HARARE – Today Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world in commemorating International Human Rights Day, an important day on our calendar. On this particular day, Zimbabweans from all walks of life would be voicing their concerns as they battle on all ends, be it from the economic, social or political front. According to the…
HARARE – We report elsewhere in this newspaper that government is reviving the cholera special task force committee it had disbanded as typhoid hits several towns. In as much as we welcome such a move, we think our leaders should not have disbanded the committee in the lull that followed the devastating 2008 water-borne disease…
HARARE – Bull Eland sought this week to examine how Kunonga’s prominence dwarfed all Anglicans in Zanu PF. The late Vice President Msika was alive when Kunonga invaded the church, Victoria Chitepo, Patrick Chinamasa and Didymus Mutasa — all considered senior and influential — could not do much. MDC’s Eric Matinenga at least has consistently…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) is attempting innovative ways to attract citizens to pay licence fees, and this includes staggered payments over a year. The broadcaster is mandated by law to collect licence fees for its operations supposedly as a state broadcaster. We need to disabuse the public that the ZBC by virtue…
HARARE – Next Monday, December 10, is International Human Rights Day and we will join the rest of the world in celebrating this important day which sadly comes at a time when the people’s rights are being trampled upon in Zimbabwe. According to the United Nations, the International Human Rights Day presents an opportunity, every…
HARARE – The current economic empowerment and indigenisation drive has generated a lot of interest among many Zimbabweans’ albeit from very divergent perspectives. While it is a norm that in any country, the natives of that particular land should have a big say in the running and ownership of that economy, can there be just…
HARARE – Once again Zanu PF politicians gather in Gweru to do the obvious — stampede for their endorsement of President Robert Mugabe as their presidential candidate. Whilst it is a pity for the so-called Young Turks who sincerely believe that by some divine miracle, their time to take over the reins of the party…
HARARE – Government’s deployment of troops to the border with Mozambique to stifle possible attacks by Afonso Dhlakama, are welcome. Rebel Renamo leader Dhlakama has retreated to the bush exactly twenty years since the Rome Treaty that brought a devastating three-decade civil war in that country to an end. It is the duty of the…
HARARE – After being ordered by the Supreme Court to let go of Anglican Church properties, it is clear that disgraced “bishop” Nolbert Kunonga is wont to disrupt this established brand and church through his wanton actions. As we report today, the defrocked pastor continues to use thuggish tactics — synonymous with his Zanu PF…
HARARE – I thought it was natural that my mother who lives in the rural areas seems not to be bothered with news about women groups fighting for equality and equity. She was born a long time ago, when white settlers prescribed Victorian values on the African societies they colonised. Victorian values confined the life…
