Archive for Category: "Opinion"
The day Julius Malema’s music died
Gosh. They have actually done it. The ANC’s national disciplinary panel has decided not just to suspend Julius Malema but to actually expel the poor little former lion cub. He is gone, finis, adios-ed in the most public manner possible.
Time to step down comrade president
Like Daniel Webster ‘The Great Expounder of the Constitution’, I find myself saying today: “Necessity compels me to speak true rather than pleasing things….I should indeed like to please you; but I prefer to save you, whatever be your attitude toward me”.
Of bootlickers and mercenaries in Zanu PF
Zanu PF’s politics has been weighed down by bootlicking of President Robert Mugabe and those in higher offices. No one dares to criticize him in public a clear indication that there is heavy indoctrination and inculcation of docility in the party writes David Chidende.
Fighting democratic regression in Zimbabwe
The subsistence of political transitions is marked by political infighting, partisan positions and attempts to revert to the old authoritarian rule especially if the undemocratic elements within the elite power arrangements feel that full-scale democracy could lead to loss of power.
Elections in 2012 or another GNU?
Three myths are increasingly pervading the political discourse in Zimbabwe and reflect the anxiety around the current transition in which neither Zanu PF nor MDC appear to have succeeded in emerging victorious writes Ibbo Mandaza
Zanu PF ban of NGO’s in Zimbabwe self defeating
Despite three decades of independence coupled with deafening rhetoric of sovereignty, we don’t have the capacity to write our own supreme law without the benevolence of donors. For anybody in Zimbabwe to shut down NGOs on flimsy grounds is most deplorable or at least comical writes Moses Chamboko.
Revisiting Zimbabwe’s land reform exercise
The land reform process was borne out of legitimate historical injustices, but the chaotic manner of its enactment has no place in the quest to re-establish Zimbabwe’s vaunted place as a breadbasket of Africa writes Dr Raymond Chamba.
Election riggers in ZEC must pack their bags
The June 2008 run-off was marked by just about everything the Electoral Act forbids; political violence, abductions, enforced disappearances, arson and killings. Before that there were suspicious and alarming delays in releasing the results of the first round of the presidential election.




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