LONDON – In any civilised society, Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana would have, of his own accord, resigned or been sacked. It is not surprising that his comments which seemed to condone child marriages would have, to use an exclusively Zimbabwean media lexical invention, “torched a storm”. Tomana is the prosecutor-in-chief who is supposed to protect the…
HARARE – Finally, Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jonathan Mashingaidze has met his match after he was dressed down by Walter Magaya, founder and leader of the Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries. For many years, Mashingaidze and Zifa president Cuthbert Dube have run the local game unchallenged while making some ludicrous decisions….
HARARE – Miss Zimbabwe Trust, holders of the Miss Zimbabwe should be professional enough in handling affairs of the national beauty pageant. The Trust recently held a “press conference” at which they exclusively invited one journalist from the state media to cover their announcement to expel reigning Miss Zimbabwe, Emily Kachote. Marry Chiwenga, the Miss…
HARARE – One out of every 700 people in the world is in prison and the world’s prison population stands at over 9 million. The continent of Africa is home to 53 countries, roughly 3 000 prisons, and approximately 1 million prisoners. Prisons in many parts of the world are in crisis. The prison crisis…
HARARE – Prosecutor General Johannes Tomana’s comments recently that 12-year-old girls could engage in consensual sex must have come as good news for sex predators and lustful paedophiles. However, the careless comments must have ruffled a lot of right-minded Zimbabweans. And to imagine the PG’s comments came barely a week after Zimbabwe joined the rest…
HARARE – It is known in journalistic scholarly work that the truth cannot be captured in its ontological state (state of being) and only God can access truth in this purified uncontaminated form but the various professional practices that are taught to every reporter like the need for professionalism, impartiality, balance and “truthfulness” are meant…
HARARE – South African judge Hans Fabricius’ decision that Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir be prevented from leaving South Africa until an application that he be arrested is finalised in court is a lesson to African dictators that the long arm of the international law will eventually catch up with them. Dictators around the continent must…
EDITOR — The hiking of admission fees by 100 percent with effect from last week by Parirenyatwa Hospital spells doom for thousands of Zimbabweans who do not have medical insurance. This means that 90 percent of the 13 million population who do not have medical insurance and at least 80 percent of the unemployed will…
HARARE – Zanu PF’s ‘‘victory’’ in Wednesday’s sham by-elections in 16 constituencies countrywide is a sad development for democracy. President Robert Mugabe’s party, put in almost everything into the campaign including uncouth methods like forcing headmen to take people for voting, intimidation and violence like in the case of Hurungwe West. This no doubt vindicates…
HARARE – My first sight of the front-page picture of President Robert Mugabe on the the Daily News last Monday made me take a second look: What had they done to the man? Well, it was not a cartoon. It was a genuine photograph of a man sitting down and sort of sleeping his head…
