Columnist / Joram nyathi
Qualifying and quantifying political reform in Zimbabwe
Earlier this week a local daily reproduced an article from the American weekly magazine, Newsweek. The article was titled "White farmers 'getting poorer, sicker' as they await Government compensation"...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 14:37hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
#BobIsInIt: Wamba gets kiss of death
THE story of how former president Robert Mugabe left office is now in the public domain. The momentous development had the full endorsement of his own Zanu-PF, the military and above all, the people o...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
MDC-T must resolve its land dilemma
LET us open the Spectrum with something pretty banal: the challenges of Africa's economic backwardness cannot and will not be resolved on the white man's terms. Closer to home, we have determined that...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 06:44hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Zodwa and the carnival
I long ceased to be a fan of America. I have come to associate America with war, hypocrisy and a high level of superciliousness born of its claim to a divine mission in the world, so-called "manifest ...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 06:41hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Morgan Tsvangirai and ghost of July 31
THERE shall be no coalition of opposition political parties any time soon beside the delusions of a "grand" one. That means Zanu-PF is left to fight demons only from within for possibly a landslide vi...Published: 28 Jul 2017 at 06:19hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Tsvangirai and the politics of despair, apathy
Yesterday morning I received a WhatsApp message. On it was a graph. It was done by pan-African research network, Afrobarometer. The graph indicated that Zanu-PF is once again headed for a massive vict...Published: 07 Jul 2017 at 06:30hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Tsvangirai might meet his political demise
The inimitable Nathaniel Manheru opined last week in his Saturday column that Zimbabwe faced a real prospect of a national by-election next year. That's instead of a so-called eagerly-anticipated harm...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 08:28hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Opposition crowded out
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai says he will not accept defeat, or will reject it, if he loses next year's harmonised elections. That's his own look out. Recent surveys show that Zanu-PF and President ...Published: 12 May 2017 at 05:59hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
The Boer, donkeys and Zimbabweans
Over the Easter holiday, while most good Christians were looking up in the sky, I went home in Mberengwa.That journey would take me as far as Bulawayo, along the Beitbridge Highway, from the s...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 06:59hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Tsvangirai's democratisation
For (Mujuru) her new political party and her supporters, majority rule, African rule, has been a long nightmare after the paradise of Rhodesia! And Tsvangirai thinks he is adding liberation war creden...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 06:45hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Gordhan or the nation?
The prospects for a genuine revolution, for a radical economic transformation, are not looking good for Zuma and the ANC. The liberation movement is sorely dividedA FEW months ago President Mu...Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 06:41hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Why hang Helen Zille?
Look at her: she is beautiful, she is elegant, and she is provocative, even at the mature age of 66. Moreover, Helen has got the African talking once again, even thinking, about his place in this Whit...Published: 31 Mar 2017 at 06:23hrs | | by Joram Nyathi Spectrum
Myth of the whiteman's burden
If opposition parties want electoral reforms, the legislative route is provided for in the Constitution and ZEC is a creature of the same. It doesn't make laws and cannot allocate itself functions bey...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 05:49hrs | 1 | by Joram Nyathi
The day Joice Mujuru became Runaida Mugari
Her former colleagues in the ill-fated Zimbabwe People First said they wanted to remove her from the leadership because she was incompetent. She has just gone over the top to confirm this, and why Zan...Published: 17 Mar 2017 at 06:12hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Silly season is upon us
The teachers must be wary that their cause is not hijacked for devious ends, unless that is the mandate they have given to the union leadersIS the silly season already in full swing again? Whe...Published: 03 Mar 2017 at 05:38hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Fare thee well Osama, sorry Obama
An askari sat in the Oval Office at the White House for eight years, and did not want to disappoint the white establishment standing guard over his every action. And he made sure he left a lasting imp...Published: 21 Jan 2017 at 11:09hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Blair will keep his Britain
I AM enjoying the debate about UN secretary-general Kofi Annan and his chosen mediator between Zimbabwe and Britain, or more specifically, between President Robert Mugabe (pictured) and prime minister...Published: 08 Oct 2016 at 09:28hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Mugabe opens gates of hell
I ended this column last week by asking the tormented question of who will protect us "from a vengeful police force so emboldened by a culture of impunity that they can break people's skulls in br...Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 15:49hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Did Mugabe attack the Judiciary last Saturday?
