HARARE – As the country prepares for the presentation of the 2016 National Budget, it is hard to imagine any period in the history of this country when the economy has been in such a structural comatose and disequilibrium. [GoogleAd] Never too has economic failure and fatalism been hid and shrouded in the nausea of…
HARARE – The City Fathers and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) should do motorists a favour by removing street children begging from busy roads. The street children, most of them barely five years old, are so daring that they beg amidst moving cars, lorries and buses, which pose a real danger to their lives. [GoogleAd]…
HARARE – The closure of clinics run by the Premier Services Medical Investment (PSMI) — on the back of the failure by government to remit millions of dollars to the Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas), is a serious injustice to civil servants who form the bulk of the society’s membership. This is a travesty…
HARARE – Human Rights Watch senior researcher for southern Africa and former Zimbabwe civic society leader — Dewa Mavhinga — says President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF’s failure to ensure leadership renewal at the top could come back to haunt the party in the 2018 elections, although he does believe that Mugabe still holds (all)…
BULAWAYO – Age is often admired for its erudition. Its familiarity with history cannot be disputed, except for those too young to associate age with experience. They often blame the aged on a lack of appreciation with the modern world. New ideas often strike them as weird and dangerous. It takes time for the young…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Music Awards (Zima), expected to bounce back early next year, has released a list of nominees that appears to be a fair reflection of what has been taking place on the local music scene over the past year. This is clearly a huge improvement on the last edition that generated a…
HARARE – Friday the 13th is considered to be a very unlucky day. This superstition, which has been cemented by popular fiction in the form of novels and movies, can be traced back to the year 1307 when an order of knights known as the Knights Templar were arrested, tortured and murdered in Europe. Here…
HARARE – Latest inflation figures released by the Zimbabwe statistical agency this week have all but confirmed our worst fears that President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF administration is losing the battle to control deflation. According to Zimstat, the country’s annual inflation rate for the month of October declined to -3,29 percent from a negative 3,11…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s absence from the World Cup qualifying games determining who goes to participate in the Russia 2018 finals is a serious indictment on the country’s football governors — Zifa. Since attaining independence in 1980, the Warriors had never failed to play in the World Cup qualifiers and despite failing to earn a ticket…
HARARE – The resurgence of inter and intra-party violence in Zimbabwe amid a deteriorating political situation, is a real cause for concern. First, it was MDC supporters who were bludgeoned by Zanu PF supporters for exercising their constitutional rights of free expression and peaceful assembly. And just on Saturday, Zanu PF supporters turned on each…
