HARARE – President Morgan Tsvangirai will join thousands from the MDC family at the party’s 16th anniversary celebrations that have been set for Nharira business centre in Chivhu on Saturday, September 12, 2015. At 16, the party has had a long history and has seen thousands of innocent Zimbabweans being brutally attacked, maimed or raped…
HARARE – Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote’s choice of investing in Zimbabwe became the most trending story of the past week. For a country that is in the throes of a moribund economy teetering on the brink of slipping into a dysfunctional state, it is expected that visits such as the one by Dangote last…
HARARE – Succession politics in Zanu PF is taking an interesting twist with many in the party now determined to see President Robert Mugabe’s back, albeit for different reasons. While the general card carrying member is reeling under the economic effects of Mugabe’s misrule and therefore wishing the 91-year-old leader calls it quits in anticipation…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is touted as having the most educated people in sub-Saharan Africa yet the country is so poor and lacks basic amenities that other countries enjoy, even those with more goats than people as Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo derisively described Botswana. If those degrees, professorships and other academic certificates that the likes…
HARARE – The suggestion, surely, is not that those who die in very old age — Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower — were only a bit on the good side. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, assassinated in 1963, died young. Whether he died good or bad, depends on you. The man was something of a womaniser. As the…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe is drawing her current political clout from her husband, power which will evaporate as soon as President Robert Mugabe is gone. Political and social commentators believe there will be a radical shift in power dynamics in the post-Mugabe era as power will naturally shift while Grace’s current boot-lickers will…
HARARE – Local authorities all over Zimbabwe, which have threatened to continue massive water disconnections to non-paying households, must first put their houses in order by improving deliveries and establishing credible billing systems before cutting people off. Most local authorities claim that consumers have not been paying their bills though their previous balances were scrapped…
EDITOR — Please allow me through your paper to express my sincere gratitude to the AFM Church in Zimbabwe for successfully holding their centenary celebrations. In a world that has given in to poverty, war, hate, adultery, homosexuality, crime and violence, the church has stood as the only source of hope for many often providing…
HARARE – Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote’s choice of investing in Zimbabwe is a huge statement which should be encouraging to all progressive forces in the country. Dangote is valued at $17,2 billion by the influential Forbes Magazine and has many interests across Africa where his conglomerate is involved in big projects. The Nigerian mogul…
LONDON – Sometime in the 90s, I and a former colleague, Lovemore Ngoma, went to visit a friend at a block of flats in the Avenues. As we walked in the courtyard, we passed a woman wearing black tights, and well behind her, a young girl. It all seemed a mundane encounter until a quick…
