Politics

Former South African President Thabo Mbeki has accused the MDC of being a spoiler obsessed with criticising President Robert Mugabe, in an ugly spat that has overshadowed fresh talks to rescue the country’s troubled power-sharing deal.

• Mbeki says Tsvangirai is a western puppet
• Zimbabwe is failing its people
• Mugabe must go: Julius Malema
• South Africa’s Cabinet admonishes MDC & Zanu-PF for humanitarian crisis
• Yes,Yes We Can!

Local News

Gunfire broke out in Harare Central when rampaging, unpaid soldiers clashed with Police who went on a looting spree.

Both the public and police fought the estimated 100 rampaging soldiers early this morning, after they took money from people they accused of being illegal foreign currency dealers.

• uʍop ǝpısdn in Harare
• MDC gives nod to amendment
• Mbeki says Tsvangirai is a western puppet
• Botswana ready to offer Tsvangirai a base
• Mugabe reappoints Gono

Analysis

To prevaricate is “to avoid giving a direct and honest answer or opinion,or a clear and truthful account of a situation, especially by quibbling or being deliberately ambiguous or misleading”.
For readers of my contributions, that I am sympathetic to the cause of the MDC is well known. That sympathy is of course born out of [...]

• MDC prevarications must stop
• Patience is running out
• Zanu PF lacks sincerity & good faith
• Chanakira and Moxon must not play into ZANU PF hands
• ZANU PF has failed the education system