Whose country is it anyway?
MARY MAGDALENE, one of the most unheralded biblical characters is ironically at the centre of the Christianity that spawned the Bible. For it was from Mary Magdalene’s visit to Jesus’ tomb that the world got to know that the Messiah had triumphed over death...More
Sadc must implement protocols
The highest decision-making body, the Summit of Heads of State or Government of the Southern African Development Community met recently in Windhoek, Namibia to take stock among other things of the progress made in the implementation of various legal commitments...More
Lumumba killing: Evidence links US
Fifty years ago, the former Belgian Congo received its independence under the democratically-elected government of former prime minister Patrice Lumumba...More
US owns up on Zim sanctions
THE received wisdom among Western governments, journalists and some concerned progressive scholars is that there have been no broad-based, economic sanctions imposed upon Zimbabwe...More
The log in British eyes
Human Rights Violations by the UK, Monitoring Centre, Human Rights Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran,·Spring 2008..More
Govt committed to gender equality — Official
THE inclusive Government is committed to achieving gender equality in line with the Sadc Protocol on Gender and Development, as it is a key ingredient in the development of society, a senior official has said...More
ZimRights going against the tide
Can national healing be a success when we still have people opening old wounds?
What were they trying to achieve by their so-called exhibiting "No under 18"' images at the Sadc Summit in Namibia?...More
Obama’s broken heart: The real cause
ON August 3, US President Barrack Obama was hosting what Washington called "Young African Leaders" and what captured media attention the most for this overly inflated non-event was what Obama had to say about one small Southern African country that is causing the entire West sleepless nights, Zimbabwe...More
Political stability in Zim welcome
ZIMBABWE’S economy has taken a knock over the last decade.
At the centre of this decline was the political instability that created uncertainty for investors and other stakeholders in the economy...More
Let nation benefit, not individuals
ZIMBABWE celebrated Heroes and Defence Forces Day this week to honour sacrifices made by gallant sons and daughters of the soil to free the country from the yoke of colonisation...More
Zim’s recovery, restoration, emergence
AFTER visiting Nigeria in 2001, this writer remarked on ZBC Radio 1, "if you haven’t been to Nigeria, then you have not been to Africa"...More
With friends like these …who needs enemies?
"They who put out the people’s eyes, reproach them for their blindness" — John Milton, English poet, author, Puritan and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England, best known for his poem Paradise Lost...More
Biti flouted rules, got it wrong
The Public Finance Management Bill was assen-ted to by President Mugabe on March 25, 2010.
Presidential assent and gazetting of the Act means it can now be enforced...More
Govt intervention key for revival of agric sector
ON the occasion of the official opening of the 3rd Session of the 7th Parliament of Zimbabwe in Harare on July 13, 2010, President Mugabe spelt out Government’s intentions and plans in resuscitating the agricultural sector...More
Let’s build on literacy achievements
ZIMBABWE’s education system continues to receive accolades the world over despite challenges that the country is facing...More
No blood on these gems, Albion
ZIMBABWE, this (immeasurably) resource-rich southern African country of about 13 million, this week became the preoccupation of the whole world...More
Zim can reform its own systems
PARLIAMENT has its plate full this session. On Tuesday President Mugabe unveiled the workload for the MPs when he opened the third session of the seventh Parliament of Zimbabwe...More
Out of Africa: Confronting West
THE concept of progressive thinking in international relations today is measured not by the amount of progress it brings to the thinker, but by the degree of its conformity to the domination of Western influence in international power relations...More
Howard furious after ICC rejection
FORMER Australian Prime MinisterJohn Howard said he is angry at the way the International Cricket Council has treated him after they blocked his bid for vice president of the governing body at a meeting in Singapore yesterday...More
Why alter rules on Zim gems?
