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Piece-meal austerity without reforms a wild goose chase
AUSTERITY measures introduced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) will have a devastating effect on the economy and is at variance with Zanu-PF's elec...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Democracy, elections bad for collective cause
SOMETHING is going wrong with democracy. Something has gone wrong with democracy. It was the most successful political idea of the 21st century, but increasingly democracy is running into trouble, not...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Jonathan Moyo's false hope from Malaysia
I have just been reading Deluze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. It's a big book, one quite opaque and thus requiring stout intellect and a liberal outlook to digest it....Published: 19 May 2018 at 14:40hrs | 1 | by Igomombe
Lords of the flies, lords of lies
The Economist says we are living in a world of "post-truth" politics.We are inclined to agree.The Economist's basic argument is premised on the manner in which the 2016 US presiden...Published: 11 Sep 2016 at 12:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Donald Trump seem to be undeterred in his self destructive mode
We are living in a Global Village where its imperative for nations to extend an olive branch to all and sundry with regards to political, economic, social and even military issues.The cooperation in t...Published: 24 May 2016 at 21:13hrs | | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
Forecast: Bank failure to hit Africa
AFRICA, through drastic banking sector overhauling initiatives may indeed recover all, including her debased economy and soon turn around her fortunes to become the world's fastest growing economy, al...Published: 04 Feb 2016 at 18:50hrs | | by Maxwell Teedzai - Southern Africa Political Analyst
Nelson Chamisa's dreadful mistake, 6000 workers fired
CAN someone tell me, just who is threatened by the First Lady hitting 50 years of age? Or by her celebrating that age? Or by the fact of taking advantage of that occurrence to fund-raise for charity? ...Published: 25 Jul 2015 at 10:25hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
The tough challenges of rebuilding Zimbabwe post-Mugabe
We are approaching a crossroad; a reality check moment in our entire history in Zimbabwe. There is no doubt that the Mugabe era will finally reach to its end-game. The "I am a war veteran and libe...Published: 16 May 2015 at 07:29hrs | | by Tendai Kwari
Political Decay
One form of political decay is called repatrimonialization, of which Zimbabwe and many other developing countries suffer from. However, this is also evident in developed countries, but in a more s...Published: 11 May 2015 at 21:38hrs | | by Tendai Kwari
My Zimbabwe: A Failing State?
The research and writing of Fukuyama in his Origins of Political Order is an insight. For most of us in developing countries, democracy is a dream. Democracy has been so elusive to such an extent that...Published: 04 May 2015 at 07:27hrs | | by Tendai Kwari
Rendering Mujuru superfluous
I AM reading a book under the Oppenheimer series, a book on Thomas Leask's diary entries covering his travels in Botswana and Zimbabwe, travels undertaken between 1865 and 1870.Like Livingston...Published: 07 Mar 2015 at 15:02hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Whether you like or hate Tsvangirai, this time he got it right
It was Professor Stephen Chan who not so very long ago wrote something to the effect that even though Morgan Tsvangirai is prone to gaffes, he is still capable of some strokes of "genius". Perhaps n...Published: 16 Nov 2011 at 08:06hrs | | by Muthulisi Mathuthu
When Zanu-PF coughs
Let's keep a tab on Libya. It is very important in understanding how imperialism works nowadays.Forget the ongoing operations to subdue Sirte, Gaddafi's hometown. That is a sideshow, a real sm...Published: 08 Oct 2011 at 03:46hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Britain House of Lords: Zimbabwe Debate
2.25 pm, Thursday, 10 March 2011, Moved By Lord Avebury...Published: 11 Mar 2011 at 12:38hrs | | by Byo24News
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