Archive for Category: "Opinion"

Land: Why we deserve justice

Land: Why we deserve justice

By Dambudzo Mapuranga “NOW, like all of you, my responsibility is to act in the interest of my nation and my people, and I will never apologise for defending those interests.” This was what US President Barack Obama told fellow Heads of State and Government in his inaugural speech at the United Nations General Assembly [...]

Mugabe opens Parly, talks nonsense

Mugabe opens Parly, talks nonsense

By Denford Magora After giving the legislature the run around since mid-September, saying he was too busy to officially open parliament, Robert “The Solution” Mugabe finally opened Parliament a few moments ago here in Harare. The Service Chiefs and Defence Forces commanders were out in full force, standing to Mugabe’s right throughout the address as [...]

Massive Victory For Tsvangirai

Massive Victory For Tsvangirai

By Denford Magora Impeccable sources have just confirmed that Morgan Tsvangirai has won a massive victory during his meeting with Robert “The Solution” Mugabe today at State House in Harare. Mugabe has finally agreed to the appointment of the Zimbabwe Media Commission, which replaces the body that was headed by Tafataona Mahoso, who is now [...]

Biti Flexes His Muscles Again

Biti Flexes His Muscles Again

By Denford Magora This is the true President of The Republic of Zimbabwe now – Tendai Biti, the Finance Minister, at least as far as the economy and the lives of Zimbabweans are concerned. He has just blocked another US$300 million from Afreximbank negotiated by Gideon Gono for Zimbabwe and there is nothing Mugabe, Gono [...]

Mukoko, Kuruneri, Moxon, Makamba etc

Mukoko, Kuruneri, Moxon, Makamba etc

By Mutumwa Mawere On Monday, 28 September 2009, the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe confirmed what many with the exception of a few in Zimbabwe have come to accept i.e. that the state has been transformed into an instrument of injustice and intimidation.  The Court ordered a permanent stay in Jestina Mukoko’s prosecution.  This no doubt [...]

Accountability & Punishing the Prostitutes

Accountability & Punishing the Prostitutes

The Zimbabwe Conundrum (The Last Part) By George B.N. Ayittey, Ph.D. One poignant lesson that can be drawn from Africa’s disastrous postcolonial record is the fact that sycophancy and collaboration seldom pay. The sycophants often delude themselves into thinking that, should their country blow, they will always be able escape to enjoy their booty outside [...]

CNN interview: when journos miss the point

CNN interview: when journos miss the point

By Gift Chinene  We live in a world of communications. But this world is not a world of honest communications only the politically correct, “tolerant”, multicultural “sensitive” kind are acceptable. Thoughts and ideas that are outside the accepted mainstream meme of political correctness “niceness” are dangerous communications indeed. Human beings are a very flawed species [...]

Mugabe and the lazy-farmer mentality

Mugabe and the lazy-farmer mentality

By Chenjerai Hove  AS I painstakingly went through the tortuous exercise of watching President Robert Mugabe putting up a sham show on CNN, I could not avoid reflecting on what my farming father told us in our youth on the farm.  As a highly successful African Purchase Area farmer, he had tales about the stories [...]