Mugabe's Full Speach: This is our day
This is the speach delivered by President Robert Mugabe at the occassion of signing the new Zimbabwe constitution on Wednesday 22 May 2013.Vice President Mai ...Read moreMugabe's Full Speach: This is our day
2013 May 23 | 213 ViewsThis is the speach delivered by President Robert Mugabe at the occassion of signing the new Zimbabwe constitution on Wednesday 22 May 2013.Vice President Mai ...
Elections are not business they are battles
2013 May 22 | 874 ViewsThe shadow being cast by the forthcoming harmonized elections is so vast that hardly any of us can afford the luxury of shrugging a nonchalant shoulder, wrapping ourselves in swathes of indifference a...
British monarchy; Cry of a Zimbabwean child
2013 May 22 | 1295 ViewsGod's message to the Globe about issues that have sent the world into turmoil and His solutions and desire for peace, prosperity and reconciliation amongst all nations. This is a trailer to a 2 ½ hou...
New Zim constitution can usher in new culture of human rights
2013 May 22 | 1086 ViewsZimbabwe's new constitution presents a golden opportunity for the country to break away from a culture of impunity for human rights violations, Amnesty International said today.President Rober...
New Constitution now law of the land; let's finish it Zimbabwe
2013 May 22 | 1979 ViewsPresident Robert Mugabe has signed the new Zimbabwe Constitution into law at State House this afternoon.Our theme for Round 17 of the Free Zimbabwe Global Campaign is "Let's Finish It", for o...
Coalitions! Coalitions! Coalitions!
2013 May 22 | 2425 ViewsElection time in Zimbabwe always brings with it the euphoria about how to unseat the regime in view of the fragmented opposition. The belief is that for as long as parties are fragmented it is impossi...
Lessons from Oliver Mtukudzi
2013 May 22 | 2482 ViewsLAST weekend I went fishing with my former schoolmate Million and after toiling the whole day we caught nothing. I was very discouraged and I openly told Million that I will not go back to the dam unt...
Questions for Tendai Biti on Gukurahundi compensation
2013 May 21 | 2931 ViewsThe Mthwakazi Youth Leaders Joint Resolution SA Charter is not surprised by the statement issued by the Zimbabwean Finance Minister Mr Tendai Biti, promising compensation for the people of...
Zanu-PF buying votes in UZ SRC elections
2013 May 21 | 2174 ViewsThe recent interference of Zanu-PF in the students' fraternity has not only disenfranchised their brand but also symbolised unimaginable desperation of a party that lacks ideological and mobilisation ...
The legacy of Queen Victoria and Zimbabwean culture
2013 May 21 | 1710 ViewsCanada recently just celebrated Victoria Day on the 20th of May, remembering a woman who is regarded as the longest serving monarch in British History and very well regarded as an embodiment of what t...
Mudede rejects Mawere's application for a Zimbabwean ID
2013 May 21 | 3083 ViewsZimbabwe-born businessman Mutumwa Mawere, who became a South African citizen in 2002, has been left frustrated after the Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede rejected his...
NUST 2013 Intake: An example of a divisive outcome
2013 May 20 | 4846 ViewsI first came across the Bulawayo based National University of Science and Technology (NUST) 2013 prospective intake list quite by accident, via an e-mail from a horrified associate. The list which als...
Mugabe is probably a genius, he wants your hard earned moolah
2013 May 19 | 2525 ViewsA comment on Tuesday by Deputy International Relations Minister Ebrahim Ebrahim that South Africa is ready to help with Zimbabwe's elections seems to be the strongest indication yet that your and my...
What criteria is going to be used for Gukurahundi criteria?
2013 May 19 | 1983 ViewsHow do you compensate for loss of life, 20000 of them. Humiliation through tortue and rape, some of it resulting an pregnancy and children. Growing up without a father or mother. Fear and psychologica...
Compensating Gukurahundi victims with 'blood money'
2013 May 19 | 2584 ViewsCompensating someone financially for a murdered loved is in dictionary terms "blood money". If MDC T and Morgan Tswangirayi think that promising to giving the people of Matebeleland blood money as com...
What is Tsvangirai's take on Mthwakazi Independence?
2013 May 19 | 2396 ViewsThe MLF reads with eyebrows raised the report that MDC-T will compensate Gukurahundi victims. One wonders how much a human being costs-more so a Ndebele. The second question is what is to be done to ...
