Columnist / Faith zaba
What legacy will Mnangagwa leave?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was sworn in on Monday for his second and last term, according to the Constitution of Zimbabwe.His first term ran from 2018-2023 and now his final lap will take hi...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 17:46hrs | | by Faith Zaba
CCC congress debate: Whither democracy?
THE Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was built around Morgan Tsvangirai's personality. It is personality politics or personality cultism. Similarly, Zanu-PF under the late former president Robert ...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:28hrs | | by Faith Zaba
Politicians vs the people
AN etymological trace of the Medieval Latin phrase vox populi dates as far back as the 16th century; and it literally means "the people's voice".In a constitutional democracy like Zimbabwe, or...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:01hrs | 8 | by Faith Zaba
Populist policies can only suffocate Zupco more
THE government this week slashed Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) bus fares to 50 cents and 75 cents from $1 and $1,50, at a time when fuel prices shot up to almost $5 from $3,38.Whil...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:34hrs | | by Faith Zaba
Chamisa should now rethink his strategy
WHILE opposition political parties, with the MDC Alliance leading the pack, have genuine questions concerning the voters' roll, ballots, postal votes and polling booths, they must now focus on other c...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 14:46hrs | | by Faith Zaba
Chamisa's electoral message packaging pathetic
EVENTS that followed the death of former MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who succumbed to colon cancer on February 14, showed that his successor Nelson Chamisa certainly embodies the public appeal and...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 12:21hrs | | by Faith Zaba
MDC-T violence simply barbaric, unacceptable
ZIMBABWEANS watched in horror this week shocking scenes of violence as rowdy MDC-T youths attacked the party co-vice-president Thokozani Khupe and secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora and threatened to ...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 11:26hrs | | by Faith Zaba
MDC-T infighting not helpful
THE chaos that has engulfed the country's biggest opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), five months before the make-or-break elections, is a sad development and a betrayal of t...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 07:49hrs | | by Faith Zaba
Mugabe is the real problem
THE expulsion of Emmerson Mnangagwa as the country's vice-president, as well as second secretary of Zanu-PF brought into perspective the consequences of President Robert Mugabe's failure to resolve th...Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 16:21hrs | | by Faith Zaba
Tsvangirai's health has rapidly deteriorated
THE opposition MDC-T is at a crossroads and there is need to sort out a number of urgent issues in relation to itself and the coalition ahead of the 2018 general elections, particularly the issue of t...Published: 27 Oct 2017 at 10:44hrs | | by Faith Zaba
Pasi doesn’t need immunity
FORMER Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) commissioner-general Gershem Pasi (pictured), locked in a bruising legal battle with his employer of 16 years, resigned last week. Pasi was suspended last yea...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 07:11hrs | | by Faith Zaba
Mujuru's camp practically finished
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday furiously came out guns blazing to purge senior party officials aligned to Vice-President Joice Mujuru as he led from the front to crush what he claims to be a plot t...Published: 14 Nov 2014 at 22:43hrs | | by Faith Zaba/Elias Mambo
'Real Baba Jukwa fear exposure'
FOR one facing serious charges of attempting to subvert a constitutionally-elected government or alternatively attempting to commit an act of insurgency, banditry, sabotage or terrorism, Sunday Mail E...Published: 27 Jun 2014 at 15:02hrs | | by Faith Zaba/Herbert Moyo
Zanu-PF factional battles get messier
In what the youth league in Mashonaland Central province says is a well calculated move to get rid of vocal youths that are refusing to "play ball" ahead of the youth conference in August and party co...Published: 20 Jun 2014 at 10:03hrs | | by Faith Zaba
Robert Mugabe's generation almost gone
THE generation with which President Robert Mugabe lived and worked during the liberation struggle leading to Independence is almost gone with the death of Zanu-PF politburo member Nathan Shamuyarira ...Published: 06 Jun 2014 at 11:08hrs | | by Faith Zaba
Mugabe's cabinet
WHEN the euphoria of his inauguration among his supporters dies down, President Robert Mugabe will have to grapple with the predicament of appointing a new cabinet in which he not only needs to delica...Published: 24 Aug 2013 at 06:07hrs | | by Faith Zaba
Tsvangirai, cousin in $1,5m public funds fraud probe
POLICE are investigating Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai over an alleged fraud involving US$1,5 million in public funds released two years ago by the government to enable him to buy a mansion in the...Published: 05 Aug 2011 at 08:32hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya & Faith Zaba
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