Empowering women is an imperative, says Sindi Koyana, senior executive partner at Ernst & Young. It unleashes value through capacity and capabilities that would otherwise be lying dormant, she adds. “Our government has been a trailblazer for a while — not just now with the gender balance that we see in government leadership but starting in 1994 with the accelerated growth and development it gave woman executives in state-owned organisations
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe criticised what he called unfair media reports aimed at muddying the image of developing countries, as Asian and African leaders held talks on Monday on fighting poverty. Mugabe slammed news reports that are ”quite often deliberately intended to tarnish and mislead”.