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Cowards must stop quacking, come out of the closet and fight like man! - VAAZ
While known state functionaries and regime enablers have been waging a protracted onslaught on the persona of Advocate Nelson Chamisa, we the advocates of change have unmasked the grand plot by regime...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 19:24hrs | 1113 | by Mandava Blessing - Veterans Activists Association Zimbabwe (VAAZ) National Spokespers on
Zanu-PF has not achieved a 2/3 majority in Parliament
As was universally predicted, the Saturday, 3rd February 2024, by-elections saw Zanu-PF Parliamentary and Local Authority Candidates walloping Tshabangu's CCC Candidates, together with candidates secr...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 19:16hrs | 13 | by ZanuPF Treasurer General - Patrick A Chinamasa
Violence Is Violence No-matter The Gender
Last week, tragedy struck in Nyameni Suburb, Marondera, when a young girl named Sharon lost her life at the hands of her boyfriend. The news of this horrific incident has spread like wildfire across t...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 21:42hrs | 11 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo Violence Is Violence No-matter The Gender
Nevers Mumba making a spirited attempt to take the regime change agenda from where Mwanawasa left it
"For those who don't know the late Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, let me fill you in about him. During his tenure of office as Zambian President, he became the darling of Western countries and, che...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 21:06hrs | 1 | by Patrick Chinamasa ZANU-PF Treasure
UN SG concerned about the arrest of election observers in Zimbabwe
The Secretary-General is closely following developments in Zimbabwe's elections. He is concerned about the arrest of observers, reports of voter intimidation, threats of violence, harassment and coerc...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 23:02hrs | | by Florencia Soto Niño-Martínez, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General
Zimbabwe Election: 13:30 CCC update
Good afternoon. In the past few hours, CCC presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa cast his vote at Kuwadzana primary school in Harare. Meanwhile, I gave an update to the press on voting irregul...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 16:30hrs | 11 | by Charles Kwaramba - CCC Presidential Chief Elections Agent
Citizens unite - Zimbabwe decides
Polls have now opened on the most important election day in Zimbabwe's modern history. An estimated 6.6 million Zimbabweans will cast their votes today in presidential, parliamentary and council elect...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 07:21hrs | 17 | by Charles Kwaramba - CCC Presidential Chief Elections Agent
Petition to The Minister of Primary and Secondary Education
Editor please publish our petition to the Minister of Primary and Secondary education for our pupils are not attending school due to the interference of powerful politicians who are protecting a viole...Published: 29 May 2023 at 22:58hrs | 4 | by Parents/Guardians - Murowa School
Are investors in African equities poised for wins amidst global turmoil?
It has been a tumultuous first quarter of 2023, and African equities have not been spared.Global markets started the year on a very positive note, with the S&P 500 up 9.0% at its peak in e...Published: 12 May 2023 at 11:17hrs | 6 | by Rami Hajjar, portfolio manager of the Allan Gray Africa ex-SA Equity Fund
Zimbabwe govt ill-treating its diaspora citizens
RECENT legislative developments in Zimbabwe portray the government as being only interested in its diaspora-based citizens when it wants them to contribute to the country's economic development and mo...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 04:54hrs | | by Padmore Kufa - Zimbabwe Diaspora Vote Initiative
Civil, political rights of refugees in South Africa
IN January 2020, South Africa's Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi announced the introduction of new regulations which could have significant implications for engagement in any political activity ...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:51hrs | | by Mary-Anne Mutero
Inhlokomoyesizwe SikaMthwakazi condemns arrest of innocent, prayerful citizens
As Inhlokomoyesizwe SikaMthwakazi pressure group we have learnt that ZRP has arrested 36 Citizens of Zimbabwe for organising a Christian response to the c...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:40hrs | 4 | by IYS Info-Desk
Why Mnangagwa has turned to Angel, Java and Makandiwa?
With less than a year and two months before Zimbabwe holds its highly anticipated 2023 Presidential elections, President Mnangagwa has of late turned for support from self-styled Prophets and Papa's i...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 14:38hrs | 1 | by Knowledge Hakata - Political Analyst
Colleen Bawn segregation: Spacious and crammed villages
VICTORIAN style houses surrounded by beautiful greenery on cosmic pieces of land characterised Village 1, a gated community for the white minority living in Colleen Bawn, Matabeleland South before the...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:31hrs | | by Yoliswa Dube-Moyo
Marriage is not an achievement
These are the headlines that get you roasted in Pentecostal and religious circles. How on earth, would you say that, "marriage is not achievement?" Some are actually fasting for it, and binding "marin...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:10hrs | 1 | by Arthur Marara-Point Blank
Teachers must speak with one voice
THE fight for better pay by teachers appears to be losing steam, three weeks into the new term, with no pay rise, bruised egos and the still incapacitated educators on the ropes.Last week, the...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:52hrs | 7 | by Richard-Gundane
Mnangagwa's oligarchs: The heirs of Cecil Rhodes
As Zimbabwe's economy has spiralled down, with one million economic refugees in South Africa alone and ordinary people facing shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelter, there is a class of people ...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:29hrs | 1 | by Phillip van Niekerk and a Zim-based Research Team
On the persecution trail with Ngarivhume: trailing the harassment of human rights leaders/activists by Zimbabwe regime
I called Jacob Ngarivhume the previous day and asked if I could be with him from morning to end of day. I wanted to get into his world, I wanted to follow up on the stories of harassment he has been c...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 17:13hrs | 7 | by Fungai Muridzo - a freelance journalist
Did Nkomo ordain Mugabe?
