EDITOR — The new dispensation has slowly but positively proven that there is an overhaul in the administration of the country’s affairs, an indication that Zimbabwe is breaking from the old ways. [GoogleAd] In the recent months, government has implemented measures that have seen the Constitution being upheld, social, political and economic reforms being put…
EDITOR — I was saddened the other day when I read of one teenage girl who contracted HIV from mahumbwe (role playing) and it got me thinking that we still need to do more for this disease to disappear. [GoogleAd] Many people have lost relatives and friends to HIV/Aids. Some children have lost both parents…
ZIMBABWE, like many other developing countries, is facing increased prevalence rates of non-communicable diseases in addition to existing high rate of communicable diseases. [GoogleAd] This challenge has been referred to as the double burden of disease that pose significant obstacles to resource-constrained countries. Non-communicable diseases cluster includes conditions such as cardiovascular diseases, chronic obstructive lung…
INDICATIONS are that the ruling Zanu PF party is considering wooing former president Robert Mugabe to re-join the revolutionary party. [GoogleAd] Mugabe was ousted in a military coup in November 2017 that was preceded by a decade of deadly factional fights within Zanu PF that saw a number of officials purged. Already former Zanu PF…
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. [GoogleAd] But which comes first the chicken or the egg? Loads of drivers ignore white lines and speed restrictions. I am not blameless. Since the welcome upgrading…
WE ARE happy that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has agreed in principle to put to closure two of the country’s most contentious issues; compensation to white former commercial farmers and, exhumations as well as reburials of Gukurahundi victims. In doing so, government will appease the international community which has — all these years — been calling…
EDITOR — The decision by Cabinet to approve price increases of maize, wheat, soya beans and cotton by more than 80 percent is most welcome and good news for the farmers and producers of these grains. [GoogleAd] Government has done well in rewarding hardworking farmers who produce these grains. According to press reports this comes…
CYCLONE Idai has come and gone but its scars are there for all to see on the physical terrain, the hundreds of graves in Chimanimani and Chipinge, destroyed infrastructure like roads and bridges, whole shopping centres, police stations as well as schools among others. Oh yes, schools, leaving some children with the clothes they were…
WE are very concerned by the unpleasant leadership tussles and other goings-on in the main opposition MDC, as the party founded by the late Morgan Tsvangirai (may his gentle, selfless and unifying soul rest in peace) approaches its elective congress next month. [GoogleAd] While both democracy, as well as inter- and intra-party political contestations can…
THE appointment of former MDC legislator for Mabvuku-Tafara, James Maridadi as one of the 15 ambassadors-designate, has triggered a storm which, nonetheless, is much ado about nothing. [GoogleAd] Section 110 (2) (i) 204 of the Constitution of the country simply stipulates that the President may appoint persons to be ambassadors or other principal representatives of…
