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…
EDITOR — THE July 31st Movement heartily welcomes the initiatives by the South African governing party, the African National Congress (ANC) and President Cyril Ramaphosa, to deploy envoys and delegations to help resolve the multi-faceted humanitarian, human rights, socio-economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe. It is trite that there is definitely a crisis in Zimbabwe!…
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…
OPINION BLACK EDWARD WHILE trying to come up with a suitable headline for this opinion piece, a sub editor typed: Can Zim political parties change for the better? The chief sub editor read it, shook his head and then explained Betteridge’s law of headlines to the “sub”. This law is an adage that states:…
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…
OPINION by Tapiwa Mashakada WHEN people talk about a National Transitional Authority (NTA) it sounds like a new idea altogether. Yet there is nothing new about it. In my view, it is all about nomenclature or semantics. A transitional authority is a transitional government by any other name. The only difference is that the…
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…
THE preliminary outcome of the foreign currency (forex) auction system and other supportive measures introduced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) in June this year has been largely positive and inspiring, thus renewing many people’s belief and hope in the local economy. That said, Zimbabweans should remain mindful of the sobering reality that no…
