SOMETIME in 2001 when the Zimbabwe Independent led with a story about musician Andy Brown being funded by Zanu PF, some of us shook our heads in disbelief. How on earth did the editors think a mere musician could sell … Read more
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Zanu PF must change tactics or lose power
LONG-REGARDED as a contemptible figure, a danger to society and so unworthy of occupying the highest office in the land, Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa must always have felt compelled to do a bit of explaining in order not just to … 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
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
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
Post-Mugabe turmoil, what turmoil?
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe recently felt sufficiently miffed by the increasing speculation over his health that he took the unusual step of granting an extensive interview to specifically address and hopefully dowse the rumours. Images of a frail looking Mugabe walking … 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
It is not yet Uhuru!
I HAD not even managed to get some sleep that night. I had spent the day with colleagues attending a conference, now they had been detained by the police. The crime my colleagues had committed was to go to the … Read more
Mugabe and Tsvangirai: our two long bridges to nowhere
TODAY, Zimbabwe has become a failed state, those with relatives in the country, both very rich and very poor live under the shadow of death. Because if, for example, a relative contracted an illness that has a very short terminal … Read more
