Opinion & Analysis

Should schools be re-opened?

SHINGAI MOYO – MOST, if not all, Covid-19 cases in Zimbabwe were traced to contact with people who had travelled outside the country to places such as China, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates. The country has since put in place measures for compulsory quarantine for all arrivals whilst dealing with the internal…

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Reality check on Parly recall

David T Hofisi – FOUR MDC legislators were recalled from Parliament on May 5, 2020. Chalton Hwende, Prosper Mutseyami, Tabitha Khumalo and Lillian Timveos’ seats were declared vacant pursuant to the powers bestowed by the Supreme Court judgment of March 31, 2020. In that ruling, leadership of the MDC was returned to Thokozani Khupe pending…

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Letters to the Editor

Include persons living with disabilities in Covid-19 responses

EDITOR —The Covid-19 pandemic that started at the end of 2019 in China has spread like veld fire and now affects almost every country in the world. Whole societies have been locked down with many industries facing collapse. Whole societies have been disrupted, many facing job losses as economic and social activities are brought to…

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It’s time to change the stakes

BLACK  EDWARD –  THOSE of us who were around during the 2008 economic meltdown will testify that hunger leaves paralysing wounds on a nation which continue to fester for many years, resulting in aid dependency and a vicious poverty cycle. The coronavirus outbreak is now bringing back these distressing memories of severe hunger and of…

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Editorial Comment

Zifa continues blundering ways

EVER since the Felton Kamambo executive came into power at the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) in December 2018, they have made many miscalculated errors that have brought the game into disrepute. Only in their first month, Kamambo and Co suspended vice-president Gift Banda and the action has since been deemed to have been unconstitutional. Up…

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Difficult times for workers, their families

EDITOR  — The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) joins Zimbabwe and the rest of the world in celebrating this year’s edition of the Workers’ Day being held at a time when the occupational health and safety of workers have taken centre stage amid the Covid-19 pandemic afflicting the world. Zimbabwe has so far recorded 40…

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Editorial Comment

HSB profligacy queer, shocking

©️  ZIMBABWE’s Health Services Board — mandated with representing the interests of employees in the entire health sector — has been in the eye of a storm following revelations that they have been pocketing hefty allowances, at a time the country is battling the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The virus, which was first detected in Wuhan,…

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Opinion & Analysis

Malawi elections amid Covid-19

Zimbabwe Election Support Network ON 16 April 2020, the Malawi High Court ruled that Presidential elections will go ahead on 2 July, with the initial date set at 19 May 2020, a development which has brewed heated debates as this will happen amid the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis. This opinion highlights briefly presents deliberations that were…

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As the world laments oh contagious crown

Out of nowhere comes a deathly shadow. Coming out of the day and night air. Prowling and destroying without a bellow. Covid-19 you bring about nothing but despair. Oh virulent virus, oh virulent virus, oh virulent virus. You are a deleterious disease. Covid-19 you destroy without bias. Your greed will not cease. Covid-19 you insidious…

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Editorial Comment

More coronavirus testing needed

BARELY six days before the current lockdown comes to an end, the country is still very far from meeting its own coronavirus test target of 40 000 people by end of this month. So far the country has tested nearly 7 000 people for the lethal pandemic — a measly figure given what the nation…

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