HARARE – We are impressed that the country’s leadership is now taking the fight against child sexual abuses seriously, and urge government and police to come down hard on the evil perpetrators of these monstrous crimes. Vice President Joice Mujuru and minister of Gender Oppah Muchinguri have spoken passionately against child sexual offenders, who go…
HARARE – Vice president Joice Mujuru should be commended for launching the National Action Plan against Rape which is indeed a step in the right direction. Rape in itself is not only a crime of violence but has far reaching consequences on survivors and this initiative will go a long way in nipping in the…
HARARE – In the early years of Africa’s independence from colonialism, most governments bought out all the newspapers and turned them into either party rags or government mouthpieces. In some quarters, this was justified on the basis that the people ought to be united in their task to make independence meaningful and relevant to all…
HARARE – The $300 000 that the Zimbabwe Music Rights Association (Zimura) is distributing to its members is encouraging. This a welcome respite to the country’s musicians that have been turned into paupers due to rampant intellectual piracy that has been allowed to run riot on the streets of Zimbabwe’s cities. Admittedly, the size of…
HARARE – There must be a limit to everything, or a stage where someone must draw the line, even when there is a lot at stake. Because, some extents of hitting into the dark eventually erode everything, including the remaining little things one could salvage. So Tendai Biti and his colleagues retired to bed last…
HARARE – Former Harare mayor Elias Mudzuri, is one of the candidates set to challenge MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai at their extra-ordinary congress expected this year and we applaud him for taking the democratic initiative to openly challenge his boss. True democrats remain civil even in the heat of political rivalry and the fact that…
HARARE – We, people of mixed race, want to know and want to know now. If you, black, indigenous people decide that we have no future here, lets us know plain and simple. “Don’t lead us down the garden path pretending you want nationhood for all Zimbabweans and then pick us off one by one…
HARARE – It has taken the clarity of the Soweto uprising for youths to grasp that the onus to remind government it owes them opportunities to improve their circumstances through provision of jobs lies with them. The Soweto uprising sparked by attempting to foist Afrikaans as the main medium of instruction in schools proved a…
EDITOR — After silencing renegades who label themselves as the Renewal Team, it is clear that Morgan Tsvangirai has won this battle and will in due course assume presidency. It has never been questionable that Morgan Tsvangirai enjoys popular support in Zimbabwe. The Renewal Team had portrayed Tsvangirai as someone who was illegitimately remaining at…
HARARE – We join the nation and the journalism world at large in congratulating Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court for unanimously ruling that the draconian criminal defamation law infringes on people’s freedom of speech and therefore is not a justifiable law in a democracy. In a case brought by two independent media journalists, the full bench of…
