ONCE again today’s Christmas has been stolen by Mr Grinch, as most ordinary men and women cannot make and merry due to a recent spike in prices of basic commodities. The spike is largely attributed to rolling power cuts that have seen manufacturers running their businesses on costly alternative sources of power, mostly diesel generators….
YESTERDAY, Zimbabwe marked 35 years after Zanu PF and PF Zapu signed a Unity Accord that, among other things, ended the post-independence conflict, Gukurahundi, which is estimated to have claimed the lives of over 20 000 civilians. While the wounds of that episode continue to fester, what is critical is that the government is working…
THE festive season started last Friday and will end on January 16 next year, but since its commencement it has been bloody on the roads. Over 20 people have since perished across the country in road carnage mainly due to human error. The police have reacted to this tragedy by deploying teams across the country…
CABINET recently approved the principles of an Economic Empowerment Bill that will be tabled in Parliament next year. This will not be entirely new. In 2010, a controversial Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act was enacted and prescribed that 51 percent equity in all companies operating in the country then should be owned by indigenes. It…
THE country’s supreme law dictates that every five years Zimbabwe goes to the polls to elect councillors, members of Parliament and the president and the nation has over decades religiously stuck to that. But since independence in 1980, the election results have been disputed amid allegations of rigging, violence and other electoral shenanigans with the…
ZIMBABWEANS have been told that the parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines plans to investigate the rising number of mining accidents, particularly in the artisanal and smallscale mining industry. Given the number of valuable lives lost in mining accidents around the nation, this seems like a laudable intention, but it is sad that this now sounds…
WHEN Kudakwashe ‘‘Take Money’’ Chiwandire takes to the ring for the World Boxing Council (WBC) Women’s Super bantam weight title showdown with Mexican demolition machine Yamileth Mercado sometime next year, local boxing history will be made. Charles Manyuchi came close when he battled for the WBC Silver Welterweight title, but never got a shot at…
THE call by the Chiefs’ Council for heavy penalties to be imposed on perpetrators of child marriages and adolescent pregnancies is very welcome. In an exclusive interview with the Daily News recently, Chiefs’ Council president, Chief Fortune Charumbira, pulled no punches, describing child marriages as both a crime and a taboo at variance with national…
FOREIGN Affairs minister Fredrick Shava is heading the country’s delegation at the second United States (US)-Africa Summit in Washington DC where he is expected to hold talks with top officials in President Joe Biden’s administration, especially on the inexorable need for unconditional removal of sanctions against Harare. It’s not an easy task for Shava given…
IN our edition yesterday we carried a story headlined “Power blackouts raise water crisis” where city and town councils across the country lamented that intermittent electricity cuts were affecting potable water availability. Without electricity, the councils cannot pump water to residents and if they use alternative power sources, generators for example, they incur heavy unbudgeted…
