Guy Anold

THE disunity over major issues and individual quarrels between members that emerged at the OAU summit in Mauritius in June 1976 raised once more the question as to whether the OAU was about to break up. But as Nigeria’s Commissioner for External Affairs, Joe Garba, said earlier in the year at the time of the Angola Summit: “The OAU is

Zimbabwe’s mining sector has conjured so much interest from local and foreign investors, particularly in the last few years when global demand for minerals such as platinum, chrome, gold and others has gone up significantly.

Jonathan Franklin

WITHOUT going over the edge to Rush Limbaugh territory, the internal spying on reporters and politicization of the IRS do raise the question. Could Obama be trumping “Tricky Dick” on the latter’s home turf? Few politicians can match Richard Milhous Nixon for obsession with leaks, propagation of secret wars and creation of a list of enemies.

The controversy over last year’s Al Qaeda assault on US diplomatic and CIA facilities in Benghazi, Libya has been revived amid a deepening political crisis for the Obama administration.

Last week, ALPHA Media Holdings chairman Trevor Ncube was in the news deploring what he called “the continuing state of media repression and restrictions in Zimbabwe”.
Given that he has issued similar or related statements before, that part of his assessment of media reforms in the country was not surprising.

Julius Nyerere

In May 1963, 32 independent African states met in Addis Ababa, founded the Organisation of African Unity, and established the Liberation Committee of the new organisation, charging it with the duty of co-ordinating the liberation struggle in those parts of Africa still under colonial rule. The following year, 1964, the OAU met in Cairo. The Cairo

Professor Arthur Mutambara

The government has considerably less knowledge as to the true value of its natural assets than does the company. This is called information asymmetry. A solution to both the agency and the information problem is to auction the extraction rights, inviting bids on the royalty rate that companies would be willing to pay.

MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s threats to “deal” with media houses that write negatively about him should his party prevail at the elections is disgusting, to say the least.
Tsvangirai is obviously deceiving Zimbabweans by pretending to be a democrat when his utterances are at variance with the norms.

Albert Nhamoyebonde
With the passage of the Constitutional Bill by Parliament, all eyes now are focused on the forthcoming harmonised elections. Of particular interest is whether small parties can have a rethink

Prof Arthur G. O. Mutambara
THE mining sector in Africa constitutes one of the largest industries in the world. Africa is the second biggest continent, with 30 million km² of land, which implies large quantities of resources. For many

The transition from local currency to the present multi-currency regime brought with it several distortions especially for businesses. Due to the erosion of the value of the local currency, many