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The destructive force of corruption
IN my business life I have handled several billion dollars of revenue and expenditure over a period of 65 years. In that time, I have been blatantly approached and asked for a bribe once — by a loca...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:46hrs | 5 | by Eddie Cross
Chamisa tells Generals to shut up and go back to barracks
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said the military should stay out of politics and allow civilians to define their destiny without fear of the bullet.In an interview aft...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 05:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa lashes Zimbabwe army
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said the military should stay out of politics and allow civilians to define their destiny without fear of the bullet.In an interview aft...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Stay out of politics, Chamisa tells army
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said the military should stay out of politics and allow civilians to define their destiny without fear of the bullet.In an interview aft...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 09:57hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe economic update with Economist Eddie Cross
We are now 9 months into the Transitional Stabilisation Program and a great deal has been achieved. Let's summarize:* We have eliminated the Fiscal deficit that was the main driver in the past...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 16:56hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross
'Reintroduce real free market economy,' argue Cross - but even more so on political front
"Over the past 39 years of Independence we have created a network of corrupt individuals and organisations that has involved the decision makers in Government and in many parts of the private sector a...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 08:57hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Tsvangirai courts African leaders
MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai at the weekend held marathon meetings with several African leaders attending Ghanaian President Nana Nankwa Akufo-Addo's inauguration ceremony and pleaded with them...Published: 09 Jan 2017 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe what next
What next Zimbabwe –New Blank Paper Planning Process ( NB-PPPRZ)-"Re-invent Zimbabwe"Glory to God Our Pastor is "free"-from Political bungling!...Published: 14 Jul 2016 at 19:30hrs | 1 | by Evangelist Hannington Mubaiwa
Ghana's Rawlings says Africa is 'proud' of Mugabe as AU chair - a tyrant what is there to be proud of!
Speaking during a meeting with former Mozambique leader, Joachim Chissano, former Ghana President Jerry Rawlings said he was shocked that France had objected to Mugabe assuming the chairmanship of th...Published: 17 Apr 2015 at 16:40hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Hands off Mugabe,' Jerry Rawlings tells France
GHANA'S former President Jerry Rawlings has blasted France for questioning African leaders' decision to elect President Robert Mugabe as the African Union chairman. France, along with its Euro...Published: 17 Apr 2015 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Felex Share
Robert Mugabe: An African Head of State and the State of an African Head
The political personality and historical project of Robert Mugabe is bound to arrest the attention of thinkers and writers for a long time to come. The Zimbabwean President has attracted extreme r...Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 10:27hrs | 4 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Let's rally behind Amai's candidature
I always admire and appreciate the concept of the Shona saying that says, "Ushe madzore hunoravadzanwa", literally translated to mean that leadership is not a permanent duty but should be always ...Published: 30 Jul 2014 at 13:16hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Nothing amiss in the elevation of Grace Mugabe
The proposal by Zanu-PF women to rope in the First Lady, Amai Grace Mugabe into the political scene as the boss of the Women's League is commendable. The move is not in any way extraordinary as ...Published: 30 Jul 2014 at 14:13hrs | 1 | by Tafara Shumba
Zanu-PF tense over Grace Mugabe
THE recent endorsement of First Lady Grace Mugabe as Zanu-PF Women's League boss-elect ahead of the league's congress next month has raised anxiety in the party amid fears that the elevation was part...Published: 28 Jul 2014 at 08:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Africa's liberation movements maintain 100% victory record
From South Africa and Zimbabwe to Ethiopia and Rwanda, no liberation movement government leader has ever lost power in the last 40 ye...Published: 10 May 2014 at 20:09hrs | 18 | by C. ONYANGO-OBBO
The opposition in Zimbabwe has failed, says Tendai Biti
This is the second part of of a series of MDC-T secretary general Tendai Biti's address to a SAPES Trust Policy Dialogue on March 6, 2014, in which he dissects the pr...Published: 19 Mar 2014 at 11:39hrs | | by Tendai biti
Mugabe splurge $600 000 on Bona furniture
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's family last month splurged more than $60 000 on furniture as part of its wedding gift for their daughter Bona, who tied the knot a fortnight ago with Emirates pilot Simba Ch...Published: 14 Mar 2014 at 08:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bona Mugabe wedding-Billionaire guest raise eyebrows
President Robert Mugabe used his quota of invitations to his daughter, Bona's wedding to invite a string of wealthy friends and benefactors, including South Africa's richest black man - mining magn...Published: 10 Mar 2014 at 20:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PM Tsvangirai's speech on the overall conference theme of "Peace, Security and Human Development" at the World Summit
To our hosts, the co-founder of the Universal Peace Federation, Dr. Mrs. Hak Ja Han Moon The Chairman of UPF-International, Dr Hyung Jin Moon The ...Published: 25 Feb 2013 at 13:56hrs | 2 | by Ndou Paul
Zimbabwe: African Union's Juvenile Delinquent
Ever since Botswana's Vice President Mompati Merafhe called for Zimbabwe to be suspended from the African Union (AU) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in 2008, African leaders se...Published: 21 Jan 2013 at 11:01hrs | 1 | by Makusha Mugabe
Ari Ben Menashe set up Tsvangirai
HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's 2003-2004 treason trial was a virtual "intelligence sting", documents in possession of the Weekend Post show.The MDC leader, who has battled all ki...Published: 04 Feb 2012 at 19:13hrs | 2 | by Weekend Post
Africa's famine response - too little, perhaps too late
Jerry Rawlings, a former president of Ghana and now the high representative for Somalia for the African Union (AU), visited a number of African capitals in July and August to drum up support for a pan...Published: 24 Dec 2011 at 00:20hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor
Prof Moyo courted and connived with Sir Richard Branson to oust Mugabe
Daily News on Sunday (October 9) quotes WikiLeaks cables saying United States' "useful messenger" and serial political flip-flopper, Jonathan Moyo, courted and connived with British billionaire, Sir ...Published: 10 Oct 2011 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by -
Tackling the evil of famine in the Horn of Africa
Images of starving Somalis have shaken the conscience of the world: stomachs flattened by hunger, sagging flesh and noses dripping in mucus, fed on by opportunistic toilet flies. And death is lurking....Published: 16 Sep 2011 at 19:14hrs | 1 | by Kingsley Ighobor
Kenyan govt suggests food air-dropped into Somalia
Kenyan government on Thursday expressed concern about security threats posed by the large number of hungry Somali refugees and suggested food should be dropped by plane inside Somalia.Tens of ...Published: 21 Jul 2011 at 23:25hrs | 1 | by Moyo Roy
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