HARARE – President Robert Mugabe, who turns 93 in February next year, must use his annual leave in the Far East to reflect on his tenure as Zimbabwe’s only leader since 1980 and promptly do the right thing — resign. The nonagenarian leader and his Zanu PF-led government are solely responsible for ruining the country…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yet again missed another glorious opportunity to address the mounting socio-economic and political problems when he addressed delegates at the ruling party’s annual indaba in Masvingo. We are concerned that Mugabe, who turns 93 on February 21 next year, failed to address the economic and social problems affecting the generality…
EDITOR — I applaud the government for resolving to reintroduce student grants which were scrapped several years ago. The move will go a long way in assisting students to meet some of their requirements. Many students have dropped out of college over the years owing to financial challenges. This will definitely improve the quality of…
HARARE – Thoes who listened to the live television coverage of the official opening of the Zanu PF annual people’s conference last Friday must have felt very bad at the unrealistic position ministers were painting of the Zimbabwean economic situation. In an address to delegates attending the party’s jamboree in the country’s oldest city of…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s ridiculous claims that Zimbabweans love him so much that they want him to rule for life, notwithstanding his advanced age, is sycophantic to say the least. Zanu PF youths, through their secretary Kudzanai Chipanga, made a resolution at the party’s conference in Masvingo that the nonagenarian should die in office….
HARARE – What should have been President Robert Mugabe’s finest hour may be becoming his darkest. Mugabe admitted at a crucial meeting of his ruling Zanu PF party on Friday in Masvingo, 292km south of Harare, that his five-year economic plan — which requires $27 billion in funding and aimed at improving basic services and…
HARARE – Elsewhere in this edition, we carry a report that Zanu PF leader President Robert Mugabe — during an address to his party’s central committee meeting in Harare on Wednesday — slammed protesters and calls for electoral reforms that have been gathering momentum in opposition circles recently. In mocking electoral reforms, Mugabe is clearly…
EDITOR — As a nation, we need to come up with policies which will create room for trust from our citizens and international community. Mutual trust is the firmest building block in rebuilding the broken walls of Zimbabwe. Without it, the whole structure comes down. Trustworthiness is a highly-esteemed commodity. When one has it he…
HARARE – Thank you, Mr President, for delivering the much-anticipated State of the Nation Address (Sona) about 25 days before the close of 2016. I wish to dwell on three broad issues. Process and procedure, content and the person of the president. Your Excellency, you are turning 93 in slightly over two months and I…
HARARE – Recent victories in Gambia and Ghana by opposition political party leaders Adama Barrow and Nana Akufo-Addo respectively show that the winds of change are blowing in Africa. The Daily News spoke to analysts on how significant this development is to African politics and more so lessons for Zimbabweans and the opposition political poarties….
