© Zimbabwe has struggled since longtime ruler Robert Mugabe’s reign came to an end in 2017. Analysts describe President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s first year in office as a period of indecisive and experimental policies. Inflation in Zimbabwe has spiked to 175 percent, with fears of a return to the conditions of 2008, when the country recorded…
EDITOR — The number of people dying on Zimbabwe’s roads is too much and government needs to act now to ensure that our roads are safe. We need a reasonable number of roadblocks or speed traps though in the past this has failed to stop the carnage on our roads. The deaths have not only…
© UTTERANCES by government and security officials that the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) would be deployed to deal with any dissenting voices from the suffering masses who might want to protest is disturbing especially coming just as the country, today, remembers those shot by the army last year. It is sad when Defence and War…
© THIS August marks a year after President Emmerson Mnangagwa became the head of State in the so-called new dispensation. While he made many promises to turn the economy of Zimbabwe into its former glory, it has in fact become worse as there is an acceleration in the closure of industries, rampant abuse of human…
EDITOR — What happened to agricultural mechanisation schemes, upfumi kuvadiki, land reform, ZimAsset, and community shareholding schemes? All these concepts were so good and in line to progress but everything went under the tunnel. People thought former president Robert Mugabe was the stumbling block on our progress but the current signs are good pointers that…
© THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairperson Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo’s swiftness to prosecute those involved in corruption as exemplified by the recent arrest of Tourism minister Prisca Mupfumira should be commended. From the more than 200 cases Matanda-Moyo said her commission is currently handling, this is just one of them, so we still have to…
© THERE is no denying the fact that life has become unbearable for the majority of ordinary people who have had to watch, in anguish, the falling away of standards of living. No one would have predicted that a year on after holding historic elections, on July 30 last year — things would have come…
© IT’S sad to see that just a year after the historic July 30, 2018 elections; Zimbabwe is on a knife-edge and the situation could descend into total chaos. Prices of basic goods and services are rising sharply in an economy where most families have to survive on less than US$1 per day. Fuel queues…
EDITOR — Recently, news was awash over Kenyan Finance minister who was arrested on allegations of fraud. What is interesting is that Uhuru Kenyatta is on record saying every minister caught on the wrong side of the law must resign. Surprisingly the minister caught in the allegations is yet to resign because he is adamant…
EDITOR — Everyone is aware of the challenges the country has in terms of accessing cash. We have challenges in accessing basic things like cash, and power but now many uncouth business people are capitalising on this crisis. At most fuel stations, fuel attendants are refusing electronic money in favour of hard cash. What is…
