HARARE – The meeting between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and two United States senators Jeff Flake and Chris Coons — who are both members of Washington’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee — has shown that the US is in fact prepared to work with Zimbabwe once certain fundamental conditions are met. US-Zimbabwe relations have not recovered since…
HARARE – The requirement to stage regular elections that are both free and fair is one of the defining features of a liberal democracy. In past elections, pointedly the internationally condemned 2008 poll, thousands of Zimbabweans braved violence, intimidation and other obstacles to demand the right to express their will through the ballot box. At…
EDITOR — I write with so much pain in my heart. It is sad that years have gone by but still there is no answer to Itai Dzamara’s whereabouts. With the new dispensation one would think that answers would start trickling in but alas there is nothing. I am appealing to the media fraternity, civil…
HARARE – During his last days in power, deposed president Robert Mugabe earned himself mocking nicknames — frequent flyer and airborne-president, among many other unpleasant ones — because he was always on the next flight to attend a conference or make a State visit. The 90-year-old-plus leader made so many visits — gobbling billions of…
HARARE – Ever since taking over the reigns of power in November last year, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has been touting its ability to stage free, fair and credible elections this year. Whether this is going to be achieved remains largely dependent on the sincerity and confidence of the stakeholders, mainly within Zimbabwe and to…
HARARE – During his last days in power, deposed president Robert Mugabe earned himself mocking nicknames — frequent flyer and airborne-president, among many other unpleasant ones — because he was always on the next flight to attend a conference or make a State visit. The 90-year-old-plus leader made so many visits — gobbling billions of…
HARARE – For some time now, the buzz word has been Zimbabwe is holding watershed elections this year yet despite this excitement, no one knows actually when. President Emmerson Mnangagwa is by law empowered to proclaim the election dates and until he does so, civic groups, opposition parties and by extension, the national election management…
HARARE – Last week, illegal artisanal miners invaded Grace Mugabe’s Smithfield Farm in Mazowe in what appeared to be a politically-motivated occupation. Grace is thought to be the real force behind her aging husband’s volte-face over his resignation last November and his dim view of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration. [GoogleAd] It would therefore appear that…
HARARE – Land invasions were pushed into fashion by the Zanu PF government way back in the year 2000 as the party desperately tried to find other ways to placate an increasingly restive population. Then, the law was swiftly amended to legitimise these otherwise illegal moves that were led by veterans of Zimbabwe’s liberation war….
HARARE – Health minister David Parirenyatwa should just do the honourable thing and resign so as to save the little that is left of an ailing Zimbabwean health sector. The doctors’ strike that crippled the entire health sector for more than three weeks is testimony of his shortcomings. Parirenyatwa, who has now become a career…
