ZIMBABWE has for decades been facing serious economic challenges as a result of its toxic politics. Since independence in 1980, the country has had disputed elections that have culminated in international isolation and as a result economic stagnation. The economic challenges have spewed corruption at a grand scale. At the moment, the biggest problem in…
WITH the Paris 2024 Olympic Games just months away, it was rather concerning to hear that Zimbabwe only had two athletes that had qualified for the quadrennial global sporting showcase. The Zimbabwe Olympic Committee (Zoc) earlier in the week revealed that the duo of long distance runner Isaac Mpofu and Australia-based rower Stephen Cox were…
ZIMBABWE is grappling with a serious power crisis as a result of reduced electricity generation, creaky plants and scaled down imports. This is happening at a time power utility Zesa is owed a staggering US$250 million by government departments, miners, farmers and ordinary consumers. As a result, Zesa has started to disconnect clients not paying…
ZIMBABWE on Monday rolled out its first phase of cholera vaccination amid huge hopes the country will soon be able to contain the mediaeval disease that has killed over 470 people and infected plus 23 000 more since it broke out in February last year. Almost every district in the country has been hit by…
EFFORTS by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to find closure to the emotive Gukurahundi issue must be applauded and speeded up. Mnangagwa has, since taking over power in November 2017, exhibited willingness to deal with the ruthless massacre of an estimated 20 000 people in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces in the 1980s by security forces. He has…
THERE have been varied reactions to Nelson Chamisa’s decision to quit the Citizens Coalition for Change after months of turmoil that saw Sengezo Tshabangu, who claims to be CCC’s interim secretary general, recalled MPs and Councillors elected at last August’s general polls. Court challenges to reverse the recalls were thrown out either on technicality or…
A COUPLE of days ago, two national team cricket players Wessly Madhevere and Brandon Mavuta were handed four-month bans by Zimbabwe Cricket after failing doping tests. And as if that was not enough, another cricketer Kelvin Kasuza was also reported to have failed a drug test. These disturbing developments in a sport that has traditionally…
WE WELCOME the nation-wide cholera vaccination blitz set to begin on Monday, which the government hopes will go a long way in containing the spread of the disease. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), cholera vaccine guarantees protection for two years in adults and six months in children aged between two to five years….
ZIMBABWE’S engagement and re-engagement foreign policy is still work in progress and seems to be bearing fruit given recent developments. Just this week, the country played host to a group of investors from the United Kingdom under the Westminster Africa Business Group. The group expressed great interest in investing in the country. They assured Foreign…
WE KNOW that illicit drugs are flowing into the country from various countries. Yet we rarely get to hear who the couriers smuggling most of it through legal ports of entry are. We have drug and narcotics police units at border posts. We only get to hear about the end users who get arrested daily….
