HARARE – The let-us-fight-corruption mantra in Zanu PF is now a boring political rhetoric that has long ceased to invoke excitement among the generality of the population. And therefore we are by no means excited by Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s pronouncements in the past few weeks that the President Robert Mugabe-led government is now determined…
HARARE – It is a terrible indictment on President Robert Mugabe and his warring Zanu PF that Zimbabwe, under their misrule of the past 36 long years, has more often than not resembled a fatal combination of the fabled Animal Farm and the ill-fated luxury ocean liner Titanic. The Titanic, as many Daily News readers…
HARARE – Over the last few years, very little good news have come out of Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) as the game has continued to decline. There are the odd limited overs victories over India, Pakistan and New Zealand but ultimately the team would go on to lose the series. Obviously, there are the maiden Test…
BULAWAYO – In 1980, by the time I left Zambia after nearly 17 years of residence and many years of citizenship, I had not heard of Edgar Lungu. Today, he is the No.1 citizen of that copper-rich country. Foreign heads of State descended on Lusaka to be present during his inauguration. I went to the…
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa missed it completely in his mid-term fiscal policy on Thursday when he announced that government intends to retrench 25 000 civil servants because that is not the answer to Zimbabwe’s economic problems. Instead, he should have been bold enough to just retrench one person: President Robert Mugabe. Zimbabwe’s populace…
HARARE – We are now losing count of the number of times that President Robert Mugabe has left the country amid chaos to attend to useless foreign functions which have little significance or bearing to Zimbabwe as a nation. Mugabe, who was in Swaziland, United Arab Emirates, then Zambia in a space of two weeks,…
HARARE – As rightly predicted by the Daily News on September 11 that President Robert Mugabe doesn’t care about anyone else or the economy except for his own well-being, the increasingly frail nonagenarian has overturned a decision to scrap bonuses by Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa. Mugabe’s decision is not only shocking but goes to prove…
HARARE – Elsewhere in this edition, we carry a story in which opposition political parties have vowed not to be cowed by President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF’s threats against protests. Police on Monday issued notice of a second ban on public demonstrations and processions, arguing it was provided for in the Public Order and…
HARARE – Most christians, must be much more familiar with the biblical story of how John the Baptist was beheaded at the vengeful request of Herod’s step-daughter — Salome — and her mother. The story has a lot of political undertones in that, John was a mere man — held in high regard by the…
HARARE – In yesterday’s edition of the Daily News on Sunday, we carried a story in which we quoted Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo slamming institutions that confer dubious degrees, as well as beneficiaries of the same. The minister, in our opinion, was spot-on. The country is now flooded with institutions that confer…
