EDITOR — Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) had provided a rare opportunity to us by including Harare among its flight destinations. The suspension of the service is a big blow to this nation as it had provided a window for tourist travel. Amsterdam is a major tourist depot and it was only a matter of time…
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…
HARARE – In his 1979 epic, The Press In Africa, Frank Barton writes of the African journalist having degenerated into an “endangered species.” His primary theme was that since the dawn of independence from colonialism in 1957, this particular scribe had slowly lost identity as a watchdog of society’s rights and privileges, to become a…
EDITOR — The number of people dying in Zimbabwe’s roads is too much and government needs to act now to ensure that our roads are safe. What is surprising is why we have so many accidents yet there are lots of road blocks on our roads manned by officers supposed to ensure our safety. When…
HARARE – As calls for economic dialogue are getting louder by the day, the onus is now on the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) which began its annual congress in Mutare yesterday to be bold and speak frankly with government on the need to revive the economy. It is now clear to all and sundry…
HARARE – When the Buhera South MP Joseph Chinotimba said that white farmers never used to be charged for electricity usage, I was tempted to go and ask Zesa Holdings (Zesa) to reimburse me for all the electricity I used and paid for while on my farm purchased legally in 1990 but forcibly seized in…
HARARE – A year after last year’s July polls, government has no positive message to communicate to the electorate about why we still hang on to vestiges of a constitution foisted on us decades ago. Over time, the Lancaster House constitution has been amended on numerous occasions in an attempt to re-engineer it to suit…
HARARE – On Thursday, it will be exactly a year since Zanu PF claimed controversial victory in elections that ended the coalition government. During the tenure of the Zanu PF-MDCs consortium, President Robert Mugabe was impatiently eager to end the life of what he sneeringly described as “this creature”. Zanu PF felt manacled by an…
HARARE – The Manicaland Show of the Arts (Manisa) awards ceremony held at the National Art Gallery in Mutare last week should inspire other provinces to take a similar route. Encouragingly, both the provincial awards ceremony and the associated annual exhibition attracted an impressive list of 45 senior artists and over 100 school children from…
HARARE – Next week, United States President Barack Obama hosts a landmark US/Africa Investment summit in Washington. The summit brings together 47 heads of states from Africa and business leaders in a bid to widen US trade, development and security ties with Africa. The summit will be held on August 5 and 6. However, there…
