ARMED robbers have become a menace in this country. Barely a day passes before they pounce with devastating consequences. Innocent citizens and businesses have lost huge sums of hard currency to the malcontents and it appears our police are slow in reacting to the scourge. In less than a month, the country has witnessed a…
CIVIL servants have for the second time this year threatened to embark on industrial action to force the government to review their salaries upwards and improve their conditions of service. The public workers, under the umbrella of the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU), met in the capital last Friday and agreed to…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration must press on with its engagement and re-engagement foreign policy, with a view to increasing investment inflows into the country. This is despite renewal of sanctions against the country by the United States of America, the United Kingdom and its western allies, which have crippled the economy since the turn of…
EDITOR — Our government needs to come out of its comfort zone and work on policies that will safeguard our resources and make our communities and country better. In Zimbabwe we still have a big deficit in policy implementation. The government has to adopt economic policies that will place the economy on a production-led growth…
ON Thursday, the United States of America extended sanctions on Zimbabwe, adding deputy police commissioner-general Stephen Mutamba on its embargo list. They want further to remove 11 individuals from the list, some of them dead. The US sanctions have been contentious, the American government insists that they are targeted, while the Zimbabwe government, the Sadc…
AS IS usually the case during weekends, in the aftermath of stressful adjudications of often drab football matches, VAR spent this past one enjoying his favourite tipple with a few hacks and Cult followers at a popular shebeen here in Kontuthu Ziyathunqa. This was in the wake of the release of the latest report of…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was part of the dignitaries who attended the inauguration of William Ruto as the fifth president of Kenya in Nairobi on Tuesday following his controversial election in August. Ruto narrowly edged his bitter rival Raila Odinga who did not attend the swearing-in ceremony, firstly on the basis that he was out of…
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) needs the support of the whole country in pursuit of free, fair and credible harmonised polls next year. Without electoral prudence next year, the country will remain isolated and struggling to mend the fledgling economy. There is no option for the motherland this time around except executing elections…
EDITOR — The environment we live in is the best heritage we can leave for future generations, that is if we ensure it is still safe for them to live in. The burden of having to deal with huge populations is a challenge the majority of nation states face today but surely there are better…
By Professor Norman Nyazema ON SEPTEMBER 1, it was reported that a Marondera man was jailed for five years for unlawful possession of about 597kg of cannabis which is commonly known in Southern Africa as dagga, a misnomer. The amount found in his possession surely means there is a serious market somewhere. In fact, it…
