EDITOR – I wonder everyday when I walk through the streets of Harare and see the youth of today’s disturbing behaviour. It hurts me more to see them indulge in activities that they know are deviant to our society. Consumption of drugs to excess has become a habit, clubbing has become a hobby as well…
EDITOR – Zimbabwe is past the tipping point of no return as far as corruption is concerned. I can’t understand how our president and some of his ministers can stand before the public and say they are busy trying to fight corruption when the situation is so bad. Corruption and rot in this country lies…
HARARE – While Communication Technologies minister, Supa Mandiwanzira this week suspended the new floor prices of data services which had been introduced by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Potraz) on January 9 until he resumes work end of this month, analysts are worried about the timing of the aborted increase. And there are strong…
HARARE – After years of persecution and blacklisting of his songs which were deemed politically incorrect by the public broadcaster, ZBC Holdings, Zora music star Leonard “Karikoga” Zhakata is still standing. And it was not only the public broadcaster that shunned his politically-charged songs as the singer also received some bashing from the public media’s…
HARARE – We are concerned that when other progressive nations are scoring big in terms of technological advancements and eradication of diseases, Zimbabwe is still stuck with medieval illnesses such as typhoid which has claimed a couple of lives and affected thousands. Indeed, as we have consistently warned in the past year — the signs…
HARARE – An exhausted Robson Jack mills around Harare Magistrates’ Courts, his socks filled with handwritten letters — cries from prisoners requesting food aid, legal assistance and pleas for prayers. He calmly approaches bystanders, pleading if they know one of the inmates’ relatives who was said to be a frequent photographer at the courts. “Mungazive…
HARARE – Maverick businessman-cum-politician Energy Mutodi is refusing to hold back his withering criticism of President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF and here he speaks to The Daily News On Sunday Deputy Chief Writer, Tendai Kamhungira, about his views on the rumbling succession issue and the storm caused by images of him with Vice President…
HARARE – Recent political developments in neighbouring South Africa where president Jacob Zuma has said the governing African National Congress (ANC) party is ready for its first female leader, days after his former wife was named by the party’s influential women’s league as its choice to succeed him, has reminded many Zimbabweans of First Lady…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s collapsing public health sector was yesterday hit with another dose of bad news after it was revealed the country’s major hospitals are only left with two weeks’ supply of a major drug used during surgical operations. The unsettling news comes as President Robert Mugabe’s misfiring government has allocated a measly budget allocation…
HARARE – Fresh factional fighting has broken out in President Robert Mugabe’s home province of Mashonaland West, with the regional women’s league moving to “dump” one of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s fiercest critics, Sarah Mahoka, over allegations of causing chaos in the ruling party. So ugly have the ructions become that some of the Zanu…
