THE suspension of Zimbabwe from international football this week spilled into Parliament where it triggered fierce debate which nearly divided the house. This comes after the report — The State of football administration in Zimbabwe — by the parliamentary portfolio committee on Youth, Sports, Arts and Recreation.There were members who were calling for the adoption…
CATTLE diseases — foot and mouth and tick-borne — which have been reported in some regions of the country should be urgently contained. The diseases are a threat to the country’s quest to grow its national herd. According to the national Veterinary Services director Josphat Nyika, Zimbabwe has since engaged Botswana to come up with…
FOR many years, the death penalty has been a divisive issue in the country but it would appear that the abolitionists are increasingly gaining more ground. In spite of the increasing support for the abolition of capital punishment, Zimbabwe is finding it difficult to completely banish it. Even during the drafting of the watershed 2013…
AS Zimbabwe hurtles towards the much-anticipated presidential, parliamentary and local government elections, the media has a crucial role to play. It has to play its watchdog role and report dispassionately on the countdown, polling and postelection periods without bias. The media has no dogs in this fight. Media polarisation the country experienced at the turn…
INTRIGUING developments are taking place in South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), as it hurtles towards its elective conference in December. There has been drama, smear campaigns, jostling, horse trading and all kinds of chicanery as party bigwigs position themselves for leadership in the ANC. Current President Cyril Ramaphosa has of late…
DYNAMOS FC’s decision to restrict media from covering their weekly training sessions has not only exposed the level of unprofessionalism at the team, but also explains why the current generation has failed to win any titles. This is despite the team enjoying huge financial backing from Sakunda Holdings. Buoyed by funds from Sakunda Holdings, who…
IT IS estimated that there are over 1,1 million landmines planted along the borders of Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Zambia by the then settler regime of Ian Smith during the country’s liberation war of the 1970s. They were planted to deter freedom fighters from crossing into Mozambique or back into Zimbabwe as the war of liberation…
AHEAD of the International Day of the Girl Child, which is observed on October 11 every year, people from diverse backgrounds are unanimously calling for an end to child marriages. This year’s International Day of the Girl Child theme —‘‘Our Time is now, our rights, our future’’ — was set by the United Nations to…
YESTERDAY we carried a report about the recent arrest of five alleged robbers in Bulawayo over 11 heists that took place from last year until last month. The five suspects were nabbed after a tip off at their hideout in Pumula in a development that many believe marks an upturn in the police’s fight against…
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change last week launched its electoral reforms campaign with party leader Nelson Chamisa saying he will push to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa for talks on the need for the reforms before the much-anticipated general elections next year. At the weekend, a senior member of the party, Welshman Ncube, also called for…
