EDITOR – Zimbabwe boasts of having the highest literacy rate in Africa. For a country with a State president who holds a chain of degrees, the achievement comes not as a surprise to me. Whether people like or hate the president for his successes and failures as a person, when it comes to the strides…
EDITOR — Highlanders Football Club has continued with its disappointing performance this season, and it is time coach Kelvin Kaindu resigns. As Highlanders supporters we have been patient but the game over the weekend which our team lost to ZPC Kariba 3-1 was the final blow. The team has been losing to big teams such…
EDITOR— Zimbabweans are now very much addicted to our own type of music (Zim Dancehall) and as far as I can see no other artistes will make the crowds, especially the youths, go wild as long as they are not originally from Zimbabwe. Well, this proves that we are concentrating more on promoting our own…
EDITOR — Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (RTUZ) would like to applaud the concerted efforts by Members of Parliament who moved a motion concerning the rot in the education sector. RTUZ would like to extend its gratitude to the efforts by Joseph Chinotimba, Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga and Settlement Chikwinya among other MPs in ensuring that the…
EDITOR — The Election Resource Centre (ERC) expresses its disquiet at the recent signing of the Electoral Amendment Bill into law by President Robert Mugabe as notified in the Government Gazette of Friday August 22, 2014. The presidential assent to the electoral changes happened in the realm of profound inadequacies of the Bill in terms…
EDITOR — Efforts by the Harare City Council to decongest Harare termini have been a complete flop so far. Council has successfully turned a bad situation into a worse situation This is because those who came up with the idea of kombi holding bays clearly do not rely on public transportation. If they did they…
EDITOR — When I first heard that the UNDP was acting as technical support to the ministry of Local Government which was reviewing Zimbabwe’s local government legislation, I was excited. Local Government is responsible for so much of service delivery — whether there is clean water in our taps, our refuse is collected and whether…
EDITOR — The arbitrary arrest of human rights defenders, including that of youths who were part of a peaceful demonstration over the Zanu PF government’s failure to provide the jobs it promised in its election campaign manifesto should be condemned in the strongest terms. Among the people arrested was journalist, Angela Jimu who was assaulted…
EDITOR — The Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (RTUZ) bemoans the appalling ‘O’ and ‘A’ Level pass rates as shown by the June 2014 Zimsec results. What is worrisome is that while some stakeholders have put mechanisms to try and arrest the situation, the levels of recalcitrance especially from the very people who should be…
EDITOR — For ages, Zanu PF has been portraying itself as a saintly party and making fools of opposition parties. The current events taking place in the revolutionary party are a sure sign that it is finished. While, its party leader President Robert Mugabe can be seen as the only thread binding the party together,…
