THE tobacco marketing season roars into life next month with high expectations from farmers for an improved producer price. Auction floors will start conducting sales on March 9 followed a day later by contract firms. The Zimbabwe Tobacco Growers Association is expecting that a kilogramme of tobacco should be sold between US$5 and US$6, compared…
ZIMBABWE’S health system is in dire straits, weighed down by the meagre budget being allocated to the Health ministry, which is continually shrinking year in, year out. Not surprisingly, public hospitals currently have limited capacity to provide very basic services against the backdrop of a worsening turnover of critical staff like doctors and nurses, who…
LEGISLATORS, like everyone else, are concerned about the ongoing leaks of exam papers and have summoned Education minister Evelyn Ndlovu for clarification. Immediate action is required to restore the national exam body’s credibility. Credibility is critical to restoring the moral fibre of our society and creating the necessary technological knowledge to power the economy. At…
ZIFA is at it again! It appears the national football mother body’s reconstituted executive committee is as much an agency of chaos as the sacked Felton Kamambo-led one was after the recent move to impose the immediate formation of a National First Division. The proposed National League, which, according to the reconstituted Zifa executive, is…
LAST week on Thursday February 2, Zimbabwe, like any other country on earth, commemorated World Wetlands Day, which is used globally to raise public awareness of the importance of wetlands. The theme for this year was “It is time for wetland restoration”. In Zimbabwe, wetlands are under threat and must be restored as a matter…
ECONOMISTS have argued relentlessly that the country cannot turnaround the economy successfully without reviving three critical companies — the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ), Air Zimbabwe and ZiscoSteel. The three are perceived as strategic to economic revitalisation after years of stagnation due to a myriad reasons, among them the political cacophony that resulted in the…
IT APPEARS a seemingly constitutional crisis has been averted after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission took into consideration concerns raised by Parliament, President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other stakeholders on the preliminary delimitation report. Serious concerns were raised by stakeholders that Zec had not followed the Constitution to the letter in configuring parliamentary constituencies and local government…
THIS year started with lots of promises from authorities that the country’s rolling power cuts will be dealt with via a combination of measures. Among the interventions, the citizens were told, would be increased importation of power from our neighbours, the coming into stream of Hwange Thermal Power Station Unit 7 and 8, giving the…
REPORTS of fresh farm invasions across the country are disturbing, if not nauseating. According to Agriculture ministry update over a fortnight ago, over 60 000 people are occupying land illegally across the country, as the number of fresh farm invasions in the nation continues to rise. This comes as the government says 270 000 Zimbabweans…
THE court plays a crucial role in a democracy because it serves as the protector of individual rights and liberties. There is no justification for a grandma from Domboramwari to have to make the long trip from Epworth to the Harare Magistrate’s Courts in order to access the legal system. A few critics have brought…
