A (51) Year Old Bulawayo, Soldier On Death Row Is Pardoned After 26 Years

A (51) Year Old Bulawayo, Soldier On Death Row Is  Pardoned After   26 Years

IN 1990, the Government introduced an economic blueprint — Economic Structural Adjustment Programme — which became commonly known as Esap. Esap would grow in popularity to become one of the most commonly talked about economic blueprints after Independence. Even today it is still being discussed as the starting point of the economic path the country travelled through since then. While for many Zimbabweans, 1990 is remembered for Esap, for Edmos Hadebe, then a 25-year-old young man…

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A1 Taxis To Provide High Volume Buses To Replace Harare Commuter Kombis: Roll On Zupco!

A1 Taxis To Provide High Volume Buses To Replace Harare Commuter Kombis: Roll On Zupco!

Harare City Council will in the coming weeks introduce high-volume buses to service various routes in the capital, imminently displacing commuter omnibuses. Latest full council minutes show that the local authority made the resolution on June 8, 2015, setting itself a target to introduce the buses “without any further delay”. A1 Taxi Company will supply the buses following its successful pilot project on the City-Mabvuku/Tafara route. This public transport system overhaul stems from Government’s plan…

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How And Why Events In Greece Affect Us In Zimbabwe-By Ian Beddowes

How And Why Events In Greece Affect Us In Zimbabwe-By Ian Beddowes

The internationalized banking system began to run out of control following the deregulation of the banks round about 1980 with the coming to power of Reagan in the United States and Thatcher in the United Kingdom. Deregulation means (among many other things) that money you put into the banks for safe-keeping can be used by bankers for speculation. If they win, you gain nothing. if they lose, you lose. It furher means no limits on interest…

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