WEDNESDAY marked the official closure of the European (EU) funding to the Zimbabwe Agriculture Growth Programme (ZAGP). Funded to the tune of 40 million Euros, the programme directly empowered 11 000 people across the country’s agricultural value chains. The main objective of ZAGP was to contribute to the development of a diversified and efficient agricultural…
POLITICAL parties must bury the hatchet and sign a peace pact ahead of next year’s much-anticipated harmonised polls. Their call comes amid rising political tensions in the country as gladiators jostle and hustle to win next year’s elections by hook or crook. The politi- cal parties, main and wannabes, agree on the need for a…
YOUTH from across the political divide and other interest groups at the weekend met in Bulawayo and, among other things, agreed on an all-inclusive dialogue to ensure that next year’s much-anticipated polls will be violence-free. They spoke in one voice that they should not be used as cannon fodder by the leaders of political parties.It…
AT the weekend, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company informed the nation that it will experience more load shedding as a result of breakdowns at Hwange and Kariba power stations and reduced imports. The country has been experiencing intermittent power cuts for years now, but the situation seems as if it’s getting worse despite…
THE findings of a recent survey by the Afrobarometer are not only startling, but worrying that most of the country’s youth were likely not going to cast ballots in next year’s much anticipated harmonised elections. According to the survey by Afrobarometer, a pan-African research institute, 54 percent of Zimbabweans aged between 18-35 years were likely…
WITH an upsurge in armed robberies targeting banks in the country, it’s high time they beef up security and seriously consider hiring State security to secure the financial institutions. Zimbabwe has witnessed unprecedented cases of armed robberies in the past two years, thanks to economic challenges and outright greed by hoodlums. Millions of hard currency…
EDITOR — As the country hurtles down the bumpy patch, hopping from crisis to crisis, Zimbabweans pray the major political players will ultimately see sense and realise the urgency of engaging in inclusive dialogue that could save the whole country. Recent reports that there could be something going on in preparation for inclusive talks and…
SINCE Zimbabwe ratified the Convention on the rights of children in September 1990, it has enacted laws and implemented policies that have enabled the country to register notable improvements as far as child protection is concerned. Despite the aforementioned progress, child rights violations in the country are still at unacceptable levels. Deepening poverty in the…
FOR most of the past four years, uber-narcissist and pathological liar, Madzibaba Hornywell (Mr Me, Myself and I Fake Award Winning Non-Journalist…
FOR two consecutive days we have been compelled to comment on police operations to curb armed robberies and flush out unregistered vehicles, pirate taxis and illegal vendors, especially in the capital. Armed robbers have become a menace in the country and are threatening to turn the nation into a jungle. They need to be stopped…
