In his 2014 national budget statement, new Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa signalled a shift in policy; a shift in policy towards a new thriving economy driven by the Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Speaking at a recent post-budget breakfast meeting in the capital Harare, Deputy Finance Minister Samuel Undenge reaffirmed…
OPINION (Zimbabwe Investor) – Ever since independence in 1980, Zimbabwe has crafted several policy documents meant to spur the country forward. All the policy documents have always been loaded with colourful promises and high sounding narrations but have all failed to deliver. The main reason for the failure to deliver…
LONDON (Zimbabwe Investor) – Since the famous whitewash ODI victory over England back in 1997 and the subsequent rebellion following the “black armband” protest by then captain Andy Flower and fast bowler Henry Olonga, Zimbabwe’s cricketing fortunes have taken a nose dive culminating in the withdrawal as a Test playing…
FEATURE (Zimbabwe Investor) – Zimbabwe has over the years sold itself as an agro-based economy, yet there is little infrastructural and service investment into the sector at national level to show for the importance. The economy’s manufacturing sector extracts 60% of its input from agriculture, a sector which accounted for…
COMMENT (Zimbabwe Investor) – After waiting for forty days following the much anticipated general election on 31 July 2013, the cabinet to stir Zimbabwe through the next five year was unveiled by President Robert Mugabe. The cabinet line-up was only surprising by its lack of renewal which many both within…
THE war which has erupted between Zimbabwe’s leading mobile phone operators Econet Wireless and Telecel over the former’s move to disconnect the latter because it is “unlicensed” thus legally obliged to do so has split opinion in the country. In a statement released on Thursday, Econet cited a case going…
OPINION (Zimbabwe Investor) – The Nomination Court sat on Friday and both Welshman Ncube and Tsvangirai of the two Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) factions were among the five candidates who filed separate candidacy papers putting paid to the idea of a coalition going into the poll. The leader of…
OPINION (Zimbabwe Investor) – Zimbabwe is a nation of admirable people who resiliently went through some of the most traumatic experiences of recent political and economic history yet chose to remain contained in their suffering rather than take to violence as has recently been witnessed elsewhere in the world. Many…
