HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s continued attacks on political rivals at a time the economy is imploding, is a sure sign that he is out of depth with issues confronting Zimbabwe. No one expects the president to insult both the dead and the living when there are pressing issues that need his urgent attention. On…
HARARE – With Zimbabwe’s economic ship facing certain Armageddon, amid signs of cluelessness on the part of the captain President Robert Mugabe, it’s high time the 91-year-old leader and his increasingly powerful but controversial wife, Grace faced up to the reality that they have failed. It is of paramount importance to mention Grace together with…
HARARE – Every time the Zimbabwe Agricultural show is held at the showgrounds in Harare, I am explosively reminded of Louis Satchmo Armstrong, who thrilled us with his All-Stars band in 1961 in Salisbury. If this is too far away for you to remember in detail, I forgive you entirely. There was a moment during…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday wasted a golden opportunity to pronounce key economic policies when he presented his State-of-the-Nation Address in Parliament that was long on rhetoric and short on solutions to a plethora of challenges affecting the economy. To say Zimbabwe is a pale shadow of its former self would be an…
HARARE – The government of Zimbabwe, in the last couple of years, has fuelled the ongoing economic malaise by implementing unsound policies and failing to resolve an acute and protracted accommodation crisis in institutions of higher learning. Unfortunately, this has affected female students more than their male counterparts. The girl child is vulnerable, that is…
LONDON – In the past few months, the US re-established relations with erstwhile archenemy states, Cuba and Iran. This was crowned with the reciprocal re-opening of embassies that had been shut down at the height of tensions. Like Zimbabwe, the two were among states labelled as “outposts of tyranny” by former US secretary of State…
HARARE – When President Robert Mugabe addressed the Sadc summit at the occasion of the end of his rotational chairmanship of the regional group, he, as usual, chose to look back and address issues which have nothing to do with today, matters that have long been resolved and are best left in the past. He…
HARARE – A recent head count by government on civil servants has exposed most employees who are in the habit of absconding from their work stations. The head count has affected close to 3 000 civil servants, 1 000 of whom are teachers. Affected teachers could even be more than this and it is a…
HARARE – The Zanu PF-led government is not being sincere in dealing with the current land scams and so-called land barons as only the “small fish” are being punished while the politically connected are walking away scot free. In the past few weeks, close to 20 land barons have been arrested on allegations of illegally…
HARARE – I know everyone is fed up with the continuous state of crisis in Zimbabwe but that is no reason for not paying attention to its implications. In 1976 it was an intervention by the American Secretary of State that attempted to address the political, economic and social crisis in Zimbabwe, compounded at that…
