By Theo Zenou Despite a chequered history, America’s 41st president was a statesman of the old school. We could still learn from him. There’s a story that tells you everything you need to know about George HW Bush, 41st president of the United States, who died on 30 November aged […]
By Andrew MacAskill Beleaguered British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government and the European Union should begin planning for a second Brexit referendum because parliament cannot agree on a divorce deal and voters will be asked to break the deadlock, opposition lawmakers said. Less than four months until the United Kingdom […]
A second referendum is now the only way out of this car crash By Polly Toynbee What cowardice. She roused the country to the great climax of Tuesday’s parliamentary vote on her EU withdrawal deal, only to beat a retreat – yet another fateful error in Theresa May’s miserable, blundering […]
Violent protest in Paris has left analysts contemplating what this could mean for embattled President Emmanuel Macron, amid a resurgence in populist politics ahead of European elections next year. Images of riots, protests and violence over fuel tax rises in France have gripped the headlines in recent weeks and appeared […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday it was unfortunate that 70 years after the declaration of human rights was adopted, many South Africans were still not afforded decent living conditions. Ramaphosa was delivering the keynote address at the 70th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights, held at the […]
A congressional hearing on Zimbabwe in the United States capital, Thursday, revealed the continued U.S. interest in Zimbabwe, but also the insidious suspicions against the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa by U.S. officials, following his disputed July 30 election victory. Outgoing Republican U.S. Senator from Arizona, Jeff Flake, who is […]
This revealing memoir offers new insights into her upbringing on the south side of Chicago and the highs and lows of life with Barack Obama By Afua Hirsch Before I tell you how much I love Michelle Obama, let me tell you what I have against her. The former first […]
Brexit—and one nation’s bewildering battle to wake from the nightmare of history By Fintan O’Toole In an early chapter of Ulysses, James Joyce’s alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, goes to collect the wages he is due for some part-time teaching in a Dublin school. The opinionated headmaster Deasy talks to him […]
By Tinashe L. Chimedza & Tamuka C. Chirimambowa We are back again to where Dambudzo Marechera was screaming, in an Oracle to the Povo, drawing harrowing pictures “Of lean harried squatters’, ‘And fat pompous armed overlords’. But we must leave the Vengere anarchist and look far, into the abdomen of […]
By Brian T Kagoro All political transitions (without exception) whether occasioned by revolution, externally driven or resulting from an election, are perfected through dialogue between the contending forces in society (eg Mandela-De Klerk, Patriotic Front and Rhodesian Front, PF Zapu and Zanu PF Unity Accord). Dialogue is the result of […]