What Joshua Nkomo said about Lookout 'Mafela' Masuku
2013 May 18 | 4679 ViewsLet's go back a little bit, Joshua Nkomo at the funeral of Lookout "Mafela" Khalisabantu Vumindaba Masuku, in Bulawayo on Saturday 12 April 1986. Tens of thousands of people converged to pay their las...
Gono draws attention to the inadvertent dangers of banks indigenisation
2013 May 18 | 2119 ViewsGideon Gono draws attention to the inadvertent dangers that could befall the economy if caution is thrown to the wind....
Patrice Lumumba's last letter written shortly before his eventual murder
2013 May 18 | 3488 ViewsMy dear wife,I am writing these words not knowing whether they will reach you, when they will reach you, and whether I shall still be alive when you read them. All through my struggle for the ...
Mthwakazi Youth Leaders: Fears of abduction
2013 May 18 | 2014 ViewsUnity in condemnation of the abductions "We kindly ask that you pray as a matter of urgency as 3 leaders of the MYLJR are now missing. Please pray and support in any way that you can. We need a search...
When even a Devil cries 'Amen'
2013 May 18 | 2259 ViewsWe are headed for very interesting times I tell you. The MDCs do not want elections before or by June 29, which is when the life of Parliament extinguishes itself. Yet they harp on laws which need rea...
Only a foolish fly follows a corpse into the grave
2013 May 18 | 2265 ViewsIn our African traditional custom we have a saying that "it is only a foolish fly that follows a corpse into the grave."Everybody is aware of what will befall such a fly that dares to follow a...
Morgan Tsvangirai speech to MDC-T policy conference
2013 May 17 | 2713 Views
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai's speech at the official opening of the party's policy conference in Harare on May 17, 2013:Vice President Hon. Thokoza...
'We must do all we can to make sure Zimbabwe's elections are fair elections,' UK MP
2013 May 17 | 2155 ViewsFor many, life in Africa is moving forward. Recent development indicators published by the World Bank show that in Sub-Saharan Africa GDP has risen every year since 2000, averaging 5.8% annual ...
Lupane State University to hold a fund-raising Dinner in South Africa
2013 May 17 | 1981 ViewsOn Saturday, June 1, 2013 Lupane State University (LSU) in Zimbabwe, will hold a fund-raising Dinner at the Birchwood Hotel, in Johannesburg, South Africa at 1800hrs. LSU was established by an...
Desmond 'The little Bishop' Tutu should go goat-skinning
2013 May 17 | 2001 Views
IN the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, the elderly with cotton tuft hair are normally not sent skinning goats when villagers preside over matters of importance.When an...
Corporates guilty of butchering local languages in their ads
2013 May 17 | 2390 ViewsCoke is now doing damage control over imported cans.Brands worldwide take clients seriously and invest heavily on marketing, luring and keeping clients, well except in Zimbabwe, it seems. ...
Morgan Tsvangirai - Small man in a big chair
2013 May 17 | 3184 Views
Before Morgan Tsvangirai entered the world of governance he enjoyed a rather stupendous mass of sympathy support, both at home and abroad. This was precisely because opposition politics was merely ab...
Reasons why Zimbabwe is a luxury Tourist destination
2013 May 17 | 2259 ViewsIt is no secret that in the last ten years or so Zimbabwe has been struggling with its perception as a luxury travel destination. For various reasons the country has been labelled as "unsafe"...
Zimbabwe national assets plunder should be deemed a treasonous act
2013 May 16 | 2194 ViewsFinance Minister Biti's comments this week about unpredictable and deliberately manipulated and compromised internal revenue remittances by some corrupt government departments in the Home Affairs Mini...
Tsvangirai remains constitutionally protected in the transitional period
2013 May 16 | 2410 ViewsAn article on page 2 of The Herald newspaper today mischievously and erroneously suggests that there is uncertainty over the future of the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM). Entitled, "Uncertainty ha...
A case of obdurate generals
2013 May 16 | 2066 ViewsIt is a no brainer that the very same conditions that the Patriotic Front desired for democratic, free and fair elections in 1980, are the very same conditions we desire today."By what fa...
Are we Zanu or Zimbabwean citizens?
2013 May 16 | 3263 Views
An inconvenient truth is that Zimbabwe is a cult whose leadership uses various terminology, mainly; sell-outs, tribalists, the West, imperialists, land and sanctions to hypnotise and deceive its citi...
