Opinion & Analysis

Stop the rhetoric, legislate roadmap

THE debate over the country’s monetary future has reached a critical juncture. For months, the air has been thick with official rhetoric regarding the “inevitable” return to a mono-currency system. However, as the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget and Finance correctly pointed out this week, words are not wealth, and deadlines are not a roadmap….

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60 illegal miners arrested in crackdown

Yvonne NcubeIN BULAWAYO POLICE in Nkayi District, Matabeleland North Province, have arrested more than 60 people in an ongoing operation targeting illegal mining activities in the Inyathi area amid growing concerns over violent crime and environmental destruction.The operation, dubbed Isitsheketsha Kasiphele/Chikorokoza Ngachipere, was launched on May 5 following an increase in criminal activities associated with…

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Nine arrested overdrug-related offences

Masimba MakwembereAT least nine people have been arrested in separate anti-drug operations conducted across the country over the past five days, police have confirmed.National police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi yesterday said detectives from the CID Drugs and Narcotics unit carried out coordinated raids targeting suspects linked to the possession, cultivation, and distribution of dangerous drugs…

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‘This engineered pact is hopeless’

 Brandon Josphat THE proposed new opposition alliance is an artificial and elite-driven project that not only lacks legitimacy but is doomed to fail, former opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has charged. Speaking to the Daily News — the country’s most influential newspaper — Chamisa thoroughly pooh-poohed the initiative yesterday, adding that “genu­ine political leadership cannot be…

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Zimbabwe ‘thirsty’ for Chibuku Super

Tapiwa Chirume ZIMBABWEANS have just smashed a 28-year Chibuku Super record! With a record 4.62 million hectolitres of the much loved brew guzzled down last year — the highest volume since 1998 — it seems that the nation has decided that it is officially time to shake-shake all its blues away. As a result, a…

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Archaic vehicle laws face review

Brighton MuronzereyiTHE government says it is moving to amend outdated laws governing the registration and licensing of motor vehicles to align them with modern vehicle technologies and regional standards.This comes as motorists are facing difficulties due to imported vehicles fitted with modern built-in reflectors, which differ from the traditional detachable reflectors required under existing laws.Speaking…

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Rural livelihoods assessment kicks off

Shamaine ChirimujiriTHE Zimbabwe Livelihoods Assessment Committee (ZimLAC) has commenced the 2026 rural livelihoods assessment, a data collection process to ensure appropriate programming interventions.ZimLAC is a consortium of government, United Nations agencies, non-governmental organisations, academia, and other international organisations, chaired by the Food and Nutrition Council, a department under the Office of the President and Cabinet.In…

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Govt moves to curb school dropouts

Tapiwa ChirumeTHE government says it has instituted a comprehensive package of interventions, including integrated community service fairs, an early warning system, and school-based child protection structures, as part of efforts to combat school dropouts caused by early child marriages and pregnancies among children under 17.This was said by the deputy Minister of Primary and Secondary…

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