HARRY PETER WILSON – THE government of Zimbabwe has a duty to disclose information on the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak in the country in a timely, open and transparent manner. The government should objectively report outbreak developments, investigation and treatment. It has been nearly three months since the first cases of coronavirus were reported in Wuhan,…
ZESN- AS we commemorated International Women’s Day under the theme, “An equal world is an enabled world”, the Zimbabwe Electoral Support Network (Zesn) calls for a multi-stakeholder approach in ensuring gender equality in democratic, electoral and governance processes in Zimbabwe. International Women’s Day comes at a time when Zesn and other civic society organisations (CSOs)…
THE novel coronavirus is spreading like veld fire. It has so far killed over 3 000 and infected plus 105 000 people globally. Africa has not been spared. The continent at the weekend recorded its first death in Egypt where a 60-year-old German tourist succumbed to the deadly scourge at a hospital in the Red…
TODAY the world celebrates International Women’s Day under the theme “I am Generation Equality: Realising Women’s Rights”. This comes in the wake of increasing violence against women and girls in Zimbabwe, with shocking statistics showing that more than 20 girls and women are raped daily. Statistics show that more than 40 percent of married women…
FOR the past one-and-a-half weeks the government, Harare and Bulawayo city councils have been busy conducting renovations to some of the country’s main football venues. Crews have been working through the night at the National Sports, Rufaro and Barbourfields stadia. The frantic construction work was necessitated by the recent de-homologation of all Zimbabwe’s football venues…
WE currently have a political stalemate in Zimbabwe which has destroyed all hopes and opportunities for a peaceful settlement to the legitimacy question. The country has descended into anarchy and lawlessness where President Emmerson Mnangagwa is ruling on a whim and the security apparatus are wantonly brutalising, persecuting and arresting citizens on flimsy trumped up…
THE world super power, the United States (US) has done it again — maintaining sanctions on Zimbabwe for the same reasons it has been pontificating on since 2003. The mantra has remained the same that Zimbabwe should institute democratic reforms. In an executive order to the US Congress on Wednesday, the American president Donald Trump…
CABINET’S decision on Tuesday to demand, at entry points, valid medical certificates of clearance for coronavirus from individuals coming from countries affected by the killer virus should be commended. It is also applauded that as of March 1 this year, every traveller to Zimbabwe, 6 169 people to be precise, were screened at the country’s…
EDITOR — The continuing and deepening power crisis is not just affecting individuals or residential areas but industries as well that are being forced to go for hours without power, making production almost impossible. According to press reports, Zimbabwe is currently experiencing serious power cuts, in a development that has incapacitated a number of manufacturers,…
IT IS only a matter of time before the lethal coronavirus spreads to many African countries. And when it does, there is palpable fear that it would decimate tens of thousands of lives because of the lack of capacity to deal with the disease. As Africans, there must be no reason to celebrate that coronavirus…
