EDITOR — It has become a trend in Zimbabwe during the festive season that on our highways there many roadblocks that are meant to ensure public safety. Recently, I travelled by road from Harare to Murambinda, Chivhu and Harare and, as expected, I found many roadblocks on my way, but to my surprise I noticed…
HARARE – Reports that top Zanu PF and army officials have been leading the looting of the State-sponsored $500 million Command Agriculture inputs are very worrying, given Zimbabwe’s history of another plundered agricultural fund — the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)-run Farm Mechanisation scheme. The revelations, carried in yesterday’s edition of the Daily News, were…
HARARE – Zimbabweans have high hopes on diminutive Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder Khama Billiat who had a stellar season last year both in the South African Absa premiership and African continent. Billiat stands at the cusp of making history by becoming the first Zimbabwean to win the African Player of the Year — based in Africa…
HARARE – Compliments of the New Year! As we all celebrate the beginning of a brand new year, there are things we wish must not be part of us forever. These are the things that would have stalked us in 2016. [GoogleAd] Sadly, for millions of long suffering ordinary Zimbabweans, as we report elsewhere in…
HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe this week made stunning revelations that close to 3 000 workers lost their source of revenue in the nine months to September this year. What this means is that the country’s already high and unsustainable unemployment rate — estimated above 90 percent — is expected to skyrocket further…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and his colleagues in Cabinet may look back at 2016 as the year that they realised Zimbabweans are indeed fed up with them. How on earth can they ignore the rising wave of discontent and subsequent citizen engagement which saw an ordinary cleric rallying thousands to stage a crippling strike…
HARARE – Ordinary and long-suffering Zimbabweans who have spent their money on clothes resembling military wear have every reason to feel unhappy at the decision taken by the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) to ban people from wearing military fatigues. The ZNA has warned that it would descend heavily on anyone caught wearing clothing resembling military…
HARARE – It is disconcerting that despite repeated efforts to curb road carnage, Zimbabwe’s roads continue to claim lives due to a number of reasons, chief among them drink-driving and speeding. While it is a travesty of justice that motorists pay road fees and other forms of tax yearly yet they drive on badly damaged…
HARARE – It is a travesty of justice that motorists pay road fees and other forms of tax yearly yet they drive on badly damaged roads which government and relevant departments don’t bother to fix. For years, motorists and indeed members of the public who use commuter transport have watched helplessly as government prioritised other…
EDITOR – I hereby write this letter to set the record straight on an article carried by your paper on 28 November headlined: Ex pursues lover, which I found to be defamatory and offensive as it was not what I gave your reporter during an interview. The article insinuated I was a gold digger and…
