THE weekend confirmation of a chickenpox outbreak by the Harare City Health Department must not be met with the standard bureaucratic reassurance that “the situation remains under close monitoring”.While panic is never a viable strategy, a casual approach to a highly contagious viral infection within a congested city is a recipe for a public health…
FOR decades, the standard high school curriculum has operated under a puzzling contradiction, we meticulously prepare young minds to calculate the velocity of an object or analyse medieval literature, yet we send them into the adult world functionally illiterate in the very medium that governs their daily survival— money. The launch of the inaugural Schools…
FOR decades, an invisible, cruel barrier divided Zimbabwe’s healthcare system. If you suffered a catastrophic accident or a sudden stroke, your survival did not depend on the skill of the nearest doctors, but on the depth of your pockets. Private trauma rooms, fully equipped and gleaming, remained fortresses accessible only to the wealthy or the…
ZIMBABWE’S football future will not be secured through expensive player imports or short-term success at senior national team level.It will be built on carefully identifying, nurturing and developing young talent from every corner of the country.The launch of the BancABC Roots Impact Programme by the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) is, therefore, a welcome and timely…
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s latest assessment of our economy reads like a rare and hard-earned breath of fresh air. For a country whose economic narrative has frequently been dominated by volatility, a staff-level agreement on the first review of the 10-month Staff- Monitored Programme (SMP) is a massive thumbs-up that authorities cannot afford to…
THE time for empty rhetoric, cosmetic state commissions, and endless policy blueprints has long passed. Corruption in Zimbabwe has transcended individual misconduct; it has mutated into the country’s dominant currency and a tragic way of life. The Tuesday warning by the European Union (EU) head of delegation, Katrin Hagemann, is a sobering wake-up call that…
THE return of Zimbabweans from South Africa marks more than the end of a journey across a border. For many, it represents the beginning of a difficult transition as they seek to rebuild their lives back home. At such a time, they deserve not pity or judgment, but meaningful support from the government, businesses, communities…
BULAWAYO is facing a quiet, terrifying crisis.Decades of hard-fought progress in the war against HIV/Aids are structurally unravelling under the weight of a contemporary epidemic, youth drug and substance abuse.What city officials are currently calling a “double whammy” is, in reality, a singular, symbiotic nightmare playing out on the streets of our high-density suburbs.Recent data…
FOR decades, Zimbabwean authorities have treated monetary policy like a martial art, attempting to wrestle confidence into the local currency through brute administrative force.Statutory instruments, frozen bank accounts, and midnight raids on informal traders have historically been the tools of choice. It is, therefore, a welcome breath of fresh air to hear Reserve Bank of…
MABASA SASA IN 1921, 13 revolutionaries gathered in secret at a girls’ school in Shanghai to found the Communist Party of China…
