CIVIL servants have for the second time this year threatened to embark on industrial action to force the government to review their salaries upwards and improve their conditions of service. The public workers, under the umbrella of the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU), met in the capital last Friday and agreed to…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration must press on with its engagement and re-engagement foreign policy, with a view to increasing investment inflows into the country. This is despite renewal of sanctions against the country by the United States of America, the United Kingdom and its western allies, which have crippled the economy since the turn of…
ON Thursday, the United States of America extended sanctions on Zimbabwe, adding deputy police commissioner-general Stephen Mutamba on its embargo list. They want further to remove 11 individuals from the list, some of them dead. The US sanctions have been contentious, the American government insists that they are targeted, while the Zimbabwe government, the Sadc…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was part of the dignitaries who attended the inauguration of William Ruto as the fifth president of Kenya in Nairobi on Tuesday following his controversial election in August. Ruto narrowly edged his bitter rival Raila Odinga who did not attend the swearing-in ceremony, firstly on the basis that he was out of…
By Professor Norman Nyazema ON SEPTEMBER 1, it was reported that a Marondera man was jailed for five years for unlawful possession of about 597kg of cannabis which is commonly known in Southern Africa as dagga, a misnomer. The amount found in his possession surely means there is a serious market somewhere. In fact, it…
“CONSISTENT with the collective aspirations and determination of the people of Zimbabwe to achieve an Empowered and Prosperous Upper Middle-Income Society by 2030, the Second Republic launched Vision 2030 to chart a new transformative and inclusive development agenda. “It is the pursuit of this vision which will deliver broad based transformation, new wealth creation and…
THE ruling Zanu PF yesterday constituted a war veterans league ahead of the much-anticipated 2023 harmonised polls. The league was mooted a few years ago after the ex-combatants played a crucial role in the military ouster of the late former president Robert Mugabe in November 2017.That the war veterans are now part of Zanu PF…
THE government’s plans to come up with modern legislation meant to enhance productivity in the cannabis industry should be expedited as they are very timely. With the global cannabis industry expected to grow exponentially from US$28 to US$197 billion within the next six years, Zimbabwe must do all within its power to position itself to…
AS WE go to elections next year, authorities must ensure the processes to the watershed polls will be spotless, clean and beyond reproach. The country should never fall into the fallacy of composition where the concern would be on the end state of the polls. Rather elections are a process, not an event. Clearly, the…
OFFICIAL statistics show that the measles outbreak in the country is spreading, while at the same time there is stiff vaccination hesitancy against the acute viral respiratory illness. On Monday, there were 153 new cases recorded and 13 deaths. The death toll stood at 698 from 685 out of 6 666 cumulative cases since the…
