BECAUSE of regional trade arrangements, trade with neighbouring countries was becoming increasingly important for Zimbabwe.
There was a marked difference between applied tariffs on agricultural imports from the region and those from outside the region.
For example, Zimbabwe’s applied tariffs for imports from the COMESA...
THE recently held US elections have exposed the Americans for democratic charlatans that they are.
The US is not the doyen of democracy that it purports to be.
Chaotic would be the best way to describe their just-ended elections.
Embarrassing would aptly sum the refusal by incumbent...
By Eunice Masunungure
THERE are several reasons for not rushing to celebrate change in the US presidency, especially for Zimbabwe in particular and Africa in general.
The problem is in the power relations between the West, the East, the North and the South which dictates that...
When Americans put Donald Trump in power, they realised too late they had set their house on fire.
On the international arena, Trump showed no respect for anyone, not the European Union, NATO, the UN, no one, except his rabid friends like Israel.
Africa does not...
ZIMBABWE had been largely self-sufficient in the provision of agricultural goods.
However, from 1985, the importation of cereals has been growing due to the increased shortages of the staple food (maize), caused by droughts, population growth, increased urbanisation and the shift of production from...
ZIMBABWE’s fight to de-mine areas littered by landmines left by the brutal Rhodesian regime could soon be speeded up using specially trained rats to sniff out unexploded landmines and other explosives.
This relatively new method was so successful in Cambodia that a rat, named Magawa,...
RUTENDO MOYO (not her real name) was supposed to sit for the UK’s Chartered Insurance Institute examinations in April this year but failed to do so because Zimbabwe is under sanctions.
Writing to the candidate, business operations co-ordinator-International Exams, Richard White said:
“This email is to...
When we attained independence, the Catholics did not seem inimical to the state of Zimbabwe but the Catholics were not at peace.
With time, the fissures began to show; the Catholics could not contain themselves and they started rumbling against the State of Zimbabwe.
This shocked...
THE birth of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), in 1995, coincided with the end of Zimbabwe’s economic reform period, during which time it carried out autonomous and unilateral trade liberalisation policies.
By the time commitments made under the WTO came into effect, Zimbabwe already had...
CHESTER CROCKER’s US Institute for Peace (USIP), just like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a US state-funded organisation.
It was established in 1984 under President Ronald Reagan’s Administration
It is an extremely conservative institute that according to Chaulia (2009): “Manufactures domestic consent for wars,...
ON one side is the Catholic Church and on the other is Chimoio.
I will turn towards Chimoio where so many gave up everything for love, where children got pistol shots to the forehead and amputees were ambushed and massacred by Rhodesians.
Chimoio is where the...
By Emmanuel Koro
in Johannesburg, South Africa
HAS Africa’s 11th hour escape from poverty arrived?
Rich but poor.
Poor but rich.
It’s unbelievable and ironic!
This is the sad reality in Africa.
Africa is resource-rich but poor.
Why has Africa continued to be trapped in this seemingly endless and undeserved poverty trap...
