Time has come to prepare, nurture adolescents
Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda The international development community is abuzz at the moment with a lot of interesting talk and ideas about where we are headed with the post 2015 agenda, where we stand in...
View ArticleEditorial Comment: Real action needed against gender-based violence
AS the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence campaign draws to an end for another year, it is time for some soul searching by every citizen as an individual and at institutional level....
View ArticleNetanyahu lonely as nuke deal isolates Israel
Robert Fisk It marks a victory for the Shia in their growing conflict with the Sunni Muslim Middle East. It gives substantial hope to Bashar al-Assad that he will be left in power in Syria. It isolates...
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The slum question
Most demolitions result when people build homes on prohibited areas like wetlandsPardon Gotora Features Correspondent For one reason or another, evictions are imminent especially to people occupying...
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From rags to riches
Mr Kazembe stands in front of a processor at his Rubwe Silica Mine in MhondoroFarai Kuvirimirwa Features Writer GROWING up in the rural Mhondoro, Mashonaland West province, would not have borne many...
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Going for bread and butter issues
Mushroom is a high value crop that is cheap to growSarudzai Mupangi Features Writer Atime to focus on regenerating the economy that has been battered by years of economic sanctions and a painful four...
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Enter the e-cigarette . . .
Public smoking is a criminal offence under the Forestry Act, but no smoker has been prosecuted under the ActMarshall Bwanya Features Writer “DANGER: Smoking is harmful to health…” A warning that many...
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Little joy for jatropha growers
The Jatropha plant whose seeds (inset) have been touted as one of the best candidates for biodiesel productionSifelani Tsiko Senior Writer As Ms Sophia Chari enters the stage with a group of women...
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Avoid bias in hearings
Chairpersons at disciplinary hearing must keep an open mind throughout the proceedings until a determination is madeTaurai Musakaruka People Issues Chairpersons in any hearing should keep an open mind...
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Question time for Zanu-PF
President MugabeGeorge Chisoko Senior Assistant Editor Zanu-PF, the revolutionary party that dislodged colonial rule and brought independence to Zimbabwe, has always been conducting provincial...
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Editorial Comment: Child protection every parent’s responsibility
WHO will guard the children from their parents? The 20-year jail sentence imposed on a Masvingo man who raped his 15-year-old daughter over a period of two years should be applauded as it sends a...
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Dollar survival behind US-China tensions
Finian Cunningham THE escalation of military tensions between Washington and Beijing in the East China Sea is superficially over China’s unilateral declaration of an air defence zone. But the real...
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Christmas beckons as ZRP bans ex-Jap pirate taxis
Edgar Maguranyanga Traffic Friday ORLANDO Pirates FC, a dominant South African football franchise, is diversely nicknamed, “Buccaneers” and “Sea Robbers”, among other names. The legendary (and somewhat...
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Media war against Venezuela continues
Hugo ChavezMaria Paez Victor SINCE the election of President Hugo Chávez in 1999 there has been antipathy and deliberate media distortion of politics in Venezuela. Last Sunday, the Toronto Star...
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Members of Parly must give value for money
Legislators should respect Parliamentary sessions and not short-change the electorateLloyd Gumbo CARE for a little stand-up comedy? Or a talk show of senior citizens (served as some monotonous and...
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Beggars should not go for luxury
Members of Parliament and Senators should opt for the modest BT-50, which is cheaper and can be assembled locally, than going for the expensive, fuel-guzzling Land Rover Discovery.Joram Nyathi Once...
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Mandela legacy: peace, but poverty for many blacks
The late Nelson MandelaIN the 10 years after he withdrew from public life, Nelson Mandela divided his time between a mansion in one of Johannesburg’s wealthiest suburbs and his ancestral home in Qunu,...
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Money more lethal than a gun
Ghetto Blast Rosenthal Mutakati CHARLTON stole from the matrimonial bed way before his normal bath time to relieve himself only to find his wife, who feigned deep slumber, helping herself to cash from...
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Technology good, but . . .
Beatrice Tonhodzayi-Ngondo Smartphones are the in thing in terms of technology. Zimbabweans, being very techno savvy and brand conscious, have latched onto smartphones and tablets as if not having one...
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Mandela’s greatness may be assured, but not his legacy
Nelson MandelaJohn Pilger When I reported from South Africa in the 1960s, the Nazi admirer Johannes Vorster occupied the prime minister’s residence in Cape Town. Thirty years later, as I waited at the...
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