Tawanda Musarurwa

1 week ago | bulawayo24.com | Tawanda Musarurwa

STARTING a tutoring business in Zimbabwe might sound like an easy hustle - print a flyer, post an advert on WhatsApp and you are in business. However, digging into the numbers and realities, it becomes clear that even a "small" operation demands more than just subject expertise and good intentions. Let us start with the basics: costs. Renting a modest room in a high-density suburb like Mbare or Kuwadzana costs US$50 to US$100 a month.

4 weeks ago | allafrica.com | Tawanda Musarurwa

Zimbabwe is expected to accrue significant benefits from its ongoing liberalisation of agricultural markets, Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development Dr Anxious Masuka has said. "By liberalising the markets, you have market forces at play, prices will find some equilibrium.

1 month ago | allafrica.com | Tawanda Musarurwa

If Zimbabwean farmers were gamblers, they would be playing a rigged game whose odds seem to be getting worse. While the 1992 drought is infamous, remembered as one of the worst in the country's - if not Southern African - history, Zimbabwe's story with droughts is much broader. Over the 80 years from the turn of the 20th century (between 1900 and 1979) the country recorded at least seven major droughts.

Mar 9, 2024 | bulawayo24.com | Tawanda Musarurwa

ON March 4, 2024, United States President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 14353, which somewhat shifted the US' sanctions regime on Zimbabwe. But what exactly has changed? The devil is in the detail. In a letter to Congress (as per requirement of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act), President Biden wrote: "Although I continue to be concerned with the situation in Zimbabwe . . .

Mar 9, 2024 | bulawayo24.com | Tawanda Musarurwa

FORTY-SEVEN farms in Mashonaland West and Mashonaland Central provinces have been earmarked for the development of the new capital city in Mt Hampden, where work on core infrastructure, which includes roads, water, electricity and telecommunications, has begun.