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…

Rhodies bailing out Mugabe?

Some of President Mugabe's old enemies who propped former Rhodesian rebel leader Ian Smith by busting sanctions at the height of the liberation struggle are now reported to be helping…

Tekere now a spent force

For someone who was once tipped to succeed Robert Mugabe and even gave him a scare in the 1990 presidential elections coming up with 30 percent of the vote, Zimbabwe…

Excerpts from the MDC manifesto

*The MDC stands for the supremacy of the people and the nation over partisan or individual interests. *The MDC stands for social democratic, human centred, equitable development policies, pursued in…

Mzingwane, gays and polygamy

When one looks at some of the suggestions being made to the Constitutional Commission, one is baffled as to what kind of constitution Zimbabweans really like. Some people have suggested…

ZUD and sex

The split within the Zimbabwe Union of Democrats which saw one of the founders, law lecturer, Kempton Makamure, leave the party to form another named ZUD Transparency Fund had nothing…