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Can religion be harnessed as a political force for good? ZANU-PF election poster Photo: Graeme Williams “Africans are notoriously religious,” asserts John Mbiti in his book African Religions and Philosophy. However, upon conducting a scan of the socio-political landscape of the continent, one is led to ask, if Africans are so religious then why are they so notorious? Africa is notorious for its poverty, for its ethnic conflicts and civil wars, for its disease-scourged populations and for its constitutional delinquency. Why does the religious African have to search for heaven in Europe an...

Zim hurtling towards constitutional crisis Zimbabwe is hurtling into a constitutional crisis with the two recent amendments to the national constitution. Constitutional Amendment No 2 Bill has been hurried through at great speed: it was passed by the Senate on May 4, and just three days later, President Emmerson Mnangagwa assented to it, a circumstance that marked the commencement of the amendment’s life as a law. The unseemly rush, it appears, is linked to the imminent retirement of the current Chief Justice, Luke Malaba, whose biological clock strikes 70 years old this month. Seventy is t...

THE dictionary definition of a “dastard” is a mean, sneaking coward. Other definitions are wicked and cruel. Few would quarrel with these as a description of the UK government. As each day brings news of yet another scandal, it looks increasingly likely that the British state is unrecoverable as it sinks beneath a tsunami of sleaze. Even its most ardent admirers are losing faith. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it seems, has had the dreaded signal from the “men in suits” that the game is up. The Tory philosophy throughout the ages, and it helps explain their grip on power, is to...

Ciaran Martin was right at the heart of the British government – he was one of the architects of the 2014 referendum, the UK’s lead official on the constitution, and helped run GCHQ. Now, in an explosive intervention on the eve of the Scottish election, he launches a blistering attack blaming the Tory government for putting the union in jeopardy IF Scotland votes to break with the UK it will be the fault of Boris Johnson’s policy of “Know Your Place Unionism”, according to the influential UK Government official who was one of the architects of the 2014 independence referendum. I...

THE prospect of Alex Salmond returning to parliament has spread panic in the Holyrood chicken coop. It only took one opinion poll suggesting his new party, Alba, might deliver a handful of seats, to reveal the instincts of the Scottish political establishment: which is to shut him out by discrediting Holyrood's electoral system. The Liberal Democrats, who were co-architects of the Additional Member System back in the day, are now talking of scrapping it for the Single Transferable Vote hoping that would put Salmond back in his box. It wouldn't. Under STV, voters elect MSPs on large multi-...