Opinion & Analysis

THE government has to gradually open up the music sector with strict guidelines to avoid a situation where artists’ operations become underground enterprises as is currently happening. And because of the closure of most venues,…

EDITOR — Given the slow stabilisation of  inflation, it would be wise for the government to consider use of the rand so that we have complete stabilisation of our economy. It is an open secret that the currency crisis is wreaking havoc in…

OF late we have been running stories on the re-emergence of factional fighting in Zanu PF ahead of the re-introduced district coordinating committees (DCCs) elections.

EDITOR — The issue of incapacitation of government workers due to insufficient salaries has been in the limelight for a long time before and after the coronavirus lockdown.

EDITOR — This is possibly the start of a new rainy season and farmers who rely on government-supported Command Agriculture are in sixes and sevens as the government is mum on the way forward.

ALTHOUGH Africa has contributed the least to climate change, it is already experiencing devastating climate impacts and will bear the brunt of future global warming in terms of agricultural losses.

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has in recent weeks been talking more on the need for accelerated production than divisive politics that has resulted in social development stagnation in the country.

EDITOR —A general survey in our communities reveals that the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting economic downturn have impacted many people’s mental health.

THE reopening of learning institutions around the country, especially primary and secondary schools — though phased and allowing some bit of room to rethink on the part of authorities — has shown just how crucial adequate consultations are…

LAST week the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DLRD) announced that the public will be able to apply to lease 700 000 hectares of underutilised or vacant state land in seven of South Africa’s nine provinces.

EDITOR — When the government introduced public buses to transport commuters to and from work everyone was happy that it was moving in the right direction by providing for its citizens.

EDITOR — It is sad that the government has been harassing ordinary Zimbabweans who are trying to fend for their families honestly without engaging in criminal activities.

It is high time some retailers are put in the open for their injustice and lack of respect for consumer rights.

IN recent weeks we have observed the government relaxing measures that were put in place to contain the lethal coronavirus pandemic, a move informed by a huge decline in Covid-19 infections.

HAS the World Health Organisation (WHO) kissed and made up with traditional medicine men and women? Or has it merely realised tough love and tersely worded statements are no way to win hearts and minds?

IN 2009, the late former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai appointed then MDC national organising secretary Nelson Chamisa to head the Information Communication Technology ministry in which capacity he served until the end of the inclusive…

IT APPEARS Zanu PF officials have moved back into their default mode — burning the midnight oil, plotting and scheming on how to unseat the party’s current leadership in a replay of the costly factionalism that we have always seen since the…

EDITOR — THE July 31st Movement heartily welcomes the initiatives by the South African governing party, the African National Congress (ANC) and President Cyril Ramaphosa, to deploy envoys and delegations to help resolve the multi-faceted…

THERE has been a lot of posturing and public stunts, among many other signals from Zimbabwe’s political leaders on how to solve the political and economic crises affecting the country.

A DELEGATION from South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) will be in Harare tomorrow to meet the governing Zanu PF on an exploratory mission to find ways the regional economic powerhouse can assist in ending decades-long…

OF LATE there has been a wave of interpretations of the government’s stance on land reform, with most suggesting the President Emmerson Mnangagwa administration is reversing one of the key gains of the post-independence era.

WHILE trying to come up with a suitable headline for this opinion piece, a sub editor typed: Can Zim political parties change for the better?

PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba is dead right that Zimbabwe cannot farm out for solutions to its myriad of problems and that it will be expecting too much from South Africa to resolve our challenge

WHEN people talk about a National Transitional Authority (NTA) it sounds like a new idea altogether.

ZESA Holdings at the weekend announced the re-introduction of electricity load-shedding lasting a total of 10 hours daily as a result of breakdowns at Hwange and Kariba power stations.