May 2, 2024
Among the many thousands who have lost their lives are good friends and close colleagues from the United Nations. I mourn their loss and all those who died in the disaster. Fortunately, humanitarian aid, provided by countries from across the globe and coordinated by the UN, is finally…
This, Biti said, would help channel resources towards growing the economy, which went through its worst crisis over a 10-year period up to 2008, and also help unlock international financial support that dried up following controversial agrarian reforms and loan repayment defaults to international creditors, including the International…
On death, they become food to the many organisms that line up for their turn in feeding. Two inventions have helped delay or postpone the feeding on the human dead by these micro-organisms, the hospital and refrigeration. A hospital is an institution for health care providing patient treatment.…
It focuses on the need for quality control and the removal of barriers to skills training and development within the Zimbabwean context.It is now a well-accepted truism that the biggest undoing of the previous decade was the “brain drain”. It is estimated that the country lost over 300…
In spite of this, this has not translated into economic growth or sustained development for African countries. This has led to calls by some economists for the removal of aid and proposals that African countries should resort to issuing bonds on the international capital markets each time they…
University lecturers, teachers, hospital doctors, nurses and scores of other public servants want salaries that put them above the official poverty datum line (PDL), estimated at around US$500. They insist their salaries should be pegged between US$500 and US$600, arguing that this is compatible with the PDL as…
This exonerates us, doesn’t it? Zvazobuda pachenaka? We have always known this fact and we have maintained that until and unless the sanctions are removed, we will not be making any new GPA concessions in favour of Morgan and his younger brothers. I just wonder what Morgan…
THERE were to be many shocks, and eventually, as the learned Professor Jonathan Moyo once cleverly put it, the abnormal became the norm. One of the earliest shocks came when I went to supervise teacher training students at the local high school in social sciences.Being a stickler for…
From a religious perspective, birth brings a new soul into the world from its home with God. For those who are not religious, the miracle is that a single fertilised cell in a mother’s womb can divide and subdivide again a mere 50 times to produce a complete…
An induction programme for the degree programme was also held at the weekend at Mandel and it is hoped that the first group of students under the degree programme will begin lessons early February. Shereni Jongwe (SJ) had the opportunity to chat with Professor Carter on the sidelines…