STAKEHOLDERS involved in the promotion of rights of persons with albinism should be applauded for coming up with initiatives that are raising awareness on a range of issues affecting people living with the condition. With over 70 000 Zimbabweans afflicted with albinism, a rare group of genetic disorders that cause the skin, hair, or eyes…
STATISTICS revealed by Primary and Secondary Education ministry chief director Kwadzanayi Nyanungo before the parliamentary portfolio committee on gender on school dropouts due to the twin evils of child marriages and pregnancies are not only startling, but worrying. There is an absolute need for authorities and communities to come up with copper-bottomed measures to fight…
THE tobacco marketing season roars into life next month with high expectations from farmers for an improved producer price. Auction floors will start conducting sales on March 9 followed a day later by contract firms. The Zimbabwe Tobacco Growers Association is expecting that a kilogramme of tobacco should be sold between US$5 and US$6, compared…
ZIMBABWE’S health system is in dire straits, weighed down by the meagre budget being allocated to the Health ministry, which is continually shrinking year in, year out. Not surprisingly, public hospitals currently have limited capacity to provide very basic services against the backdrop of a worsening turnover of critical staff like doctors and nurses, who…
LEGISLATORS, like everyone else, are concerned about the ongoing leaks of exam papers and have summoned Education minister Evelyn Ndlovu for clarification. Immediate action is required to restore the national exam body’s credibility. Credibility is critical to restoring the moral fibre of our society and creating the necessary technological knowledge to power the economy. At…
ZIFA is at it again! It appears the national football mother body’s reconstituted executive committee is as much an agency of chaos as the sacked Felton Kamambo-led one was after the recent move to impose the immediate formation of a National First Division. The proposed National League, which, according to the reconstituted Zifa executive, is…
THE ongoing countrywide police blitz targeting drug-trafficking syndicates and drug dealers needs to be enforced with more vigour. While we are encouraged by reports that the blitz has so far netted 636 suspects, we feel that the operation in its current form can only be effective against small drug dealers and not well-resourced syndicates that…
LAST week on Thursday February 2, Zimbabwe, like any other country on earth, commemorated World Wetlands Day, which is used globally to raise public awareness of the importance of wetlands. The theme for this year was “It is time for wetland restoration”. In Zimbabwe, wetlands are under threat and must be restored as a matter…
ECONOMISTS have argued relentlessly that the country cannot turnaround the economy successfully without reviving three critical companies — the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ), Air Zimbabwe and ZiscoSteel. The three are perceived as strategic to economic revitalisation after years of stagnation due to a myriad reasons, among them the political cacophony that resulted in the…
IT APPEARS a seemingly constitutional crisis has been averted after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission took into consideration concerns raised by Parliament, President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other stakeholders on the preliminary delimitation report. Serious concerns were raised by stakeholders that Zec had not followed the Constitution to the letter in configuring parliamentary constituencies and local government…