THE occasion on which Cde Joshua Nkomo showed his acknowledgement of Cde Robert Mugabe's future role was most probably the strangest experience the author of this narration had during the struggle. ...Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 14:19hrs | 7 | by Saul Gwakuba-Ndlovu
What China's overseas coal exit could mean for Zimbabwe
IN response to What China's overseas coal exit plans could mean for Zimbabwe' XYZ says: Is being fair to acknowledge that the environmental accusations made towards China are somehow unfair.As...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:02hrs | 7 | by MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora
Calls mount against 'Zulu' security cluster ministers over lapses
THE startling admission by President Cyril Ramaphosa that the government was caught napping during the violent protests and looting in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng was a sign that he was let down by his ...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 11:40hrs | 1 | by Mayibongwe Maqhina, Tarryn-Leigh Solomons, Mervyn Naidoo
A new film about Zimbabwe's 2018 elections is worth watching, but flawed
Danish director Camilla Nielsson's documentary President (2021) is an up-close, intimate tale. It follows the election travails of Zimbabwe's main opposition party the Movement for Democratic Change A...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 18:58hrs | 2 | by The Conversatio - David B. Moore
Zimfirst statements on government economic policy inconsistency
Zimfirst is the right choice and a visionary party set to assume command of government. You can trust Zimfirst as we know what has to be done and the challenges that lay ahead. Most of Zimbabweans pro...Published: 27 May 2021 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Dr Maxwell Zeb Shumba Rusike - ZIMFIRST President
A call for the condemnation of the violation of the human rights of prisoners by the Zimbabwe regime
Greetings to all! A few days ago, members of the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) were released on bail from incarceration at Zimbabwe's notorious Khami and Mlondolozi prisons. No sooner had the...Published: 18 May 2021 at 15:20hrs | 1 | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza - MLF President
FAO: Agriculture will make or break Africa's free trade
Transforming agri-food systems can unlock Africa's potential.The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) holds the potential to lift millions of people out of poverty and end chronic food...Published: 16 May 2021 at 07:36hrs | | by Abebe Haile-Gabriel
Growing up in the village
Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve the moon rose slowly, tentatively and imperceptibly, its soft rays breaking the virginity of the night. Slowly darkness gave w...Published: 15 May 2021 at 09:40hrs | 9 | by Isdore Guvamombe-
Zimbabwe: From jewel of Africa to laughing stock
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) on Sunday joined the rest of Zimbabweans in marking 41 years of independence from colonial rule. Indeed, it is an important day of our lives as we salute t...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Japhet Moyo ZCTU secretary-general
Encounter with the Selous Scouts: A former guerilla shares personal experience
IN mid-1979 I left Lupane and Nkayi areas operations where I had been deployed to in 1977 and joined the furthest platoon in Bubi District. Most of the comrades I found there had been trained in Angol...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 07:48hrs | | by Retired Lieutenant-Colonel Stanford Moyo
When mjolo turns sour: Should you give back gifts?
