LANDS and Water minister, Anxious Masuka recently announced measures being done to end the perennial water crisis in Harare. While the move is encouraging, there is a need to do more to deal with water problems in all the country’s cities and towns. Some of the efforts being taken by Masuka to end the water…
A BUSINESS Tendency survey recently done by the Zimbabwe Statistics Agency and launched on Friday showed that capacity utilisation in the manufacturing sector in the second quarter of the year went up by 3.6 percent to 54.7 percent. The survey is clear, utilisation could have done far much better if there were no intermittent power…
THE good old days of coming out to support our national teams as they represent the nation in our country’s favourite sport, football, are back with the senior women’s national team currently taking part in their first internationals in almost two years by competing at the Cosafa Women’s Championship in South Africa. The senior men’s…
ON Tuesday, Citizens Coalition for Change legislators boycotted the official opening of the 10th Parliament by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a despicable political grandstanding. The MPs were in no show at the majestic New Parliament Building in Mt Hampden, arguing they do not recognise Mnangagwa as the president. They claim without presenting copper-bottomed proof that…
IT IS encouraging that the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has started clamping down on peddlers of drugs that are often abused, but they must do more in collaboration with State security agencies. On Monday, MCAZ said it revoked permits of six wholesalers and four individuals after breaching the Medicines Control Act by promoting…
IN his weekly column in the state media at the weekend, President Emmerson Mnangagwa wrote that he intends to “reinstate the framework for Political Actors Dialogue (Polad), arguing “we need to work together, including across the political divide. It’s refreshing news coming from the head of state, especially that the country is emerging from harmonised…
REPORTS that cholera has resurfaced in Harare-hardly a week after Health minister Douglas Mombeshora announced the death of 12 people from the bacterial disease in Buhera-is a cause for concern. With about 1, 6 million people resident in Harare, the relevant authorities cannot afford to blink. They have to keep their eyes rigidly focused on…
FOR years, Zimbabwe has been making giant strides in promoting the girl child. However, on the sporting side of things, we have been lagging behind as a country with much of the focus, particularly when it comes to football, on the boy child. Over the years the contrast between the treatment of the male and…
IT IS heart-warming to read that the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) offers female offenders the opportunity to develop a range of entrepreneurial skills through its Phakhamani/Simukai Women’s Club scheme, providing them a chance to earn an income, behind bars. We need effective rehabilitation initiatives, and this is a step in the right direction…
THE church in the country has been making a passionate plea to Zimbabweans to move away from recent elections and focus on nation building to spur social and economic development. The elections held on August 23 and 24 saw Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa declining to concede defeat to President Emmerson Mnangagwa who…
