AS A young Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) MP, I recall Webster Shamu coming to sit next to me one sunny afternoon in the Zimbabwe House of Assembly dining room sometime in April 2002. Shamu then MP for Chegutu, representing Zanu-PF said something to me then that six years later seems to have been a prophecy.

According to popular belief, the black man is the most endowed amongst men. For those, who live in the Diaspora, it isn't strange to hear questions about shoe sizes at women's get together - as women try to assuage the size of appendages that the men being discussed have.

There is absolutely no denial that the scourge of corruption, not only in government, but also in the private sector and the entire social fabric – has reached endemic levels and needs to be addressed without failure as a matter of now.