Back Edward WHEN a colleague asked me the other day if I was willing to get a Covid-19 jab I didn’t hesitate to say “yes”. This was after learning that Zimbabwe was set to receive its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines from China. Who wouldn’t want a jab knowing that a vaccine helps a person…
THE government last week set up a Cabinet Committee on Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management to bring sanity and order in urban areas by deregistering housing cooperatives being run by corrupt land barons. The committee is chaired by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga. This came after recent flooding of settlements built on wetlands in Harare and…
THE imposition of a lockdown in March last year to curb and mitigate the spread of coronavirus has had a negative impact on the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans. The majority of citizens are battling to eke out a living under the lockdown and harsh economic realities. In fact, life is getting worse for ordinary citizens…
IT HAS been painful to watch over the past few days the desperation with which the small cast of know-it-alls, that is contributing so much to the country’s toxic politics, has been attacking talk about the urgent need for national dialogue in the country. Our hope, in this regard, is that the intended beneficiaries of…
By Black Edward THIS time the politicians have been honest about our crises. Their recent speeches emphasised substituting discord for dialogue as a way of tackling our country’s unstable political and economic environment. They seem to be facing up to the realities of the harsh Zimbabwean landscape. It appears it’s now sinking in, for…
IT IS a common cause that the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) is currently grappling with the Islamic insurrection in northern Mozambique. Thousands of Mozambicans have been displaced, while hundreds have been killed by the Islamic fundamentalists, forcing Maputo to appeal to Sadc for assistance to quell the insurgency. Sadc, through its organ on politics,…
THE government has every right to celebrate the Pfumvudza agricultural programme as a success as it anticipates ‘‘a bumper harvest’’, but it has to carry out a proper crop assessment across the country Incessant rains have become a threat to what looks like one of the best agricultural seasons in recent times. Some crops…
THAT Zanu PF at the weekend said it was keen to enter into informal talks with both formations of the MDC outside the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) is good news to the long-suffering Zimbabweans. The party’s political commissar Victor Matemadanda told our sister publication, the Daily News on Sunday, that it would not be…
By Black Edward COVID-19 has made words like “self-isolate” and “new variant” common as numbers of daily infections and deaths rise sharply indicating that the severity of the pandemic is far from over. The virus has brutally reminded us that life is indeed short. We don’t know exactly what tomorrow holds for us. In…
IT is heartening to see the country’s main political leaders calling for subordination of political differences and forge unity in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. The disease has since the beginning of this year mercilessly ravaged the country. Over 1 000 people have perished out of more than 30 000 infections logged since…
