Monetary, fiscal policies: The equivalent of a two legged stool?

ON October 1, 2018, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) issued its rather long monetary policy statement (MPS).Empirical evidence has shown that ordinarily, the length of such a statement is in...

Mnangagwa must act fast to salvage legacy

In his short, to the point, inauguration speech, President Emmerson Mnangagwa dwelt at length on his quest for free, fair, credible and non-violent elections. The non-violence was supposed to be a fea...

NPF: Possessed by a retrogressive agenda?

Mark Duncan, writing from Moscow, felt compelled to advise The Economist [Letters - A party of the people, April 14, 2018], that its belief that Russian youth post Gorbachev generation offered optimis...

Command this and that and Zim Airways: A lighter look

AFTER much brainstorming and scratching of heads on how to turn around Air Zimbabwe's failing fortunes, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Cabinet had acquired a few bald heads.The airline was sad...

Time to remove military's presidential straitjacket

"The lack of imagination in South Africa's leadership is even more disturbing than its ignorance. The country has become a one dimensional universe held together by little more than the anxiety it gen...

Zanu-PF: The proverbial suitor?

On April 19, 2018, a few hours after Independence Day holiday, NewsDay carried an opinion piece by its deputy editor, Nqaba Matshazi, questioning the genuineness of Zanu-PF's recent fascination with t...

Behind closed doors: What the Chinese 'said'

State visits are in vogue these days. Almost always economics and trade are on top of the agenda.United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron took a planeload of British businessmen and sen...