HARARE – Zimbabweans must hail current efforts by police to rid the city of the notorious mushika shika. In our sister publication yesterday, we reported that police had impounded 200 pirate taxis in Harare. We all know how notorious these vehicles — most of which are not registered — have become in the city centre….
HARARE – George Charamba, the permanent secretary in the ministry of Information who doubles up as President Robert Mugabe’s spokesperson has recently gone berserk attacking the country’s private media, particularly the Daily News for writing what he calls negative stories against his godfather — Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. We do understand that at times the…
HARARE – The statement by Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo in which he reportedly said bonuses were not a right for government workers and that some civil servants did not deserve it because they are “drunkards and non-performers” is unfortunate and should not have been said by a Zanu PF minister and a politburo member….
HARARE – It is one thing for discredited lickspittle State media such as the Herald and the Chronicle to persistently attack the Daily News, as they crassly do on a daily basis. After all, what else can these willing propaganda mouthpieces write about in a failing state that won’t offend their masters at Shake-Shake House…
HARARE – Zimbabwe prides itself as an agro-based economy, yet lack of investment in the agriculture sector in the past few years exposes government’s double standards. If the Zanu PF-led government has been sincere in its quest for an agricultural revolution when it controversially grabbed farms from white commercial farmers under a chaotic land reform…
EDITOR — Many people have lost relatives and friends to HIV and Aids. Some children have lost both parents and it is their grandparents and other relatives who have to take care of them. Back in the 1990s, stigmatisation and discrimination was at its peak and most people did not care to know their status….
HARARE – Reports that the High Court has plans to decentralise is a development that is set to revolutionise the justice delivery system in Zimbabwe. Yesterday, we carried a story that government had approved the decentralisation of the High Court from Harare and Bulawayo by upgrading the present circuit centres in Gweru, Mutare, Masvingo, Hwange…
EDITOR — As schools open for the first term of 2016, I have noticed how some learning institutions are fleecing parents of their hard-earned cash by putting up atrocious demands. An example is that of a school in Hatfield that is demanding you pay $10 for their branded book covers among other things like a…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s cash-strapped government needs to do all in its powers to ensure that it pays civil servants on dates announced on Wednesday by acting Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Saviour Kasukuwere. Failure to pay workers as promised will only heighten the uncertainty and low morale that is currently plaguing the civil service….
HARARE – Zimbabwe is facing a very serious liquidity crunch which has led to massive company closures, job losses, pay cuts, inconsistent and uncertain pay dates, high unemployment rates and this “thing of the past bonus issue”. This situation is heart-rending with most, if not all employers and employees, facing it. Getting around the challenges…
