PREMIER Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) has for over a decade been plagued by several calamities which range from underfunding, maladministration and outright graft. The society is now on the verge of collapse mainly due to under funding as a result of low subscriptions and their non-remittance by the government whose workers constitute about 90…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa joined over 100 global leaders for the COP27 climate conference in Egypt which ended yesterday on how to deal with climate change. The consequences of global warming have been catastrophic to poor countries and Mnangagwa is dead right when he calls for global cooperation on how to mitigate its consequences.Zimbabwe, like most…
TO a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable. This is the uncomfortable position that the country’s sports writers find themselves entangled in when they sit down to decide who was the Castle Lager soccer star of the year at the end of this season….
FOR a moment, they made us believe. For a moment, we had the world at our feet. For a moment, it appeared mission impossible would actually be possible. For once, Zimbabweans had something to cheer about. For that one moment, Zimbabweans forgot their well-documented economic struggles and united in rallying behind their national cricket team….
ZIMBABWEANS are yearning for peaceful and credible general elections next year amid growing political tension in the country. Since the beginning of the year, there have been some incidents of political violence pitting mainly the ruling Zanu PF and the Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members.The two parties have been making political violence…
IN April we all celebrated the government’s decision to suspend all civil registration fees to allow everyone to access national identity cards and birth and death certificates. However, six months later we woke up last week to sad news to the effect that the civil registry department had stopped the issuance of birth and death…
VICE President and also Health minister Constantino Chiwenga recently told the National Assembly that the government was working tirelessly to revamp public health service delivery. Service delivery at public clinics and hospitals has over the last two decades deteriorated to unacceptable standards as a result of failure by the government to equip them with state-of-art…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been granted a fresh mandate to lead the ruling Zanu PF party and contest next year’s presidential election as its candidate. We are almost nine months from the fast-approaching polls and Zimbabweans are looking forward to the elections amid concerns on what it holds for them. There are fears that the…
CHEVRONS are playing their first global cricket tournament for six years. Dave Houghton returned as Zimbabwe cricket coach in June, and the former national team captain guided the Chevrons through to the T20 World Cup qualifiers on home soil in July. Zimbabwe reached the T20 World Cup finals by beating Papua New Guinea by 27…
THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC)’s social protection programme which seeks to safeguard children from different forms of abuse should be applauded. Given the fact that ZCC has over 36 member organisations spread all over the country, we are confident that the implementation of the social protection programme will inspire positive change and reinforce ongoing…