DID President Mugabe attack the Judiciary last Saturday? Is there a war between the Judiciary and the Executive, or is someone trying to foment one? Should the judges feel intimidated?A layman...Published: 09 Sep 2016 at 08:03hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
The MDC-T's political harakiri
The Herald political editor Tichaona Zindoga did a good job on Wednesday this week in exposing the hypocrisy and double standards of America and its allies in dealing with issues of public violence....Published: 02 Sep 2016 at 06:41hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Beware the ghost of Benghazi
YOUTH is a period of impetuosity and adventure. It is a time to test and experiment. It is a period of physical and mental growth.Youth is a time of discovery and for self-definition. It is a ...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 06:48hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
The fight Zanu-PF can't afford to lose
ZIMBABWEANS celebrate this Heroes and Defence Forces holiday more divided than the country has ever been since Independence.And the most divided institution in the country is the governing Zan...Published: 05 Aug 2016 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Joram Nyathi
It's not bond notes, but bank charges
ZIMBABWE's banking sector this week came under withering attack for very old sins which financial institutions have benefited from with near absolute impunity while insulating themselves from critical...Published: 03 Jun 2016 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Joram Nyathi
Zimbabwe: A nation of spenders
PRESIDENT Mugabe's intervention last week in the indigenisation turf war between Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa on one hand, and Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empower...Published: 15 Apr 2016 at 06:47hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
When America aims fatal blow to the stomach
A genius in the American establishment must finally have realised that so long as Zimbabweans have the land and they can feed themselves, it would be very hard to separate them from Zanu-PF, never min...Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 05:29hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Futility of Tsvangirai politics, finally America speaks
FOR once, let's give it to them. The MDC-T appears to have mastered the politics of spite. Only the consistency is self-destructively cynical, masochistic even, exposing the lack of brains to formulat...Published: 03 Jul 2015 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Joram Nyathi
Logic simply ain't Tsvangirai's forte
There is a bigger lesson for voters. In future elections people must elect people on the basis of their values and principles. The MDC has just demonstrated by its suicidal decision to recall its MPs ...Published: 29 Mar 2015 at 09:42hrs | 1 | by Joram Nyathi
Beware of Tsvangirai's second coming
THERE were copious tears and questions this week over the MDC-T's future, the folly of its leadership, and in the short-term, whether or not the party would or should take part in future by-elections ...Published: 20 Mar 2015 at 10:04hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Tendai Biti is a troubled man
Tendai Biti is a troubled man. Unfortunately his views mirror an alienated opposition movement in Zimbabwe leading many astray with its bauble of democracy and human rights. Last week he seize...Published: 14 Feb 2015 at 17:06hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Living in dread of sex, cellphones
Zimbabwe is fast hurtling into a state of anarchy. The desire to appear modern, democratic and progressive appears to have been hijacked by nihilistic, iconoclastic forces whose sinister agenda is ye...Published: 08 Feb 2015 at 10:53hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Women have failed the women of Gaza
Most Zimbabweans profess the Christian faith, full of compassion and a shared eternal destiny with all humanity.I believe it is partly in recognition of their compassionate nature, their advan...Published: 03 Aug 2014 at 20:51hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Is Zimbabwe headed to a new political discourse?
IS our opposition politics hitting a tipping point? Are we headed towards a new political discourse that gives Zimbabwe priority over foreign interests, a political discourse that fosters faith i...Published: 24 May 2014 at 20:29hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
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