(Continued from last week)
THE principle of a body outside Parliament, but with parliamentarians as members was correct. What was wrong then was an abuse of the principle by saturating it with persons drawn from, or sympathetic to, the ruling party.
Jacob Zuma couldn’t have plotted his meteoric ascendency any better if he had done it himself. As SA entered the final days before the elections, Barney Mthombothi deconstructs the road to the presidency and the way Thabo Mbeki, in a few ironic twists, propelled Zuma to cult-like status. But what…
AS the country joins the rest of the world on Sunday to celebrate World Press Freedom Day, the spotlight falls on proposed media reforms which are expected to redeem Zimbabwe’s reputation of being one of the worst violators of press freedom.
…Given there are many who believe, often mistakenly so, that when South Africa coughs Zimbabwe sneezes, it is opportune to assess the political implications of Jacob Zuma’s inauguration on May 9 as South Africa’s fourth president on Zimbabwe’s struggling 77-day old coalition government and its embattled partners, Zanu-PF and MDC-T…
EVERY year on May 3 the world celebrates Press Freedom Day. Sunday May 3 2009 will be no different.
In Zimbabwe the subject agenda shall be commemorated by the media fraternity and other concerned citizens in the context of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) under which the nation is…
IN my first installment last week, it was clear that the only reason why a constitution is regarded as supreme is because it is the word of the people.
…THE willpower and efforts of the inclusive government to resuscitate the country's battered economy are, to say the least, noble, as they have set Zimbabweans brimming with confidence again after nearly a decade of a recession.
…ALEXANDER Kububa (AK), the director of the Zimbabwe Compe-tition and Tariff Commission, has been appointed one of the nine commissioners of the newly-established Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Competition Commis-sion, to be officially opened in Blantyre, Malawi, on Tuesday. Kububa has also been appointed to a steering…
IT is accepted by almost all Zimbabweans that our country needs a new and democratic Constitution.
This is not a new phenomenon. Some 10 years ago, we were in a similar national mood. It is striking that what divided us 10 years ago, still divides us again today albeit…
SAMBURU, Kenya — If it were a race Kenya could probably be miles ahead of Zimbabwe though with no clear indication where the race was heading.
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