Editorial Comment

Decisive action needed against violence mongers

AS POLITICAL campaigns reach fever pitch ahead of the August 23 polls, there is need for the police to be proactive and nip political violence in the bud. We call upon authorities to desist from only issuing threats, rather they should take action against perpetrators without fear of favour. Reports of minor skirmishes between Zanu…

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Editorial Comment

Urgent action needed to curb road carnage

DESPITE several measures being implemented by authorities and the police to curb traffic carnage in the country, road accidents are on the increase and something must be done to stop the scourge. In this edition, we carry a sad story of 19 people who perished in road accidents on July 27 and 28 respectively. 16…

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Editorial Comment

Politicians must be responsible

WITH less than a month before the general elections on August 23, political tension is rising in the country and there is a need for politicians to be responsible and ensure the situation does not go out of hand. Regrettably, last week has been terrible. The nation witnessed unnecessary whipping of tribal emotions and a…

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Editorial Comment

Take precautions to avoid cholera

WE CAUTIOUSLY welcome the news that the cholera outbreak, which hit most parts of the country early this year, resulting in 19 confirmed and 61 suspected deaths and over 3 700 cases, has now been brought under control. In a story we carried in this paper yesterday, Harare City Council epidemiologist Michael Vere and Masvingo…

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Editorial Comment

Teenage pregnancies is everyone’s fight

THE United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) has made startling revelations on teenage pregnancies in the country between 2019 and 2022 and something urgent must be done to reverse the worrying trend. According to the UNPF, there were more than 350 000 girls between the ages of 10 and 19 who fell pregnant during the period,…

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Opinion & Analysis

Russia-Africa summit will be largely a West-bashing exercise

THE second RussiaAfrica summit in St Petersburg this week, which President Cyril Ramaphosa will attend with Russian President Vladimir Putin and presumably many other African leaders, will be rich in anti-Western rhetoric — and irony. The ironies will include Putin’s presidential commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, chairing a discussion on protecting children’s rights, a…

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Editorial Comment

Crack whip on land barons

THE Second Republic under the leadership of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has since November 2017 made several commitments to improve the livelihood of ordinary people through various interventions. Some of its commitments have come to pass, others are in various stages of implementation. On a sour note, the fight against corruption is at a helter-skelter pace….

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Stay the course on economy

THE minister of Finance and Economic Development, Mthuli Ncube, says authorities will soon come up with a fresh raft of measures to maintain the current economic stability — sweet music to the long-suffering Zimbabweans. In recent weeks, the country’s economy has witnessed the strengthening of the Zimbabwe dollar against the greenback. Prices of basic commodities…

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