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Zimbabwe need an urgent reset of parenthood and economic models

We are failing at the family level. When I was growing up, my mom always told me that if I ate vegetables, got good grades, stayed out of trouble, eat what we grew and be obedient to her, even a lowly boy from Honde Valley could grow up to…

Published: 01 Apr 2025 at 17:09hrs | 233 | by Brian Sedze

Zanu-PF-induced pain not ending anytime soon

THE Zanu-PF government is very playful. The State of Nation Address (SONA) be President Emmerson Mnangagwa is a signal that the perpetual evil and pain induced on the people is not going to end any time soon.The biggest challenges Zimbabwe…

Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 07:43hrs | 173 | by Brian Sedze

CCC undoing is a strategy of innovating around the familiar

To put it bluntly, Zimbabwe's main political opposition party, the CCC, in its present construct, is wasting the people's time, resources and mostly emotions as they continue to prove through unbelievable and amateurish gaffs that they hav…

Published: 09 Dec 2023 at 18:56hrs | 18 | by Brian Sedze

Gold coins: Broadening and cementing economic confusion

THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe really loves to lie to the people and then start believing its own lies.This thing of gold coins to preserve value does not make any economic logic and I will say why.First, Zimbabwe is already using its gold t…

Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:24hrs | | by Brian Sedze

Mnangagwa needs correct advice from his team

DEAR President Emmerson MnangagwaYour Excellency, as things stand right now you have to make hard currency decision sooner than later as doing that in 2023 will cause so much economic pain that may cause a huge protest vote which may send …

Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 09:06hrs | 2 | by Brian Sedze

Change in Zimbabwe is a big word and act

THIS country requires to make hard decisions and act in a radical manner for any sensible economic transformation to be upon us. However, we are expecting change of our economic fortunes using the same mindset, decisions and actions that h…

Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:48hrs | | by Brian Sedze

Chamisa vehicle GoFundMe

Circumstances under which Morgan Tsvangirai BMW was impounded were that the law was breached because a vehicle on Temporary Import Permit or with foreign plate can only be driven by an authorised foreigner as on the TIP.For the vehicle to …

Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:36hrs | 12 | by Brian Sedze

The degeneration of Zimbabwe is often cuased by lack of heroic acts by society to protect our institutions

Our representative democracy and constitution were made within the realm of moral and religious people. It therefore follows that the two are wholly inadequate to a government which may decide to be neither moral nor religious. The questio…

Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 13:14hrs | 1 | by Brian Sedze

Unionisation of teachers a millstone in delivery of remarkable kids' performance

We all get it that teachers want to be compensated more.My brother was a teacher for more than 30 years; I have some experience in the daily life of a teacher. For a long time, for him, it has been a very difficult life. It was full of cha…

Published: 28 May 2021 at 14:43hrs | 2 | by Brian Sedze

Congress will weaken MDC

THE MDC congress scheduled for next month will deliver a weaker party without strength in diversity.There is a significant number of articles expressing opinion that the subtle fights for positions within the MDC are acts of self-destructi…

Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Brian Sedze

Government and parents complicity is creating a class of useless graduates

Government and parents are delinquently complicity in allowing our young people to pursue tertiary level qualifications that offer no value to either the country or to the graduate. The pursuit of academic paper will lead to a future class…

Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 10:06hrs | 1 | by Brian Sedze

Mnangagwa risks capture by corporate leaders

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's idea that the industrialists and bankers he met on October 29, 2018 should constitute and second some advisers from within their ranks to his office stinks of inviting capture by industrial lobby groups.These…

Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 06:02hrs | | by Brian Sedze

Sound policies can win it for MDC Alliance

The MDC Alliance is showing dangerous traits of continuously proposing a welfare State and doing so without the consideration that the double entry of a welfare society is the taxpayers' burden. There is too much of "free" interventions be…

Published: 02 May 2018 at 07:58hrs | 4 | by Brian Sedze

Taxpayers and the youth will get a government they deserve in 2018

Are we truly equal to exercise the democratic right to vote and in determining government policy? The answer to that is clearly that we are not. It is judicious in the Zimbabwean context to opine that the taxpayer and the youth should idea…

Published: 14 Nov 2016 at 11:53hrs | 1 | by Brian Sedze

How come our government doesn't get this?

There is no need to be a Nobel Prize economist to decipher that the economic pains ghost of 2008 is reincarnating at alarming speed. It equally doesn't need a prophetic calling to decipher that we are now on a downward spiral into economic…

Published: 29 May 2016 at 19:29hrs | | by Brian Sedze

Zimbabwe dollar return a scare

There is a plethora of long term investments being sold to Zimbabweans including but not limited to pension funds, funeral, retirement, endowment, education and wealth funds. The future of these long term investments is a cause of a lot of…

Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 13:13hrs | | by Brian Sedze

Mines minister off side on Hwangwe Colliery Company

The Minister of Mines and Mining Development Honorable Walter Chidhakwa directives to Hwangwe Colliery Company (HCC) management shows a dismaying contempt of good corporate governance .The minister has given himself opaque authority to be …

Published: 07 Mar 2016 at 12:27hrs | 2 | by Brian Sedze

Tel-One debt assumption another act of government mischief

The institution of government in Zimbabwe has evolved [devolved?] over the years from a sacred duty to represent the people, protect them from abuses and to provide a good climate so that every citizen has an equal opportunity to succeed t…

Published: 23 Oct 2015 at 17:13hrs | | by Brian Sedze

Innovating around the familiar will be Zimbabwe opposition's downfall in 2018

In 2008, Zimbabwe almost elected a president largely because he gave people hope and he didn't fit the mold of traditional politics for he was promising change. He gave rousing, yet vacuous speeches to huge adoring crowds. He was supposed …

Published: 21 Sep 2015 at 13:10hrs | 1 | by Brian Sedze

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