Editorial Comment

HEALTH minister Douglas Mombeshora has expressed dismay over a severe scarcity of medical professionals in Zimbabwe arguing that this has jeopardised the nation’s healthcare system. The shortage of medical practitioners in Zimbabwe has become a major cause of concern. The lack of adequate healthcare professionals has resulted in a significant strain on the country’s healthcare…

YESTERDAY marked the beginning of the month reserved to raise awareness of men’s health issues such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and suicide all over the world. The men’s health awareness month aims at increasing early cancer detection, diagnosis and effective treatments, and ultimately reduce the number of preventable deaths. It is also meant to…

ACCORDING to a report presented by the Zanu PF central committee (CC) during its recent annual conference in Gweru, it is imperative that people’s economic needs be met as soon as possible. We couldn’t agree more with this. For Zanu PF, it is definitely not business as usual. To expedite the execution of its people-centred…

WHILE the country continues to strive for economic revival, the ordinary person continues to bear the brunt of the ever-increasing prices of goods and services. Tough decisions are needed to arrest the economic tide and ensure that the ordinary person has bread on the table. The latest issue in the country where the government must…

OFFICIALLY closing the Zanu PF people’s annual conference on Saturday in Gweru, President Emmerson Mnangagwa made a commitment – his government will pursue policies that will lift many Zimbabweans out of poverty. He rallied the ruling party and its government to speedily implement programmes that benefi t the poor and the downtrodden. He emphasised the…

WHILE quality pre-primary, primary, and secondary education is crucial, many areas of Zimbabwe lack ac cess to these, not to mention alternatives for technical, vocational, and university courses. The number of illegal schools has skyrocketed as a result. A poverty cycle that spans generations can be broken with education. Education improves the lives of the…

SADC in 2019 declared October 25, tomorrow, as solidarity day against illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the United States (US), the United Kingdom and its western allies at the turn of the millennium. The regional bloc took upon itself to engage in various activities to call for the lifting of the debilitating sanctions. They…

IT makes a sad reading that cancer cases are on the rise while authorities are doing little to fight the scourge. In a gripping interview on popular news and current affairs programme, Vantage, on independent commercial television station, 3Ktv, last week, Cancer Association of Zimbabwe (CAZ) spokesperson Lovemore Makurirofa said it was time the country…

THE recent announcement by Health minister Douglas Mombeshora in the Senate that the number of deaths associated with cholera now stands at 148 is another telling reminder on the need to decisively act to end the scourge. Amid official reports confirming that the country has recorded 5 256 suspected cholera cases and 981 confirmed cases…

ZIMBABWE is slowly, but surely on the verge of losing a whole generation of youth to drug and substance abuse if authorities and the community at large fail to redouble current efforts to fight the cancerous scourge. Drug and substance abuse have become a way of life for most youth in the country, but what…