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Professor John Makumbe warns Nigel Chanakira

Professor John Makumbe warns Nigel Chanakira

HARARE – “Be wary of Mugabe’s benefaction,” is the warning Professor John Makumbe is giving Nigel Chanakira in his on-going wrangle for control of Kingdom Financial Holdings Ltd (KFHL).

ENG Capital to resume operations

ENG Capital to resume operations

Last week Investment Banker Gilbert Muponda sat down for an interview with Shame Makoshori, The Financial Gazette Chief Business Reporter to discuss the recent High Court ruling returning ENG Assets.

Mugabe is heading for the wheelchair as health problems mount..

Mugabe is heading for the wheelchair as health problems mount..

HARARE – Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is heading for the wheelchair as health problems mount, an impeccable senior State intelligence source in the President’s office revealed to The Zimbabwe Mail.

A special wheel chair and other electronic gadgets are being designed in an unnamed Asian country, the source told our reporter in Bindura at the funeral of the First Lady Grace Mugabe’s brother, Reward Marufu.

You can’t have healing without the church involvement says Tsvangirai…

You can’t have healing without the church involvement says Tsvangirai…

Christians in Zimbabwe are being mobilized to set the groundwork for national reconciliation and healing, even as the nation embarks on writing a new constitution.
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said, “You can’t have healing without the church playing a very moral role, a leading role. I think it would be a misplacement of priorities to play the church as a political organization rather than as a spiritual organization which has an important place in a country where 80 percent are Christian,”.
Zimbabwe will undergo a three-month outreach to gather input from the citizenry through a referendum on what the new constitution should contai

Zimbabwe Turning a Corner

Zimbabwe Turning a Corner

Hundreds of people have been killed because of their political differences. Those images still linger.

“Yes, that is the past,” Tsvangirai said. “That image will not go away. Yes, there may be eruptions of violence here and there, but certainly to expect this country to be degenerating like any other African banana republic where people are fighting in the streets and guns are shooting all over the place like Somalia, it is far, far away from that image.”

Has enough been done to help Zimbabwe?

Has enough been done to help Zimbabwe?

Camouflaged as a compromise undertaken in the national interest, the so-called Unity Government has proven to be yet another cunning and evil-intentioned scheme by ZANU PF calculated to buy time for Mugabe

Zim: A second liberation?

Zim: A second liberation?

If you are in the 30-plus age bracket, chances are, you will not see Zimbabwe rise again in your lifetime.

Mugabe: End is nigh

Mugabe: End is nigh

IN THE end, Zimbabwe’s strongman, President Robert Mugabe, will exit the political scene exactly as he predicted he might a decade earlier, fighting to the end until his very last day on earth.

There cannot be many veterans who are less than 50 years old’

There cannot be many veterans who are less than 50 years old’

After reading the account of constitutional outreach meetings in Wedza-Rusape area in The Zimbabwean last week, I have one or two questions. It is unfortunate that the people who need to answer them would refuse to read this if it was offered to them, but I certainly won’t be heard if I don’t speak out now.

Zimbabwe: a nation divided against itself

Zimbabwe: a nation divided against itself

The notion that, to qualify as people-driven, the current constitution making process must exclude politicians and be spearheaded by civil society is as malevolent as it is misleading.

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