Africa was always the chessboard on which stronger nations played. But the productivity of capitalist nations proved greater than the putative power of the Soviet Union.

It'S BEEN a year since the launch of Zimbabwe's national unity government, and President Robert Mugabe is celebrating -- his own birthday, that is.

The European Union formally decided on February 15 to lift restrictive measures against 6 individuals and 9 companies in Zimbabwe that were previously subject to travel bans and asset freezes, but continued the measures for another year on the majority of the 203 individuals and 40 companies on the list.

You will recall my analogy last year of the wounded Buffalo in the Jesse. Well I thought today I should revisit this situation and find out just what has happened since then.

Any person who has ever owned or managed a business, albeit a rural bottle store, tuck-shop or manufacturing industrial unit, will attest to the need and benefits of a methodical annual audit. Zimbabwe must conduct a comprehensive national land audit before the premature declaration that the looting exercise in progress now—masked as land reform—is irreversible. 

 

In 2009, the World Food Programme imported humanitarian aid to about 5.9 million people in Sudan.

The debate on proposed Diaspora tax has evoked both emotion and repugnance particularly within the Diaspora community. In future, when alumni of the University of Manchester or any other university, sit down to write something that affects more than three million Zimbabweans, they should consult far and wide.

It is now ten years since the collapse of the Zimbabwe economy got under way in earnest in 1999. It actually started in 1997 but only really began to slide two years later when the effect of policy changes took root. It is perhaps time that we looked back on this lost decade and ask ourselves what sort of price have we paid?

Zimbabwe is currently in the process of writing a new constitution. One of the major challenges lies in recognising the rights of the Zimbabwean community living abroad.

It is being widely reported that Interfin Bank have decided to go ahead and invest in the disputed CFX Bank Limited.

The denial by one James Maridadi, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's chief communications officer, that there are economic sanctions on Zimbabwe is a cause for concern particularly at a time we thought we had moved beyond the rhetoric of grandstanding.

Dear reader: So, sometimes we wonder about what kind of warped thinking is currently prevailling within ZANU-PF circles. With ZANU-PF cadres making their position on issues vague, it is sometimes difficult to know exactly what is happening there in the former ruling party.

Whether the Maputo talks bring some progress on the GPA issues or not, 29/11 will be a date worth remembering. Coming soon, Sunday, November 29 will mark the end of a lost decade.

MDC-T's presumptuous disengagement resolution is meant to taint their partner Zanu-PF as strange bedfellows, with no moral principles.

I must say that you have become part and master of a terrible political culture that treats political divergence as an unpatriotic attempt to disturb the “natural order” of our national politics. While more urgent issues such as deaths caused by man-made disasters like cholera, state-sponsored political violence, and drought are in need of attention, we still have members of parliament like you who have the time, vision, and intelligence to abuse public space to insult alternative voices and political opponents, and your expectations are that Zimbabweans should render unquestioning audience and allegiance to their “selfless liberators” — Zanu PF.

New York is a global city, a mash up of people from everywhere. New Yorkers like to boast that we don't care where our neighbors came from since they are an essential part of our community now. But these values are under attack. Across the world, New Yorkers are living in exile, separated from their families because this city fails to protect all its residents.

When President Obama was announced the 2009 Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Award Recipient, varying echoes were heard across all global political and social mediums, spurring on whether the Young hegemonic American leader thus deserve the Award.

ECONET Wireless was reported to have sold its shareholding in suspended and partially specified Kingdom Meikles Africa Limited (KMAL).

Having just completed my daily posting on my main page, "The Bearded Man", I was struck by the number of cases before the courts in Zimbabwe that have political connotations.

Recent media reports have said that Jonathan Moyo has been re-admitted into Zanu PF, despite having said that he “would never” join Zanu PF again. Moyo who is the only “independent” MP in Zimbabwe seems to conveniently forget that he is in the public space and that such individualistic political decisions like rejoining Zanu PF reflect him as a leader who believes he is in a monologue rather than a dialogue with his constituency.