When schools finally “re-opened” on Tuesday, more than two weeks late, one felt sorry for   the children, knowing that they were going back to schools  whose main feature is the absence of teachers. Prior to the delayed start of the new term, the press carried numerous reports about…

These inputs – ranging from seed, fertilizer, chemicals as well as farm implements – were procured by the government last year at a huge cost to the taxpayer in the hope that the beneficiaries would boost agricultural production on their farms, feed the starving nation and generate foreign…

Because of Carter’s record on behalf of the downtrodden, his opinion ought to be taken seriously, even though it falls short on this particular instance.The truth is that at this moment, the MDC can do whatever it wants, say whatever it wants, the GNU will fail.No amount of…

Dear Cabinet andPolitburo membersCOMRADES, I don’t think any of you would begrudge me if I didn’t address you this week for I need to get some rest after that marathon SADC extra-ordinary summit in Tshwane, which stretched into the early hours of Tuesday, a meeting that brought finality…

There are other issues that the MDC has raised serious concern about and such issues concerning the definition of powers and functions of the National Security Council and equitable sharing of government positions, be they governors, ambassadors or permanent secretaries remain outstanding.  In reality, these issues are but…

In Zimbabwe today we have  a disastrous situation of  men and  women in government choosing  to ignore their consciences and  re-wiring these human thermostats to higher levels of tolerance for all that is unjust, untrue  and unacceptable in a democracy.Following the latest unsuccessful episode in the unity talks…

But after a marathon meeting that lasted 12 hours, the regional leaders came out of Rainbow Towers, the venue of the dialogue, empty handed. They had to hang their heads in shame on their way to the airport knowing fully well they had let down the people of…

BARACK Obama, a man of colour has been inaugurated as the President of the United States. What do we, as people of colour, think or say about it? I say, people of colour, awake. This is your week in the sun!My white student researcher said to me coolly:…

What a waste of precious resources and time! If we had put all the time and resources we committed to this inclusive government into something else, I think by now we would be somewhere as a country. Anyway, it happens that we sometimes spend some precious days of…

Almost 50 years after America’s 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s  polished prose during  his inaugural address  aroused emotions around the globe, the world is once again electrified by  the arrival of another spellbinding orator, Barack Obama.Kennedy, who was sworn in as leader of the free world in 1960,…