By Claver Nyuki

… as that party legislators abandon its mandate in Parly

His Excellency, President Emmerson Mnangagwa today delivered his State of the Nation Address (SONA) and officially opened the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament in Harare.

By Bevan Musoko

The move by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to ban all cash-in, cash-out and cash back transactions on the national payments platforms is a welcome move as the system was being abused by notorious cash barons to fleece ordinary people of their hard-earned money. It is probable that these cash barons were working in cahoots with some corrupt bank employees who would give them cash for resell at the astronomically high premiums, instead of dispensing it to bank clients. It boggles the mind how these cash barons would access huge sums of cash yet banks claimed that they did not have cash to dispense to their clients. Something was amiss.

By Tendai Matunhu

The MDC party continues to show its true colours in how it handles and portrays women both at home and in the party, this follows Nelson Chamisa’s lack of respect towards his wife, Sithokozile at the party’s 20^th anniversary during the weekend.

By Nobleman Runyanga

Former President Robert Mugabe was buried at his Zvimba rural home last Saturday, three weeks since his passing on 6 September in Singapore.  The former liberation icon and Zimbabwe’s founding father had been in that eastern country since April nursing cancer.

Mapozho Saruchera

Gloves are off, it is no longer clandestine as before, and the enemy has come out in the open attacking anything to do with Zimbabwe. Not that the clandestine black operations have stopped, far from it, they are also being scaled up behind the scenes – however, that is a subject for another day.

Mapozho Saruchera

A lot has been written about the alleged abduction of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) Acting President, Dr. Peter Magombeyi, who supposedly went missing between 14 and 19 September 2019. There are allegations that Dr. Magombeyi received threatening messages from supposedly State security agents prior to his ‘abduction,’ – a piece of information which civil society and opposition political figures have used in buttressing the narrative that Government was responsible for the transgression. Now that Magombeyi was found safe and sound, the question is – was it abduction or not?

By Elijah Chihota

Walking along a dusty and rainfall-damaged gravel road which has not been attended to for nearly two decades deep in Chikomba District, Mbuya Mhizha makes her way to Gokomere Clinic to have her troublesome tooth attended to. There are no lifts on the road as the owners are worried about damages to their vehicles therefore she has to walk in the blistering October sun. She passes near Nyahoni Irrigation Scheme where virtually nothing is taking place. This irrigation scheme used to be the pride of Njanja where wheat and maize among other crops were grown in winter drawing water from Nyahoni river. On reaching the clinic Mbuya Mhizha is informed that there is no medication to give her to relieve the pain.

By Anesu Pedzisayi

The announcement by the MDC led Harare City Council (HCC), citing the closure of the Morton Jaffray water treatment plant, due to the shortage of water treatment chemicals, has revealed beyond reasonable doubt that MDC has failed in running local authorities, cheating citizens from proper service delivery requirements.

By Claver Nyuki

South African opposition party, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema has come under heavy criticism following his SADC derogatory remarks during his visit to Zimbabwe’s former First Family’s home in Harare to offer his condolences to the passing of the later former President Robert Mugabe.

Malema called the Southern African Development Committee (SADC) ‘a group of old people,’ a ‘gentleman club’ who do not care about their people and only interested in consolidating each other’s power.