Letters to the Editor

Partisan food distribution worrying

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EDITOR — Reports of partisan distribution of food aid have marred concerted efforts by the government through the Department of Social Welfare, non-governmental organisations, churches and other philanthropists to alleviate the plight of vulnerable citizens. While the majority of reports by Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn)’s Long Term Observers (LTOs) resident in the 210 National…

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Opinion & Analysis

Food, livelihood security during Covid-19

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NORMAN NYAZEMA AND SHAMISO MUPARA While the science of the Covid-19 pandemic continues to evolve, every Zimbabwean, sadly, cannot and must not afford to wait for the State to augment his or her ability to resist infection and prevent transmission. The facts are there for all to see. It would appear that the State is…

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Editorial Comment

Silence is the virtue of fools

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IT WAS Francis Bacon, the prominent philosopher and politician, who said rather flamboyantly that silence is the virtue of fools. What the former attorney general and Lord Chancellor of England meant when he said this 400 years ago was that one would be a fool to keep their mouth shut when something needed to be…

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Editorial Comment

Law must deepen access to information

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THE promulgation of the Freedom of Information Bill into law and the subsequent repeal of the Access to Information and Privacy Act (AIPPA) were long overdue. The delay in repealing AIPPA stifled a free, fair and transparent electoral environment as pushed for for years by electoral stakeholders. The new development also comes after spirited lobbying…

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Editorial Comment

Unbridled greed ruins institutions

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THE trend in African politics has had a uniform pattern with incumbent leaders often preferring to cling to power like leeches, which explains the tragic situations the continent’s nation states find themselves in. The general trajectory has been towards decadence — economic, political and social — which has made the continent poorer than it should…

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Opinion & Analysis

A phone of worms

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BLACK EDWARD I had just switched on my computer at the start of my graveyard shift when the phone rang. “She has $10 000 in her mobile wallet account, can you believe it!” shouted my nephew on the other side of the line. “Calm down and start at the beginning. I can’t make head or…

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Lockdown challenges for uniformed forces

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EDITOR — ZIMBABWE Election Support Network (Zesn)’s Long Term Observers (LTOs) resident in the 210 National Assembly Constituencies have been monitoring the strict enforcement of the coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown order by the army and police. While the uniformed forces have the mandate to enforce the lockdown order; nevertheless the discharge of this mandate must always…

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Exercise caution in Covid-19 measures relaxation

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WITH cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) continuing to rise in the country, the government must exercise extreme caution in relaxing measures it employed to arrest and mitigate the spread of the pandemic when it decreed a national lockdown on March 30. As of Wednesday night, the country had recorded 605 positive cases of the lethal disease,…

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Opinion & Analysis

Census Bill: Right step to 2023 polls

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THE Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) welcomes the move by the government to come up with a Census and Statistics Amendment Bill of 2020 to enable the delimitation of electoral boundaries to be conducted well in time before the 2023 elections. Gazetted on June 12, this Bill will amend the Census and Statistics Act so…

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Luck holds for only so long

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by BLACK EDWARD  I HAVE been struggling to sleep lately. My sleepless nights, which are fast turning into some sort of weird insomnia, (but I’d really like to believe I’m not an insomniac, yet) are a result of thinking about the horrors that await us should the coronavirus (Covid-19) spread uncontrollably due to the inept…

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