HARARE – While the perception is that Zimbabwe’s healthcare is in intensive care progress has been made on some health outcomes. The challenges are considerable but with discipline, consistency and focus we have the tools to turn this situation around. Are there solutions? Yes. Solutions lie in appreciating the importance of health. It is important…
HARARE – Social media in the form of new technologies has become a new agora world-wide providing a platform for communication among different people regardless of space and time. Several applications such as Handtalk, Prodeaf, Youtube, Facebook, WhatsApp and Skype are user friendly to the deaf and may bridge the gap between deaf persons and…
HARARE – They say “a healthy nation is a happy nation while a sickly nation is a sad nation”. Today Zimbabwe is a “sad nation” because of an ailing health sector saddled by drug shortages and a crippling strike by doctors. With the doctors away from their stations, the sight of nurses might soften a…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken is annual leave and like any other civil servant, he rightly deserves it. Yes, he deserves it more than anyone else because the task he has ahead needs him to take a long breather and re-merge refreshed. It is also the time that he has to reflect on…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) released depressing statistics early this week which showed an increase in the number of road fatalities during the festive season. In the period under review, at least 89 people lost their lives in 2017 but the figure increased to 122 this year. According to the police, the major…
HARARE – The year 2018 will remain etched in the back of many Zimbabweans for its poor and dull Christmas! Shortages of basics which are traditional for any Christmas, things like soft drinks, beer, bread and cooking oil spoiled all the fun. Chicken which used to be on every family’s meal card was just too…
HARARE – A visit to any of the country’s major hospitals is heart-breaking while government continues to ignore labour issues raised by doctors who have downed tools. The doctors are demanding better working conditions, payment in US dollars, stocking of medicines and equipment in hospitals. The government’s recent reaction to suspend at least 500 junior…
HARARE – I was called by a major local newspaper this past week and asked what my view of 2019 was? I laughed at the question because right now I do not think anyone could tell you what is going on, let alone predict 2019. Then I had coffee with two of the most important…
HARARE – The Latin term, annus horribilis, meaning a bad and unfortunate year, would probably for most Zimbabweans best describe the year 2018. Average Zimbabweans would be forgiven to think that the ancestors, nature or God, the Supreme Being, has forsaken this land between the Zambezi and the Limpopo rivers. With the long-awaited departure of…
HARARE – Before and after the announcement of Mthuli Ncube as Finance and Economic Development minister the public was bombarded with a series of articles in the media lauding his educational qualifications and that he was the best man for the job. A video of him talking about good and bad money and that he…
