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…
EDITOR – I would like to add my voice to the parents’ ballooning disgruntlement over the new administration at St Johns Chikwaka High School. It appears they came in with the wrong perception that the current pupils have parents connected to their rival faction led by Bishop Kunonga. Some of what they do is bent…
EDITOR ?I am worried and cannot believe what the government has said to churches that they should pay taxes. Personally, I do not think that a church is a business but it is a place of worship and of doing charity works. In the new Constitution there is no section which states that churches should…
HARARE – Talking to a senior diplomat the other day I was asked if the Tsvangirai-led MDC still supported the travel restrictions on Zanu PF leaders and the remaining sanctions on the financial sector and certain companies. My response was that in the GPA we agreed to seek their removal and had advocated this throughout….
HARARE – A colleague in the media recently forwarded an electronic copy of our government’s five-year economic blueprint plan, Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (Zim Asset), Toward an Empowered Society and a Growing Economy. It has not yet been launched with as much fanfare as is usually the custom of Zanu PF. The President…
HARARE – Lovemore Fuyane, in his article titled, Indigenisation? Absolutely, but, states that he supports indigenisation but opposes an approach that does not create its own businesses but takes over the existing ones. He says such an approach is a political tool that has a destabilising effect on the market, and will unlikely resolve the…
HARARE – Since President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF won the elections in July, it seems the economy has gone from bad to worse and there appears to be no solution in sight to end the crisis. Unemployment levels are rising, there are no new job opportunities and the cash crunch is hitting peoples’ pockets…
EDITOR — I understand the economy is in a bad state but milking money from the people is not laudable. Zimbabwe’s cities are not that big, such a system might work in America but it is likely to cause unrest in this country. The price of kombis is already too high for the average person….
EDITOR — I need to register my shock and disapproval at government’s alleged ploy to tax churches. Need I remind you that they are not businesses but places of worship? The mere thought of government officials targeting churches is vexatious and disturbing because it translates to religious persecution. I know that people who have never…
HARARE – That our government is broke is a fact of life but the desperate and embarrassing levels this administration has reached in trying to tax churches is shocking as it shows a regime with no ideas to take the nation out of the current economic quagmire. Government now wants to tax churches. This is…
