ZIMBABWE has long been hailed as a success story in the global fight against HIV and Aids. Through grit, community engagement, and the strategic use of the Aids Levy, we have seen infection rates plummet from their harrowing 1990s peak. However, recent reports of a “serious shortage” of male condoms in Bulawayo clinics serve as…
THE recent police dispatch from Masvingo province reads like a morbid script from a horror film, yet the blood being spilled is tragically real.Within a single week, the nation has been forced to confront the chilling reality that our most vulnerable citizens — school-going children — are no longer safe in the very communities meant…
THE government’s move toward smart policing marks a watershed moment in the nation’s pursuit of public safety. For years, the “traffic jungle”…
THE recent interception of 33 undocumented Zimbabwean children at the Beitbridge Border Post is not merely a logistical hiccup in cross-border travel; it is a loud, distressing siren signalling a humanitarian crisis that the country can no longer afford to ignore. These children, some as young as four, were packed into a minibus taxi—vulnerable, undocumented,…
THE political prognosis for the country’s opposition has rarely looked more terminal than it does today. Split by internal fractures, weakened by strategic recalls, and facing a ruling party currently emboldened by its “2030 agenda,” the democratic alternative in Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. It is against this backdrop of fragmentation that MDC president Douglas…
IN a remarkably candid interview with the national broadcaster, ZBC, at the weekend, President Emmerson Mnangagwa sent a clear tremor through the corridors of power. His message was unambiguous: he knows who is working, he knows who is sleeping on the job, and most importantly, he knows exactly where “the axe should go”. For a…
THE scales of justice in the country are not just unbalanced, they are under such immense structural strain that they risk a total collapse. Speaking at the official opening of the 2026 legal year in Harare on Monday, Chief Justice Luke Malaba painted a harrowing statistical portrait of a judiciary pushed to its absolute limit….
AS THE sun rises tomorrow, the gates of schools across the country will swing open. For many children, it is a day of hope and new beginnings. But for the Zimbabwean parent, it is a day of reckoning — a culmination of weeks of anxiety, desperate borrowing, and the crushing realisation that the “right to…
THE directive from top police commanders to ban “ambush” roadblocks is not just a welcome policy shift; it is a necessary restoration of the rule of law. For too long, motorists have navigated a gauntlet of “invisible” checkpoints where officers emerge like spectres from behind bushes or bridge pillars. National police spokesperson Paul Nyathi’s admission…
