HARARE – The MDC became part of an inclusive government in 2009 after trouncing Zanu PF in the election of 2008 and since then, the party has exhibited a huge qualitative difference from Zanu PF. Only recently, the print and the social media were awash with a misleading story by the New York Times’ Lydia…
HARARE – As reported in our lead story of this issue, pending amendments to the Indigenisation Act of 2007 are most welcome. What is particularly interesting is that this comes in the aftermath of the Nieebgate Scandal which was exposed by the Daily News. We insist that we have nothing against indigenisation programmes because we…
HARARE – Another bite of the cake? or, Hand on the baton? These are the two straightforward questions facing every senator, MP, mayor and local councillor right across Zimbabwe. Questions that require the individuals concerned to look themselves in the mirror and ask what they’ve done since they’ve been in office and what they’ve still…
HARARE – It is regrettable that 33 years into Zimbabwe’s independence, the country is still grappling with medieval diseases such as typhoid that continue to wreak havoc, especially in Harare where water is a perennial problem. Five years after the deadly cholera outbreak killed more than 4 000 people, the menace is back with reports…
HARARE – As the country struggles to extricate itself from over 30 years of Zanu PF’s dictatorship which is associated with gross human rights violations, a critical analysis of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) policy on national healing is imperative. It is important to critically evaluate political party policies in order to appreciate if…
HARARE – The servile media have upped the ante in propaganda over the past few weeks. To speak of “State-controlled media” is, of course, charitable when such media invariably serve the interests of a single political party. In recent weeks, we have been told Western nations have been “stampeding” to normalise relations with Zimbabwe. This,…
HARARE – Recent reports in the Daily News in which ordinary Zimbabweans revealed that they do not know their sitting Members of Parliament (MPs) is sad. It is criminal that since going into office five years ago, the sitting MPs have been absent from their constituencies. In interviews, the electorate said while they voted for…
HARARE – On April 17, 1980, President Mugabe spoke on the eve of the birth of a new nation and his state of mind at the material time is important for any historian to capture as it gives a glimpse of the views held then and now on key and fundamental nation-State building values. Mugabe…
HARARE – Last Thursday Zimbabwe marked 33 years of self rule. As reported elsewhere in this edition, those in the Diaspora are agonising on the independence of Zimbabwe and as well as the opportunities that we missed as a nation as a result of the economic collapse of the past decade. For some time now,…
HARARE – One thing record is setting straight is that President Robert Mugabe just like any ambitious politician, devotes too much time on rhetoric than action, promises than fulfilment and fantasy than reality. It is against this backdrop that the much-hyped Independence Day commemoration speech by Zimbabwe’s statesman is just another high loud sounding nothing….
