November 28, 2024
AS the 2015 deadline approaches for countries to achieve socio-economic benchmarks, Zimbabwe is in danger of missing most of the targets as espoused by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In 2000, nations around the world renewed their commitment to creating a better, freer, safer world. As part of…
THE turmoil in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) led by Morgan Tsvangirai has generated both local and international interest. The Financial Gazette’s Assistant Bureau Chief, Ray Ndlovu (RN) this week spoke to Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Senegal, Trudy Stevenson (TS), who is a member of the MDC formation…
AS the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) heads for what is certainly an inevitable split, following the ‘suspension’ of Morgan Tsvangirai at the weekend and the expulsion of secretary-general, Tendai Biti, on Tuesday, the future of the country’s largest opposition party is getting more and more uncertain by…
WITH factionalism ravaging the country’s largest and to date the most competitive opposition party into near annihilation, Zimbabwe could emerge out of the crisis in the opposition a de-facto one-party state, critics point out. The internal strife in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC–T), which came to a…
ROUGHLY 80 percent of Zimbabwe’s total land area measuring 39,6 million hectares is made up of some of the world’s most fertile agricultural land. Its organic farm produce has in the past packed supermarket shelves of many a European capital, but since 2000 that scenario has drastically changed…
CIVIL servants have been paid their salary increments backdated to January as pledged by their employer in what will certainly push government’s wage bill to unmanageable levels. While salaries for State employees have been way below the poverty datum line since dollarisation in February 2009, government had struggled…
THE Zimbabwe Development Party (ZDP) is demanding the immediate resignation of Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo and his deputy Joel Biggie Matiza saying they have failed to deliver in their roles to plan and manage housing issues in the country. In a letter leaked to this paper, ZDP…
CHITUNGWIZA residents, who were given a 21-day notice by Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Ignatius Chombo a fortnight ago to demolish and vacate their houses illegally located in wetlands and other pieces of land earmarked for different uses other than residential, have vowed to stay…
THE unfolding events in the ZANU-PF succession race have compelled me to continue focusing on this fascinating development. The party’s secretary for administration, Didymus Mutasa, is quoted by the media as having indicated that some in the party had wished for his death when he was taken ill…
MUTARE — A malaria outbreak is wreaking havoc on an already embattled Chiadzwa community around the Marange diamond fields with members of almost every household suffering from the disease. Numerous puddles of stagnant water caused by excessive rains that submerged the alluvial diamond mining pits which have not…
