Farm viability: Implications for land reform, investment

THERE are many misconceptions about farming in southern Africa, and one of the most insidious is the notion of "viability". A narrow economistic version has predominated that is based on a nor...

Pendulum of history swings against Mugabe

Thirty-seven years ago, Robert Mugabe was feted as a titan who had won Africa's last great war against colonialism.Today, in the twilight of his life, Mugabe finds himself loathed by millions ...

Zimbabwe media split into rival camps that parallel various political divides

I don't know what triggered it, but I just woke up craving for hard-reading stuff. Deep and tough reading. If happens quite often, especially when you suffer a surfeit of the mundane, the everyday, wh...

Lacoste faction can not be described as pro democracy- critics

Zanu PF critics have dispelled the notion that the Lacoste faction in the ruling Zanu PF which is led by Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa that it is a pro-democracy group since it is backed by the mi...

Robert Mugabe turns 93

PRESIDENT Mugabe turns 93 today with the ruling Zanu-PF party describing him as a visionary leader, liberator and champion of education and empowerment.Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration...

Mugabe's early and later legacies

Robert Mugabe spoke eloquently as Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Elect in March 1980. He offered a message of hope and unity to a population ravaged by years of war. He spoke of creating a government "...

A new political party to be formed

Another political party is due to be launched in Zimbabwe that would have a strong background on Marxism.A seminar was held in Bulawayo last Saturday to prepare ground work towards the format...

Mugabe helped to free, but about to be unfree again

EACH time I am low, I have this vivifying habit of raking and harassing the cradle of my credo, Marxism. It must give me answers. Or at the very least give me questions the search for answers of which...