AID: Mcgee with a US-donation of cholera kits at a UNICEF warehouse in Harare AMBASSADOR James McGee: “I am going back to the US military, and my specialty will be Zimbabwe.” Jason Moyo: “What do you mean?” … Read more
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The moment demands leadership
THE real tragedy in Zimbabwe’s political crisis is that both Zanu PF and the MDC lack viable options outside of a power sharing agreement signed last September. For the suffering majority, the stark humanitarian crisis has reduced politics to a … Read more
Tarisai’s Christmas petition
LITTLE Tarisai often goes kwaFirimoni, the remains of a once vibrant local township just a mile from Warikandwa School. The locals called the place kwaFirimoni after the local entrepreneur, a man called Phillimon who opened the first and for … Read more
Why did the soldier cross the road?
WHEN I was in my late teens I was very much enamoured with the idea of serving in the military. There is something about the military person that is admirable. Not the guns, no. Not even the work they … Read more
The ‘Cholera Effect’ and Mugabe’s isolation
AFTER all the human effort, indeed, after all the summits and champagne-negotiations, the demonstrations and obscene violence, could it really be that regional leaders in Southern Africa have been jolted into a change of tone by a little, albeit, lethal … Read more