Tax Clearance Certificates
2013 May 16 | 2097 Views
What is a Tax Clearance Certificate?A tax clearance certificate is a document that is issued by the Commissioner-General of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority...
The changing face of Matebeleland
2013 May 15 | 2914 ViewsThe Matebeleland we left has changed dramatically and without doubt Mugabe's policy of black internal colonization in Matebeleland is in full swing and indeed near completion 33 years after its operat...
NUST is a deliberate developmental tangent for Matabeleland
2013 May 15 | 2318 ViewsThis institution called NUST is a deliberate developmental tangent in the heart of Matabeleland Provinces. The 2013 intake is really depressing. I think we should 'devolve' the intake or worse off com...
It's time for a 'New Way' in Zimbabwe politics
2013 May 15 | 2280 ViewsOne hopes a new brand of politician will emerge, one that is defined by a genuine desire to serve. An article written five years ago by Trevor Ncube, ...
Baba Jukwa - Legion of malicious engagement
2013 May 15 | 3559 ViewsWhen Southern Africa took up arms against the white colonial settlers, the late renowned veteran nationalist and founder of the Tanzanian nation, Mwalimu Kambarage Julius Nyerere, wrote a book titled,...
Infiltration of MDC-T by ZANU-PF is a myth
2013 May 13 | 1976 ViewsThe postponement of primary elections by MDC-T is a tip of the problems and challenges facing the party as we head towards the home stretch for the harmonised elections to be held this...
Abednico Bhebhe hits back at Jonathan Moyo
2013 May 13 | 4059 Views
The Sunday News of 12 May 2013 carried a story "Rethink your loyalty to MDC-T" written by Lawson Mabhena having interviewed Jonathan Moyo who echoed these sentiments.It is his opinion and as ...
On mother's day, my thoughts go to Loreta Nyathi
2013 May 12 | 2319 ViewsOn this Mothers Day, let us take time to appreciate our mothers and to cherish them for the splendid roles they have played, even if for brief moments in some cases, in molding us all into the men and...
'No one can stop an idea whose time has come,' MLF Secretary General
2013 May 12 | 2280 ViewsMckay Tshuma of Mthwakazi Research Institute caught up with the Secretary General of MLF, Mr Andrea Sibanda and held the following interview.MLF Secretary General is...
400 young and georgeous ladies unleashed in the political market
2013 May 12 | 4102 ViewsVarume varai zhipi (madoda valani ama zipha). The party has unleashed a group of very beautiful, well built women to public meetings, rallies and places where known politicians go to seduce them into ...
Of professional mourners, lavish funerals
2013 May 12 | 2665 ViewsGone are the days of a funeral wake where mourners are "burdened" by traditional rites, laid-down burial procedures and a sombre atmosphere throughout the proceedings. Today, people outshine each oth...
Why Tsvangirai can't win the generals
2013 May 12 | 3420 Views
The opposition's attempt to win the army in Zimbabwe is not new and is unlikely to succeed as the military is keen to prove its loyalty to Mugabe.In these days of suspicion and mistrust amon...
The rehabilitation of Robert Mugabe
2013 May 12 | 3131 Views
HE has been a schoolteacher, freedom fighter and political prisoner. He has gone from admired independence leader to despised autocrat. Now a life that spans nine decades could be about to add its l...
Thank God the charade is now coming to an end
2013 May 11 | 3292 ViewsThank God the charade is now coming to an end. Hallelujah! Two days ago the Lower House of our Parliament passed Amendment 20 bringing us a stage closer the operationalisation of the new Const...
Zanu-PF still stuck in the past
2013 May 11 | 2390 ViewsWITH critical elections inexorably drawing closer, Zimbabwe is hurtling down a familiar path as the usual suspects, Zanu PF, marshals its formidable state machinery against those perceived to be worki...
IMPORTANT Voter & Citizenship Info for Zimbabwe-born residents with SADC parents
2013 May 09 | 4335 ViewsAn Important notice for people born in Zimbabwe whose parents were citizens of any SADC country at the time of their birth, and for all this time been denied the opportunity to vote on the grounds tha...
Highlanders must contest the $8,000 fine
2013 May 09 | 1348 ViewsWhile I do not subscribe to violence at soccer matches nor do I promote or encourage the use of violence as an instrument of sending messages of disapproval at soccer matches, I however feel so stron...

