HARARE – Government’s recent imports ban, enforced through Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016 seems to have created more problems than it intended to solve. Apart from an unnecessary tiff with long-time allies and neighbours South Africa, the ban has removed a lifeline from small traders who used to make a living through acquiring goods for…
HARARE – The protests in Harare yesterday over the impending introduction of the much-hated bond notes is a clear sign of anger and frustration against the Zanu PF leadership and government for failing to listen to the electorate. While we understand that, through the introduction of bond notes in October, government hopes to end cash…
HARARE – Today, the Zanu PF politburo meets and we hope President Robert Mugabe and his colleagues discuss something meaningful to extricate Zimbabweans from the current turmoil. Apart from social unrest, Zimbabwe is being stalked by hunger with people in rural areas hardest-hit. Still, hunger is also very much pronounced in urban areas where people…
HARARE – It is saddening indeed that in this day and age authorities in Zimbabwe are reluctant to accept diversity and offer more radio and television licences. It is rather nauseating that modicum media reforms that the government of Zimbabwe agreed to implement have thus far been implemented half-heartedly with licences being dished out to…
HARARE – One Zimbabwe’s worst problems — which is also evidently weighing down several African countries’ developmental thrusts — is the cancer of corruption. Zimbabwe has had several high-profile cases of corruption thrown into the public space but little, if anything has been done to the culprits. Corruption is a cancer that has affected the…
KENT – Events in the ruling party, Zanu PF, have taken a dramatic turn following the arrest of leaders of the war veterans association, believed to be behind a communiqué which severely criticised the leadership of President Robert Mugabe and declared withdrawal of war veterans’ support from the nonagenarian leader. The association’s secretary for publicity,…
HARARE – The Loneliness of the Long Distance Driver was a great British film, many years ago. I have no memory of the title song or even the musical which accompanied it. What I know is that it made an impact on the film world. Songs of loneliness have also made their mark on the entertainment…
EDITOR — North Cyprus, located off-shore Turkey is an island divided into two, Northern Cyprus and Southern Cyprus. An island with mountains every direction you look, exotic and full of life. I came to Cyprus earlier this year as a Master’s student in Banking and Financing. I want to share and shed light on my…
HARARE – It is no longer really a subject for intelligent discussion in Zimbabwe to say that the centre is no longer holding in President Robert Mugabe’s warring Zanu PF — an inevitable endgame stage that the Daily News predicted three years ago. And as the tragicomedy continues to unfold, it is sad to note…
HARARE – A report on the country’s ports of entry presented in Parliament last week revealed that not only are our borders porous, but also that the country has lost revenue running into millions of dollars because of that sorry state as goods are smuggled without paying excise duty. We are aware that presently, Zimbabwe…
