IN the past few weeks, Zimbabweans have had to once again go through a repeat of an agonising and painful experience with the country’s financial sector — failing to access their hard- earned money from the banks. It is extremely sad and disheartening. The crisis, which brings back distressing and spooky memories, has caused untold…
HARARE – According to an expert on the history of cholera, Barua D, in the last 190 years, the world has experienced seven cholera pandemics claiming hundreds of thousands of lives globally. And they say the disease still remains a major global challenge to countries where access to safe drinking-water and adequate sanitation could not…
EDITOR — Local Government minister and Zanu PF political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere’s reasons for the suspension of Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni emanate from the recent appointment of James Mushore by the City of Harare councillors as town clerk. The basis for his suspension is in terms of section 114 (1) (d) (ii) of the Urban…
HARARE – The police’s decision to launch a website is commendable and they must use this crucial platform to improve efficiency in the service in terms of the dissemination of information. This website was long overdue, considering that technology is the in-thing in today’s world. It is our hope that this platform will be regularly…
BULAWAYO – The Old Bricks township in Mbare is probably the oldest township for Africans in the three territories that formed the federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1953. My mother and my stepfather parents moved there in 1938, from Marandellas, where I was born in 1937. We lived there until we moved to Majubeki…
HARARE – On Monday, Zimbabwe celebrated 36 years of independence with prospects for the country looking gloomy. The euphoria that accompanied the attainment of independence was fairly predictable for a country that had gone through over a decade of fighting. However, 36 years down the line, particularly in the last two years, hundreds of companies…
HARARE – If an alien from outer space were to suddenly land on Planet Earth and, per chance, plug into Zimbabwe’s political discourse, the poor extraterrestrial would definitely believe that Morgan Tsvangirai is the architect of Zimbabwe’s decades-old political and economic problems. Indeed, such is the venom and gusto with which some commentators consistently savage…
HARARE – The speech presented by President Robert Mugabe on the occasion of Zimbabwe’s 36th Independence Day celebrations where he glowed about the country’s “growing economy” shows that the veteran leader is — as has always been the case — out of touch with reality. The Zanu PF leader on Monday went to town about…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has once again made a pie-in-the-sky promise to hike government workers’ salaries even though it is apparent that government cannot afford further increases to its wage bill. It is trite to note that the government wage bill has been ballooning from $381 million in 2009 to over $2,2 billion this…
HARARE – Due to widely-held beliefs based on a flawed analysis of history and misinterpretation of past political events, the majority of Zimbabweans and indeed the world at large believe that the territory between the Limpopo and the Zambezi, formerly known as Rhodesia and now called Zimbabwe, has enjoyed independence (which according to the Cambridge…
