© DANCEHALL music icon Winky D on Saturday defied the odds when he successfully performed in Kadoma following disturbances that saw him abandoning performances in the town last year. On Saturday, Winky D shared the stage with Enzo Ishall at a braai festival organised by 2Kings Entertainment at Odyssey Hotel, two years after his performance…
© PARLIAMENT has demanded a ministerial statement from Health minister Obadiah Moyo explaining the state of the country’s health delivery system after government fired over 280 doctors recently. The call, endorsed by Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda yesterday, was made by opposition MDC MP for Harare East Tendai Biti who expressed fears that…
© WHAT has emerged in recent months through the barring of public demonstrations by the police is that our government is afraid of its own people and sees shadows everywhere. Why should government see doctors, nurses, civil servants and even the opposition as enemies of the state? And here we are talking of defenceless people…
© PPC Zimbabwe says it will be setting up two solar plants with a capacity of 16 megawatts (MW) at its Colleen Bawn and Bulawayo factories in a bid to deal with incessant power cuts. The cement manufacturer, like most companies in the country, has been affected by the severe power cuts that have left…
© THE escalating row over a farm in Harare’s Pomona area, involving Grace Mugabe, pictured, and a number of land claimants, has now placed the erratic former first lady in the gun-sights of the ruling Zanu PF, the Daily News reports. This comes after the once exceedingly powerful wife of the late former president…
© POLITICAL violence is an anathema and antithetic to democracy. It is the bottom of cowardice. The violence that broke out at the MDC headquarters, the Richard Morgan Tsvangirai House, at the weekend must never be condoned, but extremely proscribed. It is this kind of political intolerance and suppression of divergent views that led this…
EDITOR — Although a new currency and printing of new notes and coins is welcome to ease money shortages in banks, it can be a cocktail for disaster if improperly managed by politicians in the ruling party. Money should be printed and efficiently channelled into productive sectors like manufacturing (engineering and IT), mining and agriculture…
© KAIZER Chiefs forward Khama Billiat is aiming for a flying start to the Warriors’ 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifying campaign. Zimbabwe begin their Afcon 2021 Group H qualifying campaign with a clash against the Zebras of Botswana tomorrow night at the National Sports Stadium before travelling to Lusaka to face Zambia four…
© THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is contemplating daily water cuts to one of the city’s largest high density suburbs, Cowdray Park, due to suspected abuse of the precious liquid. Cowdray Park, which is home to more than 76 000 residents, largely relies on communal water supply pipes because the area does not have individual…
EDITOR — The lesson that Zimbabwe needs to learn is that there is no value in money, but there is value in ‘‘that’’ which you want to acquire using money. “That” which you want to acquire using money is real wealth or value! Money is just a piece of paper — a letter of authorisation!…
