AS ZIMBABWE joined the world in marking World Water Day on March 22, the importance of water — especially in the face of the coronavirus outbreak — in fighting the virus has become topical. While this year’s theme was “Water and Climate Change” which explored how water and climate change are inextricably linked, one of…
FROM time immemorial, Zimbabweans have been subjected to numerous promises, many of which have remained pipe dreams. This has especially happened in the run-up to elections the country has held to date, but worsened after 1990 when the formation of the late Edgar Tekere’s now-defunct Zimbabwe Unity Movement (Zum) led to the southern African nation’s…
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri’s unfortunate statements over the weekend that the coronavirus is punishment from God to America and her allies for imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe were ill-timed politicking. The remarks have gone viral as news outlets throughout the world picked the rather insensitive and embarrassing remarks and blew them up. It is unfortunate that…
THE United States, United Kingdom and the European Union recently renewed sanctions against Zimbabwe, insisting the southern African nation must institute a raft of reforms to democratise. While sanctions have been an albatross on the economic revival of Zimbabwe and have extremely hurt the ordinary person, it is also prudent that the government must listen…
THE Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) should take a leaf out of Getafe president Angel Torres’s book in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that has caused havoc in the world of sport. Getafe were due to play Inter Milan in an Europa League clash on Thursday night at the San Siro Stadium in Italy. Italy…
THE case in which a 20-year-old Binga man recently axed five people to death, most of them his neighbours, is horrifying. The recent killings add to several other such sad instances as frequently reported by the Zimbabwe Republic Police across the country where innocent people have unnecessarily lost their lives. While some of the murders…
THE novel coronavirus is spreading like veld fire. It has so far killed over 3 000 and infected plus 105 000 people globally. Africa has not been spared. The continent at the weekend recorded its first death in Egypt where a 60-year-old German tourist succumbed to the deadly scourge at a hospital in the Red…
TODAY the world celebrates International Women’s Day under the theme “I am Generation Equality: Realising Women’s Rights”. This comes in the wake of increasing violence against women and girls in Zimbabwe, with shocking statistics showing that more than 20 girls and women are raped daily. Statistics show that more than 40 percent of married women…
FOR the past one-and-a-half weeks the government, Harare and Bulawayo city councils have been busy conducting renovations to some of the country’s main football venues. Crews have been working through the night at the National Sports, Rufaro and Barbourfields stadia. The frantic construction work was necessitated by the recent de-homologation of all Zimbabwe’s football venues…
THE world super power, the United States (US) has done it again — maintaining sanctions on Zimbabwe for the same reasons it has been pontificating on since 2003. The mantra has remained the same that Zimbabwe should institute democratic reforms. In an executive order to the US Congress on Wednesday, the American president Donald Trump…
