HARARE – If President Robert Mugabe’s wife, Grace, is correct that senior Zanu PF officials are plotting relentlessly in dark corners to oust her long-ruling nonagenarian husband, then our national leader, his party and Zimbabwe as a whole, all face seemingly insurmountable problems to clear if our country is ever to come right again. Indeed,…
HARARE – While the International Monetary Fund (IMF) team noted that Zimbabwe has met all end-June 2014 quantitative targets and structural benchmarks under the staff-monitored programme, we still have a long way to go to grow our economy. The Zanu PF-led government must now lay the ground for a stronger, more inclusive, and lasting economic…
HARARE – The MDC is nearing the end of its nominations for candidates ahead of the party’s forthcoming elective congress at the end of this month. With seven out of 12 provinces having nominated their preferred candidates, we would like to applaud the MDC for maintaining peace and security in its internal elections thus far….
HARARE – Recently, I listened with fascination to an account of how little Rwanda transformed itself, after that horrific 1994 genocide — featuring the slaughter of mostly Tutsis and moderate Hutus — into an economically-viable State. There was unrestrained praise for Paul Kagame — despite his alleged dispatch of assassins to South Africa to get…
HARARE – That the centre cannot hold in Zanu PF is no longer a matter of conjecture — if events of the past few months in President Robert Mugabe’s party are anything to go by. And exactly six months after the Daily News perceptively warned in another front page editorial that anarchy was looming in…
HARARE – Italian philosopher, diplomat and historian Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli advised politicians that in pursuit of power, brutality should be the name of the game. In Zimbabwe, we have witnessed such brutality as politicians use barbaric means to gain power. But what we are witnessing in President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party has…
LONDON – There is dispute on whether it was Albert Einstein who coined the saying that “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” That controversy aside, it is an insightful aphorism. Now, President Robert Mugabe is not insane. He is one of the most intelligent rulers in Africa….
EDITOR – Zimbabwe boasts of having the highest literacy rate in Africa. For a country with a State president who holds a chain of degrees, the achievement comes not as a surprise to me. Whether people like or hate the president for his successes and failures as a person, when it comes to the strides…
EDITOR — Highlanders Football Club has continued with its disappointing performance this season, and it is time coach Kelvin Kaindu resigns. As Highlanders supporters we have been patient but the game over the weekend which our team lost to ZPC Kariba 3-1 was the final blow. The team has been losing to big teams such…
HARARE – One outstanding scene from the tragic sinking of the Titanic ship was the orchestra band’s continued playing of the music oblivious to catastrophe which had visited the mammoth vessel. Here in Zimbabwe, it is not hard to make comparisons with Titanic’s orchestra band and the rumblings in Zanu PF while the country is…
