HARARE – The human spirit can be indestructible. How many people of Zimbabwean origin were in church at Christmas? How many put on their best shoes, best suits, best dresses, best socks, shirts, underwear…just to show just how delighted they were to be celebrating Christmas? Never mind that some of them may have forgotten what…
HARARE – Former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s decision to collaborate and work with all opposition forces to dislodge Zanu PF from power is the only way the country can extricate itself from the current economic quagmire. The onus is now on all stakeholders to put behind their personal differences and work together for the benefit…
KENT – The year is nearly over, and for Zimbabwe, it has been a hectic one on the political front, dominated by internecine wars of succession in Zanu PF. The purpose of this article is to present, by way of summary, the big issues and incidents of the year. These are the major incidents and…
EDITOR — Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. This is absolutely true. Think about a world where everyone is educated or has knowledge; we would not be racists, or tribalists. We would not hate fellow human beings simply because they are doing better…
HARARE – Civil servants have already made their intentions of an industrial action early next year known after government reneged on its earlier promise to pay them their bonuses as well as December salaries on time. While we do not condone lawlessness — in any form — the country’s civil servants, who endured a bleak…
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa is pressed between a rock and a hard place as he tries to revive the economy at a time his Zanu PF party is engaged in deadly and bloodletting factional fights to succeed President Robert Mugabe. Over the past few months, the lawyer-cum-politician has been the most active of…
HARARE – The year 2015 has been a crazy year riddled with madness and nonsense. But above all, it has been the year of the fall; from President Robert Mugabe publicly falling at Harare International Airport in February to the Zanu PF conference in December held at the aptly named Victoria Falls at a time…
HARARE – It could be said without contradiction that we have witnessed our own violence: 20 000 killed in one incident alone. There had been no official war declared between the combatants — just stupid, unaccountable fury. In other countries, it had occurred in Parliament. MPs, dressed in their something-hundred-dollar suits, would pull out their…
HARARE – The government’s decision to stagger civil servants’ bonuses at a time when Treasury is struggling with depleting coffers smacks of hypocrisy on the part of those in power. This week, soldiers failed to access their promised bonuses — for the second time in two months — and there is no guarantee that any…
HARARE – Public Service minister Priscah Mupfumira’s admission that Zimbabwe currently has no money to pay its employees’ bonuses shows that government is not being practical in handling the issue. In April, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa announced that government had no capacity to pay its employees their traditional 13th cheque, only for his boss President…
