IT’S high time the government comes up with a concrete strategy to combat mineral leakages at the country’s borders and airports to stop Zimbabwe from losing billions of dollars in foreign currency. Official figures from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) show that the country is losing over US$1 billion worth of minerals which are…
ON Tuesday, Cabinet came up with a raft of measures to try and end traffic congestion in the capital and other cities across the country. The measures were adopted barely a week after the same Cabinet shockingly claimed that the availability of adequate fuel on the market was or is the reason for congestion. It…
FOR those who have been witnessing the goings-on in the fractured opposition, it is becoming increasingly clear that their differences are similar to those of the south and north poles. It is unfathomable that advocates for multi-party democracy continue to engage in mindless fighting at a time their very existence is under threat from a…
CABINET on Tuesday received an update on one of the key projects towards the country’s goal to achieve a US$23 billion mining industry by 2023, the Tsingshan Consolidated Mining and Value Addition project. Since signing a memorandum of understanding with the government, Tsingshan has completed two high carbon ferrochrome furnaces in Selous, in April 2021;…
THE government must move with speed to ensure Zimbabwe also eats the piece of the cake in the global cannabis economy which is expected to reach US$28 billion by 2027. Since time immemorial, hemp has been an integral part of the social fabric of Zimbabwean culture. But in all that time, marijuana has largely been…
THE ruling Zanu PF at the weekend embarked on a nation-wide restructuring exercise meant to reinvigorate its organs ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections. The party has an ambitious target of having five million members before the polls as it aims to secure a landslide victory. Over the years we have witnessed that each time…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday assented to the Constitutional Amendment Bill No 2, giving it immediate legal effect. The omnibus Bill, with 27 amendments, sailed through both the National Assembly and Senate with very little debate except on contentious issues to do with the scrapping of the presidential running mate, chief justice retirement age and…
THE opposition in Zimbabwe will only have itself to blame if it loses the fast approaching 2023 elections as their senseless battles, failure to push for electoral reforms and lack of seriousness, will lead to heavy shellacking by Zanu PF. It is not a secret anymore that the opposition in Zimbabwe only becomes visible during…
EDITOR —THE Zimbabwe government is in the process of passing Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 2 which seeks to have a women and youth quota and provision which allows the president to appoint judges without having to conduct public interviews and hold office until the age of 75. A Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 2 in simple…
LAST Saturday, India surpassed 400 000 Covid-19 cases in a single day — marking a new global record while at the same time sending a strong signal to the rest of the world that the lethal virulent respiratory disease is here for some time. The second wave of coronavirus in India —which has a mammoth…
