AI skills for the future: What Zimbabweans should start learning now

Walter Maira Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a technology reserved for rich countries or large global companies. IT is already influencing how people work, learn, communicate and do business…

Attack on President’s Department is an attack on Zim’s first line of defence

Darell Muchanda Recent attacks directed at the Director-General of the President’s Department, Dr Fulton Mangwanya, should not be mischaracterised as personal criticism or routine political commentary. They amount to a…

Unpacking record drop in ZiG inflation

Persistence Gwanyanya As stability entrenches, Zimbabwe recorded ZiG annual inflation of 4,1 percent in January 2026. This is the first time Zimbabwe registered single-digit domestic currency inflation since 1997, which…

High gold price reflects deeper problem than recent global instability

Dr Hafiz Muhammad Usman Rana The price of gold has risen to over US$5 000 (£3 662) an ounce for the first time ever, after doubling in value over the…

If Cuba falls, the Global South is to blame too

Belén Fernández On Tuesday, United States President Donald Trump had a good laugh with members of the press in the state of Iowa as he issued a rather serious decree…

Cost of waiting too long

Rutendo Gwatidzo-Changing Perspectives They had been talking about introducing a new system for two years. Customer complaints kept rising. Staff were frustrated. Data was scattered across spreadsheets that lived on…

Seek information to understand health conditions

Fadzayi Maposah-Correspondent Early this week, I met my mother in the passage at night. She looked at me like a child who had been caught while up to some mischief.…

From kenge to drip, baddie energy, the streets still have a language

Elliot Ziwira-Senior Writer WE grew up in the ghetto, where everyone would cheerfully greet each other, “Ndeipi blaz, muri kenge here?” or “Hi sonny, uri sharp here?” Symbolising more than…

From broken dreams and homes, young girls flock to ‘KwaSatan’

Fungai Lupande-Mashonaland Central Bureau WITH no education, no income and no social safety net, many young mothers in Mbire District drift towards Mushumbi Growth Point, where survival often leads them…

When success obstructs marriage: Advice for young women

Siyabulela Zalabe-Matters of Faith I recently read a story on Facebook. It happened in America, not South Africa. But as I read it I found myself thinking, “If this is…