HARARE – While the January 14 to 15 violence and looting in protest over the 150 percent fuel price hike cannot be condoned, we doubt if those arrested over the disturbances are getting fair trials. With more than 1 000 people arrested throughout the country, those who have already stood trial are receiving sentences of up…
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s purge of generals, who helped him seize power from former leader Robert Mugabe has not come as a surprise to those who have always insisted that the booting out of Mugabe was a coup. When Mnangagwa took power with the help of then-army commander Constantino Chiwenga and his generals in November 2017, some…
Tuku Backstage, Mtukudzi’s only complete story The death of music superstar and national hero Oliver ‘Tuku’ Mtukudzi will see a number of books, documentaries and even films on him being produced. His story is a larger-than-life tale in which he released more than 60 music albums, several single records and featured in the film Neria…
Like many Manchester United fans around the world missing the good old days, I also regularly find myself reminiscing about the managerial prowess of Sir Alex Ferguson, whose inimitable success at one of the biggest clubs in the world has thus far proven difficult to match in the English Premier League. This has been particularly…
Growing up back then, this Village Idiot remembers well two Rhodesian slogans; ‘Rhodesia will never Die and Rhodesia is Super’. Looking at it today this remains true to the core. The Urban Idiot of today remains trapped in Rhodesian systems and ways because those systems were never meant to die and were designed to…
At a time when Finance minister Mthuli Ncube is implementing austerity measures that have only brought more suffering to ordinary Zimbabweans, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is behaving as if he is from another planet. Last week, our esteemed president and commander-in-chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces embarked on another expensive junket – this time to Addis Ababa…
ZIMBABWE Election Support Network (ZESN), the largest independent electoral watchdog in Zimbabwe had an eventful 2018 deploying thousands of observers to observe key electoral processes namely the biometric voter registration, the inspection of the voters’ roll, the nomination of election candidates, campaigns and on election day. As Zimbabwe begins a new electoral cycle, the Daily News on…
Is there no end to the circus obtaining in our country? We read from the usual sources — the State-owned rags — that the Pfeesident and a passel of other losing presidential pretenders in last year’s harmonised election met at State House under the auspices of what is being mischievously referred to as the national dialogue,…
HARARE – The Daily News reported in its Wednesday edition that the country’s railway company, the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) was using 70-year-old infrastructure, revealing how outdated its systems are. The NRZ is one State-owned firm that has been struggling for survival for years and yet it has great potential as it could move large…
Editor- Please, allow me to ask lawyers if it is legal for the president to appoint a second cabinet without wide consultations. It is obligatory for cabinet ministers to seek sound advice concerning each ministry then give proper advice to the president in turn otherwise the later may get conflicting information thus leading to taking wrong…
