Opinion & Analysis

3 years ago | September 5, 2021

Action really speaks louder than words

When the history of the Second Republic is written some time in the future, one of its most distinguishable ...

We need to repair our sick politics

AS strange as it might sound or seem, you can be sure there is an imbecile somewhere in our beloved teapot-shaped ...

Building Zimbabwe brick by brick

“Nyika inovakwa nevene vayo.’’ Translated loosely this means a country is built by its citizenry. This is the message ...

Unfinished business, a journey amidst the journey

DR Anna-Mary Nyakabau is an oncologist par excellence. Her national service came to an end on December 31, 2020, having ...

Zimbabwe’s exports on the rise

AMID the pervasive disruption to world trade caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Zimbabwe’s exports held up well between ...

IMF SDR release puts Biti in his place

IN April 2021, the International Monetary Fund’s Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT) granted debt relief to ...

Model Law on GBV takes shape. . .as activist calls for political ...

A PROMINENT Namibian lawyer and activist, Advocate Bience Gawanas, has called for political will to remove structural ...

America cannot have its cake and eat it

EARLIER this week, without any sense of irony, CNN’s David Culver ran a feature titled, “How China pushes conspiracy ...

3 years ago | September 4, 2021

NEW: South Africa has rebased its gross domestic product (GDP). ...

Manoel Bittencourt Statistics South Africa recently rebased South Africa’s GDP. Does it matter? To start with, let’s ...

3 years ago | September 1, 2021

NEW: South African health experts have identified a new lineage ...

Prof. Wolfgang Preiser, Cathrine Scheepers, Jinal Bhiman, Marietjie Venter, Penny Moore & Tulio de Oliveira As a ...

3 years ago | August 29, 2021

Child marriages: Offenders should face jail

Child marriages, which are generally arranged marriages involving younger girls barely out of primary school and older ...

Africa learns nothing from history

AFTER every great party, usually long after the music would have given way to melancholic silence and the occasional ...

A toast to US$1bn game-changer

The ensuing excitement and debate following the disbursement of the US$961 million facility by the International ...

$2 billion disbursed for devolution

GOVERNMENT has disbursed more than $2 billion towards multiple high-impact infrastructure development projects under the ...