The Zimbabwe Mail

ZURICH — FIFA is facing its most serious internal political crisis in years, with the organisation increasingly divided along confederation lines after UEFA, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and Concacaf launched an extraordinary challenge to President Gianni Infantino and his administration.What began as a dispute over the proposed FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) has now developed into a much broader confrontation over who controls the future direction, finances and governance of world football.The three confederations have issued an unusually forceful...

For decades, work measurement carried an unfashionable image. It belonged to the world of the “efficiency expert”, the “time-and-motion man” or the rate fixer walking around a factory with a stopwatch, measuring workers and searching for a few seconds that could be converted into a few cents of savings. As management thinking moved towards quality, employee empowerment, automation and knowledge-based work, the language of work measurement gradually disappeared from everyday business conversation.By Brighton MusonzaThe stopwatch may have disappeared, but...

JOHANNESBURG — South African retail group Massmart has appointed Zimbabwean marketing executive Charmagne Mazhindu as its new Vice President of Marketing, strengthening its leadership team as the retailer accelerates its customer-focused growth and digital transformation strategy.Mazhindu brings more than a decade of experience in marketing leadership, brand development, digital transformation and business strategy across a range of industries. Her appointment comes at a time when Massmart is placing greater emphasis on technology, customer experience and omnichannel retailing as consumer...

ZURICH — FIFA has launched an unusually forceful defence of president Gianni Infantino, warning that it will not allow what it describes as a concerted campaign of allegations, insinuations and misinformation to interfere with the organisation’s constitutional processes or the president’s democratic mandate.In a strongly worded statement issued amid mounting criticism of Infantino from sections of European football and the European media, FIFA said it would reject any attempt to engineer a change of leadership outside the organisation’s established...

HARARE — The image (above) represent the standard model of a Zimbabwean rural shop that has existed since pre-independence Rhodesia; usually built on the dusty rural roadside and surrounded by open ground without other supporting infrastructure, it captures a much larger economic problem confronting Zimbabwe. The building may serve its immediate community, but it also represents the persistence of an outdated commercial architecture in a rural economy that has changed considerably beneath it.Zimbabwe’s rural areas are no longer simply...