Opinion

4 years ago | March 18, 2020

Explainer: The fungibility suspension

Last week, Treasury – through Exchange Control (Suspension of Fungibility of Certain Shares) Order 2020 – suspended the ...

4 years ago | March 6, 2020

RBZ needs to release data in full, on time

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe was hit last week by conspiracy theorists yet again when The Financial Times published a ...

4 years ago | February 21, 2020

Detention of goods

This article focuses in giving an understanding on goods that are detained by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) ...

Can Africans industrialise in this era?

This heading is one of the last questions I asked in my article, “Can the African become a true capitalist?” These two ...

Corporate social responsibility is ‘so yesterday’

You have heard the cynical view that the role of a corporation is to create value for the shareholder, and its social ...

4 years ago | February 7, 2020

Mining sector has so much potential

As the world gathered at the Mining Indaba, which was held between the 3rd and 6th of February 2020, last week, I ...

Price discussion with a customer

It’s no secret and it happens to every business. There’s been a change in your industry and as a result, the resources ...

Can the African become a true capitalist?

The ethos of capitalism is; “To each according to his abilities”. That of communism is; “From each according to his ...

How large firms can help SMEs

Large companies are in business to make lots of money full stop! But with the rate of globalisation encumbered by high ...

Conflict in family business

Conflict is a normal occurrence in everyday life. Although many assume that conflict is harmful, not all conflict is ...

4 years ago | January 31, 2020

When a company falls out with its CEO

A legal battle between Old Mutual, the South African-based pan-African investment, savings and insurance group, and its ...

In search of greener pastures?

“This evening I was sitting with Doreen,

4 years ago | January 24, 2020

SA’s energy crisis generates lots of ideas

Since late last year South Africans have, once again, been subjected to power cuts by the power utility, Eskom.

Importance of Foreign Direct Investments

This week I have decided to take a moment to reflect on what Zimbabwe’s place is in the global economy in view of the ...

Types of family businesses: James Bond?

For many weeks, I shared with you the personas of Thomas Mbanje, the prominent transport business owner and Olivia ...

Think and act like a man

Last year I watched the Movie “Suffragate” and I was moved to tears. (Yes even behind this bravado I cry sometimes.) ...

Team effort makes sales growth attainable

Shows-toppers . . . we have all encountered them some time. A specific technical detail, a question about a competitor’s ...

4 years ago | January 17, 2020

Zim’s confidence challenge

In the Business Weekly issue of December 13-19, 2019 there was an article that attracted my attention because of its ...

4 years ago | December 20, 2019

Chimanimani Mountains: The professional hiker’s Mecca

Welcome to the Mecca of professional walkers and climbers — the Chimanimani Mountains.

Advance trade project

The World Investment Report, 2019 highlights three main aspects that are critical to Foreign Direct Investment, these ...