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Chamisa - Setting the record straight

Dear @daddyhope I am making this response out of turn with my usual approach not to engage individuals personally. I last spoke to you in 2022, soon after the death of Dr. Alex Magaisa. We stopped talking after there had been a leaked…

Published: 20 Aug 2026 at 07:01hrs | by Nelson Chamisa

When a leader doesn't sympathize with his own people's tragedy, no one else in the region does

If you don't love your own, no one else will.There is a profound, aching betrayal in watching regional diplomacy play out while a nation bleeds. To directly receive my articles please join my WhatsApp Channel on: https://whatsapp.com/…

Published: 18 Aug 2026 at 07:36hrs | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Ash, Bonfire and Bureaucracy: A Night at Beitbridge

A personal commentary on crossing home from South Africa into ZimbabweThere is a particular kind of tiredness that settles into the bones of a traveller at Beitbridge - not the ordinary fatigue of a long journey, but something heavier, sha…

Published: 17 Aug 2026 at 08:01hrs | by Josiah Mucharowana

A prophecy coming to pass doesn’t automatically mean the prophet is of God

The truth shall set us free. There is a most dangerous misunderstanding in contemporary Christianity.To directly receive my articles please join my WhatsApp Channel on: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaqprWCIyPtRnKpkHe08It is the as…

Published: 16 Aug 2026 at 21:14hrs | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Poor disaster management plan

The sentiments by the local government minister Daniel Garwe about the Lake Kariba boat disaster expose the inefficiency of this government in disaster management plans.It is not enough to inform mourners at Nyamhunga Stadium that the pres…

Published: 16 Aug 2026 at 21:11hrs | by Leonard Koni

Xenophobia is a smoke screen: ANC politicians must remove themselves from politics

It is not metaphorically expressed to demand that the entire ANC political elite recuse themselves from the South African political space. They failed black people dismally. We are sick of their British accents, including Dr Naledi Pandor.…

Published: 16 Aug 2026 at 20:58hrs | by Nomazulu Thata

Zambia's election numbers deserve more than a dismissive explanation

There comes a point in any election when politics must give way to mathematics.As Zambia processes the results of the 13 August 2026 general elections, questions surrounding voter turnout deserve serious scrutiny—not because a numerical di…

Published: 16 Aug 2026 at 15:09hrs | by Staff reporter

Has CAA3 opened a path to State House for Kudakwashe Tagwirei?

There is a moment in every succession struggle when the future stops being a date on a calendar and becomes a fight over who gets to rewrite the calendar.Zimbabwe reached that moment in July, when President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed Consti…

Published: 15 Aug 2026 at 18:54hrs | by Gabriel Manyati

Afrikaners building white‑owned university in Orania: Naledi Pandor cries racism!

South African xenophobia exposed a region in South Africa, Orania, a place exclusively for white South Africans. Black South Africans allowed to reside in this exclusive and posh area are domestic workers or construction workers. In this e…

Published: 13 Aug 2026 at 22:43hrs | by Nomazulu Thata

When Nyaminyami the River god gets angry or is angered

In Tonga (BaTonga/Batonga) folklore of the Zambezi Valley (Zimbabwe and Zambia), Nyaminyami (also Nyami Nyami or Nyaminyami)—the powerful river spirit or god, often depicted as a large serpent with a fish or dragon-like head—manifests ange…

Published: 13 Aug 2026 at 09:43hrs | by Historical Facts

Sengezo Tshabangu: The man who reshaped Zimbabwe's opposition

ALMOST three years after a little-known opposition activist was filmed protesting outside the Bulawayo High Court over the Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC)'s candidate selection process, Sengezo Tshabangu has become one of the most conse…

Published: 11 Aug 2026 at 06:57hrs | by Staff reporter

What will Makandiwa do when Chivayo's house of cards comes crushing down?

