© WHEN one talks about crime-ridden African countries, South Africa quickly comes to mind and only last year 21 000 people were reported to have died violently. [GoogleAd] It is never easy to live in such a country where every other second a woman is reportedly raped in broad daylight while one can be robbed…
© THERE is a glaring shortage of post-abortion pills across Zimbabwe. [GoogleAd] Abortion is illegal in the country except in circumstances where the pregnancy endangers the mother’s life, where there is serious risk the child to be born will suffer from a physical or mental defect or when the pregnancy is a result of rape….
© EDITOR — The government is largely made up of people who are over 65 years of age yet the Constitution stipulates that the pensionable age of a Zimbabwean is 65 years. [GoogleAd] We are shooting ourselves in the foot. A study of the top government workers shows they are past their retirement age. In…
© EDITOR — What is happening now in Zimbabwe is disastrous and torturous. People are suffering others are being arrested abducted etc. To say the least all is not well. [GoogleAd] We should remember what happened to Jesus when He and His disciples were confronted by a serious situation; He advised them to watch and…
© FOR the past two weeks, Zimbabweans have been gripped by the news of former president Robert Mugabe’s death and the subsequent drama that followed regarding his final burial place. Mugabe breathed his last on September 6 at the Gleneagles Hospital in Singapore at the age of 95. [GoogleAd] Although he was a champion of…
© EDITOR — James 1:5-7 says: “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. [GoogleAd] “But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown…
© Editor — I think it’s high time you, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, consider reshuffling your Cabinet. [GoogleAd] Ever since the naming of your new Cabinet, we have not seen any major changes and the reality on the ground is that we the masses are slowly losing hope in this government. We had high hopes in…
© AFTER phasing out the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (Esap) in 1995, the government introduced another economic blueprint, the Zimbabwe Programme for Economic and Social Transformation (Zimprest), whose major aim was to deepen market reforms in the absence of a supporting multi-lateral framework from the International Monetary Fund. [GoogleAd] Zimprest was in force between 1998…
© CENTRAL bank tsar John Mangudya last Thursday issued his long-awaited Mid-Term Monetary Policy Statement which had a raft of policy interventions to stem runaway inflation and improve foreign currency inflows into the flagging economy. [GoogleAd] The policy statement was, however, long on the measures, but fell far short on implementation matrixes. It also came…
© EDITOR — It is disturbing to realise that prices of basic commodities keep on going up and yet salaries remain more or less the same for most employees. [GoogleAd] I have come to realise that whenever there are bread shortages and when it becomes available, the price would have gone up. Bread has recently…
