CASES of cholera continue to rise in the country. It’s a sad development. As of yesterday, the country had confirmed over 800 cases since February. Scores of people have needlessly died! The cases are being reported across the country. Diarrhoea cases are also on the rise. The outbreak is a result of inefficient supply of…
POLITICAL parties, mainly Zanu PF and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), have been crisscrossing the country campaigning to win in the August 23 general elections. President Emmerson Mnangagwa has promised the world that the country will have clean presidential, parliamentary and council elections and has been preaching peace. But CCC is crying foul, claiming the…
ZIMBABWE’s failure to qualify for this year’s ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup following a disappointing 31-run defeat by Scotland in the Super Six stage of the ongoing ICC World Cup Qualifier has served to not only deflate the positive vibes in local cricket, but also extinguish what had been a rare positive flame for a…
WE WELCOME the recent handover of 132 vehicles to the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) by the government as part of measures to capacitate the law enforcement agency ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections to be held next month. The new vehicles are part of 300 vehicles that the government promised to give the police ahead…
AT LEAST 17 people perished in road accidents at the weekend. This is one of the many accidents that have taken place this year. Over the years, our highways and roads are stages on which tragedies are played out day in and day out. Unfortunately, these are sudden, violent, traumatic reality shows with long-lasting, often…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ruling Zanu PF party have hit the ground on the hooves, criss-crossing the country campaign for re-election. So has Mnangagwa’s main rival Nelson Chamisa of the Citizens Coalition for Change, and other minority political parties and presidential candidates. The fundamental message coming from the campaigns so far is the need…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa at the weekend lashed out at what he called economic saboteurs for alleged systematic devaluation of local currency and triggering sharp increases in prices of basic commodities in pursuit of regime change. Mnangagwa claimed the attack on local currency and price spirals was meant to force the electorate to vote his government…
THE return of the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League after a three-week break will mark a new era in local football with the capital city of Harare, which in the past has boasted of such football facilities as Gwanzura, Rufaro and the National Sports Stadium, having no stadium that is currently fit to stage a…
WE WELCOME the ongoing collaboration between the government and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to operationalise ethical recruitment by employment agencies in Zimbabwe as part of efforts to ensure locals who are taken to other countries for work are empowered and protected. The cooperation between the government and IOM is a very important development…
SEVERAL political parties failed to finance nominations for their would-be presidential, parliamentary and council candidates last week citing steep fees by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission. Presidential candidates were paying US$20 000, parliamentary US$1 000 and council US$100 to contest in the August 23 harmonised polls. This brought to fore the issue of political financing in…
