© VACCINATION has always been critical in public health care, reducing costs usually associated with therapeutic interventions following the outbreak of one disease or the other. [GoogleAd] The Health ministry’s Expanded Programme of Immunisation — rolled out in 1982 as an integral part of the country’s Primary Health Care Programme — was aimed at reducing morbidity…
© THE world over, the provision of adequate accommodation to urban dwellers has been the forte of local authorities. [GoogleAd] In Zimbabwe, an unprecedented drift of people from rural to urban settlements as they seek alternative survival opportunities has necessarily led to the growth of the urban populations. The transformation in the mode of living from…
© THE High Court recently blocked the construction of a church in one of Harare’s wetland areas, a decision environmentalists hailed as positive. [GoogleAd] This came after an application by the Harare Wetlands Trust and Newlands Residents Association challenging the construction works by Life Covenant Church in Newlands, Harare. In the application, the church, City…
© THE recent dethroning of Chief Ndiweni has exposed the ruling party’s belief that for traditional leaders to be seen as loyal they have to serve Zanu PF interests. A fierce critic of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Ndiweni — together with 300 of his former subjects were last year convicted for torching a villager’s homestead. Even with…
© ONE of the ugliest developments of 2019 has been the emergence and perhaps even growth of the machete-wielding terror gangs popularly known as MaShurugwi. The terror gangs, despite their name, have no links with Shurugwi, the small mining town in the Midlands Province. [GoogleAd] What is startling is that the police — who have…
© IT APPEARS this farming season may not be as bright as many may have expected earlier given the dry stretch currently being experienced and the moisture stress evident in crops in most parts of the country. The most logical thing to do on the part of the government is to activate its mobilisation arms…
© TRADITIONALLY, the Church has always played a pivotal role in the governance issues of any country especially with Christian setups like Zimbabwe’s including influencing the different political directions respective nation states take. The level of influence only got diluted with the advent of constitutionalism, but it did not entirely dissipate. [GoogleAd] The Church in…
© EARLIER this month, President Emmerson Mnangagwa re- ceived a report from the Commission of Inquiry into the Sale of State Land in and around urban settlements. According to details that have so far emerged from the findings of the commission, the government lost at least $3 billion from illegal sale of State land by…
© ALONG these shores, Christmas is and has always been associated with happiness, merriment and of course rainfall blessings on this day. For the second year running these were in short supply as thousands of Zimbabweans had to endure another bleak Xmas. Grinch stole the Christmas again! [GoogleAd] For those who believe in the supernatural,…
© ZIMBABWE is good at coming up with brilliant schemes to develop the country on paper, but implementation is zilch. One dazzling project was the introduction of Community Share Ownership Schemes (CSOS) during the advent of the Chiadzwa diamond rush over 10 years ago. [GoogleAd] The CSOS were later established at almost every mining company…
