THE country’s teetering health sector, reeling from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and an economic crunch as with all other areas of the economy, came to a grinding halt last week after doctors, nurses and other health workers downed tools demanding better remuneration. Health workers rejected in toto the government review of civil servants’…
ZIMBABWE recorded two coronavirus deaths at the weekend, a clear signal that we are far from flattening the pandemic curve and that we should treble our efforts to contain and mitigate the spread of the disease. As of yesterday morning, Zimbabwe had recorded 486 positive cases of the pandemic, including six deaths and 64 recoveries….
LAST week, Parliament embarked on Constitutional Amendment No 2 Bill public hearings across the country. The Bill, among other things, intends to amend the Constitution Zimbabweans overwhelmingly endorsed in 2013. Among the amendments include the removal of presidential election running mates to elect vice presidents, the empowering of the president to appoint prosecutor-general, increasing the…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last week declared yesterday as a national day for praying and fasting, asking the Almighty God to intervene and deliver the world from the lethal coronavirus pandemic. Indeed God’s intervention is needed to end Covid-19 that has killed tens of thousands of people, infected millions and wreaked economies across the world. Only…
LAST Tuesday, there was chaos at several security checkpoints on roads leading into Harare city centre as authorities turned back many who were commuting to work. While there was nothing wrong with the operation per se, what was perhaps disturbing is the lack of order and coordination. People who had hitherto been allowed into town…
THE plan by the government to make public the names of people infected with coronavirus (Covid-19), in violation of the country’s own lockdown regulations, demonstrates a shocking lack of cohesion in Zimbabwe’s strategy to contain the killer virus, which has so far claimed four lives out of close to 280 infections. What makes the government’s…
VERY few people in Zimbabwe have heard of a place called Maharashtra. It is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Strangely, our government shares similar thoughts with Maharashtra ― people infected with the lethal coronavirus (Covid-19) must be named publicly ― very strange indeed….
WE do not believe in the economics of protectionism, neither are we disciples of price controls, but we feel strongly that the pricing regime on basic commodities now obtaining in this country is unacceptable and exploitative. Recently we published an article highlighting how prices of basic goods have been going up since the coronavirus lockdown…
IT IS rather shocking that President Emmerson Mnangagwa, and of course many of his Zanu PF colleagues do not see the sense in suggestions that Zimbabwe should consider going for another government of national unity (GNU). Rejecting inclusive dialogue aimed at sorting out the mess that the country is in today is totally misplaced and…
ZIMBABWE’S opposition parties, led by the popular youthful Nelson Chamisa of the MDC Alliance, must continue to exert pressure on the Zanu PF government to implement economic and political reforms to rescue the long-suffering citizens. The country is currently battling to flatten the coronavirus (Covid-19) cases, which continue to rise by the day. It is…
