HARARE – The rather uncharacteristic attack on the country’s leadership by the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) for seeking medical treatment in foreign hospitals is both bold and refreshing. It is a marked departure from the culture of local State bodies who are largely guided by the dictum “see no evil, hear no evil, speak…
HARARE – Public hospitals doctors’ strike has clocked a month today. The impasse between the health professionals and government — the third in three years over the same issues — has taken an unnecessarily long time to resolve. But the pain has mainly been borne by the ordinary struggling masses, who cannot afford to seek…
HARARE – To any right-thinking person, it would be foolish to expect President Emmerson Mnangagwa to fix Zimbabwe’s broken economy in the few months he has been in the office. That is totally impossible. The 75-year-old politician inherited a bastardised economy, thanks to his 94-year-old predecessor Robert Mugabe’s misrule, though he cannot be extricated from…
HARARE – It is not a coincidence that the country’s three most successful clubs — Dynamos, Highlanders and CAPS United, in that order — have over the years attracted sponsorship from some of the big companies. These clubs have built strong profiles over the course of their existence and ordinarily would be teams of choice…
HARARE – The Gambia is a small river country, named after the river which cuts through its heart, the smallest country on mainland Africa, which is entirely surrounded by Senegal on one side and the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean on its western side. It experienced one of the variety of the now so-called bloodless…
HARARE – The circus in the health sector — by far one of the most critical ones in any country — is depressing to say the least. What is surprising is that government had threatened not to pay the striking doctors. As the employer, government is entitled to its opinion but denying the doctors salaries…
HARARE – Every week, we report a case of a father sexually assaulting their children. This is becoming alarming. Have fathers become sick in the head? Week after week, it’s unrelenting, these heinous acts of rape and sexual assault on minors by their very own biological fathers. We have become a sick society where children…
HARARE – Local Government minister July Moyo has for the first time opened up on the Harare City Council (HCC) town clerk issue, saying he is waiting for council’s reaction to the Local Government Board (LGB) that they could not appoint a substantive incumbent from the list that they submitted. HCC had forwarded the names…
AS THE 2018 general election fast approaches, Zimbabwe Partnership for Prosperity (ZIPP) challenges the youths in Zimbabwe to rise up and vote in numbers as this crucial vote will help shape their future. The first step is for them to register to vote and show up to vote on Election Day. While young voters notoriously…
HARARE – Information minister Simon Khaya Moyo was on Wednesday dodgy when asked what government policy is regarding coverage of independent or opposition political parties by the public media during this election campaign season. The minister, who was repeatedly asked the same question by different legislators as he tried to evade it, could not give…
