HARARE – Joshua Nkomo, Father Zimbabwe: The Life and Times of an African Legend, By Fortune Senamile Nkomo, Harare, Radiant Publishing, 1913. 244 pages. ISBN: 978-0-7974-4824-7 (Paperback) Last week, Zimbabweans remembered the passing on of one of Zimbabwe’s most illustrious sons — Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo — who passed away on July 1 1999. It…
HARARE – Right-thinking Zimbabweans must give credit where it is due, and this befits former Finance minister Simba Makoni’s sensible withdrawal from the presidential race this week — to throw his weight behind a grand coalition seeking to end President Robert Mugabe’s 33 years of misrule. Even more sensibly, the Mavambo/Kusile/Dawn (MKD) leader told a…
HARARE – All the three main political parties have conducted their primary elections amid revelations of discrepancies, violence, vote rigging, among other issues. It is, however, important to unpack some lessons that can be drawn from these primary elections and assess their implications to the forthcoming harmonised elections. Intra-political violence has been recorded across the…
HARARE – The independence of the judiciary is central to the administration of fair and equal justice in a democratic society. The independence of the judiciary is well enshrined in the constitutions and constitutional jurisprudence of African countries, it is linked to, and derived from, two seminal principles: the separation of powers; and the rule…
HARARE – Trying to mop up the dregs of the slapstick comedy that has been seizing the homopoliticus for the past few weeks, Quisling enlisted the support of his snitch’s analytic skills to unravel the import of a clutch of figures he gleaned from the primary polls. Regardless that some of the figures looking suspiciously…
HARARE – Bible believing Christians in Zimbabwe, representing their different theological, liturgical and organisational church traditions and systems, share a common interest when it comes to the forthcoming general elections. They are concerned that persons who will be elected to occupy offices responsible with providing leadership and management at these highest policy formulation and decision-making…
Zimbabwe’s present and aspiring politicians would do well to take note of events over our southern border, not only because that’s where an estimated three million Zimbabweans live and work but because that’s where we get 80 percent of all the food we eat. South Africa’s newly-launched Agang party whose name means “build,” is making…
HARARE – The ruling of Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court that an election should be called by July 31, 2013 has sparked bitter disputes over the judicial interpretation of the Constitution. My aim here is not to address these legal debates, but to analyse and interpret the unintended political consequences of this decision in the context…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe acted unlawfully and unconstitutionally when he sought to proclaim the election date and the nomination date on June 12, 2013. He also acted unlawfully and unconstitutionally when he sought to amend the Electoral Law by decree on the same day. The new Constitution makes it very clear that after the…
HARARE – Just when it thought it had just “breathed life” into its stuttering machine, Zanu PF has another problem to deal with and it is not just a simple one. The imposition of candidates and in some cases, the protection of politicians who are over the hill, could drive the party towards a precipice….
