2008-05-06

The BBC got it right the other day; in news broadcasts they described the Zimbabwe elections and the aftermath as “bizarre”. The elections took place - after a vigorous campaign by all parties and voting was peaceful - as it always is on polling day. Funny how violence is switched on and off in this [...]

2008-04-20

In the late 70’s I was appointed Chief Executive of a major corporation and about six months into the job I noticed that although we had about 3500 employees and an internal audit department, I never saw anyone being disciplined or prosecuted for theft. I have been in business for about 40 years and in [...]

2008-04-19

Dear Family and Friends,
Behind every tree, under every bush and around every corner, it seems there is a British enemy waiting to invade Zimbabwe.
“We must maintain the utmost vigilance in the face of vicious British machinations,” Mr Mugabe warned as he spoke at his celebration of Zimbabwe’s 28th anniversary of Independence.
No one that I’ve spoken [...]

2008-04-14

Can you believe these guys! Mr. Mbeki flies into Harare where inflation is raging at 500 000 percent. The wife of the President has fled with enough foreign exchange to feed the whole country for 6 months, an election has been held under totally unacceptable conditions. The results legally due in 6 days, are 14 [...]

2008-04-13

Dear Family and Friends,
I received a call early one morning this week from a friend in a small country town. Speaking quickly and quietly for fear of being overheard, he told me of the frightening events that were going on all around him. Eight double cab vehicles had arrived in the town. Armed men in [...]

Who said change was easy? Here we are, 14 days after the election and a complete stalemate exists. Tonight Mugabe has announced that he will not attend the SADC summit on Saturday and this completes his admission that the election has gone against him and he is now acting completely outside the law and violating [...]

2008-03-31

A few weeks ago I stood in a small house in a local high-density suburb addressing a meeting of about 150 people crammed into every corner. I said to them that what we needed to end the crisis in Zimbabwe was a political Tsunami. I said a Tsunami could not be detected on the open [...]

2008-03-23

Dear Family and Friends,
When Mr Mugabe and Zanu PF came to power in April 1980, inflation in the newly named Zimbabwe was 7%.
Twenty years later, Mr Mugabe and Zanu PF were still in power and in June 2000 Parliamentary elections were held in the country. Farm invasions had been underway for nearly four months and [...]

2008-03-08

A letter from the diaspora
Dear Friends.
I was teaching teachers at a remote training college a few years ago when I first came across Zvido Zvevanhu, a small primary school right out in the rural areas. The school was built shortly after Independence and its name perfectly summed up all the hopes and dreams Zimbabweans had [...]

2008-03-02

There may well be so-called heavyweights leaving the zanupf-Mugabe sinking ship and running to a new home in the zanupf-Makoni faction. Who wouldn’t leave this sinking ship? With self inflicted inflation running at 100,000% and rising, exponentially collapsing exchange rates, empty supermarket shelves, 95% unemployment, widespread starvation, a refugee crisis of massive proportions and so [...]

2008-02-18

When Mugabe does it, he always does it big, real big. His largess is often so breathtaking that most find it hard to comprehend, let alone digest. He’s doing it again.
First it was Gukurahundi where he oversaw the slaughter of at least 20,000 people in the Matabeleland and the Midlands Provinces. He used his personal [...]

2008-02-14

Violet Gonda is a Zimbabwean journalist working at SW Radio Africa. She is currently one of this year’s Knight Fellows studying at Stanford University. Gonda is the producer/presenter of the popular Hot Seat programme and this week she talks to Wilf Mhanda, one of the leading players in the Simba Makoni political formation.
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2008-02-12

In life you get to make choices - many of which are not really dramatic and some that will change your life and circumstances for a long time. You do not choose where you are born and raised - that is your parent’s choice, but thereafter those sorts of choices will come up from time [...]

2008-02-04

The following is the content of a warning sent out today for certain Zimbabweans to prepare for the worst. It is notable that most of the people listed below have already shown great courage in the face of Mugabe’s goon police and militia. Of particular note, Jenni Williams was recently awarded a medal for her [...]

2008-02-02

Dear Family and Friends,
What is happening in Kenya is making us very nervous here in Zimbabwe. A disputed election result; over 800 people killed; 250 thousand displaced and a stable and prosperous country spiralling into chaos in just a single month. As the violence and killing has gone on day after day, it soon [...]

2008-01-22

MDC President, Morgan Tsvangirai, was arrested at his home in Harare at 4 am this morning.
Police and water canons have been deployed all over Harare obviously with instructions to prevent the planned demonstration for a free and fair election from taking place. Police had given permission for the demo to be held today but [...]

2008-01-12

Many people who observe the Zimbabwe situation fail to recognise that Mr Mugabe has made several serious errors of judgment in the past year - errors that, in my view, will cost him the Presidency in 2008. For the purpose of this missive I will deal with each of those errors of judgment in sequence, [...]

This is a letter written to friends weekly about the situation in Zimbabwe
12th January 2008
Dear Friends.
For Zimbabweans at home and in the diaspora watching the tragedy unfolding in Kenya is rather like seeing past, present and future in one blinding flash. We are forcibly reminded of our own recent past with its rigged elections [...]

2008-01-05

Dear Family and Friends,
Zimbabwe has limped into another year with almost all aspects of normal life completely gone. Every day has become incredibly tough with an ever growing demand for an increasingly dwindling supply of food, bank notes, electricity and water. Many thousands of Zimbabweans have used the Christmas and school holidays to pour out [...]

2008-01-01

Fellow Zimbabweans,
The situation in Zimbabwe today requires a great deal of courage and maturity, endurance and our usual resilience. We are stretched to the limit. Daily, we are fighting despondency, hopelessness and state-sanctioned despair. I hope and pray that this is the last time our nation has to be exposed to these trying [...]