Our plan worked perfectly well. We hired some of our brothers in the region to strike down the motion on Zimbabwe from the summit’s agenda and they did exactly that. It was sweet music to the ear when it was declared that there were other more pressing issues…

Sanctions against Smith were seemingly justified because of the unfair political dispensation that existed at the time and the same can be said about sanctions in apartheid South Africa.The same cycle of events involving debates, boycotts and international demonisation of the Salisbury regime appear to be repeating itself…

The cash squeeze that followed the dollarisation of the country’s economy in February has meant that there is very little cash for consumers to spend, and naturally, industry and commerce have suffered a heavy knock.Margins in the retail sector and across all the industries have declined to the…

Often, negative emotions like malice by those in positions of authority cause them to use their power and influence to, at times without any just cause, fabricate misconduct charges and fire subordinates on flimsy grounds.Even in those instances where misconduct charges are based on justifiable grounds, rushing to…

The position taken by our party's politburo is still the same. We talked about the same old issues, the so-called outstanding GPA issues but I made it quite clear that unless and until Morgan and his sidekick meet their own side of the bargain, they should forget about…

The life of the late Senator Edward Kennedy summarised it: “Individ-ual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in, and no exemption from common obligations to give of ourselves.”Kennedy, the last of the great Kennedy brothers, died last week. He exemplified what the world loves about the…

My question now is: Since the thematic committees that will lead the process are currently being formed, are we therefore now sober enough as a nation to know and understand the process we are undertaking?Are the people selected by stakeholders to represent them in those committees ready for…

It’s like celebrating an armoured warrior coming to the rescue of a battered, bare-knuckled ally who becomes subordinated to the rescuer.You celebrate the victory, but you can’t tell who the victor is, the rescued or the rescuer.Such has been the tragedy of Zimbabwe’s political crisis over the past…

Not less than 10 members of the Mov-ement for Democratic Change (MDC) were recently arrested apparently for harassing a government permanent secretary from whom they were demanding cash to buy vehicles under a state facility provided for MPs.At the centre of the furore was that some of the…

This is really something out of my control. I know many of you could be wondering really how crucial this was that I could not even attend the burial of Cde Richard, our late party's secretary for economic affairs. It was important. However, I should re-assure you that…