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…

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…

However, in the prevailing Zimbabwean situation, this is hardly the case. Winter wheat hectarages have dwindled significantly over the past 10 years and there is no indication that this will change anytime soon.Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono is credited with introducing a number of schemes, including…

The story is that 80 percent of all cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines enter the US through the Mexican border. The Mexican view is that 90 percent of all guns used by drug dealers in Mexico originate in the US. Since 1972, President Richard Nixon used the “anti-drug policy”…

For a start, we will need at least 12 months to convince the likes of Lovemore Madhuku that the process itself is people-driven before anything starts.Then there would start the debate about what should be included in this Constitution and what should not. Just across the Zambezi, in…

There are other  issues  about our economy and the manner in which we run our government that are important. While restricting myself to  the scope of this space, I want to discuss the importance of the  property market to our economic revival  and how government  can lend  a…

Since the chaotic and sometimes violent land seizures of 2000, punctuated by the bloody polls in June 2000, March 2002, March 2005 and March 2008, the industry has been like a sinking Titanic.It has lost what used to be captive markets in Europe and the West due to…

In Zimbabwe, the day will be marked on Saturday by a series of  activities in Harare and other major towns and cities organised by the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ), just four days before what should be a landmark all stakeholders media conference in Kariba from May 6…

The issue is whether the visit of Finance Minister Tendai Biti to Washington this week will finally convince Western backers of the GNU to put their money where their mouths are. Biti has done the rounds at the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and, more importantly, at…