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Victoria Ruzvidzo THE rate at which vendors have besieged Harare’s Central Business District has ceased to be funny. At some point we all thought it was a frenzy that would soon die down but the situation on the ground is to the contrary.
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Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans and the challenges it is facing will only be resolved by Zimbabweans. This is not a new assertion but one that we have heard and written about countless times. We may have partners in development but ultimately the pace at which this economy will recover will be determined by
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Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus The xenophobic wave of violence that has gripped South Africa in the past week as one African turns against the other is not only shameful or just a social or political issue, but it is one that could have serious ramifications on the region’s economy. It needs to be brought to a […]
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Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus The first quarter of the economy is gone and we are two weeks into the second quarter, but an analysis would show that there is more that has gone wrong than that which has come right in our economy.
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Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus Zimbabweans living outside the country should take President Mugabe’s passionate plea seriously and actively participate in turning the economy around. It is not a secret that the economy is presently confronted with immense challenges but these are surmountable if everyone pulls in one
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Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus Zimbabwean women, constituting 52 percent of the population, have a critical role to play in this economy if it is to realise its full potential. The Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation will need women to play their roles effectively if it is to harvest any
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Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus Not so long ago Zimbabwe’s capital city Harare, was indeed a sunshine city. The roads were well-maintained, buildings were spruced up, traffic lights worked all the time and business was more organised than it is now.
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“Actually I think we are to blame. We of the older generation because of our frame of mind. Often we define Africa as a pool of problems, not a pool of opportunities.”
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Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus Day and night, literally, people are mourning about Zesa but to impose a tariff hike because the power utility failed to deal with its human resources issues timeously is asking for too much.
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Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus “There is no random success. We all need to come up with pragmatic and carefully thought through solutions to rebalance or resize the economy which is currently going through a myriad of both endogenous and exogenous challenges. “The policy measures and advice given in this statement are meant to deliver
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Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus Revelations last year that at least $7,6 billion was circulating in the informal sector, buttressed by the recent statistics that operations in this field raked in as much as $24 000 per month means that this sector cannot be ignored anymore. Contrast it with reports of company closures and perennial operational
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Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus THE year has started well for this country with serious interest being registered by foreign investors who have almost been tripping over each other to come and explore business opportunities.
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Starting this month, the Business Focus column will be hosting interviews once a month as we seek to facilitate thought-provoking debate on all aspects of the economy.
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Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus “The problem with Zimbabwe is that we have allowed the enemy to market the country for us.” These are powerful words made by Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa a fortnight ago when he prophesied about the economy. This pregnant statement depicts the actual state of affairs and the way we have allowed
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Greetings to you readers and here’s hoping you have started the year well, the greatest miracle so far for everyone being that we have been allowed by God to experience 2015. I would want to believe that those that had taken time off work or business to be with their
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