EDITOR — James 1:5-7 says: “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. “But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed…
HARARE – Revelations of an alarming number of people facing starvation by the Public Service and Social Welfare ministry officials are an indictment on the government that professes to be pro-poor. Apart from cyclic droughts, recurrent food deficits could, in part, be attributed to government’s skewed policies that place greater emphasis on proving how competent…
HARARE – Over the past weeks debates have been raging on whether or not it is desirable for the government to mend its relations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The drive to mend these relations has been seen as an about turn by the country after dumping the Bretton Woods institution some years back…
HARARE – Some questions are better not asked. Some questions are better asked for posterity. After a proclamation he explained: “There can be no happiness in a country while the absurd situation continues to exist where people, such as ourselves, who have ruled themselves with an impeccable record for over 40 years, are denied what…
EDITOR — While the Zanu PF government is busy bickering over succession issues and the recently-elected legislators are busy clamouring for top-of-the-range vehicles whose total value runs into millions, over 2,2 million Zimbabweans are facing starvation. And all that only a few months after these politicians have been elected into office on account of the…
HARARE – At least 20 percent of the country’s 350 000 hectares of forests have been lost to tobacco curing. There will be a deficit of timber in 20 years if we don’t do something. Tree planting is the most popular and visible effort undertaken by citizens, government, business and civil society. A national greening…
HARARE – Information minister Jonathan Moyo once again enjoined the media to promote the national interests. It is clear that the media-national interests question is still unsettled in the national discourse. From Moyo’s calls, the assumption is that there are media that disserve national interests. There is no accepted universal standard of the concept of…
EDITOR — I would like to ask why we, truck drivers, are being forced to go for the so-called driving retest after five years. What confuses me most is we drive through the most dangerous terrains for example Marongora and Kapiri Ngozi with heavy loads, then we are asked to go to the VID for…
EDITOR — In as much as we do not want vendors putting up anywhere in the city centre, I do not think chasing and arresting them is the solution for a number of reasons. Firstly, this hide and seek approach that the council is using has proven a failure over the years. They have done…
HARARE – Wananchi, the prospects of enduring the next six months under the current economic status quo breaks all spirits. The truth is that for some reason, sudden inertia, hopelessness, indifference and lack of energy have become the reigning order of the day. A permanent grey gloom pregnant with despair and abandonment. The massive shrinkage…
