A VIOLENT streak seems to have engulfed the country since the beginning of the year, resulting in needless murders across the nation. While statistics are not readily available, cases of murder have been on the increase this year — a worrying trend. Several people were killed over petty issues, marital disputes, and money-making rituals by…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was sworn in for a second term on Monday at Harare’s National Sports Stadium. Mnangagwa reiterated his call for national unity in his speech following his inauguration, which was watched by regional leaders and other dignitaries from across the world. He also stressed several times that only Zimbabweans could advance their nation….
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa commenced his second and final five-year term yesterday when he took oath of office at the gigantic National Sport Stadium and all Zimbabweans’ eyes are trained on him given the Herculean task he has to move the nation forward. Mnangagwa won last month’s presidential polls by 52,6 percent against his bitter rival…
GLEN VIEW Area 8 furniture complex went up in smoke at the weekend for the umpteenth time. As of yesterday, the cause of the fi re that reduced property worth hundreds of thousand dollars into ashes was not known. What is terribly worrying and disturbing is the continued recurrence of infernos at the complex. Worryingly,…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday officially opened the Zimbabwe Agricultural Show and articulated his vision. The country is largely an agricultural economy. Without a successful agricultural industry and of late mining, it would be almost impossible to meet the nation’s economic demands. At the turn of the millennium, the country embarked on agrarian reform to…
THE Zifa Normalisation Committee (NC), which has been charged with ushering in a new era in the way local football is administered, already has its hands full barely two months after its appointment with the selection of the head coach of the country’s senior men’s national team, the Warriors, it’s most daunting task yet. In…
OVER the past few years, cases of gender-based violence have skyrocketed in Zimbabwe. According to the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat), up to 40 percent of women aged between 15 and 19 were subjected to physical and sexual violence at the hands of their intimate partners in 2022. This figure was far higher than the…
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has in recent days been pushing for a re-run of the presidential election held last week. The opposition is disputing the outcome and is pushing for regional bodies to instead organise, manage and observe the polls. Although it is the CCC’s democratic right to call for a re-run, its…
IN our main story yesterday, the church made a passionate plea to losers and winners of last week’s harmonised elections to move on in the interest of the country. The Zimbabwe Council of Churches president, Ignatius Makumbe, did not mince the church’s position on the future of the nation. “It’s now time to move forward…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his bitter rival Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa are both dead right that Zimbabweans must maintain peace after last week’s harmonised elections. This is despite the fact that Chamisa has rejected the outcome of the presidential poll he lost to Mnangagwa. Mnangagwa won with 52.6 percent, followed by Chamisa…
