© ZIMBABWE has missed out on opportunities as a result of the sanctions, political disharmony surrounding its election results, lack of political democracy and intolerance to a multi-party political landscape. [GoogleAd] Like many of its counterparts in similar circumstances, the country has lost decades of precious time, resources and investment. Most if not all sub-Saharan…
© THE controversy surrounding the death and burial — which is officially yet to take place — of the late former president Robert Mugabe has provided perhaps one of the most bizarre and weird stories of death in living memory. [GoogleAd] Mugabe — who no doubt deserved national hero status and, of course, a place…
© EDITOR— It is the duty of the community to preserve its environment. It is very saddening to note that some people put money ahead of preserving our God-given environment. [GoogleAd] Take for instance people who cut down trees for firewood to sell not knowing the hazards it is causing. The random cutting…
© EDITOR — THE dry season is upon us and veld fires will be the order of the day and this is where Environmental Management Agency (Ema) comes in. It is pleasing to note that in recent years Ema has been making a lot of efforts to reduce accidents that are caused by veld fires…
© With the passing of Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe is finally moving away from the shadow of his 37-year reign. [GoogleAd] His successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made reforms his priority since he took over in 2017 to take the country’s economy and political structures into the 21st century. Much has been made of Mnangagwa’s ties…
© THE country’s major hospitals have been struggling to cope with patients in the past week following a strike by doctors in solidarity with their missing colleague Peter Magombeyi, who had been allegedly abducted last Saturday. [GoogleAd] Magombeyi was found in Nyabira on the outskirts of Harare on Thursday last week, after which the Zimbabwe…
© THERE is a famous, instructive and yet simple Shangaan idiom that holds undeniable truths about life: “mintirho ya vulavula”. Loosely translated, it means your work speaks for itself. [GoogleAd] When we evaluate the contribution to humanity of those who have departed, or those among us who are still alive, a contestation arises about how…
© FOR many years now, the issue of vote-buying has been contentious in electoral contests across the country although the real problem is the lack of political maturity in the electorate, who let personalities sway them into making political choices ahead of issues that affect them on a daily basis. [GoogleAd] In the run-up to…
© EDITOR — It is very hard to come across a smiling face in the area of Mavuli. [GoogleAd] People spend the whole day complaining about the hardships they are facing. Not even a single child knows a grin of any of his or her parents. To the people of 20 years and below, sorrow…
© EDITOR — Sanctions generally entail restrictions on international trade and finance that one country imposes on another for political reasons. [GoogleAd] Economic sanctions include the withdrawal of customary trade and financial relations for foreign and security policy purposes. However, critics say sanctions are often ill-conceived and rarely successful in changing a target country’s conduct….
