HARARE – Harare Magistrate Elijah Makomo yesterday postponed the trial of Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum executive director Abel Chikomo, facing charges of running an “unregistered” organisation. The trial was postponed after a top government official, Sydney Mhishi, failed to show up in court to testify as a State witness. State prosecutors sought a postponement…
HARARE – Vendors are the main catalyst of diarrheal diseases breaking out, a top Women Unlimited official has said. Women Unlimited is a non-political humanitarian organisation that aims to complement government efforts in the prevention and control of non-communicable disease (NCDs) and diarrheal diseases within targeted communities. Speaking to the Daily News in Epworth at…
HARARE – Some questions are better not asked. Some questions are better asked for posterity. After a proclamation he explained: “There can be no happiness in a country while the absurd situation continues to exist where people, such as ourselves, who have ruled themselves with an impeccable record for over 40 years, are denied what…
HARARE – Over the past weeks debates have been raging on whether or not it is desirable for the government to mend its relations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The drive to mend these relations has been seen as an about turn by the country after dumping the Bretton Woods institution some years back…
HARARE – Revelations of an alarming number of people facing starvation by the Public Service and Social Welfare ministry officials are an indictment on the government that professes to be pro-poor. Apart from cyclic droughts, recurrent food deficits could, in part, be attributed to government’s skewed policies that place greater emphasis on proving how competent…
EDITOR — James 1:5-7 says: “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. “But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed…
EDITOR — The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) is greatly disturbed by reports that government intends to demolish ‘illegal’ shelters, just like they did during the 2005 “Operation Restore Order or Operation Clean Up” which affected over 700 000 Zimbabweans. It seems our leaders have a short memory. In 2005 they destroyed peoples’ homes,…
EDITOR — I need to register my concerns over the state of our hospitals. Several government hospitals are severely understaffed and lack basic drugs such as painkillers. We are approaching a disease-prone season where waterborne diseases will be on the rise. Government must immediately intervene before a cholera outbreak similar to the dreadful 2008 era…
HARARE – Horticultural concern Interfresh Limited (Interfresh) plans to delist from the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE). The group, intending to relist in the medium-term after “aggressive restructuring”, said its stock is not reflecting true value on the local bourse as it has “consistently traded at a discount to net asset value of the company and……
HARARE – Government efforts to fix Zimbabwe’s broken economy must begin with facing up to reality and not just raising hopes, a leading economist Tony Hawkins says. This comes as the authorities recently launched the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (ZimAsset) — an economic blueprint expected to guide the country up to 2018 —…
