NDUMISO Ngcobo, a columnist for South Africa’s Sunday Times newspaper, has got me thinking. Ngcobo has some pretty strong views about membership of any entity, particularly that of a political party. I will not repeat what he wrote in its … Read more
AN EMERGING trend within the diaspora community in the UK points towards a gradual increase in the number of people who have, or are considering returning to Zimbabwe or emigrating to other countries as a result of the global economic … Read more
MORGAN Tsvangirai needs to decide between a scandalous personal life and serving the nation. And if he cannot make the choice, then Zimbabweans will do it for him. Everyone knows that the present situation is indefensible, he cannot do both. … Read more
THERE is something incongruous about how Zimbabwean journalists are reporting the debacle surrounding Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s marriage-that-allegedly-never-was. Whilst the state-controlled Herald has, predictably, gleefully reported on the ‘union’ and its attendant soap operatic saga, the independent media has bizarrely … Read more
COMPELLING direct and circumstantial evidence indicates that Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has had only one objective since taking to the political stage: to drag Zimbabwe back to its 1979 status. Their 12 years of largely discreditable existence have produced no action … Read more
IT was Professor Stephen Chan who not so very long ago wrote something to the effect that even though Morgan Tsvangirai is prone to gaffes, he is still capable of some strokes of ‘genius’. Perhaps nothing illustrates this better than … Read more
AS THE reality begins to sink that Zimbabwe’s GPA-delayed second harmonised presidential, parliamentary and local government elections are finally upon us, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is clearly running terribly scared of the impending elections. Very, very scared. The clear evidence … Read more
Lecture delivered by Tsholotsho North MP Professor Jonathan Moyo (Zanu PF) at the Sapes Seminar Series in Harare on September 29, 2011, under the topic: ‘The WikiLeaks Saga: National, Regional and International Implications’ MAY I start by expressing my gratitude … Read more
WHILE the media hullabaloo over the so-called Wiki-Leaks saga has been useful in exposing the illiterate foreign-funded ranks of the so-called independent press, this hubbub has been useless in enabling the same audiences to understand current US policy on Zimbabwe … Read more
ONE telling public stance which has characteristically come to define Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s totally unsatisfactory, and in fact deplorable attitude to important national issues, is that when he is given a microphone or when he sees a captive crowd … Read more
