ELEVEN murder cases recorded in one week by the police across the country is a major cause for concern. The statistics are made much more shocking when we take into account the fact that the majority of the incidents involved suspected members of a close family. Nobody should ever be held accountable for the death…
ELEVEN murder cases recorded in one week by the police across the country is a major cause for concern. The statistics are made much more shocking when we take into account the fact that the majority of the incidents involved suspected members of a close family. Nobody should ever be held accountable for the death…
IN TODAY’S edition, we report that there are new farm invasions across the country. Over 60 000 people had illegally settled themselves on farms, some of them designated for construction of universities. What is worrying is that despite authorities knowing about these invasions, little is being done to chuck out the illegal settlers, encouraging more…
AMID growing calls for elections to be postponed, the government and all key political players must allow citizens to decide their future. It would be unfair for citizens to be at the mercy of politicians who are clearly pushing agendas to promote and protect selfish personal interests.Norton Independent MP, Temba Mliswa, was deadly right when…
HEAVY rains which pounded Harare on Thursday night exposed the capital city’s poor drainage system. Most roads in the capital were flooded and motorists had trouble navigating their way to their destinations. The rains proved disastrous to citizens who built their houses on wetlands in some parts of Harare. Harare City Council is culpable for…
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has announced the launch of a “block management system,” through which it will conduct a door-to-door campaign to ensure that all businesses adhere to the tax payment and registration system. This had been a while coming, but it shouldn’t stop there; Zimra ought to educate taxpayers as well. In Zimbabwe, lack…
WE welcome the partnership that has been forged by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the government to devise strategies aimed at controlling cholera and typhoid outbreaks As a result of this partnership, Zimbabwe has updated its cholera and typhoid control guidelines, which were four years behind as part of efforts to ensure they are…
IT IS heartening to note the convergence of the country’s main political parties — Zanu PF, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and the MDC — on the paramount need for national unity and dialogue to end the country’s decades-long political and economic crises. President Emmerson Mnangagwa spent the better part of last year calling an…
WE don’t believe in the economics of protectionism, neither are we disciples of price controls, but we feel strongly that the negative slide of the Zimbabwean currency on the black market will have a serious devastating effect on the ordinary people. The local currency is falling against the coveted green back. As of yesterday, the…
DEBATE on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) preliminary delimitation report will go a gear up today and tomorrow in Parliament. The report attracted controversy, some bordering on triggering a constitutional crisis, after some stakeholders felt it was compiled un-procedurally. A parliamentary ad-hoc committee which went through the report and presented its findings on Friday in…
