HARARE – Two schools of thought have emerged in the MDC on how the party should resolve the debate around Morgan Tsvangirai’s succession. One school of thought is campaigning for an extraordinary general meeting where all those aspiring for the top job can present themselves before the MDC membership which can then decide on who…
HARARE – The publicity that has been given to the cholera and typhoid issue to date shows just how critical its containment is in our communities. One of the major reasons for this is that it is a highly-contagious affliction with the potential to spread beyond geographical borders in a short time. Also — and…
HARARE – Last week, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa did a pathetic job of defending the indefensible. During debate in the National Assembly on the National Budget, he tried to dismiss former president Robert Mugabe who revealed in a televised interview in February 2016 that diamond revenue worth over $15 billion could not be accounted for….
HARARE – It now looks as if South African President Jacob Zuma’s days in power are nearing closure. He simply can no longer carry on as if it was business as usual. The weight of the 800 odd charges of corruption and the allegations of State capture are simply too much and the increasing pressure…
HARARE – President Emerson Mnangagwa and his colleagues in government have been trying hard to convince sceptics that they have what it takes to steer the country forward despite the huge economic problems currently being experienced. Mnangagwa, since coming into office on November 24 last year following the fall of long-time former president Robert Mugabe,…
HARARE – Yesterday, the Daily News reported that the country’s medical doctors are threatening to embark on an industrial action to force government to review their on-call allowances by 50 percent, allow them to import vehicles duty free and unfreeze the recruitment of additional manpower to ease the workload. Through the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association,…
HARARE – The police’s decision to ban an MDC Alliance rally in Harare’s Glen View suburb is tragic under a new dispensation led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. This comes just after Mnangagwa told a meeting with business leaders on Thursday ahead of his maiden trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos next week that…
HARARE – The history of popular music is full of stories of musicians and singers making questionable decisions in pursuit of misadventure and drug addiction. From Jimmy Hendrix, Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson to Whitney Houston, these are great musicians who fell to drug-induced deaths. Nearer home, this week we witnessed a related case of drug…
HARARE – Once again, Zimbabwe is battling another health crisis — a typhoid outbreak. It is sad and extremely disheartening that we continue to suffer from medieval diseases such as typhoid. It reflects badly on our leadership and nation as a whole. It’s humiliating. This calls for serious action and commitment by government towards better…
HARARE – Potential voters who had not yet registered to vote in this year’s harmonised elections should utilise the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)’s biometric voter registration (BVR) mop-up exercise which commenced on January 10 and ends on February 8. BVR was launched in 63 districts of Zimbabwe in September last year and was supposed to…
