January 23, 2025
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…
I know this may seem like an empty threat as I have repeated it time and again, but this time around, just wait and see. Let him make one last blunder, he will become history. He will live the rest of his life regretting the day he allowed…
Bornwell Chakaodza “FAILURE of diplomacy” is how a BBC correspondent described the war unfolding in the Middle East following Israel’s bombardment of Pale-stine occupied Gaza Strip, ostensibly to flush out Hamas militants.Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted in media reports as saying his country’s attacks of Palestinian…
His reply was that the National Party had realised as early as the beginning of the 1980s that apartheid was morally unjustifiable and had failed to bring justice to all South Africans.De Klerk said: “We had to admit apartheid had failed. The majority of South Africans wanted justice…
In the court of public opinion, a nod by the MDC-T leader to join a unity administration that has been on the drawing board since September last year could have set the tone for the cherished economic rebound that has eluded the once prosperous nation for the past…
The electoral process leading to the ascendancy to the national presidency of Atta Mills of the hitherto opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) was a political cliffhanger all the way, which could easily have been manipulated in some African countries to keep the ruling party in power. But after…
Mutambara’s group has 10 legislators in the House of Assembly who can either vote with ZANU-PF or the Tsvangirai-led formation.President Mugabe, who was sworn in on June 29, is understood to be under immense pressure to form a new government and sources claimed the proposed convening of Parliament…