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Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus
Zimbabwe’s economy is expected to achieve a modest 6 percent growth this year, largely spearheaded by the mining sector. I refer to the target as modest because we all know that the -
Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus
Compliments of the season to you readers. It’s good to have you along in 2013 as we seek to collectively navigate the various aspects and issues that make the sum total of our economy. -
Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus
Zimbabwean women are really on the go. They may not be making the headlines everyday, they may not be the ministers of finance but so much is being achieved through transformational leadership by -
Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus
Last week President Mugabe spoke strongly on the need for Zimbabweans to desist from corruption, warning that those caught in the act would be dealt with accordingly. He said even Cabinet ministers
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Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus
The indigenisation of the economy is one subject that needs to be untangled in terms of its implementation matrix and the ultimate objectives to remove the confusion or anxiety that has gripped the local and international market, particularly this year. -
Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus
This week’s Business Focus has been written by a guest columnist, Tawanda Musarurwa.
Up to 99,9 percent of the Zimbabwean population will be applauding Finance Minister Tendai Biti on -
Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus
Finance Minister Tendai Biti faces a daunting task this afternoon of tabling a budget that should breathe life into the economy while taking care of civil servants’ salaries and other social and political issues that beckon for attention. The nation will certainly not be content with mere presentation -
Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus
That Zimbabwe’s success as a country and its achievement on the international forum is a direct result of the rural women is without question.
That the professionals running companies and those scattered in the Diaspora have come through their wombs and moulded in the hands of the -
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Zimbabwe, which had long been shunned by foreign airlines due to perceived chaos and restlessness in the economy, has begun to attract quite a few airlines in the mould of the Emirates, British Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, Kenya Airways and Air Namibia, and others that are promising to resume flights into this country shortly.
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Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus
THE never-say-die attitude demonstrated by the architect and visionary of the US$100 billion economy by 2040, Mr Kenias Mafukidze, is what Zimbabwe needs at this moment. It is easier to believe in the negative and just go with the flow given the revised economic growth targets, threats -
Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus
News that Government has revised its economic growth projections to 5,6 percent from 9,4 percent, citing a number of issues that have gone off the rails, makes sad reading. Of course, it’s not as if we -
Greetings to you readers from the “back of beyond”.
Last week as I told my friends and family that I was going to a place called Vanuatu, all of them immediately followed the announcement with the question, “Van what”? -
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Over the past few weeks I have attended meetings and have also held discussions in relation to the current state and future of this economy. The views have been diverse while also reflecting two extremes that I have found to be very illustrative of certain mindsets. Some see the glass as half empty while others certainly consider it half full, depending on their
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Economic growth projections for this year have always elicited much debate, with many saying the economy is losing steam and would thus “realistically” fail to meet the anticipated 9,4 percent rise this year. Late last year the International Monetary Fund said the figure would not be achieved given challenges in the economy while a number of economic fundis have also
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AFRICA is a continent on the rebound. Poverty is still evident, some parts are still at war, diseases remain a challenge but the world must not be fooled. The continent is a giant that is awakening.
In fact, this has been happening over the past few years but many, even the Africans themselves, have hardly been noticing.
But now things are moving at such a pace the continent is now difficult to ignore, or the world can do so at its own peril.
The World Economic Forum on Africa, a meeting of minds in government, business, civil society, the academia, media and the arts held its 22nd summit in Ethiopia last week where Africa’s transformation was under the spotlight.
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