WHILE there are many things to look forward to for the people of Zimbabwe in 2024, most importantly, Government has put in place plans for another year of prosperity; it has already kick-started processes to make it a resounding success.
Since assuming office in 2017,...
Editor's Note
With Professor Pfukwa
WE celebrate more than three decades of unity.
But we have to ask if we really appreciate the meaning of the day or it has just become another holiday; a day we take a break from the grind and mark the end...
COMMENT
TODAY, December 22 marks one of the most important holidays, Unity Day, on the calendar of this country’s liberation history, as it brought an abrupt halt to hostilities based on tribal grounds then bedevilling our polity.
Just after independence, in 1980, some disturbances in Matabeleland...
THE final text at COP 28, Dubai, was able to secure a majority consensus within the 200 attending countries to include language to ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels, which are responsible for nearly 90 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, according to the UN. It...
THE weekend by-election results turned out to be what Vice-President Dr Constantino Chiwenga had predicted would be like manna from Heaven, as the ruling ZANU PF snatched seven of the nine House of Assembly seats from the opposition CCC.
This was after a faction of...
I REMEMBER very well that the hallmark of the liberation struggle was care and concern for one another.
We survived the protracted struggle not as a result of abundance of resources but because we believed, most importantly, in sharing.
This cropping season we will experience a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
