Swradioafrica Interview - The discussion on the programme Hot Seat this week looks at the effectiveness of the main MDC party in tackling the Mugabe regime.

OPINION: The just ended democratic convention is pregnant with lessons not only for the United States but for Zimbabwe, a country whose promise has been frozen in a state that even elections cannot change.

OPINION: The MDC's booing and jeering of Robert Mugabe as he gave his opening address at parliament was ill-advised. Sure, it will have delighted the western media, but it made the MDC look like boozers' league rejects, rather than a supposed government-in-waiting.

OPINION: What's the use of having elections if leaders can share power regardless of the outcome? Who needs elections if leaders can talk it out and share power?

OPINION: As the bill allowing for land expropriation is put on hold, Caiphus Kgosana finds that the fear of offending foreign investors will often override public interest.

On the streets of Kinshasa years ago, during a protest against the then-dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, I remember someone in the crowd cornering me, an American reporter, and demanding to know why the United States had not sent troops to intervene.

By the low standards of rulership we have unfortunately had to get accustomed to in Africa, Zambia’s just-deceased president Levy Mwanawasa was a cut above the norm.