THE surging numbers of coronavirus (Covid-19)cases in the country’s prisons is a public health disaster unfolding before our eyes. Recent reports that several prisoners and correctional officers at Bulawayo and Grey prisons in Bulawayo tested positive for Covid-19 should send alarm bells to those in authority that more needs to be done for prisons to…
THE rate at which coronavirus (Covid-19) is now spreading in the country is scary and urgent measures have to be adopted and implemented to mitigate the scourge. What is worrying is the increase in local transmissions, the bulk of cases untraceable. On Sunday alone, 133 cases tested positive for Covid-19, these included returnees from South…
FOR some, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube’s Mid-Term Budget Review that was presented on Thursday made a lot of sense in that it gave tax concessions, but in practical terms, it falls far short of addressing the real issues on the ground — the re-dollarisation the market is pushing the economy into. Even for lay people,…
WHILE world celebrities, who include artists, have been in the forefront donating millions of dollars to help fight Covid-19-induced hunger, in Zimbabwe it has been the opposite. This week officials in the ministry of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation visited celebrated actress Jesesi Mungoshi and all-time record Soccer Star of the Year Award winner George…
WITH cases of Covid-19 infections in the country close to breaching the 1 000 mark, the government must emulate South Africa, which on Sunday tightened its coronavirus lockdown measures. Among the measures pronounced by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are a ban on sale of alcohol, introduction of a curfew between 9pm and 4am and…
IT WAS Francis Bacon, the prominent philosopher and politician, who said rather flamboyantly that silence is the virtue of fools. What the former attorney general and Lord Chancellor of England meant when he said this 400 years ago was that one would be a fool to keep their mouth shut when something needed to be…
THE promulgation of the Freedom of Information Bill into law and the subsequent repeal of the Access to Information and Privacy Act (AIPPA) were long overdue. The delay in repealing AIPPA stifled a free, fair and transparent electoral environment as pushed for for years by electoral stakeholders. The new development also comes after spirited lobbying…
THE trend in African politics has had a uniform pattern with incumbent leaders often preferring to cling to power like leeches, which explains the tragic situations the continent’s nation states find themselves in. The general trajectory has been towards decadence — economic, political and social — which has made the continent poorer than it should…
WITH cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) continuing to rise in the country, the government must exercise extreme caution in relaxing measures it employed to arrest and mitigate the spread of the pandemic when it decreed a national lockdown on March 30. As of Wednesday night, the country had recorded 605 positive cases of the lethal disease,…
MOST Zimbabweans living in urban areas are facing an incredible amount of difficulty when commuting to and from work during the coronavirus (Covid-19)-induced lockdown. When the government imposed the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus on March 30, a ban on all public transport was effected. This meant that thousands of commuter omnibuses…
