Opinion & Analysis

© VICIOUS internal political violence currently engulfing the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC, par- ticularly against former party secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora, is a waste of energy. Last weekend, Mwonzora’s car was attacked outside the party’s headquarters as tensions con- tinue to rise in the country’s biggest opposition. [GoogleAd] This Tuesday, rowdy thugs stormed an MDC meeting and…

© IT’S sad that the newly-minted notes and coins introduced on Monday into the national payment system by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) found themselves on the grey market, used to buy hard currency, mainly the greenback. The introduction of the notes and coins is part of measures by the central bank to ease…

FOR its intended mission, the anti-sanctions demonstration was a monumental flop with only a handful of people attending. Zimbabweans across the country rose to the occasion and made a bold statement — “We can’t be fooled anymore!” In fact, it turned out be a citizens’ demonstration to President Emmerson Mnangagwa that sanctions are not the…

© THE government’s initiative to enlist the services of commercial banks and more private sector players in the administration of a new financing model for Smart Agriculture for 2019 sounds noble, but the lending authorities should fully explain to farmers the consequences of defaulting on their loan repayments.  [GoogleAd] According the Finance ministry, three banks…

© WHAT has emerged in recent months through the barring of public demonstrations by the police is that our government is afraid of its own people and sees shadows everywhere. Why should government see doctors, nurses, civil servants and even the opposition as enemies of the state? And here we are talking of defenceless people…

© POLITICAL violence is an anathema and antithetic to democracy. It is the bottom of cowardice. The violence that broke out at the MDC headquarters, the Richard Morgan Tsvangirai House, at the weekend must never be condoned, but extremely proscribed. It is this kind of political intolerance and suppression of divergent views that led this…