IT’S now or never. A week ago, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube unveiled the 2024 National Budget in which he allocated ZWL$136,2 billion (approximately US$24 million) to the Sports ministry, with sprucing up of sporting facilities a key area of focus for that money. This week, deputy Sports minister Emily Jesaya, banking on Ncube’s pronouncement, moved…
THE government’s intention to set up a cancer fund is a long-overdue step in the right direction. Speaking at the ongoing International Conference on Aids and STIs in Africa (Icasa) high level policy dialogue on HIV sustainability in Zimbabwe being held in Harare, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube said the proposed two cents per gramme of…
THE World Health Organisation has expressed serious concern over high cholera deaths in the country. It said it is alarmed that the fatality rate is way above the globally accepted threshold of below one percent of cases reported. The country’s fatality rate is at 2.2 percent since the outbreak of the disease in February. As…
AS the festive season beckons, cases of robberies are on the increase and urgent action is needed to end the scourge. Robbers have become a menace. Millions of dollars in hard currency has been lost in the past three years to robbers. The increase in robberies is largely attributed to economic challenges in the country…
DID you see the special coverage by our sister publication, the Daily News on Sunday, for World Aids Day? Two powerful articles regarding HIV/Aids were featured on Page 5 yesterday. You can look them up if you haven’t already. The first focused on the government’s Triple Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV, Syphilis,…
AFTER missing out on qualification for this year’s ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup — the international championship of One Day International (ODI) cricket, hope was that the Chevrons, who also missed the 2019 edition of the same tournament, would at least qualify for the T20 World Cup. But as fate would have it, the Chevrons…
ALL eyes tomorrow will be on Finance minister Mthuli Ncube as he presents the 2024 National Budget amid huge expectations from various interest groups battling to survive due to economic challenges bedevilling the country due to both internal and exogenous reasons. Mthuli has since 2021 been telling anyone who cared to listen that the economy…
ZIMBABWE, like the rest of the world, has to come up with new strategies to fight gender-based violence (GBV), especially against women and girls. The media in the country has reported several cases of rape, assaults and other ills against women and girls despite several eff orts and measures put in place by the government…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last week received a preliminary land audit report from the Zimbabwe Lands Commission (ZLC), which, among other things, exposes cases of double ownership of farms, a situation which is against government policy of one person, one farm. ZLC’s chairperson Tendai Bare said it was up to the president to make the report…
WE DO not believe in the economics of protectionism, neither are we disciples of price controls, but we feel strongly that the current sliding of local currency on the black market is unacceptable and exploitative. The parallel market rate as of yesterday was trading between $8 500 and $9 500 against the greenback after increasing…
