Editorial Comment

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.

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.

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.

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…

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).

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.

IN YESTERDAY’S edition, we published a story saying 3,7 million people are exposed to communicable diseases such as typhoid and diarrhoea due to critical water shortages across the country.

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has to work hard to ensure that the country’s economy is back on its feet despite the economic sanctions imposed by Western powers, including the United States.

ZIMBABWE, like the rest of the Christian world, is a few weeks away from the Christmas festive season.

THE government must swallow its pride and admit that there is a huge crisis in schools as teachers continue with their industrial action.

THE rains will soon be upon us and it is worrying that social services in the capital city, Harare, have been neglected.

OVER the past two decades, Zimbabwe’s urban areas — especially the capital Harare and interestingly, the bedroom town of Chitungwiza among others — have seen the proliferation of unplanned housing development.

REPORTS that the MDC led by Thokozani Khupe has started low-level talks with Zanu PF to negotiate the formation of a government of national unity (GNU) must be welcomed by all well-meaning Zimbabweans yearning for social development in the…

WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa in October last year launched a roadmap to achieve a US$12 billion mining industry by 2023 most people and economic analysts dismissed it as a highly ambitious statement of intent.

ZESA Holdings yesterday increased electricity tariffs by 50 percent, arguing the prevailing rate was too low — a move likely to trigger an adjustment in prices of goods and services.

THE rushed re-opening of schools when there are so many issues that need ironing out exposes us as a people who do not care about the future of our children.

THE ongoing industrial action by teachers in public schools has paralysed the education sector and the government should stop all pretences that all is well.