One night in the House of Commons, Winston Churchill, after imbibing a few drinks, stumbled into Bessie Braddock, a corpulent MP from Liverpool.
WHETHER you are the woman selling tomatoes on the street or the venerable economics professor at the university, every Zimbabwean knows that the main cause of inflation was the wild printing of paper money. Paper money increased by 400 000% in August 2008 and by 2 million% by February 2009.
Much has been made of the country's image-perception management programme and how it is the panacea to attracting more tourists to Zimbabwe ahead of next year's soccer extravaganza. But the recent announcements by nations coming to the World Cup in South Africa and the Orange Africa Cup of Nations in Angola suggest otherwise.
I am not a street activist, but more from the irritable pool of intellectual key-punchers who hope that President Robert Mugabe and his cronies are literate enough to notice how collective resentment and hatred for dictatorship is better expressed in the written word. I say this because there is a fallacy pervading Zimbabwean society that the number of times and period that one is beaten and ...
WHEN the Minister of Finance, Tendai Biti delivered the country's budget, I was away in Cape Town attending a conference on among other things, harnessing the capacity and opportunities presented by the Zimbabwean Diaspora for the reconstruction of Zimbabwe's fragile economy. The business of that conference and the inevitable demands on time explains the truancy of this column from these pages ...
THIS article is in response to Dr. James Nsaba Buturo's quest for public opinion on the practice of corruption on WBS television. Of the many challenges confronting Uganda, none is arguably more important than the one of eradicating corruption.
AS world leaders in Copenhagen deliberate about issues related to climate change, some scholars have argued that there is no evidence that human activities caused global warming.
THE Cranes yesterday won a record eleventh CECAFA title in an unprecedented 15th appearance in a final of Africa's oldest competition.
Together, we would have been assessing the year 2009 in retrospect today, as I promised last week.
There is no time more auspicious to demand, from our leaders, an immediate action plan to revamp our health sector, as now when President Umaru Yar Adua has, for two weeks, commanded the headlines of both local and international headlines over his search for a reliable and lasting cure for an illness which has remained a subject of controversy to his subjects.
MR MALVERN TOM of Mabvuku, vividly remembers the early 1980s when sleek vehicles and well-dressed men and ladies made weekend sojourns to his home suburb and adjacent Tafara as they patronised Hunters Bar, Tafara SunBird, Tafara Bottle Store and Dombojena among other outlets.
Last weekend, Vice President John Dramani Mahama was at the airport in Accra to welcome the first batch of Hajj pilgrims back home.
How time flies. It's three weeks now since President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua flew to Saudi Arabia for, we were told, medical checks. After the President had spent two days at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Jeddah, his spokesman, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, released a statement from the Chief Physician to the President, Dr. Salisu Banye, informing us that Yar'Adua had pericarditis - ...
The world is painting itself blue, flags are raised, balloons sent in the air bearing messages for the 12-day climate change conference in Copenhagen - Denmark.
I have in the past been quite critical of Prime Minister Raila Odinga. While that will not change - because I am a critic of society - I must admit that Mr Odinga is a changed man.
Why are there many people waiting at bus stages this morning? The two people with me in the vehicle last Wednesday seemed not to understand why the numbers of people waiting for transport by the roadside would be of interest to anyone.
John K (not his real name) suffers from a condition known as Major Depressive Disorder. This is characterised by periods of intensely low mood and loss of interest in usual activities, as well as poor sleep, poor appetite, impaired concentration and memory, feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness and even suicidal thoughts and plans.
Kenya marked 46 years of independence on Saturday. And, as President Kibaki said in his address to the nation, those years have seen the country surmount many challenges and achieve remarkable development in some spheres.
In the history of nation-states, there is always excitement to be part of its historical epochs. People who lived then will remember when John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama were elected Presidents, when man first landed on the moon, when the Berlin Wall came down, when Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and when Saddam Hussein was toppled. In the crowds at these events, you can see the tranced ...
Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane, or even the United States. It is the cow. Unfortunately, the beast will not be having a seat at Copenhagen to explain how it will mend its ways.
Is there any basis for opposing John Michuki's anti-noise rules on religious grounds? Not that I know of. I have read the scriptures of practically all theological systems. But I have never met even a single verse saying that the deity can hear you only if you roar like a hundred Jeremiahs.
"LüDINGHAUSEN? Where is that?" asked President Rupiah Banda of Zambia at the end of the interview which the president had kindly granted in Zambia's capital, Lusaka in October.
For any one who is concerned about the values and prevailing spirit of brotherhood in our society, the last few weeks must be a jolting experience. The very noble values of deep respect for life and elevated spirit humanism which have been the bedrock of our shared culture as a people came under attack as it were, all in the name of politics.
Following the breakdown of talks at the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen over leaked documents indicating that wealthier nations would be given more power in future climate change negotiations, those monitoring the progress of the ongoing climate change negotiations have realised the unfortunate fact that governments ,especially those from developing countries, may not be ...
BUDGETS, at the three tiers of government, represent annual monetary provisions deliberately packaged and targeted at poverty reduction, wealth creation, accelerated provision of physical and social infrastructures such as energy, water, roads, health and transportation needs of the people. Such budgets which are expected to improve the economic well-being of the nation, have w become an annual ...
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