By Rusununguko Sadza OUR beautiful country continues to slide into a bottomless pit, its future being eroded by a few who are in control of the apparatus of the state […]
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Forces of coercion versus popular will
Dumisani Muleya AS Zimbabwe’s electioneering ahead of next week’s general election enters the last stretch of what looks like a close race, political parties are increasingly stepping up their nationwide […]
Inflation: when more money means less purchasing power
Dumisani Ndlela THERE is no hope left to salvage Zimbabwe’s faltering economy from an inflationary abyss despite public posturing by government which launched a fresh economic revival blueprint a fortnight […]
End of private property tenure looms
Augustine Mukaro GOVERNMENT’S proposed constitutional amendment to effectively nationalise all land it acquires could mark the end of private property ownership and dash hopes of any economic recovery in the […]
Turkey: the door is still open
World View with Gwynne Dyer THE near-tie in the German election, in which Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder came from 13 percentage points behind conservative challenger Angela Merkel in late August to […]
Critics doubt govt sincerity in rights body plan
Augustine Mukaro ANALYSTS have warned that government’s establishment of a human rights commission could become the state’s latest move to evade the African Commission’s recommendations and conceal its rampant human […]
There’s still a dream in Zimbabwe
By Masimba Biriwasha THE dream and hope of a new nation glows like a flame lily in every Zimbabwean’s heart. But the resolution of the country’s multifaceted crisis could take […]
The battle for the cities
By Brian Raftopoulos WHILE the livelihoods of rural and urban areas in economies like Zimbabwe are closely interdependent, the urban spaces have a specific set of dynamics that have, in […]
Zimplats: reading between the lines
Godfrey Marawanyika THE recent threat by Zimplats to withdraw its investment from this country over a tax battle with the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is a classic example of how […]
Zim’s disabled ignored as economic crisis rages on
Loughty Dube ISSUES affecting the disabled in Zimbabwe have been relegated to society’s back burner due to a plethora of socio-economic problems that have hit the poorer members of society. […]