In his Sunday Mail piece,  August 22, Mahoso lays down three charges against the MDC and the GNU. He says that Finance Minister Tendai Biti has withdrawn support form African farmers by allowing NGOs to buy and sell grain through the Grain Marketing Board( GMB). Biti is accused…

In it, the governor called for debate over his proposal. His defence made interesting reading. It is in the spirit of the governor’s call for debate over the matter that I am making this contribution.The governor commences his defence by saying: “As a country, we had pinned our…

This is certainly because of the hope invested in this largely experimental project by the country’s long suffering population, which had grappled with acute commodity shortages as well as runaway inflation rates that broke world records and wiped away investments.The GNU was therefore meant to stop the economic…

 I am very happy that when the politburo met to deliberate on these matters, they took seriously my arguments about what the MDCs have not done in terms of the GPA. I am quite happy that our party’s supreme decision-making body agrees with me that Morgan and his…

Before his election on July 2 2008, political appointees with little or no administrative experience had run down the city. The last two decades had seen Harare being run like a ZANU-PF command centre in some remote part of Zimbabwe, so to speak, hence, service delivery had deteriorated…

Recently, while conducting a defence, I was reminded about this burning question that has not only worried those in the legal fraternity, but also some members of the public who have either fallen victim, or have had relatives or friends falling victim to weaknesses of the criminal justice…

In the first place, there is no need for the services of a specialist to see that the state of the inclusive government is gravely fragile while its performance has thus far been delinquent thereby making its promise particularly uncertain even among incurable optimists. But there are some…

More so for long suffering Zimbabweans, who felt the inclusive government, although not perfect or exactly a product of political reconciliation or unity among the main political parties in the country, offered the best means out of a political purgatory and nearly a decade of economic decline. I…

 I was reluctant because racism here is an everyday affair and it is only when it raises its head in unusual circumstances that it becomes news. However, the story seems to fit President Barack Obama’s mounting problems.First, here is the Gates story. A distinguished black professor, 58 years…

This topic has been extensively dealt with by legal scholars under the subject of jurisprudence. This modest discussion will not be able to provide any new dimension to the subject. What it seeks to highlight though is the obvious fact that the entire human existence is predicated on…