ZIMBABWE has done everything possible to sell its diamonds with the full co-operation of the international community as represented by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme. But goal posts are being changed all the time to meet political ends...More
Role of Christian leaders in political tolerance
Freedom of worship or religion is one of the value dearly cherished in Zimbabwe. Christians in particular make it very clear how much they appreciate the fact that Government, since independence has not interfered with their freedom of worship. This freedom has seen the expansion of churches in the country...More
Agric imports ban can backfire
FOOD is not cheap in Zimbabwe although prices are gradually falling into line with those in the rest of Southern Africa. One reason for the cap on price rises has been the willingness of the Government to allow imports and the switch to hard currencies making it easy for the private sector to do so...more
Diamonds, when regime change is forever
ZIMBABWE’S Marange diamond fields hold out the promise of billions of dollars per year in diamond sales, a bounty that could help the southern African country develop economically, and place it among the world’s top diamond producers...more
Copac, threat to inclusive Govt?
It has became abundantly clear that the constitution outreach programme is the biggest threat to the security and survival of the State of Zimbabwe as we know it today...More
We deserve a better deal from service providers
When coming into Harare from all major roads, one is greeted with very nice billboards from one Internet service provider with readings like "No disruptions, no congestion"...More
‘Let’s create stronger partnerships for growth, development’
Africa is open for business! It is open for trade and investment! The world is finally beginning to move beyond the myths about Africa.
For that reason, it is important for the political and business leadership of the continent and the world to interact regularly, to prevent misconceptions...More
France debacle: Lessons for firms
FRANCE fans held their flag, the Tricolour, limply as their national football team, Les Blues, limped out of the 2010 World Cup at the group stage on Wednesday...More
Black skin or black ignorance?
GIVING a lecture at Wellesley College in Boston, Massachu-setts, Louis Farrakhan had this to say; "We are not oppressed because we are Black; we are oppressed because we are ignorant. It is ignorance that keeps us on the bottom, not Blackness...More
Imperialism, hypocrisy, lies
I had no choice but to write two reflections on Iran and Korea explaining the imminent danger of a war with the use of nuclear weapons...More
Regime change politics affecting Zim diamonds
It is all about regime change The United States and Britain are frustrating Zimbabwe’s efforts benefit from its diamond resources Chiadzwa, Marange in eastern Zimbabwe because they have not given up their regime change agenda in the country, Zimbabwe has warned...More
HOT SEAT: Kimberley Process monitor Chikane defends 'shopping' Zim activist to police
Two separate guests on today’s Hot Seat programme ; the Kimberley Process monitor to Zimbabwe Abbey Chikane , and Bernard Taylor , Executive Director of Partnership Africa Canada, an organisation in the Kimberley Process Working Group on Monitoring. Chikane vigorously defends the fact that he ‘shopped’ diamonds researcher Farai Maguwu to the authorities, while Taylor explains why his organisation will not give a blessing to Chikane’s internal report which recommends the certification of Zimbabwe ’s diamonds ...More
African leaders must remain vigilant against Africom
WHILE Africa is basking in the glory of hosting its first ever World Cup Soccer finals, its leaders must not lose focus on the clandestine militarisation of the continent by the United States of America...More
British arrogance on Zimbabwe is shocking
A RECENT House of Lords debate on Zimbabwe left a sour taste in my mouth. The Zimbabwean story is being told by a bunch of disgruntled and bitter former absentee landlords whose ancestors and generations of their fellow countrymen were responsible for the problems we endured in the country...More
ICC, umbilically linked to EU
Last week in Kampala, Uganda, State members of the International Criminal Court began their first ever review conference of the court since its establishment in 2002...More
Think tanks key in economic turnaround
Zimbabwe’s battle to turnaround its economy would be difficult if Government failed to consider the importance think tanks and their findings play in implementing economic and social recovery programmes...More
Elections will open old wounds
THE reason the inclusive Government established the Organ on National Healing and Reconciliation was because the hotly contested elections since the year 2000 had left many people wounded, divided and in need of healing and reconciliation...More
SA: From outcast to World Cup Host
The greatest four-yearly show on earth — the World Cup — kicks off today.
