Opinion & Analysis
Go wild with Wez (Kariba) at Pagoma Grill
By Donette Read Kruger at May 15, 2012 | 2:27 AM | 0 Comment
Winning the Oscar 2002 for the best environmental documentary, “Winged Migration” is still the most extraordinary template on birding migration to date - a subject seemingly taking the world by storm – and, to the delight of WEZ members, this amazing DVD has finally arrived in Zimbabwe! Directed by Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud, this classic documentary film more...
Towards zero HIV infections
By Thokozani Khupe at May 13, 2012 | 4:07 PM | 0 Comment
“Getting to Zero” stands for the hope that we have for eliminating HIV. We can get to zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero Aids-related deaths, but the challenge is how to get there and how to hold on to the gains made so as not to roll backwards. As we head into the fourth decade of the Aids challenge, we are now in a position to truly see an end more...
Webster Shamu: Address to journalists on World Press Freedom Day
By Our reporter at May 5, 2012 | 9:44 AM | 0 Comment
The Chairman of the Zimbabwe Media Commission, Commissioner Godfrey Majonga and other Commissioners here present; the Unesco Representative, Professor Luc Rukingama; representatives of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Media, Information and Communication; the Permanent Secretary for Media, Information and Publicity Cde George Charamba; the Chairman of the more...
Open Letter to the KP Chair
By Tafadzwa Musarara at April 9, 2012 | 2:11 AM | 0 Comment
Your Excellency, Please accept my cordial and genial greetings, your Excellency. We write to you seeking your intervention on the EU/Liberia bribe scandal matter, which we believe you are now aware of, as KP Chair. The matter relates to formal contract (CONTRACT IFS-RRM/2010/247-567) entered into by the European Union represented by a one Ms. Nona Deprez and the more...
Lustig on the road in Zimbabwe
By Robin Lustig at April 4, 2012 | 1:44 AM | 1 Comments
I've spent the past five days in Harare, on a rare, officially-approved reporting trip to Zimbabwe. So I thought you might be interested in my impressions, ahead of my radio report, which we hope to broadcast next week. (And by the way, there were no restrictions on where we could go or whom we could talk to, nor were we accompanied at any point by government more...
Law Society of Zimbabwe victimising Masimirembwa
By Our reporter at March 1, 2012 | 12:47 AM | 0 Comment
Zimbabwe Institute of Legal Studies chief, Goodwills Masimirembwa (l) and Law Society of Zimbabwe President Tinoziva Bere THE attack by Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) on Goodwills Masimirembwa and his Zimbabwe Institute of Legal Studies (ZILS) smacks of victimisation and argument advanced carries no justice. The Institute will be offering Diplomas in various fields of more...
Tsvangirai’s letter to President Mugabe
By Our reporter at February 5, 2012 | 5:18 AM | 0 Comment
MEMORANDUM TO: H.E. President Robert Mugabe cc: D.P.M. Mutambara FROM: The Right Honourable Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai RE: Status of the Inclusive Government Date: 2 February, 2012 Your Excellency, in just over a fortnight, the Inclusive Government will have been in existence for three (3) years. I believe that it is proper for us to reflect on the more...
Muchadeyi Masunda’s corporate incest stinks
By Our reporter at February 1, 2012 | 1:24 AM | 0 Comment
BULAWAYO-born Harare Mayor, Muchadeyi ‘Muchie” Masunda is a Chairman of nine private sector boards and director in three others. The man‘s unbridled appetite for appointments in several entities that have contesting interest stinks! Masunda (pictured above) is the Chairman of Old Mutual, a British owned and controlled insurance firm which is the biggest more...
New Constitution: Zanu-PF responds to Mwonzora’s ‘unfounded allegations’
By Godwills Masimiremwa and Jacob Mudenda at January 7, 2012 | 9:48 PM | 0 Comment
(L-R) Goodwills Masimirembwa (Zanu-PF) and MDC-T's Douglas Mwonzora We read Douglas Mwonzora's reply to the critique we prepared for Cde Mangwana on the first four chapters prepared by the drafters of the proposed new Constitution and find it absolutely necessary to reply so as to set the record straight and to ensure that informed discussions on the issues can take more...
Zimbabwe’s poisoned politics – the opium of the masses
By Our reporter at January 6, 2012 | 8:21 AM | 2 Comments
As 2012 creeped in, I could not help flash back to the past three years. The process of growth is an inevitable one and certain truths unfold as each day passes. For me it was sort of an epiphany. I have had time to travel the length and breadth of Zimbabwe to see "the situation on the ground" as many would say. // // There is a particular tragedy in our more...
