HARARE – Last week, a parliamentary delegation visited prisons in the capital — Chikurubi Maximum, Chikurubi Female as well as Harare Central prisons — to assess the conditions in which inmates live. This came as Chikurubi Maximum Prison was, in March, rocked by riots over food and other living conditions. The major reason why offenders…
HARARE – The wave of political expulsions in Zanu PF is not subsiding yet Information minister Jonathan Moyo calls its genesis, the accusations of wanting to topple President Robert Mugabe levelled against former Vice President Joice Mujuru and a host of other party leaders by a hysterical First Lady, Grace ‘Dr Gucci’ Mugabe, “political banter”….
HARARE – Years ago, in Zambia, I witnessed a moment of intimacy and warmth between two people — then President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia and his then special aide, my former editor-in-chief at Times Newspapers, Milimo Punabantu. Kaunda asked Punabantu, a short, rather plump man, if he could “prepare our special dish”. It was a…
HARARE – The non-accountability of $3,5 billion government funds — as exposed by the Comptroller and Auditor-General — brings to the fore the Zanu PF-led government’s lack of transparency with public funds. A report tabled before Parliament this week revealed that the ministry of Finance failed to provide its books to be audited, in line…
LONDON – It ought to be accepted as sound practice that when one uses services he or she should pay for them. It should also go without saying that when one borrows money, he or she should repay the debt. These obligations are commonsensical, universal, and their execution independent on one’s race or background. For…
HARARE – Cuthbert Dube has fallen! His fall as the Zifa boss should breathe life in local football which has seriously regressed during the tenure of the deposed Harare businessman. Zifa councillors met in the capital on Saturday and wielded the axe on Dube and two other board members — Fungai Chihuri and Tavengwa Hara…
HARARE – The Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) stance of warning the Zimbabwe cricket team against travelling to Pakistan is a welcome move. But Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) is adamant that the tour will go ahead despite the escalating terrorist attacks that have been taking place in the south Asian country in recent weeks. The SRC,…
HARARE – The Harare East by-election contest between two Zanu-PF candidates, Mavis Gumbo and Terence Mukupe, has come as a blessing to the country for it is unravelling deep secrets within Zanu PF that might help expose the duplicity characterising our politics and the attendant corruption that drives Zanu PF programmes and activities. Suddenly the…
HARARE – During the Zimbabwe Republic Police pass-out parade at Morris Depot in Harare last week, President Robert Mugabe implored on the graduating cops to shun corruption. In any normal situation, we could have welcomed this plea, especially as it came from the highest office in the land. Said Mugabe in his address to the…
EDITOR — The MDC has been totally taken aback by the crude and bizarre remarks that were made by Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko in Masvingo last Thursday regarding the Gukurahundi genocide. What we find totally appalling is the fact that this is the second time in as many months that Mphoko has uttered irresponsible, insensitive…
