YESTERDAY we ran a story about six young people who were recently arrested for peddling drugs in Bulawayo’s Central Business District (CBD) as well as at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) premises. While we welcome the arrest of these drug peddlers, we are, however, worried that the anti-drug blitz appears to be netting small…
ON MONDAY, Harare magistrate Stanford Mambanje demonstrated how the country frowns upon human trafficking by sentencing Caroline Ziyanga to a total staggering 90 years in jail for selling into sex slavery nine women to Oman on the guise of securing them employment. Although she will serve an effective 30 years in jail after some of…
EASTER holiday starts this Friday and our highways and roads have continued to be stages on which tragedies are played out, day in and day out. Unfortunately, road carnages are sudden, violent, traumatic reality shows with long-lasting, often permanent impact, creating thousands of newly injured and bereaved people. Ironically, most of the crashes could and…
ZIMBABWE’S narrative has to change pronto for the benefit of the country and its citizens. The country cannot continue to trudge on a path of self destruction because of our toxic poli‑tics of hate and self-aggrandisement — politics that lean heavily on which party you belong to, race, tribe and region you come from. There…
AFTER their first attempt at organising friendly matches for the Warriors flopped last year, the Zifa Normalisation Committee (NC) finally got things right this time round. Lincoln Mutasa and his lieutenants have been criticised for a number of gaffes in their nine-month spell at the helm of the local football mother body, but this time…
NEWLY-APPOINTED Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairperson Michael Reza says the gloves are now off in the fight against graft. Reza, who was speaking after being sworn in by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, said he would work hard to ensure that thorough investigations of graft cases are done before suspects are handed in for prosecution. But the…
THE fight against cholera in the country is far from over and there should be no room for complacency by both authorities and citizens. This newspaper reported yesterday that 30 people died within four days from the medieval disease, 16 of them on Monday. 21 of the 30 people died in Mashonaland Central province. Since…
OUR economy is in a freefall and strangely authorities seem not in a hurry to come up with a raft of measures to arrest what may turn up to be an untenable situation. The lackadaisical attitude is staggeringly shocking! There is just lack of urgency when the Zimbabwe dollar continues to nosedive, triggering price increases…
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says it is engaging President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government with a view of having talks on how to resolve the country’s battery of challenges. So dire are the country’s political and economic crises that dialogue among stakeholders is now critical. The cost of living is going up daily much to…
FOURTEEN people perished at the weekend in road carnages. Our highways have become stages on which tragedies are played out day in and day out. We are just a week from Easter holidays and we are scared of the likely death toll on our roads. Holidays in the country tend to be the bloodiest. We…
