Should Foliwars be abolished?
DESPITE the recent ‘acting’ National Budget and ‘acting’ Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) being a progressive return to market economics, there still is a certain degree of ambivalence in the orthodox...
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Restructuring RBZ more important than firing Gono
REFORM: Reforming central bank mandate more useful that firing Governor IF RECENT media reports are to be believed, there is a serious political showdown regarding the reappointment of the Governor...
View ArticleWe’re not the first nation to get it wrong
I SINCERELY thank God for the so-called global economic recession and financial crisis. “So-called” because that deprives it of the sting of a specific origin and human cause. It is “global”...
View ArticleTsvangirai’s Report Card on the economy
ZIMBABWE’S government of national unity has limped towards 100 days in office, and the Prime Minister has just launched a second phase 100-day agenda which is said to provide a blue print for the...
View ArticleTalks undermining unity government
AS Zimbabweans reflect on Wednesday’s Budget speech by Finance Minister Tendai Biti, which contained some arguably progressive measures that were delivered with an unprecedentedly positive oral tone...
View ArticleIndigenisation and curse of land reform
IN HIS intriguing book, The Problems of Philosophy, British philosopher Bertrand Russell criticises “absolute sceptics” who claim nothing can ever be known with any certainty. While criticism is the...
View ArticleIndigenisation: Right law, wrong time
ZIMBABWE’S indigenisation law sadly reveals the ineptitude of vacuous economic policies that rarely fail to miss the point. Fewer would be convinced that an almost bankrupt country, recently on the...
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A new ‘indigenous’ stock market for Zimbabwe?
Indigenisation ... A stock broker at the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange I WONDER if designers of the indigenisation laws considered the practical ramifications of the 51% indigenous ownership rule...
View ArticleEuropean economic crisis: Is it time to head home?
AN EMERGING trend within the diaspora community in the UK points towards a gradual increase in the number of people who have, or are considering returning to Zimbabwe or emigrating to other countries...
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The risk of indigenising banks
Going for the jugular ... Kasukuwere and indigenisation ally Mutambara A YEAR ago, David Brown – the head of Impala Platinum – believed Zimbabwe’s indigenisation plans for foreign-owned mines “would...
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