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…

But insiders in the divided MDC claimed ZANU-PF was marking time to convince members of the Arthur Mutambara formation to join forces with it in forming a unity government after the convening of Parliament if Morgan Tsvangirai continued dragging his feet about signing an agreement.They claimed the plan…

Nujoma had a private discussion with President Mugabe in Harare last Saturday ahead of the Southern African Develop-ment Community (SADC) extraordinary summit scheduled for Pretoria on Sunday.Diplomatic sources said the President is likely to get support from Mozambique, Swaziland, Angola, Lesotho, Malawi and Namibia while South Africa, Tanzania,…