Opinion

By Moses Chamboko After decades of economic stagnation, political paralysis and leadership crisis which Madiba bluntly and correctly called “tragic failure of leadership”, Zimbabwe is now at a crossroads. More than ever before, there is…
Read More...

By Brian Sedze Government bureaucrats exhibited extreme anger, discomfort and distress that Chief Executives of state owned and related enterprises earned “huge” and unregulated remuneration. Spirited and well calculated media…
Read More...

By Ian Scoones The huge uproar generated by the shooting of Cecil the lion provides a fascinating lens into Zimbabwe’s new elite land politics and the relationship between humans and “wild” nature. The country’s extensive game…
Read More...

By Welshman Ncube For those of you, like me, with a deep interest in the subject of political economy, will remember the phrase ‘resource curse'.   A quick reference to Wikipedia will tell you  that the term  "was first used by…
Read More...

By Goodwell Nzou My mind was absorbed by the biochemistry of gene editing when the text messages and Facebook posts distracted me. So sorry about Cecil. Did Cecil live near your place in Zimbabwe? Cecil who? I wondered. When I…
Read More...

By Alex T. Magaisa The legal position on dual citizenship is fairly simple and straightforward on paper (on paper, because as this article shows, the administrative machinery is deliberately obstructive, stubborn and inefficient).…
Read More...

By Wilbert Mukori Zimbabwe’s national economy is on its death bed with 18 000 workers laid off in three weeks and thousands more to follow and Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa tells would be investors in Dubai he has “unlocked”…
Read More...

By Tendai Kwari China and Zimbabwe are comparative authoritarian and excessive bureaucratic comrades; both with a dictatorial stranglehold on their citizens. In 1949, China had a highly extractive economy. In 2015, Zimbabwe has got…
Read More...

By Maynard Manyowa The very base of religion is ‘Faith’. Faith is the desire and choice to accept things that otherwise make little sense; defeat common logic, scientific reasoning, and provable rationality, in the staunch belief that…
Read More...

By Mutumwa Mawere What lessons, if any, do we learn from the killing of Cecil and the consequent global outcry over the act? This morning, I searched for Cecil the Lion on the internet and I got 126,000,000 results, confirming that in…
Read More...