Opinion & Analysis

HARARE – Information, Media and Broadcasting Services minister Jonathan Moyo should be applauded for setting the pace by taking immediate and courageous action to reverse an appointment he had made. Other ministers of lesser mettle would have shirked from remedying the potentially contagious flaw without batting an eyelid. The immediate withdrawal of Dennis Magaya’s appointment…

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s extraordinarily long stay in power has spawned what someone once called “succession journalism.” He was describing increased media focus over the years on Zanu PF’s power struggles that had resulted in a saturation of stories about Mugabe’s possible successor. The media’s preoccupation with Mugabe’s potential successor is understandable; it is…

HARARE – It is probably easier at the moment to groom a skunk -— that stinky cat-sized mammal that sprays a foul-smelling liquid from its backside when it is threatened by an attacker -— than it is to make sense of the MDC’s current squabbles, their genesis and what the infighting is supposed to achieve….

HARARE – With due respect to the warring factions threatening to tear the MDC apart, this is a pointless, idiotic conflict in which all the players involved are destined to lose. In fact, it can be argued that Zimbabwe, and its nascent democracy, is the biggest loser as the madness within the MDC rages on,…

HARARE – The harrowing pictures of flood victims, ruined property and stranded stock in Tokwe-Mukorsi have brought home the damage the forces of nature can wreak on communities. We must expect this extreme weather to become more frequent, made worse by the warming of the atmosphere. The Tokwe-Mukorsi floods remind us that the real issue…

HARARE – If a government controls farms in its country, then it controls food supply. If it controls food supply, it controls the people. Never is this true in Zimbabwe and making this complete control even more worrying is that all private grain imports have been banned by the ministry of Agriculture. If this was…