HARARE – Patrick Chinamasa is often times a rationale person. He is a lawyer, and a former Attorney General who has allowed himself to sink to a new and desperate low by announcing to the world that Zanu PF has to win elections by hook or crook or the military will install it back through…
HARARE – Zanu Ndeyeropa (Zanu PF is for blood) is an old song but one that reveals the true vampire character of this dying party. The past two weeks have exposed the panic and contradictions in the Zanu PF psyche. On one hand, they seem to revel in the comfort of two misleading surveys that…
HARARE – After leading the Warriors to a disastrous African Cup of Nations campaign, embattled Zifa president Cuthbert Dube came out guns blazing saying he will not resign because he wants to rid the game of corruption. Dube must learn to respect the beautiful game and the millions of people who were left heartbroken when…
HARARE – When it was announced that Archbishop Desmond Tutu had been given a “one-off extraordinary award” of $1 million dollars by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation recently, it made the people of southern Africa particularly proud. But it also made us envious; not of the money but of the qualities and integrity of a man…
HARARE – There are basic lessons urban poor need to learn about the callous indifference to their suffering in pursuance of profit inherent in capitalist establishments as depicted when their modest homes were razed in Epworth this week. One of the core lessons is the poor always receive the short end of the stick while…
HARARE – With general elections scheduled to take place next year, rhetoric through which politicians hope to convince the public that they abhor the barbaric violence that has come to characterise Zimbabwean polls, is guaranteed to reach fever pitch. President Mugabe enclosed this messageat the burial of Higher and Tertiary Education minister Stan Mudenge at…
HARARE – In recent articles, Tendai Biti, the secretary-general of the MDC, made incisive analyses of the constitutional imbroglio that has characterised the political discourse for the past few years. Biti observed that constitutions had failed “to curb the excess of predatory and imperial presidents such as Mugabe, Nguema and others.” With respect to Zanu…
HARARE – This is the end game. Robert Nesta Marley once sang that “you can fool some people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time’’. He was right. From the time Zimbabwe attained independence from British colonial rule on April 18, 1980, the Zanu PF had been…
HARARE – It is said that no amount of politicking or machinations can ever put a good person down for good. The Daily News and the Daily News on Sunday are surely clear and living testaments to this adage. After our titles were savagely shut down by President Robert Mugabe’s government in September 2003, for…
HARARE – Ahead of the June 2000 parliamentary elections, the Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) produced a pre-election survey, which predicted that the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) would win 75 seats out of the 120 seats in Parliament. The late director of MPOI, Professor Masipula Sithole accounted for the deficit in the predicted seats…
