Take for example the loud chorus of voices that have suddenly started singing words of support for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor,  Gideon Gono. It only had to take President Mugabe to declare at a funeral that the governor would not go, and the spontaneous chorus from…

For years, while some of us campaigned among the electorate, he was busy junketing from one Western capital to another begging for sanctions, and now it is time for him to get these sanctions removed. I made it quite clear to him in our last meeting that if…

The answer is very tricky. Prime Minister Tsvangirai speaks to two audiences, both of them looking up to him to walk on water.  Prime Minister Tsvangirai commands vast sympathies among the lawmakers and in the Congressional Black Caucus which helped to write the  Zimbabwe Democracy and Recovery Act…

The Prime Minister began his historic tour with an enormous burden hanging like an albatross around his neck — a cocktail of expectations from all Zimbabweans that his visit will yield the desperately needed economic salvation.Zanu-Pf made it clear last week that they expect Prime Minister Tsvangirai to…

The lawmakers must have wondered how the cash-strapped government could assist and why management at NRZ had left operations to deteriorate to the present situation where the parastatal now requires heavy dosages of capital injections to come out of the woods. For all the MPs know, the inclusive…

In the weeks preceeding May  29 2009, the revenue authority left no stone unturned in alerting the public about the auction. It advertised in the media, in the process creating hype unforeseen in a very long time.Most attractive was the representation or misrepresentation in the media advertisements that…

With the situation already bad as it is, that is when some of you think the time is right to provoke some emotive and divisive debates like the one on succession. I really wonder if some of you still have the future of the party-and by extension country-at…

US President, Barak Obama yesterday delivered his seminal policy document on US-Islamic relations for the future.Egypt is his choice, though our big brother Nigeria has the right to be miffed at the thought that he will stop over in the tiny state of Ghana, but not in Nigeria.The…

Let's take, for instance, the fiasco over the hero status of Willford Lizati Sibanda who died in Bulawayo and was buried at the Lady Stanley cemetery last week.This was despite having been declared a national hero which would have entitled him to lie in State at Stodart Hall…

But if the truth be told, Zimbabweans have no choice but to agree with Ford’s prognosis. After all the country’s economy had witnessed a rare phenomenon only a few months ago when rent seekers started making money from nothing. A term was even developed for it, “burning”.People made…