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I hope our friends in the revolutionary ANC party and government do not get angry with me for my choice of entry point for this week’s instalment. Of course I wish to refer to South Africa’s enfant terrible — one Julius Malema — who in the past week was again all over the

I REMEMBER laughing myself sore when the then Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard referred to Tsvangirai as a man as great as Mandela. Needless to say, Tsvangirai is no Mandela.

Political Mondays With Amai Jukwa It is impossible not to feel sorry for Tsvangirai. The man is down but his opponents keep on kicking.

THE indigenisation policy is ideologically perfect. Zimbabweans must own and benefit from their God-given resources. It’s an unobjectionable aspiration. This should not be read as meaning that the legislation that underpins this aspiration is perfect. It certainly is not. That imperfection is

A VIOLENT mob last week threatened to violently assault Tafadzwa Mapako after a court granted her over a thousand dollars in monthly maintenance. Their beef? She is a gold-digger and is ruining Macheso’s brand. She was lucky enough the riot squad was close by and escorted her to safety.  What I found curious was the […]

Political Mondays With Amai Jukwa— There are no separatists fighting for a chunk of Manicaland. There is virtually no risk of military conflict with any of our neighbours. We have no reason to fear a terrorist attack. Our climate is often voted the best in the world. Our people are peaceful and crime is unlike […]

All is not well in the MDC-T. One faction claims to have expelled Mangoma. He calls the suspension null and void. Another faction claims to have suspended Tsvangirai. That too is described as null and void. Perhaps it’s the whole party that is now null and void

Mai Jukwa Political Mondays PROFESSOR Arthur Mutambara, quizzed by an Australian radio journalist on whether his party, the MDC, was being dribbled by a wily Mugabe, objected quite strongly. “Do you think I am stupid? Do you think I am stupid? I’m coming out of Oxford,” he bellowed. The West had no role to play […]

“I AM proud to announce today that we have discussed our issues and there is now unprecedented harmony and unity of purpose in the MDC cockpit,” Tsvangirai explained. Describing calls for him to step down as “dynamic contradictions” that drive democracy in the MDC party he assured supporters of the troubled movement that all was […]

TEMBA MLISWA’s attempted rebuttal of extortion allegations levelled against him by businessman Billy Rautenbach was rather unpersuasive, at some points even comical. Far from restoring his standing pre-scandal, his attempts at explanation have only given rise

Political Mondays with Amai Jukwa LAST week legislators were treated to inexpensive Parliamentary entertainment as Dubeko Sibanda (MDC-T) and Mandi Chimene (Zanu-PF) squared off like pompous teenagers. Sibanda took considerable exception to Chimene’s pointed finger, which NewsDay went on to dutifully

Reducing all our problems to Zanu-PF is tempting but ultimately unhelpful. The truth is considerably more complex. IF I were to walk up to a woman selling tomatoes at the local market and ask her to explain Zimbabwe’s problems she would very easily point out that there

Amai Jukwa Political Mondays This Government does not need money. It needs to establish trust, confidence that it can be relied upon to do what is right — whatever the cost Trust is Capital

Political Monday with Amai Jukwa I  have always found Mahoso and Chivaura a ponderous and tiresome pair. Chivaura’s combative prime-time ZBC show, African Pride, is self-indulgent and largely uninspiring. One gets the feeling that he is talking to himself. Mahoso for his part writes a voluminous column for The

White nations still esteem their ideas as supreme. The world must simply follow in tow THE idea that white supremacy has given way to racial equality simply because we managed to violently overthrow its physical