With an election that has produced two presidential candidates who have gone into a re-run and eventually inaugurated themselves as the substantive leader, a paradox is unfolding. This Cote d’Ivoire case presents a typical electoral scenario across the African landscape with vast potential to taint our quest for…

The exposures from WikiLeaks, a web portal created to receive and distribute sensitive information in the interest of a free society, has angered White House, but sent the ZANU-PF election machinery into fighting mode.But not against the Americans, but against Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his Movement for…

They can be your sister’s, brother’s or adopted. If you can raise them into adulthood without murdering them, then you know love is not that tough. We sit around and tell each other that we love our children unconditionally. That is not true. Of course, it is conditional.…

“Who wakes up earliest in the household? Is it you or the maid,” and none of the  previously overzealous women put their hands up. I mean none. In that unexpected point of reckoning all hypocrisy melted exposing a raw failure among the women to meet the biblical (and…

 The Greeks talked about three types of it, philos, eros and agape. Philos is that based on friendship between two or more people. Eros is strong feelings towards another in a romantic relationship and agape is unconditional love, love that is selfless and can be given even without…

Some, like the long-suffering civil servants are downright unhappy that the Minister of Finance Tendai Biti failed to concede to their long-standing call for a minimum salary of US$500 for the lowest paid worker. In summary, the 2011 Budget reflects the challenges facing this country against the background…

While the conference ended as an eye opener, the general feeling for many pointed to the fact that there was need for a paradigm shift towards a sustainability business culture in Zimbabwe if companies were to attain meaningful foreign capital inflows, attract investors and gain competitive advantage in…

 Before we can move forward with development, we must win the intellectual arguments put forward by brothers Bobo and Loyd Butler of New York.Their arguments are persuasive and since they clothe themselves in the Pan Africanist flag, we are forced to sympathise with them. Lloyd says that we…

I would like to challenge  Zimbabweans to look beyond the current situation and attempt to paint a picture of the future. We should not allow our present frustrations and sense of crisis to eclipse the vision of a better Zimbabwe epitomised by social, economic and political transformation. Political…

 However, the legislature became increasingly aware that it was still widely viewed by the public as being a remote institution, which was ill-equipped and inadequately resourced to effectively represent the constituents. Furthermore, there was a popular perception that Parliament was too weak to bring the Executive branch of…