When greed and lust take hold, sanity and reason disappear.In Zimbabwe, proximity to power has long functioned as an unwritten immunity shield, protecting a favored few from any meaningful scrutiny regarding their sudden and unexplained so…

Published: 10 Aug 2026 at 08:36hrs | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

See the bigger picture: A call for hope, faith and national reflection

As Zimbabweans take time to rest, travel and spend precious moments with family and friends during this holiday, we should also pause and reflect on the bigger picture of our lives and the future of our nation.The Bible tells us in Genesis…

Published: 09 Aug 2026 at 04:48hrs | by Tatenda Hwari

The children the forms forgot - Why Zimbabwe must write laws that hold every child

There are children born among us carrying both the dawn and the dusk in one body.We do not have a name for them on our birth certificates.We do not have a seat for them in our classrooms, a team for them on our netball courts, or a cell fo…

Published: 08 Aug 2026 at 21:41hrs | by Dr Masimba Mavaza

When the law and the knife decide too soon - On intersex persons, the pain of early choices, and why the law must protect them

There are children born with two songs in one chest.In hospitals they are called intersex. In old books, hermaphrodite. the two-in-one."The Difference Between Gay and Intersex. Intersex is about how a person is born. An intersex perso…

Published: 08 Aug 2026 at 16:31hrs | by Dr Masimba Mavaza

The Khumalo/Tshuma funeral united a tribally divided nation

It was one of those rare occasions when the nation came together to mourn the passing of the Khumalo/Tshuma family. The nature of their death took and shook the nation to its core. Did such a horror have to take place for us to realise tha…

Published: 06 Aug 2026 at 19:37hrs | by Nomazulu Thata

In defence of Mnangagwa

The nation was understandably aghast this week when it emerged that police were allegedly preparing to arrest Apostle Batsirai Java for the supposedly treasonous act of discussing political gossip.Quite whether there is any evidence that J…

Published: 06 Aug 2026 at 12:33hrs | by Kukurigo

God Is in Our Story: A Message of Hope for Every Heart and Our Nation

Scripture: "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." — Hebrews 13:5 (NIV)Life often presents moments that leave us questioning tomorrow. There are seasons of disappointment, uncertainty, financial hardship, sickness, and broken d…

Published: 02 Aug 2026 at 07:31hrs | by Tatenda Hwari

Air Zimbabwe's deafening silence is pissing me off even more!

I am genuinely pissed off with Air Zimbabwe over this.I have been one of the people publicly defending the return of the direct Harare–London service. I welcomed it. I celebrated it. I took plenty of flak from people who told me I was…

Published: 01 Aug 2026 at 07:55hrs | by KingJayZim

The voice of the people is the voice of god - ED

The protests scheduled for July 31, 2026, which have been approved by the majority of Zimbabweans, do not necessarily need government approval because the same government has been refusing to give a green light to peaceful demonstrations w…

Published: 31 Jul 2026 at 19:02hrs | by Leonard Koni

South Africa exports $30bn goods to Africa, then expels her children

South Africans are pointing their anger at the people in front of them: street traders, domestic workers, informal labourers, shopkeepers and desperate jobseekers. Migrants are treated as if they woke up one morning and decided to invade S…

Published: 31 Jul 2026 at 16:31hrs | by The Africa Report, Newton Kanhema

Chiwenga and Chamisa camps should unite their fire on Mnangagwa, not each other

In my view, I struggle to understand why activists aligned with Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and those supporting opposition leader Nelson Chamisa are expending so much energy fighting each other when they ultimately share the same …

Published: 30 Jul 2026 at 22:08hrs | by Lance Guma

From Republic to Kingdom: Is Zimbabwe asking the wrong Constitutional question?

