HARARE – Parcelling of land to Zanu PF youths in Norton ahead of last Saturday’s by-election which eventually won by an independent candidate and former legislator Themba Mliswa is akin to vote buying, political and social commentators contend. In a bid to win votes in the hotly contested Norton by–election pitting Zanu PF candidate Ronald…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s regime continues to manipulate the magnanimous relief effort by western governments and aid agencies, forcing the humanitarian agencies to make painful choices — either to stop dealing with the rogue and unsavoury government or turning their back on needy civilians. As first reported by the Daily News this week, aid…
HARARE – Independent candidate Temba Mliswa’s victory in the Norton by-election held on Saturday perhaps marks the beginning of a new trend towards political maturity on the part of the Zimbabwean electorate. The whole world was watching in the past month when Zanu PF officials — including vice presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko —…
EDITOR — Zanu PF bankrolls many development plans, economic blueprints every time when there is an election or when we near an election. This only highlights it’s intention to win all the elections. Last week, Zanu PF unveiled thousands of stands in Norton just in time for the by-election held yesterday. People should not be…
EDITOR – The preferential treatment the broke Zanu PF government has been according Zimbabwe’s uniformed forces through early payment of their salaries shows how President Robert Mugabe uses the divide and rule tactic to manipulate government workers. Government coffers are dry and we all know that. However, when an employer then religiously pays the uniformed…
HARARE – The death of veteran nationalist Cephas Msipa has robbed the nation of a political giant whose candid comments on contemporary Zimbabwean politics knew no boundaries. Msipa rose above party politics to be a father figure, something hangers-on in the ruling party, including President Robert Mugabe, are certainly missing. Here was a hero whose…
HARARE – In another country — or in a different Zimbabwe — the admission by the Parliamentary Legal Committee (PLC) that it okayed the Special Economic Zones Bill that was ultra vires the new Zimbabwe Constitution might have cost the entire committee its job. An alert executive had to send the Bill back to the…
HARARE – The resurgence of political violence is worrying. It is even frightening considering that the actors at play are Zanu PF whose government is accused of authoring the current economic problems ordinary Zimbabweans are enduring. There are so many things that are so wrong with the increasing violence and chiefly among them are Zanu…
HARARE – While it is well and good for opposition political parties uniting under the banner National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) to confront the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) on both the software/technical and hardware issues of the forthcoming crunch 2018 harmonised election, Nera must instead expend its energies on destroying the massive wall of fear…
BULAWAYO – The fight by journalists against politicians took a decisive turn during Watergate, during which a politician tried to assume power through illegitimate means. Richard Nixon, whom I first met in person at the old Lusaka airport in 1963, was seeking a second term in office as president of the United States. He had…
