IN PREPARATION for the next elections, the two main political parties, Zanu PF and MDC-T have tabled diverging economic policies on how they intend to improve the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans if voted into office. The people they seek to … Read more
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Diamonds: America’s economic crimes against Zimbabwe
SERIOUS changes of opinion are rare in international politics, occurring maybe only once every quarter of a century. For example, it took the international community a lifetime before it could accept that Nelson Mandela was not a terrorist. It took … Read more
Post 2008, Zimbabwe’s electoral landscape has shifted
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai may have come within a whisker of winning the presidential election in the economic turmoil of 2008, but in 2013, when Zimbabweans are expected to choose between President Robert Mugabe and the Prime Minister in entirely … Read more
Now they say Tsvangirai can be our Clinton
A RESPECTED colleague and long-standing friend recently subjected me to an angry harangue for suggesting that Morgan Tsvangirai’s sexual wassails are proof that the MDC-T leader cannot be trusted with the leadership of this country. I was told to get … Read more
Morgan Tsvangirai: sex addiction and denial
THE recent sex scandal that has rocked the life of the lascivious Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, left many with some intriguing questions: is the Prime Minister a sex addict; just has poor judgement or is a bystander in … Read more
Little Mugabes and Zimbabwe’s tomorrow
WHEN on October 18, 2008, I suggested in the since suspended ‘Letter from Kutama’ column that President Mugabe’s politics so much held sway in Zimbabwe that even the MDC-T was itself not spared, the indignation from the bootlicking class and … Read more
MDC-T has failed the test of government
THE Movement for Democratic Change of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, previously seen by many as a vibrant opposition and a refreshing alternative to Zanu PF, is undergoing a gradual and catastrophic decline. There are only two reasons for this political … Read more
Election debate and lies that tell the truth
PRINCIPALS to the coalition government and their respective political parties have lately been doing much talking about the conflicted question of new elections this year, and yet we remain unclear whether or not the said polls will go ahead. Still, … Read more
Inaction is a vote too!
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
European economic crisis: Is it time to head home?
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
