HARARE – Information minister, Jonathan Moyo has taken the unusual step of defending First Lady Grace Mugabe’s doctorate that has been the subject of much discussion and speculation over the past few weeks. But instead of shedding light and bringing finality to the matter, as Moyo might have hoped to achieve, his move has seemingly…
HARARE – We feel for Information minister Jonathan Moyo as he scrambles to try and undo the political and public relations disaster that First Lady Grace Mugabe’s “Meet the People” tour around the country has become. Our sympathy for the indefatigable minister emanates from the fact that his endeavours look doomed to fail because the…
HARARE – On several occasions, Justice and Legal Affairs minister, Emmerson Mnangagwa has expressed consistent revulsion for capital punishment as a person who experienced the excruciating agony of being consigned to the death row. And when he vowed not to sign any death certificate brought before him regardless of the consequences to his political and…
EDITOR — Heal Zimbabwe Trust notes with concern the sentiments by the First Lady of Zimbabwe, Grace Mugabe that she will “spill blood” if anyone attempts to remove her from her Mazoe Farm that she grabbed from a white commercial farmer and owner. She said this to hundreds of ruling party supporters at the Zanu…
HARARE – She is now halfway through the comedy show that will take her to the country’s 10 provinces, but the nation’s laughter is unrelenting as the slapstick continues to unravel. We may have watched similar comedies, from Mukadota to Sabhuku Vharazipi to Paraffin, but the Grace Mugabe Show beats them all because this one…
LONDON – Ever since she married President Robert Mugabe, Grace has barely been the darling of many. Her well-attended rallies seem to disguise a groundswell of dislike — judging by a slew of online comments unprintable here — which reached a crescendo after the award of a PhD to her by the University of Zimbabwe….
HARARE – Robert Mugabe has unleashed a Frankenstein which he will not be able to control! He is behaving like a man riding on the back of a hungry tiger! These were startling but very serious warnings delivered to the President by the late professor of politics at the University of Zimbabwe — Masipula Sithole….
HARARE – The savage Zanu PF intra-party fighting that exploded in Mutare on Friday at Grace Mugabe’s rally exposes the ruling party for what it is: a declining movement which banks on its famed PhDs in violence and thuggery to remain in power, as its 90-year-old leader once boasted. The shameful violence also exposed the…
HARARE – Zimbabweans must not get too excited at the prospect of hosting the 2017 African Cup of Nations (Afcon) finals or else they will be greatly disappointed. Last week, the Confederation of African Football (Caf) announced that seven countries namely Algeria, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Sudan and Zimbabwe had submitted their bids to host…
HARARE – It is said that the tallest trees catch the strongest winds and are the first to be blown over in a storm. The First Lady, Grace Mugabe, is in all likelihood internalising the truth of this saying ever since she decided to run for high office in Zanu PF, amid the party’s ugly…
