HARARE – The combination of upcoming, potentially watershed elections and deadly infighting within the ruling Zanu PF party should make for exciting times for journalists. Not in Zimbabwe. At a time when news reporting should be at its most exciting, the trade has become a hazard as powerful and wealthy politicians sharpen the tools to…
HARARE – On Saturday Morgan Tsvangirai was endorsed as the leader of an MDC Alliance comprising six other political parties in a development lauded as historic by multitudes fed up with President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF rule which they blame for their troubles. But hardly had the celebrations cooled, did suspected MDC thugs cause…
HARARE – On Tuesday, hundreds of ordinary citizens witnessed a spectacle they felt would never occur in Zimbabwe — angry soldiers beating up uniformed police officers on the streets of Harare! Yes, it happened and much to the shock of many people. The incident was sparked by a reported use of police spikes on a…
HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s decision to introduce an additional $300 million bond notes will not help ease the current cash crisis. There was a lot of excitement and apprehension last year when the central bank introduced the $200 million Afreximbank-backed bond notes, with the majority of people hoping that the export incentive…
HARARE – Recent developments within the mainstream MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai, which point to the reality that the party is broke, is sad news. Sad news because, as the biggest opposition political party in the country that has “consumed” other small parties to form a grand coalition, everyone would have thought the MDC had…
HARARE – During the Mashonaland West youth interface rally last Saturday, Mugabe ordered the reinstatement of around 2 000 youth and gender officers who had been struck off the government payroll — as part of austerity measures — ostensibly because Cabinet had not sanctioned the move. For a government struggling to pay its workforce on…
HARARE – Chivi Rural District Council chairperson Killer Zivhu was off-side when he announced that there was no going back on the campaign by the Association of District Councils of Zimbabwe (ADCZ) to mobilise 2,3 million votes for President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF in the 2018 elections. Zivhu was speaking this week at a…
EDITOR — Following a clear defeat at the hands of Morgan Tsvangirai in 2008, President Robert Mugabe withheld the announcement of results as he planned a way of robbing Zimbabweans of sweet victory and force himself back onto the people of Zimbabwe. The alleged strategy involved misrepresenting the results to allow a re-run of the…
HARARE – Last week, there was furore in the National Assembly after Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa pulled a shocker — highly esteemed auditor-general (AG) Mildred Chiri was stepping down. The Treasury chief, to the dismay of legislators across the political divide, went on to announce that Chiri was to be succeeded by long-serving Industrial Development…
EDITOR — I think the chickens are surely coming home to roost now. The goings-on in the ruling Zanu PF party in the last couple of weeks have never been so ominous. We have seen men, real men being humiliated, mutilated and undressed in public by First Lady Grace Mugabe. All this has happened before….
