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Zimbabwe: Constitution – Mnangagwa Power Play ‘A Great Betrayal of People’ 8 hours ago By Miriam Mangwaya President Emmerson Mnangagwa is repeating mistakes made by his predecessor Robert Mugabe by seeking to amend the constitution to entrench his rule, political analysts have warned. Mnangagwa and his ruling Zanu PF have been pushing through Parliament a raft of amendments to the supreme law, that critics say will result in the creation of an imperial presidency. Zanu PF has received the backing of an unlikely ally in the crusade to remake the 2013 constitution in the Douglas Mwonzora...

Outsourcing Stats SA’S functions or imposing hefty budget cuts a bad move By Opinion By Pali Lehohla MARIANA Muzzucato, a Presidential Economic Advisory Council member, has breathed life into the contestations about the political economy and the role of the government in the state. Muzzucato has introduced a concept of an entrepreneurial state. She has argued that state-owned entreprises (SOES) become the backbone and the interlocutor of the government and the private sector in achieving the mission of the state. Muzzucato dismisses the binary of the government as ineffective and the pri...

Opinion April 25, 2021 Each year towards the end of May we look to the Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) to report the gross domestic product (GDP) numbers, which is the official word on the amount of new wealth we create during the year. Policymakers see the GDP as a reliable measure of economic performance and make increasing it the main goal of economic policy. This year, it will be closely watched to see how far we managed to come out of the economic hole of the previous two years. The rough forecasts of GDP reported last week by international agencies put its growth at about 1.5 percen...

Minister for Health enables secure access to COVID-19 Data Research Hub   Today, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly TD, has launched an initiative to facilitate safe and secure access to COVID-19 data for valid health research purposes. The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has been maintaining a COVID-19 Data Research Hub since April 2020. To date this data has been used solely by a sub-group* of the National Public Health Emergency Team to conduct statistical analysis on healthcare data. Now, in partnership with the CSO and the Health Research Board (HRB), an application pr...

Researchers can now apply for access to Irish Covid-19 data Image: © tippapatt/Stock.adobe.com Registered researchers will be able to apply for access to Ireland’s Covid-19 data research hub. Since April 2020, Ireland’s Central Statistics Office (CSO) has been maintaining a Covid-19 data research hub. This data has been solely used by a sub-group of the National Public Health Emergency Team to conduct statistical analysis on healthcare data. Now, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly, TD, has launched an initiative that will make it possible for registered researchers to safely and secure...