WE WELCOME the nation-wide cholera vaccination blitz set to begin on Monday, which the government hopes will go a long way in containing the spread of the disease. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), cholera vaccine guarantees protection for two years in adults and six months in children aged between two to five years….
ZIMBABWE’S engagement and re-engagement foreign policy is still work in progress and seems to be bearing fruit given recent developments. Just this week, the country played host to a group of investors from the United Kingdom under the Westminster Africa Business Group. The group expressed great interest in investing in the country. They assured Foreign…
WE KNOW that illicit drugs are flowing into the country from various countries. Yet we rarely get to hear who the couriers smuggling most of it through legal ports of entry are. We have drug and narcotics police units at border posts. We only get to hear about the end users who get arrested daily….
THE Zimbabwe national men’s senior cricket team, the Chevrons, may have once again fallen to a whiteball series defeat in Sri Lanka, but there were signs of promise from a number of players who took turns to shine. Indeed, of the combined six ODIs and T20s, only one ended in a victory for the Chevrons,…
WITH the cholera situation clearly getting out of hand, amid reports that the disease has claimed at least 400 lives, it can no longer be business as usual. There is a need for a robust multifaceted approach that prioritises water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH), rapid surveillance, social mobilisation, treatment and vaccines as part of efforts…
THE Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF), made up of the government, business and labour, congregated in Victoria Falls yesterday to, among other things, examine the plight of workers given the economic challenges in the country. The economy has been characterised by the continued slump of the Zimbabwe dollar against the United States (US) dollar on both…
THE process leading to the establishment of the long-awaited Zimbabwe Independent Complaints Commission (ZICC) has begun in earnest with the hope it would soon be up and running in the country’s quest to curb misconduct in the security services. Parliament on Saturday asked citizens to nominate would-be members of the commission. The nominees should be…
GOVERNMENT plans to introduce cameras on the roads to identify traffic offenders will go a long way in curbing road carnage. The country’s roads are slowly, but surely being turned into death traps by reckless drivers. According to police statistics, from December 15 last year, the beginning of the festive season, to January 8, 138…
THE resumption of the 2026 Fifa World Cup qualifiers may still be nearly six months away, but the need for a head coach for the Warriors to be in place at the earliest possible time cannot be overstated given the importance of the campaign. After all, the Warriors, in the brief period that they were…
THE call by the government for local authorities to modernise both rural and urban areas is long overdue as it comes against the backdrop of increasing emergence of illegal settlements across the country. Sadly, these haphazard settlements are being fuelled in the majority of cases by land barons working hand in glove with corrupt council…
