HARARE – The Chinamhora communal lands’ ritual murders have left a sour test in the mouth, particularly in this modern age. As such, we can only welcome the move by police and army to keep vigil in the villages to protect residents who are understandably living in terror after the murder of seven people in…
HARARE – These are some of the adjectives that one can use to describe the MDC participation in the so-called “inclusive” government. I am exactly two years and three months old as a deputy minister in this government. My experience as a minister in this apparently unique type of government will be fully disclosed when…
HARARE – Saviour Kasukuwere, Zimbabwe’s minister of Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment stands accused of being anti foreign investment, fascist and thuggery, due to the black economic agenda he is currently prosecuting. The resentment and criticism has come more from within than outside Zimbabwe. The fundamental question is — is Kasukuwere and his empowerment mission…
HARARE – With only 11 weeks until Christmas the question on everyone’s mind is whether or not they will get a 13th pay cheque this year. The bonus which doesn’t have anything to do with individual performance or company viability anymore but is nevertheless expected, even demanded, has become the national annual nightmare. It brings…
HARARE – Prime minister Morgan Tvangirai’s woes over his very busy love life and subsequent bungled attempt to make one his lawfully wedded wife seem to go a gear up each time he opens his mouth. It is doubtful that his attempt to explain himself after what has been termed his “mock wedding” to Elizabeth…
HARARE – It is sad that the country’s constitution-making process, which should have been the opportunity to lay the marker for a new Zimbabwe, continues on the controversial path. Since the process, led by the Constitutional Parliamentary Committee (Copac) started, hardly has a day gone without rowing. The incessant haggling and bickering has taken the…
HARARE – The recent revelations about persons granted 25-year land leases in the Save Valley Conservancy only fuel the long-held apprehensions about the empowerment agenda. It is now public knowledge that the beneficiaries of the leases are elites associated with Zanu PF. Some community share schemes have been formed to present a veneer to what…
HARARE – Attacks on opposition supporters in Mutoko by uniformed soldiers on Friday are a sign that Zimbabwe is far from achieving peace and tolerance we all crave. It is even more worrying that the last men in line of defence, soldiers — swoop on innocent civilians whose crime is to express their views which…
HARARE – “And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them; let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”(John 8:7) The biblical context points to an incident when Scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught indulging in…
HARARE – In our African tradition, when two people want to get married, the family of the man scouts for someone known and respected by both families to act as the “go-between”, a facilitator, a mediator. He not only delivers messages from one family to the other but also counsels and advises them. The go…
