April 18, 2024
Welcome indeed to the perils of our emerging democracy. The recent resolution of the MDC-T national executive to refer all outstanding issues to SADC and the African Union (AU) for arbitration might be premature but is perfectly understandable. Let us judge things not by rhetoric but by what…
Some people are day-dreamers. So they think SADC, AU or anyone else, for that matter, can come and tell me what to do . . . ini ndotoitawo izvozvo? Mwana waani? If there is anything that these guys will get, it is what I will give them out…
There are growing suspicions, and a video is being circulated for free, that we have all been duped. We thought we were voting for a new face; we were actually doing what the money people had decided ahead of time we should do. All the acting up about…
They refuse to accept that they have the disease. Instead they insist that they have been bewitched. To make matters worse, their relatives tend to support them instead of telling them bluntly that they have AIDS and that it is not a disgrace to have the disease.A quarter…
The inclusive government will be 100 days old in a few days and during all this time, nothing really has changed in the way we do things in this country except the fact that I am no longer worried about the civil service wage bill, hospitals without drugs…
Doris was a rough girl, raised by a rough family in a rough neighborhood. At the age of 54, against all the odds, she was a somebody, a deaconess at her home church in Mt. Carmel, had her own Angel Care business, baby sitting elderly customers so family…
Among a raft of recommendations that emanated from the Kariba conference were the urgent repeal of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) and criminal defamation. The conference also called for the review or amendment of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, Public Order…
Education Minister David Coltart seems to have done a commendable job to get teachers back to work. But of what use is that if students are going to sit examinations that no one will mark?The failure by the Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) to release Grade 7, Ordinary…
The world having developed and become more civilised, a debtor can now retain his/her personal freedom in exchange for his property in accordance with provisions of the Insolvency Act (Chapter 3:03). Causes of insolvency are both economic, social and psychological and I shall not waste much space and…
Gono has had to put up with a torrent of verbal abuse and threats to his life and that of his family for daring to intervene in the complex economic matrixes to keep Zimbabwe's economy from collapse when pessimists had written it off as another candidate for the…