LONDON – In recent weeks, we have, with outrage, learnt of the salaries of chief executives of some of our state enterprises. Disturbingly, the salaries seem incommensurable with performances of the institutions they run. ZBC chief executive Happison Muchechetere earns a total of $40 000. Cuthbert Dube, PSMAS group chief executive, earns a basic monthly…
HARARE – His name is Elton Mangoma, Deputy treasurer general of the Tsvangiai-led MDC, member of the National Council and Standing Committee and former minister of Energy during the government of national disunity (GND). Yes this man has been at the forefront of MDC policies together with Tsvangirai, our party president, vice president Thokozani Khupe,…
HARARE – As we reported elsewhere in this newspaper, our veteran Masvingo correspondent, Godfrey Mtimba, was last week attacked viciously by mindless Zanu PF yobs. Mtimba’s crime in the eyes of these morons was that he had gone to the town’s Civic Centre, as is his job, to cover a US Public Affairs event. The…
HARARE – Mainstream MDC legislator Eddie Cross published an article on The Need for a New Road Map before Christmas last year. In it he made a brilliant comparison between the economic changes over the past three decades between China and Zimbabwe, during which China has increased its Gross Domestic Produce (GDP) and per capita…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was handed a drubbing in the election of July 31 last year. Even if it might not have been defeated at the disputed poll itself, the MDC was totally outmanoeuvred by Zanu PF and its leader, President Robert Mugabe. The MDC “lost” an election it should never…
EDITOR — I write to complain over the number of road-blocks police are mounting every morning as people rush to work and school. Zimbabweans are a time-conscious people and have their day planned ahead of them. There is nothing wrong with the police mounting road-blocks but if you put these less than 500m apart, then…
EDITOR — The government should have scrapped ZBC’s television and radio licence fees way back. The government and Information ministry have finally seen the light. ZBC bosses were milking the public through these unjustified fees. Honestly, how can someone be forced to pay radio and television licences when the organisation only churns out Zanu PF…
HARARE – When Tendai Biti was minister of Finance in the coalition government, he became the pantomime villain of Zanu PF, accused of withholding funds in order to sabotage the party’s programmes. President Mugabe would condemn his Finance minister in public as people realised the folly of ascribing “unity” to a government that was anything…
EDITOR — Claims by honourable Paurina Mpariwa, the mainstream MDC shadow minister for Labour, Employment and Security that over 300 workers are being retrenched on a weekly basis from various sectors of the economy are malicious, sensational and alarmist in nature. As a former Labour minister in the inclusive government, she had the privilege to…
EDITOR — President Robert Mugabe is on leave and it is his right to go on leave because he is human. We pray that the Lord keeps him healthy, strengthens him and increases his wisdom. Long live Gushungo and accomplish the task that you were left to finish by our Father Zimbabwe. What I do…
