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 […]
Another Boring Budget Cycle
Everyone likes to complain about taxes. It is one of the great underrated spectator sports. But few people do anything about taxes. Very, very few people take the time to study a budget. Budgets are dull, confusing and require a couple of hours to understand. Those who read a budget figure out pretty quickly that there is not much discretionary […]
Pet Peeve Causes Party Attorney To Speed Up Darwinism
I may never leave my flat to shop at a grocery store ever again-start shopping online altogether. However, when I do shop at a public market like Krogers, HEB or Sainsburys, I focus on efficiency. Time is money in the real world, but in my bubble, time is time (time for internet browsing, video game […]
Open Up the Business Model: How Citizen Journalists Get Rewarded
About 50 million Americans have added their original content to the Internet’s bounty. Most haven’t seen a dime. Five of the ten fastest growing brands on the Web rely on users for content. Most, like MySpace, Flickr and Heavy.com, do not pay their contributors. But the tide may be changing towards systems of compensation. Interestingly, […]
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