Dr Sekai Nzenza

“Among the gold mines of the inland plains between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers (there is a) . . . fortress built of stones of marvellous size, and there appears to be no mortar joining them . . . This edifice is almost surrounded by hills, upon which are others resembling it in the fashioning of stone and the absence of mortar, and one of them

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

Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was a passionate believer in African unity, and a living link with the historic Pan-African movement which had promoted solidarity among

Innocent Katsande
The harmonised elections will not only be a statement to our detractors but also a statement to the world, that Zimbabwe is ready to grow and contribute significantly to the world economy

MANY surrogates have violently operated from within our continent. These are Western founded, funded and armed

Pankaj Mishra
Scuttling away from India in 1947, after plunging the jewel in the crown into a catastrophic partition, “the British”, the novelist Paul Scott famously wrote, “came to the end of themselves as they were”.

Sabrina Smiley Book review
Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, is a classic of anti-imperialist literature. At the core is the concept of development and contemporary Marxism as the main theoretical underpinning. Both concept and theory is utilized to explore, evaluate and explain the historical