HARARE – IS the window dressing about to start? By all accounts it looks like a referendum on the draft constitution is only weeks away and an election will follow soon after. In 2008, we all literally voted for bread and butter — for a government that could put food on our tables and…
HARARE – It took a courageous clutch of Bulawayo youths to debunk Indigenisation minister Saviour Kasukuwere’s myth that their unemployment problems could be solved by distributive nationalism. Constant harping on intentions and promises hard to implement has boomeranged to haunt the ministry supposed to create employment and superintend over meeting youth’s aspirations. Apparently, a new…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s doyen of freedom of speech, rights of the disabled and witty political analyst John Makumbe has gone too soon. We join the nation in mourning the “white man from Buhera” and we all agree that Makumbe was one kind of Zimbabwean whose shoes will be difficult to fill if ever there will…
HARARE – The general sense of relief which greeted the agreement on a draft constitution by the three political parties is understandable because the process had become a source of unending wrangling. We cannot, however, escape that the process gobbled up $45 million which was eventually wrested from Parliament by the Principals, raising questions about…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s party leaders, whose followers have been, for years, embroiled in political violence, rape, murder and forcing people to abandon their homes have once again, vowed to stop political violence “by pledging to follow a code of conduct created by the Organ on National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration (ONHRI)”. While I applaud this…
HARARE – As parties gear for polls and primary elections, they should do so bearing in mind that some amongst them are a brood of vipers, spitting venom and fighting hard to reverse whatever the party seeks to achieve. For me WikiLeaks is the greatest reminder that political parties in this small but wonderful country…
HARARE – Zimbabwean football lovers have joined their peers across Africa who are enjoying the Africa Cup of Nations being hosted by neighbouring South Africa. Tragically, with Zimbabwe having failed to qualify for Africa’s biggest showpiece as has become the norm, local football followers have been forced to lend their support to other countries in…
HARARE – Education, Sport, Arts and Culture minister David Coltart must be licking his wounds. Two weeks after causing a storm in cricket following the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) notice to implement his new directives governing minority sports, Coltart been left bare, exposed and with nowhere to hide. Coltart had issued new directives which…
HARARE – The finalisation of the constitution-making process on January 17, 2013 exactly six months after the initial agreement of the July 18, 2012 announcement by the three Principals of the GPA namely Welshman Ncube, Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai in the presence of Mugabe’s side kick Arthur Mutambara opens new opportunities for settlement of…
HARARE – If there are incidences that capture the low levels of value that the Zimbabwe government and the Harare City Council places on the lives of citizens and residents then the death of Vice President John Nkomo captures this in a very interesting manner. Harvey Brown is the street where VP Nkomo’s Milton Park…
