Police besiege lawyer Mtetwa’s offices
DESMOND CHINGARANDE/MOSES MATENGA POLICE in full riot gear yesterday besieged the offices of noted human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa in Harare twice in a show of force, in what observers said was...
View ArticleMnangagwa’s rise, fall from grace and litany of missed opportunities
BRIDGET MANANAVIRE ON the afternoon of November 22 2017, a day after a cornered former president Robert Mugabe resigned under pressure from the military — which was holding his family captive while a...
View ArticleZCC pursues multi-stakeholder dialogue process
Tinashe Kairiza THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) is persisting with its efforts to initiate a national dialogue process, meant to address the country’s intractable political and economic crisis....
View ArticleDead bodies pile up at parlors as COVID-19 protocols delay release
BRIDGET MANANAVIRE FUNERAL service providers and hospital mortuaries are struggling to clear bodies for burial owing to challenges in handling those that would have succumbed to Covid-19, coupled with...
View ArticlePlunging deeper into the abyss
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s heavy-handed crackdown in his bid to stop protests by civil rights groups and political parties over corruption and the deteriorating economy, have once again put...
View ArticleChamisa, Khupe leadership fight spills to Supreme Court
ANDREW KUNAMBURA THE messy tug-of-war between MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and his MDC-T nemesis Thokozani Khupe has taken a new twist after it emerged the two will once again square off in the...
View ArticleCivil servants’ plight must not be ignored
By Staff Reporter OPPOSITION Ideas Party of Democracy (IPD) leader Herbert Chamuka says government must urgently attend to civil servants’ grievances in order to help reduce corruption in the civil...
View ArticleDefecting to Zanu-PF is betrayal of the struggle: IPD president
Staff Reporter Ideas Part of Democracy president Herbert Chamuka (IPD) said he is appalled by former MDC Alliance and MDC members who are jostling to joining Zanu-PF. Chamuka said even is the whole of...
View ArticleThe high cost of democracy . . . as by-elections, cars gobble US$22 million
This comes at a time when the government used about US$270 million for the 2018 elections in 210 constituencies. With the elections slated for 2023, it means an estimated US$270 million can be gobbled...
View ArticleRemembering Magaisa through Zim, democracy, constitutionalism
From politics, to law, to economics, to our social way of doing life, we all fed from Magaisa’s hands. We should all pay tuition to Dr Magaisa, his Twitter followers would say — a firm recognition that...
View ArticleCuban Missile Crisis redivivus: Russian rockets in Nicaragua?
“If American missile systems can nearly reach Moscow from Ukrainian territory, it’s time for Russia to roll out something powerful closer to the American ‘city on a hill’,” said Olga Skabeyeva on the...
View ArticleIllicit financial flows worsen poverty
Over 60% of the government’s total revenue is realised through multinational companies’ (MNCs) tax obligations with as much as 50% of the normal withholding tax rate scraped off from abused double...
View ArticleNcube’s measures pushing many deeper into poverty
It also proposed an adjustment of the tax bands to end at ZW$12 million (US$27 335) from the current ZW$6 million (US$13 667) per annum as well as a tax-free bonus threshold from ZW$100 000 (US$228) to...
View ArticleAnalysis of RBZ’s Mid-term Monetary Policy Statement
Accordingly, the Mid-Term Monetary Policy Statement highlights the recent developments in monetary, external and banking sectors as well as policy measures the bank is implementing in pursuit of price,...
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