© AFRICA is the final frontier for the motor industry. It has one of the lowest motorisation rates in the world, the youngest population and the fastest growing middle class. That’s the upside. [GoogleAd] Thedownside is that if we don’t regulate this, Africa could become one of the world’s fastest developing polluters. There are currently…
GOVERNMENT has come under fire for sending a delegation including four Cabinet ministers to be part of a bloated delegation travelling with the Gems for the Netball World Cup in Liverpool, England. While this is purely a global sporting event, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government saw it fit to include Tourism minister Prisca Mupfumira, Women and…
THE Zifa delegation and a handful of players snuck into the country yesterday after the humiliating end to Zimbabwe’s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) campaign in Egypt. There was no pomp or funfair after the delegation touched down at the Robert Mugabe International Airport yesterday afternoon due to the teams’ disappointing performance and Zifa’s…
EDITOR — Zimbabwe’s labour market is tottering on the edge of a financial precipice. This is shattering so many dreams and aspirations. Forget about the official and unofficial national statistics on the rate of unemployment in Zimbabwe and check the reality on the ground. So what is the solution? If the problem is caused by…
EDITOR — Traditionally, meals in Zimbabwe are prepared three times a day (breakfast, lunch and dinner) and it is my concern that the Energy and Power Development ministry should encourage the use of gas for cooking and solar power for lighting so as to save on electricity. The ministry should create awareness on the use…
SINCE last week, the media has been awash with shocking details contained in reports presented to the National Assembly by Auditor-General (AG) Mildred Chiri. Some of the details in Chiri’s report make sad reading as they highlight the gross negligence and failure of proper accounting procedures in all key government institutions. Lackadaisical accounting practices by…
THE Affirmative Action Group (AAG) has appealed to government seeking an urgent intervention on the liquidation of the textile giant, National Blankets (Pvt) Limited. The company was early this month placed under liquidation following years of poor performance and failure to find a good investment suitor in yet another blow to Bulawayo’s industrial revival. [GoogleAd]…
THE International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat) is set to install an incubation centre at its Matopos research station just outside the second largest city. Icrisat is a non-profit making organisation that conducts agricultural research for development in the dry lands of Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. [GoogleAd] The India-headquartered organisation also helps…
MATABELELAND chiefs who met President Emmerson Mnangagwa at State House here last week have angrily reacted to claims that chiefs from Midlands Province were smuggled into the engagement on tribal grounds. In his introductory speech during the meeting, Mnangagwa indicated his displeasure at the composition of the traditional leaders from his home province. [GoogleAd] “I…
CHIEF justice Luke Malaba has emphasised the need for judicial officers to exercise independence and dispose of matters expeditiously to improve service delivery in the legal sector. Malaba was speaking on the side-lines of a swearing-in ceremony of two judges to the Supreme Court. Justices Charles Hungwe and Nicholas Mathonsi, who passed the interviews that…
