Vivvo CMS 4.0 http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/files.php?file= http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/ http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/Column/1239.html Column Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:47:00 +0000 OPINION - Today, 28 December, is the last Sunday of this unforgettable year in the history of not only Zimbabwe but the shaken global financial system. http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/Column/1231.html Column Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:11:00 +0000 ANALYSIS - The bank bailout appears to fulfill a definition of communism. “The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/Column/1228.html Column Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:36:00 +0000 OPINION - There will be very little to celebrate this Christmas in Zimbabwe if you’re not a Christian. There is very little food - my trousers are all hanging on me as I have lost so much weight in recent months. http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/Column/1207.html Column Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:58:00 +0000 MAKE UP YOUR MIND - (Watch the Video, top right corner) - Christopher Hitchens, the hard-drinking, chain-smoking British born American citizen; is the epitome for self-contradictions. He is an educated man. A highly educated intellectual who has often been listed amongst the most influential public intellectuals—in periodicals that influence the global zeitgeist. http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/Column/1202.html Column Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:55:00 +0000 EDITORIAL - In the last few years, Zimbabwe has suffered through an economic crisis that has impoverished the entire nation, the destruction of its agriculture sector, and the theft of elections that its citizens had hoped would end the country's mismanagement. http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/Column/1201.html Column Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:21:00 +0000 OPINION - On Friday, 19 December 2008, President Robert Mugabe addressing his party’s annual conference declared that "Zimbabwe is mine" and vowed never to surrender to calls to step down, as his political rival threatened to quit stalled unity government talks. http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/Column/1199.html Column Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:45:00 +0000 OPINION - A few weeks ago, Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Mugabe must be told he could be brought to the Hague if he refused to step down, to face trial for gross human rights violations in Zimbabwe. Desmond Tutu is the first high profile personality to propose such a stringent measure on Robert Mugabe. http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/Column/1197.html Column Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:13:00 +0000 FULL TEXT - Statement by the President of the Movement for Democratic Change, Mr. Morgan Tsvangirai, On the Humanitarian and Security Situation in Zimbabwe, Delivered in Gaborone, Botswana http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/Column/1195.html Column Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:39:00 +0000 OPINION - On a surface level the many and escalating international calls for Robert Mugabe ‘to go’ could not be more clear cut. Many would find tremendous satisfaction at the idea of a passionately hated Mugabe to be forced out of office one way or another. http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/Column/1194.html Column Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:11:00 +0000 OPINION - With its power-sharing agreement manifestly failing, Zimbabwe is on the brink of collapse, writes Mary Ndlovu. The author argues that in the face of an entrenched kleptocratic elite, life grows ever more difficult for the country’s population, a situation markedly exacerbated by a broader political culture of selfishness undermining the development of any form of effective collective action. http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/Column/1186.html Column Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:28:00 +0000 OPINION - The attempted assassination of Zimbabwe's air force chief Perence Shiri this week is seen as the fruit of increasingly bitter divisions in President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF. http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/Column/1182.html Column Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:57:00 +0000 The future of Zimbabwe hangs on the thread of a power-sharing deal that the opposition parties claim waters down their recent electoral successes and the government interprets as an agreement that allows the opposition - seen as fifth columnists for renewed colonisation - to have a major stake in government and reverse the gains of its revolution http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/Column/1179.html Column Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:50:00 +0000 COLUMN - AS 2008 draws to a close Zimbabweans are once again confronted with the reality of yet another bleak year ahead. A rougher and more turbulent year lies in front of us and it will be a long haul before relief. http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/Column/1150.html Column Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:54:00 +0000 OPINION - Who controls post-colonial Africa? As we approach the end of this remarkable year, we can only pause to think about the future of the continent at a time when the architecture of the global financial system has been shaken at its foundation. http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/Column/1127.html Column Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:30:00 +0000 ANALYSIS - Do not make the mistake of thinking the Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe is unhinged - he is simply trying to avert a war of his own making. To the uninitiated, Mugabe’s declaration that he had stopped the cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe may seem like the remarks of a deluded old tyrant living out his last day’s in a parallel world, hence this claim has been dramatically twisted as sacarsm by his spokeman. http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/Column/1122.html Column Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:07:00 +0000 BY NELSON CHAMISA - TODAY, it is exactly 90 days since the principals of the three major political parties signed a Global Political Agreement on September 11. http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/Column/1118.html Column Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:25:00 +0000 OPINION, Kigali — Whatever happened to justice? What is it about Africa and Leadership? I would love if somebody helped me to answer these questions? I would like to officially register my full support together with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga and US Secretary of State Condolezza Rice and others in calling for Mugabe's forceful removal from Zimbabwe's helm. http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/Column/1116.html Column Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:47:00 +0000 UK Secretary of State for International Development - The people of Zimbabwe have suffered long enough. They have had little choice but to stand by helplessly as a corrupt, anti-democratic and incompetent regime has brought their country to its knees. http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/Column/1115.html Column Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:38:00 +0000 ANALYSIS - The worsening Zimbabwe crisis has reached a "complex political emergency" that warrants the intervention of the United Nations, a senior research fellow based in South Africa said Thursday. http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/Column/1109.html Column Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:01:00 +0000 ANALYSIS - It is hard to think of a figure more reviled in the West than Robert Mugabe. Liberal and conservative commentators alike portray him as a brutal dictator, and blame him for Zimbabwe's descent into hyperinflation and poverty. The Zimbabwe Mail