HARARE – Health communication experts have noted a worrying trend in HIV and Aids prevention especially with the advent and widespread use of anti-retroviral drugs. The fear of contracting the disease or fear of losing life has greatly diminished because the scary sights of near skeletal Aids sufferers have gone underground thanks to these life-prolonging…
HARARE – Measures being taken to bring sanity to scandal-ridden Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) spearheaded by Media, Information and Broadcasting Services minister Jonathan Moyo are laudable. We believe that all looters who thrust their dirty hands into the ZBC cash register must be brought to account without mercy. However, it is harsh that workers who…
HARARE – If you wake up in the middle of the night and look at yourself in the mirror, are you happy with who looks back at you? Or are you ashamed? Much has been said and written about the enormous salaries CEOs have been paying themselves and we have to wonder what they see…
EDITOR — Coalition Against Corruption (Cac) the leading anti corruption organisation in Zimbabwe strongly condemns the reinstating of Harare town clerk,Tendai Mahachi by minister Ignatius Chombo. The move by Chombo is naive and mischievous to say the least given that the town clerk was being investigated following the hefty salary scandal which showed the latter…
EDITOR — I wonder why there is silence from our respected President on the uncovering of a series of pay scandals at several parastatals. Not so long ago, I racall the president castigating and vowing to stamp out corruption in his government. He even went further to point out the case of Godwills Masimirembwa’s alleged…
HARARE – A land wrangle between a prospective house developer and Chief Zvimba poses serious administrative questions about the emotive issue of proper land ownership in Zimbabwe regarding the role of traditional chiefs. Squabbling between Old Mutual, Harare City Council on one hand and Chief Stanley Mhondora Zvimba on the other, clearly illustrates a mistaken…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s government has many times flattered only to deceive in matters involving corruption. Mugabe himself has hit the table many times, told delegates at Zanu PF conferences that he would not tolerate corrupt colleagues, but those warnings fell on deaf ears. It is not surprising that since the Willowgate scandal which…
HARARE – Whenever a State institution triggers public outrage, it is important for government to institute effective remedial action. Failure to do so will erode public confidence in the institution, let alone the government itself. Now, we are all aware of the public outrage occasioned by revelations of salaries at Psmas. Cuthbert Dube, the group…
EDITOR — “By his death he ended the whole system of the Jewish law which excluded the gentiles, his purpose was to make peace between Jews and gentiles by creating in himself one new person from the two groups” Ephesians 2:15 (TNLT). Many folks have a challenge accepting that God abolished the law. Recently, l…
EDITOR — The Chitungwiza Residents Trust (CHITREST) and the Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) out rightly condemn the actions by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on the 27th of January 2014 at Unit L Community Hall in Seke South, Chitungwiza when they disrupted a peaceful residents meeting and arrested five residents’ leaders. The arrest of…
