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November 28, 2007

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Tsvangirai’s Prime Ministerial baby mamas

There's something incongruous about how Zimbabwean independent media journalists at home and in the Diaspora are reporting the debacle surrounding Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's marriage-that-allegedly-never-was. Whilst the state-controlled Herald has, predictably, gleefully reported on the 'union' and its attendant soap operatic saga, the independent press has bizarrely preoccupied itself with efforts to ‘uncover’ the ‘truth’ about the origins of claims that Tsvangirai had married his lover, Locadia Tembo, a wealthy businesswoman hailing from a traditionally ZANU PF family and whose sister is an MP in President Mugabe’s party.
Newzimbabwe.com published a story entitled The curious case of Tsvangirai’s marriage on Thursday which sought to reconcile the gaps between the Tembo family’s claims of a marriage between their daughter and the Prime Minister on the one hand, and denials of such a union by Tsvangirai’s spokesman Luke Tamborinyoka on the other. The story qu…

MDC-T counts cost of downgrading diaspora party structures

Foresight is a great thing for policymakers to possess. Whilst ensconced in the luxury of the Inclusive Government, the MDC-T thought it best to downgrade all its foreign assemblies from the status of constituent provinces into associate assemblies.

Predictably, the move caused no small disquiet among the party faithful in the diaspora, not least because of their sustained material contribution to the party during the struggle years. This came on the heels of the then newly installed Prime Minister's unpopular call for a reverse exodus to the mother country when he addressed Zimbabweans at London's Southwark Cathedral on his maiden trip to the UK after assuming the role in 2009. He was roundly booed, thereafter deciding to turn his back on what he deemed a prodigal flock.

Fast forward a short five years later, and the party is not only out of the comfort of both the inclusive government and the self-assuredness of imminent exclusive control of the Zimbabwean state and its res…

Tsitsi Masiyiwa to give keynote address at Zimachievers 2018

Renowned philanthropist and social entrepreneur Tsitsi Masiyiwa will give the keynote address at this year's edition of the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards UK, to be held on Saturday 12 May 2018 at the Grange City Hotel, London.

Tsitsi, who is married to Zimbabwe's most successful entrepreneur, Strive Masiyiwa, has devoted much of her life to empowering disadvantaged children through education and harnessing technology to create employment opportunities for young people.

For nearly two decades, Masiyiwa has dedicated her life’s work to orphaned and vulnerable children in Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Burundi and South Africa, supporting them with basic education and carrying them through to college and vocational training. She has also been involved in identifying and nurturing young talent by selecting hundreds of gifted African students, and offering them scholarships through high school to university, including top overseas universities such as Yale, Harvard and Oxford.

This year's ed…

Zim needs democracy not managed stability, Chamisa tells British

MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has warned the British government that overlooking crucial democratic reforms in favour of managing political stability in Zimbabwe could lead to post-election instability.

Speaking at Chatham House in London on May 8, Chamisa expressed concern over what he said was the inclination of the British government in Zimbabwe “to align with one political party against another.”

“We have seen that there has been a bit of a shift on the part of the British government in terms of focusing more on political stability and trade and commerce at the expense of democracy. But that is a false narrative, you can never have stability without democracy,” he said.

“We expect Britain and the EU to speak for free and fair elections. There’s a very disturbing trend in the context of the British government in Zimbabwe. We’re seeing the inclination to align with one political party against another. That is disturbing, particularly in terms of the issue of ju…

Is President Mugabe aware of his government's legislative agenda?

The opening of Parliament and the President's speech are key moments in the life of a Parliamentary democracy. Following on from the State of the Nation speech which lays out the government's proposed agenda in response to the state of the nation, the speech at the opening of Parliament lays out the practical steps that the President and his government are taking to bring into effect the proposals laid out in the State of the Nation address.

It spells out the government's legislative agenda ie what laws the government proposes to pass in order to allow it to action the things it has promised to addreas or deliver.

So the point is, that agenda is a live and absorbing process for any leader. It will have seized and animated party and cabinet meetings, and by the time a speech is prepared to capture the agreed agenda of practical actions, the whole government is braced for the work ahead. The President's set-piece speech signifies the government's announcement kuti y…

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