WITH the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence beckoning, it is depressing the country is gripped by a sad story of a nine-year-old girl from Tsholotsho who was sexually violated and made pregnant. The girl gave birth to a girl on Monday after undergoing a caesarean section at United Bulawayo Hospitals under the watchful…
IN YET another proof of the dire situation obtaining in Zimbabwe’s health sector, we carried a story in our sister publication, the Daily News On Sunday, in which the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies (RCS) claimed that measles outbreak killed 700 children across the country. Though the two bodies praised…
TOMORROW’S edition of the Harare Derby between Dynamos and CAPS United risks being the worst in terms of attendance in the history of the fixture. By their standards the two teams have been extremely poor and will rightly so, end their campaign empty-handed. CAPS United are certain to end the season outside the top 10…
THE recording of Zimbabwe’s first cholera case in Chiredzi last Tuesday should galvanise the authorities into serious action without delay. Given the fact that neighbouring Malawi and Mozambique are battling with what has been described as climate change-induced outbreaks of cholera, the recording of the communicable disease in Chiredzi, which is along the Mozambique/Zimbabwe border,…
PREMIER Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) has for over a decade been plagued by several calamities which range from underfunding, maladministration and outright graft. The society is now on the verge of collapse mainly due to under funding as a result of low subscriptions and their non-remittance by the government whose workers constitute about 90…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa joined over 100 global leaders for the COP27 climate conference in Egypt which ended yesterday on how to deal with climate change. The consequences of global warming have been catastrophic to poor countries and Mnangagwa is dead right when he calls for global cooperation on how to mitigate its consequences.Zimbabwe, like most…
TO a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable. This is the uncomfortable position that the country’s sports writers find themselves entangled in when they sit down to decide who was the Castle Lager soccer star of the year at the end of this season….
FOR a moment, they made us believe. For a moment, we had the world at our feet. For a moment, it appeared mission impossible would actually be possible. For once, Zimbabweans had something to cheer about. For that one moment, Zimbabweans forgot their well-documented economic struggles and united in rallying behind their national cricket team….
ZIMBABWEANS are yearning for peaceful and credible general elections next year amid growing political tension in the country. Since the beginning of the year, there have been some incidents of political violence pitting mainly the ruling Zanu PF and the Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members.The two parties have been making political violence…
IN April we all celebrated the government’s decision to suspend all civil registration fees to allow everyone to access national identity cards and birth and death certificates. However, six months later we woke up last week to sad news to the effect that the civil registry department had stopped the issuance of birth and death…
