Editorial Comment

THE assurances delivered by the minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncube, and permanent secretary George Guvamatanga at the Daily News Mid-Term Budget Review breakfast meeting in Harare on Wednesday present a welcome, albeit overdue, moment of align­ment between government policy and private sector expectations. By electing to preserve existing regulatory meas­ures rather than introducing unexpected taxes…

THE growing obsession with rapid weight loss has reached an alarming tipping point, transforming life-saving medical innovations into dangerous vanity trends. Recent warnings from the World Health Organisa­tion (WHO) regarding the widespread abuse of GLP-1 receptor agonists popularly known as weight-loss and diabetes drugs must serve as a stark wake-up call. Driven by relentless social…

AS CALLS for protests today echo across the country following the signing into law of Constitutional Amendment Act Number 3 (CAA3), Zimbabwe stands at a critical crossroads. The temptation to express political grievances through confrontation and mass demonstrations is high, but we must urgently ask ourselves: to what end? At this delicate juncture in our…

FOR over two decades, Zimbabwe’s economic growth has been choked by a single, crushing reality, financial isolation. Excluded from borrowing by traditional multilateral lenders like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund due to long-standing debt bottlenecks and geopolitical sanctions, the nation was forced to finance capital-intensive national develop­ment through limited domestic revenues and…

WHEN memory fades, humanity should not follow suit. In the chambers of Parliament earlier this week, Chikanga legislator Lynette Karenyi-Kore raised a troubling alarm over an issue long shrouded in silence, the growing burden of dementia across Zimbabwe. Framed as a silent epidemic, dementia is quietly destabilising families, yet it continues to receive almost no…

FOR generations, a dangerous, unspoken code has governed the lives of many Zimbabwean men. It is the myth of the unyielding patriarch—the be­lief that to admit to vulnerability, to confess to pain, or to step inside a clinic when one feels “perfectly fine” is a sign of weakness. But today, this stubborn silence is extracting…

IN A fiscal landscape that has historically felt like a series of unpredictable twists and turns, the Treasury’s recent pledge to hold the line is a deeply welcome relief. The minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncube, commit­ment to introduce no new taxes and bypass supple­mentary budgets for the upcoming year offers some­thing households and businesses have…

FOR decades, the standard high school curriculum has operated under a puzzling contradiction, we meticu­lously prepare young minds to calculate the velocity of an object or analyse medieval literature, yet we send them into the adult world functionally illiterate in the very medium that governs their daily survival— money. The launch of the inaugural Schools…

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s latest assessment of our economy reads like a rare and hard-earned breath of fresh air. For a country whose economic narrative has frequently been dominated by volatility, a staff-level agreement on the first review of the 10-month Staff- Monitored Programme (SMP) is a massive thumbs-up that authorities cannot afford to…

THE images bleeding out of Johannesburg and Durban are a harrowing testament to a broken regional reality. Our brothers and sisters, hunted by whip-wield­ing vigilantes and scapegoated for South Africa’s internal failings, are running for their lives. They are coming home. In this dark hour, President Emmerson Mnan­gagwa’s urgent plea must not fall on deaf…