PEOPLE often ask: what is the magic behind the loyalty of Robert Mugabe’s security services? At face value, this question makes sense for it surely must surprise anybody why they have stood foursquare behind Mugabe for this long, and at … Read more
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UK announces end of ‘legacy’ case review
THE UK Border Agency (UKBA) has announced that it has now reviewed all unresolved asylum claims lodged before March 5, 2007, estimated to be more than 450,000. The UKBA is preparing to wind down the so-called “Legacy Case Resolution Programme”, … Read more
Time to break Europe’s strangehold on IMF top job
IT WAS not even possible to imagine, at the start of last week, that events in a luxury suite in a New York hotel would have profound ramifications on the politics of global finance and regulation. Yet the arrest of … Read more
Thumbs up to gold-backed Zim dollar
RESERVE Bank Governor Gideon Gono’s proposal this week for the introduction of a gold-backed Zimbabwe dollar is an idea whose time has come. If implemented properly, the gold-backed local currency will resolve the liquidity crisis currently ravaging the sanctions-hit economy. … Read more
Elections now, or not before 2016
IF THERE is one good outcome of the unusual media and diplomatic excitement engineered by British and American mischief makers for illegal regime change in Zimbabwe since the March 31 Livingstone summit of SADC’s organ troika on politics, defence and … Read more
Beyond post-study work migrant route: UK students quandary
BRITAIN has announced a new student policy which points to plans to restrict the current Post-Study Work Migrant programme from April 2012. The purpose of the new reforms is to encourage graduates who have studied in the United Kingdom to … Read more
Bloch: champion of the privileged
ZIMBABWEANS should not be tricked into believing Eric Bloch’s flagrant lie that he is committed to the empowerment of indigenous Zimbabweans. Of course he is merely paying lip-service. Crocodiles cannot fly. By most accounts, he remains a champion of the … Read more
Indigenisation: robbing Peter to pay Chamunorwa
I COULD have written a syrupy piece about our Independence until I reasoned that I could be dancing out of tune. Surely, after 31 years of self-destruction, what is there to celebrate? So I decided to be more realistic and … Read more
UK marriages made easier
ON APRIL 4, 2011, the United Kingdom parliament approved the Remedial Order that will abolish the certificate of approval scheme for couples seeking to get married. The abolition of the scheme takes effect on May 9, 2011. At present, any … Read more
UK migrant marriage scheme reforms
THE UK Border Agency has confirmed that the government is now seeking to remedy the declaration by UK courts that the scheme whereby any migrant in the UK, who is subject to immigration control, must apply for a certificate of … Read more
Defending Republic not preserve of government
THE fake hullabaloo over my views on the March 31 controversial summit of the SADC troika on politics, defence and security cooperation held in Livingstone, Zambia, to review the situation in Zimbabwe has been very useful in so far as … Read more
Titanic: Are we next?
I REMEMBER watching Titanic, the movie, directed by Steven Spielberg about that fateful voyage in 1912. It was an hour before midnight on a cloudless and starry night. There was no wind to speak of, and so the frigid, dark … Read more
Criminal conviction barrier to UK settlement
THE UK Border Agency has set a criminal conviction threshold for settlement to bring it more in line with that for citizenship (naturalisation) applicants. Starting on April 6, 2011, all migrants (except refugees) will need to be free of unspent … Read more
Indigenisation: looking at the bigger picture
ZIMBABWE’S indigenisation and empowerment law, whose present focus is on the mining sector, has been called many things: ‘destructive’, inimical to ‘property rights, devoid of justice, unconstitutional, tantamount to theft’ and certain to bring about ‘the imminent and total demise … Read more
