THE Mighty Warriors got their Cosafa Women’s Championships campaign off to the worst possible start following a humbling 3-0 thumping at the hands of youthful Tanzania side on Wednesday in South Africa. The result drew widespread criticism on the players as some felt the women’s national team was not doing enough to lift the country’s…
PLANS to construct Zimbabwe’s second rabbit abattoir in Bulawayo within the next 12 months will go a long way in boosting and strengthening the export readiness of the sector. This follows the US$1 million rabbit abattoir opened by the Zimbabwe Commercial Rabbit Breeders Association (Zicorba) which has the capacity to process meat for the export…
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) estimates that over US$2 billion is circulating in the informal sector in the country. This is too much money outside the country’s formal banking system and the major question is why is the situation like that. Several theories have been bandied around to try and explain this sad scenario…
FOR a long time now the country has been grappling with cases of sexual abuse of women by supposed men of the cloth as well as child marriages in the church. The recent death of a young girl while giving birth at an apostolic church in Marange comes to mind. On Friday, an Epworth-based self-proclaimed…
THE increasing prevalence of livestock diseases in the Midlands province should be taken seriously by the government as it is a threat to efforts to boost the national herd, which currently stands at 5,5 million. According to a report we carried yesterday, quoting Midlands veterinary provincial director Martin Sibanda, the province is at risk of…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa announced the extension of the country’s Level 4 Covid-19 lockdown measures for a further two weeks on Tuesday evening. The announcement had been widely expected and if Mnangagwa had said anything else it would have been a surprise. It was nevertheless a big decision given that the lockdown will now continue until…
WHILE there is still a lot to be done in terms of improving the economy, we should give credit to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government for its efforts in rehabilitating the country’s road network. Roads are key to the economic growth of any country. For example, the Beitbridge-Chirundu road is important as it is the country’s…
CASES of gender-based violence continue to worryingly increase across the country. It is disgusting to note that despite the growing levels of…
WARREN Edward Buffett, an American business magnate, once wrote that “someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago”. There seems to be a paucity of such wisdom in politicians in Zimbabwe, both from the ruling Zanu PF and the opposition MDC in its multiplicity of shades. If…
REPORTS across certain areas in the country that some boarding schools have recorded positive cases of Covid-19 are not only worrying, but expose our poor public health management systems. From the onset, the government made a stupid decision to reopen the schools without thorough examination on whether or not pupils, students and teachers had been…
