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Another chance for peaceful polls

THE August 23 general elections were peaceful before, during and after demonstrating to the world that Zimbabwe is now a mature democracy. Tomorrow, there are by-elections in a number of  parliamentary and municipal constituencies countrywide. We are all concerned whether the peace that prevailed before, during...

Chimoio genocide: How many remember?

I AM a bit disturbed as I pen this note.  I keep thinking of how we, as Zimbabweans, are gradually forgetting about the most significant events in our history.  We have been consumed by the ways and goings on of the world.  We have been swallowed by...

Warriors could stand a chance

THE opening results of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers give the Zimbabwe Warriors confidence in making it to the top in Group C, provided the authorities clean up their act. Nigeria and South Africa, the bookmakers’ favourites, have already suffered early setbacks. The defeat of...

Are we ready for this farming season?

LAND preparation is done, some have already planted, especially urban farmers, while elsewhere farmers eagerly await the onset of the rain season. Large and small-scale farmers, communal producers and many in urban areas are raring to go. Government has availed inputs through its various support programmes. We...

Cholera: Government intervention welcome

THE current cholera outbreak which, according to Government estimates, has claimed more than 100 lives and infected more than 5 000 people, calls for urgent effort to stop its spread. The present flare-up of this water-borne desease, which was first recorded in Buhera (Manicaland), has...

Think highly of yourself

AS Zimbabweans, we need to shun the mentality of inferiority complex by being proud of who we are as a people. Our history was written by our colonisers and hence they deliberately left out our past achievements. The truth of the matter is that Zimbabweans have...

An Ambassador’s promising start

 THE validation of our just ended harmonised general elections and the desire to strengthen relations and co-operation with us by the new British Ambassador to Zimbabwe has dealt a fatal blow to the opposition CCC’s cause.  The recent pledge by Ambassador Peter Vowles, to strengthen...

No to white capital

THE problems currently bedevilling Zimbabwe are a result of white capital and, most crucially, requires leaders like President Emmerson Mnangagwa and team to lead the country as well as build its own capital through its own ways. Some of us still fear upsetting the white...

SADC has spoken

THE August 23/24 harmonised general elections were brought to their logical finality with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Chairperson endorsing them as “...exemplary and a major victory for democracy,” on Monday. President Joao Lourenco of Angola, addressing SADC Heads of State at a virtual...

ZANU PF: It all began in Gweru

ZANU PF is holding its 20th Annual National People’s Conference in Gweru.  And Gweru is significant in many ways, but most importantly, that is where ZANU held its first elective Congress in 1964 after its formation in August 1963. That is when it was cemented that...

SADC not relenting on sanctions

IN a week in which SADC’s focus, and indeed that of the rest of Africa, was on Anti-Sanctions Day, there were some gremlins desperate to divert attention from the major event. At the 39th SADC Summit in 2019, the bloc’s leaders adopted a resolution declaring...

The West remains offside

AS the rest of Africa and the progressive world join Zimbabwe in calling for the removal of sanctions, it is important to remind our young how and why sanctions were imposed. It is crucial to look back in order to understand the thinking of the...

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