HARARE – Local Government minister July Moyo has for the first time opened up on the Harare City Council (HCC) town clerk issue, saying he is waiting for council’s reaction to the Local Government Board (LGB) that they could not appoint a substantive incumbent from the list that they submitted. HCC had forwarded the names…
HARARE – Our politics have entered very interesting times with social media, as usual, going into overdrive peddling any form of lies that can be imagined, most casting aspersions on specific persons in political office. Scary stories of mabhinya (murderers) — alleged to have been terrorising the country’s southern provinces — to the juiciest political…
HARARE – Government officials have over the years disrespected Parliament by stubbornly refusing to answer questions from legislators. Just recently, Registrar-General (RG) Tobaiwa Mudede refused to divulge his age as he appeared before the parliamentary portfolio committee on Defence and Home Affairs chaired by Makokoba MP Tshinga Dube on issuance of primary documents. Instead of…
ONE area of success that Zimbabweans are proud of — rightly or wrongly — is the education of its citizens. Before independence, access to education was heavily skewed along racial lines. Correcting this became one of government’s top priorities soon after independence. The country’s literacy rate soared and, at around 90 percent, is today one…
HARARE – The hullabaloo over the $1,3 billion alleged to have been funnelled outside the country’s borders by greedy individuals and corporates turned into an anti-climax on Monday. The list of alleged culprits circulated by the Office of the President and Cabinet has raised more questions than answers. In fact, there was no attempt by…
HARARE – Perception is reality, so it is said. What is perceived is regarded as real. In most cases, once a negative perception tag is attached to something or someone, it is extremely difficult to shake off. That’s the crisis for Zimbabwe — a major one, particularly for its new leadership — President Emmerson Mnangagwa…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa, since assuming office on November 24 last year, has really tried hard to stamp his mark on the country’s politics. He has been consistent in preaching about economic reform, peace and re-opening Zimbabwe’s business to the outside world. It must be said that he has made mistakes too during this…
HARARE – While addressing captains of industries in the resort town of Victoria Falls last week, President Emmerson Mnangagwa pledged government’s commitment towards reviewing media regulations to allow more players in the sector. It would be foolhardy for anyone to believe any Zanu PF government can institute media reforms and dilute its hegemony on the…
HARARE – At the risk of stating the obvious, the “ease of doing business” is an inherently political term. Not merely because President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is using the term in each and every one of his major speeches. Locally and internationally. It is a phrase that is always sweet music to the ears of global…
HARARE – Robert Mugabe must never have imagined himself outside the Zimbabwean presidency. He was so drunk with power that his own family at some point actually thought Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans belonged to them. His SABC interview, organised by political flip-flopper Jealousy Mawarire, all but reflected how shocked Mugabe is to be out of power….