For nearly half a century, Zimbabwe has pursued the republican model inherited at independence, hoping that constitutional amendments, elections and successive governments would eventually deliver prosperity, accountability and national re…

Published: 29 Jul 2026 at 13:06hrs | by Staff reporter

Former Air Zimbabwe employee casts aspersions on airline deal

I spent fourteen years at Air Zimbabwe. I worked there when we still had a maintenance hangar that functioned, when our crews trained at Boeing in Seattle, when we flew six times a week to London and nobody questioned whether our aircraft …

Published: 28 Jul 2026 at 11:12hrs | by Former Air Zimbabwe employee

Why I slowed down once before - And why Zimbabweans must choose courts over the streets now

I went to school with a man who now sits as a serving Justice in Zimbabwe. Years later, our paths crossed again - not as classmates this time, but as a journalist and the judge who once tried to warn him off a story.That encounter, and the…

Published: 26 Jul 2026 at 21:45hrs | by Sam Wezhira

Crackdown on immigrant drivers puts SA cross-border trade at risk

South Africa's cross-border transporters are facing the wrath of law enforcement as the country clamps down on illegal immigration, with the lucrative Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) route the most affected, forcing the industry to …

Published: 25 Jul 2026 at 09:17hrs | by Kabelo Khumalo

#CAA3 a national disaster

The signing of #CAB3 by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to #CAA was another notorious and political blunder made by this regime to consolidate power and create a dynasty in the disguise of developing a nation.Real leadership in a democratic n…

Published: 23 Jul 2026 at 19:33hrs | by Leonard Koni

Are we living in alignment with God's ways?

To those in the Word, who follow the Word, the world has never been so close to the 'end times' than it is now.Occurrences and events on the ground say it all. The tragic and heart-wrenching massive earthquake in Venezuela is a big nudge o…

Published: 23 Jul 2026 at 19:29hrs | by Tondo Murisa

As long as the ruling elite reject ZiG, no amount of propaganda will render it Zimbabwe’s sole currency

How can a nation trust the food its own cook refuses to eat?The state media machine is at it again, painting a picture of an economy “inching closer to sole use of ZiG.”If you value my social justice advocacy and writing, please consider …

Published: 19 Jul 2026 at 17:32hrs | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

When Zimbabweans push back: What would SA do if Beitbridge shut them out?

The current "Abahambe" climate in South Africa has forced thousands of Zimbabweans to return home, many of them abruptly and under hostile conditions. But imagine, for a moment, that these same Zimbabweans decided to march to Beitbridge Bo…

Published: 17 Jul 2026 at 09:00hrs | by Sukuzukuduma

What is the purpose of African peer review institutions if the welfare of ordinary citizens is secondary?

Nothing screams hypocrisy quite like pretending to care for the people.There is a recurring theater in African diplomacy that would be comical if its consequences were not so deadly.If you value my social justice advocacy and writing, plea…

Published: 16 Jul 2026 at 12:30hrs | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Zimbabwe crush Bangladesh to continue winning streak

Zimbabwe's senior men's cricket team made an impressive start to the three-match Twenty20 International (T20I) series after defeating Bangladesh by 32 runs at Queens Sports Club on Wednesday to take a 1-0 lead.The Chevrons produced a disci…

Published: 16 Jul 2026 at 09:18hrs | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's future lies in strong local value chains

Zimbabwe's economic debate has, for decades, been dominated by one recurring question: How do we industrialise?The answers have often focused on attracting foreign direct investment, securing international credit lines or expanding exports…

Published: 16 Jul 2026 at 09:14hrs | by Staff reporter

Will South Africa's anti-migrant wave reduce Zimbabwe's diaspora lifeline?

The resurgence of anti-migrant sentiment in South Africa has understandably triggered anxiety in Zimbabwe. Images of demonstrations, calls for tighter immigration enforcement, and reports of migrants fleeing certain communities have prompt…

Published: 16 Jul 2026 at 07:05hrs | by Tayo Pay

Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe is not the Zimbabwe we have always known

One of the unforgivable sins committed by Mnangagwa was recalibrating our national discourse. The Zimbabwe of Mnangagwa is not the Zimbabwe we have always known. This one is deeply divided, polarized, and toxic. Our understanding of p…

Published: 14 Jul 2026 at 19:11hrs | by Thabani Mpofu

Mapfumo risks falling at the very last hurdle of an otherwise illustrious and heroic race

The love of money has led to the demise of many.The decision by Thomas “Mukanya” Mapfumo to accept a staggering US$1 million performance contract funded by controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo has sent shockwaves through the hearts o…

Published: 13 Jul 2026 at 22:50hrs | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Can a president who goes back on his word ever be trusted?

