OUR economy is in a freefall and strangely authorities seem not in a hurry to come up with a raft of measures to arrest what may turn up to be an untenable situation. The lackadaisical attitude is staggeringly shocking! There is just lack of urgency when the Zimbabwe dollar continues to nosedive, triggering price increases…
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says it is engaging President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government with a view of having talks on how to resolve the country’s battery of challenges. So dire are the country’s political and economic crises that dialogue among stakeholders is now critical. The cost of living is going up daily much to…
FOURTEEN people perished at the weekend in road carnages. Our highways have become stages on which tragedies are played out day in and day out. We are just a week from Easter holidays and we are scared of the likely death toll on our roads. Holidays in the country tend to be the bloodiest. We…
A LOT of Zimbabweans paid the ultimate price to unyoke us from the chains of repression under colonialism. Thousands of sons and daughters of this country perished fighting a suppressive regime to bring independence and democracy. In the first decade of Uhuru, our country achieved major milestones in education and health. We have also had…
AFTER a three-month wait, the Warriors coach was finally appointed with Norman Mapeza bouncing back onto the hot seat, albeit on an interim basis. He becomes the Warriors’ second interim coach in less than six months with Portuguese gaffer Baltemar Brito, whose contract expired at the end of last year, the other one. And just…
THE spike in sexual offences is a cause for alarm, which should prod the relevant authorities into action. According to Musasa Project, which provides relief to survivors of Gender-Based Violence (GBV), it recorded a staggering 6 000 cases of rape last year — a shocking 80 percent of which had involved family members of the…
WE live in a surreal country where wise counsel is not heeded for the sake of political expediency, but to the detriment of social and economic development. For decades now, Zimbabweans have endured economic hardships as a result of toxic politics and it appears political gladiators are far from calling for a truce, uniting and…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last Friday addressed consumers, captains of industry and commerce and appealed for dialogue between his government and stakeholders to address challenges bedevilling the economy. Speaking at the second edition of the ED Mnangagwa Business Summit 2024, Mnangagwa was forthright, without dialogue the economy will face serious hurdles. “To achieve economic sustainable growth…
OUR sister paper, the Daily News On Sunday, yesterday ran a shocking article in which the Consumers Protection Commission (CPC) confirmed that it had fined over 2 000 shops for selling expired or sub-standard goods. This is for the period since April last year when the commission started operating. However, for the love of quick…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa must speedily intervene and end the power struggle in the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) by appointing a chairperson of the critical commission to restore order. Since the elevation of former chairperson Loice Matanda-Moyo last year to Prosecutor General, the commission has known no peace as haggling of power reigned supreme at the…
