By Chris Young for The New York Times – Richard Branson, chairman of the Virgin Group, is working with the Nduna Foundation and Humanity United. Mr. Branson, the billionaire founder of the Virgin Group, a collection of companies popular with consumers around the world, is announcing a new philanthropic venture that aims to do nothing less than put Zimbabwe back on its feet. Zimbabwe is considered to be one of the most difficult nations in Africa to help. Its gross domestic product has fallen to $1.8 billion from a peak of $13 billion, its official unemployment rate is 90 percent... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, September 21st 2010 |
Training with the Center For Creative Leadership Date: Thursday 30 September 2010 Time: 9am – 5pm Cost: $20 Venue: Harare The training is aimed at building self awareness and leadership styles. The program will be designed to cultivate and strengthen the following skills which we believe are critical to successful leadership namely: to be result oriented and efficiently take plans to action; to be resilient in ambiguous and resource contrained environments; to understand the dynamics of individual and group relationships in order to lead others; to creatively persuade through facts and stories; to be self aware of personal strengths and... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Saturday, September 18th 2010 |
This article is the first in a series that will look at forms of freedom of expression in Zimbabwe. Politics has so infiltrated our lives that the personal, social and cultural are all political, and as always with Zimbabwe, it is impossible to talk about one without referencing the other. What we hope to do is to encourage people to think beyond the minutiae detail of political immediacies, and to debate who we are as people in this maelstrom, how do we define ourselves, where do we want to be going, how can we get there, and is there space... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Saturday, September 18th 2010 |
By Own Correspondent – Twenty three months have now elapsed since the signing of the Zimbabwean Global Political Agreement (GPA) but there is little real progress to show for the effort, the resources and the livelihoods that have been consumed in the ongoing political stalemate in Zimbabwe. Once again we have looked to find the origins of the chaos by analysis of the facts to hand. Over the month of August, seventy-six news articles from the internet media were captured and catalogued through the month of August. Each article is a unique record of a breach of the terms of... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Saturday, September 18th 2010 |
By Own Correspondent – The American Business Association of Zimbabwe, through Just Business will hold its fourth Business Economic Forum later this month in Harare, Zimbabwe. The theme this year is ‘From Economic Stabilisation to Growth’. Keynote speakers include Prof. Mervin King of the King Commission and Mr. Greg Lebedev, Chairman of the Centre for International Private Enterprise in Washington. Speaker: Prof. Mervin King, King Commission – Corporate governance in South Africa Prof. King will be dealing with the need for transparency in business in the new economic environment in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa more broadly. Prof. King is a... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, September 16th 2010 |
