LONDON – With the Zanu PF squabbles hopefully tapering off, it is time for the party to refocus on its election promises. One such promise was that Zanu PF would deliver 2,2 million jobs before 2018. So far, there is no indication that the party will fulfil this promise. This undertaking will be made even…
HARARE – We warned in a front page editorial in October last year that the malicious and egregiously false claims by quarrelsome First Lady Grace Mugabe, that former Vice President Joice Mujuru owned a 10 percent stake in the Daily News, portended worse State harassment to come for the newspaper. And it is all coming…
HARARE – In a week’s time, the Africa Cup of Nations finals begin in Equatorial Guinea, and it has become the norm that Zimbabwe will not be part of that jamboree once again. What a sad reminder it will be, when the tournament kicks off on January 17, of the dire state of the game…
EDITOR — The current onslaught against the Daily News smacks of a desperate regime clutching on straws to save its already tattered image. Where in the world does the State fail to understand that the shareholding of a company can be obtained from the Registrar of Companies’ offices. This does not even need a rocket…
HARARE – The year 2014 will go down as one of the worst Zimbabweans have had to endure since the introduction of the multiple currency system in 2009. Despite the country being endowed with vast natural and human resources, the majority of Zimbabweans continue to wallow in poverty with no hope of ever seeing things…
HARARE – My millions of apologies go to all readers of this column, as we approached the end of the year. I was not exactly AWOL (absent without official leave). If the truth be told, other people were absent from their stations when they should have been there. But, as an extremely forgiving African, I’ll…
LONDON – Writing in The Guardian newspaper, Stephen Pollard noted that great power comes with great paranoia. He refers to fears of autocrats such as the later former Venezualan ruler, Hugo Chavez, former Cuban strongman Fidel Castro and North Korean Kim Jong-Il. Some of the fear borders on lunacy, he notes. For instance, Chavez suggested…
HARARE – At 90, President Robert Mugabe deserves from time to time, to rest and his annual leave which takes part of December and January is a necessity given the complexities of being chief executive of a nation whose economy is in the intensive care unit. After a turbulent 2014, which climaxed in an unprecedented…
HARARE – It is now 16 ministers and deputies and the numbers are still rising. The Dr Grace Mugabe show is still on and no one can count themselves safe anymore. The axe is swinging fast and furious in all directions and there is a lot of “sacred” blood on the floor. After consolidating all…
HARARE – Mixed signals and confusing statements are not what Zimbabwe as a country and economy need right now, considering this is what has led us to where we are right now — a collapsing economy. What we desperately need at the moment as a nation is some form of direction and stability, which allows…
