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Chamisa hangs on the balance

If there is anyone who is going to learn the hard way the consequence of improperly arranging words, it has to be MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa, as he riles ever listening to the demons which misled him to fan and promote violence in the run …

Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 07:32hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

Zimbabweans weary of protests

Mark Twain once said 'it is easier to fool people than convince them that they are being fooled' and that is exactly the process a section of Zimbabweans are going through as MDC leader Nelson Chamisa tries every trick in the book to remai…

Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 09:00hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

Odds against Chamisa

Voltaire had seen right when he said 'God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh', hence, every Zimbabwean must loosen up and pay particular attention to Zimbabwe's God given political comedian, Nelson Chamisa, th…

Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Caitlin Kamba

Zim economy in typical labour pains

Some pains are just but a necessary evil and ought to be lived through than avoided if the benefits are to be harnessed in totality. Joys of motherhood come with excruciating pain, sweating and energy draining pregnancy, but at the end of …

Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 11:13hrs | 4 | by Caitlin Kamba

ZCTU protest exposes MDC Alliance

For the past couple of days Zimbabweans have been drawn into a sinister panic mode whose foot prints are alien to those of genuine market strife and economic strains. The basic function of fuel as a cost driver has been overtaken by social…

Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 11:22hrs | 1 | by Caitlin Kamba

Mugabe drowns MDC Alliance

In politics one ought not to be so thirsty for opportunity that they drink from every cup handed to them. That is how Nelson Chamisa got poisoned by former President Robert Mugabe ahead of the just ended harmonised elections. In all fairne…

Published: 31 Jul 2018 at 11:54hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

Chamisa's roller coaster politics

MDC-T leader, Nelson Chamisa, is learning the hard way that 'good ideas sell themselves' as the United Kingdom (UK) trip bears shambolic and humiliating real life experiences for the 'youthful' opposition leader. The trip turned out to be …

Published: 11 May 2018 at 11:37hrs | 1 | by Caitlin Kamba

ZANU PF ghost haunts opposition's future

The dynamics of Zimbabwean politics have been largely defined by ZANU PF one way or the other. A glance into the historical and present political climate reveals that ZANU PF leads while opposition parties follow.Of late, the opposition ha…

Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 10:55hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

Of Script-writers for journalists

The ZANU PF-verge-of-collapse oracle by some sections of the media sympathetic to the opposition political parties leaves one wandering whether we are having screenplay writers for journalists in Zimbabwe.Fiction has eroded journalism ethi…

Published: 01 Feb 2016 at 19:15hrs | 3 | by Caitlin Kamba

Clueless MDC-T legislators

In the wake of spirited germination of People First, it is amazing to then have MDC-T legislators fight for a stake in the determination of who gets the national hero status in Zimbabwe. This gross misdirection of emphasis exposes the lack…

Published: 19 Jan 2016 at 13:25hrs | 2 | by Caitlin Kamba

Weaving the revenue basket

Government's determination to expand its revenue collections especially by re-introducing the pension's contributions is a noble initiative on the long run despite the mudslinging on the move by distractive elements concerned with imagined…

Published: 14 Jan 2016 at 19:24hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

People First scaremongering

The People First project by Joice Mujuru is one typical manipulation of human anxieties dwelling on people's emotions like fears, likes and hope. Hence, its ghost approach to politics with a plethora of exaggerations and perceived clandest…

Published: 12 Jan 2016 at 12:32hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

Tsvangirai, Smith Siamese twins

The interring of Senator Aguy Georgias at the National Heroes acre added to the vast of Zimbabweans the knowledge and experience on how devious and inhuman the economic sanctions has been to this nation.For many of us we have known the nat…

Published: 23 Dec 2015 at 08:29hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

Will cherish our heroes forever

Destroying a people's history is one way colonialists engaged to delay Africans from finding common ground to remove the yoke of political colonialism. Having decolonized the mind from such antics later day alarmists, the likes of John Rob…

Published: 15 Dec 2015 at 14:38hrs | 1295 | by Caitlin Kamba

ZRP got it wrong

If the swiftness in the arresting of the Sunday Mail Editor and his journalists is translated to the rest of the media houses that are in the business of publishing falsehoods based on impeccable sources or unidentified politburo members a…

Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 13:37hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

Ministers should perform or else...

