HARARE – The title of this piece is borrowed from Nkem Nwanko’s novel that was published in 1975. It is true. We now have a generation of leaders, not only in politics, whose main attachment is to the acquisition of material possessions and leading life on the fast lane. These leaders are also found in…
HARARE – Fifteen years ago an overhead Zesa Holdings (Zesa) cable broke on a windy afternoon and fell to the ground in thick grassland on a cattle farm. For some months before the incident, the pole supporting the Zesa cables had been leaning perilously but repeated requests for attention to the matter had yielded no…
HARARE – Egyptian President, Mohamed Mursi is not the first leader in Africa to come to power as a liberator and agent of change only to ape the overthrown system and become an oppressor or dictator himself. Mursi, who was elected president on a Muslim Brotherhood ticket following the revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship,…
HARARE – Cases of Zimbabweans — who are not members of Zanu PF but belong to other parties — being evicted or facing eviction from their properties are on the rise. These incidents debunk claims by the former ruling party that land acquisition and redistribution programme was meant to remedy land disparities created by our…
HARARE – Peace-loving Zimbabweans from across the Christian and political divide last week hailed a Supreme Court decision that brought an end to defrocked Nolbert Kunonga’s five year reign of terror. However, while the judgement was good in all aspects, it came as a poisoned chalice for our police force. Police are yet to respond…
HARARE – Southern academics and policy-makers from the North have touted South Africa as an important case study to probe African understandings of democracy. The view that Africans perceive democracy simply in liberal and procedural terms (minimalist or thin approach), postulating instead that substantive understandings of democracy resonate widely and are reinforced by increasing inequality…
HARARE – The recently announced 2013 National Budget expressed the inclusive government’s commitment towards the adoption and implementation of business incubation as an economic development strategy. The National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) of the United States of America (US) defines incubation as “a comprehensive business-assistance programme targeted to help start-up firms with the goal of…
HARARE – Rahman Gumbo finally resigned as Zimbabwe football coach this week after dismally failing to guide the Warriors to next year’s African Nations Cup finals in South Africa and we welcome his resignation. Following the Warriors’ shattering failure, the entire Zimbabwean football fraternity expected Gumbo to do the honourable thing, but his employers at…
HARARE – This week, the Bull Eland witnessed the Supreme Court put an end to the long- standing fight over control of the Anglican Church and its properties. After five years of bullying by Kunonga and his Zanu PF masters, the persecution of the Anglican Church had become senseless and overdone. Kunonga himself and Zanu…
HARARE – A patently objectionable decision by the police to bar and therefore gag Zimbabweans from discussing the legacy of one of the few real national heroes this country has had is awful beyond words — particularly when that adored hero is the late Father Zimbabwe, Joshua Nkomo. Honestly, why can’t Zimbabweans meet to honour…
