HARARE – Soon after the death of former Cabinet minister and journalist Nathan Marwirakuwa Shamuyarira last week, the bad road that leads to his Borrowdale home was hastily patched up to allow for the safe passage of President Robert Mugabe and other VIPs. We are told his house also was hastily painted, while his body…
HARARE – The nine MDC youths who were accused of assaulting expelled former party deputy treasurer-general Elton Mangoma in February, have, almost predictably, been found not guilty of the charge. We say predictably because Mangoma’s case always looked doomed and amateurishly spiced-up and put together from day one, seemingly for maximum political gain. No wonder…
JOHANNESBURG – Last December, South Africa (SA) and the world buried Nelson Mandela, a freedom fighter who led his people — to freedom — from the most vicious form of institutionalised racism in modern times. He was the face and symbol of the epic struggle against apartheid, and even 27 years of incarceration could not…
HARARE – The relationship between the head of an organisation and his subordinates is predicated on trust. This concept is applicable to a head of state and government and his ministers. President Robert Mugabe’s public excoriation of his Information minister Jonathan Moyo indicates that such trust in his minister does not exist. Mugabe traduced Moyo…
HARARE – Elsewhere we report that Zimbabwe is ready to normalise relations with Denmark and the European Union (EU). The EU has already warmed up to President Robert Mugabe’s administration which, slowly but surely is beginning to mellow after years of obstinacy and bickering with the West and its key allies in Scandinavian countries and…
HARARE – The idea of a united coalition, or front, against the Zanu PF government can’t, and shouldn’t, even be debated. However, the whole issue and subject has been poisoned by blatantly stupid strategies, mannerisms and machinations by particular individuals and groupings that have sought to claim a leading role in forging the “grand” coalition….
HARARE – In a country where the economy has virtually collapsed, unemployment reached scandalous levels and the government does not know whether it is coming or going, it is refreshing that we have the minister of Tourism Walter Mzembi and the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) chief executive officer, Karikoga Kaseke, trying to give the nation…
HARARE – I am just checking in as your Missus, pronounced m?s?z to give you an insight on how you are the luckiest dude around because I make you happy. By now we both know that you are not a loser, because I do not do losers, yes I have dated some idiots in the…
HARARE – Last week, I courted the ire of many readers when I dared speak out about promiscuous married women. This subject did not go down well with many who believed that by calling a spade a spade I was indeed condoning sexual immorality. The truth of the matter is that I personally believe it…
HARARE – As we have reported countless times in all our inimitable newspapers — the Daily News, the Daily News on Sunday and the Weekend Post — the extent of factionalism within President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party has reached such dangerous levels that some in that vaunted party are literally prepared to commit murder…
