HARARE – At Independence in 1980, the then Tanzanian President, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere advised the new Zanu government that: “You have inherited the jewel of Africa, don’t destroy it.” Indeed, Zimbabwe was the jewel of Africa but due to years of economic mismanagement and bad policies, our country has been reduced to being a laughing…
HARARE – David Beckham is a world-famous soccer star. Most of us knew of him when he played for Manchester United and Real Madrid. He has made millions of dollars, confirming that there is a lot of money in soccer. In Southern Rhodesia, Freddie Gotora was a celebrated soccer star. As “Dusty King,” he was…
HARARE – Following the recent unveiling of award categories by both the revived Zimbabwe Music Awards (Zima) and the newly-created Wene Music Awards, Zimbabwean musicians have every reason to be hopeful that a new positive era is on the brink. Predictably, Zimbabwean musicians will also be hoping that the music awards, both set to take…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s political dynamics and realities are undergoing a critical phase that is shifting perceptions, national mood and, by implication, the national agenda. I have moved around the country over the last three months assessing the situation as well as gauging the political processes, and discovered three things. First, Zanu PF has been losing,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe must take seriously the International Monetary Fund (IMF) administered Staff Monitoring Programme (SMP) if the country entertains any hopes of getting external funding and improving its high credit risk status. The IMF this week indicated that the southern African country missed out on a number of quantitative targets and structural benchmarks such…
HARARE – The soundness of an economic policy is determined by its strategic development trajectory, its end game. Without an end game, an economic policy becomes a decorative document full of rhetoric. In our case, ZimAsset appears to be a policy document which is not grounded on any known development trajectory. The fundamental problem is…
HARARE – It is difficult to generate any sympathy for the 27 legilators who got stranded in China last week. They were not on official business but on personal shopping sprees, travelling on air tickets which cost each of the lawmakers $250 up front with an outstanding balance of $1 000 to be paid off…
HARARE – Revelations that have emerged out of parliamentary committee probes regarding operations of parastatals make it indispensable for government to introspect and rethink about the national value derived from these quasi-governmental institutions. Invariably, parastatals have become an albatross round government’s neck and a serious drain on national coffers as the majority rely on government…
EDITOR – Harare’s streets have become so dirty that it boggles the mind how the city fathers still call it the Sunshine City. There is filth wherever you go, something we were not used to in the olden days. Is it that the city council does not have resources to fund refuse collection? Maybe there…
HARARE – Under the existing law, the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) is the primary authority on railways in Zimbabwe. At a time when the NRZ is posting $4 million losses monthly, the pathetic sums of public money being expended on the railways is simply unacceptable. The NRZ has been at sea and unable to…
