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Articles

Cuba: Domestic health funding beacon

2 months ago | southerneye.co.zw | Paidamoyo Muzulu |Silas Nkala |Mpumelelo Moyo |Margaret Lubinda

FIDEL Castro’s Cuba was the only country that did not sneeze when United States President Donald Trump, without warning, cut foreign aid, threatening millions of people’ lives in the developing world who depended on donated drugs for survival. Trump, on Day One, issued an Executive Order that froze United States Agency for International Development (USAid) and other programmes that officially distributed aid to local and foreign institutions.
Biden lowers US moral high ground

Jan 24, 2025 | southerneye.co.zw | Paidamoyo Muzulu |Berita Kafesu |Bongile Moyo |Vanessa Gonye

THE United States has always presented itself as the paragon of democracy for the last 240 years. It had become the world prefect, but all this façade collapsed this week when President Joseph Biden pre-emptively pardoned his family members. Biden is a veteran politician. He spent over 50 years in public office. Of these 50, some 12 years were at the helm of Capitol Hill as vice-president and president of the US.
2030: A red herring

Jan 17, 2025 | newsday.co.zw | Paidamoyo Muzulu

ZANU PF since 2000 has always kept Zimbabweans perpetually in election mode. A mode that takes away the citizens’ focus from assessing the government’s performance. The 2030 term extension should be seen in the same frame, except that it is the last supper for political elite. President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been on record calling himself a constitutionalist and promising he will walk away in 2028 after serving two terms. Who then has this nefarious agenda to extend his term to 2030?
Councils to lose sports facilities

Dec 6, 2024 | newsday.co.zw | Paidamoyo Muzulu

THE world over, councils run and maintain public sports grounds for their residents. They have halls and theatres and also public gardens. This is all about to change in Zimbabwe, the government is ready to privatise public spaces. Developments over the years in cities and towns have been without plans and approvals, creating slums in the process. The simplest definition of a slum is an irregular sprawling housing estate without social amenities.
Real MPs stand up

Nov 29, 2024 | newsday.co.zw | Paidamoyo Muzulu

ZIMBABWEANS must brace for a bleak 2025 financial year. The State wants more of their pound of flesh or to use the common parlance — the State wants to squeeze the working class dry. Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion minister Mthuli Ncube on Thursday tabled the 2025 national budget before Parliament. That the State is bankrupt was plain to see in the numbers. The budget deficits and reliance on Treasury Bills was splashed in graphs.
The budget as a policy tool

Nov 8, 2024 | newsday.co.zw | Paidamoyo Muzulu

LIKE slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be removed by actions of human beings. National budgets must reflect our commitment to ending poverty and inequality,” to quote the late founding father of South Africa, Nelson Mandela. Mandela made the statement in a speech at the Make Poverty History Rally, Trafalgar Square, London on July 2, 2005.
The day Parly, Cabinet slept

Nov 1, 2024 | newsday.co.zw | Paidamoyo Muzulu

ZIMBABWEAN politicians and senior civil servants don’t care a hoot about development or the chaos they cause. They just think of their perks and nothing else as events last week proved. They conspired in their greediness and lack of servant leadership to let the clock run down on the legality of the local currency Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG). They were in no hurry. It was all hunky-dory even when the country ran technically with no currency for three weeks. No panic. No sense of urgency.
Dwarfs in giant robes

Oct 25, 2024 | newsday.co.zw | Paidamoyo Muzulu

ZIMBABWE is slowly engrossed with the Zanu PF people’s conference in Bulawayo, oblivious to developments in our eastern neighbour, Mozambique, and the ongoing BRICS meeting in Russia that could change world politics and economics. The Zanu PF conference started on Tuesday in Harare with the sitting of the politburo that was followed immediately by the central committee meeting at the party headquarters the next day.
The Chicago Boys reloaded

Oct 18, 2024 | newsday.co.zw | Paidamoyo Muzulu

FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has his ducks in a row. He is now simply executing his plan that he started in 2018 — getting Zimbabwe neoliberal the sole responsibility of the infamous Chicago Boys. Ncube has been clear from his first budget statement in 2018 that business (capital) will take the lead. It is slowly becoming clear that what capital wants, capital gets.
Zim’s establishment

Oct 11, 2024 | newsday.co.zw | Paidamoyo Muzulu

A QUARTER of a century after the fast-track land reform programme, the Zimbabwean government is in a disguised consolidation and remaking of a concrete and permanent political “establishment”. The concept of the “establishment” is well enunciated by British socialist writer, Owen Jones, in his book The Establishment. This is a book that talks about the people behind the power in Britain and how they exercise power to their favour.