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Lighter moment- Isn’t it ironic!
Isn't it ironic that a person becomes a prime minister for five years, fights bitterly for the advancement of the black nationalist movement, offers land to ex-combatants and ends up…
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No decision on Marange
There was dead silence as the deadline for Kimberley Process members to decide what to do about Zimbabwe’s Marange diamonds came and passed on Monday. Outgoing chairman, Boaz Hirsch, had asked members to vote on the revised Brussels Proposal by January 10, but it appears not a single country responded and the deadline is said to have been extended to January 17.
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Deportations only from August
South Africa's Department of Home Affairs today said it will only finish the documentation of Zimbabweans at the end of June and deportations of illegal Zimbabweans are only likely to…
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Mugabe catches analysts offside
David Plotz of the internet magazine Slate, described President Robert Mugabe in the run-up to the 2000 parliamentary elections as a "scheming survivor", a man who never ran out of…
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Have a laugh- Leo is everywhere!
In the late 1990s Leo Mugabe was almost everywhere. He was in soccer, mobile phones, construction. Name it, he was a principal player or partner. Here is one joke that…
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Economic refugees
The International Organisation for Migration today said that millions of Zimbabweans who left home and settled in foreign countries are economic refugees. Most have sought asylum claiming they fled the…
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Chidyausiku calls for help
Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku today called for private and corporate funding for the judiciary saying the government could not adequately fund the courts because of the embattled economy. He said…
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Ncube blasts Mugabe, Tsvangirai
The president of the smaller Movement for Democratic Change, Welshman Ncube, today said President Robert Mugabe should go and said MDC-T was a bunch of "pseudo democrats and hypocrites". Ncube…
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Zimbabwe gets positive coverage from an unlikely quarter
Zimbabwe seems to have had a good start to 2011. It has received good publicity from an unlikely quarter, The New York Post. The Post , the 13th oldest newspaper in the United States but generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, on January 4 had a picture splash of Zimbabwe’s tourist attractions including the Victoria Falls, the Hwange National Park, the Victoria Falls bridge and the capital Harare.
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Mutambara out, Ncube in
Welshman Ncube was today elected president of the Movement for Democratic Change-Mutambara faction, taking over from Arthur Mutambara who decided not to contest the elections. It is not clear whether…