Trust, like the soul, never returns once it is gone.When a nation's leader repeatedly looks into the eyes of his citizens and pledges absolute fidelity to the supreme law of the land, his word becomes the ultimate currency of governance.If…

Published: 08 Jul 2026 at 22:32hrs | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

SADC is to blame for the migration crisis

It is impossible to deny the existence of the migration crisis. Denial is not a choice.The issue is that African leaders are reluctant to talk about the reasons behind migration.African leadership must be able to address the complex proble…

Published: 07 Jul 2026 at 10:49hrs | by Leonard Koni

Real wealth is never kept in cash: The flaunting of millions in Zimbabwe is not a sign of success but of criminality

When a country becomes a huge crime scene, it is clear to everyone.The public display of immense wealth by individuals close to Zimbabwe's ruling elite has transcended mere opulence; it has become a grotesque theater of impunity. If y…

Published: 07 Jul 2026 at 10:47hrs | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Tribute to Roy Barreto: Zimbabwe’s football scientist

THE death of Roy Barreto is a huge loss to Zimbabwean football. He was a coach par excellence — a gifted football mind whose influence went far beyond the touchline.He was a true student and scientist of the game, paying meticulous attenti…

Published: 02 Jul 2026 at 13:06hrs | by Charles Mhlauri

Mnangagwa's 2030 ambition 1 signature away

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is now one signature away from securing an extension of his stay in office to 2030 after Parliament approved the controversial Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3.The Bill, which passed both houses of Parliamen…

Published: 30 Jun 2026 at 16:48hrs | by Staff reporter

The unseen hands controlling how you use your cash

Most people think they're in control of their money. You budget, you plan, you spend. But if we dig deeper, the truth is more uncomfortable: much of your spending has little to do with logic or need. What really drains your pockets are sil…

Published: 30 Jun 2026 at 12:57hrs | by Clement T Dlamini

Is there institutional government cover-up in the death of my mother?

Nothing is worse than a state that treats death as an inconvenience.There is a cold, calculated threshold where administrative delay ceases to be a symptom of state incompetence and transforms into an active, protective instrument of a cov…

Published: 29 Jun 2026 at 21:22hrs | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Exploring our own country no longer gives Zimbabweans genuine enjoyment

IN last week's column on this page, I examined issues related to dining out and, in that Epicurean column that appears on alternate weeks, I shall continue reviewing restaurants around Zimbabwe. In the weeks between, this column, The Trave…

Published: 28 Jun 2026 at 21:03hrs | by Stan Higgins

Unquenched appetite for a one-party state

ZIMBABWE appears forever caught in a cycle of promise and retreat. Periods of optimism are regularly followed by disappointment, leaving the country politically exhausted, economically fragile and socially strained. Progress seems visible …

Published: 28 Jun 2026 at 21:03hrs | by Wilson

Why men really leave: a frank reflection on diaspora divorce

Disclaimer: This article is not to glorify infidelity, shame women, or blame men. Sin is sin, and a person is responsible for their choices. The aim here is education, awareness, and prevention: to name patterns many couples in the diaspor…

Published: 28 Jun 2026 at 06:06hrs | by Dr Masimba Mavaza

Trials and tribulations of being a foreigner

After working hard and earning R200, a mother came home to find a group of women singing loudly "ABAHAMBE." The group yelled at her, demanding that all foreigners leave South Africa by June 30, 2026.The threats were getting louder and loud…

Published: 26 Jun 2026 at 08:29hrs | by Leonard Koni

Non-monetized incentives for civil servants: Who exactly is benefitting?

