Mnangagwa is a presidential hard sell

The humiliation that Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa suffered at Rufaro Stadium last week where he found himself addressing a small crowd of mostly uniformed forces is not anything that any politici...

Zimbabwe is being ruled by dreamers

Simon Khaya-Moyo, the Zanu-PF national chairman could not have put it better when he said on Friday that nobody will ever be able to "surpass Zanu-PF's extraordinary record in this lifetime!"...

Nothing wrong in calling Mugabe a goblin

Zimbabwe's Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku last week made one of the most unexpected yet clearly logical statement - telling the National Prosecuting Authority in no uncertan terms that there is ab...

Gerontocracy ruins Mugabe legacy

A gerontocracy can be described as a societal system of rule where leadership is reserved for elders - usually only those over 60 years of age who are meant to rule until they die.Belief i...

It's time for Joice Mujuru to run!

The unfolding drama in Zanu-PF helps confirm the known fact that President Robert Mugabe intends to die in office - as well as show the depth of ruthlessness he is capable of in dealing with matters t...

Mugabe should be allowed to rest

As Zanu PF goes to congress in December, many Zimbabweans will expect that President Robert Gabriel Mugabe, now 90, will accept he has had his time and should be allowed to rest.I am one of th...

Grace Mugabe's 'behead them' call dreadful

A recent report in this newspaper where the First Lady Grace Mugabe, in an apparent fit of rage, demanded that rapists be "beheaded”, has rekindled the thorny debate on the issue of the death pe...