Form and content in ‘new’ constitution
NCA chairman Lovemore Madhuku last week wrote a newspaper article which focused chiefly on the definition of a constitution. He promised to explain this week a “people-driven” constitution-making...
View ArticleDinner with Tsvangirai
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party is holding a banquet for him on Saturday evening. Zimbabwean groups and other interested parties have been invited to come and wine and dine with the...
View ArticleConstitution will not save us
THE constitution-making season appears to have begun, albeit with squabbles over the notorious Kariba Draft which was concocted by a collection of politicians sometime in 2007. When the National...
View ArticleIndigenisation and curse of land reform
IN HIS intriguing book, The Problems of Philosophy, British philosopher Bertrand Russell criticises “absolute sceptics” who claim nothing can ever be known with any certainty. While criticism is the...
View ArticleGay rights are human rights too!
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have recently spoken out against gays and lesbians, seemingly agreeing between them that homosexuals should have no rights under a new...
View ArticleMaking a constitution no one wants
THE United States ambassador to Zimbabwe, Charles Ray, appears to me to be a decent man despite his recent theatrics on behalf of The System at the burial of Sabina Mugabe at the Heroes’ Acre. If, on...
View ArticleThe day Mai Musodzi’s eyes stayed dry
THE Constitutional Parliamentary Committee (Copac) outreach debacle in Harare in general and at Mai Musodzi Hall, Mbare, in particular, must have come as a huge anticlimax for most media houses. There...
View Article2000 referendum: Zimbabwe’s ‘lost moment’
AMID the gathering storm of the MDC’s 2005 split, I asked a forlorn Welshman Ncube: ‘If you could turn back the clock, what would you do differently as the MDC?’ He grew woebegone before he recounted...
View ArticleTime to park COPAC and go to elections
IF THE idea that every dog has its day is indeed true, then the day has come for Constitutional Parliamentary Select Committee (COPAC) to be parked. COPAC’s final moment of reckoning beckons, with its...
View ArticleConstitution should not be weapon against our heritage
OVER the years, I have come across very little evidence to suggest that the MDC-T is an independent and proud party with a clear understanding of what it means to be Zimbabwean. I have been...
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