HARARE – The right to shelter is a right enshrined in our Constitution and we hope that our government that is in the habit of demolishing people’s houses will one day appreciate that sobering fact. Thumbs up to High Court judge Priscilla Chigumba who rapped government departments for illegally demolishing houses along Airport Road without…
HARARE – Zimbabwe must reciprocate the international community’s support in the fight against illegal poaching. This comes after the director-general of Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) Edson Chidziya told Parliament yesterday that poaching in the country’s nature reserves was skyrocketing alarmingly. Zimbabwe must show the world that we are serious about curbing the…
EDITOR — I write about what transpired on October 31, 2015 in Mabvuku at one of your shows where the fans were tear-gassed. I want you to know that I am a Dendera fan since the days of your father Simon “Chopper, Mr Benson, Mr Viscos” Chimbetu. When I see you perform the song Shura…
HARARE – The Grain Marketing Board is one of many State-run enterprises that are struggling to stay afloat owing to myriad of challenges that include poor corporate governance and the obtaining liquidity crunch. It is public knowledge that GMB has enjoyed monopoly in the grain sector for years but has continuously failed to break even,…
BULAWAYO – Being a journalist, particularly in Africa, can be hell on earth. It’s even worse when you are a columnist, which I have been since the 1960s.I wrote a column, Bits and Pieces From Harare, for The African Parade, before it became just Parade. I became editor of the magazine for a few months….
HARARE – Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila’s recent reward of brand new Toyota Prado four-wheel drive vehicles to all players and the technical team of his country’s national football team that recently won the African Nations Championship should be a lesson to the leadership of this country that routinely rewards mediocrity. Nothing exemplifies…
HARARE – Calls for protests to back a push for long-overdue electoral reforms have put Zimbabwe on guard, with opposition leaders seeing an explosion of mass anger “soon”. Yet to many, a sustained uprising, appears unlikely, at least for now. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai told a news conference last week that imminent mass protests will…
HARARE – We are now getting tired of the unending political drama in Zanu PF and we hope the powers that be have the sense and decency to focus more on bread and butter issues than these now nauseous brickbats which surely do not address the concerns of the general folk, who are currently wallowing…
EDITOR — I write this letter with disappointment following the number of vehicles that I see clamped within the Harare Central Business District. I am aware that the council is on a drive to make money but they also have to consider that vehicle owners would love to pay but most of the times do…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Monday threat to NGOs and civil society organisations is disturbing. If the president makes good his threat that aid agencies “must remain in their countries”, never mind that these groups do not receive any money from the Zimbabwean taxpayer, then the country will have seriously regressed overnight. Maybe the president…
