HARARE – Zanu PF officials should be grateful that Britain, the United States of America and European Union, EU is re-engaging them as they continue to ease sanctions on its members. This year the EU removed a further 81 people from the sanctions list, leaving only 10 who include President Robert Mugabe and his wife…
HARARE – Tomorrow, April 18 is an important calendar date for Zimbabweans as we celebrate 33 years of self-rule. There has been mixed reactions to this year’s Independence Day, with analysts and social commentators giving different views in interviews carried out by the Daily News. Rashweat Mukundu, a media practitioner said Zimbabweans need not regret…
HARARE – The indigenous people of Zimbabwe have since independence in 1980 been waiting patiently for that day when the economy would open to them unconditionally and let those with entrepreneurial zeal to enter and participate in the mainstream economy on terms equal to the incumbents. Against the aforementioned, this week captains of industry launched…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and his bitter political rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai might be sworn enemies. But, whenever they privately meet, they are sure to agree they have a common headache — fierce factionalism driven by top officials with an eye on succession. Impending primary elections to choose candidates in both parties have…
HARARE – “Peace begins with you, peace begins with me; peace begins with all of us!” The aforementioned wise words have been popularised by President Robert Mugabe who at recent State events asks those in attendance to repeat them after him. Mugabe says these are not his words, but those of the late John Nkomo….
BINGA – One has to travel to Binga District in Matabeleland North Province to understand why people here, who are mainly Tonga, have been rejecting Zanu PF since Independence while keeping loyalty to opposing parties. Roads are out of shape, health centres are kilometres away and mud structures make for classrooms, in the few areas…
MUTARE – Mashonaland Turf Club betting hall in downtown Mutare could pass for an old people’s home common room. Old men, some with failing sight, strain at small font on pieces of paper. Others shuffle around consulting their peers. These oldies use the little dollars they have on betting. From horse races in South Africa…
HARARE – Murewa North villagers are wallowing in poverty as their crops have been affected by incessant rains, while the local leadership has abandoned the constituency resulting in general lack of development. Villagers survive on subsistence farming but they are failing to make a living because of climate change and are at a loss to…
HARARE – In Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison on the outskirts of Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, there are 77 convicts who have been condemned to death by hanging. Held in solitary confinement in cells close to the gallows, some of those condemned to death have been there for more than a decade, their appeals rejected by President…
HARARE – We read with a lot of interest a recent decision by the European Union (EU) to drop from their so-called sanctions list a number of key Zanu PF leaders and some institutions. In Zimbabwe, there is a general belief and misconception that the EU was doing the right thing by imposing sanctions supposedly…
