Beware of simple staff cost percentages

There is an obsession in those monitoring Government, local government and private sector accounts with the percentage of costs allocated to staff, with a demand that this percentage be kept…

Why businesses fail

Robert Gonye The thought of starting a business can be a daunting one especially given the plethora of business failures. Global statistics show that 90 percent of businesses close shop…

Profile of a Zimbabwean small business owner

Kudzai Mubaiwa We looked into various important aspects of small business last year, namely the undoubted contribution of small business at national level, the current policy situation, business growth stages,…

Medicinal trees of the grasslands

To the average African people, medicine means far more than the drug to cure a disease; it also means the poison to kill an enemy, the charm to bring back…

Cairns CEO Nancy Guzha faces chop?

Cairns Foods (Cairns) chief executive officer Nancy Guzha’s job is on the line as it emerged her relationship with major shareholder, Takura Capital Partners (Takura), has turned sour.

‘Reformist ED has the FDI woo-factor’

A London economic research company has backed the reform minded administration of President Mnangagwa to flip the tide of elusive foreign investment toward Zimbabwe, but warned hard-line FDI growth may…

Price warning to business

Government has reiterated its warning that it might have to resort to revoking licences for businesses that continue to wantonly increase prices.

ZSE in record year

$671,8 million worth of shares traded so far Real upswing after fear premium corrected

Govt to craft salary model for State entities

Golden Sibanda Government will craft a new tamper-proof remuneration framework, once the relevant law is in place, for executive and non-executive directors of state owned entities in a move designed…

Venezuelans abandon bolivar . . . Merchants insist on being paid in dollars

Caracas. — Venezuelans are struggling to carry out basic transactions like purchasing food as the value of their currency, the bolivar, has plunged against the dollar amid the country’s worsening…

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