November 22, 2024
Anyway, I cannot really call it rest because I have a lot of legal documents to read as I try to see how best I can dribble my case past these fellows who are pressurising me on some imaginary out-standing GPA issues. Anyway, I will be back to…
Take the cases of James Makamba and Chris Kuruneri, for example, who spent months in remand prison, with the former taking flight to save his skin and is now domiciled in foreign lands, and yet, the notorious law that created so much havoc to their lives has been…
The country’s premier trade show offers local businesses, weakened to the bone marrow by the decade-long economic recession, a unique opportunity to showcase their products and demonstrate to the nation and outsiders that they are ready to get the country’s economy working again.ZITF officials are upbeat about the…
In the largest supermarket in my home district, 20 till points stand empty — only one was working. You do not have to book for a meal as most establishments are half empty. People do not have the money to entertain.Most factories are slowly starting to resume production,…
Non-governmental organisations, the private sector and civil society as a whole have a very important role to play in the promotion of good governance in our country, in Africa and beyond. Indeed, the importance of a strong and vibrant civil society cannot be over-emphasised.Partnership, frankness dialogue and discussion:…
It is therefore first to its readers and secondly to the editorial team that the column owes its survival, for had it not been for their persistent interest in it, it could have kicked the bucket a long time ago.Indeed, since its birth, the column had several siblings…
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I am told that there is now pressure on some of our partners in this inclusive government to approach Cde Thabo Mbeki to mediate over the so-called outstanding issues. Well, they can go ahead and call him, but I really wonder if he…
However, that is not the view of the world. That is why President Barack Obama has been holding meetings in Europe, Afghanistan and the Caribbean, in order to reconcile the American view with the reality on the ground.President Obama, himself a product of the global village, a white…
They have simply abdicated their responsibility. They have become death chambers where those found on the wrong side of the law die in silence.But because the law in Zimbabwe has been applied like a spider web that catches smaller insects only to let the big ones through, no…
However, let us wish this dispensation well. Let us hope that reason, justice, peace and love can be the mainstay of our nationhood. Yet in our optimism, let us not be oblivious of the truth. It is this truth that will inform us of the evils we are…