HARARE – Our hearts go to the people of Zambia who have suffered the loss of yet another leader in power, President Michael Sata, following the death, also in power, of President Levy Mwanawasa in 2008. The 77-year-old King Cobra, as the fiery Sata was popularly referred to in Zambia, modelled his personal and party…
HARARE – Following my opinion piece in the Daily News last Thursday, in which I exposed professor Jonathan Moyo’s strategy of inviting fellow weevils to destroy Zanu PF from within, he reacted by causing a strategic meeting of Zimpapers senior staffers in Victoria Falls at the weekend. Among other things, Moyo resolved to create dirty…
HARARE – Since women met at the emotive Beijing Conference in 1997 to map out strategies to wrestle concessions from men regarding their justified desire to participate in influential positions in various aspects of life, they have made significant progress towards that goal. The number of women that have breached an erstwhile restrictive social policy…
HARARE – A few weeks ago, I recounted a conversation I once had with an old friend, William Bango, who is now sadly departed. I had just taken up a new role and had done a few weeks when he approached me with a word of advice. “Magaisa,” he said, “Do not let them drag…
HARARE – THE savage mauling that Vice President Joice Mujuru is receiving at the hands of First Lady Grace Mugabe and her Zanu PF faction is raising fresh debate about Zimbabwe’s poor treatment of veterans of the liberation war, their widows and families. No one can dispute, for example, the fact that the late decorated…
HARARE – It is a fair question for Zimbabweans to ask President Robert Mugabe and his long-ruling Zanu PF party when the nation can expect them to make up their minds about the real cause of our country’s never-ending political and economic problems? According to the heretical Zanu PF gospel, it was, first, Morgan Tsvangirai…
LONDON – Throughout the past fortnight, commentators and analysts have proffered opinions on the motivations for Grace Mugabe’s public attacks on Vice President Joice Mujuru. From the onset, the purpose of her rallies was confused as reflected by the failure to ascribe a name to them. At times referred to as “meet the people” or…
HARARE – So much has gone wrong inside President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu PF party over the past few months, with the injudicious recent utterances of his termagant wife, Grace, adding fuel to the fire. In fact, so fouled have relations become inside Zanu PF that even respected veterans of the party, such as Cephas…
HARARE – The Premier Soccer League (PSL) disciplinary committee wasted a good chance of sending out a strong signal to football hooligans when they fined Highlanders a paltry $2 500 last week. Bosso fans ran amok after the club’s 1-3 defeat to ZPC Kariba last month throwing missiles onto the pitch as they demanded the…
HARARE – It is never easy to focus the spotlight on one so high, such as the spouse of the leader of the Republic, but the recent random behaviour of President Robert Mugabe’s wife, Grace, compels us to ask — out of genuine growing concern for her and our country — whether indeed she is…
