8 August 2006
I write as I please - biweekly column by Wilf Mbanga
Zimbabwe’s minister of finance, Herbert Murerwa, recently told Parliament that he had allocated an extra Z$7 trillion (of course that is now Z$7 billion as Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono this week knocked three zeros off the currency) to the spy agency, the CIO.
1 August 2006
I write as I please - biweekly column by Wilf Mbanga
President Robert Mugabe recently told members of his ruling central committee that he was planning to jettison corrupt leaders as they were giving the party a bad name.
24 July 2006
I write as I please - biweekly column by Wilf Mbanga
The Zimbabwean government has always applied the law very selectively. Different people committing similar offences are treated very differently.
4 July 2006
I write as I please - biweekly column by Wilf Mbanga
After successfully engineering a split in the opposition MDC, president Robert Mugabe has now turned his attention to the churches.
15 June 2006
I write as I please - biweekly column by Wilf Mbanga
Zimbabweans are increasingly worried about the mortgaging of their country to the Chinese. President Robert Mugabe’s Look East Policy has merely resulted in Zimbabwe becoming a dumping ground for inferior Chinese products.
29 May 2006
I write as I please - biweekly column by Wilf Mbanga
After six years of the widely-condemned ‘quiet diplomacy’ South Africa President Thabo Mbeki has finally admitted – not in so many words mind you – that it has failed to achieve anything of significance in solving the Zimbabwean problem.
5 May 2006
I write as I please - biweekly column by Wilf Mbanga
With mounting internal pressure, the government of Zimbabwe feels under siege, which compels them to rely on the armed forces in order to quell any popular uprising.
20 April 2006
I write as I please - biweekly column by Wilf Mbanga
It would appear that President Robert Mugabe has at last got the message that the people of Zimbabwe want him to go away.
11 April 2006
I write as I please - biweekly column by Wilf Mbanga
The brave women of WOZA have, over the past few years, gathered on numerous occasions. On Valentine’s Day last year they took to the streets, armed only with red roses, pleading for Love instead of hatred.
20 March 2006
I write as I please - biweekly column by Wilf Mbanga
The arms cache 'discoveries' in Mutare is the latest in a series that served Mugabe well in the past. The tactic disrupts the opposition and spreads fear and alarm.
It has worked sometimes, as in the case of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu) in 1987.
