Institutional failure – Where did we go wrong?

Successful countries all over the world are built on strong institutions of all kinds. We often assume that the failure of the state in Zimbabwe is...

IMF’s nice words mask economic disaster

I laughed the other day when I read the recent report on Zimbabwe by the IMF....

Mliswa: sad symbol of Zanu (PF)

Temba Mliswa is a gritty, weird but funny politician. He is useful too, for he has...

Rethinking Zimbabwe’s model for growth

Zimbabwe registered double digit growths between 2010 and 2012. However the sad thing is that the...

The Same Old Story

Some readers may remember that during the debate on adopting a World Bank/IMF-designed Structural Adjustment Programme...

We are bleeding US dollars to China

No country will invest in Zimbabwe in our current political and investment climate unless it sees...

Time for the old men to hand over

The furore over excessive pay for state enterprise executives continues. We have seen another ill-informed move...

Lest we forget

Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC party are currently in turmoil, no doubt, but we need not...

When two yearnings meet

When two yearnings meet it is like two rivers converging. A stream runs down the mountain...

The people are the enemy

I was perturbed recently to hear a community group in a rural area reporting on their...

Zimbabwe’s sovereign slush fund

I am still to be convinced that, given our experience and the state of our current...

Chinamasa not the only problem

There have been increasing calls for Patrick Chinamasa, the Finance and Economic Development Minister, to step...

Chinese Republic of Zimbabwe

President Mugabe dislikes Western powers for dictating policy to Africa. He famously advised ex-British PM Tony...

Funding Zimbabwe's Economic Revival

History should only serve to remind us where we have come from but should never limit...

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