Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and worldwide payment system. It is the first decentralized digital currency that is powered by an open-source peer-to-peer network. The concept of Bitcoin was introduced in 2008 by a pseudonymous developer named Satoshi Nakamoto who released the idea for an e-currency that is really hard to mine and there would be […]

We are sure that during the quarantine, some of the teachers have already become real gurus of online technologies for language learning, and have chosen the most convenient way to interact with students. No matter how you organize the learning process – remotely or in real-time – we have selected some tools and resources that […]

Zimbabwe’s opposition MDC Alliance needs to realise that despite the huge support it received at the polls in 2018, it must regain the status of a mass movement and recruit civil society as a partner in “winning the streets”. “You never win at the negotiating table what you have not won on the streets,” Congress […]

WE live in different and difficult times as we fight an invisible enemy. We never thought as a generation we would face such a pandemic. We were moving at breakneck speed in terms of information, change and technology, but all of a sudden our minds have now been shifted to think about COVID-19. When we […]

THE awarding of licences to six national free-to-air commercial television broadcasting stations last week was received with mixed feelings by Zimbabweans. Many hailed the momentous occasion as unparalled developed since 1890, some simply as an incremental gain and a significant group remained indifferent to the development. Paidamoyo Muzulu The Broadcasting Services Act created a three-tier […]

T HE long awaited 2021 National Budget has finally come out and in keeping up with tradition, government has again offered no solutions to the struggling, jobless and starving masses across the country. In fact, they piled on more austerity despite the fact most people are already stumbling in trying to reach the cost of […]

DEAR Mr President, The Judiciary stands as an independent arm of the State together with the Legislature and the Executive, but reports of interference in its operations seem to be increasing by the day. As a branch of the State which administers justice, the Judiciary clearly is expected to exercise discretion without interference from the […]

Reports by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Primary and Secondary Education that students have turned to wild sex orgies, drug abuse and stripping, are worrisome. The activities are happening after the students have allegedly been without supervision since last week due to the on-going strike by teachers. Even more disturbing are the videos making rounds […]

ZIMBABWE has always toyed around with the idea of an imperial presidency since Ian Douglas Smith’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence on November 11, 1965.The late former President Robert Mugabe, using Zanu PF’s parliamentary majority, did not waste time in entrenching his imperial presidency by causing the enactment of constitutional amendment No.7 of 1987 that created the all-powerful Executive President

There is a way in which a new day opens with the pregnant promise of new possibilities, and opportunities for higher levels of success. With some luck, people on a team, in an organisation, or institution, may even attain the benchmarks that have previously seemed elusive.

DESPITE the age-old and enduring axiom having instructed that “silence is golden” many, and chiefly politicians, have failed to pay hid to this wise counsel. Many politicians, while finding it quite difficult, if not impossible, to speak when it matters, most have instead zealously gone into overdrive yapping about when they should be keeping quiet

AS the discourse of climate change continues to unfold, taking new twists and dimensions, at various international gatherings, it’s the political voices and views that are shaping the nature of discussions as opposed to purely environmental concerns

“THE welfare of the people is the highest law,” goes a popular Latin maxim by Roman philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero – who lived in the period 106BC to 43BC – that has been adopted by several cities and towns in the United Kingdom and the United States, and emblazoned on their crests.

THE violence seen during the fuel price increase protests and stand-off last week was not limited to the capital city Harare. The clashes between the police, army and protesters should not have happened in the first place had the authorities applied their minds to the real challenges facing the majority of poor Zimbabweans.

VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa displayed outstanding contempt for public accountability when Chitungwiza North lawmaker Godfrey Sithole (MDC-T) asked him in Parliament about his counterpart Phelekezela Mphoko’s continued hotel stay.

Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has done his reputation and his standing a lot of good by convincing world leaders to accept Zimbabwe’s debt repayment plan.

Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has done his reputation and his standing a lot of good by convincing world leaders to accept Zimbabwe’s debt repayment plan.

President Robert Mugabe’s utterances at a luncheon hosted for him and legislators following the opening of Parliament on Tuesday where he insinuated that the media needed more controls were quite disturbing and enough to cause unnecessary anxiety.

Transport minister Obert Mpofu recently hinted he was in talks with his Local Government counterpart Ignatius Chombo to rope in the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) in running the lucrative city parking business in Harare.

VICE-PRESIDENT Phelekezela Mphoko’s first six months in office have been an unmitigated disaster to say the least.

VICE-PRESIDENT Phelekezela Mphoko’s first six months in office have been an unmitigated disaster to say the least.

THE 2015 Independence Trophy final between Dynamos and FC Platinum on Saturday was called off 26 minutes from time due to poor lighting presumably because of load-shedding.

I must confess that I am rather ignorant of the main reasons that drove you to part with your former colleagues at MDC-T.

The chaos, violence and rigging that has characterised Zanu PF primary elections is clearly indicative of the party’s inherent nature whose bullish shenanigans have this time around been aggravated by its unpreparedness for polls.

It is now three years since commissioners for the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) were sworn into office by the President.

It is now three years since commissioners for the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) were sworn into office by the President.