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Zimbabwe: It is time to panic, a little
I THINK it was 1992, the season started badly and as it progressed the heat increased until we were experiencing temperatures over 50 degrees Celsius in the lowveld. We had a business there and my son...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:15hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Strategic planning, management needed in our electrical energy sector
Just after the Second World War, political leaders in what was Southern Rhodesia started to think about how they would meet the needs of the country for electrical energy.After that, the debat...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Eddie Cross
The crisis in world leadership
We all have very short memories. Looking back over the 20th Century, we can see how a global conflict like the First World War can break out over what seems like a tiny, inconsequential incident in Au...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:26hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Many of our leaders are just like that baboon
We seem to have been putting up with a lousy government, forever besetted corruption, nonsensical monetary and macroeconomic policies forever. First, we had the Rhodesian government from 1960 onwards,...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:21hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Exchange control is the central problem facing Zimbabwe at present
BY introducing exchange control via the Reserve Bank, the State has done the following: Created a system to ‘sweep’ some US$3 billion in direct foreign earnings int...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:41hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Turning dream of a $10bn budget into reality
IT is now 24 days to D-Day - the day of democracy, when we all go to a polling station and at the cost of about $50 each (the cost of an election in Zimbabwe) we are asked to appoint our next batch of...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:07hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Mnangagwa's hands clean of corruption says Tsvangirai's ally
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) legislator Eddie Cross has said Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is "one of the few Zanu-PF officials whose hands are clean of corruption."Cross said fo...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 15:54hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Reflections on tribalism in Zimbabwe
OVER a 1000 years ago three of my distant relatives who were tribal leaders on the Scottish Border with England, were taken prisoner by English troops and hanged for treason. Their crime? Supporting R...Published: 01 Oct 2017 at 12:04hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross is MDC MP for Bulawayo South
Zapu Youth Front's Africa Day message
25th May is the heroic day in African continent and to all the Africans as they celebrate being AfricansAfrica is made up of diverse, languages, cultures, norms, traditions and customs.African...Published: 25 May 2017 at 15:08hrs | 1 | by Zapu Youth Front Africa Day Message 25th May is the heroic day in African continent and to all the Africans as they celebrate be
Zanu-PF leading Zimbabwe back to 2008
SINCE the end of 2015, the country has seen its cash crisis escalate to the point today when Banks cannot pay out clients more than a small proportion of what is in their accounts.In a "no...Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross
Zimbabwe: How to rob a country
TRANSPARENCY International issued a briefing this week claiming that corruption is costing Zimbabwe US$1 billion a year. I have no doubt that they are right.The question that needs answering i...Published: 20 Oct 2016 at 09:22hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Africa day is time to tabulate the success stories of Africa,
On the 25th of May African countries celebrated Africa day reminiscing the glorious past of Africa, saluting the founding fathers of the African Union formerly the Organisation of African Unity. A...Published: 01 Jun 2016 at 16:26hrs | | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
The only difference between Zimbabwe and Botswana is leadership
I HAVE just completed reading two books on the Second World War. The first was by an American soldier who spent 4 years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp and the second was an overview of the War fro...Published: 02 Sep 2015 at 16:26hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Zimbabwe: Living in a Lunatic Asylum
Eddie Cross contrasts the achievements of Lee Kuan Yew with the ruin Robert Mugabe brought to his countryThe man who created Singapore died a few days ...Published: 07 Apr 2015 at 14:12hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Mnangagwa skating on thin ice
The political transition initiated last year by the attacks on the Mujuru faction in Zanu-PF leading to her dismissal from the post of Vice President and the appointment of Emmerson Mnangagwa as senio...Published: 22 Feb 2015 at 09:50hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Zimbabwe's ghosts from the past
Every country in the world has its ghosts from the past. I am part Irish (150 years ago), but am affected in my personal and family life by the historical conflicts that affected the Irish people, di...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 12:07hrs | | by Eddie Cross
How Robert Mugabe turned Zimbabwe into global pariah
WHEN Mr. Mugabe stood to speak at the UN General Assembly last week it was to a nearly empty hall. What a change from 1980 when he had the admiration and respect of the whole world and was regarded as...Published: 09 Oct 2014 at 09:12hrs | | by Eddie Cross
'Real power with Mnangagwa group'
IN Asia they have a saying that you must be careful when you try to ride a Tiger - if you fall off you may be eaten. In Zimbabwe the Tiger is the struggle for political power and this has been going ...Published: 09 May 2014 at 06:58hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Lets re-gear ourselves for a dramatic 2013
IT is never easy to predict what is going to happen in Zimbabwe. Perhaps it is foolish to try but I think we should give it a go, because in my view, the outlook for 2013 has changed and we should all...Published: 31 Dec 2012 at 22:16hrs | | by Eddie Cross
A cross Zimbabweans don't have to bear
ISRAEL'S greatest king, Solomon, was only 12 years old when God promised him that he would be granted wisdom, and be the wisest man who ever lived. In the very first recorded decision in the history ...Published: 25 May 2012 at 05:25hrs | | by Caeser Zwayi
What the recent SADC summit means for Zimbabwe
The SADC summit held in Sandton last weekend delivered more than was anticipated. Although the propaganda machine is trying to muddy the waters, the basic facts are that the summit endorsed the report...Published: 19 Jun 2011 at 12:40hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross
Carl Joshua Ncube’s BIG ANNOUNCEMENT
Remember this name: Carl Joshua Ncube! Zimbabwe’s most exciting new find in stand up comedy will begin his first ever world tour “Carl Joshua Ncube√¢‚Ã...Published: 09 May 2011 at 16:29hrs | 14 | by Taponeswa
S. African terror threat suspect due in court
A Zimbabwean-born South African businessman living west of Pretoria, South Africa evoked the wrath of international law-enforcement agencies when he allegedly threatened to unleash an unprecedented bi...Published: 14 Feb 2011 at 06:20hrs | | by Byo24NEWS
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