Zimbabwe not poor, not by a long shot

In 2013, a research website by the name New World Wealth published a "survey" report which bogusly claimed that Zimbabwe was the poorest country in Africa because of its "controversial indigenisation ...

Robert Mugabe: Africa's finest son

Battles are won by men and women of physical, mental and moral mettle. They are fought in the trenches and the mind. The battles of the trenches are easier because the enemy is easily identifiable....

Pastor Evan Mawarire not speaking for everyone

The individual or individuals behind the "flag movement" or whichever name they prefer to be known by, have issued a statement of what they claim are "citizens' demands" to the Government of Zimbabwe....

Zimbabwe opposition contemptuous of grassroots voters

They are "stupid", "a complete joke", "mediocre", "dull and dumb", "blind and poor souls" and "crazy morons".These are some of the scathing terms and expressions used by oppositions officials ...

Electronic spot fines will not end Zimbabwe police corruption

Corruption is a culture and an attitude that has firmly rooted itself in the Zimbabwe psyche and society at large. It comes in the form of a relationship; there are both givers and takers in the corru...

Zimbabwe is not in tatters, broken

Such portrayal of Zimbabwe by a 'Zimbabwean' journalist is just inadequate journalism. What would possess any person who is supposedly 'Zimbabwean' to portray the country with such pessimism, absolute...

De-campaigning Zimbabwe through falsehoods

To say that opposition politics in Zimbabwe is unimaginative and wholly uninspiring is an epic show of restraint with words out of respect. There is this very restricted and rigid view of the role of ...

Dr Grace Mugabe, a woman of substance

HERE is a woman of substance, a woman with a charitable disposition and a woman of tangible and visibly irrefutable influence. Whilst the distinction between those who serve the self and those who se...

The Robert Mugabe 'Big Idea'- why he remains under sanctions

Zimbabwe under President Robert Mugabe has posed a real threat to an economic system that only functions smoothly when resource-abundant African countries remain confined to the edges and the lower ra...

Tsvangirai, Sikhala and bane of Zimbabwean opposition

THE Achilles heel of Zimbabwe politics is the lack of an authentic, relevant and effective opposition. Instead of a policy-orientated response to the current economic challenges facing the country...

Opposition killed Zim patriotism

There is a strikingly uncanny poverty of patriotism among opposition ranks in Zimbabwe and there is no way of correcting this sad  political reality.The liberation struggle in Zimbabwe wa...

Why Zanu-PF will rule for the next 50 years

A SOLIDLY empowered and economically liberated majority has been emerging at the same time as opposition politics in Zimbabwe has been relegated to bedroom buffoonery and Diasporan duplicity. The...