Last Friday’s landmark decision by the new-look, nine-member Constitutional Court ordering President Mugabe to issue a proclamation as soon as possible fixing the date of the next

Professor Jonathan Moyo, MP
Zimbabweans, Sadc and AU policymakers including neutral observers around the world who have commended Zimbabwe’s successful referendum on the new Constitution as the most fundamental and inclusive reform to pave the way for the next harmonised

Professor Jonathan Moyo MP
Nothing better explains the wisdom behind the Government’s rejection of the UN’s intrusive conditionality for the funding of the forthcoming harmonised elections than the instructive UN folklore that “if there is a problem between a weak nation and another weak nation

Is President Robert Mugabe required to issue the proclamation fixing the date of the next harmonised general election in consultation with Prime Morgan Tsvangirai — who must give his consent — in terms of Schedule 8 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe which defines the

After having recently described himself effectively as neither a leader nor a player but as only a main actor, whose script and what role is Morgan Tsvangirai acting in his High Court bid filed last Thursday seeking to be included among the respondents in an application by President Mugabe asking for more time to proclaim the date for the

One repugnant conduct that has developed like a cancer in Zimbabwe and which now needs to be tackled head-on without fear or favour is the scourge of untouchables which is based on a corrupt presumption of impunity by some self-important individuals who routinely behave as if they are above the law or any scrutiny and who have established

If like most rational people you believe that everything happens for a reason, then you must be among the many who are wondering about the reasons behind the unprocedural, illegal and unlawful actions taken by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) based on false allegations against the National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Board (NIEEB), the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) and the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) under the convenient guise of fighting the scourge of corruption.

If there is one perennial truth about revolutionary processes, such as the current indigenisation reform programme, it is that they typically endure bruising challenges during which some battles may be lost before the war is won.

The ubiquitous and disappointing talk of the town last week was that the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Gideon Gono had for some strange reasons decided to irrationally and irresponsibly throw all caution to the wind to manufacture and peddle outright lies and malicious misrepresentations about the Zimplats Indigenisation Transaction which Tsvangirai’s MDC found too juicy to ignore for its mindless and now

What is the revolutionary essence of the historic indigenisation reform programme and what are its ideological, legal and policy ramifications?
It has become necessary to unpack this question in light of recent ill-informed and ludicrous claims by the now gaffe-prone Minister of Finance

David Coltart, the Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, wrongly deployed to that key role by Welshman Ncube’s MDC, just does not get it. His not-so-cleverly-hidden commitment to the Rhodesian racist cause has finally come out of the bag, leaving his human rights and rule of law