HARARE – A quick check on the roles of a university chancellor invariably suggests that he or she holds an important ambassadorial role for the institution. He or she works to raise the university’s profile and advance its interests nationally and internationally. Therefore, apart from performing the ceremonial functions at graduations, a university chancellor has…
HARARE – Yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling ordering ex-communicated Anglican Church bishop Nolbert Kunonga and his gang to vacate Anglican Church properties will be celebrated across the Christian community. While the judgment put paid to Kunonga’s sordid intentions as he had become a law unto himself; we ask why it had to take so much pain…
HARARE – Times are getting heated and at times political discussion is descending into physical confrontation. Tensions among Zimbabweans have become more pronounced as the election nears. Leading rights group Zimbabwe Peace Project notes in its latest bulletin that political tensions are slowly rising with 444 cases recorded in October up from the 365 incidents…
HARARE – Once again Zanu PF has shown its contempt for the need to change and democratise by maintaining that only those with five or more years in the party are legible to contest political office. Progressive paragons of constructive dialogue cannot be condemned for questioning the whole logic behind sending a bunch of people…
HARARE – The Bull Eland has previously warned of the rampant looting of public resources within government and Zanu PF ranks. Money, farms, cars, companies, time, lives everything and anything! A few months ago Zesa Holdings (Zesa) bills revealed the kleptocratic tendencies of the bandwagon. Even then, pocketing a whole national anthem in the name…
HARARE – The road ahead seems hard for Zimbabweans. Once again Finance minister Tendai Biti announced in the budget yesterday that we continue to “eat what we kill” in 2013. There will have to be more belt-tightening. We all know why all the good policies and grand economic plans have failed and probably continue to….
HARARE – After many weeks of grumblings as to where the diamonds money is going, I can declare with a smile on my face that our family has finally benefited from the diamonds money. And this is timely intervention as the first ever Zimbabwe International Diamonds Conference was held in Victoria Falls this week….
HARARE – It’s welcome news that the magistrates’ courts are united in their determination to tackle child abuse. This follows the jailing of a cop’s wife who forced her seven-year-old step-daughter to eat her own human waste. It’s just a shame! The brave girl chillingly told the courts how she had been systematically abused by…
HARARE – While conducting research on the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua at the American Embassy Public Affairs library in 1999, I came across a very small book entitled Can Governments Learn? I said to myself, of course governments do learn, I thought governments were experienced in so much as they would not repeat the same…
HARARE – Conceding defeat sign of maturityIf someone were to embark on a project to compile the concession speeches of defeated African presidential candidates into a book, that person would rapidly run out of data. This is because in many African countries dictatorships and one-party rule are so entrenched that losing elections is an alien…
