November 22, 2024
While friends, relatives and colleagues have offered condolences and encouragement as a way of consoling the bereaved, it is difficult to imagine the pain, both physical and mental, that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is going through right now following the loss in a tragic accident, of his wife,…
It died, a villain, having battled for a number of years and through various medicinal prescriptions like slashing of zeros, having evaded its demise. It had tried to soldier on under the heavy weight of a multiplicity of negative factors with authorities trying to save it, but the…
“Let’s face it; if nothing is done to even the playing field then blacks will continue to play a subservient role in a country they are governing.”He then posed four questions that I think are critical in better appreciating the challenges and prospects for leveling the post-colonial economic…
His indictment was announced by the ICC in The Hague, Netherlands. “He is suspected of being criminally responsible for intentionally directing attacks against an important part of the civilian population of Darfur, Sudan, murdering, exterminating, raping, torturing and forcibly transferring large numbers of civilians and pillaging their property”,…
Stating what is universally known, Wikipedia says the learned professor is considered the “core architect of AIPPA and POSA”, the draconian Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the Public Order and Security Act, for whose repeal a loud clamour is still being heard. Moyo is…
ZESA, the power utility, TelOne and the blundering Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) – now in the final stages of handing back the distribution of water to more competent municipalities – were among government-run institutions that were quick to expose their insatiable appetite for hard currency when they…
As Zimbabweans, we need to be conscious of the fact that we now have the chance to define exactly the Zimbabwe we want.Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No 19) Act, which ushered in the current inclusive government, was in any case never intended to be a permanent thing. It…
COMRADES, now that the inclusive government arrangement seems to be working—and taking away pressure from our party—it is high time that party members started working towards the next elections. As you all know, these elections are due at most in two years’ time, so by that time, our…
The South African press has reported that the emergence of Bishop Mvume Dandala at the weekend as the man COPE supporters would like to see assuming the presidency of South Africa should the party win the most seats in the forthcoming legislative elections, has caused tensions within the…
Who ever thought the day would come when The Saturday Herald's rampant and seemingly omnipotent hate-mongering, self-anointed arbiter of patriotism, the belligerent and raging Nathaniel Manheru, would pen the last installment of his notorious column?But proving that what goes up must eventually come down and that nothing lasts…