Brian Sedze: "Zimbabwe has discovered 160 000 plus more war veterans who are set to get gratuities and monthly pensions. Just like in 1997 this was not budgeted expenditure. Without a magic increase in productivity and the tax base this will be financed by printing money."
Brian Sedze: "The recent monetary announcement by President Emmerson Mnangagwa is an awkward attempt to use complex monetary and fiscal policies for challenges that should ideally be solved by using common sense."
Brian Sedze: "Zimbabwe has no willpower to adopt a local currency because its implementation rots at top leadership, political arena and those who won't follow the rules of the game are crony capitalists. It stinks."
Brian Sedze: "Goblin induced wealth is impossible or very difficult to pass to the next generation. Tales of leading business people who are said to have been buried with their wealth are plenty and in African myths or tales or truth it is ascribed to wealth created by goblins. The goblin in Zimbabwe is businesses that survive and prosper on networks rather than service and or product excellence. Zero competence and full tank of networks. The bigger the network goblin the more the wealth is created."
Gabriel Manyati examines Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 through the lens of political science, arguing that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's latest reforms are less about governance than the enduring logic of political survival.
On the 18th anniversary of Zimbabwe's disputed 27 June 2008 presidential run-off, Luke Tamborinyoka recounts his imprisonment, remembers victims of political violence and argues that CAB3 represents a new chapter in what he describes as state-sponsored attacks on democracy.
Self-imposed opposition leader in Parliament Sengezo Tshabangu has called for Zimbabwe to abolish by-elections between general elections, arguing that political parties should simply nominate replacements, as the Senate approved Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 (CAB3).
South Africa has ordered police to act decisively against threats, violence and hate speech linked to planned anti-immigration protests on June 30, warning that anyone inciting attacks on foreign nationals will face criminal prosecution.
