November 26, 2024
Demo-cracy has come to be widely recognised and accepted as the most appropriate way to go, regardless of left or right leaning, however.The emergence of democracy as "the right way" has also been accompanied by a rapid acceleration of the rate of development of the human race. Few…
They didn't think it fair and they couldn't fathom the need. But that is exactly the point I was trying to drive home. And I did.This thing called parenting is complicated. Anyone who has been a parent knows this. So for my part what I do - there…
I think it is a tragedy that more than 10 years down the road, there appears to be no end to Zimbabwe's land reform process. As isolated the incidents maybe, farm invasions are continually happening with about 100 white commercial farmers throughout the country reportedly under pressure to…
Human rights groups led by the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and the Law Society of Zimbabwe have in the past challenged the dehumanising conditions of police cells as being unconstitutional but little success has been achieved. Relying on a technical aspect of evidence, the Supreme Court declined…
The same arguments that came up with the advent of land reform have once again been resuscitated. Most feel there is a need for such a policy, but have reservations over the implementation modalities. Questions abound as to who stands to benefit, and the capacity of the indigenes…
As we take time to reflect on the journey that Africa, as a continent, and individual states have travelled since the creation of the African Union (AU) and other regional bodies set up to carry out a guardian role over the welfare of people, democracy and good governance,…
This is against a background of the party's expressed desire to one day be the governing authority in the country. Political party congresses have now become synonymous with influencing some surges in the ambiance within parties. For the other MDC formation, the effects of the January 2011 congress…
My sixth sense - which is seldom wrong - tells me that our detractors have infiltrated the facilitation team and all the decisions that they are making from now on are not decisions of their own, but those of our enemies. Why then should we keep on co-operating…
Here is a list. California Governor Arnold Schwarzene-gger is in hot soup for keeping a 20-year affair with Signora Mildred Baena, a woman who worked as a maid in his household. They have a 14 year old so called love child. Feminists are all over the place trying…
You know, those people that just know what to do and what to say when in those down home social and cultural occasions. Whether at a wedding, funeral, family reunion and visiting the communal areas, these people soon have the grandpeople (old ambuyas and sekurus) eating out of…