4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (389+ words) But who made it expensive in the first place? These charges were created, approved and collected by the same system now removing them and presenting the change as reform. Zimbabwe has a habit of creating problems, living with them for…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (890+ words) This month presents a fascinating study in historical coincidence for Zimbabwe. September 6 marked the seventh anniversary of the passing of independent Zimbabwe’s founding leader, Robert Mugabe, while September 15 brings the 84th birthday of current President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Remarkably, it was Mnangagwa…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1099+ words) ONE of the biggest achievements of the 2013 national constitution was the adoption of the fundamental principle of devolution and decentralisation as a central pillar of that constitution. For decades, Zimbabwe, like most dominated social formations, had endured the legacy of…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1616+ words) In January 2022, President Emmerson Mnangagwa fired his then State Security Minister, Owen “Mudha” Ncube, for what the government described only as “conduct inappropriate for a Minister of Government”. The terse announcement offered no details, but it appeared to mark a…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (736+ words) Yesterday, September 6, marked seven years since the death of Zimbabwe’s founding leader, Robert Gabriel Mugabe. Seven years on, his legacy remains profoundly polarizing, casting a long, unyielding shadow over the nation he ruled for nearly four decades. To some, Mugabe…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (816+ words) ​The strategy calls for inclusion, infrastructure and social protection. It explicitly rejects enforcement as the sole answer. ​Then came 27 August. ​Daniel Garwe, the minister responsible for local government, gave Harare’s street vendors seven days to leave or face a “zero-tolerance…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (566+ words) ​Pokello Nare recently created a social media spectacle by flaunting an 18K rose gold Richard Mille RM 07-01 Automatic watch, valued between US250,000 and US450,000. Paraded before a struggling public, this display by the president’s daughter-in-law was no isolated incident of high fashion. It…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (665+ words) Nelson Mandela famously declared that there can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children. It was a profound moral declaration, asserting that a government’s true character is not measured by…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (792+ words) The move could further frustrate Chiwenga’s long-standing succession ambitions and deepen the factional struggle over who will eventually succeed Mnangagwa. Zanu PF Harare Province yesterday resolved that the party’s National Congress, currently due in 2027, should be postponed to 2030 to align…...