THERE is agitation from opposition parties and civil society for citizens to take to the streets on Friday to protest against the cancerous corruption scourge and the tanking economy. Some opposition leaders have gone a notch up, arguing that the protests must culminate in President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government quitting power — a proposition…
IMPOSITION of the dusk to dawn curfew without righting all the other wrongs and shortcomings within our systems may not produce the desired results of containing the spiking coronavirus (Covid-19) local transmission as well as deaths. The government will only be fuelling suspicions that the restrictions are also targeted at scoring political goals like dealing…
WE live in a surreal world, a realm where the greedy devise ways to suppress and milk the downtrodden. On Monday, during the Daily News-sponsored virtual conference on the Mid-Term Fiscal Policy tabled in Parliament last week by Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube, permanent secretary George Guvamatanga bemoaned the ever increasing prices of…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday announced a raft of measures to contain and mitigate the spread of the killer novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic at the backcloth of increasing deaths from the disease and a huge spike in local transmissions. In his televised address to the nation, Mnangagwa highlighted the stark reality that as of Tuesday,…
THE surging numbers of coronavirus (Covid-19)cases in the country’s prisons is a public health disaster unfolding before our eyes. Recent reports that several prisoners and correctional officers at Bulawayo and Grey prisons in Bulawayo tested positive for Covid-19 should send alarm bells to those in authority that more needs to be done for prisons to…
THE rate at which coronavirus (Covid-19) is now spreading in the country is scary and urgent measures have to be adopted and implemented to mitigate the scourge. What is worrying is the increase in local transmissions, the bulk of cases untraceable. On Sunday alone, 133 cases tested positive for Covid-19, these included returnees from South…
FOR some, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube’s Mid-Term Budget Review that was presented on Thursday made a lot of sense in that it gave tax concessions, but in practical terms, it falls far short of addressing the real issues on the ground — the re-dollarisation the market is pushing the economy into. Even for lay people,…
WHILE world celebrities, who include artists, have been in the forefront donating millions of dollars to help fight Covid-19-induced hunger, in Zimbabwe it has been the opposite. This week officials in the ministry of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation visited celebrated actress Jesesi Mungoshi and all-time record Soccer Star of the Year Award winner George…
WITH cases of Covid-19 infections in the country close to breaching the 1 000 mark, the government must emulate South Africa, which on Sunday tightened its coronavirus lockdown measures. Among the measures pronounced by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are a ban on sale of alcohol, introduction of a curfew between 9pm and 4am and…
IT WAS Francis Bacon, the prominent philosopher and politician, who said rather flamboyantly that silence is the virtue of fools. What the former attorney general and Lord Chancellor of England meant when he said this 400 years ago was that one would be a fool to keep their mouth shut when something needed to be…
