© IT’S sad that the newly-minted notes and coins introduced on Monday into the national payment system by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) found themselves on the grey market, used to buy hard currency, mainly the greenback. The introduction of the notes and coins is part of measures by the central bank to ease…
© VICIOUS internal political violence currently engulfing the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC, par- ticularly against former party secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora, is a waste of energy. Last weekend, Mwonzora’s car was attacked outside the party’s headquarters as tensions con- tinue to rise in the country’s biggest opposition. [GoogleAd] This Tuesday, rowdy thugs stormed an MDC meeting and…
FOR its intended mission, the anti-sanctions demonstration was a monumental flop with only a handful of people attending. Zimbabweans across the country rose to the occasion and made a bold statement — “We can’t be fooled anymore!” In fact, it turned out be a citizens’ demonstration to President Emmerson Mnangagwa that sanctions are not the…
© THE government’s initiative to enlist the services of commercial banks and more private sector players in the administration of a new financing model for Smart Agriculture for 2019 sounds noble, but the lending authorities should fully explain to farmers the consequences of defaulting on their loan repayments. [GoogleAd] According the Finance ministry, three banks…
© WHAT has emerged in recent months through the barring of public demonstrations by the police is that our government is afraid of its own people and sees shadows everywhere. Why should government see doctors, nurses, civil servants and even the opposition as enemies of the state? And here we are talking of defenceless people…
EDITOR — Although a new currency and printing of new notes and coins is welcome to ease money shortages in banks, it can be a cocktail for disaster if improperly managed by politicians in the ruling party. Money should be printed and efficiently channelled into productive sectors like manufacturing (engineering and IT), mining and agriculture…
© POLITICAL violence is an anathema and antithetic to democracy. It is the bottom of cowardice. The violence that broke out at the MDC headquarters, the Richard Morgan Tsvangirai House, at the weekend must never be condoned, but extremely proscribed. It is this kind of political intolerance and suppression of divergent views that led this…
EDITOR — The lesson that Zimbabwe needs to learn is that there is no value in money, but there is value in ‘‘that’’ which you want to acquire using money. “That” which you want to acquire using money is real wealth or value! Money is just a piece of paper — a letter of authorisation!…
© BOTSWANA’S main opposition Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) leader Duma Boko has confirmed that he will challenge the outcome of the recently held 2019 general elections, which saw President Mokgweetsi Masisi being declared the winner. [GoogleAd] Despite that, Botswana remains one of the few countries in southern Africa that has made considerable investment in…
© TOWARDS the end of last week, the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) issued an alert that the country was going to receive rains starting from Sunday until Saturday. [GoogleAd] The MSD alert was important in that it may have given farmers the much-needed cue on preparations for the coming rainy season. However, it has also…
