, Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world in commemorating the World Blood Donor Day. The event serves to thank voluntary, unpaid blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood and also to raise wider awareness of the need for regular blood donations to ensure that all individuals and communities have access to affordable and timely supplies of safe and quality-assured blood and blood products.
Warriors’-in-laws
As soon as his name was included on the 34-man Africa Cup of Nations provisional squad last Tuesday, returning Warrior Tafadzwa “Fire” Rusike was quick to make a phone call to his brother-in-law Ronald Pfumbidzai.
Yadah hold Ngezi Platinum
Ngezi Platinum Stars coach Erol Akbay blamed referee Thabani Bamala for the Mhondoro-based side’s Castle Lager Premier Soccer League draw against Yadah FC, claiming the match official was hugely biased against them at Baobab yesterday.
Kwangwa goes at it alone
THE Zimbabwe senior netball team began their tour of South Africa on a rather unfortunate note, slumping to a 41-50 defeat to the SA Spar Smileys.
‘Failure to follow procurement regulations is criminal’
Before the reconstitution of the State Procurement Board (SPB) into the Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz), public procurement processes were fraught with irregularities, which often led to the haemorrhaging of resources from the public purse often by corrupt officials acting in connivance with tenderpreneurs. This prompted the enactment of the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Act, which brought with it sweeping changes to regulations governing the procurement of goods and services by Government, including the conduct of accounting officers.
Rethinking pan-Africanism in the present epoch
With no rallying point, we are on autopilot to nowhere.
Another May is upon us. And that means another Africa Day.
After observing this occasion for almost 50 years now, it’s time to take stock.
Woman jailed for $116k fraud
A 43-year-old Harare woman has been sentenced five years in prison for allegedly duping two people of $116 400 in separate deals.

