ZIMBABWE joined the rest of the world in commemorating International Women’s Day yesterday amid increasing cases of child marriages, rape and gender-based violence. The day is celebrated annually on March 8 “as a focal point in the women’s rights movement, bringing attention to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against…
IT IS encouraging to learn that our government has successfully returned 500 Zimbabweans who have been enslaved in Asia and other locations since 2014. Even though our nation is putting in a lot of effort to stop human trafficking, we think that its actions don’t meet the basic requirements. We think the number 500 ought…
LAST Thursday, the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) and the nation at large was plunged into mourning after five first year students at the university perished in a horrific car accident along the Masvingo-Mbalabala Road. The Toyota Wish they were travelling in was involved in a head on collision with a UD truck….
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has on several occasions rallied Zimbabweans to be united for the country to turnaround the economy and improve ordinary people’s living standards. He is unequivocal that political demagoguery should not be allowed to take precedence over national issues. Despite the economy having improved in the last two year, most ordinary people continue…
CHILD marriage is one of the most important challenges of the current era that threatens women’s health and violates human rights. It is sad to note that in Zimbabwe the situation has become so bad that child-to-child marriages are also becoming a common phenomenon. Women who are employed reinvest 90 percent of their earnings back…
ZIMBABWE’S latest girl wonder, Kudakwashe ‘‘Take Money’’ Chiwandire, is two weeks away from the biggest match and challenge of her boxing career so far — a World Boxing Council (WBC) Women’s Super bantamweight title fight against current champion Yamileth Mercado of Mexico. When Take Money steps into the ring at the 10 000-capacity Gimnasio Manuel…
By Black EdwardFOR crying out loud! Please tell those young people to pull up their trousers. Eer… on second thoughts, it would be pointless. They most certainly won’t listen. Youths being youths, they are wont to do the exact opposite of what you instruct them to do, as everyone who remembers their teenage years can…
By Black EdwardAN American journalist and author, Finley Peter Dunne, asserts that the past always appears to be better than it was; It only makes things nice because it isn’t here. That can, however, be disputed, right? While some people believe that you shouldn’t look back, others believe that our past experiences may be a…
IN yesterday’s edition of this newspaper we published a story on an Epworth man, Takudzwa Timothy Hazvirambwi, who was recently sentenced by the High Court to six years in prison after he was convicted of killing his friend, Tineyi Mamvura, following an altercation. It is disheartening that Mamvura was killed while trying to play the…
IT IS heartbreaking to learn that school administrators have been compelled to postpone important activities as a result of the country’s worsening power crisis. It’s very unfortunate that the crisis is now affecting information and communication technology (ICT) and we urge the authorities to find a long-term solution. It is also unfortunate that some important…
