Editor — I have watched with dismay over the years how city by-laws in Harare are being rubbished. [GoogleAd] At most shopping centres apart from Sam Levy’s in Borrowdale, it seems public drinking and urinating seem to now be the order of the day. I understand society is facing challenges that most take up drinking but…
© EDITOR — On the weekend of March 15 – 17, 2019, both Chimanimani and Chipinge districts suffered multiple destruction from Cyclone Idai with survivors needing shelter, water, food, medication and blankets. [GoogleAd] There was massive death and destruction of property and infrastructure in the two districts. However, on April 20, 2019, Platform for Youth Development…
© EDITOR — Sometimes situations can be so stubborn to the extend of accepting them as part of life. You are born to succeed. If others are making it in life, it’s a sign which shows that you too can make it. Your present situation should not determine your future. [GoogleAd] If you want to succeed…
© WHEN I was in the Junior Parliament of Zimbabwe, I asked one legislator “does our educational system teach us to be problem solvers or to be part of the problem?” [GoogleAd] I wasn’t given an answer. See, the way schooling is mostly framed in Africa, or at least where I come from in Zimbabwe, attracts…
© THE increase in road traffic accidents recorded during the Independence and Easter holidays is disturbing and unacceptable. [GoogleAd] According to the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), accidents recorded during these holidays rose to 674. It is also undesirable and sad to note that the number of deaths recorded increased marginally from 44 to 58 and that…
EDITOR — I often travel to Rusape and have noticed many things wrong with the road and drivers that contribute to the high accident rate on our roads. But which comes first the chicken or the egg? [GoogleAd] Loads of drivers ignore white lines and speed restrictions. I am not blameless. Since the welcome upgrading…
EDITOR — What is the difference between what happened in 2009 and is happening now? In 2009 when we had the GNU the economy came right in days and US dollars quickly became readily available. How the rural folk and others not earning a salary survived the transition from no currency to the USD is…
WHILE Zimbabwe today opens the 60th edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) in Bulawayo which will host thousands of delegates from across the globe, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and his colleagues in government have to convince all those attending that indeed our country is truly open for business. The diamond jubilee show running…
© IN THE past week, there have been issues involving Gaika, a mining concern in the Midlands Province. The crux of the matter primarily involved the takeover of the mine by marauding machete-wielding artisanal miners who have been terrorising the province’s mining areas and are believed to have the blessings of a minister who hails…
MDC ALLIANCE president Nelson Chamisa’s secret deals with the party’s secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora and one of his vice presidents Elias Mudzuri on the hand so that both do not contest him for the presidency at their next congress has been received with mixed views. The deals are such that Chamisa will guarantee Mudzuri retains his…
