PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government’s decision to extend the coronavirus lockdown indefinitely was a masterstroke, but can only bear positive results if measures are effected judicially and magisterially. It is common cause that as a nation we are yet to establish with certainty how widespread the pandemic is in the country. What is palpable…
ZIMBABWE has, in the past 40 years, continued to be dogged by poorly-defined government policies which lack clarity. More often than not, the leadership has been driven more by the desire to preserve power than an improvement in the social and economic lives of the country’s citizens. Populist policies have never worked since independence in…
IN THE past week, we have seen Zimbabwe’s national Covid-19 outlook apparently looking gratifying, with infection figures remaining at 34 for at least a week, but more needs to be done. On the ground, we know the country has been struggling to meet its Covid-19 requirements, including personal protective equipment (PPEs) for frontline health workers,…
EVER since the Felton Kamambo executive came into power at the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) in December 2018, they have made many miscalculated errors that have brought the game into disrepute. Only in their first month, Kamambo and Co suspended vice-president Gift Banda and the action has since been deemed to have been unconstitutional. Up…
©️ ZIMBABWE’s Health Services Board — mandated with representing the interests of employees in the entire health sector — has been in the eye of a storm following revelations that they have been pocketing hefty allowances, at a time the country is battling the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The virus, which was first detected in Wuhan,…
BARELY six days before the current lockdown comes to an end, the country is still very far from meeting its own coronavirus test target of 40 000 people by end of this month. So far the country has tested nearly 7 000 people for the lethal pandemic — a measly figure given what the nation…
IT is worrying to note the clear defiance of national lockdown measures in most cities and towns since President Emmerson Mnangagwa extended the shutdown by 14 days on Sunday to contain the deadly coronavirus. There has been increased vehicular and human traffic across the cities and towns, a serious blow to the fight against the…
EVER since the coronavirus (Covid-19) became a global pandemic, sports stars around the world have been at the forefront of making various donations in combating the disease. Global sporting stars like Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Robert Lewandowski, Drew Brees, Roger Federer and Shahid Afridi have all donated numerous millions of United States dollars…
WITH less than a week before the lapse of the 21-day national lockdown, the government finds itself in a catch 22 situation on whether to extend the curfew or call it off. While the national lockdown was absolutely necessary in order to arrest the spread of the deadly Coronavirus (Covid-19), it has, however, brought with…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government must seriously take heed of the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s advice that hurriedly lifting coronavirus lockdown measures may spark “deadly resurgence” in infections. With 14 cases of the deadly pandemic, including three deaths, and under a 21-day lockdown, Zimbabwe must not fool itself that it is out of the…