South Africa has the honour of hosting the 2010 edition of the global soccer extravaganza and the distinction of being the first ever, African country to do so. It’s all systems go. A feel-good effect has gripped the whole country in a festive mood and this conviviality has spread beyond the country’s borders to places far and wide...More
ZANU (PF) maintains zero tolerance policy on violence
Some senior MDC-T officials, anti-ZANU (PF) Civic Organisations and the so called independent media deliberately continue on a Western induced propaganda peddling unsubstantiated allegations that ZANU (PF) has renewed political violence against its opponents in the MDC-T in preparation of the envisaged 2011 polls...More
Hats off to judiciary for impartiality
I would like to commend the country’s judiciary for upholding the moral fabric of our society...More
Black art of news management
IN his latest column for the New Statesman, JOHN PILGER describes the "master illusions" which have formed the basis of black propaganda and provided "false flags" for political chicanery and for wars and atrocities, such as Iraq and the Israeli assault on the Gaza peace flotilla...More
‘Enshrine environmental rights in constitution’
AS Zimbabwe forges ahead with writing a new constitution, development activists are demanding that land, environmental and natural resources rights be enshrined in this important document to reconcile land reform and resources needs with environmental conservation
Prioritise national interest
TRYING to get the Constitution-making process to move forward has not been easy.
The problem has been money...More
Zimbabweans must rise, shine
In a certain neighbouring country, an expatriate businessman too close with his money made a remark during a labour dispute with employees which would eventually be ascribed to other foreign businesspeople reluctant to give workers more pay for their sweat...More
More newspapers, less news
ANYONE who reads the news on Zimbabwe and how the media freedom mantra has been peddled by journalists working outside the country would have been shocked by how the news of new papers' registration came and passed...More
Let’s Look East in earnest
THE recent visit by a 25-member delegation from the Communist Party of China could not have come at any better time for Zimbabwe in light of the move by liberation parties in the region to close ranks and forge closer ties with all-weather friends like China, Russia and the DPRK...More
The women’s movement has over the past 20 years been fighting for greater participation in all facets of life, especially in the economic and political spheres.
The women’s movement has over the past 20 years been fighting for greater participation in all facets of life, especially in the economic and political spheres...More
Misreading African ‘silence’
WHEN Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was presented with the National Democratic Institute’s W Averell Harriman Democracy Award in America early last month, he called for an end to what he called the "conspiracy of silence" among African leaders...More
Rylander: Just another Western diplomat
On a fine day, he would be imbued in the ambience and aesthetics of Zimba-bwean culture and speak glowingly about how "Zimbabwean works of art in their various forms dominate capitals throughout the world...More
Constitution-making: The talking points
AFTER countless delays to get the constitution-making process underway, the resources to sustain the critical stage of gathering the people’s views have finally been found...More
Media should respect privacy
"THIS is the first incident that has made me regret being a public figure," leading musician Tongai Moyo ruefully bared his soul to a reporter last week after the apparent suicide of his wife Barbara...More
Warriors will learn a lot from Brazil
NEWS that five-time world champions Brazil have agreed to play Zimbabwe’s Warriors in a high-profile international friendly at the National Sports Stadium next week is a development that deserves to be saluted by the entire nation...More
Sanctions must go before polls
I would like to add my voice in response to the letter from the British Ambassador to Zimbabwe regarding the recent elections in his country and Zimbabwe, in particular the letter from Tirivavi (The Herald May 26, 2010) ...More
‘Democratic reform’: New fad of subversion
IMPERIAL hegemony as an establishment must project false and injurious ideologies that are accepted by its victims, and tradition has it that these ideologies are often portrayed as givens, as natural and as incontestable...More
Promote unity, writers urged
WRITERS have been urged to desist from using divisive language in their writings and instead write books that promote unity, peace and love...More
Immunisation demands pragmatism
Immunisation is saving the lives of millions of children around the world each year, as killer disease after killer disease falls with advances in medical science...More
Winter wheat season needs adequate preps
IT has become the norm in the past few years that farmers always complain about the shoddy preparations when it comes to planning for any farming season and it seems nothing has changed or has been learnt from past mistakes...More
Memories of sobbing shadows at Nyadzonia
LAST week, I wrote in The Sunday Mail a story about my bizarre experience with a VOLVO at Nyadzonia a day after the grisly 1976 massacre. A young woman phoned and requested me to write a story about the massacre. I told her I had already written one that appeared in the Press nearly 20 years ago but she said she had not seen it because she was still very young then; please, Mr. Kanengoni, please. Suddenly, it was no longer a mere request; it was a plea. I felt trapped and wretchedly treacherous. It was as if I was refusing with something that did not belong to me but to the entire nation...More
New US Bill extension of economic warfare
US SENATOR Russ Feingold is displeased. The legislation he helped draft in 2001 to cripple Zimbabwe’s economy as punishment for the country’s land reform programme, which redistributed the land of 4 000 settlers to 300 000 landless indigenous families, has been exposed for what it is: a major instrument in a programme of economic warfare designed to restore the property of expropriated farmers and drive the land reform programme’s champions, Zanu-PF, from government...More
ROY BENNET- MDC-T IN QUANDARY
My friend Tatenda Pasipanodya is a humorous fellow. The other day he left the neighborhood watering hole in stitches when he tried to explain how democracy works in the USA. ..More
Democracy: Joke on Brits
Democracy is not always decisive, and even when it is it doesn’t invariably produce results that optimise the public good.
