adminEditorial Comment: Local authorities must prioritise service delivery
The country’s 92 rural and urban local authorities yesterday successfully elected council chairpersons, mayors and their deputies, setting the stage for tackling the multi-faceted challenges facing residents countrywide. Today the…
Open letter to Minister Kasukuwere
Tichaona Zindoga— Dear Honourable For the last half decade or so, your name has been associated with the game-changing programme of indigenisation and economic empowerment in Zimbabwe. The onerous task…
From Russia without love
Andrew Levine— In the dramas of Greek and Roman antiquity, playwrights who found that they had backed their characters into hopeless situations would sometimes deploy a plot device called a…
MDC-T circus is here to stay
Cassaray Makuyana The MDC-T circus has not come to town. It has always been around entertaining townsfolk with comic antics far removed from what would otherwise characterise a political party…
Can Africa tell its own stories?
Simon Allison—- THERE is not a lot of money in African journalism. As an African journalist, I know this all too well. An illustrative example: I was in South Sudan…
Sport and its politics
Albert Nhamoyebonde—- It is a welcome development that the President has created a new Ministry of Sport, Arts and Culture, instead of continuing with sports administered by the Ministry of…
MDC-T votes Zanu-PF mayors
Takunda Maodza Senior Reporter—- IT never rains, but pours for MDC-T whose councillors in three local authorities in the Midlands and Matabeleland provinces yesterday dumped their party’s nominees to vote…
President to set legislative agenda
Felex Share Herald Reporter— PRESIDENT Mugabe is today expected to set the legislative agenda for the First Session of the Eighth Parliament which he officially opens in Harare this morning.…
Embattled party in climbdown over non-councillors
Bureaux— MDC-T ate humble pie yesterday, climbing down from its earlier resolve to field non-elected candidates for mayorship and to chair councils during votes for the positions that took place…
Small-holder livestock farmers crucial: Made
Agriculture Reporter Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Joseph Made has said small-holder livestock farmers are crucial in the stabilisation of Zimbabwe’s agri-based economy as they contribute the bulk of…