CABINET on Tuesday received an update on one of the key projects towards the country’s goal to achieve a US$23 billion mining industry by 2023, the Tsingshan Consolidated Mining and Value Addition project. Since signing a memorandum of understanding with the government, Tsingshan has completed two high carbon ferrochrome furnaces in Selous, in April 2021;…
THE government must move with speed to ensure Zimbabwe also eats the piece of the cake in the global cannabis economy which is expected to reach US$28 billion by 2027. Since time immemorial, hemp has been an integral part of the social fabric of Zimbabwean culture. But in all that time, marijuana has largely been…
THE ruling Zanu PF at the weekend embarked on a nation-wide restructuring exercise meant to reinvigorate its organs ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections. The party has an ambitious target of having five million members before the polls as it aims to secure a landslide victory. Over the years we have witnessed that each time…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday assented to the Constitutional Amendment Bill No 2, giving it immediate legal effect. The omnibus Bill, with 27 amendments, sailed through both the National Assembly and Senate with very little debate except on contentious issues to do with the scrapping of the presidential running mate, chief justice retirement age and…
THE opposition in Zimbabwe will only have itself to blame if it loses the fast approaching 2023 elections as their senseless battles, failure to push for electoral reforms and lack of seriousness, will lead to heavy shellacking by Zanu PF. It is not a secret anymore that the opposition in Zimbabwe only becomes visible during…
LAST Saturday, India surpassed 400 000 Covid-19 cases in a single day — marking a new global record while at the same time sending a strong signal to the rest of the world that the lethal virulent respiratory disease is here for some time. The second wave of coronavirus in India —which has a mammoth…
THE late former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, in 1994 instructively described a critical, independent and investigative media as the “lifeblood of any democracy”. He went further: “It must have sufficient independence from vested interests to be bold and inquiring without fear or favour. It must enjoy the protection of the Constitution so that…
WHILE it is common cause that Zimbabwe is still battling to emerge from the ruinous rule of the late former president Robert Mugabe, there is absolutely no excuse for the second republic to fail, of all the things, to produce national identity cards for its citizens. The revelation by Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe before…
THE Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) is expected to roar into life in July after a one-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic national lockdown to contain and curb the spread of the lethal virus. Its return, according to the ZITF chairperson Busisa Moyo, is expected to play a pivotal role in engaging and forging…
THE political silly season is upon us ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections. The country’s main political players, the ruling Zanu PF, the MDC and the MDC Alliance, have begun forays into the rural areas either to recruit new members, set up structures or canvass for votes ahead of the polls. Zimbabwe has had a…
