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…

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 He says that Finance Minister Tendai Biti has withdrawn support form African farmers by allowing NGOs to buy and sell grain through the Grain Marketing Board( GMB).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…

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…

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…