Of baboons and voters

The danger of allowing people to stay in power too long is that they start taking people for granted. This was amply demonstrated by vice- President Simon Muzenda at Chivi…

Was referendum rigged?

Huge discrepancies between the results of the national referendum in February and an opinion poll by the Helen Suzman Foundation carried out between January 14 and February 9 have raised…

Scandals and suicides!

When Minister of Lands and Agriculture Kumbirai Kangai left the court after charges of corruption involving about $228.4 million were levelled against him, he looked quite relaxed and even told…

Let’s think of the nation first

The date for the general elections has been set confirming what we predicted in our last issue that President Robert Mugabe is likely to defy conventional wisdom. Early elections may…

All eyes on Tsvangirai

The surprising No victory seems to have catapulted only one person, Morgan Tsvangirai. The eyes of the world are now on him and the party he leads the Movement for…

What’s the fuss about?

Nathan Shamuyarira, the ZANU-PF secretary for information, was a renowned journalist in the 1960s. He was the editor-in-chief of the Daily News. The paper was the voice of the black…

ZANU-PF is like a condom

One irate reader, worried about how the ruling ZANU-PF has run down the country, has likened it to a condom. Writing in the Financial Gazette, Stivo Musekiwa, said: "The ruling…

Nation taken for a ride

Soon after the appointment of the constitutional commission, President Mugabe was quoted by The Herald as saying, that they had included a few loudspeakers in the commission just to add…