HARARE – Thousands of students from the University of Zimbabwe graduated yesterday but a dark cloud hovered over the celebrations amid indications that many of the graduates are only fuelling the high unemployment rate in the country due to lack of job opportunities. As per tradition, President Robert Mugabe — as the Chancellor of all…
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa this week painted a gloomy picture pertaining to the sad reality of our nation when he announced that at least 70 percent of the country’s 13 million people are living in poverty. While these statistics are a no-brainer to the majority of suffering Zimbabweans, it is high time President…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe is at it again and as the watchdogs we are raising the red flag once more without fear or favour. Mugabe’s threat to pull out of the United Nations (UN) is shocking and bizarre to say the least, and we just hope he was playing to the gallery in his…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe on Saturday told hundreds of his injudicious cohorts at the Harare International Airport that Africa was mulling pulling out of the United Nations because the West was refusing to reform the inter-governmental organisation’s Security Council. While we fully understand the need to reform the UN Security Council, which currently consist…
HARARE – It is probably the result of our usual obsession with our own little difficulties that we’ve been unable to pay adequate attention to the drama unfolding north of the Limpopo. Zimbabwe is a free and independent State, but South Africa has often tended to treat it like a baby to be nannied. As…
HARARE – Waiting has never been pleasant business. In Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, the duo of Estragon and Vladimir wait endlessly and in vain for someone. When the play ends, nothing has happened. This is the circus Zimbabwe has fallen into — waiting for elections always full of promises and other positives that never…
EDITOR — The nation must be astounded at the announcement by Justice ministry permanent secretary Virginia Mabiza that anyone abusing the national flag would be imprisoned. What does abuse mean? It can be so open to interpretation that the police can now arrest anyone using the flag to show patriotism. As your paper points out,…
HARARE – We are in the middle of a crisis and the signs are there for everyone to see. Bank queues are back and — in most suburbs — water, something that is supposed to be basic, is now a luxury with people now drawing the precious liquid from unprotected sources and for the most…
HARARE – Recent reports that Harare Central Hospital — one of the country’s oldest and biggest public health institutions — has run out of some of the most basic drugs, ostensibly due to under-funding are at the least worrying. Media reports indicate that the Harare national referral centre had to suspend elective surgeries because of…
EDITOR —The government should seriously consider training our police on crowd control tactics. This follows the cruelty shown by heavily armed police officers on Saturday who are alleged to have resorted to extreme force to repress peaceful demonstrations that took place in most parts of the country. This shows that Zimbabwe is now a fully-fledged…
