HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s demotion of Patrick Chinamasa from the Finance ministry to lead a new Cyber Security ministry that will focus on crimes on social media and other websites ahead of an election due next year should not be taken lightly. Chinamasa’s new ministry — Cyber Security, Threat Detection and Mitigation — is…
HARARE – Elsewhere in this edition, we report that Zimbabwe is pondering whether to increase hospital visits by expecting mothers to eight from the current four in line with World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines on antenatal care adopted in November last year that says pregnant women should have twice as many contacts with health providers….
HARARE – Zimbabweans should take advantage of the ongoing Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) campaign blitz so that they register to vote in the 2018 general elections. The BVR blitz, which is being conducted by the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights), Election Resource Centre (ERC), Zimbabwe Election Support Network — in collaboration with Zimbabwe Election Commission…
HARARE – For many years, agriculture has buoyed Zimbabwe’s agro-based economy with crops such as tobacco and cotton ranking among the major foreign currency earners. While cotton has since fallen down the pecking order, tobacco has remained a top earner of the much-needed foreign currency. On the other hand Zimbabwean farmers have also been into…
EDITOR — The MDC notes with concern President Robert Mugabe (pictured)’s recent Cabinet reshuffle and new appointments. It is clear that far from being appointed or reassigned to address the many problems affecting the country in these difficult times, these appointments were specifically put in place to try and steal the election for Zanu PF…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC)’s successful bid to host the 2018 World Cup qualifiers is indeed a rare dose of good news for the local sporting fraternity. For those enamoured with cricket, the granting of rights to Zimbabwe to host the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifiers and the International Cricket Council (ICC) board meeting in…
HARARE – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first female president of Liberia and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, inherited a war-ravaged country and, with motherly hands, she has done exceptionally well in rebuilding her country. She will probably go down in history as one of the greatest leaders to ever emerge on this continent, perhaps earning…
EDITOR — The MDC condemns in the strongest terms the splurging of millions by Grace Mugabe and her family which continues to mount woes on the prevailing economic morass. It is saddening and angering to learn that while the majority of Zimbabweans are wallowing in abject poverty, the First Family continues to flaunt luxuries they…
HARARE – Timing always makes a difference either in successful execution of an idea or its dismal failure. This is why it is important to look critically at the timing of President Robert Mugabe’s Cabinet reshuffle on Monday. It is no longer debatable that since 2000 most of his appointed ministers failed to perform to…
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai returned to Zimbabwe mid-afternoon yesterday after almost a month of medical treatment in South Africa over his colon cancer ailment. Supporters of the MDC president staged celebrations at Harvest House to welcome him home. Tsvangirai’s return was announced through messages by his spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka: “President Tsvangirai’s arrival has confounded morbid…
