POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE

Mugabe,'s own history and actions attest to a schizophrenic personality, posturing as a Marxist revolutionary, sometimes by only wearing Communist attire during elections and emitting searing populist rhetoric, some just know him as an educated man recognized for his Western suits, love for English cricket, tea and admiration for British royalty. Mugabe was for long content and not inclined to upset the applecart when it came to Western interests. Most importantly, after Independence in 1980, apart from command economic and social services delivery approach, Mugabe did not seek to reform the settler colonial state structure in line with his party’s socialist and one-party state manifesto. He happily inherited colonial institutions, laws and even top individual officials and bureaucrats to run the state while he learned the ropes.   Zimbabwe cannot create, and thereafter continue, needed formal sector employment. Thus not only does Zimbabwe very urgently need to repeal the neg

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: NOTHING TO FEAR IN MUGABE : Mugabe will be removed by politicians who will surmount the fear of death and breathe courage to the population. Leaders, who will, with...

Mugabe will be removed by politicians who will surmount the fear of death and breathe courage to the population. Leaders, who will, with their trusted people power and large numbers, demolish Mugabe’s thin fortresses of violence and extract freedom and justice from the sinking regime. In his lifetime, Mugabe must see the colour of defeat, taste the bitter cup of justice and smell the freedom of his victims. The many Zanu PF hardliners who continue to show fanatical and near cultic support for Mugabe are not Zimbabweans who love and honour “a dear leader.” It is a collection of fearful beneficiaries of Mugabe’s violence, corruption, patronage and pillage who stand to lose their freedom, wealth and even lives in the case of his departure. These are Mugabe’s zealots who have raped, murdered, robbed and stolen in the name of Mugabe and are most likely to be thrown into extremism upon Mugabe’s death and run down Zimbabwe in a bloody civil war if not managed strategically by the politic

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: We choose not to suffer any more! We choose not to... : There is a limit to which patience and self-respect can endure, for Zimbabweans that limit has been reached and they will be no going...

There is a limit to which patience and self-respect can endure, for Zimbabweans that limit has been reached and there will be no going back. The wheels for the ignoble regime in Zimbabwe are finally falling off for all and sundry to see. The reason is a myriad of reasons namely, repression, torture, abductions, failed economy, unpaid salaries, corruption and misappropriation of state funds by those in the political elite. The economy of Zimbabwe was sacrificed on the alters of pompous self-regard and the people of Zimbabwe will have none of it any more. Anyone could have seen this coming, it was just a question of time. Mugabe made the mistake of thinking that by silencing the nation it would translate into peace. It is a question of time that Mugabe any time from now would be forced to relinquish office or one of his aides will put a bullet to his head, I would go with the later, as tempers have reached boiling point in Zimbabwe. How is it possible that a country like Zimbabw

In this article Ken Yamamoto, a researcher on Africa at a Tokyo Institute, questions President Robert Mugabe’s sincerity in dealing with the country’s corruption scourge. Yamamoto cites several historic scandals where little or no action was taken while those implicated were rewarded with top government posts. He suggests that Mugabe cannot be serious about fighting corruption while retaining in his cabinet ministers such as Obert Mpofu and Ignatius Chombo. Yamamoto also cites several dodgy deals involving the First Lady, former RBZ Governor Gideon Gono as well as Gushungo Holdings which is owned by the Mugabes. He suggests that the reason the fight against corruption will not succeed is because the head of this mafia or yakuza-like operation sits in the highest office in the land. Readers are advised that the article is fairly long, but we decided to use it in full because it raises pertinent questions about the problem of corruption in Zimbabwe. NEKO no kubi ni suzu o tsuker