We all know that, right?...More
The fine print of US’ ‘amended’ sanctions
Nine years after the US imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe through the so-called Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act, last week saw the tabling of the Zimbabwe Transition to Democracy and Economic Recovery Bill before Congress...More
Demystifying the white farmer
RESTORING Zimbabwe's agricultural prowess: What is to be done? That’s the question...More
Zimbabweans must author own history
THE only way to avoid a “weapons of mass deception” regarding our history is to ensure that we the people are its own authors...More
Paying lip service to corruption
“It is said power corrupts, but actually it’s truer that power corrupts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things other than power,” said David Brin, the 20 th century American fiction writer...More
Widen proposed indigenisation levy
THE indigenisation and economic empowerment drive is a progressive programme that will not receive the support of the Western donor community and bids us to secure our own funding to ensure its fruition and sustenance...More
April 27: What was SA celebrating?
What were we celebrating this April 27? Some say we were celebrating democracy, the birth of a rainbow nation, the miracle of a negotiated settlement, the best constitution in the world which makes South Africa the only country in Africa that has legalised same-sex marriages, and the fifth in the whole world to do so...More
Zimbabwe and Iran, sturdy fronts against US hegemony
FOLLOWING the arrival of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in Zimbabwe on Thursday, a conservative American journal The Right Perspective was explicit in its opposition to the two leaders...more
Dependency kills farmers’ innovation
WHILE it is true that the child that cries first is usually the first to get the mother’s attention, the stark reality is that the child that cries with every chance that comes by can easily turn into a pest and drive away that attention...More
Completion of Africa’s liberation
THIRTY years of Zimbabwe’s independence, which this nation marked on April 18, 2010 have also been framed as "30 years of progressive internationalism."...More
MDC hypocrisy nothing more but last kicks of a dying horse
The MDC is not only broke but it is losing supporters left right and centre and its latest display is nothing more than a desperate attempt to please their Western handlers so that they can release some funds. It is common knowledge that the MDC has dismally failed to keep their end of the bargain when it comes to the promises it made their Western handlers...More
Arrest urban decay
EDITOR — The Government, city fathers and city dwellers should work hand in glove and restore the urban fabric, which existed when Zimbabwe gained independence in 1980. For the past decade, the urban infrastructure and the living conditions in most Zimbabwe’s urban areas have deteriorated to alarming levels...More
MDC-T dancing to its paymasters’ tune
EDITOR — MDC-T leaders think that by being part of Government they have a lot of influence on anything that happens in Government...More
Field days: The resettled farmer’s public sphere
BESIDES breaking the day-to-day field toil monotony, field days give farmers the refreshing opportunity of meeting extension agents on a one-on-one basis, mingle and exchange ideas with their counterparts and interact on a personal level with other basic service providers...more
Zimbabwe’s Diaspora: Time to walk the talk
THE Zimbabwe Diaspora community has been calling for three things as the country moves towards a new Constitution. The community wants the new constitution to give them voting rights, dual citizenship and non-resident Members of Parliament...More
Its hard being leader of the MDC-T
HAVE you ever wondered how difficult it is to be Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, the prime minister of Zimbabwe?...More
Che Guevara’s African connection
ON October 8, 1967, this writer was exactly 151 days old and a global revolutionary hero was seriously wounded and captured as a member of 17 Bolivian guerrilla remnants of a larger group that had been trapped by CIA-backed Bolivian troops from September 28 the same year...More
Iran’s success story
After emerging from a devastating Gulf War (Iran-Iraq War), Iranians have demonstrated their resilience by rebuilding the country’s economy to a point now they are trying to boost electricity output for further development...more
Empowerment not for fat cats
FULL text of the statement delivered by Honourable Saviour Kasukuwere, Minister of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment, updating the media on implementation of the National Economic Empower-ment Programme on Tuesday...More
Malema’s position and Mandela’s legacy
IT WAS inevitable that Julius Malema’s visit to Zimbabwe two weeks ago would generate much interest...More
Independence a great day — Late Vice President Nkomo
ON April 11, 1980, the President of the Patriotic Front Cde Joshua Nkomo and his deputy, Cde Josiah Chinamano urged their supporters to cooperate with the Government led by Zanu-PF because "it is also your Government"...More
Media vital for nation building
THE impact of the media may be overblown in some instances, but the blunder that should be avoided is to underestimate it...More
DPRK advocates peace, love
THERE are always great men in the leaves of history.
