IT makes a sad reading that cancer cases are on the rise while authorities are doing little to fight the scourge. In a gripping interview on popular news and current affairs programme, Vantage, on independent commercial television station, 3Ktv, last week, Cancer Association of Zimbabwe (CAZ) spokesperson Lovemore Makurirofa said it was time the country…
THE recent announcement by Health minister Douglas Mombeshora in the Senate that the number of deaths associated with cholera now stands at 148 is another telling reminder on the need to decisively act to end the scourge. Amid official reports confirming that the country has recorded 5 256 suspected cholera cases and 981 confirmed cases…
ZIMBABWE is slowly, but surely on the verge of losing a whole generation of youth to drug and substance abuse if authorities and the community at large fail to redouble current efforts to fight the cancerous scourge. Drug and substance abuse have become a way of life for most youth in the country, but what…
HEAVY rains pounded most parts of the country at the weekend, leaving a trail of destruction, exposing the nation’s lack of disaster preparedness. The government yesterday confirmed that “many parts of the country have received substantial rains”, but quickly advised that this was not the start of the rainy season. Reports all over the country…
THE picture painted during a drug and substance abuse task force meeting recently held in Bulawayo clearly shows that a lot still has to be done to make the fight against substance abuse as potent as it should be. According to Bulawayo Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Judith Ncube, Zimbabwe’s second largest city now has…
NO significant development can ever take place in the absence of unity and peace—two essential ingredients that form the necessary platform that can foster the long-term planning crucial for development to take place. We thus, applaud the business community’s call for peace and unity, especially in light of the fact that the nation has not…
THE spike in crimes referred to by Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe on Wednesday is a cause for concern and urgent measures have to be employed to arrest the surge. Addressing senior police officers in Harare, Kazembe seemed to blame the police for failing to meet targets on reducing crimes in the country. He fell…
THE cacophony that engulfed Parliament on Tuesday was needless. This followed National Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda’s announcement of the recalling of 15 Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MPs by one Sengezo Tshabangu, who claimed to be the party interim secretary-general. The opposition cried murder most foul, questioning why Mudenda had accepted the recalls by Tshabangu…
WE expect legislators to step up to the challenge that National Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda has set for them to unite and debate issues that provide solutions to the country’s many challenges. As the legislators are aware, there have been no major changes in important areas like a weak currency, debt, corruption, ineffective parastatals, and…
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has opened a probe into individuals flaunting their wealth on various social platforms amid suspicions that most of it are proceeds of corruption, among them fraud and money laundering. It’s critical for Zacc to embark on such investigations as graft had become a cancer in the country threatening to scupper…
