July 31 deadline: the law is an ass

The order by the Constitutional Court last week that the next general election should be held by July 31 puts Zimbabwe in a dilemma. On one...

The evil that men do

The embellished role of those who served in the liberation struggle for Zimbabwe has become an...

New Bottles: Old Wine

On Friday, 31 May 2013, the newly established Constitutional Court issued its first judgment, that is...

The Beginning of the End

After the success of the Policy Conference and the rally to launch our campaign, MDC (T)...

AU at 50: Has Pan-African dream become a nightmare?

“Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The notion that in order to have...

What are they afraid of?

In one of the first classes I ever taught, I committed a mistake that no good...

The art of insulting kings

A panicky silence fills the huge hall. A childish, subdued cough from somewhere. All eyes swing...

African Unity at 50, still “shuffering and shmiling”?

As we commemorate Africa Day, the African Union (AU), formally known as the Organisation of African...

Zimbabwe's Educational Legacy from the 1980s: was it all so rosy?

Mary Ndlovu, the author of this paper, is a social justice and human rights activist with...

In the bowels of a submarine

Recently I visited one of our prisons. Little money had been spent on it for decades...

What credentials do we need?

We didn’t hear much about liberation war credentials in 1996 when some of us were waiting...

Unpacking Zanu (PF)’s election rush

I kick myself for choosing Zanu (PF) as my subject matter once again....

State of the nation

The head of the Apostolic Christian Council, Johannes Nyamwa-Ndanga, is back in the news. You might...

State of the nation

Minister of lands and rural resettlement, Herbert Murerwa, has said the government does not have the...

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