Zimbabwe abandons debt relief initiative

The Zimbabwe government has abandoned its plan to access a debt relief facility under the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, meant to resolve its unsustainable debt, Business Times repo...

Rival Zanu-PF factions capture presidency, state institutions

A serving High Court judge gave me something interesting to think about.He claims Team Lacoste has captured State institutions - from the judiciary, the military, the State media - and G40 has...

Coaltion of Democrats (CODE) Statement on the 2017 Budget Announcement

The 2017 Budget theme was titled "Pushing the Frontiers of Production Across All Sectors of the Economy", and unfortunately this budget dismally fails to seriously address the relevant issues, and ins...

What we expect in mid-term fiscal policy

As the Minister of Finance is set to present the mid-term fiscal policy today, Zimbabweans are expecting to hear measures that will rescue the economy from a further downward spiral.The econom...

The ZANU (PF) kleptocracy will never reform voluntarily

"All political lives unless they are cut off mid-stream at happy junctures always end in failure because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs" Enoch Powell. I said it more than ...

Zanu PF has never won elections, says prominent analyst

A political analyst Vince Musewe has said Zanu PF has never won the elections but resorted to using unorthodox means to remain in power and now it would not heed to calls for electoral reforms as that...

Joint statement by MDC-T and PDP on the IMF Visit

Only substantive political and economic reforms can save Zimbabwe Professor Erik Reinert, a well-known developmental economist, in his book titled-How t...

Will Zimbabwe's LIMA strategy work?

In September 2015 the Minister of Finance, Patrick Chinamasa, issued a document titled Zimbabwe's strategies for clearing external debt arrears and the supportive economic reform agenda.The su...