THE Zifa Normalisation Committee (NC), which has been charged with ushering in a new era in the way local football is administered, already has its hands full barely two months after its appointment with the selection of the head coach of the country’s senior men’s national team, the Warriors, it’s most daunting task yet. In…
OVER the past few years, cases of gender-based violence have skyrocketed in Zimbabwe. According to the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat), up to 40 percent of women aged between 15 and 19 were subjected to physical and sexual violence at the hands of their intimate partners in 2022. This figure was far higher than the…
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has in recent days been pushing for a re-run of the presidential election held last week. The opposition is disputing the outcome and is pushing for regional bodies to instead organise, manage and observe the polls. Although it is the CCC’s democratic right to call for a re-run, its…
IN our main story yesterday, the church made a passionate plea to losers and winners of last week’s harmonised elections to move on in the interest of the country. The Zimbabwe Council of Churches president, Ignatius Makumbe, did not mince the church’s position on the future of the nation. “It’s now time to move forward…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his bitter rival Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa are both dead right that Zimbabweans must maintain peace after last week’s harmonised elections. This is despite the fact that Chamisa has rejected the outcome of the presidential poll he lost to Mnangagwa. Mnangagwa won with 52.6 percent, followed by Chamisa…
BY MATHEW NYASHANU THE big story about capitalism is not the kind of crisis that it has often presented such as the…
WHATEVER will be the outcome of the Wednesday and Thursday harmonised elections should not leave Zimbabweans divided, but united in the quest to move the country forward. Elections come and go, and so do leaders, but Zimbabwe will remain intact and in need of development, not only for the sake of today, but posterity. Clearly,…
AS THE search for the new Warriors coach continues ahead of the start of the 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign, a number of names have been thrown into the hat, among them Shepherd Murape, Norman Mapeza, a Serbian by the name of Gjoko Hadzievski, Portuguese mentor Baltemar Brito and British gaffer Frank Nuttall . But…
THE news that the new coronavirus variant, Eris, has now been confirmed to be present in neighbouring South Africa has understandably triggered panic and fear in Zimbabwe due to the interconnectedness of the two countries. Given the foregoing, it was therefore reassuring to hear the chief coordinator for the national response to Covid-19 in the…
WITH less than a week before the much-awaited August 23 harmonised polls, it is prudent to maintain the current relative peace in the country. And this can be achieved only if political leaders, from both the ruling Zanu PF and the opposition continue to preach peace and abide by the laws governing elections and meant…
