© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government risks dividing the civil service and paralysing the nation with the way they are dealing with grievances of public service employees. Last week, thousands of civil servants were left fuming after government advanced a $400 pay-out to members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces as a cushioning allowance, while the rest…
EDITOR — Zimbabwean workers have been hailed globally for being highly-competent and hard working. In sharp contrast, back home, they are scorned by their own government at times they are labelled as lazy and unproductive. The low morale of the working class is caused by underpayment and at times no payment at all. Amalgamated Rural…
EDITOR — The rate at which women and especially children are being sexually violated by shameless individuals in our society is alarming. Everyday, reports of rape of both minors and women flood our media, and police stations while many others are unreported. I call upon the responsible authorities to take sterner measures to curb this…
EDITOR — Current development discourse has been dominated by the notion that citizen participation is synonymous with democratic governance. As such various administrations have acknowledged that citizen engagement is at the heart of participatory democracy. Citizen participation has been romanticised to such an extent that various state actors, the donor community, non-governmental organisations have all…
© MOMENTOUS events in Zimbabwe during the last two years inspired hope among many Zimbabweans that they would experience meaningful political change and sustainable economic growth. [GoogleAd] In November 2017, former president Robert Mugabe — who ruled Zimbabwe for nearly 40 years — was ousted in a military coup and his former deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa…
© ZIMBABWE’s position regarding water is getting worse by the day with reports of falling water levels in dams and reservoirs across the country, developments that have not only affected power generation but the availability of water for other uses. [GoogleAd] The country received less than average rains in most regions, pointing towards inadequate food…
© EDITOR — As ordinary Zimbabweans we have are suffering day in day out because of the incompetence of this Zanu PF-led government. We can not tolerate this anymore everyday people are dying in hospitals , in their homes on our roads because of this government’s failure to efficiently run the economy. [GoogleAd] The Zanu…
© EDITOR — It appears the government has more work to do to convince citizens about the need to conserve wetlands in particular and the environment in general. [GoogleAd] A drive around many urban settlements one will observe that scores of people have built houses on wetlands. What is a wetland? Wetlands are areas where…
© It is extremely frustrating to sit on the side lines of this game we are all playing called “getting Zimbabwe back on track”. We are doing so many of the right things, our team is looking much better than previous teams and slowly we are earning recognition that we may even win a game…
© LAST Friday, in an unprecedented move — Foreign Affairs minister Sibusio Moyo and his delegation to London — were attacked by a group of angry Zimbabweans in the English capital city. [GoogleAd] The unwarranted attack on the Cabinet minister exposed how deeply polarised Zimbabwe remains despite the change of guard from ousted former president…
