WHERE is the economy heading to? Is the current price madness going to end? Who is behind the madness which is defying economics and threatening to reduce most people into paupers? These are many questions ordinary Zimbabweans are asking as the economy is now on a free fall with local currency continuing to plunge on…
THE speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda, needs the support of parliamentarians and right-thinking Zimbabweans that there is a need for legislators to come up with harsh laws to deal with early child marriages. Speaking in the National Assembly last Thursday on a matter of deep national interest, Mudenda said the lawmakers must take…
THERE is no doubt that our economy is slowly turning into a mess if urgent measures are not put in place to arrest the runaway foreign currency rate, that has resulted in spiralling prices of basic commodities. The rate is now at $3 000 to the United States dollar on the underground market, while the…
LAST Sunday, the ugly face of local football was on display at the National Sports Stadiums as fans hurled missiles first at a player and later at match officials, as an ill-tempered clash pitting giants Dynamos and upstarts Herentals degenerated into chaos. Admittedly, in the first instance, when a player was the target of an…
YESTERDAY we held a drug and substance abuse conference in Harare where it became apparent that the country is dealing with a…
THERE is no doubt that our economy is in a mess. Given what is obtaining on the ground, it is not clear if we are going to come out of the woods anytime soon. This is despite the fact that we have a brilliant economic blueprint, the Zimbabwe Economic Development 1, whose implementation has been…
IT is alarming to learn that Harare and Bulawayo are the only cities with neurosurgeons. The second capital only has two specialists, one works at the United Bulawayo Hospital and the other at Mpilo Hospital. This means that our healthcare delivery system still requires significant improvement. The situation is intolerable given that Zimbabwean professionals, including…
WITH the cost of private health care soaring up, the government is taking forever to come up with a compulsory national health insurance policy, leaving ordinary people failing to access cheap medical services. Private medical aid societies have been increasing premiums periodically in line with the current economic traits in the country that has resulted…
THE economic situation in the country is impacting negatively on the poor and the downtrodden. Prices of commodities continue to spiral out of reach of many ordinary people. What makes the situation bad is that some basic commodities are no longer available in most formal outlets while others are being sold exclusively in hard currency….
THE minister of Finance and Economic Development, Mthuli Ncube, on Thursday came up with a raft of measures to improve availability of basic commodities, stabilise prices and shore up local currency. He lifted all restrictions on importation of basic commodities, granted 100 percent retention of domestic foreign currency earnings and fine-tuning of the Dutch foreign…
