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MDC split on ethnic lines
DESPITE Monday’s last ditch efforts to patch major differences concerning Senate elections to be held in three weeks’ time, the leadership of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has finally decided to go separate ways effectively splitting the five-year-old political party. (4 November 2005)
MDC president must take the resignation route
Having followed the drama that has been unfolding within the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) since the national executive council resolution of 12 October, and at times struggling to keep pace because of the speed of events, I discovered that the only logical and respectable route that the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai must take is that of resigning from the party presidency.(02 November 2005)
President, Chavez take fight against imperialism to centre
ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe and his firebrand counterpart, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, took the revolution to Europe two weeks ago, roundly condemning American militarism and imperialism in a rare duo that generated the loudest burst of applause from world leaders. (28 October 2005)
Tanzania: The trouble with opposition
As Tanzanians prepare to vote on 30 October, political analysts say the opposition is in a state of disarray and is unlikely to give the ruling party any real challenge in the race for presidency.(27 October 2005)
Tanzania: Poll to test Sadc guidelines
It is election time again as Tanzanians go to the polls to elect a new president and parliamentarians in the country’’s 232 constituencies on 30 October 2005. (24 October 2005)
Sadc project to document history of liberation struggle
A PROJECT to document the history of the liberation struggle in southern Africa has started in seven countries. The recent summit of Sadc leaders in Botswana, marking the Silver Jubilee of the regional community, noted that the ““Hashim Mbita Project”” had begun implementation and reaffirmed their commitment to the project. The participating countries to date are Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. (13 October 2005)
America: Tale of a divided nation?
AT around 1pm Eastern Standard Time on October 3 1995 America was united.
In the middle of a workday, almost 108 million people —— 57 percent of all US adults —— gathered around television sets to hear the news. (04 October 2005)
Why technocrats must listen to political leaders
The Sunday Mirror newspaper of September 18 2005 had a curious lead story called: "Crisis over IMF: Lack of Clear Policy Framework Comes to the Fore". The story is curious because it gives the impression that it is the political leadership of Zimbabwe which is out of step with technocrats and that political leaders must listen to if not follow their technocrats rather than the other way round. (26 September 2005)
Iraq - imperialist occupation unsustainable
With each passing month, as the resistance in Iraq gathers strength, the position of the US-led imperialist army of occupation gets more and more dire, putting paid to the blithely optimistic rhetoric of the Bush and Blair administrations. At the end of June, returning from Iraq, Joe Biden, the Democrat senator, criticised the "……long litany of rosy assessments, misleading statements, premature declarations of victory that we've heard from the [Bush] administration on Iraq." The Sunday Times of 26 June 2005, in which the above words of Senator Biden were reported, goes on to say: "With each passing day of bland reassurance, the credibility of Mr Bush - whose approval ratings are in freefall - and, of course, of Mr Blair, takes a further knock." (07 September 2005)
Women in politics: boost to gender equity
AN increasing number of African women are breaking into politics and in so doing advancing gender equality and female empowerment as an effective way of combating poverty, hunger and disease. (07 September 2005)
Passing of Bill a historic milestone
WHEN Zanu-PF went into the March 31 parliamentary elections, its main objective was to secure the requisite two-thirds majority in the 150-member legislature to implement a wide range of constitutional reforms. (04 September 2005)
Amendments make Constitution national
THE Irish Writer, Seamus MacNamus (1869-1960) could not have put it any better, when he said that,"There are three things to beware of: the hoof of a horse, the horn of a bull and the smile of an Englishman." (04 September 2005)
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