There are many who feel let down because they believe their particular expectations within the context of specific benchmarks, have not been fulfilled. Others feel frustrated, and perhaps even disappointed that the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has not done enough to fulfil its pledge to bring real…

Under ZANU-PF’s rule, Zimbabwe’s once prosperous economy was nearly brought down to its knees. The health delivery system, education, industry and commerce — just to name but a few of the most critical sectors — had deteriorated to near ruins.A total collapse of the country’s economy had looked…

The disgusting arrest of Alec Muchadehama, a prominent human rights lawyer also made good legal news, but I shall for this week steer away from these topical issues to answer a concerned reader, one Shupikai Mudzamiri, who wrote a stinging criticism of this column in last week’s publication.While…

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…