A tribute to great colleagues
YESTERDAY was my final day as editor of the Zimbabwe Independent. So effectively from today, my deputy for many years, Faith Zaba, is now in charge.
Editorial
Why Mnangagwa won’t reform
THERE is a vast amount of literature out there showing that political regimes which come into power through coups are by definition a threat to democracy and…
Responding to call for electoral sabbatical
THE Platform for Concerned Citizens (PCC) congratulates the Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHoCD) for its timely intervention in the deepening…
Shattering the glass ceiling
THIS week I made history when I was appointed editor of the leading business and investigative weekly, Zimbabwe Independent, by Alpha Media Group chairperson…
Zim’s economic outlook gloomy
JUST like many other research and expert organisations focussed on the current Zimbabwean situation, the United Kingdom-based Economist Intelligence Unit…
Govt needs to find lasting solution to health crisis
CITING incapacitation, senior doctors at public health institutions yesterday joined their junior counterparts, who have been protesting for over a month,…
Magombeyi abduction: Why is govt panicking?
When we were kids, we used to enjoy a certain joke, in which a bus was stopped at a checkpoint, where police officers started searching all the bags in the…
Impunity has no place in a civilised society
LAST Sunday, my pastor said something significant: Zimbabweans are quick to boo at President Cyril Ramaphosa from the terraces of the National Sports Stadium,…
Zimdollar rout fuels volatility
WHEN government, in a surprise move in June, abruptly abolished the multi-currency system, which saved the country from the ravages of hyperinflation from…
Ncube should learn a lesson
EVEN though High Court judge Justice Happius Zhou’s ruling this week that the 2% intermediated transaction tax imposed by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube under…
