LONDON – There is no doubt that Grace Mugabe wields an immense amount of power within Zanu PF. After a hiatus on medical grounds, she is back with the usual swagger and rhetoric. Her remarks last week on Johannes Tomana, the prosecutor-general, and the call for his sacking after his comments on child marriages were…
HARARE – Recent revelations that vice presidents, Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko, go for briefings with First Lady Grace Mugabe, with empty heads and blank notebooks is a clear indication, not only that we have dysfunctional government and state structures, but that we have a 91-year-old leader who has, expectably, abdicated his role and his…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe, 91, is soon going to resort to a walking cane for support, tactile sense and mobility needs one of these days. He worries a lot about where his faction-torn ruling Zanu PF is going, but some of his prescriptions to guide the beleaguered party back to the narrow way post-congress…
LONDON – No society is perfect. Even the strident critics of Zimbabwe under the Zanu PF regime do not and cannot claim infallibility. America, Britain, Australia, Canada — you name them, are imperfect in all spheres of life, political or social. In the US, we can retreat as far as the Watergate scandal. Of late,…
HARARE – Worries about Zimbabwe are intensifying after the opposition threatened to unfurl mass protests over the deepening commonplace economic collapse. The threats have continued to drive fears about impending turmoil in the country. Morgan Tsvangirai has said he will mobilise his supporters to push for a respite to the painful economic hardships wrought by…
HARARE – While the ultimatum given by government and local authorities for vendors to move off town and city streets expires today, we urge extra caution in order to minimise confrontation and the potential damage to property as well as danger to human lives their forced removal may pose. Regardless of today’s deadline, vendors’ associations…
HARARE – The cold-blooded killing of nine African-Americans by a white supremacist, a Rhodesian — to make it really bitter for me — in the United States, reminded me immediately of my upbringing in The Old Bricks, Harare. It also rushed back warm memories of God, in whom I have believed since 1948 when I…
HARARE – Bungling by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) in the conduct of the recent Hurungwe West parliamentary by-election could be a harbinger of worse things, come 2018 general elections, unless urgent electoral reforms are implemented in earnest. Rita Makarau, Zec’s chairperson surprised all and sundry after issuing out a controversial statement — which also…
EDITOR — I write once again to remind the media fraternity, civil society and other concerned groups to continue to make noise about one of their own who has been missing for several months now; Itai Dzamara. So far, calls for his search or investigations about his abduction have died down to mere shrills here…
HARARE – Revelations by former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa that Zanu PF cheated in the 2008 poll are nothing new really. According to official figures, Morgan Tsvangirai garnered 47,9 percent of the March 2008 vote while Mugabe got 43,2 percent and these results took more than a month to announce as Zanu PF was…