While celebrating Independence Day, many Zimbabweans look back on the history of their patriotic liberation struggles...More
Victory: The only tribute to a hero
HERBERT Chitepo fell today four years ago. His death was as untimely as it was tragic.
It was on the morning of March 18, 1975 that, as he was in the process of driving his car from the yard of his house in Lusaka, the explosion, which took his life and that of two others, Comrade Shamiso and a Zambian child, occurred...More
UK media’s covert racism laid bare
ANYONE who lives in Britain would have been shocked by the way the murder of Eugene Terre’Blanche — the white supremacist and racist leader of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) — was portrayed in that country’s media...More
Land top priority since 1980
THE Prime Minister Cde Robert Mugabe, on March 13 1980 unveiled his Government’s programme of action, the priorities of which were the acquisition of land to resettle refugees and the establishment of co-operative and collective farms...More
Africa needs owns institutions
AFRICANS need to establish big media organisations and other institutions that are controlled by Africans if the true story of the continent is to be told. Many of the media organisations on the continent are still very much controlled from the west, although they are fronted by black faces...More
MDC-T councillors, lessons for city voters
EDITOR — I would like to commend Mbare residents for standing up to MDC-T councillors who wanted to seize houses and market stalls...More
Empowerment needs firm foundation
ACADEMICS, bankers and diplomats who do business with the continent now talk of an African renaissance. Some nations are figuring out ways to harness their natural and human resources into working models of development. Ordinary Africans are searching out their own paths to progress. Though still limited, the prosperity and security they have managed to acquire is homegrown — political and economic advances rooted in the soil of local culture...More
Thoroughly probe prison system
CASES of prisoners and some suspected hardcore criminals escaping or attempting to escape from lawful custody are cause for concern...More
War was death — Muchinguri
THIS is the final part of the interview Hildegarde (H) held with liberation war fighter Cde Oppah Chamunorwa Muchinguri (OM), who is also Zanu-PF’s Secretary for Women’s Affairs. Cde Muchinguri has also held several ministerial positions in Government, including being Governor and Resident Minister of Manicaland Province...More
Germany: Hotbed of imperialism
THE hodgepodge of geometric boundaries that today divide Africa into 50 plus irregular nations under Eurocentric subjugation all started in Berlin, Germany on November 15, 1884...More
Resources basis of Zim’s persecution
Zimbabwe’s frosty relationship with the West in the last decade has been characterised by continuous isolation or attempts to isolate Harare and frustrate the local people into submitting to the whims and wishes of the latter...More
Zim’s road to power transfer – Fact file
1980 — a leap year FEBRUARY 29 is a date that usually occurs every four years, and is called leap day. A leap year is a year containing one extra day in order to keep the calendar year synchronised with the seasonal year. This day is added to the calendar in leap years as a corrective measure, because the earth does not orbit around the sun in precisely 365 days...More
Delusions of intellectualism
JUST like the media, intellectualism is often overrated as both a source of truth and accurate information — more so in the field of socio-political commentary...More
Citizens must own the country’s resources
Last weekend, I was asked to join in the debate on indigenisation.