In his emotive single Juzi, Kae Chaps asks his ex-lover to pick up the jersey she left at his house as the sight of it was haunting him. He's heartbroken but says it's only a matter of time before he ...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:14hrs | 8 | by Yoliswa Dube-Moyo
'Fake doctor' treats Bulawayo patients
A CLINICAL officer at Mpilo Central Hospital has been arrested for allegedly masquerading as a doctor to patients at his private practice in the city centre. Police arrested Watson Mpala (67) ...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 05:55hrs | | by Yoliswa Dube-Moyo
Bulawayo residents demand refuse fee removed from their rates
side from the Covid-19-induced lockdown restrictions where many of us had to adjust to working from home among many other things, 2020 was a burdensome year because of the Bulawayo City Council's fail...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 05:55hrs | | by Yoliswa Dube-Moyo
SB Moyo's infamous Mugabe coup speech
Fellow Zimbabweans, following the address we made on 13 November 2017 which we believe our main broadcaster, ZBC and The Herald were directed not to publicise, the situation in our country has moved t...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:48hrs | | by Major-General SB Moyo ZDF spokesperson
Dialogue could have averted COVID-19 Beitbridge border chaos
The festive season was marked by dramatic scenes of tens of thousands of people amassing at border posts between South Africa and its neighbours where procedures had slowed down due to COVI D-19 restr...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 16:18hrs | | by Lies! Louw-Vaudran and Ringisai Chikohomero
Zanu-PF UK/Europe Chairman Cde Masimba Tawengwa dies at 48
ZANU PF and Zimbabwe have been plunged in sorrow as cde Masimba dies. Zanu PF UK/EU District chairman Cde Masimba Tawengwa has died of Covid-19.He was 48. Cde Masimba died of complications sim...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 19:20hrs | | by Mavaza-Masimba.jpeg
Let's stay vigilant, COVID-19 is still here
My name is Saria Osman El-Amin, I am 24 years old and I am a medical doctor. I live in Khartoum, Sudan. I work at the Corona Call Centre as part of the Ministry of Health's strategic plan to hel...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 19:57hrs | 1 | by Dr. Saria Osman El-Amin (Sudan)
ZIMPARKS corruption and irregular appointments exposed
Whistle-blowers from ZIMPARKS have reported the wildlife authority to the Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission. The reports are over irregular appointments of 7 top executives at the authority. The off...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:37hrs | 6 | by Claris Magwenzi - Freelance journalist
Zanu PF's costly and desperate power preservation
Absolute political power and a persistent quest to preserve it at all cost can result in absolute political absurdity. Men and women who might have spent some time being intellectually trained in inst...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 08:17hrs | | by Mkhululi Zulu - Zapu Presidential Spokesperson
Gwanda councillors and Mayor fully behind Chamisa
In an extraordinary joint sitting of the MDC Alliance Mat south provincial management committee and the Gwanda Central CCC with the councillors from the Provincial capital. His worship the May...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 07:58hrs | | by Ntando Ndlela MDC Alliance - Mat south spokesperson
SA leaders must come clean on xenophobia
IN the 1980s, a jingle played regularly on Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation's Radio 2, that went something like this: MuAfrica, kwayedza. Kwasara mbiri chete kuti ichibva yakwana. Kunoti Azania, neNa...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Editorial - Newsday
National teams must not be used as pawns in Zifa fights
THE current Zifa leadership led by Felton Kamambo is under siege following its failure to raise a national women's team to fulfil a home Olympics Games second leg qualifier against Zambia, which had b...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:38hrs | | by Editorial - Newsday
Is Chamisa hitting the right strings?
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa appears to be taking his supporters for a ride through his claims that his party would ensure that President Emmerson Mnangagwa would not see through his term, which official...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 08:08hrs | | by Editorial - Newsday
No alternative to genuine reforms in Zimbabwe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa got very useful advice when he met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the just ended seventh International Conference on African Development (Ticad) in...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:52hrs | | by Editorial - The Standard
Mnangagwa has nothing to fear from a free Press, unless ...
ANY hopes of media freedom that many people nursed when President Emmerson Mnangagwa ushered in his "Second Republic" have been dashed after the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) Bill retained autocrati...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 18:41hrs | | by Editorial - Newsday
War vets rant is the last thing Zimbabwe needs
FOR nearly two decades, Zimbabwe has been in the wilderness, isolated by the entire world – save for a few – simply because of one critical issue: Gross human rights abuses. While in that socio-ec...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:12hrs | | by Editorial - Newsday
Zimbabwe's democracy has taken a new dimension
GOVERNMENT spokesperson and Secretary for Information Ndavaningi Mangwana's claims that the government's approach to democracy is modern under the so-called New Dispensation — which we now all know ...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:43hrs | | by Editorial - Newsday
Abduction claims point to anti-Zimbabwe agenda
THE dismissal as falsehoods by a local non-governmental organisation some reports of abductions of civil society and opposition members allegedly by State security agents all but confirms a sinister a...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Editorial - Chronicle
Zanu-PF congratulates Mnangagwa
Congratulations, His Excellency The President Of The Republic Of Zimbabwe, and The First Secretary and President of ZANU PF, CDE.E.D MNANGAGWA The ZANU PF Politburo, Central Committee and the ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:50hrs | | by Zanu-PF
Zimbabwe under siege once again
IT'S like deja vu - we have been here before! Zimbabwe is once again in the spotlight with the West, its local quislings in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change fronted by Mr Nelson Cha...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:08hrs | | by Editorial - chronicle
Mnangagwa's govt must address economic fundamentals
As prices of basic commodities continue to skyrocket amid indications that a family of six now requires at least $1 684 to be able to survive through just one month, there is need for stakeholders —...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:46hrs | | by Editorial - Newsday
A Letter to Zimbabwe National Army Officers
DEAR ZIMBABWE NATIONAL ARMY (ZNA) OFFICERS, WE, YOUR FAMILIES, ARE SUFFERING I write to you as an ordinary Zimbabwean civilian. But I am not just an ordinary civilian. I write to you as ...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 21:04hrs | 15 | by Poverty-Stricken Zimbabwean
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