GROWING abuse of social media platforms to spread falsehoods and to character assassinate individuals is nauseating. Recently, Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe said social media abuse had become a threat to national security and called for urgent enactment of the Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Bill to deal with the scourge. “In the Zimbabwean context,…
SINCE coronavirus hit our shores in March last year, cases of domestic violence have been on an alarming increase in the country. Several women and young girls have been sexually molested. Recently, Women Affairs minister Sithembiso Nyoni painted a gruesome picture in Parliament. She told the stunned august House that more than 2 000 minors…
ALL eyes are on the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Organ on Politics, Defence and Security meeting in Maputo, Mozambique, today to explore ways to end an Islamic insurgency in the northern part of the country. The immediate past chairperson of the organ, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, incumbent chairperson, Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi, incoming chairperson, South…
ZIMBABWE is expecting record maize production of around 2,8 million metric tonnes (mt) and 360 000mt of traditional grains this year. Of late, authorities have been seized with sprucing up grain storage facilities in the country to ensure that not a single grain goes to waste. The storage facilities have been refurbished as reported by…
THE Easter holidays started yesterday with reports of huge volumes of vehicles on the highways as most people took advantage of the government’s relaxation of Covid-19 national lockdown measures to allow inter-city travelling to curb the spread of the deadly pandemic. Several accidents were reported across the country though the police could not give the…
AS the Easter holidays draw closer, the country should expects an increase in both human and vehicular traffic. The increase in movement, coupled with the traditional church festivities, pose a perilous risk for further transmission of Covid-19 in the country. Health authorities’ decision to strengthen surveillance, case management, and risk communication and community engagement in…
ON TUESDAY, the country’s former ambassador to the United States (US) Fredrick Shava was sworn as Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister to replace the late Sibusiso Busi Moyo who died in January from Covid-19. Barely a day after being sworn-in by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and pledging to continue to pursue the government’s engagement…
ZIMBABWE, like the rest of the world, must prepare for a post Covid-19 lockdown “new normal”. This comes on the back of the government’s announcement last week that re-opening of schools is inevitable. What this entails is that there is need for all and sundry to prepare for the post-lockdown life. In a matter…
A STAGGERING 3 454 people were arrested on February 16 — the day President Emmerson Mnangagwa extended the national Covid-19 lockdown — a clear demonstration of indiscipline in the face of the killer pandemic. On Monday, Mnangagwa extended the current lockdown by two more weeks at a time the government has started vaccinating citizens. But…
ON SUNDAY, Zimbabwe marked the third anniversary since MDC founding president and former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai died from colon cancer at a private hospital in South Africa. Tsvangirai, a trade unionist of note, is remembered for leading the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) to challenge the excesses of the late former president…