On reflection, I started asking myself whether it is the concept or the approach that is the issue...More
ZImbabweans thriving in spite of sanctions
DEAR EDITOR - When I visited Zimbabwe last month, I learnt a few lessons and would like to share them with your readership...More
Foreign aid regime change ploy
VIN Weber, a former chairman and current board member of the United States National Endowment for Democracy, has written an article in The Washington Times defending the NED against calls to eliminate its funding...More
Western democracy fails Africa (29/03/10)
Zimbabwean writers, especially the young and upcoming have found it very difficult to get published, with some publishers demanding a particular type of story. Our columnist EDMORE ZVINONZWA (EZ) spoke to publisher SARUDZAYI CHIFAMBA-BARNES (SCB) about this, her works and Zimbabwean writing in general...More
Glen Norah, Highfield voted for eviction
EDITOR — The true colours of the aspiring leaders of Zimbabwe are coming out with the deplorable behaviour of MDC-T councillors. I hope voters now realise the need to assess the calibre of the people they vote for...More
Say no to same sex marriages
EDITOR. — I am a true democrat but I do not think that a fair-minded person would want marriage of the same sex to be allowed and actually be part of our new constitution...More
Parly committees not for settling scores
THERE are three arms of the State — or maybe four as is now generally accepted — that are key to the establishment and development of a democracy like ours, and these should complement each other...More
Knowledge, power and anonymous Africans
To develop Africa, each individual citizen must wrestle the "comfort" in anonymity. I was appalled by the coincidence in history records that hit me in less than 30 minutes of scanning through literature...More
Indigenisation will uplift people’s lives
Editor — I came across an article in the March issue of the New African magazine that explains what indigenisation means to Africa...More
Media key in development dialogue
Development issues are often viewed as dull and boring with a little propensity to spark readers’ interest and push up sales for the media in the country...More
Obama snug in Bush’s shoes
THE hopes held by the international community, Zimbabwe included, that Barack Obama would transform the hyper-aggressive, combative and confrontational United States foreign policy to a more peaceful and constructive engagement-centred one, are fading with each day Obama spends in the Oval office...More
Entrench language rights in constitution
In an article entitled "Minority Languages Vital" published in The Herald on March 10, I spoke about the importance of languages...More
‘Quiet corruption’ stalling Africa’s development
"Quiet corruption" — the failure of public servants to deliver goods or services paid for by governments — is pervasive and widespread across Africa and is having a disproportionate effect on the poor, with long-term consequences for development, according to a new report from the World Bank...More
Party game over for many Britons
ON the day Gordon Brown made his "major policy speech" on Afghanistan, repeating his surreal claim that if the British army did not fight Pashtun tribesmen over there, they would be over here, the stench of burnt flesh hung over the banks of the Kunduz River...More
Constitution for the people, by the people
CONSTITUTION-making is as much about the present as it is about the past and the future.
It is a defining stage in modern state-making and a special time for national soul-searching, a time for a people to look long and hard in the mirror of their past, present and future and decide for the foreseeable future who they want to be and what they want the future generations to be..More
Unpacking media-NGO activism
THE recent call for media objectivity and promotion of unity by President Mugabe has obviously been embraced positively by many, and we need to look at the current state of the media in Zimbabwe if we are going to make an informed follow up to the President’s call...More
President showed true statesmanship
President Mugabe’s attendance of the memorial service of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s late wife was a strong show of statesmanship that the PM is advised to emulate...More
Cast anti-corruption net wider
INCREASED carnage on the roads is no doubt a reflection of deteriorating standards of driving compounded by the deplorable actions of some Vehicle Inspection Department officials issuing out drivers’ licences to unqualified and undeserving people who are prepared to pay bribes to get the document...More
Blooding gems part of sanctions war
ZIMBABWE’S diamond field in Chiadzwa is home to the largest known concentration of diamonds in the world, which are capable of transforming Zimbabwe’s economic fortunes...More
US declares war against Zim
It is a war. Last week United States president Barack Obama announced he was extending US sanctions on Zimbabwe for another year as his country continued with the "national emergency" against Zimbabwe that, he repeated, posed a "continuing and extraordinary threat to US foreign policy.’’ ...More
Countries must prepare for ART disruption
