EDITOR — I am surprised as to what people are getting so excited about with regards the recent political developments in the country. I think this excitement is born out of desperation and frustration. If Mai Mujuru had not been booted out of Zanu PF, do you think she would be publishing that blueprint? This…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s appointment of new 14 ministers to his bloated Cabinet at a time the country is reeling from acute liquidity challenges — spawned by lack of productivity and huge trade deficit — is the final nail in the coffin for the moribund economy. Mugabe, battling internecine fights in his divided Zanu…
HARARE – My loyalties have always been divided between Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. I was born in Zimbabwe to Zimbabwean and Malawian parents. I owe allegiance equally to the three countries — no “buts” about that. I have lived most of my life in Zimbabwe. I spent seventeen-and-a-half years in Zambia and forged my journalism…
HARARE – The income and expenditure statement released by the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) this week after the Guinea match is another reminder that our football is slowly dying a natural death as control of the game remains in wrong hands. It is there for everyone to see that our football is managed by a…
HARARE – That former Vice President Joice Mujuru has rattled the cage of the warring post-congress Zanu PF, after she dramatically and unexpectedly announced her re-entry into formal national politics last Monday, is obvious for all to see. What particularly appears to be giving President Robert Mugabe’s brawling party the jitters is the prospect of…
HARARE – The Zanu PF-led government this week brimmed with joy that at least 8 000 graduates from the country’s tertiary institutions have applied to be placed on database for job placements abroad when opportunities arise. For a country that boasts of having an official unemployment rate of 11 percent — one of the lowest…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s state of preparedness for the forthcoming agricultural season anticipated to be hit hard by drought, should not be a matter of guessing. We are already coming from a disastrous 2014/2015 season which left the country’s food security in a precarious state. It is estimated that about 1, 8 million people need food…
HARARE – Of all the promises the Zanu PF government made during the 2013 election campaign, perhaps the one most supported is the pledge to reduce costly mandatory school fees. The new development blueprint ZimAsset emphasises that the education sector needs strengthening through a needs-driven system which would have strong scientific, vocational and technical bias…
LONDON – It has dawned on Zanu PF that its so-called resource nationalism has failed to produce expected results. Zanu PF had anticipated that over time its agrarian revolution would vivify Zimbabwe’s moribund economy. However, this has not happened or at least at the scale that it had anticipated. Fifteen years on, we have people…
HARARE – In the first part of a series of interviews with Zimbabweans now living in the diaspora, our Assistant Editor, Maxwell Sibanda, this week spoke to former journalists now based overseas on their perspective to the political, social and economic events in Zimbabwe; what they hoped for. Henry Makiwa (former journalist with Daily News,…
