HARARE – Cabinet is an important government arm that should deal with serious policy issues. However, it is shocking that President Robert Mugabe’s learned Zanu PF colleagues last Monday spent valuable time talking about tsikamutandas (witch-hunters) during a Cabinet meeting. This is Mickey Mouse business by any measure to warrant Cabinet’s attention because the law…
HARARE – Recent reports that a South African preacher Lethebo Rabalago sprayed a pesticide (doom) to gullible congregants claiming that it has a healing effect has divided opinion among local preachers, with some defending his act while others described it as a desperate move to get popularity. Bright Light Prophetic Deliverance Ministries founder Bright Chikomo…
HARARE – The skepticism surrounding the mooted Natonal Health Insurance Scheme — to be run by the National Social Security Authority (Nssa) — is not without reason, given government’s proven failure to exercise financial prudence. There is nothing wrong with a national health scheme as other countries are running similar schemes, and successfully too. In…
HARARE – Unconfirmed reports in the past few weeks that Zanu PF bigwigs and some command agriculture beneficiaries are abusing inputs availed to them endorses our suspicions that the Soviet-style initiative to shore up maize production does not work. Under the special programme, the government identified farms that will be required to produce maize for…
HARARE – I first met Masimba Musarira, around 1976, a few weeks before he became a radio announcer and content producer at the then African Service of the Rhodesia Broadcasting Corporation (RBC), now Radio Zimbabwe at Mbare Studios (then Harare Studios). I had joined the corporation earlier in February 1974. Masimba’s elder brother, the late…
HARARE – We are not sure whether President Robert Mugabe, who is in Cuba for the funeral of his ally and dictator Fidel Castro, would have returned home on Thursday and give us his State of the Nation Address (Sona) but we have some points that we hope he will cover on the day, provided…
HARARE – The introduction of bond notes has, without doubt, evoked the 2008 memories, as more and more people remain sceptical over the surrogate currency’s value and if it will last the distance, considering the profiteering mentality prevalent in Zimbabwe. It is government’s duty to put measures that will ensure that the currency is not…
HARARE – Elsewhere in this newspaper, we carry a story on the Harare International Festival of the Arts (Hifa)’s call for applications from artists wishing to be part of its 2017 edition. This is a rare dose of good news for our artists who suffered in a big way when Hifa pulled the plug on…
HARARE – A fish rots from the head is an old phrase whose origins are not entirely known but whose meaning is so poignant to the Zimbabwean crisis. It is common knowledge now that Zanu PF is a party that thrives on corruption and that its leader President Robert Mugabe is not sincere in tackling…
HARARE – That all nominees for this year’s ZimRights sponsored People’s Choice Award for defenders of human rights in the country are anti-President Robert Mugabe activists give credence to the widely held view that the nonagenarian is the architect of rights violations in Zimbabwe. From opposition MDC legislator Jessie Majome to exiled #ThisFlag pastor Evan…
