EDITOR — THE rate at which women and especially children are being sexually violated by shameless individuals in our society is alarming. Everyday, reports of rape of both minors and women flood our media and police stations while many others go unreported. I call upon the responsible authorities to take sterner measures to curb this…
EDITOR — Whether in a democracy, monarchy or knowledge-based autocracy, the mass media is a critical component for national transformation and development. The role of the media is mainly to inform, educate and to entertain. The mass media sets the “national agenda”. For example it determines what the majority and general populace will be discussing…
ZIMBABWE’s three-match ODI series against Australia starting tomorrow offers another opportunity to Dave Houghton’s charges to once again prove to the world their mettle to dine with the big boys. Zimbabwe have not visited Australia since 2003-04 when they played two Tests — the first of which saw Matthew Hayden score a then world record…
THE government’s indecision on whether to repair dysfunctional radiotherapy machines at public hospitals or to acquire new ones bodes ill for the fight against cancer. If the truth be told it betrays a glaring lack of seriousness in the Health minisry to tackle head on the plight of cancer patients whose health is being compromised…
THERE is a lot to be unhappy with about the state of many things in Zimbabwe, including its noxious politics and sickly…
FORMER minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Lazarus Dokora launched the implementation of the new curriculum in a presentation entitled “Ground Zero: Getting Traction’’, on Saturday January 21, 2017 in Kadoma. The new curriculum came into effect in January 2017.Dokora was of a firm conviction that the new education syllabus is meant to modernise the…
THE ruling Zanu PF will hold its congress from October 26 to 29 in the capital and the hope is that it will have more time to focus on how to resolve the current political logjam, which has had serious ramifications on all eff orts to revive the flagging economy. Without a political solution in…
ACCORDING to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) the country has over 115 political parties. And more political parties are expected to sprout out as the country counts down to the fast-approaching 2023 harmonised elections. The proliferation of political parties is celebrated as growth of the country’s nascent democracy, even though some of the parties have…
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga on Friday re-launched the revival of the Cold Storage Commission (CSC) in Bulawayo, a critical move in the growth of the beef industry in the country. The revival of CSC is paramount in improving the quality of meat and competition in the industry currently dominated by private players. In his address,…
EDITOR — Our beloved country is faced with enormous challenges ranging from poverty, unemployment and poor living conditions, to corruption, mushrooming of shebeens and prosperity churches and so on. It is sad that for a country that has so many educated people the challenges being experienced seem to continue unabated. The government continues to unconsciously…
