HARARE - The year 2013 promises to be one in which the banking sector must brace for tough reforms that will leave its members with no choice but adopt measures that ensure both them and depositors are protected. When the Reserve...

HARARE - “Cost of living is so high, rich and poor they start to cry, now the weak must get strong, they say, ‘Oh ,what a tribulation!’ Them belly full, but we hungry; a hungry mob is an angry mob.” I...

HARARE - The talk outside churches was about how many 16-year-olds received a car and $150 for Christmas. The cars are second-hand cheap Japanese imports and the $150 is for buying a driving licence. Ever tried to get a driving licence...

HARARE - Elections the world over function on the basis of a larger portion of the population registering and participating as voters, making it mandatory for every loyal citizen to encourage undocumented people of suffrage to register for national polls. After...

HARARE - A surprise confession was made recently by Julius Malema. The former ANC Youth League president said that he was now an ordinary person and would no longer be “selling policies that are not sellable”. In order to avoid...

HARARE - Since 2009, Zimbabwe has been making half-hearted attempts at democratisation following a disputed election the previous year. The piecemeal reforms so far are attributable primarily to the dearth of political will and lack of financial resources. Of the political...

HARARE - Does Welshman Ncube inspire optimism? Does Morgan Tsvangirai inspire hope? Both erstwhile social democrats and presidential candidates are trying to win the support of voters by de-campaigning each other. Politics can either be about building up or tearing...

HARARE - One thing history teaches is that no ruler or leader will rule forever and records show that there is no ‘‘rise and rise’’ in any given account of any leader but ‘‘rise and fall.” It is against this background...

HARARE - Zanu PF celebrates 50 years this year with so many questions hanging over the deaths of some of its iconic members. Top of the pile is the death of former Zanla commander Josiah Magama Tongogara, whose widow recently cast...

HARARE - The festive season is a period marked by a hives of activities. Business tries to clear stock, ordinary people rushing to buy goods, state institutions are put to rest, and a spirit of togetherness and joy defines people’s faces....

HARARE - When armed police fired tears gas at Glen Norah parishioners during a church service in 2011, there was a huge outcry. The outcry was not a reaction to politics, but police heavy-handedness and insensitivity which was seen as an...

HARARE - The subsistence of political transitions are marked by political infighting, partisan positions and attempts to revert back to the old authoritarian rule especially if the undemocratic elements within the elite power arrangements read that a full scale democratic norm...

HARARE - While telecommunication technology has meant Zimbabwe catching up with the rest of the globe in the information superhighway, reports that cell phones have become a major contributor to our appalling road carnage are worrying. As reported in yesterday’s edition,...

HARARE - The Bull Eland observed family and friends over the Christmas and New Year holidays. Most seemed to be having a wonderful time, thought and said very little about politics save for the occasional but apt reminder of the...

HARARE - Nothing lasts forever. The young eventually become the old and they subsequently perish. Such is the law of nature. 1980 is pretty different from 2013. Dialectical materialism dictates that life is in constant motion and more particularly, that...

HARARE - Government’s move to stop the acquisition of farms covered under Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (Bippa) although long overdue is most welcome. This comes after 40 farmers successfully sued government for $25 million at the International Court for...

HARARE - The first time this column appeared in another newspaper a few years ago, I started off by explaining the title. Lovers of popular music, the Beatles in particular, will recognise it as a song from the Fab Four’s...

HARARE - The most important cultural event (though fading very fast) in Zimbabwe around August or early September is the rain making ceremony called “Mukwerera” in Shona language. The main ceremony is held at the Matopos in Matabeleland South province. This...

HARARE - One can hardly go a day in Zimbabwe without the topic of sanctions creeping — no, barging — into the conversation. I have often remarked that this is a topic I find little reason to dwell on, and usually...

HARARE - Reports coming out of Chitungwiza over circumstances surrounding the dismissal of close to a dozen-and-a-half municipal employees are a sad pointer to what has become a scourge of most local authorities. As we are made to understand, the group...

HARARE - The year 2012 is coming to an end and 2013 is drawing near. All indications are that life will not be any better in 2013, for the larger majority of Zimbabweans. The country faces severe food shortages, which...

HARARE - As the curtain comes down on the year 2012, Zimbabweans are faced with an uncertain and ominous year ahead, particularly pertaining to governance issues. While it is certain that the country is heading towards polls, it remains unclear...

HARARE - The ANC’s Mangaung Congress this week dominated the political media space. The Bull Eland observed that Zimbabweans were more interested in that electoral outcome than ongoings at home. This attitude reminded me of how things that happen next door...

HARARE - “It is no longer viable to say I have a degree because the information communication technology (ICT) revolution has surpassed everything.” These were the wise words of the energetic professor Arthur Mutambara calling for the revamping of the...