On death, they become food to the many organisms that line up for their turn in feeding. Two inventions have helped delay or postpone the feeding on the human dead by these micro-organisms, the hospital and refrigeration. A hospital is an institution for health care providing patient treatment.…

It focuses on the need for quality control and the removal of barriers to skills training and development within the Zimbabwean context.It is now a well-accepted truism that the biggest undoing of the previous decade was the “brain drain”. It is estimated that the country lost over 300…

 In spite of this, this has not translated into economic growth or sustained development for African countries. This has led to calls by some economists for the removal of aid and proposals that African countries should resort to issuing bonds on the international capital markets each time they…

University lecturers, teachers, hospital doctors, nurses and scores of other public servants want salaries that put them above the official poverty datum line (PDL), estimated at around US$500. They insist their salaries should be pegged between US$500 and US$600, arguing that this is compatible with the PDL as…

  This exonerates us, doesn’t it? Zvazobuda pachenaka? We have always known this fact and we have maintained that until and unless the sanctions are removed, we will not be making any new GPA concessions in favour of Morgan and his younger brothers. I just wonder what Morgan…

THERE were to be many shocks, and eventually, as the learned Professor Jonathan Moyo once cleverly put it, the abnormal became the norm. One of the earliest shocks came when I went to supervise teacher training students at the local high school in social sciences.Being a stickler for…

Among the many thousands who have lost their lives are good friends and close colleagues from the United Nations. I mourn their loss and all those who died in the disaster.  Fortunately, humanitarian aid, provided by countries from across the globe and coordinated by the UN, is finally…

This, Biti said, would help channel resources towards growing the economy, which went through its worst crisis over a 10-year period up to 2008, and also help unlock international financial support that dried up following controversial agrarian reforms and loan repayment defaults to international creditors, including the International…

This labour trend has now become a common phenomenon after the presentation of every national budget. What makes the current salary negotiations a tough territory to navigate is the reality of our economy that is still slowly emerging from a decade of regression that had extreme hyperinflation as…

Moreso the way in which the press linked the terrorist attack to the ability and impact on South Africa hosting the World Cup in a few months’ time. How the Western press and their representatives in Africa, some of whom are actually Africans, can link two separate countries…