IF LEFT unconfronted, the culture of violence brewing within Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC-T will plunge Zimbabwe into a sewer, the darkest and most disgusting epoch in its entire history. It is no way to run a political party let alone a … Read more
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The MDC’s star is waning
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has recently been engaged in a regional tour to draw attention to political developments in Zimbabwe and lobby for Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) leaders’ support before a scheduled troika meeting. Some of the usual suspects … Read more
Civil servants pay: buck stops with Biti
NOT for a second should the citizens of Zimbabwe give in to the erroneous and self-serving propaganda currently being peddled by the MDC in an attempt to shift blame to Zanu PF for what is entirely an MDC failure to … Read more
Time to hold MDC to account for sanctions
IN ALL history, it is difficult to think of a time when a country became aware of acts of gross sabotage by anyone in the world, let alone its own citizens, and did nothing about it. No earthly reason exists … Read more
Mugabe: death betakes man, never his legacy
THE recent frenzied media speculation over President Robert Mugabe’s health attracted a robust and typically acerbic rebuttal from ex-information minister Professor Jonathan Moyo, who demanded of those behind the rumours to state whether they were witches driven by malice or … Read more
MDC: the beginning of the end
IF THERE is one line of engagement that requires originality, momentum and avoidance of stupidity it is politics. The authenticity of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) project has always been an open question and so a handicap in its … Read more
Tsvangirai riding a power-sharing tiger
“If it is a question of just a couple more months, then I will have no objection but to give it another life of six months or one year, no, no, no, no,” so maintains President Robert Mugabe on the … Read more
Ignore Malema at your peril
THERE are only two ways to deal with ANC Youth League president Julius Malema: either the whites physically eliminate him, or the ANC sacrifices him. Neither option resolves the key question of Malema’s popularity: the quest to give meaning to … Read more
Rising above the fables of our time
PERHAPS one of the sorriest traditions characteristic of Robert Mugabe’s 30 year rule and which looks set to survive long after he is gone, is Zimbabwe’s penchant for the sanctification of what one might call the doctrine of unwritten and … Read more
Something is not right with MDC
FOR an organisation in which many millions have invested so much hope and faith, the vibes coming from the MDC leadership must surely, be disconcerting. No one can seriously doubt the political capital that the MDC has amassed over … Read more
