IN my desperate attempt to make an impression with my first issue as editor of The Standard, I asked my Facebook friends what they would want to read in the newspaper or how they thought we could make it more engaging.

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe on Thursday did what he should have done a long time ago: holding a no-holds barred meeting with editors at Zimbabwe House.

President Robert Mugabe told the media fraternity last week that he would stand in the next presidential election if his party Zanu PF asks him to.

ONGOING discourses around the controversial Empowerment Act again highlight what’s eating the fabric of our society.

ZIMBABWE has witnessed its first strike of all civil servants. 

A woman in the community in which I experienced my formative years had an unpleasant reputation. It was generally believed that she had certain talents in the dark arts.

HOW does Zanu PF reconcile its commitment to the National Healing process against threats by its youths during last Wednesday’s demonstration in Harare to “go back to June 2008”?

INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8, which falls on Monday next week. 

A friend was having trouble with his little boy.

ONE of the results of thirty years of Zanu PF rule has been the dominance of patronage as the way to get on in the world, rather than through hard work.

THE venue and timing of this year’s 21st February Movement celebrations must be a problem for the organisers.

THERE have been calls for government to start importing 500 000 tonnes of grain as it is obvious that this season has been disastrous.

THERE is an evident trajectory of change marked by the democratic sever from patterns of political authority in Zimbabwe signified on February 11, 2009.

THE timing of gazetting regulations under the Indigenization and Economic Empowerment Act of 2008 calling for foreign investors to cede 51% of their investment to “indigenous people” is most perplexing and appears hurried.

FOR some weeks the press has been regaled with reports about President Jacob Zuma’s recent marriage, his fifth, and the recent birth of his daughter out of wedlock, his twentieth child.

ONE afternoon, just over a decade ago, a young man sat across the table in my office at a Harare law firm. He had been sent down by one of my colleagues, who being higher up the food chain probably did not have much time to deal with small clients of this young man’s type.

AFRICA is not poor. It only has a preponderance of poor leaders. Since the first school term of 2010 started nearly a month ago, the government has not been able to resolve the problem of civil servants’ salaries.

WHAT are the most important challenges facing Zimbabwe today? Surely economic challenges are amongst the most important, in particular the high unemployment rate and the low productivity of the agricultural and industrial sectors.

REGIONAL and global electoral experiences present a positive link between political parties’ funding and the promotion of multi-party democracy.

RECENT manoeuvres by Zanu PF point to bigger surprises ahead. The purported reduction of the powers of the Prime Minister is a gross violation of the Global Political Agreement (GPA).