November 22, 2024
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:…
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,…
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…
The much ballyhooed power-sharing deal be-tween ZANU-PF and the two Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) formations, that has virtually been in intensive care since it was signed on September 15, finally suffered a stillbirth and now awaits burial so it seems. Its final interment will probably be at…
Therefore, this contribution shall attempt to review the year just gone by in the hope that such a process will bring about lessons concerning mistakes that we as a nation are collectively guilty of, and how the future ahead of us may be exploited to put things right.There…
The country has been without a legitimate government. Our economy has virtually collapsed, while disease and starvation are ravaging our people. Hopelessness and despair characterise and define the national psyche. There has been complete leadership failure across the board, within Zimbabwe, in the region and in the international community.…
In his article, published in the London Guardian, after the death of Ian Smith, he advances the theory that Smith was worse than Mukuru.Chitiyo asks a fundamental question in our struggle for freedom, whether black oppression is worse than white oppression. The year 2009 looks bleaker and worse…