ZIMBABWE owes both domestic and international creditors a staggering US$17.8 billion and the debt has been ballooning for over a decade now with no clear solution. Last week, the country held its second structured dialogue on the issue, where President Emmerson Mnangagwa committed Zimbabwe to clear the debt with the assistance of the African Development…
LAST night, the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) said the likely impact of Cyclone Freddy would not be as devastating as was earlier anticipated in the country. While this is good news to Zimbabweans, we must not be reckless and stop being vigilant. We have been victims of cyclones before and they left a trail of…
ZIMBABWE midfielder Marshal Munetsi recently decried the country’s ongoing Fifa ban, saying that it has denied them an opportunity to make players’ names on the international stage and market their talents before a global audience. Had Zimbabwe not been under the Fifa embargo Zimbabwe’s players, some of whom rubbed shoulders with multiple African Footballer of…
IT is heartening to see that our leaders insist on taking tough action and acknowledge how terrible drug abuse is. In a speech he gave on Tuesday at the National Youth Day celebration in Lupane, Matabeleland North province, President Emmerson Mnangagwa urged law enforcement agents to mercilessly pursue drug dealers. Illegal drugs are currently engulfing…
AUTHORITIES recently banned the export of raw lithium and insisted firms granted the rights to mine the mineral should set up value addition plants. The move received mixed reactions, but in our view it was a masterstroke. The country should maximise on the mineral, as lithium has the potential to trigger major economic growth in…
THE move by authorities to ban with immediate effect parents and guardians from visiting learners at boarding schools as a measure to curb and mitigate the spread of Covid-19 is commendable. This comes amid a resurgence in Covid-19 infections with reports indicating that boarding schools were most affected. “The ministry has with immediate effect banned…
MINISTER of Primary and Secondary Education Evelyn Ndlovu says she wants to limit the number of subjects learners can register for Advanced Level saying there is no need to have them writing 10 subjects for example. This sounds funny if one considers the amount of challenges that the education sector is grappling with.There are not…
WITH political tension in the country rising, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) must urgently speed up the promised peace pledge and compel political parties to sign. In recent months we have seen political parties engaging in running battles that left scores of people injured and property damaged….
STAKEHOLDERS involved in the promotion of rights of persons with albinism should be applauded for coming up with initiatives that are raising awareness on a range of issues affecting people living with the condition. With over 70 000 Zimbabweans afflicted with albinism, a rare group of genetic disorders that cause the skin, hair, or eyes…
STATISTICS revealed by Primary and Secondary Education ministry chief director Kwadzanayi Nyanungo before the parliamentary portfolio committee on gender on school dropouts due to the twin evils of child marriages and pregnancies are not only startling, but worrying. There is an absolute need for authorities and communities to come up with copper-bottomed measures to fight…
