EDITOR — The fact that President Robert Mugabe rebukes one of his fringe comrades at a luncheon does not inspire confidence that corruption is going to be nipped in the bud. This looks like a sacrifice to critics. Is Godwills Masimirembwa not just another Chris Kuruneri? Time will tell. Surely, what is $4 million to…
HARARE – Construction work on completing a plinth to take up the late Vice President Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo’s statue which had long been a source of acerbic controversy resumed at the beginning of this month in Bulawayo bringing about closure of an issue between government and the people in this region. Now that work on…
EDITOR — I commend you on your story on the condition of Zimbabwean hospitals. Government has neglected this area for years. Several people have died from curable diseases like malaria, dysentery, cholera and even flu because either the doctors were on strike or there was no medicine. The condition of our public health facilities is…
EDITOR — Loosely defined poverty is the state of being extremely poor. The definition of the word though is contestable and several theories and postulations have been forwarded to shed light on the subject. Poverty is relative and may be different things to different people. The poverty I am talking about is the one you…
HARARE – Newly-appointed Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has a daunting task of wooing investors to Zimbabwe. As long as we have a policy of frowning at their expectations, it will be a mammoth task to convince investors. On Wednesday, Chinamasa took oath of office and immediately warmed up to the challenges accompanying his job by…
EDITOR — The problem with many Zimbabweans is that we tend to major in the minor. We tend to ignore pertinent things that bring food on our tables. What this country needs right now are people who have a positive mentality to heal the wounds that have scared us for the last 10 years. Crying…
EDITOR — There is uncertainty and vexation in the minds of many Zimbabweans since the results of the disputed elections were announced. Recently, Ralph Black, a foreign policy advisor to Morgan Tsvangirai, pointed out that, with compromised and weak national and regional institutions like the Zimbabwean Election Commission (Zec) and the Southern African Development Community…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s move to bring in provincial governors disguised as ministers of State responsible for provinces is likely to create constitutional challenges as it effectively suppresses devolution of power. The move makes a mockery of an agreement reached between Zanu PF and the two MDC parties that saw devolution of power form…
BULAWAYO – The nature of national politics is that State leaders select their Cabinet according to the prevailing situation within their country, for example, a country at war will have its leader select a war Cabinet. Zanu PF led the 33-year-old nation to a mix-masala mess and the mess now needs some fixing. President Mugabe…
EDITOR – In your August 28, 2013, issue on the Letters to the Editor’s page, there was a letter entitled; “Open letter to the Presiding Bishop” in which the writer was questioning the wisdom of this Bishop in flighting a congratulatory message in a weekly paper (name supplied) on President Robert Mugabe’s inauguration. How could…
