EDITOR — Cleaning and disinfecting high-touch surfaces in your home regularly is an important precaution to lower the risk of infection. Follow cleaning product instructions for safe and effective use, including precautions you should take when applying the product, such as wearing gloves and making sure you have good ventilation. Some national authorities have made…
FOR a team that prides itself in excellence, FC Platinum’s humiliating exit from the African Champions League last week should jolt the club hierarchy into reviewing their internal systems. The Zimbabwean champions were massacred 4-0 by Tanzanian giants Simba Sports Club in the final qualifying round of Africa’s premier inter-club competition. FC Platinum are alleging…
AS ZIMBABWE is now in the grip of a seemingly more devastating phase of the deadly coronavirus, it is important for the general public to be on its best behaviour. It is quite clear that we have entered a dangerous phase, after the country initially appeared to have contained this killer virus, as evidenced by…
IT DID not surprise many Zimbabweans that the authorities have imposed a stiffened coronavirus stay-at-home order which has re-introduced a duskto-dawn curfew, which comes into effect tomorrow. This is welcome because Zimbabwe is now reeling from the deadly second wave of coronavirus, which saw 29 people dying in the country last week alone — amid…
ZIMBABWEANS are yearning for a new life and wishing for better to come this year. Their dream and hope is that our politicians will come to the party and deliver the nation from the continued political conundrum that has halted the country’s economic growth. The country has been in a state of paralysis for a…
AS we enter 2021, it’s high time for the country’s political gladiators to bury their differences and identify the national interest and forge a common vision and values to end the country’s myriad of challenges. It is a tragedy of leadership that since attaining independence in 1980, the country has dismally failed to come…
HISTORY is repeating itself at the country’s embattled national airline – Air Zimbabwe – and the question is at what cost to the taxpayer and the national fiscus. On Tuesday, Cabinet considered and approved Air Zimbabwe’s balance sheet and its business plan post reconstruction and, among other things, ministers agreed that the government should assume…
THE recent meet-and-greet-the-media press conference organised by the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) was quite commendable as it provided a platform for the two entities to understand each other’s operations. It was indeed a no-holds barred platform which tackled, among other things, the strained Zifa/SRC relations threatening to bring the game of football to its…
DESPITE the challenging economic environment, the government’s positive strides in the provision of significant resources to revive the public health sector in areas such as the reproductive, maternal, new-born and adolescent health and nutrition services is commendable. However, more needs to be done to wean off the crucial sector from donor support and grants. This…
THE cleansing of local authorities, whose top officials have for a very long time been accused of being self-centred at the expense of service delivery in their areas of jurisdiction, should continue in an effort to ensure the residents — who pay through the nose for the services — ultimately benefit. Since the start of…
