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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 |
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There is something fundamentally flawed with socalled democracies that perpetuate political monarchical or tribal dynasty In Swaziland where The Mswatis rule by decree in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the Kabilas cheat at the ballot box the Bongos the Kaddafis and the Mugabes who enforce their will using AKs we Africans h ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 |
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South Africans are a strange lot with a knack for trivia even when confronted with lifethreatening tragedies One would have thought they have learnt a lesson after the blistering criticism for the unforgivable xenophobic attacks on fellow African aliens last year But now even where the FIFA World Cup clock is ticking dangerously towards t ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 |
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When citizens are schooled and empowered it is difficult to oppress them It becomes even harder for state actors to break the fortress created when such enlightened minds work in nongovernmental organizations Therefore Mugabe would like any other Machiavellian convert with a DNA of autocracy embedded in his psyche naturally condemn all ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 20, 2009 |
Rejoice Ngwenya Harare September More often than not we commentators are desperate to bring good tidings to our fellowmen because it is the right thing to do political correctness even in the face of adversity But that is only if there is time when the sand is at the top end of the glass and the pendulum is still on an upwar ... Read more |
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Monday, July 06, 2009 |
Rejoice Ngwenya July Harare Zimbabwe Virtually abandoned and discarded by a bankrupt government she has worked for almost thirty years my sister Zanele Ngwenya fifty five languishes in a dilapidated hospital ward after a bonecrunching automobile accident To term the United Bulawayo Hospital a hospital is an overstatem ... Read more |
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Friday, July 03, 2009 |
Many Africans and some Zimbabweans including Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara who argue vehemently against continued international political restrictions on Zimbabwe have completely got their coordinates wrong Promises of reform in the face of strangled civil and political liberties of Zimbabweans are not sufficient ingredient for t ... Read more |
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 |
Tendai Biti Zimbabwes Minister for Finance is currently waging a desperately relentless war of legitimacy and recognition for his Government of National Unity at the Bretton Woods Institutions To many commentators including this one this loosing battle while noble is easily interpreted as a sinister extension of ZANUPFs subtle agenda ... Read more |
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Monday, May 11, 2009 |
South African President Jacob Zuma assumed political power on Saturday May riding on a sixtyfive percentbutlessthantwothirds majority mandate Shortly after the pomp and ceremony his life at the helm begins in earnest in a fiery cauldron of popular expectations The majority of South African voters may have snubbed the rival Co ... Read more |
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 |
South Africa holds its fourth postapartheid election tomorrow Being an important economy within Africa and to other regions of the world one should have expected the same media frenzy that charaterised previous elections to be more than ever present not least because the next FIFA World soccer tournament will be held in South AfricaBarack ... Read more |
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Thursday, March 26, 2009 |
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President Robert Mugabe has appealed for international assistance to rebuild his selfbattered country Many aid activists are already salivating to this rapprochement from Africas most beleaguered president The reason is simply that they never learn However they have a strong backing from the academic and entertainment industries Irish ro ... Read more |
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 |
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Rejoice Ngwenya Harare Zimbabwe Free market sympathisers of the partially ruling Movement for Democratic Change in Zimbabwe must be wondering where to draw the line between constructive trade unionism and the destructive model of populist representation By its very nature trade and industrial unionism is part of working life in most ... Read more |
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Friday, February 20, 2009 |
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Zimbabwes Movement for Democratic Change Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirayi has in the narrowest sense of the word assumed political power On Tuesday February he announced his share of thirteen Cabinet Ministers Two days later on Friday the th President Robert Mugabe made them swear an oath of allegiance to seal their fate in ... Read more |
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Monday, February 09, 2009 |
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The adage that politics has no lasting friendship has turned full circle in modernday Zimbabwe but whether or not such friendship transcends allegiance to or is passing acknowledgement of faith in ideological dogma is debate for another day For now one can claim without fear of intellectual recrimination from Harvard Geeks that Mugabe ... Read more |
