This week, Walter Magaya a leader of one of the numerous Pentecostal churches claims he partnered with some Indians and has come up with an HIV cure. He claims he has tested it on 14 people. With whose authority?
The election promises left millions with extreme optimism for a better tomorrow where standards of life were expected to improve. However, the current economic and political setting is pointing to a less positive direction.
Assuming that the recent pronouncements by the Ministry of Finance’s short-lived Communications Taskforce chairman, William Mutumanje, are anything to go by, one might conclude that Zimbabwe’s problems are not solved by rolling heads at the top but through a deliberate system overhaul.
Zimbabwe’s surrogate currency – bond notes – which came into effect towards the end of 2016 as a measure by then-president Robert Mugabe’s administration to stem cash challenges, has now become an unnecessary evil which has to be gotten rid of as a matter of urgency.  
If you were expecting a honeymoon period after the Zimbabwean elections, you were dead wrong.
If there is a politician in Zimbabwe who is not only strategic but has also mastered the art of politics, that individual could be none other than Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga.
Looking at how Zimbabwe conducted her elections yesterday, the first ever since the ouster of the longtime iron-fist ruler and former president Robert Mugabe in November last year, there is no doubt that the political situation in the country has changed for the better.
According to the World Economic Global Gender Gap Report 2017, Rwanda has one of the highest rates of female parliamentarians for the past decade due to quotas that stipulate that women must make up 30% of parliamentarians.
Regardless, over the past two decades, the MDC has complied with the laws of Zimbabwe and used the courts to settle disputes, be they electoral or otherwise. But, the result has been the same - a consistent selective application of the law and judgements consistent with a captured judiciary.
By Alex Magaisa A growing feature of the on-going electoral process is that those raising questions are now being cast as the problem. The legitimate issues they are raising are being trivialized and ridiculed, even when they have a bearing on the credibility of the electoral process. It’s akin to a scenario in which someone complains of abuse but society and the system trivializes their complaints, even asking them what they might have done to invite the abuse. Many a time, society asks victims to