HARARE – The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has, for the past few weeks, been telling all and sundry that they will reduce roadblocks on the country’s roads and highways and that the law did not permit their members to throw spikes at moving vehicles. However, nothing has changed. In fact, the roadblocks have multiplied and…
EDITOR — One thing that has become patently and painfully clear to me is a lesson from history: the peaceful masses are irrelevant. The saying that goes, “Evil only flourishes when good men do nothing,” becomes crystal clear when looking back over Zimbabwe’s history and the current complete and utter mess that Zanu PF have…
HARARE – The country’s disjointed opposition parties should draw lessons from the recently-held Mwenezi by-elections that Zanu PF will not reform itself out of power, but will instead push for elections under conditions that guarantee its victory. While the main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Morgan Tsvangirai, boycotted the polls…
HARARE – Revelations that government is issuing Treasury Bills to raise money to pay bonuses for the 300 000-plus civil service confirms what we have been saying all along. Government’s decision to pay the unbudgeted 2016 bonus after pressure from employee unions is likely to worsen the situation as Treasury Bills worth $180 million are…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Election Commission (Zec) independence is the top most important ingredient of free and fair elections. All other technologies and mechanisms are useless if Zec is not an independent electoral body. All political parties, Zanu PF included should aim to divorce themselves from the operations of Zec and allow the esteemed body to…
HARARE – Reports that the City of Bulawayo had lifted restrictions on water supplies must have come as a relief for residents of Zimbabwe’s second largest city. The Friday edition of our sister paper, the Daily News, carried this story, indicating that water levels in dams which supply Bulawayo improved significantly following months of heavy…
HARARE – Only a game into the 2017 Castle Lager Premiership, it is disappointing to note there is already discord among the teams with issues to do with remuneration. Before taking on Shabanie Mine last weekend, CAPS United players went on industrial action refusing to train. The Makepekepe players only agreed to train for a…
HARARE – We all know that going backwards, though motion, is never progress and 37 years after independence we, are going in reverse when other nations are making great strides in terms of social and economic development. While our leaders may represent the few who live in splendour, statistics on a broader scale show that our…
HARARE – The clueless and desperate Zanu PF administration has come up with a raft of new taxes, further strangling its overtaxed citizens. President Robert Mugabe’s government last Thursday imposed a new 10 percent tax on tobacco sales, resulting in angry farmers threatening to withhold their crop for the current marketing season. The farmers’ response…
EDITOR — It sounds quite strange to hear that water charges in Beitbridge are so high compared with other towns in Zimbabwe. One would expect Beitbridge to have the cheapest water because the distance from the water source to the point of consumption is just too short. Being the busiest border town does not mean…
