November 28, 2024
Beleaguered national airline, Air Zimbabwe (AirZim), which is scheming a resurgence after its fleet was grounded for over a year due to aviation concerns, has opened talks with an unidentified party for delivery of an Airbus 380 (A380), The Financial Gazette’s Companies & Markets (C&M) established this week.The…
TABITHA Mutenga, a journalist with The Financial Gazette posed the following question to me recently: Is Zimbabwe no longer a wheat growing nation as we now rely more on imports than growing the crop? Quite frankly, Zimbabwe does not have a comparative advantage in the growing of the…
WHEN Minister of State for State Security in the President’s Office, Sydney Sekeramayi, said new technology and the continued discovery of strategic mineral resources were posing far-reaching political, economic and security challenges to the African continent, it was evident the old guard within African governments were not comfortable…
BULAWAYO — Council has ratcheted up pressure on government to declare the water crisis in Zimbabwe’s second largest city a national disaster, close to a year after the municipality started a water rationing programme.Bulawayo, which falls in a low rainfall region, has perennially grappled with water shortages.City fathers…
THE ministers of Agriculture and Science have clashed over the contentious use of Genetically Modified Foods (GMOs).Agriculture Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Joseph Made has ruled out the lifting of a ban on GMOs even though they could help ensure food sufficiency.There has been pressure on government to…
IT is easy to get upset and feel targeted by a decision affecting a whole country. That should have been Prime Minister (PM) Morgan Tsvangirai’s feeling when he reacted in anger at a Constitutional Court judgment that ordered President Robert Mugabe to ensure the country conducts its harmonised…
STATE Security Minister Sydney Sekeramayi believes the country is under cyber attack and ill-equipped to deal with the problem due to lack of resources.Responding to a question in the Senate recently, Sekeramayi said the country must be prepared in terms of its scientists and resources to put in…
THE past four years of economic stability have failed to exorcise the specter of poverty that has troubled the nation for more than a decade now, a University of Zimbabwe (UZ) study has revealed.Data from 16 of the country’s 63 districts surveyed by the UZ is an embarrassing…
THE three parties in the inclusive government have failed to agree on the crafting of new laws in line with the requirements of the new Constitution.ZANU-PF and the two Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) formations are poles apart over the synchronisation of a number of laws with the…
RITA Makarau, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairperson, is carrying the nation’s hopes on her shoulders as do-or-die elections draw near.There is no doubt that the manner in which ZEC will handle the forthcoming elections would determine whether Zimbabwe would progress or regress.A free and fair election…
