THE Castle Lager Soccer Premiership season will get off the ground in exactly seven days, but it appears the more things change, the more they remain the same as the league is once again faced with stadia crisis. According to a circular by the league’s secretariat, only the National Sports, Baobab, Gibbo, Luveve, Barbourfields and…
ZIMBABWE joined the rest of the world in commemorating International Women’s Day yesterday amid increasing cases of child marriages, rape and gender-based violence. The day is celebrated annually on March 8 “as a focal point in the women’s rights movement, bringing attention to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against…
IT IS encouraging to learn that our government has successfully returned 500 Zimbabweans who have been enslaved in Asia and other locations since 2014. Even though our nation is putting in a lot of effort to stop human trafficking, we think that its actions don’t meet the basic requirements. We think the number 500 ought…
LAST Thursday, the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) and the nation at large was plunged into mourning after five first year students at the university perished in a horrific car accident along the Masvingo-Mbalabala Road. The Toyota Wish they were travelling in was involved in a head on collision with a UD truck….
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has on several occasions rallied Zimbabweans to be united for the country to turnaround the economy and improve ordinary people’s living standards. He is unequivocal that political demagoguery should not be allowed to take precedence over national issues. Despite the economy having improved in the last two year, most ordinary people continue…
CHILD marriage is one of the most important challenges of the current era that threatens women’s health and violates human rights. It is sad to note that in Zimbabwe the situation has become so bad that child-to-child marriages are also becoming a common phenomenon. Women who are employed reinvest 90 percent of their earnings back…
ZIMBABWE’S latest girl wonder, Kudakwashe ‘‘Take Money’’ Chiwandire, is two weeks away from the biggest match and challenge of her boxing career so far — a World Boxing Council (WBC) Women’s Super bantamweight title fight against current champion Yamileth Mercado of Mexico. When Take Money steps into the ring at the 10 000-capacity Gimnasio Manuel…
IN yesterday’s edition of this newspaper we published a story on an Epworth man, Takudzwa Timothy Hazvirambwi, who was recently sentenced by the High Court to six years in prison after he was convicted of killing his friend, Tineyi Mamvura, following an altercation. It is disheartening that Mamvura was killed while trying to play the…
IT IS heartbreaking to learn that school administrators have been compelled to postpone important activities as a result of the country’s worsening power crisis. It’s very unfortunate that the crisis is now affecting information and communication technology (ICT) and we urge the authorities to find a long-term solution. It is also unfortunate that some important…
THE continued haggling over the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission delimitation report threatens the quality of harmonised elections the country will have in the next couple of months. President Emmerson Mnangagwa gazetted the report on February 20 amid mixed concerns on whether he followed the Constitution or not with his critics arguing he did so out of…
