ZIMBABWEANS are yearning for a new life and wishing for better to come this year. Their dream and hope is that our politicians will come to the party and deliver the nation from the continued political conundrum that has halted the country’s economic growth. The country has been in a state of paralysis for a…
AS we enter 2021, it’s high time for the country’s political gladiators to bury their differences and identify the national interest and forge a common vision and values to end the country’s myriad of challenges. It is a tragedy of leadership that since attaining independence in 1980, the country has dismally failed to come…
HISTORY is repeating itself at the country’s embattled national airline – Air Zimbabwe – and the question is at what cost to the taxpayer and the national fiscus. On Tuesday, Cabinet considered and approved Air Zimbabwe’s balance sheet and its business plan post reconstruction and, among other things, ministers agreed that the government should assume…
THE recent meet-and-greet-the-media press conference organised by the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) was quite commendable as it provided a platform for the two entities to understand each other’s operations. It was indeed a no-holds barred platform which tackled, among other things, the strained Zifa/SRC relations threatening to bring the game of football to its…
DESPITE the challenging economic environment, the government’s positive strides in the provision of significant resources to revive the public health sector in areas such as the reproductive, maternal, new-born and adolescent health and nutrition services is commendable. However, more needs to be done to wean off the crucial sector from donor support and grants. This…
THE cleansing of local authorities, whose top officials have for a very long time been accused of being self-centred at the expense of service delivery in their areas of jurisdiction, should continue in an effort to ensure the residents — who pay through the nose for the services — ultimately benefit. Since the start of…
AS the world continues to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, coronavirus cases are starting to spike again in Zimbabwe; and worryingly they are mostly local transmissions. The country reported 84 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, bringing the national tally to over 10 000, including close to 280 deaths since the pandemic hit Zimbabwe’s shores in…
LAST month, two important things happened — one inside Zimbabwe and the other in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). While these happened in different jurisdictions, they all have a huge bearing on Zimbabwe and its potential to attract enough foreign capital to grow the country’s troubled economy. Last week the UAE authorities allowed foreign…
DEBATE has been raging across the country on why the government is not closing schools following increasing cases of coronavirus among learners. Ever since schools reopened in September for examination classes after their closure in March when Covid-19 reached our shores, not a single day goes by without a report of confirmed cases. Zimbabwe has…
THE seemingly growing cacophony in the ruling Zanu PF party is needless and a threat to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s thrust to turn around the fortunes of the country’s flagging economy. Over the past three or so months, Zanu PF bigwigs have been jostling and horse-trading for power ahead of the re introduction of the divisive…
