THE Easter holidays started yesterday with reports of huge volumes of vehicles on the highways as most people took advantage of the government’s relaxation of Covid-19 national lockdown measures to allow inter-city travelling to curb the spread of the deadly pandemic. Several accidents were reported across the country though the police could not give the…
AS the Easter holidays draw closer, the country should expects an increase in both human and vehicular traffic. The increase in movement, coupled with the traditional church festivities, pose a perilous risk for further transmission of Covid-19 in the country. Health authorities’ decision to strengthen surveillance, case management, and risk communication and community engagement in…
ON TUESDAY, the country’s former ambassador to the United States (US) Fredrick Shava was sworn as Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister to replace the late Sibusiso Busi Moyo who died in January from Covid-19. Barely a day after being sworn-in by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and pledging to continue to pursue the government’s engagement…
ZIMBABWE, like the rest of the world, must prepare for a post Covid-19 lockdown “new normal”. This comes on the back of the government’s announcement last week that re-opening of schools is inevitable. What this entails is that there is need for all and sundry to prepare for the post-lockdown life. In a matter…
A STAGGERING 3 454 people were arrested on February 16 — the day President Emmerson Mnangagwa extended the national Covid-19 lockdown — a clear demonstration of indiscipline in the face of the killer pandemic. On Monday, Mnangagwa extended the current lockdown by two more weeks at a time the government has started vaccinating citizens. But…
ON SUNDAY, Zimbabwe marked the third anniversary since MDC founding president and former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai died from colon cancer at a private hospital in South Africa. Tsvangirai, a trade unionist of note, is remembered for leading the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) to challenge the excesses of the late former president…
THE government last week set up a Cabinet Committee on Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management to bring sanity and order in urban areas by deregistering housing cooperatives being run by corrupt land barons. The committee is chaired by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga. This came after recent flooding of settlements built on wetlands in Harare and…
THE imposition of a lockdown in March last year to curb and mitigate the spread of coronavirus has had a negative impact on the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans. The majority of citizens are battling to eke out a living under the lockdown and harsh economic realities. In fact, life is getting worse for ordinary citizens…
IT HAS been painful to watch over the past few days the desperation with which the small cast of know-it-alls, that is contributing so much to the country’s toxic politics, has been attacking talk about the urgent need for national dialogue in the country. Our hope, in this regard, is that the intended beneficiaries of…
IT IS a common cause that the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) is currently grappling with the Islamic insurrection in northern Mozambique. Thousands of Mozambicans have been displaced, while hundreds have been killed by the Islamic fundamentalists, forcing Maputo to appeal to Sadc for assistance to quell the insurgency. Sadc, through its organ on politics,…
