EDITOR — Our beloved country is faced with enormous challenges ranging from poverty, unemployment and poor living conditions, to corruption, mush- rooming of shebeens and prosperity churches and so on. It is sad that for a country that has so many educated people the challenges being experienced seem to continue unabated. [GoogleAd] The government continues…
© OFFICIALLY opening the second session of the ninth Parliament of Zimbabwe and State of the Nation Address (Sona), President Emmerson Mnangagwa correctly referenced the importance of the productive sector as the key in reviving what he termed a dead economy, but fell far short on strategy and implementation matrixes. [GoogleAd] His Sona was reduced…
© THE ban of cash-in and cash-out facilities on mobile money platforms caught most Zimbabweans unaware. It plunged the country into a huge financial crisis and needs to be addressed urgently for the smooth functioning of the national payments system. [GoogleAd] In the advent of a serious liquidity crunch the country has endured for the…
© Aviation in some parts of the African continent has been impacted by an unfavorable political landscape for the past few decades. [GoogleAd] In pre-colonial days, globalization, in particular, was impacted as a result of African cities experiencing minimal globalization in the pre-colonial and national phases, because they were nonexistent or under the control and jurisdiction…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa presents his State Of the Nation Address today at a time the country is facing its biggest economic challenge in more than a decade. [GoogleAd] Ironically, today also marks exactly a year after the government removed the bond note 1:1 parity with the United States dollar as well as introducing the…
© FORMER MDC secretary for economics and legislator for Bulawayo South, Eddie Cross, divides opinion. During his time in the MDC, he was an arch critic of Zanu PF and the late former president Robert Mugabe. [GoogleAd] After Mugabe’s political demise — following the widely supported military coup of November 2017 — Cross began to…
© THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)’s credibility will be put to the test following the Election Resource Centre (ERC)’s filing of a report on Chiefs Council president Fortune Charumbira at Harare Central Police Station for contempt of court. The ZRP should swiftly arrest Charumbira for defying a May 9, 2018 High Court order instructing him…
© THIS year’s International Day for Universal Access to Information Day (IDUAI) which was commemorated on September 18 came at a timely moment for Zimbabwe to enact a democratic access to information law following the gazetting of the country’s Freedom of Information Bill. [GoogleAd] Zimbabwe should, therefore, seize this moment by ensuring that provisions of…
© EDITOR — We read in the press that the city of Harare has started supplying water again and would be distributing it to suburbs progressively, with water flowing from taps in some suburbs from midnight last Tuesday. [GoogleAd] This announcement initially brought a sense of relief and significantly raised our spirits. Of some concern…
© EDITOR — I have read so may articles and letters with disappointment where motorists and the general public are complaining about clamping fees. [GoogleAd] Help me understand something here. Are motorists being clamped without any wrongdoing? If so then the city fathers need to revise the clamping fees but if not, then most motorists…
