Place for the disabled

In one of the most ambitious studies to establish the plight of disabled pupils the National Foundation for the Disabled is conducting a nationwide survey on how many secondary schools…

Unfair legislation

The proposed bill to enable the government to fund political parties should be widely debated, particularly in such forums as television programmes like Insight, Tonight or Issues and Views before…

Calls for autonomy increasing

Calls for autonomy by minority ethnic groups sweeping across Eastern Europe seem to be trickling down to Africa just like demands for democracy, which resulted in the demise of communism,…

Honeymoon is over in Zambia?

AGITATING for change and ousting so-called undemocratic regimes may be easy but ensuring that the so-called democratic forces will indeed be democratic and bring about the needed change is something…

Money in Codesa

TALKS on constitutional reform in South Africa, now code-named Codesa, may be deadlocked but meetings still have to carry on and that means good business for those who have to…

Let them marry

THE recent admission by Catholic Bishop Eamonn Casey of Ireland that he fathered a child with an American woman, for which he paid the princely sum of one hundred thousand…

Views of a Ndebele

TWELVE years of Zimbabwe’s independence have witnessed the progressive marginalisation and domination of the Ndebele people by the majority dominant Shona groups.  From 1980 to 1987, this process of domination…