HARARE – Recent developments within Zanu PF where party members jostling for power ahead of an elective congress in December are now claiming they are being victimised for supporting the First Lady Grace Mugabe’s candidature are nothing new. The manner in which warring factions are dragging Grace’s name in pursuing their selfish agendas shows a…
HARARE – On my way to watch the One Wallet quarter final tie between Dynamos and CAPS United at the National Sports Stadium, I stopped to buy a cob of roasted mealies (chibage chakagochwa). I was running out of time as the game was 20 minutes away from kick off. I gave the vendor a…
HARARE – In Zimbabwe there are many people who are running away from their lives because of yesterday’s deeds. Some of the deeds might have been a result of miscalculated investments that backfired or heavy debts incurred while funding non performing entities. At worst, the debts were incurred as a result of funding lavish lifestyles….
HARARE – Government must take seriously the advice from Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya that the country must address its $10 billion debt issue in an effort to revive the economy. In his maiden monetary policy statement released this week, Mangudya noted that the country’s outstanding debt has grown to be a…
EDITOR — The Election Resource Centre (ERC) expresses its disquiet at the recent signing of the Electoral Amendment Bill into law by President Robert Mugabe as notified in the Government Gazette of Friday August 22, 2014. The presidential assent to the electoral changes happened in the realm of profound inadequacies of the Bill in terms…
HARARE – Zimbabwe and China have signed an agreement on cooperation in nine key fields of the economy. The framework agreement, which will be in force for years, was signed in the presence of Chinese president Xi Jinping and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who is on a four-day official visit to Beijing. The agreement aims…
HARARE – We implore Stanbic Bank and the Zimbabwe Banks and Allied Workers Union (Zibawu) to immediately open negotiations to prevent a national strike initially announced yesterday. Government must engage in similar efforts to try to avert the walk-out that bank workers have planned. Zibawu said Stanbic Bank non-managerial workers have given notice to strike…
LONDON – President Robert Mugabe gave as one of the reasons for his continued stay in power the desire to leave his party united. It is the assumption then that he had long known that his party was fractured. But his continued stay seems to have only achieved the opposite; the divisions have only worsened….
EDITOR — Efforts by the Harare City Council to decongest Harare termini have been a complete flop so far. Council has successfully turned a bad situation into a worse situation This is because those who came up with the idea of kombi holding bays clearly do not rely on public transportation. If they did they…
HARARE – For every 100 000 live births, over 500 women die in Zimbabwe from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, while dozens more suffer from post-partum injuries. Whilst there has been a marginal fall from the over 900 maternal deaths recorded at the height of Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown in 2007, the cumulative lifetime risk…
