HARARE – It started mildly and before one could realise, it had gone beyond imaginable proportions. The waters of Tokwe-Mukorsi dam had flooded its banks into homes of villagers living nearby, claiming lives and properties in its wake. Within days, the entire Tokwe Mukorsi flood basin was submerged in water. The flooding was caused by…
HARARE – On November 27, 2014, 5 000 Zimbabweans, 17 African diplomats, representatives of the embassies of Australia, France, Norway, India, USA and the UK as well as 31 local civil society organisations gathered to grace, witness and applaud a historic event. This was the signing of a re-unification agreement between the MDC led by…
HARARE – Events of the past few months suggest that Zimbabwe, under the continuing misrule of Zanu PF and President Robert Mugabe, is more and more beginning to feel like a fatal combination of the fabled Animal Farm and the ill-fated luxury ocean liner, The Titanic. The Titanic, as many Zimbabweans know, was a disaster…
HARARE – When President Mugabe fired Joice Mujuru and appointed Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko as vice presidents, he did not just reduce the presidium to an old boys’ club. He also betrayed the hope we all had that Zimbabwe would soon confirm its ultimate commitment to gender equality by electing its first female president….
EDITOR — Zimbabweans are panic-stricken over Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s (RBZ) pronouncement of the possible come-back of Zim coins as it provokes the bad memories of the then worthless local currency which was the protagonist of run-away inflation. RBZ seeded skepticism among citizens who are in a quandary as to what these coins hold for…
HARARE – While Zanu PF has been busy trying to put its house in order at the just ended 6th National People’s Congress, Zimbabwe’s economy has quietly been slipping deep into a rut. After all has been said and done at a congress that many described as a damp squib, nothing apart from worsening the…
HARARE – Not having attended any of the crucial sessions of the last congress in Harare, I had to rely on despatches from reporters and correspondents. But I also thought back to veterans of such confabs and tapped into the minds of two of them. Now, I know some people will doubt that these two…
HARARE – There was no way that after the 6th Zanu PF congress which ended last week, things would remain the same. One of the enduring images of the congress was the attack on fired Vice President Joice Mujuru and her allies by President Robert Mugabe, his wife Grace and Speaker of the National Assembly…
LONDON – Some years ago, there was a young university student called Lawrence Chakeredza. He was known as “Warlord”. Chakeredza was enigmatic, deluded, perhaps. He led a dodgy outfit named Sangano Munhumutapa, carried a walking stick, and at one time, went on a hunger strike on First Street to protest the state of affairs in…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s inordinate delay in naming a new Zanu PF presidium is fuelling speculation about the candidates that will be chosen to the top posts. In the week since Mugabe, 90, surprised the 6th Zanu PF congress by announcing he will not immediately name the presidium, he has provided little clarity on…
