It’s a question still vexing a lot of people’s minds. Did the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) sell-out when it voted with the ruling party on Constitutional Amendment Number 18 which will usher harmonised presidential, parliamentary and local government elections? MDC allies said it had sold out and were threatening to withdraw their […]
Mugabe keeps everyone guessing
Zimbabwe’s crucial elections are just six months away but President Robert Mugabe is keeping everyone, including his own lieutenants, guessing. No one knows exactly when the elections will be held. But more importantly who will be contesting especially from his own party Mugabe has been endorsed as the party’s presidential candidate and only God […]
Dell probably saved Mugabe
One of the stories doing the rounds is that just before the price blitz President Robert Mugabe walked into a cabinet meeting, looked at his colleagues, and said: “Matumbu so! Muri kuwana mari kupi vakomana imi? Handidero ndichinetsana namaBritish muri imi murikuuraya nyika?” Loosely translated what Mugabe said was: “So big tummies! Where are you […]
Sting or not, Archbishop Ncube has been had
It’s the talk of the town. The alleged adulterous affair of the Archbishop of Bulawayo Pius Ncube and Rosemary Sibanda has left tongues wagging. The publication of the story and explicit pictures, two days running, with warnings of not suitable for the persons under the age of 18, in a local family daily has sparked […]
Only those connected benefiting from price blitz
It was just a casual remark. But it was loaded with meaning. Thieves had just broken into my house and stolen almost all electrical goods-a video recorder, a digital satellite television decoder and a radio. I was in the house with all seven members of my family but no one heard a thing. The […]
Who is playing havoc with the Zimbabwe dollar?
Zudha in the Rhodesian days was corrupted Shona for South African coins. Because they were useless to Zimbabweans, the word was transformed to mean anything useless including people. It was derived from the Afrikaans words Suid Afrika (South Africa). But South Africans coins, which people in Rhodesia used to throw away, have become gold. The […]