EDITOR — Government should act on the issue of hospitals running out of drugs as a matter of urgency. I read with sadness your article entitled “Hospitals run out of drugs” and believe that if the government is concerned about its people, it should solve this problem without delay. It was disheartening to know that…
HARARE – Last week, I suggested that men should marry at 40 because at that age they are mature enough to handle the responsibilities which come with marriage. The logic behind this proposal was based on the fact that some but not necessarily all men who marry in their 20s or 30s want to get…
HARARE – Yesterday, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa)-Zimbabwe Chapter ushered into office a new board which comprises elected members. The board comes into office as the vice-like grip on the media is being prised open. But this is no time to relax. Despite constitutional provisions for freedom of the media, officials continue to…
HARARE – It’s inconceivable that there are people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who celebrate the life of Moise Tshombe, whose name is synonymous with “sellout”. Yet there are Germans who today still celebrate the life of Adolf Hitler, whose Nazi campaign caused millions of deaths in World War II. Tshombe was characterised…
HARARE – If there is one rallying purpose protagonists of the agrarian reform trot out more than any other, it is to prove that the indigenous people are as competent and adept in agricultural production as the erstwhile owners of farmland they dispossessed. Cabinet ministers have often retailed the notion that the land reform programme…
HARARE – Nothing illustrates more starkly the Zanu PF government’s ruinous policy confusion, and how bereft it is of workable economic ideas, than this week’s contradictory, Alice-in-Wonderland statements by President Robert Mugabe and Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa. In comments that left most Zimbabweans in shock, Mugabe said on Sunday the economy was on a recovery…
HARARE – Hardly a week goes by without incidents of farm seizures making headlines. Sadly, most of the headlines are not about white Zimbabweans having their farms seized, but of black Zimbabweans being both the perpetrators and the victims. The latest twist in Zimbabwe’s 14-year-old land occupation saga is nauseating. It must be cause for…
HARARE – Last week, both President Robert Mugabe and his deputy Joice Mujuru addressed the issue of Diasporans, the former, chiding them for leaving their own country, and the latter imploring them to return and help “rebuild” Zimbabwe. Mugabe sounded aggrieved that the Zimbabwean migrants had been accepted in their present domiciles as running away…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s statement that the economy is recovering is quite jarring. This is so because there is nothing on the ground which suggests the recovery which the Zanu PF leader referred to on Sunday. Instead, the economy is in a tailspin caused by a cocktail of problems including lack of trust in…
HARARE – Founder and leader of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries — Walter Magaya — has the spiritual world eating from his palm. The young “prophet” has underlined his importance to the spiritually malnourished thousands of Zimbabweans who have found his makeshift church in Waterfalls, a sanctuary. To them, the PHD leader is like…
