HARARE – My last article on football was way back in 2008, when I sensed that something sinister and deadly was unravelling in a sport the great Pele calls “the Beautiful Game”. I wrote an opinion piece for a local weekly, expressing alarm at the way the Warriors were being made to play dubious friendly…
HARARE – Statements this week by Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa that Zimbabwe is far from reaching the prescribed International Monetary Fund (IMF) Staff-Monitored Programme targets, makes sad reading. This coming after the country had requested a further six-month extension to the programme, which should have ended in December last year, shows that the Zanu PF-led…
HARARE – An African-American campaigner for the rights of the black people, WEB du Bois, was once denied a passport by the US government to travel to a conference at which the black people of the US were to meet the black people of Africa. Among those who eventually attended the meeting in Europe were…
EDITOR — The corruption cancer bedevilling our nation needs real action to rescue the declining economy. In recent months, we have read a lot of stories on corruption in various sectors of the economy. The public is waiting for the practical steps which can be used to curtail these vices. What is the Zimbabwe Anti-corruption…
EDITOR — For how long shall you continue persecuting innocent souls at Harvest House? Be warned that you are going to harvest your demise out of your ill-calculated moves soon. We need a peace-seeking leader, not a leader who is busy scheming how to purge part of his support base for sounding out their opinions….
EDITOR — I would like to express my support to a number of MPs in the august House who seem to know what they were elected for and are doing just that. Hats off to Temba Mliswa, Justice Wadyajena and Settlement Chikwinya for duly representing the electorates’ views and wishes in Parliament. Mliswa, among other…
EDITOR — As part of the team promoting the recent Bryan Adams show, I have decided to write to you in regards the outrageous article published in your newspaper early this year by Maxwell Sibanda. The article is deeply flawed with inaccuracies, demonstrates a complete lack of any form of research on the matter and…
HARARE – Zimbabweans have always known that civil servants are the first to get paid in the land, starting with teachers and soldiers followed by other workers. With salaries staggered from the 16th to the 21st of the month, they have always been the first to carry groceries home and quench their thirst in bars…
HARARE – Fourteen years after the roll-out of an oft-violent land reclamation and redistribution programme, chaos still rears its monstrous head as a hallmark of the acquired farms with no respite in sight. This is in itself either a serious summon on the part of government that blights a worthy cause or an indication of…
MARONDERA – Everyone knows that once you have tasted chocolate, you will never again be satisfied with a boiled sweet. A taste of the good life among our leaders and public servants has reached epidemic proportions and it’s long past the time to stop talking and threatening but to start acting It has been nearly…
