HARARE – Yesterday police raided the Counselling Services Unit (CSU) head office in Harare ostensibly to search for subversive material. While police had a search warrant claiming that the CSU is in possession of material that contravenes Section 46 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, we all know that the police are frantically…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) officials went on the defensive at a media workshop in Kadoma last week to make vague and terse assertions that the body is ready to oversee free and fair elections next year . Normally, statements to the effect that all will be well when the country next year goes…
HARARE – Tendai Biti, the minister of Finance, upon assuming his role in the coalition government, described it as the worst job in the world. “The job is the worst in the world but I will have to look the job in the eye and I have no doubt that I will be equal to…
HARARE – The interplay between media and democracy is critical in trying to create and foster political openness and accountable governance especially in transitional societies struggling with entrenched authoritarianism such as Zimbabwe. At this political juncture in the democratic process, Zimbabwe doesn’t need a loving and lovable media at all. The country desperately requires an…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s disastrous failure to qualify for next year’s African Nations Cup finals in neighbouring South Africa has understandably caused pain and heartache for local football fans. The fact that Zimbabwe went to the Angolan capital Luanda for the final qualifying leg with a healthy 3-1 aggregate and that the Afcon finals will be…
HARARE – Multiple lessons can be learnt from the Copac- led Second All-Stakeholders’ Constitutional conference held in Harare recently. All serious stakeholders from civil society organisations to political parties as well as the Copac itself are set to benefit from the lessons. This write-up highlights three major observations namely: the confirmation of the fact that…
HARARE – On Tuesday the United States holds its presidential elections pitting the incumbent, Barack Obama and Republicans’ Mitt Romney. There is no other election which rivals the US elections because of the impact that the result has on world affairs. The Americans are consistent. Democrats and the Republicans clearly spell out their campaigns and…
HARARE – Epworth is the home of the famous outcrops of rocks amongst them the “Balancing Rocks” depicted on the defunct Zimbabwean banknotes, rock paintings of repute which appear in important books and “Domboramwari” (Rock of God), where God is believed to have stepped on and left his footprint. Originally known as Zvi remba, Chiremba,…
HARARE – The constitution-making process has been a mess thus far, yet the people of Zimbabwe have maintained some measure of hope that sanity will prevail. And that whatever comes out of this process would at the very minimum, allow society to move forward and positively so. Unfortunately, the Copac drama has not stopped as…
HARARE – On Tuesday night, the Bull Eland was proud to be an Arsenal fan. Fielding a second-string side against Reading in the League Cup, Arsene Wenger’s men knocked down records and orchestrated one of the biggest come-backs in the history of football. It was dramatic in the sense that by the 41st minute of…
