IT IS disappointing to learn that certain schools continue to turn away learners who have not paid their fees. Schools must not send students home for failing to pay fees. The parties to the fee agreement are the parent and the school. The parent and the school must agree on a means of payment in…
REPORTS by the Environmental Management Agency (Ema) that two million hectares of land was destroyed by veld fires across the country this just-ended year should inspire more robust fire-prevention methods. The fact that the two million hectares of land destroyed by veld fires last year represent an increase of 60 percent in comparison to 2020…
WE CONCUR that Zimsec must convene a meeting of all stakeholders to discuss ways to preserve the integrity of the exam process. This is a step in the right direction. Being the primary implementers of examination procedures in the nation, it is heartening to see that school heads and deputy heads are eager to join…
THE World Food Programme (WFP)’s listing of Zimbabwe as one of 20 nations where food insecurity is rising is a harsh indictment on the nation’s agricultural sector. According to the latest WFP report the programme distributed food aid to more than 500 000 vulnerable people from November to mid-December this year. For a country blessed…
WE APPLAUD the business community for urging the government to equip the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) and other branches to successfully combat corruption by 2023. But instead of leaving everything up to the government, the business world should contribute and do what it can to support Zacc. Zacc needs to be strengthened because it has…
THE increase in the number of typhoid and diarrhoea infections in Harare from nine last week to 16 at the weekend is yet another timely reminder of the urgent need to make significant investment in the country’s healthcare system, which is struggling to deliver essential services amid resource constraints and increased demand. To compound matters,…
ONCE again today’s Christmas has been stolen by Mr Grinch, as most ordinary men and women cannot make and merry due to a recent spike in prices of basic commodities. The spike is largely attributed to rolling power cuts that have seen manufacturers running their businesses on costly alternative sources of power, mostly diesel generators….
YESTERDAY, Zimbabwe marked 35 years after Zanu PF and PF Zapu signed a Unity Accord that, among other things, ended the post-independence conflict, Gukurahundi, which is estimated to have claimed the lives of over 20 000 civilians. While the wounds of that episode continue to fester, what is critical is that the government is working…
THE festive season started last Friday and will end on January 16 next year, but since its commencement it has been bloody on the roads. Over 20 people have since perished across the country in road carnage mainly due to human error. The police have reacted to this tragedy by deploying teams across the country…
CABINET recently approved the principles of an Economic Empowerment Bill that will be tabled in Parliament next year. This will not be entirely new. In 2010, a controversial Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act was enacted and prescribed that 51 percent equity in all companies operating in the country then should be owned by indigenes. It…
