HARARE – The dire water crisis across Zimbabwe, as a result of a prolonged El Niño-induced drought, has not only seen millions starve but is now posing a serious health hazard in the country, with the Health ministry warning of communicable disease — cholera and typhoid — eruptions. Last week, the Environment ministry raised the…
HARARE – Recent developments have confirmed Zimbabweans’ worry that Zanu PF — because of its power, influence and unaccountability — abuses State resources to its advantage, at the expense of national development. The party’s leaders have not denied this. They admit that they are using — and will continue to — State resources to prop…
HARARE – Sally Hayfron, President Robert Mugabe’s wife then, died on January 27, 1992. She was buried on February 1, 1992 at the National Heroes Acre — which has turned into a Zanu PF burial shrine — just outside Harare. In between those two dates, and I cannot recall which one now, her body was…
HARARE – The idea of stepping up Internet surveillance is gaining traction in Zimbabwe, with the reclusive State security agency now given a central role in governing cyberspace, and the Computer Crime and Cyber Crime Bill set to be passed in Parliament by December. Once a bureaucratic backwater, the State security agency was last week…
EDITOR – The preferential treatment the broke Zanu PF government has been according Zimbabwe’s uniformed forces through early payment of their salaries shows how President Robert Mugabe uses the divide and rule tactic to manipulate government workers. Government coffers are dry and we all know that. However, when an employer then religiously pays the uniformed…
EDITOR — Zanu PF bankrolls many development plans, economic blueprints every time when there is an election or when we near an election. This only highlights it’s intention to win all the elections. Last week, Zanu PF unveiled thousands of stands in Norton just in time for the by-election held yesterday. People should not be…
HARARE – With many saying hip-hop artiste Stunner had finally met his waterloo after he drove without a driver’s licence and rammed into four parked vehicles, the controversial rapper conjured up a great escape. The former boyfriend of Big Brother Africa star Pokello, who has often been accused of being shallow and arrogant, surprised many…
HARARE – Friends and relatives of late nationalist Cephas Msipa, who are opposed to President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF, say they fear attending the much-loved former Midlands governor’s burial at Heroes Acre in Harare today in the light of the escalating violence being perpetrated by ruling party thugs. Former Zanu PF spokesperson and now…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s stone-broke government is headed for another showdown with restive civil servants who say they are fed up with the preferential treatment that it continues to give to the military. This comes after the government once again prioritised the military and other uniformed forces in its staggered salary payment schedule for…
HARARE – Leader of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Tendai Biti, who this week suffered a heavy blow after his party was hit by further defections, has vowed never to return to the MDC and work with its president, Morgan Tsvangirai. This is despite the MDC willing to work together with its former members —…
