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THE inhumane side of #CHIMURENGA .....memories of Kenneth Nyoka

Pasi with this. Pasi with that.. Some young people may not know the grave consequences that usually accompanied this slogan during the second Chimurenga. I do. Barely into my teens one night we were routinely summoned to an all night indoc…

Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:30hrs | 6 | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere

Open letter to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education

REF: Dokora axing-a close look While the official version is saying  Dokora's sacking as Minister of Primary and Secondary Education  has to do with the constitutional demands which had been overlooked, the majority seem to concu…

Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 11:54hrs | 1 | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere

General Chiwenga and your Impossed President where were you since 1980

Dear Chiwenga and ED, where were you? Zimbabwe list of individuals who disappeared and/or were killed for saying Robert Mugabe is too old to rule, for asking him to step down or for being associated with those who said so. These people did…

Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 20:35hrs | 2 | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere

Chipinge Health Crisis : as Dr G Mugabe gets louder

For a moment everything was supposed to go on a standstill. Every man, woman and child was supposed to hold their breath in expectation until the last day of the upcoming ZANU-PF Congress. Life had to wait.But life doesn't wait, and all th…

Published: 22 Nov 2014 at 07:38hrs | | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere

Zimbabwe's potential stuck in 1979

For the sake of progress one must move, not only that but move in the right direction. Zimbabwe is moving, but are we moving in the right direction?Are we moving towards a future where the country's youth will grow into adults who will fen…

Published: 04 Aug 2014 at 10:13hrs | | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere

A year on and we still have no idea what ZIMASSET is

The rich and powerful got to celebrate a year in the office, the poor and powerless commemorate a year of bhora mugedhi. The rich and powerful are so rich they can not be bribed and powerful enough to practice nepotism in full view of the …

Published: 01 Aug 2014 at 10:51hrs | 2 | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere

The state of municipal police

Entrust a wise man with responsibility and they will convert it to power, but entrust it to a fool and they will mistake it with power.This has been the hallmark of municipal police officers around Zimbabwe. I have noticed them work like m…

Published: 31 Jul 2014 at 06:46hrs | | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere

UMD did not join but it integrated with the Renewal Team

However noble the intent, a misrepresentation of facts can never be viewed as a noble deed. Regardless of the fact whether the lie was told due to neglect of duty in information gathering or whatever reason, it is not permissible.We know s…

Published: 29 Jul 2014 at 15:42hrs | 1 | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere

Even Mandela was Pro-Palestine

He who controls the media can commit war crimes and get away with it.Israel for one. On Sunday 20th of July they refused a 3 hour humanitarian ceasefire requested by the International Red Cross. Bodies litter the streets and households are…

Published: 20 Jul 2014 at 21:28hrs | | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere

Asijiki arrested: prerogative of entertainment

He's here. He's there. He is everywhere and everyone. The Zimbabwe Republic Police is looking very busy and efficient by the alarming rate at which they are turning up new suspects.Efficient confusion and a huge waste of taxpayers' money. …

Published: 26 Jun 2014 at 10:31hrs | | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere

The second coming

Qiuck question before I get into my discussion: who owns the Sunday Mail and The Chronicle? Zanu PF or the government? And while we are at it, is the police part of a private company or what? And furthermore is this the famous Gamatox move…

Published: 20 Jun 2014 at 14:45hrs | | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere

ZANU PF keeping all thou vintage

The timing couldn't be better. People still debating Jonathan Moyo's 'dislodging' from a seemingly sinecure position by being branded a weevil by the Zanu PF leader, the President of Zimbabwe, the Commander-In- Chief of the Defence Forces,…

Published: 19 Jun 2014 at 07:42hrs | | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere

Biti is sick and I have cancer... So?

In an age where people fight against pedestrian diagnosis in regards with medical health, we expect exemplary action from political leaders. To have a politician speak in public over another's health issues basing on hearsay and suppositio…

Published: 17 Jun 2014 at 19:30hrs | 7 | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere

Democracy beyond tsvangirai

One of the greatest shortcomings of the Zimbabwean state of mind is the worship of man.Religious worship for instance, I have heard christians claim 'mwari wanhingi ndibatsirei' (god of so and so help me) and so forth. Have you no God of y…

Published: 16 Jun 2014 at 07:19hrs | 3 | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere

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Fake online medicines poisoning Zimbabweans

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Ministry officer held at gunpoint in Gwanda, GD6 stolen

Zimbabwe rolls out drug test kits to police posts

Bulawayo Polytechnic faces backlash over eviction notices at Rio Tinto flats

Zabanyana dismissal signals sscalation in ZANU PF succession strife

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