<p>On closing Wednesday, the Dow added 1.14 percent, the NASDAQ outperformed bluechips with additons of 2.01 percent and the S&P500 made gains of 1.41 percent.</p> <p>The standout earnings posting -Ttech bellwether, Cisco Systems impacted heavily on early action with a report of 25 percent gain in Q4 profits, causing Wall Street analysts to up their […]
Corruption & Unending Problems in Africa
Corruption and Unending Problems in Africa Africa is incontrovertibly blessed with an abundance of natural resources, especially land that is rich in all sorts of imaginable minerals. Hundreds and thousands of fertile tracts that are conducive for agriculture can be found nowhere else on the globe except in most African countries. Had these resources been […]
Current Oil Prices and Alternative Fuel Research Not an Indication of World Oil Reserves
Pull up to any gas station anywhere in America and you are likely to experience some degree of sticker shock. At a glance, prices can be explained away by geo-political factors – crisis in the Middle East and America’s deteriorating relationships with oil-exporting nations, such as Russia, Venezuela, Iran, and Sudan. These delicacies are certainly […]
Zimbabwe: A Land Of Plenty?
Zimbabwe: A Land Of Plenty? By Kudzai Chimhangwa Imagine waking up and wondering whether you will be able to go to work because of unpredictable transport costs. Imagine being speculative on whether your family will be able to buy essential products like sugar, bread, soap and cooking oil because they can only be […]
Who is playing havoc with the Zimbabwe dollar?
Zudha in the Rhodesian days was corrupted Shona for South African coins. Because they were useless to Zimbabweans, the word was transformed to mean anything useless including people. It was derived from the Afrikaans words Suid Afrika (South Africa). But South Africans coins, which people in Rhodesia used to throw away, have become gold. The […]
Britain behind Gukurahundi massacres
A former Zimbabwean freedom fighter who, himself, was a victim of Gukurahundi says Britain and not South Africa was behind the 1980s massacres that left nearly 30 000 innocent civilians from Matabeleland and the Midlands dead. Douglas Moyo* says South Africa was just a front. Britain was the brains behind the massacres. All it […]