THE number of children being married off remains unacceptably high, with statistics provided by Unicef showing that one woman out of three was married before the age of 18. This is indeed a cause for concern and for this reason all relevant stakeholders must contribute to the elimination of this vice. Given the foregoing, stakeholders…
SOUTH Africa (SA)’s commitment to find ways to assist Zimbabwe to have peaceful, free, fair and credible polls next year must be commendable and embraced. For the polls to be credible, there is an urgent need for an all-inclusive dialogue, where protagonists meet around the table and cobble out a clear and unambiguous roadmap to…
YESTERDAY, our sister publication, the Daily News on Sunday, ran three critical stories related to inadequate service provision which graphically demonstrate how bad the situation is. The accounts paint a bleak picture of the authorities’ poor service delivery, which demands immediate attention. Among the services that should be provided are sanitation, waste management, road construction…
ALL eyes will be on Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube when he presents the 2023 National Budget in Parliament on Thursday. There are high expectations from ordinary people and businesses. Ordinary Zimbabweans want Ncube to come up with a pro-poor budget, which among other things, should introduce tax breaks and fund more social…
WHEN the world football governing body Fifa announced they were banning Zimbabwe from participating in international matches last February, they made one thing clear — reinstate the Felton Kamambo-led Zifa board or stay on the sidelines. Weighing in on the issue, Fifa president Gianni Infantino did not mince his words, simply stating “they know what…
REVELATIONS by the National Aids Council (NAC) that at least 5 000 babies were born HIV-positive in 2021 as a result of their mothers’ resistance to taking critical antiretroviral (ARV) medication during pregnancy or while breastfeeding is very disheartening. The continued birth of HIV-positive children despite a long-standing government programme to prevent mother-to-child transmission of…
ALTHOUGH Mai Jukwa and the Norton Hustler (Temba Mliswa to the uninitiated) are not everyone’s cup of tea — they can both…
WITH the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence beckoning, it is depressing the country is gripped by a sad story of a nine-year-old girl from Tsholotsho who was sexually violated and made pregnant. The girl gave birth to a girl on Monday after undergoing a caesarean section at United Bulawayo Hospitals under the watchful…
RAINS have been pounding some parts of the country for over a week now — a welcome development to farmers in a country that is agro-driven. In Harare, the rains exposed the poor running of the city, the pitiable state of service delivery the ratepayers have to live with. Yesterday, almost every street was completely…
IN YET another proof of the dire situation obtaining in Zimbabwe’s health sector, we carried a story in our sister publication, the Daily News On Sunday, in which the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies (RCS) claimed that measles outbreak killed 700 children across the country. Though the two bodies praised…
