LONDON – For nearly 35 years, we have lived under self-delusion. That delusion is that, we, the totality of Zimbabweans “own” this country. We hear about sovereignty that must be guarded jealously. Ordinarily, yes, that is what popular sovereignty presupposes — that all of us have ownership of a country. But, in our case, this…
EDITOR — The deplorable state of the roads in Zimbabwe characterised by numerous potholes, some too big that they have become craters, accurately reflects the 34 years of the nonagerian President Robert Mugabe’s misrule. It is a truism that most of the tarred roads where constructed during the Ian Smith regime era, that is before…
HARARE – Local football clubs must treat their long-serving players with more respect than what is happening at the moment. One good example is the way one of the country’s biggest clubs Dynamos have handled the issue regarding their long-serving captain Murape Murape. The Glamour Boys leadership have made it clear that they are not…
HARARE – We meet again after a very bleak so-called festive season at a time when the national predicament is worsening every day. The signs of national leadership failure are now even more glaring for everyone to see, with government now literally lurching from one crisis to the other. With paralysis everywhere, the President, insensitive…
HARARE – As Zimbabwe enters 2015, media practitioners have called on the government to move swiftly to align media laws to the new Constitution amid deadly succession fights in the ruling party that have put press freedom on the back burner. Media practitioners told the Daily News on Sunday that as long as there are…
HARARE – With little or no notice, the police burned and demolished scores of homes at a farm in Mazowe to make way for President Robert Mugabe’s rapacious wife Grace — who wants to expand her vast business interests in the area. Scores of Zimbabwean citizens lost their homes and livelihoods as a result of…
HARARE – Barely two months after agitated low-ranking members of the governing Zanu PF party fired provincial executives from their posts ahead of a Congress at the behest of ambitious politicians, is the damaging trend replicating in some party structures in Matabeleland. Politicians have profited from buying out the souls of poor party members in…
HARARE – The only time President Robert Mugabe ever said anything to me, personally, was when he asked, accusingly: “What did you do to President Kaunda?” Senior journalists in Zimbabwe will recall that incident in Harare, at a gathering of many of us, with the president holding forth. I had just been introduced by name….
EDITOR — I refer to the story “Chinotimba invades 300ha farm”. And so this is the wise, caring, humorous MP and the one who won some “human rights” award? Truly, I am gobsmacked at this nation’s stupidity. Zimbabwe is never going to go forward, only backwards. Although late in the day, we thought that Lands…
HARARE – Incessant rains that pounded the country last week exacerbated an already difficult situation for Zimbabwe’s 2014/2015 farming season by flooding fields across the country. The season, which began badly for farmers after the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) last year failed to pay farmers on time, has been hurtling from one challenge to another…
