ZIMBABWEAN authorities must take the recent warning issued by a medical and forensic expert that international drug cartels are using the country as a gateway into South Africa and the rest of the region seriously. Testifying during the trial of South African drug mule Shila Khumalo on Tuesday, forensic expert Clany Nyamukure told the Harare…
THE case of three people who recently died in an inferno in Msasa Park in Harare brings to the fore the power challenges that the country is facing and is a big indictment on the government to swiftly act on the problem. Over the past few weeks, Zimbabwe has been experiencing serious power cuts, which…
ZIMBABWE is now in election mode, with political parties already on the campaign trail. The ruling Zanu PF intends to recruit five…
IT’S high time the government comes up with a concrete strategy to combat mineral leakages at the country’s borders and airports to stop Zimbabwe from losing billions of dollars in foreign currency. Official figures from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) show that the country is losing over US$1 billion worth of minerals which are…
ON Tuesday, Cabinet came up with a raft of measures to try and end traffic congestion in the capital and other cities across the country. The measures were adopted barely a week after the same Cabinet shockingly claimed that the availability of adequate fuel on the market was or is the reason for congestion. It…
FOR those who have been witnessing the goings-on in the fractured opposition, it is becoming increasingly clear that their differences are similar to those of the south and north poles. It is unfathomable that advocates for multi-party democracy continue to engage in mindless fighting at a time their very existence is under threat from a…
CABINET on Tuesday received an update on one of the key projects towards the country’s goal to achieve a US$23 billion mining industry by 2023, the Tsingshan Consolidated Mining and Value Addition project. Since signing a memorandum of understanding with the government, Tsingshan has completed two high carbon ferrochrome furnaces in Selous, in April 2021;…
THE government must move with speed to ensure Zimbabwe also eats the piece of the cake in the global cannabis economy which is expected to reach US$28 billion by 2027. Since time immemorial, hemp has been an integral part of the social fabric of Zimbabwean culture. But in all that time, marijuana has largely been…
THE ruling Zanu PF at the weekend embarked on a nation-wide restructuring exercise meant to reinvigorate its organs ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections. The party has an ambitious target of having five million members before the polls as it aims to secure a landslide victory. Over the years we have witnessed that each time…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday assented to the Constitutional Amendment Bill No 2, giving it immediate legal effect. The omnibus Bill, with 27 amendments, sailed through both the National Assembly and Senate with very little debate except on contentious issues to do with the scrapping of the presidential running mate, chief justice retirement age and…
