EDITOR — The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) is worried that the Zimbabwean Government is using the so-called squabbles in the Apex Council — a body that represents civil servants in salary negotiations — as an excuse not to adjust salaries for civil servants, thereby relegating them further into poverty. The ZCTU does not…
EDITOR — I would like to express my alarm at how our police has turned into a thuggish, brutal and violent force. Innocent lives continue to be lost on our streets because police officers cannot simply sit down and formulate a simple way to curb lawlessness on the roads. Just recently, an innocent, family man…
EDITOR — Gender based violence(GBV) is a mole which is slowly eating away society. Everyday women are being subjected to physical, emotional, physiological and verbal abuse with the children becoming victims of circumstances. However, I am really taken aback by how some abused women handle their predicament. Instead of pressing charges against the man they…
HARARE – The election of a new seven-member board to take charge of the affairs of the Zimbabwe Music Rights Association (Zimura) presents yet another opportunity for Zimbabwean musicians to consolidate efforts to accrue more out of their artistic compositions. With piracy exploding out of control on the streets, government is seemingly lacking the political…
HARARE – A successful life or career is measured by the amount of enemies or the controversies that one is associated with. In fact it remains a paradox that the few successful among us are men and women who court societal controversy the most, but they are not deviants. The man they call Gideon Gono…
EDITOR ? The local Women’s University in Africa has advised lecturers not to mark examination scripts for students who have not paid up their end-of-year semester fees. Lecturers tried and negotiated for the marking and then withholding students’ results but this was declined. We do not know what the responsible ministry says about students failing…
EDITOR ? Coalition Against Corruption (Cac) the leading anti corruption organisation in Zimbabwe applauds calls by the government to repossess assets from legislators suspected of abusing Constituency Development Funds (CDFs). Such a move is long overdue and welcomed by Cac since this sends a strong message to would- be abusers in the new august House….
EDITOR — This is an open letter to the minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development, Olivia Muchena on the anguish parents of students on the cadetship programme undergo at Midlands State University (MSU) especially as we go to the 2013 graduation to be held on Friday. In the MSU advertisement notifying…
EDITOR – Chitungwiza Residents Trust (Chitrest) reiterates its position on the proposed demolitions of houses by government. While we welcome the J.B. Matiza-chaired investigation team for Chitungwiza and Seke Rural District Council, we hope the team will allow adequate consultation of residents and other stakeholders as well as debate around the issue before coming up…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s oral history as narrated by Chief Chiduku is full of rich inheritance in terms of wisdom, indigenous knowledge and real wealth for the people of Zimbabwe. Mambo Chiduku is the direct descendant of Munhumutapa, the founder of the present day Zimbabwe. It is Munhumutapa who gave birth to the expansion of the…
