EDITOR — Everybody should seriously consider getting tested for HIV if they engage in behaviour that puts them at risk of contracting the virus. High-risk behaviour includes having unprotected sex and using intravenous drugs with unsterilised needles. It’s similar to other viruses, such as those that cause colds and the flu, with one important difference…
EDITOR — The continuing and deepening power crisis is not just affecting individuals or residential areas but industries as well that are being forced to go for hours without power, making production almost impossible. According to press reports, Zimbabwe is currently experiencing serious power cuts, in a development that has incapacitated a number of manufacturers,…
© EDITOR — Whether in a democracy, monarchy or knowledge-based autocracy, the mass media is a critical component for national transformation and development. [GoogleAd] The role of the media is mainly to inform, educate and to entertain. The mass media sets the “national agenda”. For example it determines what the majority and general populace will…
© EDITOR — This week, I went to a supermarket to do my groceries and I was shocked at how prices of basic commodities keep going up. [GoogleAd] For example a 2kg packet of mixed chicken portions is now ranging between $60 and $80, a 2-litre concentrate juice from as much as $41 while a…
EDITOR— I become dis- turbed when talking about an education system that uses “standardised tests” as a measure of one’s learning and success. Countries like Finland abolished these tests years ago and they have one of the best education systems in the world. When I was in school, I was known for having the biggest…
EDITOR — Fellow countrymen are we in unity as sons and daughters of the soil? What is re- ally happening to our nation? Do we love progress of the nation? Who is behind the problems the country is facing? We can finish the whole year listing the problems the country is facing, busy pinpointing so…
EDITOR — With massive shortage of water in the country’s urban areas, the government should come up with strategies to conserve underground water. There is increasing use of borehole water in this country, especially during the dry season. Council has totally failed to provide clean and safe water and almost all households are turning to…
EDITOR — As we approach World Aids Day, celebrated on December 1 every year since 1988, there is need to upscale awareness on HIV testing. There is no point in shunning testing and counselling centres as long as one is sexually active. People seem scared of visiting these centres because they might discover the worst….
© EDITOR — If one looks at the map of the country one will find that most of the best arable land went to the powerful political elite. [GoogleAd] They are the riparian farmers on either side of each major river in the country. They have the prime land with all the water. It is…
© EDITOR — President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF party seem to be ignoring calls from the general populace and the international community to initiate a truly national political dialogue to address the economic crisis bedevilling the nation. [GoogleAd] The sin of pride which is the foundational sin of all other sins seems to…