The Zimbabwean government, through Public Service Commission has made pledges to unveil non-monetory benefits for civil servants.  Mostly, this has been hyped as a success, with headlines about the workers smiling all way to the benef…

Published: 23 Jun 2026 at 05:04hrs | by Mathew Unique Dube

Mugabe: The most educated Zimbabwean of all time?

Robert Gabriel Mugabe is widely regarded as one of the most academically qualified political leaders in African history and is frequently cited in public discourse as one of Zimbabwe's most educated public figures. Although it is difficult…

Published: 22 Jun 2026 at 19:20hrs | by Staff reporter

The mathematics of blame - Ethnic scapegoating and CAB3

The passage of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 3) Bill (CAB3) through the National Assembly last week represented a watershed moment in Zimbabwe’s recent political history given the far-reaching political, electoral and governa…

Published: 22 Jun 2026 at 10:35hrs | by Thembelani Gumede

Opinion

Bully karateka arrested after parking marshals confrontation

National Sports Stadium to host international matches

Woman gets 30‑month sentence for drug dealing

2 Zimbabweans arrested at SANDF fuel checkpoint

13 in-laws hunt, kill man in beans dispute

Balaclava gang makes off with $1 100

Bulawayo eyes medical tourism

Bulawayo residents demand road repairs

Mahere demands Nehanda officials face arrest

Kidnapped at 5, found alive after 13 years

Holiday lessons spark outcry

Baby mama targets ex-MP's wallet

Woman loses US$7 000 in gold claim scam

Botswana births outside wedlock rise as marriages plummet

Mines Ministry demands US$31m in arrears

RBZ rejects calls to cut 30% export surrender

Mine seeks to relocate graves

Zanu PF uncovers 236 555 membership errors

'Drug Trafficker' jumps off moving truck

Mnangagwa's in-laws detained at airport

50 bogus estate agents target home buyers

Zanu PF pushes to align party constitution with Mnangagwa's 2030 term

Mnangagwa's govt steps in to stop blitz on e-hailing platforms

Minister Mhona defends Kariba ferry use

Plumtree bans unregulated building aggregates

Harare faces stadium crisis

Mnangagwa urged to fire non-performing teachers

Wicknell pledges US$1 500 to junior MPs

City of Harare warns of fresh demolitions

Nehanda death toll rises to 97

Zimbabwean prisoners in SA could soon serve time back home

Woman's US$1 796 maintenance claim rejected

City doubles littering fine to US$50

Tshabangu renews Zanu PF dialogue push

Zimbabwe says IMF targets on track

SA, Zimbabwe prioritise third Limpopo bridge

ED Block officially handed over at Millennium Heights

Mnangagwa's daughter-in-law granted bail

Spaniard unveiled as new Warriors coach

Zimbabwe govt admits medicines stolen from public hospitals

Mnangagwa's wife to host Doek and Zambia Drive in Bulawayo

RBZ injects ZiG600m into economy

Chief Murinye acquitted of extortion charges

Man denies kidnapping former workmate

Guvamatanga calls for local authorities to be fixed

Treasury rejects tax compliance crisis claims

Car dealer granted bail over US$624 000 fraud allegations

'Dead' man emerges from rubbish dump

Police hunt man over US$161 500 vehicle scam

Mapeza challenges media to expose poor officiating

Zimbabwe call for peace in Gaza

SDA pastor fired over indecent assault

Chiwenga, doctors in crunch meeting

Chiwenga launches African Dream boat

Internet key to economic development

Access to information, media freedom in the digital age

Campaign to extradite Ethiopia's dictator Mengistu from Zimbabwe

NAMA award winners - list

Zimbabwe deploys military in newfound oilfields

Egypt Dzinemunhenzva sues ZEC over 'unlawful' nomination fees

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