AFTER a year-long stadium crisis for local top flight football teams, the recent approval of match venues such as Rufaro in Harare, Sakubva in Mutare and Wadzanai in Shamva has eased the situation, allowing clubs to cut costs. For much of last year, as well as the first round of this season’s Castle Lager Premier…
ZIMBABWE will this month celebrate 44 years of independence with the country facing several headwinds, especially the worsening economic crisis. A promising nation at Uhuru in 1980, the country has in recent weeks seen the economy on a freefall, characterised by a weakening Zimbabwe dollar, increases in prices of basic commodities and scarcity of foreign…
IN RECENT weeks there have been increasing calls for an all-inclusive dialogue in the country to resolve political and economic crises that have been haunting the nation for decades. The church, opposition Citizens Coalition for Change, the ruling Zanu PF and civil society agreed that only dialogue would resolve the country’s challenges. Its high time…
RENOWNED banker John Mushayavanhu commenced his duties as Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor last Thursday amid huge market expectations given the economic situation in the country. His first task is to issue the long-awaited monetary policy statement which, among other things, must address economic fundamentals that include currency and prices volatilities. Mushayavanhu has to calm…
ON Monday this publication urged authorities to launch an Easter Holiday Road campaign to ensure that starting today we experience an accident-free vacation. Indeed, the campaign started on Wednesday, a bit too late given reports of road accidents that have so far been recorded since Monday. We now need to redouble the campaign. The Easter…
YESTERDAY we ran a story about six young people who were recently arrested for peddling drugs in Bulawayo’s Central Business District (CBD) as well as at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) premises. While we welcome the arrest of these drug peddlers, we are, however, worried that the anti-drug blitz appears to be netting small…
ON MONDAY, Harare magistrate Stanford Mambanje demonstrated how the country frowns upon human trafficking by sentencing Caroline Ziyanga to a total staggering 90 years in jail for selling into sex slavery nine women to Oman on the guise of securing them employment. Although she will serve an effective 30 years in jail after some of…
EASTER holiday starts this Friday and our highways and roads have continued to be stages on which tragedies are played out, day in and day out. Unfortunately, road carnages are sudden, violent, traumatic reality shows with long-lasting, often permanent impact, creating thousands of newly injured and bereaved people. Ironically, most of the crashes could and…
ZIMBABWE’S narrative has to change pronto for the benefit of the country and its citizens. The country cannot continue to trudge on a path of self destruction because of our toxic poli‑tics of hate and self-aggrandisement — politics that lean heavily on which party you belong to, race, tribe and region you come from. There…
AFTER their first attempt at organising friendly matches for the Warriors flopped last year, the Zifa Normalisation Committee (NC) finally got things right this time round. Lincoln Mutasa and his lieutenants have been criticised for a number of gaffes in their nine-month spell at the helm of the local football mother body, but this time…
