OF late we have been running stories on the re-emergence of factional fighting in Zanu PF ahead of the re-introduced district coordinating committees (DCCs) elections. The countdown to the polls has been marred by tribal and regional fights and our worry is that the cacophony will derail President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government from focusing…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has in recent weeks been talking more on the need for accelerated production than divisive politics that has resulted in social development stagnation in the country. He recently launched an ambitious US$8,2 billion agriculture industry by 2025 strategy, which he followed up last week by commissioning a US$50 million Belarus agricultural mechanisation…
THE reopening of learning institutions around the country, especially primary and secondary schools — though phased and allowing some bit of room to rethink on the part of authorities — has shown just how crucial adequate consultations are in coming up with key decisions which affect people’s lives. Schools closed at the end of March…
IN recent weeks we have observed the government relaxing measures that were put in place to contain the lethal coronavirus pandemic, a move informed by a huge decline in Covid-19 infections. Though the country is yet to flatten the coronavirus curve, the government is optimistic that as we get into summer, infections will become less…
IT APPEARS Zanu PF officials have moved back into their default mode — burning the midnight oil, plotting and scheming on how to unseat the party’s current leadership in a replay of the costly factionalism that we have always seen since the era of the late former president Robert Mugabe. At the expiry of the…
THERE has been a lot of posturing and public stunts, among many other signals from Zimbabwe’s political leaders on how to solve the political and economic crises affecting the country. While the political leaders — both in the ruling party and opposition — are individual persons, entitled to their own opinions, what they show in…
A DELEGATION from South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) will be in Harare tomorrow to meet the governing Zanu PF on an exploratory mission to find ways the regional economic powerhouse can assist in ending decades-long political and economic crises. The 10-member South African team, led by ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule, was mandated to…
OF LATE there has been a wave of interpretations of the government’s stance on land reform, with most suggesting the President Emmerson Mnangagwa administration is reversing one of the key gains of the post-independence era. Although the government has been very clear on what is currently happening, there is a deliberate ploy to misinform the…
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba is dead right that Zimbabwe cannot farm out for solutions to its myriad of problems and that it will be expecting too much from South Africa to resolve our challenges. South Africa is saddled by many problems — critically the emotive land question, state capture and the latest moves by hawks…
ZESA Holdings at the weekend announced the re-introduction of electricity load-shedding lasting a total of 10 hours daily as a result of breakdowns at Hwange and Kariba power stations. It also said it was not getting adequate electricity imports, mainly from South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, which is also experiencing shortages. “Zesa Holdings would like…
