CABINET’S decision on Tuesday to demand, at entry points, valid medical certificates of clearance for coronavirus from individuals coming from countries affected by the killer virus should be commended. It is also applauded that as of March 1 this year, every traveller to Zimbabwe, 6 169 people to be precise, were screened at the country’s…
IT IS only a matter of time before the lethal coronavirus spreads to many African countries. And when it does, there is palpable fear that it would decimate tens of thousands of lives because of the lack of capacity to deal with the disease. As Africans, there must be no reason to celebrate that coronavirus…
The ZBC board headed by Josaya Tai last week appeared before the parliamentary committee on Information, Media and Broadcasting Services where a gloomy picture of the public broadcaster was painted. Tai lamented that the national broadcaster was bedevilled by a myriad of problems, the biggest being lack of funding. As a result ZBC is failing…
FOR many years, Zimbabwean national sporting associations have treated the media with disdain and contempt, especially football administrators. Despite the crucial role the Fourth Estate plays when it comes to uplifting and ensuring fair play in sports, football has not returned the favour to the scribes. Administrators at big clubs like Dynamos, CAPS United and…
ARE we a cursed nation, a country where leadership in every sphere of life is now in huge deficit? There is now palpable dearth of leadership, not only in politics, but even in the social sector. The level of failure in this country is now stinking to high heaven. The move by the Confederation of…
THERE have been gross human rights violations in Zimbabwe since attainment of Uhuru in 1980. The most brutal human rights violations took place in Matabeleland and the Midlands provinces between 1983 and 1987 when over 20 000 civilians were slain by a North Korean-trained crack unit, the dreaded red-bereted 5th Brigade, in what the government…
WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa assumed the presidency in November 2017, he promised so much, reforms and smashing graft. His rallying point was simple, Zimbabwe is open for business. Slightly more than two years ago, Zimbabwe is not open for business, but open for corruption. We don’t want to impute that Mnangagwa is corrupt, but the…
