How have the ‘new farmers’ fared?

In last week’s blog, I looked at farm production, and the difficulties faced in recent drought years, and this was contrasted with patterns across the previous...

Serving a great nation as a minister

The ingratitude of some fellow citizens has forced me to put pen to paper. Since the...

Open your graves

A grave is a place of loss and finality. We’ve stood at grave sides and mourned...

Change is coming

We are clearly heading for some kind of change. The present situation cannot last, but the...

Institutional failure – Where did we go wrong?

Successful countries all over the world are built on strong institutions of all kinds. We often...

IMF’s nice words mask economic disaster

I laughed the other day when I read the recent report on Zimbabwe by the IMF....

Mliswa: sad symbol of Zanu (PF)

Temba Mliswa is a gritty, weird but funny politician. He is useful too, for he has...

Rethinking Zimbabwe’s model for growth

Zimbabwe registered double digit growths between 2010 and 2012. However the sad thing is that the...

The Same Old Story

Some readers may remember that during the debate on adopting a World Bank/IMF-designed Structural Adjustment Programme...

We are bleeding US dollars to China

No country will invest in Zimbabwe in our current political and investment climate unless it sees...

Time for the old men to hand over

The furore over excessive pay for state enterprise executives continues. We have seen another ill-informed move...

Lest we forget

Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC party are currently in turmoil, no doubt, but we need not...

When two yearnings meet

When two yearnings meet it is like two rivers converging. A stream runs down the mountain...

The people are the enemy

I was perturbed recently to hear a community group in a rural area reporting on their...

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