HARARE – It started as a simple invitation to MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai to address the Royal Institute of International Affairs, but it appeared to have severely rattled our colleagues from what we have come to know as a party that claims overwhelming electoral victory but with underwhelming delivery on the ground. Tsvangirai has been…
HARARE – Last week, Zanu PF held a party to celebrate its “crushing victory” in last year’s elections. As has already been noted, there is something decidedly perverse about holding such a party at this time. For starters, it was just a pointless charade. How many political parties commemorate electoral triumphs a year later? Will…
HARARE – It has been a dark and desperate time for villagers relocated to Chingwizi holding camp. After the army moved in to quash protests by villagers rightly resisting relocation without compensation, most of them do not know where to run. Some have taken refuge in nearby mountains, with no access to food and other…
EDITOR — The situation at Chingwizi Transit Camp is now deplorable. Government should come up with a solution to the crisis as a matter of urgency. Sporadic outbursts of violence undermine efforts to successfully relocate the affected people as well as the law enforcement agencies. Government should be honest in its dealings with the Tokwe-Mukorsi…
HARARE – By their fruits ye shall know them. Matthew 7:15, 16 ‘Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves…Ye shall know them by their fruits’. We have to look at the fruits of the ministries of these Prophets. A wolf hides in sheep’s clothing to…
HARARE – There is a quaint foible associated with homopoliticus which they never let go that has a canine reference usually taken as insulting. Quisling is not amazed at all most homopoliticus take the ulterior trait as an operation manual even when no homosapiens want to be associated with a comparison that remotely equates them…
HARARE – Reports that debates in the Parliament and Senate which by their nature are supposed to be lively, intellectual and informative are a bore as legislators fail to raise quality questions towards cabinet ministers, make a sad reading. Sad because news items coming out in newspapers on debates in the Thematic or Portfolio committees,…
HARARE – Factional and power fights in the ruling Zanu PF have reached unprecedented levels and it appears President Robert Mugabe’s party has abandoned the people while individuals in the liberation movement scramble for power. At the top of the damaging fights in Zanu PF is the succession of their 90-year-old president and with the…
HARARE – For most people, the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games really kicked off last night when Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt began competing. That is, however, not the case for African countries like Nigeria, South Africa, Botswana and Kenya who have already achieved a number of successes in the Scottish capital. While Bolt’s appeal at…
HARARE – It is utterly disgraceful that President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party had the gall yesterday not just to “celebrate” their disputed victory in last year’s harmonised elections, but also to do this at State House of all places. Surely, if Zanu PF had anything worthy to celebrate, and many Zimbabweans will…
