HARARE – Over the years, courts have been inundated with several civil claims, ranging into millions of dollars for defamation, an aspect that is sometimes necessitated by the need to make rich pickings. While, the art of defaming someone does not have any formula, it is the exorbitant claims that often draw public attention, dragging…
HARARE – The following five key events describe Nigeria in the past three weeks. About 230 girls are abducted from a school in the northern parts of the country. A few days later President Goodluck Jonathan is shown on television dancing at a party having a good time. This week, the world, by way of…
HARARE – Poor planning by the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) will hamper the Warriors’ bid to qualify for the 2015 African Cup of Nations (Afcon) in Morocco. Upon re-election in March, Zifa president Cuthbert Dube said ensuring the Warriors are part of the 16 teams in Morocco early next year was his major goal. Zimbabwe…
HARARE – Let us be very candid, Zanu PF is unwittingly doing their very best to prop up Morgan Tsvangirai’s fortunes by continuing to attack him ceaselessly and viciously at a time that he has probably been at his weakest politically in the past 15 years. The party of liberation appears to have forgotten its…
HARARE – A couple of curious developments that merit analysis have taken place since the failed leadership putsch within the MDC broke into the open. The first one is that Zanu PF surprisingly appears more aggrieved by Morgan Tsvangirai’s alleged incompetence and dictatorial tendencies as MDC leader than the supposedly affected supporters of the party….
HARARE – The political circus unravelling in the country’s opposition politics needs no introduction. The tag of war between the Morgan Tsvangirai and Tendai Biti camps over control of the opposition MDC has dominated news headlines over the last few weeks. Social media platforms are awash with heated debates over the developments. Although the end…
HARARE – On Saturday Zimbabwe joined the rest of the world in celebrating the International Press Freedom day. Zimbabwe, once least ranked on the Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index, continues to make steady improvements. The 2014 World Press Freedom Index spotlights the negative impact of conflicts on freedom of information and its protagonists….
LONDON – President Mugabe and his Zanu PF party have been bad for foreign investment to this country over the past 14 years. To Mugabe and his party, foreign investment did not seem to matter much. Once land was redistributed, Zimbabwe would be self-sufficient. The discovery of one of the world’s largest deposits of diamonds…
EDITOR — The fact that Winky D is mature is a subject for another day but that he acted maturely by joining the entourage that visited flood victims at Chingwizi Camp is undisputable. Dancehall artistes are usually regarded as childish and over-ambitious and the only way they can silence critics is through participating in humanitarian…
HARARE – It is unacceptable that a peaceful march by journalists to mark World Press Freedom Day was blockaded by baton stick-wielding armed riot police yesterday, who imposed a ban on the gathering, after okaying the march earlier. The demonstration was called to mark World Press Freedom Day as proclaimed by the UN General Assembly…