WHEN a crisis strikes, access to anti-retroviral drugs can be among the first casualties, particularly in countries where many people are on treatment. But experience in southern Africa has shown that although preventing treatment disruptions may be wishful thinking, preparing for them has become a pressing need...More
Zimbabwe: Sophists for Sanctions
Tony Hawkins, a professor of economics at the University of Zimbabwe, thinks that Western sanctions on Zimbabwe should be maintained but that their effects "are minimal" and that "their continued existence really plays into the hands of some people in Zanu-PF...More
Tsvangirai must walk the sanctions talk
Editor — A decade ago, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in his capacity as leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, called for the imposition of sanctions on Zimbabwe as one of the methods he thought would assist him to occupy the highest office in the land...More
Media have duty to promote unity
FOR well over three hours last Thursday, President Mugabe spoke to editors of local media houses about the progress the inclusive Government has made in its first year...More
New constitution: Give women a bigger say
Zimbabwe is in the process of formulating a new constitution, following the signing of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) in September 2008, and the formation of the inclusive Government in February 2009...More
Sanctions: Move from denial mode
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai made a pronouncement that many Zimbabweans have been urging him to make even before the formation of the inclusive Government...more
KPCS must give complete checklist
ZIMBABWE wishes and needs to market its diamonds in conformity with the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme to obtain the best prices and to avoid other trade problems that arise from dealing in diamonds outside that process...More
Propaganda in quest to conquer history
IT is rather a surprise that each problem with the MDC-T is viewed by the party’s admirers as a corroboration of the shortcomings of the party’s political opponents, and we are told that the calcareous plague of corruption bedevilling the party now is all a creation of Zanu-PF...More
BBC film unAfrican and abuses Zimbabwean children
I HAVE just watched a so-called documentary on BBC4 by one South African Xoliswa Sithole. The well-fed presenter, attempting to speak English with some kind of American accent, tells the viewers that although she grew up in Zimbabwe, she is actually South African and says that during Apartheid years, her mother brought her to Zimbabwe for a better life and education...More
West must listen to Zim voices
WE hope the condescending Westerners were listening on Monday afternoon when Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai finally added his voice to the anti-sanctions lobby by calling on the West to remove all forms of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans...More
HIPC: Wrong prescription for Zim debt management
HIGHLY Indebted Poor Country status is not the answer to the Zimbabwe debt problem. Zimbabwe is not Haiti.
The country does not suffer from inherent incapacity that would require outside management of its resources for it to get out of the debt, which was exogenously induced..More.
Why it pays to look East
AS the global economic balance of power shifts from West to East, it is becoming increasingly evident that we are living through the end of 500 years of Western ascendancy. Consequently, Zimbabwe must exercise long-term strategic vision, by perfecting the art of benefiting from China...More
Constitution-making and the moral compass
THIS is the first of a two-part series in which BISHOP TREVOR E. C. MANHANGA, presiding Bishop of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Zimbabwe, writing in his personal capacity, looks at the role of religion in the constitution-making process and why the exercise should be owned and controlled by Zimbabweans...More
EU a gang of criminals: SK Moyo
Freelance journalist Raymond Utsiwegota recently interviewed the Zanu PF National Chairman Simon Khaya Moyo on several issues including succession, elections and sanctions...More
Ostriches in our midst
IT is a common belief that when confronted with an uncomfortable situation, ostriches — which have the distinction of having eyes bigger than their brains — tend to bury their heads in the sand so that they do not see the approaching danger...More
Dilemmas of political analysis
READERS sometimes attack political writers and commentators for focusing criticism against the activities of certain groups; and for this writer, against the imperial West and those who offer the US-led Western alliance lap-dog support...More
No substitute for indigenisation
THE brave men and women who fought and died for Zimbabwe, did so not only to win us political independence, but also full economic independence...More
EU undermining GPA
SO the European Union has finally resolved to extend the illegal ruinous economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by another year?
US must do away with ZDERA
THE last time the US Congressional delegation led by Mr Gregory Meeks visited Zimbabwe they only made a whistle stop at State House to meet President Mugabe on their way to the airport.
