So all of you Cdes who  want to represent the party should get ready to justify to the grassroots why it should be you, and not the next party cadre, who should be the party’s candidate.I notice that intra-party violence has already started in some areas. We should…

Questions over and about the inadequacy of a little over three weeks for the public to debate the draft constitution have become common place and have led to some political leaders in the inclusive government claiming the document as a compromise one that would be amended by the…

It has been a merry-go-round kind of exercise. It has taken the Constitution Parliamentary Select Committee (COPAC) more than three years to produce the proposed new supreme law of the land that would be subjected before the referendum.During those four years, drama and political intrigues became the hallmarks…

It can be felt all over and there is a sense of destiny that many seem to relate to the referendum that we will have on Saturday. I have, however, been trying to be introspective about the post referendum period. A lot of questions still linger in my…

Consequently, it is of significant importance to explore opportunities in mining taxation provisions for the benefit of all stakeholders in their various decision-making roles.The Act provides three methods for computation of capital redemption allowances, namely the life of the mine basis, new mines basis and a combination of…

Bacchanalians live for pleasure and anybody who suggests restraint is stigmatised as a hate monger. Our readers will forgive us repeating the feisty language used by protagonists in New York.  Brutal and unfit for civilised discourse, the language captures the New York spirit.Michael Bloomberg, an ageing owner of…

 Apart from the confusion over what exactly constitutes an SME, and the need for clarifying that SMEs and the informal sector do not mean the same thing, the other big discovery was that the SMEs themselves often mis-diagnosed their problems.The most common misconception we came across was that…

The main emphasis will be on the progress or lack thereof of women, but I want to focus on what women want. Oftentimes women are bombarded and “held hostage” by what men want. We hear oftentimes about what it is women should do for their men, what it…

This brought with it a propensity to inebriated sexual revelry made easier by unlimited amounts of wine during festivals.I must regret to inform our readers that I find myself isolated among Bacchanalians, who have thrown out all natural laws to the beasts, and are intent on denying common…

 He was such an affable and brilliant young man, who — following on the footsteps of the likes of Brother Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and others — wondrously transformed his country in the short period God allowed him to lead his South American nation. Well, we saw it…