EDITOR — The front page of your issue yesterday had a very sad article about starving villagers. Surely, in a country with so many resources how can we have fellow citizens starving and nobody seems to care? Yet we have recently elected MPs clamouring for top-of-the-range vehicles at the expense of the lives of an…
HARARE – Last week’s photograph in the media of an earth moving machine at excavations close to the Norton graveyard indicates the extent of our moral bankruptcy. According to the press report, Norton Council had given a Zanu PF activist known as Comrade Yondo, permission to mine for gold next to the Norton cemetery. Can…
EDITOR — Coalition Against Corruption (Cac) the leading anti-corruption organisation in the country is greatly dismayed by reports that the MDC has dithered in paying former staff who were employed in the former Prime Minister’s office their outstanding salaries as well as retrenchment packages. The party spokesperson was recently quoted in a local daily saying…
EDITOR — I refer to your informative report in which you have exposed the evil works of the devil at Irisvale Resettlement area and the subsequent letter from a responding writer Freedom Shumba on October 28, 2013. I honestly believe that the following prescription, the word of God and prayer, is the perfect solution and…
HARARE – Food-short peasants have all the reason to smile following a declaration of intent to punish those that abuse a well-intentioned government input assistance programme by deputy minister of Agriculture, David Marapira. For rather too long, little or no action has been taken to penalise either party apparatchiks, village leaders, chiefs or government bureaucrats…
HARARE – If people had a choice between living a long life and living life to the full, many would prefer a life lived to the full. Global targets and efforts to eradicate poverty and misery continue to be missed century after century. This has raised scepticism among the poor whose only inheritance is the…
HARARE – The ease with which President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party won the July 31 elections was like a dawn where all seems calm, but the storm clouds sit on the horizon. Those elections were won because of two key reasons. The first was because Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) performed appallingly….
HARARE – Last week, Tafadzwa Ngodzo, a student at Midlands State University, was convicted of indecent assault on fellow male classmate Shepherd Mwapona. Ngodzo was obsessed with Mwapona he raided his room one night and touched his privates. He would write love letters to Mwapona, one of them which read: “Dear my charming Shepherd Jojo……
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF is looking to create another new civic rite of passage for all young Zimbabweans. Proponents for this national youth service argue that given the new challenges and divisions within and outside our own borders, Zimbabwe must rebuild a sense of common purpose through national service. That’s all fine…
EDITOR — I am in support of the idea of having free primary education in Zimbabwe. According to the United Nations, education is a basic necessity and a right. A country that commits to giving its citizens free education is very considerate and forward-minded. Children are our future leaders and must be equipped to give…
