November 26, 2024
They were clamouring for a “people-driven” constitutional reform process, isn’t it? And our party preferred the Kariba Draft, and they made a lot of noise about it…he-eh people-driven, he-eh people oriented, he-eh people this and that, blah, blah and what they didn’t realise is that ours is a…
There were media which were prepared for a bloodbath, the final showdown between the forces of darkness and those of light. But like most of their phantasmagorical, laptop-generated “what Zimbabweans want” findings, it was a damp squib. Thus has been the story of Zimbabwe for more than a…
The country hit its lowest point in terms of output in the 2008 season when less than 500 000 metric tonnes of maize was harvested.But last year’s season demonstrated the effect of a viable pricing regime as well as well-considered support to a new breed of indigenous farmers when…
My daughter would in a few days be turning 21. What advice would I have to give that I had not already drummed into her sweet head? My mind wondered off to how men would give their sons or nephews advice on women and start inducting them into…
They would come out of the shadows and the woodwork, shine and bloom and show the world without inhibition, just what they are made of. Homes would have more peace and tranquillity. Equality in homes and workplaces would come easily and without begrudging resentful males.Threatened egos make violent…
Its all back to front. How tragic!What is wrong with politicians in this country? What have Zimbabweans done to deserve such perpetually self-serving politicians? Children of a lesser God — that is what we Zimbabweans have been condemned to. Check this.Well before the ink is dry on the…
This venomous obsession for violence outrightly shows that the political parties in Zimbabwe are somehow subtracted from the normal terrain within which civil society is incisively visible. In short, the politics of the day has rendered civil society dysfunctional and irrelevant in providing the political muscle so aspired…
But last week, he received unfriendly fire for eyeing Zimbabwe, now under the radar of international bargain hunters after a decade of unprecedented economic crisis.It’s not as if Branson has promised war on the country; in fact, his Enterprise Zimbabwe, an independent non-profit organisation launched on September 22…
I suffered all manner of “indecencies”.From crass words, to “obscene” suggestions and crude actions, I basked and soaked in it all. No sooner had I got onto the vehicle and sat myself on the first row of seats behind the driver that it all started. I sat next…
i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)and it’s you…