PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has on several occasions rallied Zimbabweans to be united for the country to turnaround the economy and improve ordinary people’s living standards. He is unequivocal that political demagoguery should not be allowed to take precedence over national issues. Despite the economy having improved in the last two year, most ordinary people continue…
CHILD marriage is one of the most important challenges of the current era that threatens women’s health and violates human rights. It is sad to note that in Zimbabwe the situation has become so bad that child-to-child marriages are also becoming a common phenomenon. Women who are employed reinvest 90 percent of their earnings back…
ZIMBABWE’S latest girl wonder, Kudakwashe ‘‘Take Money’’ Chiwandire, is two weeks away from the biggest match and challenge of her boxing career so far — a World Boxing Council (WBC) Women’s Super bantamweight title fight against current champion Yamileth Mercado of Mexico. When Take Money steps into the ring at the 10 000-capacity Gimnasio Manuel…
IN yesterday’s edition of this newspaper we published a story on an Epworth man, Takudzwa Timothy Hazvirambwi, who was recently sentenced by the High Court to six years in prison after he was convicted of killing his friend, Tineyi Mamvura, following an altercation. It is disheartening that Mamvura was killed while trying to play the…
IT IS heartbreaking to learn that school administrators have been compelled to postpone important activities as a result of the country’s worsening power crisis. It’s very unfortunate that the crisis is now affecting information and communication technology (ICT) and we urge the authorities to find a long-term solution. It is also unfortunate that some important…
THE continued haggling over the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission delimitation report threatens the quality of harmonised elections the country will have in the next couple of months. President Emmerson Mnangagwa gazetted the report on February 20 amid mixed concerns on whether he followed the Constitution or not with his critics arguing he did so out of…
ZIMBABWE owes both domestic and international creditors a staggering US$17.8 billion and the debt has been ballooning for over a decade now with no clear solution. Last week, the country held its second structured dialogue on the issue, where President Emmerson Mnangagwa committed Zimbabwe to clear the debt with the assistance of the African Development…
LAST night, the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) said the likely impact of Cyclone Freddy would not be as devastating as was earlier anticipated in the country. While this is good news to Zimbabweans, we must not be reckless and stop being vigilant. We have been victims of cyclones before and they left a trail of…
ZIMBABWE midfielder Marshal Munetsi recently decried the country’s ongoing Fifa ban, saying that it has denied them an opportunity to make players’ names on the international stage and market their talents before a global audience. Had Zimbabwe not been under the Fifa embargo Zimbabwe’s players, some of whom rubbed shoulders with multiple African Footballer of…
IT is heartening to see that our leaders insist on taking tough action and acknowledge how terrible drug abuse is. In a speech he gave on Tuesday at the National Youth Day celebration in Lupane, Matabeleland North province, President Emmerson Mnangagwa urged law enforcement agents to mercilessly pursue drug dealers. Illegal drugs are currently engulfing…