Botswana, Black sheep of Southern Africa
OF all the countries in the region Botswana has decided to be the black sheep of the family by antagonizing its relations with Zimbabwe only to please the western imperialists who have an embedded regime change agenda...More
New farmers well on course
THE curtain went up on the tobacco auction floors on Tuesday, signalling the opening of the 2010 tobacco marketing season...More
Response to indigenisation regulations
CALEDONIA Mining Corporation ("Caledonia") (TSX:CAL)(OTCBB:CALVF)(AIM:CMCL) notes the recent gazetting of regulations pursuant to section 21 of the Indigenisation and Empowerment Act of 2008, in terms of which all companies are required to submit an indigenisation plan by April 15, 2010 explaining how their Zimbabwean operations will achieve the required minimum level of 51% ownership by indigenous Zimbabweans within five years across all business sectors...More
Some MPs turning into Missing Persons
In Parliament with Farirai Machivenyika
LAST week I talked about the various Parliamentary Committees that exist and the purposes they serve...More
When diamonds become pawns in a power game
AS the national economic empowerment agenda begins to take root in our country against the backdrop of continuing illegal sanctions whose main thrust was maliciously extended and expanded on Tuesday by the European Union to derail and sabotage the GPA under pressure from the British government with support from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC-T... More
Defamation of Zim persists
WHEN Prime Minister Tsvangirai parroted David Miliband’s "calibrated sanctions" as "staggered sanctions" in Davos, Switzerland, on January 31 2010; David Frost of Aljazeera asked the Prime Minister what he thought he could achieve by inviting investors to Zimbabwe while also asking for staggered or calibrated sanctions against the country..More
Zim diamonds: Foreign hand evident
The Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation states in its opinion piece placed in Zimbabwe’s national Sunday newspaper, The Sunday Mail, on December 20, 2009 that: "Diamond sales are expected to earn the country substantial revenue that will significantly bolster the national fiscus....More
Youth empowerment is vital
The world’s cognitive powers are witnessing how young, energetic, enthusiastic and talented life wastes away in immoral habit that is worsening the present plight...More
Is Devolution of Power an Option
With the Constitutional process currently underway this could be seen as a positive sign that the governing parties are committed to respecting their 2008 commitments as well as giving Zimbabwean people the opportunity to decide how they themselves wish to be governed...More
Reparations on Land Key to Reconciliation in Zimbabwe
The jostling by political parties over points to be considered and included in the new constitution is based on political ambitions and power struggles by political elites..More
Equating Criminality with Political Motivated Violence Iniquitous
The GPA has brought so much political, social and economic stability, a fact, which can not be disputed, the GPA which has been warmly embraced by all forward minded Zimbabweans has witnessed so much political tolerance which has seen a marked reduction in incidents of political violence ..More
Zimbabwe's inclusive Cabinet a total failure
ONE year on, Zimbabwe’s inclusive Government Ministers are more interested in amassing wealth, perks and political posturing and have so far neglected their ministries to the detriment of ordinary Zimbabweans. More often than not, Ministers are traveling abroad on supposedly government business and yet results of all this shuttling are at a near nil... More
Agriculture: The economic driver of Zimbabwe
The continent of Africa is well known for being dependant on agriculture. In spite of the fact that almost 65% of the continent’s population is engaged in farming, there is food deficit in Africa ...More
 Hypocrisy reigns supreme in the education sector
Youths key to national healing
Beware of West’s posturing
The ‘masters’ at work?
Biogas: A viable energy source
2009: Historic year for Sadc
Goodbye 2009, welcome 2010
The British Governor: Will he have plumes and a horse?
Sunshine City status still elusive
Unity Day: The missing links
Lancaster House: The US perspective
Civil service audit a witch-hunt
Sixpence Manyengavana - JOMIC is a toothless bulldog of the GPA
Dambudzo Mapuranga - Western Imperialism the Real Weapon of Mass Destruction
Sixpence Manyengavana - Combating Human Trafficking in Zimbabwe
Tony Munetsi-Zim Diamonds not “conflict” diamonds
Tafataona Mahoso-Immoral to demand RBZ, AG posts in exchange for fighting sanctions
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