Archive for Category: "Interviews"

Kasukuwere shows arrogance in interview

Kasukuwere shows arrogance in interview

With the debate on the indigenisation regulations still raging on, the Zimbabwe Independent’s Chris Muronzi spoke to Empowerment minister Saviour Kasukuwere about the matter. Below are excerpts of the interview. Muronzi: You gazetted indigenisation regulations compelling foreigners to cede 51% shareholding to indigenous Zimbabweans. Is this the ideal time to carry out a wealth re-distribution exercise? [...]

Film maker Xoliswa Sithole on BTH

Film maker Xoliswa Sithole on BTH

SW Radio Africa journalist Lance Guma speaks to award winning film maker Xoliswa Sithole, who spent 9 months in Zimbabwe filming children growing up without an education, while grappling with poverty and starvation. The children are either orphaned by AIDS or caring for parents sick with the disease. Sithole admits to being a child of [...]

Transcript: FT interview with Jacob Zuma

Transcript: FT interview with Jacob Zuma

It is 10 months since Jacob Zuma was elected president of South Africa and just a few months before the global spotlight shines down as South Africa hosts the football World Cup. The country is looking ready to host the games, but not everything is going to plan. The South African leader is facing deepening [...]

Jessie Majome on Rules for our Rulers

Jessie Majome on Rules for our Rulers

This week on Rules for our Rulers, SW Radio Africa journalist Lance Guma speaks to Jessie Majome the Deputy Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs. Majome is the Chairperson of the Sub Committee on Information and Publicity in the Constitutional Parliamentary Committee and talks about the problems they are facing. She says as far as [...]

Interview: Nelson Chamisa on sanctions

Interview: Nelson Chamisa on sanctions

ZANU PF has announced it will not make any concessions to the MDC in ongoing talks until targeted sanctions on companies and members of the regime are removed. This week on Behind the Headlines, SW Radio Africa journalist Lance Guma speaks to MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa about this development. Chamisa tells the programme the coalition [...]

MDC clarify their position on sanctions

MDC clarify their position on sanctions

By Never Kadungure British Foreign Secretary David Miliband created a storm last week Tuesday when he suggested rather naively in Parliament that targeted sanctions on companies and members of Mugabe’s inner circle would only be removed on the advice of the MDC.  Stung by the negative publicity the British Embassy in Harare issued a clarification [...]

DP leader Zembe slams ineffective coalition

DP leader Zembe slams ineffective coalition

By Never Kadungure The leader of the Democratic Party (DP) in Zimbabwe, Wurayayi Zembe has criticized the current coalition government for failing to deliver real change to the country. Speaking to SW Radio Africa’s Lance Guma on his Behind the Headlines series Zembe said ‘they have not really started to tackle the problems of this [...]

Healing Ministers 'Toothless Bulldogs'

Healing Ministers 'Toothless Bulldogs'

He was ridiculed in the media following allegations that he had stolen a cell phone belonging to self styled war veteran’s leader Joseph Chinotimba. But Deputy Youth Minister Thamsanqa Mahlangu was eventually acquitted and says he is now focused on his job. On Behind the Headlines SW Radio Africa journalist Lance Guma speaks to Mahlangu [...]