HARARE – The MDC’s failure to prove it was a victim of electoral injustice before the court leaves it with few other options for remedy, if any. It does not appear that the information the party needs from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to buttress its case will be available any time soon. Further, the…
HARARE – Our sister paper, the Daily News on Sunday, yesterday carried a story headlined, I am ready to take over — Mujuru in which respected vice-president Joice Mujuru spoke from her heart in an interview with the newspaper. Due to the nature and complex matrix of Zanu PF politics, the story was bound to…
HARARE – The dust has settled, well, sort of, on the recently concluded 2013 harmonised election. Besides the contestations around election results, with Sadc and the AU endorsing the poll, reality is beginning to sink in even into the most hard-wired MDC supporters. The nightmare is slowly turning into reality and hopefully despair will also…
HARARE – One aspect of priority to the incoming Zanu PF-led government is to abandon its erstwhile egotistical diplomacy and look into ways of diplomatic realignment. In as much as President Robert Mugabe’s children, Bona, Robert Junior and Chatunga should not ideally suffer for the purported sins of omission and commission of their parents, Zimbabweans…
HARARE – To be in or out of court? That is a question. Strategy is about outflanking opposition and never doing what your competitor expects of you. Dexterity is the ability to move out of the orbit or zones of doubt to zones of confidence. While we must confess that we are not the firstborns…
HARARE – Now that outgoing Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has withdrawn his poll challenge, the first task for president-elect Robert Mugabe is to form the Cabinet. And we hope that the process will be different this time, not the well-rehearsed recycling of Zanu PF deadwood. Previously, the Cabinet had to include a blend of representation…
HARARE – IF the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, Zec, has nothing to hide, surely it should have handed over all election materials to all contesting parties. Then, there would be no need for the ongoing court process in which MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai is frantically trying to compel the courts to order Zec to hand over…
HARARE – Thirty-three years ago, Zimbabweans finally gained their independence after a brutal and tenacious struggle against the colonialists who sought to make us second-class citizens in our country of birth. On Monday, we celebrated our national Heroes’ Day in remembrance of the brave children of this land who lost life and limb so the…
HARARE – The recent elections in Zimbabwe were always likely to be problematic. Despite the hope of former South African president Thabo Mbeki in 2007 that his mediation efforts would lead to elections “conducted in a manner that will make it impossible for any honest person in Zimbabwe to question the legitimacy of their outcomes,”…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe who is also commander-in-chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces yesterday announced that armed service personnel will see their pay rise, repudiating a cap on public-sector pay awards. The decision follows a controversial election promise to give troops extra money to compensate them for the impact of inclusive government defence cuts….