Government business in Zimbabwe is set to present a rejuvenated front after Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko took to task additional duties accorded to him by H.E President Mugabe to maintain a check and balance role on the performance of…

Published: 20 Oct 2015 at 14:29hrs | 1 | by Caitlin Kamba

Tomorrow never dies, invest in research

They say knowledge is power, but implementing it practically is another thing called wisdom which is equally an important phenomenon in the survival of mankind. Zimbabwe boasts of a high literacy rate on the African continent and from the …

Published: 14 Oct 2015 at 09:31hrs | 4 | by Caitlin Kamba

MDC-T in shadow politicking

Perhaps it's high time the MDC-T rebrands from being a movement to a revolution as time lapsed so far is speaking volumes of another biblical exodus towards the idea of changing the face of democracy in Zimbabwe which is already thriving u…

Published: 06 Oct 2015 at 12:07hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

Tendai Biti firing in the dark

EDITOR,Tendai Bitis recent insinuations that Zimbabwe is heading for chaos based on the assumption of perceived fictions in Zanu-PF as the force behind the economic turbulence do not hold at any level to do with political science.While it …

Published: 30 Sep 2015 at 10:14hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

As ZANU PF decorates 2018 manifesto

The revolution that has reined change by arresting the rot and ever growing hackling of corporate governance by big wigs in various state companies countrywide cultivates ground work and forges the political will in the matrix of luring fo…

Published: 18 Sep 2015 at 10:43hrs | 2 | by Caitlin Kamba

Mujuru must face the nation

If there is any country that has grown to see all genres of politicians from different trades and colour, it has to be Zimbabwe. Some claim possession of keys to the economy and now a self-proclaimed pedigree locksmith has presented hersel…

Published: 09 Sep 2015 at 14:55hrs | 1 | by Caitlin Kamba

Eddie Cross' bankruptcy goes mental

Political persecution has grown of age taking alternative and even more ruthless forms far surpassing the 'Night of long knives' which saw the purges of Jews at the hands of the Nazi's.In this genre of political persecution lives are not s…

Published: 31 Aug 2015 at 10:03hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

Economic genocide; Testimony from the devil

If the devil could quote the scriptures to Jesus trying to talk him out of the holy trinity, one wonders how low politicians, especially those from the opposition political parties, will stoop at as far as situation manipulation is concern…

Published: 26 Aug 2015 at 13:52hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

Mugabe, Khama; how people make history

Back in time during my high school days I always wondered what one of the history text book's title â€œPeople Making Historyâ€ meant. Questions like, do people really sit around a table and say, â€œokay guys let us make history?â€ easily…

Published: 20 Aug 2015 at 12:07hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

Clueless lamentation of a War veteran

Morrison Nyati, the turncoat responsible for the butchering of sons and daughters of the sol in refugee camps in Mozambique, was once viewed as part of the machinery of the liberation struggle. However, all along, he had been a wolf in she…

Published: 04 Aug 2015 at 09:35hrs | 1 | by Caitlin Kamba

Dr Mugabe's gracious secret

Lead by example is one of the oldest phenomenon and adage often said than practised, owing to traditional tendencies of prioritizing benefits ahead of responsibilities when one assumes duty in an influential office.The subject of balancing…

Published: 29 Jul 2015 at 15:10hrs | 1 | by Caitlin Kamba

Political vendors: Zimbabwe will learn more

So dramatically and drastically has the issue of Itai Dzamara been hijacked by political demagogues thriving on vending their "have been" and spend force characters.The same rot that has characterized Mupedzanhamo flea market where vendors…

Published: 15 Jul 2015 at 10:44hrs | 2 | by Caitlin Kamba

Tsvangirai's secret engagement

They say in a country of blind people one eyed man becomes the king. MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai's remarks at a Kuwadzana rally that Zanu-PF officials are secretly engaging him over his election boycott only make sense to those who are …

Published: 29 May 2015 at 16:01hrs | 9 | by Caitlin Kamba

Spare some conscience, Tsvangirai

MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai's utterances deriding the OAU founding fathers at a Kuwadzana rally are far more blasphemous than just politically inept.The puppet leader unashamedly singles out economic problems, forgetting they are a maki…

Published: 28 May 2015 at 10:48hrs | 3 | by Caitlin Kamba

Lets create a corruption free Zim

President Mugabe's address at the pass out parade of newly qualified police officers at Morris Depot should be the benchmark of a new dispensation as far as combating corruption is concerned.The stern call to investigate all cases of corru…

Published: 21 May 2015 at 12:10hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

Clueless MDC-T battles for relevance

Revelations by former MDC-T advisor Alex Magaisa is just but a tip of the growing dislike of Morgan Tsvangirai by his handlers. Complacence and a spat of ill conceived decisions have unimaginably caused disharmony in the party.However, for…

Published: 14 May 2015 at 09:02hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

Mugabe defies the odds

President Robert Mugabe's vow to accord civil servants their 13th cheque has re-ignited hope in the civil service silencing the prophets of doom who had already begun touting of a perceived failed state of affairs.The announcement and assu…

Published: 21 Apr 2015 at 11:22hrs | 1 | by Caitlin Kamba

Mutasa running scared

Public appeals by former ZANU PF Secretary for Administration, Didymus Mutasa, for demonstrations are nothing but pathetic confessions of a greedy individual addicted to power regardless of the wealth he amassed through unorthodox means.If…

Published: 16 Apr 2015 at 12:38hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

Demonstrations that never was

After trying all worker agitation tricks, still Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) demonstrations dismally failed to take off as anticipatedconfirming a lapsed era of violently echoing grievances. Zimbabweans over the weekend passed a…

