HARARE – Zimbabwe men’s national soccer team — the Warriors defeat to Liberia on Sunday in the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers — should be taken as a step backwards given the new dynamics that have now come into play. The Warriors needed just a draw to book a ticket to the African football’s biggest…
HARARE – November 2017 remains etched in the memories of many Zimbabweans as well as foreigners as a month when so much promise loomed on the horizon. This was after the fall of the once-mighty despot Robert Mugabe which also signalled the crumbling — like a deck of cards — of former first lady Grace…
HARARE – Over the years, the Zanu PF leadership has taken the country and its citizens down a bottomless pit where recovery is proving very difficult. Since independence from the British in 1980, when the country was still under one of Africa’s longest ruling dictators — Robert Mugabe – Zanu PF policies have been populist…
HARARE – Thousands of girls’ prospects are severely limited because they cannot finish school. According to the United Nations, some 33 million children in sub-Saharan Africa were out of school. While statistics for Zimbabwe are not immediately available, pervasive poverty and persistent cultural attitudes, including forced early marriages and child labour, continue to be the…
HARARE – On November 15, 2017, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s longest serving ruler was confined to his private residence in the affluent suburb of Borrowdale in Harare, Zimbabwe. This, while armed soldiers took control of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation’s (ZBC) headquarters major stations and patrolled the streets of the capital city. In what was self-evidently a…
HARARE – Not a year passes without a major accident taking place on the country’s highways. Government has never been proactive, but reacts only when tragedy has struck. Only last week, 46 people died when two buses — Smart Express and Bolt Cutter — were involved in a head-on collision just outside Rusape. According to…
HARARE – Recent action by government in which it imposed 10-year custodial sentences on illegal foreign currency dealers was overdue although more should be done to exterminate the practice completely. The Unexplained Wealth Statutes came into effect on Monday, sending the bulk of the country’s forex dealers underground. Perhaps government should have combined this with…
HARARE – While out of desperation, insincerity or naivety, many people would have welcomed the Commission of Inquiry (the Motlanthe Commission) into the August 1, 2018 shootings in Harare, many did not give it a chance. Many people who would have liked, or been expected to give evidence, did not even bother. More incensed Zimbabweans…
HARARE – We all use money everyday and yet few of us really understand what these bits of paper or cotton or simply figures in a ledger, really mean. But we know the stuff is important. In economic terms the answer is actually quite simple, the stuff is a means of exchange, a store of…
HARARE – Over the years, our system of education followed that of former colonial master Britain by aiming to produce graduates geared for white-collar jobs in commerce and industry. However, this trajectory had to change to suit the country’s contemporary demands. This saw the adoption of the Competence-Based Education and Training (CBET) in most of…
