ZIMBABWE’S launch of the National Action Plan for Children IV (2026-2030) comes at a critical moment. It is more than another government policy document; it is an opportunity to redefine the country’s commitment to its youngest citizens. If implemented with seriousness, adequate funding, and accountability, the strategy could transform the lives of millions of children…
FOR decades, popular narrative has insisted that political polarisation is the primary disease destroying Zimbabwe. That argument is wrong. The true, lethal cancer bleeding this nation dry is unbridled, systemic corruption.While ordinary citizens endure crumbling infrastructure, dilapidated health facilities, and substandard roads, a predatory class of “tenderpreneurs” and complicit public officials has been systematically plundering…
FOR over two decades, Zimbabwe’s economic growth has been choked by a single, crushing reality, financial isolation. Excluded from borrowing by traditional multilateral lenders like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund due to long-standing debt bottlenecks and geopolitical sanctions, the nation was forced to finance capital-intensive national development through limited domestic revenues and…
AS THE minister of Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion, Mthuli Ncube, prepares to present the Mid-Term Budget Review on Thursday, his unequivocal commitment to staying the course deserves commended support.In an economic landscape historically plagued by policy volatility, the minister’s decision to maintain fiscal discipline, protect vulnerable populations, and enforce policy predictability represents a…
BLESSING NYAHUMA EVERY time a rape case breaks into the headlines, a whole country starts arguing about sex, power and whom to…
Saxon Zvina FOR over a century, the global automotive industry has followed a rigid hierarchical order. Europe invented the automobile, the United…
ZIMBABWE’S ongoing T20 series against India could prove to be far more valuable than the result that eventually appears on the scoreboard.It is the kind of assignment the Chevrons desperately need if they are serious about transforming themselves from an improving cricket nation into one capable of consistently challenging the world’s elite.The Chevrons have undoubtedly…
WHEN memory fades, humanity should not follow suit. In the chambers of Parliament earlier this week, Chikanga legislator Lynette Karenyi-Kore raised a troubling alarm over an issue long shrouded in silence, the growing burden of dementia across Zimbabwe. Framed as a silent epidemic, dementia is quietly destabilising families, yet it continues to receive almost no…
A HUMANITARIAN crisis of significant proportions is quietly unfolding at our borders.As anti-immigrant sentiment and xenophobic pressures escalate in South Africa, over 111 000 Zimbabwean citizens have already fled back home since late May. With projections indicating that up to half a million returnees will ultimately cross the border —more than 70 percent of them…
THE return of Air Zimbabwe’s direct Harare-London service marks far more than the restoration of an air route. It is a powerful statement of national ambition, signalling Zimbabwe’s determination to reconnect with one of its most important international markets after years of absence. For travellers, the benefits are immediate. A direct flight significantly reduces travel…
