NEWLY-APPOINTED Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairperson Michael Reza says the gloves are now off in the fight against graft. Reza, who was speaking after being sworn in by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, said he would work hard to ensure that thorough investigations of graft cases are done before suspects are handed in for prosecution. But the…
THE fight against cholera in the country is far from over and there should be no room for complacency by both authorities and citizens. This newspaper reported yesterday that 30 people died within four days from the medieval disease, 16 of them on Monday. 21 of the 30 people died in Mashonaland Central province. Since…
NOBEL laureate economist Angus Deaton recently gave his insight on his profession, which has attracted considerable scrutiny for failing to predict, and…
OUR economy is in a freefall and strangely authorities seem not in a hurry to come up with a raft of measures to arrest what may turn up to be an untenable situation. The lackadaisical attitude is staggeringly shocking! There is just lack of urgency when the Zimbabwe dollar continues to nosedive, triggering price increases…
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says it is engaging President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government with a view of having talks on how to resolve the country’s battery of challenges. So dire are the country’s political and economic crises that dialogue among stakeholders is now critical. The cost of living is going up daily much to…
FOURTEEN people perished at the weekend in road carnages. Our highways have become stages on which tragedies are played out day in and day out. We are just a week from Easter holidays and we are scared of the likely death toll on our roads. Holidays in the country tend to be the bloodiest. We…
A LOT of Zimbabweans paid the ultimate price to unyoke us from the chains of repression under colonialism. Thousands of sons and daughters of this country perished fighting a suppressive regime to bring independence and democracy. In the first decade of Uhuru, our country achieved major milestones in education and health. We have also had…
BY BLACK EDWARD A RED herring is a term used to describe a tactic that involves deflecting or distracting from relevant issues. Our politicians, like seasoned magicians, expertly wield red herrings, diverting attention from the real issues while leaving the audience — or, in this case, us, the citizens — spellbound and confused. In a…
AFTER a three-month wait, the Warriors coach was finally appointed with Norman Mapeza bouncing back onto the hot seat, albeit on an interim basis. He becomes the Warriors’ second interim coach in less than six months with Portuguese gaffer Baltemar Brito, whose contract expired at the end of last year, the other one. And just…
THE spike in sexual offences is a cause for alarm, which should prod the relevant authorities into action. According to Musasa Project, which provides relief to survivors of Gender-Based Violence (GBV), it recorded a staggering 6 000 cases of rape last year — a shocking 80 percent of which had involved family members of the…
