Feb 11, 2026
0 National Other Politics

Constitutional Evolution in a Season of Stability

Zimbabwe is not discussing constitutional change in a vacuum. It is doing so at a moment when inflation has receded into single digits, when macroeconomic stability – fragile yet tangible – has returned, and when the country faces a question older than any amendment: how does a nation convert recovery into permanence?

The proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 3 – adopted by Cabinet as the latest refinement of the 2013 Constitution – seeks to recalibrate key aspects of executive selection, electoral administration and institutional design in pursuit of that permanence. It is neither a rupture with the constitutional order nor a symbolic gesture. It is an attempt to adjust the machinery of governance to the lived realities of a maturing State. More …

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Feb 7, 2026
0 National Politics

History as Ledger, Not Shrine – The Full Measure of Blessed Geza

Zimbabweans were first confronted not with solemn news, but with a grotesque political fabrication: a politically charged statement issued in the name of Blessed Geza on his X account, as if he were still alive, when by then he had been dead for at least three hours. That act was not an error of timing; it was cheap, cynical politics. It bears the unmistakable fingerprints of account handlers suspected to be aligned with Saviour Kasukuwere and his cohorts, who chose manipulation over decency. To weaponise a corpse for factional messaging is not activism. It is moral bankruptcy.

Only thereafter did the country receive confirmation of the passing of Blessed Geza, a liberation war veteran whose life intersected with Zimbabwe’s most consequential struggles and whose final years exposed the unresolved tension between revolutionary history and present-day responsibility. More …

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Feb 7, 2026
0 National Other

Trial by Headline Is Not Justice

Zimbabwe is not a lawless frontier where rumours are laundered into verdicts through repetition. It is a constitutional republic governed by institutions, procedures, and due process. Any attempt to suggest otherwise is not merely careless – it is reckless, destabilising, and dangerous.

This must be stated plainly at the outset. This is not an argument against investigation. Allegations of corruption, wherever they arise, must be examined thoroughly, independently, and without fear or favour by legally mandated authorities. If wrongdoing is established, the law must act decisively. No individual, no company, and no institution is immune. That principle is settled and non-negotiable. More …

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Feb 3, 2026
0 Other

TheNewsHawks: Who Audits the Auditors in Zimbabwe’s Media?

Moral exhibitionism has become a fashionable currency in Zimbabwe’s media ecosystem. TheNewsHawks trades heavily in it – deploying accusatory headlines, prosecutorial prose, and a tone that presumes verdict before evidence. It presents itself as a sentinel of probity, an incorruptible auditor of national life. But any institution that appoints itself prosecutor, judge, and jury must itself submit to examination. Scrutiny cannot be a one-way instrument.

For an outlet fixated on financial hygiene, TheNewsHawks has been conspicuously vague about its own genesis. Its sudden appearance as a fully resourced newsroom invites reasonable questions: who underwrote its establishment, and on what terms, before formal donor funding materialised? These are not idle speculations. They are precisely the lines of inquiry TheNewsHawks routinely applies to others. Transparency that flows only outward is not transparency; it is theatre.
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Feb 2, 2026
0 Economics International

The End of Dollar Absolutism: Why the Renminbi Is the Future

In excerpts published on January 31, 2026, in Qiushi (the official theoretical journal and news magazine of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China), President Xi Jinping articulated with clarity a long-gestating ambition: transforming the renminbi (RMB) into a strong currency capable of functioning as a global reserve. It constituted a deliberate policy signal rather than a symbolic gesture, a disciplined declaration aligned with the realities of a fragmenting international financial order.

China has pursued RMB internationalisation for more than a decade. What has changed is coherence. Xi’s framework defines a financial powerhouse through mutually reinforcing pillars: a strong currency, a strong central bank in the form of the People’s Bank of China, resilient financial institutions, international financial centres, rigorous supervision, and elite financial talent. This is institutional design, not improvisation. More …

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Feb 1, 2026
0 Development Economics National

What Does “US$15 Billion” at Mutapa Actually Represent?

The oft-repeated claim that Mutapa Investment Fund is a “US$15 billion fund” cab be deeply misinterpreted and risks manufacturing fiscal myths where none should exist.

That figure reflects the valuation of underlying investee companies – approximately US$16 billion gross and about US$15 billion at fair value as of 31 December 2024. It does not represent US$15 billion in cash, nor does it denote a liquid pool of capital available for deployment. There is no war chest, no discretionary balance waiting to be “bet.” More …

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