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Thursday, January 22, 2009 |
When High Court judge Chris Nicholson ruled last year that Thabo Mbeki had used presidential powers to influence South Africas National Prosecuting AuthoritysNPA legal action against Jacob Zuma ANC extremists summarily dismissed Mbeki from State House to replace him with Kgalema Motlanthe The world watched with horror as a democratically e ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 |
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When High Court judge Chris Nicholson ruled last year that Thabo Mbeki had used presidential powers to influence South Africas National Prosecuting AuthoritysNPA legal action against Jacob Zuma ANC extremists summarily dismissed Mbeki from State House to replace him with Kgalema Motlanthe The world watched with horror as a democratically e ... Read more |
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Friday, November 28, 2008 |
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Dr Gideon Gonos tenure as central bank governor of Zimbabwe has been extended by another five years amid hue and cry that President Robert Mugabe is plugging the holes of possible monetary policy impropriety investigation by a new government Most political analysts are alarmed that Mugabes hasty decision comes at time when the opposition MDC w ... Read more |
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Monday, October 20, 2008 |
Thabo Mbeki the disgraced former president of South Africa and the SADCanointed mediator in the Zimbabwe crisis spent four days last week in Harare Zimbabwes capital wrestling with Robert Mugabes brittle ego to save the powersharing deal He failedFailure to reach an agreement is a serious indictment on Mbekis ability to produce favour ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 23, 2008 |
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By the time you read this opinion piece the Chinese Birds Nest may long have been deserted the guns of Olympians silent and she will be back to her more solid cradle Perhaps just perhaps Robert Mugabe will have conferred swimming sensation Kirsty Coventry with yet another Honour of the Stone Temple award for in his own words keeping the Z ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 |
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Humans of the civilized world cannot fathom how on earth an average citizen survives in Zimbabwe What with an inflation rate of more than ten million percent a completely worthless currency and empty supermarket shelves Darwinian adventure Cesarean courage and Bonapartean arrogance can be the only vital ingredients in my daily survival kit ... Read more |
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 |
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By the time you finish reading this piece one hundred illegal immigrants will have crossed the border into South Africa and Botswana two of their colleagues will have been murdered in xenophobic Alexandra ten men will have been infected with HIV one Movement for Democratic Change activist will have been beaten up maimed or killed in Uzum ... Read more |
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Monday, April 21, 2008 |
President Thabo Mbeki and his infamous colleague Robert Mugabe are marooned on an isolated political island under siege by diplomatic brickbats and flotsam their old bodies quivering and shivering in cold winds of backlash from Mr Mbekis unpopular proclamation that Zimbabwe is not a crisis situation While Mbeki ponders thoughtfully on the next ... Read more |
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Monday, April 07, 2008 |
The diabolical context with which African ruling elites generally perceive democratic processes is currently on the manifest in Zimbabwe Outgoing president Robert Mugabes egotistical clinging to power nine days after two million Zimbabweans showed him the red card only confirms speculations by Western detractors that left to our own devices ... Read more |
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Sunday, April 06, 2008 |
As the drama of Zimbabwes landmark March election unfolds Dianne Kohler Banard Member of Parliament and spokesperson of the Democratic Alliance DA of South Africa stated that it was impossible for Mugabes ZANUpf to win elections in a country that was very angry with his failed economic policies In plain words Ms Kohler Barnard said Mugab ... Read more |
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Friday, March 14, 2008 |
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In May Police and Paramilitary forces on the instruction of president Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe carried out a brutal operation called Operation Murambatsvina meaning literally remove the dirt in which homes and livelihoods of over one million Zimbabwes urban poorest of the poor were destroyed This action sent shockwaves around Africa ... Read more |
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Monday, February 18, 2008 |
James Chikerema the Zimbabwean nationalist who died several years ago was not only a first cousin of President Robert Mugabe but also his childhood neighbour who grew up with the infamous dictator at Zvimba a predominantly Catholic village less than two hundred kilometres from Harare Mr Chikerema was once quoted as saying the Zimbabwean leader ... Read more |
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