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Editorial Comment

National events deserve better preparation

IT needed Mother Nature to expose the shoddy preparations for this year’s independence celebrations that were held in Nembudziya, Gokwe, on Friday last week.

By Newsday Apr. 21, 2025

National events deserve better preparation

We demand answers on UBH baby swap scandal

By Newsday Apr. 19, 2025

A country on edge

By Newsday Mar. 31, 2025

For Zim’s sake, just drop 2030 madness

All this because there is one group that wants to extend the tenure of President Emmerson Mnangagwa by two years from 2028 to 2030.

By Newsday Mar. 29, 2025

Coventry’s victory motivates girl child

Coventry stuck with Zimbabwe when cash-rich nations were signing up top athletes from the continent to enhance their chances of winning medals.

By Newsday Mar. 24, 2025

Golden Girl has the whole world as her stage

KIRSTY Coventry has always been Zimbabwe’s Golden Girl, right from the moment she won the 200m backstroke at the 2004, and repeated the trick at the 2008 Olympics.

By Newsday Mar. 22, 2025

Golden Girl has the whole world as her stage

Zim must leverage on expertise of its nationals

TWO of the country’s revered sons, Strive Masiyiwa and James Manyika, will next month co-chair an inaugural summit on artificial intelligence (AI).

By Newsday Mar. 17, 2025

Zim must leverage on expertise of its nationals

Vapid election promises haunt Banana Republic

“I’M friends with the monster that’s under my bed”, goes the word of a popular song by American rapper, Eminem, a 15-time Grammy winner.

By Newsday Mar. 15, 2025

Vapid election promises haunt Banana Republic

A long way out of the woods for women

This is a cause for reflection two days after the world celebrated International Women’s Day on Saturday.

By Newsday News Mar. 10, 2025

A defining moment for Mnangagwa

That the 2030 brigade has taken its shameless plan to public events exposes its desperation.

By Newsday Feb. 24, 2025

The season of madness is back

At the centre of all this fiasco is Zanu PF central committee member Blessed “Bombshell” Geza, whose Press conferences were covered by HStv and NewsDay.

By Newsday Feb. 22, 2025

Limit the speed of all buses

The accident occurred just a few hundred metres away from Tshapfuche tollgate, 26km from Beitbridge.

By Newsday Feb. 15, 2025

Restore banking confidence first

Exorbitant fees erode the value of deposits, making it more rational for individuals and businesses to seek alternative savings solutions.

By The Zimbabwe Independent Feb. 14, 2025

A govt clutching at straws

Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga last month took a dig at the mbingas and the gold mafia saying they have “grown tummies from unexplained wealth”.

By Newsday Feb. 10, 2025

2030 plan creates uncertainty

The war veterans went for the jugular, saying Mnangagwa must step down for failing to rein in corruption, alleged tribalism and violation of the Constitution.

By Newsday Feb. 3, 2025

Allow the Auditor General’s office to do its work

In her report, Kujinga said ministries and commissions were required to submit their financial statements by January 31 and supporting statements by February 28 of each year.

By Newsday Jul. 24, 2024

Allow the Auditor General’s office to do its work

Handcuffed to the past

Critics say Mnangagwa squandered the chance bestowed upon him after a military-assisted transition in November 2017.

By Newsday Jul. 8, 2024

The sorry state of Zim’s health sector

Zimbabwe has been found wanting in the provision of all the six building blocks.

By Newsday May. 17, 2024

Editorial Comment: Chamisa must get it right from word go

All these political “soldiers of fortune” did was to exploit a glaring fault line in the foundation of the opposition outfits,

By Newsday Jan. 22, 2024

Editorial Comment: Chamisa must get it right from word go

MPs a big let down

Had it not taken the guts of the Nationalists Alliance Party leader, Devine Mhambi Hove to challenge the fees, very few aspiring candidates would have been able to afford them.

By Newsday Jun. 12, 2023

Cala: An unnecessary burden on pupils

The uproar came out as parents and stakeholders debated with government officials during a curriculum review that started this week on Monday.

By Newsday May. 25, 2023

Dearth of statecraft blights new dispensation

Despite attending the famed investment conferences in Davos, Switzerland, your efforts have failed miserably to make the day for investors.

By Cyprian M Ndawana Mar. 1, 2023

Dearth of statecraft blights new dispensation

President needs to reconsider delimitation report

Latest concerns from stakeholders are that the variation in the number of voters in constituencies is so great that it violates the country’s supreme law.

By Newsday Mar. 1, 2023

President needs to reconsider delimitation report

Illicit financial flows are draining Zim’s wealth and govt is to blame

That translates to an annual average loss of US$3,2 billion in IFFs from 2000 to 2020.

By Newsday Dec. 24, 2022

Illicit financial flows are draining Zim’s wealth and govt is to blame

Let’s distribute the national cake equally

The latest ministry to grieve over the obviously inadequate funding from government is the Foreign Affairs ministry

By Newsday Dec. 2, 2022

Let’s distribute the national cake equally

Incompetent ministers should face the axe

In short, we are simply saying, waste no more precious time on your largely inept team, Cde President.

By Editorial Sep. 23, 2022

Incompetent ministers should face the axe

Does a mere handshake signify diplomatic breakthrough?

Secondly, the British, for all their handicaps, have been steadfast in what they want before they could lift the travel and trade embargo imposed on their former colony.

By Editorial Sep. 10, 2022

Does a mere handshake signify diplomatic breakthrough?

Lest our MPs forget

Many of us begin to wonder what use these legislators are to us when they seem to have little interest in our welfare.

By Newsday Sep. 2, 2022

Education crisis mirrors national problem

Threats by teachers to embark on industrial action will also make things worse.

By Newsday Sep. 2, 2022

Education crisis mirrors national problem

Who is ZEC trying to fool?

Zec was at pains to explain why its voters roll has 3 253 people aged 100 years or more, including 11 who are older than the oldest known surviving person on earth in the Guinness World Book of Records.

By The Standard and Newsday Mar. 7, 2022