There are times when I really think we Zimbabweans are very ungrateful. All we do is moan, curse, rant, rave, and practically do anything to show our people’s President, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, in a bad light. This is the same man who secured an overwhelming landslide of 50,6 percent of the vote. He did not get…
LAST week, the local skies welcomed the arrival of the restructured fellow southern African carrier, Air Tanzania. The airline re-launched flights to Harare after close to two decades of no direct flights between Harare and Dar-es-Salaam. To maximise on profitability, the passenger carrier is connecting Harare to Lusaka as it flies south of the African…
THERE is an urgent need for President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Cabinet to deal with the fuel shortages that have once again hit the country. There have been long queues of vehicles since last week at virtually all filling stations. [GoogleAd] Resultantly, public transport has been affected, leaving the travelling public stranded for long hours….
EDITOR — For over a decade now Zimbabwe has managed to transfer land ownership from the few white commercial farmers who were just about 4 500 to the indigenous black farmers now numbering over 300 000. [GoogleAd] Zimbabweans for nearly a century were denied, by their colonial masters, opportunities to show their skills in farming…
WITH the ouster of Zimbabwe’s former autocratic president Robert Mugabe, whose isolationist policies had taken the country backwards by decades, an unlikely window of opportunity for diplomatic renewal was briefly and slightly opened. [GoogleAd] The goodwill that followed was unlikely because Mugabe got replaced by his henchmen, who had been his enforcer for his entire…
HARARE – Tributes continue to pour for veteran jazz singer Dorothy Masuku who died on Saturday at the age of 83. The songstress had been suffering from complications related to hypertension after a mild stroke last year. Her family said she spent her last moments at home, surrounded by those close to her. [GoogleAd] Arts publicist…
HARARE – Recent mandatory jail sentences of rioters which range from one year to 5 years are stiffer compared to those imposed in Smith’s regime, lawyers and analysts contend. The harsh sentences being passed by the courts on suspected rioters of the 14 January three-day stay away strike called by labour unions after President Emmerson Mnangagwa raised…
HARARE – The reported anger by captains of industry when President Emmerson Mnangagwa and finance minister Mthuli Ncube snubbed the recent CEO Africa Roundtable meeting in Victoria Falls is understandable as this was their only opportunity to showcase the vital role played by the private sector in fostering growth across the continent. Mnangagwa and more than…
Leadership is an art of substantively cultivating an environment which brings out the best in order to achieve the set goals of any establishment. We can derive this lesson from our country’s most beloved touristic destination, the Victoria Falls; the great waterfall ‘discovered’ by Scottish missionary, David Livingston in 1855. [GoogleAd] True leadership is like that…
EDITOR — It is undeniable that the cost of living for an ordinary Zimbabwean is increasingly becoming expensive, but the latest RTGS$3 000 salary demand by Teachers’ Unions is astonishing to say the least. I for one sympathise with every citizen of this country in such trying times where the prices of almost everything has…