Published: 13 Apr 2015 at 12:59hrs | 2 | by Caitlin Kamba

Confessions of a mercenary: Jabulani Sibanda

Jabulani Sibanda, the man behind the 'one million man march', is now singing from a different hymn book after a vehement countrywide campaign denouncing illegal economic sanctions against Zimbabwe.The change in tone leaves Sibanda more of …

Published: 02 Apr 2015 at 10:38hrs | 1 | by Caitlin Kamba

As the gods speak to MDC-T

Just how long will it take for the MDC-T supporters and sympathizers to realise theirs is a wild goose chase. The notable man of God, TB Joshua already prophesied that Tsvangirai will never rule Zimbabwe.Call Tsvangirai's behaviour infanti…

Published: 26 Mar 2015 at 14:50hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

When tiring becomes a sin

It is that time again when the parrots of regime change chant of alleged signs that point to President Mugabe as not fit to discharge his duties.  This time around, all hell broke loose when the President, apologised for being late af…

Published: 24 Mar 2015 at 12:32hrs | 2 | by Caitlin Kamba

Analysis of Bona's visit to Japan; farfetched

Political analysis in Zimbabwe has entered a new dispensation of desperation marked by fixation on irrelevant matters owing to reading too much into nothing. Policy reviews and political forecast, l am sure appeal more than how the preside…

Published: 18 Mar 2015 at 12:25hrs | 5 | by Caitlin Kamba

Equip the youths and protect the country

Reaction tendencies that have characterised opposition political parties in Africa, simply tells a tale of foreign influenced decisions that are counterproductive and anti people to say the least.Without necessarily prophesying ignorance o…

Published: 11 Mar 2015 at 10:10hrs | 1 | by Caitlin Kamba

Folly of anti-Mugabe birthday celebrations

The anti-Gushungo birthday celebration touting and mantra is a vivid reflection on the attempt to rig people's opinion and freedom of expression.The machinations are nothing short of the bid for political relevance by his contenders who ha…

Published: 24 Feb 2015 at 12:07hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

May we have some service please

The deplorable state of the roads in the high density suburbs leaves one to wonder whether City Council of Harare is operational or not. With the rains onset again, another ugly face of floods is certain for the sunshine city.There are lit…

Published: 17 Feb 2015 at 14:35hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

Move with time, traffic authorities

Once upon a time, there were creatures as huge as most of the tall buildings in Harare called dinosaurs. These creatures bulldozed their way through anything that dared impede its path, until the creature's environment changed and posed gr…

Published: 12 Feb 2015 at 10:35hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

Value addition is the way to go

The signing of the billion dollar platinum project between government and the Russians adds weight to Zimbabwe's economic hope that is now underpinned in the mining sector. The deal has come in, exemplary, with its alignment to the economi…

Published: 10 Feb 2015 at 10:47hrs | 1 | by Caitlin Kamba

Value addition is the way to go

The signing of the billion dollar platinum project between government and the Russians adds weight to Zimbabwe's economic hope that is now underpinned in the mining sector. The deal has come in, exemplary, with its alignment to the economi…

Published: 10 Feb 2015 at 10:05hrs | 1 | by Caitlin Kamba

Zimbabwe making headway, same as that of the Israelites

After breaking ranks from the West's exploitative machinations, Zimbabwe had to be a practical example of the misguided and evil wrath of Britain and her allies, but fortune has a way of finding Zimbabwe.It is true that a struggle never ma…

Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 17:00hrs | 5 | by Caitlin Kamba

Mugabe's description of Mutasa spot on

EDITOR,The testing of President Robert Mugabe's political acumen by desperately twisting his speech in a bid to buy sympathy for Didymus Mutasa who is faced with the ignominy of political obscurity is just but a wild goose chase.The ousted…

Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 09:46hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

Nothing amiss on Mugabe's description of Mutasa

The testing of President Robert Mugabe's political acumen by desperately spinning his speech in a bid to buy sympathy for Didymus Mutasa who is faced with the ignominy of political obscurity is just but a wild goose chase. The ousted …

Published: 29 Jan 2015 at 13:57hrs | 2 | by Caitlin Kamba

The deplorable state of Zim roads makes driving a nightmare

Someone is dangerously napping on duty as citizens and motorists are sinking in the muddy and callous gorges that have become a permanent feature on our roads. The precedence set by Zanu-PF through exorcism of rogue elements, should be rep…

Published: 07 Jan 2015 at 14:45hrs | 1 | by Caitlin Kamba

What securocracy?

Desperate times indeed call for desperate measures. Some political analysts have lost the plot altogether by demonising the attaining political situation in a bid to buy sympathy for those faced with the ignominy of political obscurity. Th…

Published: 17 Dec 2014 at 09:24hrs | 5 | by Caitlin Kamba

Zimbabwe can never partner CIA

The West's machinations aimed at tarnishing Zimbabwean image has this time gone farfetched by hatching an ill-conceived connection between the United State's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Zimbabwean government in the torturing of s…

Published: 15 Dec 2014 at 06:59hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba

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