WE welcome the partnership that has been forged by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the government to devise strategies aimed at controlling cholera and typhoid outbreaks As a result of this partnership, Zimbabwe has updated its cholera and typhoid control guidelines, which were four years behind as part of efforts to ensure they are…
IT IS heartening to note the convergence of the country’s main political parties — Zanu PF, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and the MDC — on the paramount need for national unity and dialogue to end the country’s decades-long political and economic crises. President Emmerson Mnangagwa spent the better part of last year calling an…
WE don’t believe in the economics of protectionism, neither are we disciples of price controls, but we feel strongly that the negative slide of the Zimbabwean currency on the black market will have a serious devastating effect on the ordinary people. The local currency is falling against the coveted green back. As of yesterday, the…
DEBATE on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) preliminary delimitation report will go a gear up today and tomorrow in Parliament. The report attracted controversy, some bordering on triggering a constitutional crisis, after some stakeholders felt it was compiled un-procedurally. A parliamentary ad-hoc committee which went through the report and presented its findings on Friday in…
THERE is a sad development in the country, gun violence is on the increase. Just last Friday, a man shot and killed three people in cold blood in Wedza, Mashonaland East. It is now rare for a week to pass without reports of gun violence. What is worrying and what the authorities should immediately find…
WE salute the collaboration between the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) and higher learning institutions to develop research and policy discussions aimed at establishing a sustainable, inclusive environment for children with disabilities. We believe that the best interests of each and every child should always come first when making decisions regarding them….
ZIMBABWE Cricket (ZC) are pacesetters. The local cricket governing body is one of Zimbabwe’s most professionally-run sports organisations and has in recent years managed to stay away from controversies such as those that have marred another major sporting institution in the country, the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa). And this past week, ZC once again set…
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba is dead right! Political parties should ensure the forthcoming harmonised elections are free, fair and credible. He is on the money that by ensuring sagacious elections, the parties will avoid burdening the courts with unnecessary and frivolous applications. Since Uhuru in 1980, the country’s polls have been disputed. The situation got…
THE attack on Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members in Murehwa, Mashonaland East, by yet to be identified youth must be proscribed and the police should swiftly haunt the perpetrators and face the full wrath of the law. A video, which went viral at the weekend, showed the callous youth assaulting black and blue elderly…
INVESTING in public education should be every government’s responsibility. Public education should be affordable. In one of our main stories in today’s edition, parents lament the cost of uniforms, books, and fees. They are worried stiff that public education has become dire. To complicate the situation, some of the public schools are now demanding fees…
