IT IS estimated that there are over 1,1 million landmines planted along the borders of Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Zambia by the then settler regime of Ian Smith during the country’s liberation war of the 1970s. They were planted to deter freedom fighters from crossing into Mozambique or back into Zimbabwe as the war of liberation…
AHEAD of the International Day of the Girl Child, which is observed on October 11 every year, people from diverse backgrounds are unanimously calling for an end to child marriages. This year’s International Day of the Girl Child theme —‘‘Our Time is now, our rights, our future’’ — was set by the United Nations to…
YESTERDAY we carried a report about the recent arrest of five alleged robbers in Bulawayo over 11 heists that took place from last year until last month. The five suspects were nabbed after a tip off at their hideout in Pumula in a development that many believe marks an upturn in the police’s fight against…
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change last week launched its electoral reforms campaign with party leader Nelson Chamisa saying he will push to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa for talks on the need for the reforms before the much-anticipated general elections next year. At the weekend, a senior member of the party, Welshman Ncube, also called for…
DISCLOSURE by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) that it has no resources for voter registration is not only worrying, but a cause for serious concern as the country hurtles towards the much-anticipated harmonised elections next year. The government, via Treasury, must do something pronto to ensure resources are easily available to Zec to ensure more…
KUDAKWASHE “Take Money” Chiwandire was billed to defend her World Boxing Council (WBC) Interim Super bantamweight title against Mexican Zelina Munoz at the Harare International Conference Centre this evening. However, the fight was cancelled after her promoters, Delta Force Boxing Academy, failed to raise enough money to put the required logistics in place. It’s the…
WEDNESDAY marked the official closure of the European (EU) funding to the Zimbabwe Agriculture Growth Programme (ZAGP). Funded to the tune of 40 million Euros, the programme directly empowered 11 000 people across the country’s agricultural value chains. The main objective of ZAGP was to contribute to the development of a diversified and efficient agricultural…
POLITICAL parties must bury the hatchet and sign a peace pact ahead of next year’s much-anticipated harmonised polls. Their call comes amid rising political tensions in the country as gladiators jostle and hustle to win next year’s elections by hook or crook. The politi- cal parties, main and wannabes, agree on the need for a…
YOUTH from across the political divide and other interest groups at the weekend met in Bulawayo and, among other things, agreed on an all-inclusive dialogue to ensure that next year’s much-anticipated polls will be violence-free. They spoke in one voice that they should not be used as cannon fodder by the leaders of political parties.It…
THE findings of a recent survey by the Afrobarometer are not only startling, but worrying that most of the country’s youth were likely not going to cast ballots in next year’s much anticipated harmonised elections. According to the survey by Afrobarometer, a pan-African research institute, 54 percent of Zimbabweans aged between 18-35 years were likely…
