WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa assumed office in November 2017 via a military putsch, his government said its foreign policy corner stone will be on engagement and re-engagement as the country strove to retain to the commity nations. This came after decades of isolation, especially by the United States, the United Kingdom and its western allies,…
ZIMBABWE, like all countries in the world, is marking 16 Days Against Gender-based Violence from last Friday amid startling revelations by government that 435 rape, 959 sexual violence and 1 038 domestic violence cases were reported between January and September 2022. What is devastating is that the majority of the cases involved minors. While progressive…
FINANCE and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube presented his proposed $4,5 trillion 2023 National Budget in Parliament on Thursday, which consumer rights groups said fall short of addressing the concerns of the ordinary people. He said the budget was meant to, among other things, stabilise prices of basic goods, inflation and the local currency. The…
IN his State of the Nation Address on Wednesday in Parliament, President Emmerson Mnangagwa spoke like a statesman, rallying the country to be united and maintain peace as the 2023 harmonised polls beckon. Mnangagwa exhorted the nation to work hard to consolidate peace and economic stability currently in the country. His government, the president said,…
THE number of children being married off remains unacceptably high, with statistics provided by Unicef showing that one woman out of three was married before the age of 18. This is indeed a cause for concern and for this reason all relevant stakeholders must contribute to the elimination of this vice. Given the foregoing, stakeholders…
SOUTH Africa (SA)’s commitment to find ways to assist Zimbabwe to have peaceful, free, fair and credible polls next year must be commendable and embraced. For the polls to be credible, there is an urgent need for an all-inclusive dialogue, where protagonists meet around the table and cobble out a clear and unambiguous roadmap to…
YESTERDAY, our sister publication, the Daily News on Sunday, ran three critical stories related to inadequate service provision which graphically demonstrate how bad the situation is. The accounts paint a bleak picture of the authorities’ poor service delivery, which demands immediate attention. Among the services that should be provided are sanitation, waste management, road construction…
ALL eyes will be on Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube when he presents the 2023 National Budget in Parliament on Thursday. There are high expectations from ordinary people and businesses. Ordinary Zimbabweans want Ncube to come up with a pro-poor budget, which among other things, should introduce tax breaks and fund more social…
WHEN the world football governing body Fifa announced they were banning Zimbabwe from participating in international matches last February, they made one thing clear — reinstate the Felton Kamambo-led Zifa board or stay on the sidelines. Weighing in on the issue, Fifa president Gianni Infantino did not mince his words, simply stating “they know what…
REVELATIONS by the National Aids Council (NAC) that at least 5 000 babies were born HIV-positive in 2021 as a result of their mothers’ resistance to taking critical antiretroviral (ARV) medication during pregnancy or while breastfeeding is very disheartening. The continued birth of HIV-positive children despite a long-standing government programme to prevent mother-to-child transmission of…
