Diplomatic bungling

IT APPEARS all is not well at Zimbabwe’s High Commission in London. Reports say the government may be forced to retire the country’s High Commissioner there, Stephen Chiketa, because of…

Business interests take upper hand

ZIMBABWE’s commercial interests are increasingly taking the upper hand over ideological ones. The country which once refused to recognise South Korea or Taiwan recently entertained a South Korean trade delegation…

Where does Zimbabwe stand? 

ZIMBABWE is slowly plunging into deeper debt as it implements the World Bank and IMF sponsored Economic Structural Adjustment Programme, which it claims is homemade.  Minister of State for Finance,…

ESAP, religion or hardship 

ESAP, with its various interpretations ranging from Eternal Suffering for the African People to Enormous State Approved Poverty is now here to stay. Its effects are beginning to bite almost…

Balancing the army!

The recent promotions of army and air force commanders seems to be aimed more at tribally balancing the army than anything else. The appointment of Perence Shiri as commander of…

Sithole’s double talk

ZANU (Ndonga) leader Ndabaningi, who on his return from self-exile in the United States promised to give every Zimbabwean $600 a month and a 15-acre piece of land, is now…