ZIMBABWE’S health system is in dire straits, weighed down by the meagre budget being allocated to the Health ministry which is continually shrinking year in, year out. Not surprisingly, public hospitals currently have limited capacity to provide very basic services against the backdrop of a worsening turnover of critical staff like doctors and nurses, who…
ON Monday, Zimbabwe emotionally sent off six Tynwald High School pupils who perished in a horrific bus accident along the Rusape-Nyanga road last Friday. They were interred at Glen Forest Memorial Park in Harare. Though death is an immutable law of life, the demise of the learners was not only painful, but a jolt sad…
THE International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) says transitional justice “refers to how societies respond to the legacies of massive and serious human rights violations. It asks some of the most difficult questions in law, politics, and the social sciences and grapples with innumerable dilemmas. “While every context is unique, societies and individual stakeholders the…
AUTHORITIES are working on a raft of measures to stop any form of political violence as the country hurtles towards the much-anticipated harmonised elections next year. Cabinet recently agreed to amend the Electoral Act to, among other important measures, to curb violence by barring would-be candidates from not contesting in any election if found guilty…
THE suspension of Zimbabwe from international football this week spilled into Parliament where it triggered fierce debate which nearly divided the house. This comes after the report — The State of football administration in Zimbabwe — by the parliamentary portfolio committee on Youth, Sports, Arts and Recreation.There were members who were calling for the adoption…
CATTLE diseases — foot and mouth and tick-borne — which have been reported in some regions of the country should be urgently contained. The diseases are a threat to the country’s quest to grow its national herd. According to the national Veterinary Services director Josphat Nyika, Zimbabwe has since engaged Botswana to come up with…
FOR many years, the death penalty has been a divisive issue in the country but it would appear that the abolitionists are increasingly gaining more ground. In spite of the increasing support for the abolition of capital punishment, Zimbabwe is finding it difficult to completely banish it. Even during the drafting of the watershed 2013…
AS Zimbabwe hurtles towards the much-anticipated presidential, parliamentary and local government elections, the media has a crucial role to play. It has to play its watchdog role and report dispassionately on the countdown, polling and postelection periods without bias. The media has no dogs in this fight. Media polarisation the country experienced at the turn…
INTRIGUING developments are taking place in South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), as it hurtles towards its elective conference in December. There has been drama, smear campaigns, jostling, horse trading and all kinds of chicanery as party bigwigs position themselves for leadership in the ANC. Current President Cyril Ramaphosa has of late…
DYNAMOS FC’s decision to restrict media from covering their weekly training sessions has not only exposed the level of unprofessionalism at the team, but also explains why the current generation has failed to win any titles. This is despite the team enjoying huge financial backing from Sakunda Holdings. Buoyed by funds from Sakunda Holdings, who…
