HARARE – One of the most charismatic politicians in the Government of National Unity (GNU) is Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Guseni Oliver Mutambara. Mutambara built a national profile as president of the Students Representative Council of the University of Zimbabwe between 1988 and 1989 where he led anti-government protests leading to his arrest and imprisonment….
HARARE – When Barrack Obama was on his way to become the first black President of the United States, his wife Michele and daughters were in the spotlight. While over the years we have been presented with First Ladies, the world has been dazzled by Michele’s charisma and character. In the media, she has been…
THE 2013 presidential election will present Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) with possibly his best chance to become President of Zimbabwe. Tsvangirai’s only obstacle at the coming presidential election is President Robert Mugabe, leader of Zanu PF, who poses the greatest challenge to his presidential ambitions. Losing to…
HARARE – While Simbarashe Chaunoita’s imposing height is intimidating, it is his amazing character that makes him stand out from the rest of his fellow inmates. Not only is he charming, Chaunoita exudes an inner peace which makes one wonder how such an eloquent man finds himself locked at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, the largest…
HARARE – Since the weekend Sadc summit in Maputo, Mozambique, where the government was urged to seek a delay in the harmonised elections, Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa has been in the news since he was tasked by the regional bloc with that assignment. Chinamasa on Tuesday filed an appeal against the Constitutional Court ruling ordering…
HARARE – It is a warm Friday afternoon and residents in Chitungwiza are readying themselves for a voter education meeting taking place in Unit L that will spell their voting rights. Chitungwiza is one of the hot spots for politically-motivated violence during political parties’ campaigns, hence any political gathering has the potential to be explosive….
HARARE – As Zimbabwe joined the rest of Africa to celebrate Day of the African Child on June 16, the country’s social workers said African children are not any better than those that were involved in the 1976 Soweto Uprising. The Day of the African Child has been celebrated on June 16 every year since…
BULAWAYO – At the turn of the millennium, informal education centres offering academic and tertiary studies sprung up particularly in the major urban centres. Though initially despised as last resort options, private colleges gained acceptance primarily because of their laxity on entry qualifications. They gave youths a second chance and solace to hordes of repeaters,…
HARARE – Damned if he does not, damned if he does. President Robert Mugabe finds himself in the most unusual position of being criticised — pilloried, in fact, as being unconstitutional, undemocratic and tyrannical — simply because he wants to hold elections. Yes, you heard that right, as absurd as it sounds on the surface:…
HARARE – If you want to know about the health of South Africa’s first black president Nelson Mandela there is really only one person to call — and it is not some junior spokesperson in the presidential bureaucracy. Instead, it is one of Mandela’s oldest, closest friends a silver-haired, razor-sharp, 78-year-old South African called Mac…
