HARARE – Opposition legislators are finally challenging discriminatory social norms buttressing child marriages by opening debate in the National Assembly today to end the cycle of lifelong disadvantage for girls. Opposition MDC chief whip Innocent Gonese and Bulawayo Central MP Dorcas Sibanda said they are “desirous that child marriages must be ended as a matter…
HARARE – We are growing sick and tired of Zanu PF’s unending factional fights and we hope President Robert Mugabe, who has repeatedly denied the existence of factions, has finally seen the light and will for once act now and end the scourge. Some may wonder how Zanu PF internal bloodletting affects us as a…
HARARE – Fresh from misleading the United Nations (UN) General Assembly that Zimbabwe was peacefully resolving internal disputes, the government faced another important test in the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UNHRC UPR) last week where it literally whitewashed its bloated and deplorable human rights record. Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa led a…
HARARE – The sorry state of Binga District Hospital, which has closed all the wings and will only attend to maternal and emergency cases because of electricity and water shortages, is a huge indictment on the powers-that-be. It really boggles the mind that 36 years after independence, Zimbabwe is calamitously descending into a huge abyss…
EDITOR — Now that the Norton by-election has come and gone we need to take stock. Firstly congratulations to Temba Mliswa and those Norton citizens who were brave enough to stand up to Zanu PF. There is no need to congratulate anyone for having woken up to how useless any Zanu PF candidate would be….
HARARE – New Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) convener of selectors Tatenda Taibu is a man on a mission to restore the glory days to the local game ever since he was appointed in June this year. The former Zimbabwe Test captain has tirelessly worked hard to lure back former players and other technical people, who had…
HARARE – Among the plethora of issues that qualify Zimbabwe to be a full-bloodied failed, banana republic are the grand corruption by Zanu PF bigwigs, the country’s dying economy that has wreaked so much havoc among the poor, and the escalating thuggery by the State against citizens. Just in case there are some among us…
HARARE – In one of our recent issues, we pointed out that a grand coalition of all opposition political parties is the way to go, but it seems we jumped the gun as egos of politicians yet again stand in the way of such a noble idea. Past experiences have taught us that a united…
HARARE – Former Vice President and now interim leader of the Zimbabwe People First (ZPF), Joice Mujuru, has been under scrutiny lately. On the other hand, the grand coalition topic has resurfaced in the media and this time, it is around who will lead the coalition. Mujuru and MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai are reportedly the…
EDITOR — On October 28, 2016, Zimbabwe utilised part of its Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) to settle the $108 million it owed to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust Fund (PRGT), which funds were held and kept at the IMF. The timing of this payment and the payment itself is clearly…
