WITH an upsurge in armed robberies targeting banks in the country, it’s high time they beef up security and seriously consider hiring State security to secure the financial institutions. Zimbabwe has witnessed unprecedented cases of armed robberies in the past two years, thanks to economic challenges and outright greed by hoodlums. Millions of hard currency…
SINCE Zimbabwe ratified the Convention on the rights of children in September 1990, it has enacted laws and implemented policies that have enabled the country to register notable improvements as far as child protection is concerned. Despite the aforementioned progress, child rights violations in the country are still at unacceptable levels. Deepening poverty in the…
FOR two consecutive days we have been compelled to comment on police operations to curb armed robberies and flush out unregistered vehicles, pirate taxis and illegal vendors, especially in the capital. Armed robbers have become a menace in the country and are threatening to turn the nation into a jungle. They need to be stopped…
ARMED robbers have become a menace in this country. Barely a day passes before they pounce with devastating consequences. Innocent citizens and businesses have lost huge sums of hard currency to the malcontents and it appears our police are slow in reacting to the scourge. In less than a month, the country has witnessed a…
CIVIL servants have for the second time this year threatened to embark on industrial action to force the government to review their salaries upwards and improve their conditions of service. The public workers, under the umbrella of the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU), met in the capital last Friday and agreed to…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration must press on with its engagement and re-engagement foreign policy, with a view to increasing investment inflows into the country. This is despite renewal of sanctions against the country by the United States of America, the United Kingdom and its western allies, which have crippled the economy since the turn of…
ON Thursday, the United States of America extended sanctions on Zimbabwe, adding deputy police commissioner-general Stephen Mutamba on its embargo list. They want further to remove 11 individuals from the list, some of them dead. The US sanctions have been contentious, the American government insists that they are targeted, while the Zimbabwe government, the Sadc…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was part of the dignitaries who attended the inauguration of William Ruto as the fifth president of Kenya in Nairobi on Tuesday following his controversial election in August. Ruto narrowly edged his bitter rival Raila Odinga who did not attend the swearing-in ceremony, firstly on the basis that he was out of…
By Professor Norman Nyazema ON SEPTEMBER 1, it was reported that a Marondera man was jailed for five years for unlawful possession of about 597kg of cannabis which is commonly known in Southern Africa as dagga, a misnomer. The amount found in his possession surely means there is a serious market somewhere. In fact, it…
“CONSISTENT with the collective aspirations and determination of the people of Zimbabwe to achieve an Empowered and Prosperous Upper Middle-Income Society by 2030, the Second Republic launched Vision 2030 to chart a new transformative and inclusive development agenda. “It is the pursuit of this vision which will deliver broad based transformation, new wealth creation and…
