Opinion & Analysis

THIS past weekend, the Daily News On Sunday led its edition with a rather innocuous story on hopes for national dialogue to help resolve Zimbabwe’s decades-long political and economic crises.

LOST in my thoughts, on my way to the supermarket yesterday, I suddenly came across a visibly pregnant woman. Looking at her, I got the impression that she was due any time. I was bemused to hear myself saying: “Lord, let it not be after…

FOR a team that prides itself in excellence, FC Platinum’s humiliating exit from the African Champions League last week should jolt the club hierarchy into reviewing their internal systems.

ON WEDNESDAY, the Harare Magistrates’ Courts sentenced to jail popular Zimdancehall producers — DJs Fantan and Levels, alongside promoter Boss Dammer, for staging a New Year’s eve gig in Mbare attended by thousands of revellers against…

AS ZIMBABWE is now in the grip of a seemingly more devastating phase of the deadly coronavirus, it is important for the general public to be on its best behaviour.

IT DID not surprise many Zimbabweans that the authorities have imposed a stiffened coronavirus stay-at-home order which has re-introduced a duskto-dawn curfew, which comes into effect tomorrow.

 NORMALLY, the opening of schools in a new year triggers keen anticipation and is a memorable occasion. It means a new grade, a new form and another level for the learner. 

ZIMBABWEANS are yearning for a new life and wishing for better to come this year. Their dream and hope is that our politicians will come to the party and deliver the nation from the continued political conundrum that has halted the…

AS we enter 2021, it’s high time for the country’s political gladiators to bury their differences and identify the national interest and forge a common vision and values to end the country’s myriad of challenges.

HISTORY is repeating itself at the country’s embattled national airline – Air Zimbabwe – and the question is at what cost to the taxpayer and the national fiscus.

 HAVE you suffered the inconvenience of sub-standard services lately and there were no responsible officials to report the matter to? You are not alone. 

THE recent meet-and-greet-the-media press conference organised by the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) was quite commendable as it provided a platform for the two entities to understand each other’s operations.

THERE is every reason for every Zimbabwean to be concerned about the rapid spread of the deadly coronavirus in the country.

DESPITE the challenging economic environment, the government’s positive strides in the provision of significant resources to revive the public health sector in areas such as the reproductive, maternal, new-born and adolescent health and…

 IT HAD all the hallmarks of a soap opera: a high-profile horror crash, deaths of socialites, estranged parents of the late video vixen Michelle “Moana” Amuli… and not forgetting a High Court ruling. 

BLACK Lives Matter. I don’t know how many times we’ve read these three words just this year alone. And there’s no doubt that we will continue to hear them for a long time to come. Of course they need to be shouted much louder to sink in. 

THE cleansing of local authorities, whose top officials have for a very long time been accused of being self-centred at the expense of service delivery in their areas of jurisdiction, should continue in an effort to ensure the residents —…

AS the world continues to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, coronavirus cases are starting to spike again in Zimbabwe; and worryingly they are mostly local transmissions.

LAST month, two important things happened — one inside Zimbabwe and the other in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

THE United States congratulates the people of Zimbabwe on the remarkable progress made in the response to HIV/Aids and celebrate the news that our collective work has put Zimbabwe on the path to achieving epidemic control.

DEBATE has been raging across the country on why the government is not closing schools following increasing cases of coronavirus among learners.

THE seemingly growing cacophony in the ruling Zanu PF party is needless and a threat to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s thrust to turn around the fortunes of the country’s flagging economy.

 WE RECKON that even Donald Trump — the fibs-addicted, master of conspiracies and troubled outgoing leader of the United States of America — would marvel at the level of lying that has followed the issuance of six television licences by the…

IT HAS been tragic to watch over the past few days how some well known con artists, who fooled many in the MDC leadership, are now turning on the country’s main opposition party with a sickening relish.

GIVEN the space constraints that the country faces, especially the urban sections, the construction of highrise buildings  which consume less land could prove to be the panacea for the country’s ballooning housing demand.