Editorial Comment

FOR over two decades, Zimbabwe’s economic growth has been choked by a single, crushing reality, financial isolation. Excluded from borrowing by traditional multilateral lenders like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund due to long-standing debt bottlenecks and geopolitical sanctions, the nation was forced to finance capital-intensive national develop­ment through limited domestic revenues and…

WHEN memory fades, humanity should not follow suit. In the chambers of Parliament earlier this week, Chikanga legislator Lynette Karenyi-Kore raised a troubling alarm over an issue long shrouded in silence, the growing burden of dementia across Zimbabwe. Framed as a silent epidemic, dementia is quietly destabilising families, yet it continues to receive almost no…

FOR generations, a dangerous, unspoken code has governed the lives of many Zimbabwean men. It is the myth of the unyielding patriarch—the be­lief that to admit to vulnerability, to confess to pain, or to step inside a clinic when one feels “perfectly fine” is a sign of weakness. But today, this stubborn silence is extracting…

IN A fiscal landscape that has historically felt like a series of unpredictable twists and turns, the Treasury’s recent pledge to hold the line is a deeply welcome relief. The minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncube, commit­ment to introduce no new taxes and bypass supple­mentary budgets for the upcoming year offers some­thing households and businesses have…

FOR decades, the standard high school curriculum has operated under a puzzling contradiction, we meticu­lously prepare young minds to calculate the velocity of an object or analyse medieval literature, yet we send them into the adult world functionally illiterate in the very medium that governs their daily survival— money. The launch of the inaugural Schools…

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s latest assessment of our economy reads like a rare and hard-earned breath of fresh air. For a country whose economic narrative has frequently been dominated by volatility, a staff-level agreement on the first review of the 10-month Staff- Monitored Programme (SMP) is a massive thumbs-up that authorities cannot afford to…

THE images bleeding out of Johannesburg and Durban are a harrowing testament to a broken regional reality. Our brothers and sisters, hunted by whip-wield­ing vigilantes and scapegoated for South Africa’s internal failings, are running for their lives. They are coming home. In this dark hour, President Emmerson Mnan­gagwa’s urgent plea must not fall on deaf…

THE optimism from the minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncube, regarding the country’s macroeconomic calm and an impressive 8.3 percent growth rate highlights the country’s immense economic potential. Leveraging the current stability of the ZiG at global investment conferences is a step in the right direction. However, to convert international interest into last­ing Foreign Direct Investment…

HISTORICALLY, the narrative surrounding men and healthcare in Zimbabwe has been one of frustrating silence. We have lamented the “difficult” demographic — the men who wait until complications arise, who avoid clinics due to work routines, and who let pill fatigue or social stigma derail daily oral Pre-Exposure Prophy­laxis. But a quiet revolution is unfolding…

THE ongoing crisis at Highlanders Football Club has transcended the boundaries of a routine administrative hiccup; it is now a full-blown existential threat to one of Zimbabwe’s oldest and most revered sporting institu­tions. The current player strike, entering its critical phase just days before the high-stakes “Battle of Zimbabwe” against bitter rivals Dynamos, is a…