Opinion & Analysis

HARARE – Zanu PF’s celebrated indigenisation and empowerment programme has been dealt a heavy blow after revelations of irregularities in the award of tenders for the scheme. In any democratic society, the responsible authorities would be duty-bound to provide satisfactory answers, failure of which heads would roll. Saviour Kasukuwere, Indigenisation and Empowerment minister, failed to…

BRUSSELS – Global Outlook Rewards for the punished are only meant to be for good behaviour. So why are we about to give a glittering prize to the unpleasant government dominated by Robert Mugabe? Today, in Brussels, the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council will lift certain targeted sanctions on the country. William Hague will sign…

HARARE – The Traffic Safety Council (TSC)’s recent report made sad reading as it revealed that young drivers between the ages of 26 and 36 were responsible for most road accidents occurring in the country. With unemployment pegged at 80 percent, driving public transport, especially kombis has become a job to many of our youths….

HARARE – That season to be bombarded by the goodness of President Robert Mugabe’ propaganda is upon us again, where all broadcast stations would indefinitely flight birthday sycophantic drool every five or so minutes. This Thursday Mugabe celebrates his 89th birthday, something so special in his life considering that “boys” of his generation are fast…

HARARE – Do not think twice; let’s just do it, please. None of those Members of Parliament should be returned. Now we know why so-called “sitting MPs” from all political parties were trying to avoid primaries. The blackmailers and extortionists wanted another term of thieving and vice in Parliament. Times when we used to blame…

HARARE – Following the Daily News’ exposure of the Nieebgate Scandal in which government was fleeced in suspicious indigenisation deals, we call on the government to immediately institute a probe into this shameful act of deceit and looting. Investigations by the Daily News on Sunday have revealed that during the programme, values of companies were…

HARARE – What a huge disappointment. He always came across as ‘Saint Walter’. He appeared like he was a dove among the hawks. Sadly, he is just like them all. In typical Zanu PF style, Tourism minister Walter Mzembi was part of a bunch of the political party legislators involved in the grab of RioZim’s…

HARARE – Edward Heath, the late British prime minister is credited with coining the phrase “the unacceptable face of capitalism” to describe Lonrho’s Tiny Rowland back in 1973.   How it morphed into (if there is any connection at all) the now commonly used “ugly face of capitalism” I am not too sure but capitalism…

HARARE – Of all the failures that the Zanu PF government has presided over since independence in 1980, education is one of the institutions that have remained precariously standing. To this day remnants of Zimbabwe’s prowess in education are still traceable through massive skilled workforce marketable anywhere around the globe. Ordinary Level results which came…

HARARE – After spending three years in government without its own party economic blue print but only deploying its energy towards demonising Zanu PF’s indigenisation policy, mainstream MDC has exposed its policy dysfunction with the launch of a vacuous economic policy. The economic blueprint, Jobs, Upliftment, Investment, Capital and the Environment (Juice), authored by Eddie…