HARARE – PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s volte face in exonerating former Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) chairperson Godwills Masimirembwa for allegedly soliciting a $6 million bribe from Ghanaian investors in the Gye Nyame Resources (GNR) diamond concession was telling. It was telling in that the nonagenarian leader admitted to having been misled. Mugabe had in September…
EDITOR — I believe there is a lot of corruption involving traffic police along Chiremba Road on the way to Epworth. In most cases one can find at least three roadblocks on this road which is only twenty-something kilometres from the city. Surely three roadblocks on a 22 kilometre stretch? One can find Hatfield police,the…
HARARE – The welfare of former footballers is something that deserves immediate attention. This is an issue that only gets debated when a former player passes away and details of their hardships emerge, but this should not be the case. Details of how former Warriors captain Nqobizitha Maenzanise was at the time of his death…
HARARE – University applications are likely to plummet as growing numbers of students are put off by rising tuition fees. Elsewhere in this edition, we report the citadel of higher learning, the University of Zimbabwe (UZ), unilaterally hiking tuition by 10 percent. The knock-on effect will be a drop in the demand for degree courses…
EDITOR — Thank you Daily News for telling it like it is without fear or favour. I am especially a fan of your everyday publication of cartoons though I would like to comment on the Editorial page as a whole as it has so much relevance in covering current news especially areas of corruption, politics…
EDITOR — Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC leader’s recent attack on the media is uncalled for. The new Constitution provides for expanded liberties, such as freedom of expression, which includes media freedom. The MDC and its entire leadership purport to uphold this tenet but it now seems only when it suits them. Recently, Tsvangirai attacked the…
HARARE – When Welshman Ncube broke ranks with the MDC and vowed never to reunite with Morgan Tsvangirai many of the self-proclaimed democratic forces and civil society accused him of betraying the democratic dream. In fact, Tsvangirai fanatics were quick to label Welshman a CIO operative with the conspiracies escalating to opaque levels of claiming…
HARARE – Another National Arts Merit Awards (Nama) ceremony has just gone by and, as has become the norm, it has left the Zimbabwean arts community deeply divided. Predictably, the winners of Zimbabwe’s premier arts awards are in celebratory mood while those who did not make it are crying foul. We could easily dismiss the…
EDITOR — The current fighting in the MDC is retrogressive and most people are taking sides in the dark. The question is, does MDC have a constitution and what does it say about the presidential term? If it says for example two terms, when does the incumbent complete his second term? When that day comes…
EDITOR — I see no reason why National Arts Council of Zimbabwe should defend Olivia Charamba’s award. I recently wrote to you saying I was very disappointed with her win and I maintain that, Mai Charamba shouldn’t have won that award. For your own information Nacz, I am not the only person against Olivia’s award….
