© EDITOR — I would like to bring the city fathers’ attention to how artists, small businesses and church ministries are competing recklessly and irresponsibly in littering and defacing buildings with posters. [GoogleAd] I understand that the city has by-laws that regulate the placing of stickers on buildings, street lights and private buildings yet the…
© ZIMBABWE faces severe food shortages in its 2019-20 farming season as farmers are financially hamstrung due to the worsening liquidity crunch. [GoogleAd] With the rainy season approaching, most farmers cannot prepare adequately for the cropping season as prices of fertilisers, seed and other inputs continue to rise. The farmers’ incapacitation is a result of…
© SOME of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are highly topical, including those on climate action, decent work and economic growth, quality education and partnerships to achieve the goals. [GoogleAd] Yet world leaders gathering in New York this week put a spotlight on SDGs but this is not generating much public enthusiasm. In fact,…
© UNITED Nations special rapporteur Clément Nyaletsossi Voule arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday on a 10-day visit to assess the human rights situation at a time there are escalating kidnappings of government critics. [GoogleAd] What is disturbing is that the Togolese national’s visit to the country was prompted by the worsening rights situation in the country,…
© YESTERDAY, the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) joined Zimbabwe and the world at large in commemorating International Day of Democracy which was this year running under the theme, “Participation”. [GoogleAd] This day comes amid continued calls by civic society and institutions supporting democracy for multi-stakeholder efforts towards the promotion of inclusion, equal treatment, and…
© EDITOR — People of Zimbabwe are the employers of presidential candidates. Zimbabweans need to note that there is no employer who gives a person a job without first looking at the prospective employees’ curriculum vitae (CV). [GoogleAd] The CV contains what a person passed, failed and which jobs he did successfully. If as employers,…
© EDITOR — In 2009, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had an estimated $24 trillion in untapped mineral deposits, including the world’s largest reserves of coltan and significant quantities of the world’s cobalt. [GoogleAd] The United States Geological Survey estimates that the DRC has one million tonnes of lithium resources. The mineral industry…
© ZIMBABWE’s debt burden, estimated at around US$9 billion, has been a stumbling block to the country’s economic recovery initiatives and has impacted negatively on the country’s international credit rating, a development which has cost the economy much-needed foreign investment and capital flows. [GoogleAd] Further accumulation of arrears by the country implies further worsening of…
© ONE of the saddest things about former president Robert Mugabe’s death is that he will be buried with his dark secrets, most notably those surrounding the Gukurahundi massacres of the 1980s. As a political leader in this region of Matabeleland, the people I have interacted with since his death last Friday have expressed deep anger…
© THE obtaining power crisis that has gripped Zimbabwe provides enough exhortation for government to look at alternative sources of energy to augment the dwindling supplies from hydro as well as thermal power stations in the country. Indications from power utility Zesa Holdings that the dire situation may continue well into next year are not…
