Opinion & Analysis

HARARE – The new curriculum launched in January 2017 by the former Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora, which among other changes requires “O” Level students to sit for combined science practical examinations, is very progressive. It is inspiring in terms of government’s long-term plan of addressing Zimbabwe’s high unemployment rate through teaching students…

HARARE – During deposed president Robert Mugabe’s time, government was notorious of playing a blame game, coupled with focusing on symptoms rather than dealing with the root cause of a problem. This perpetuated untold suffering of the vulnerable ordinary masses. Today — under the new dispensation led by Mugabe’s successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa — Zimbabweans…

HARARE – As we report elsewhere in this issue, MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has withdrawn his court challenge against Thokozani Khupe over the use of the MDC name, symbols and logos. Had this occurred at another time, which is not towards elections, Chamisa’s decision would have been sweet music to the ears of…

HARARE – The worsening shortages of foreign currency, particularly the United States dollar, underline the mammoth task that government faces in its quest to make things work again. Part of the problem we face as a country is that when former president Robert Mugabe and the late MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai reached a political settlement…

HARARE – I have just finished reading an intriguing book by Steven Levitski, a well-known comparative political scientist. The 2002 book has given me very useful insights into Zimbabwe’s contemporary regime under President Emerson Mnangagwa. Apparently, Zimbabwe is neither a modern democracy nor a full time authoritarian regime. Mnangagwa is running a hybrid regime called…

HARARE – Politically-motivated violence must not be allowed to consume the moral fabric of Zimbabwean society to the extent of forgetting even the sanctity of human life. Last Saturday, a bomb blast rocked White City Stadium soon after a rally that was addressed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, missing the Head of State by a whisker…

HARARE – While we condemn in the strongest sense the bombing — it is totally unacceptable and regrettable — at a Zanu PF rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo last Saturday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration and the nation at large need not lose sight and focus on the myriad problems bedevilling Zimbabwe. Of note…

HARARE – When Sepp Blatter’s reign at Fifa ended, Gianni Infantino — the new president — embarked on a mission to spruce up the Fifa image after a raft of corruption and bribery accusations that had been thrown against the previous executives. Infantino even went on a charm offensive, visiting affiliates in many countries and…

HARARE – Despite the general consensus that the country did not benefit from the previous mining regime that existed in the Chiadzwa diamond fields before the formation of the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC), events on the ground suggest that it may not be long before we revert to the old order, which prejudiced the…