© THERE are a number of strikes or “job actions” that are being undertaken in Zimbabwe. The most significant of these has been an over a month long junior doctors strike at a majority of our State- owned referral hospitals. [GoogleAd] This has also played out very badly in the public discourse with government issuing…
© THE Zimbabwe Republic Police have arrested four men in Nyabira suspected of poaching and illegally possessing firearms. [GoogleAd] According to police spokesperson Paul Nyathi, on October 22 at around 0300hrs, the four went to a farm in Nyabira driving a Mazda B1800 and Peugeot 504 and were intercepted by two alert security guards while…
© ONCE dubbed the Sunshine City, Zimbabwe’s capital Harare stinks to high heavens — garbage is strewn all over, threatening all kinds of disease, while burning trash is polluting the environment. [GoogleAd] The garbage menace and its unattended damage to human life and the environment could have been a thing of the past in the…
© ENERGY minister Fortune Chasi has called on banks to invest in solar energy by financing entrepreneurs and residents to set up their own commercial and domestic solar energy infrastructure. [GoogleAd] Speaking at the Financial Gazette Annual Energy Innovations Summit recently, Chasi said: “I want to call upon financial services to get involved in…
© WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rise to power was premised on his pledge to fight corruption the same way China has done, the reality on the ground paints a different picture, analysts say. [GoogleAd] Since ascending to the Chinese Communist Party general secretary position in late 2012, Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign has targeted widespread graft…
© NORTON Member of Parliament (MP) Temba Mliswa told parliamentarians last week that government is wasting millions of dollars on fruitless re-engagement efforts instead of making significant reforms and channelling the funds to depressed sectors of the economy such as health. [GoogleAd] President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s under pressure government has so far hired two top American…
© EDITOR — To think we are faced with severe problems due to Cyclone Idai, drought but our top officials spend all their time fighting one another shows clearly that the one and only thing they care about is themselves. [GoogleAd] I very much doubt whether any of them will suffer from the effects of…
© SCORES of children around the country were this year turned away from schools for non-payment of fees despite a government directive that they should be allowed in class, a report has revealed. [GoogleAd] Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (Zimvac)’s latest report shows that about 61 percent of school-going children were chased away for failing to…
© EDITOR — The government must urgently address the pricing of medical drugs which seem to continue escalating showing that the rating system is still being applied. [GoogleAd] Most of us had hoped that with the coming in of the Zimbabwe dollar, prices would be affordable and in line with the salaries that are earned…
© AN employee of former president Robert Mugabe’s son-in-law Simba Chikore with whom he was jointly charged for unlawful detention, is set to answer the case even after the High Court recently dismissed the allegations. [GoogleAd] Simbarashe Mutimbe was jointly accused with Chikore of unlawfully preventing former Zimbabwe Airways legal secretary Bertha Zakeyo from exiting…
