The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC party needs to show the whole world what a free, fair and democratic election is when they hold their elective congress from May 24 to 26. This congress — the first after the death of the founding father, Morgan Tsvangirai — is an opportunity for the Chamisa-led party to lead by example…
With the formation of the MDC in September 1999, and its inaugural congress held at Chitungwiza Aquatic Complex in January 2000, the political landscape of Zimbabwe reached a positive point of no return. The ruling party Zanu PF, the complacent and degenerate liberation party, had almost succeeded in its long-held unholy ambition to establish a de…
Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world in celebrating international women’s month that falls in March. This year the celebrations are running under the theme, #BalanceforBetter. International Women’s Day is held to celebrate women’s achievements throughout history and across nations. In his solidarity message, President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Twitter said “International Women’s Day, we celebrate…
Entrepreneurship is the act of creating a business or businesses while building and scaling it to generate a profit. However, as a basic entrepreneurship definition, it’s a bit limiting. The more modern entrepreneurship definition is also about transforming the world by solving big problems. Like initiating social change, creating an innovative product or presenting a…
Psychotherapist Viktor Frankl emerged from the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps to found a new dogma of existential analysis which he named logotherapy and explained in his seminal book. [GoogleAd] He survived two of the worst Nazi death camps, Auschwitz and Dachau, spending his time trying to establish what made a person survive. The…
The Mutare City Council forensic land audit report covering 2007 to March 2018 has exposed rampant corruption in the valuation of stands in the local authority with low density stands selling for as little as 60 cents per square metre. Those who seemed to have benefitted were sitting councillors and other council officials who bought or…
Zimbabwean politics has for long been like reading a wrong syllabus for an examination and I see no end to this as we are already in the 2023 electioneering mode. [GoogleAd] I have concluded that the definition of Zimbabwean politics is ensuring the citizenry are confined to economic suffering, hold them captives of patronage, limit…
It is sad to note that more and more people are not able to afford healthcare facilities in this country. The situation is worse for women and children and the elderly are also finding themselves without much-needed healthcare, forcing them to flock to government institutions. [GoogleAd] The fact that people are forced to seek free…
Austerity measures announced by the authorities ostensibly to stabilise or resuscitate the comatose economy, are in reality an act of removing a life jacket to a situation that had drifted to the deep end. That Zimbabwe’s economy has ground to a halt is a painful truth hard to accept and believe. So much effort has or is…
ZIMBABWE has accumulated a gigantic debt which is creeping towards US$20 billion but with very little to show for it. A huge portion of that debt went into consumptive spending, with meagre amounts supporting infrastructure development and the productive sector. [GoogleAd] A significant component of the domestic debt (US$9,5 billion) was incurred not so long…
