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Why ZAPU's Parliamentary Recalls will fail, Legally
NewsdzeZimbabwe on Sunday reported that Iphuthile Maphosa who is the spokesperson for ZAPU announced that the party had recently taken the decision to recall former PF ZAPU members from the current pa...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 11:57hrs | 1 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Johannesburg
What ZANU PF would do as an Opposition - PART 1
It was at the funeral gathering of the late MDC Alliance MP, Anna Muyambo (MHSRIP) where Job Sikhala noted that the MDC Alliance, despite its so called huge following and popularity, will still be elu...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 12:40hrs | | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Johannesburg
'ANC' Loses it on ZANU PF
The only thing that the hashtag movement #ZimLivesMatter succeeded in doing was to get international attention towards the Zimbabwean political situation. This indeed persuaded Luthuli House to dispat...Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Johannesburg
Rights violations draw Zimbabwe back
One of the first key concessions that President Emmerson Mnangagwa made when he took over from Robert Mugabe almost two years ago was that the previous administration, which he was part of, lacked dem...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 18:59hrs | | by Editorial Comment
So Mnangagwa will finally Resign?
On August 16 some people of Harare high density suburbs will yet again brave the wind and toyi-toyi the streets to exert pressure on a constitutionally elected and military backed government to resign...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Cape Town
Order must be restored at Bulawayo City Hall
Bulawayo City Council has dominated the headlines for all the wrong reasons over the past fortnight. They have grossly mishandled the ongoing rehabilitation of the city's water wor...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:59hrs | | by Editorial comment
Ignatius Chombo case dents Zimbabwe courts' image
THAT it is now more than one-and-a-half years since former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo was arrested in dramatic fashion at the height of a coup that toppled ex-President Robert Mugabe, speaks to ...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 09:54hrs | | by Newsday Comment
Policy uncertainty disrupts investors
THAT President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Finance minister Mthuli Ncube are trying and well-meaning is not in doubt. Even their trenchant critics and cynics would agree they are making the right noise...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:08hrs | | by Zimind Comment
Warriors face Egypt in opener
ZIMBABWE'S Warriors will open the 2019 Afcon finals with a showdown against Mohamed Salah and the Pharaohs of Egypt at the Cairo Stadium on June 21 in a repeat of the national team's first match at th...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 08:10hrs | 8 | by Chronicle Editorial Comment
Gukurahundi healing measures crucial to national healing/unity
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission tomorrow begins the process of taking the country through 21 days of sharing mechanisms on healing and reconciliation. NPRC's outreach programme covers...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 08:07hrs | 7 | by Chronicle Editorial Comment
Zimbabwe's muscle-conomics: The Case of Delta and Civil Servants
In a joint press release on January 3 by the central bank and Delta Corporation, whose arm is the country's biggest beverages maker, backtracked on its decision to sell its products in hard currency. ...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 13:40hrs | | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Cape Town
Cholera outbreak a wake-up call
Indications that the cholera outbreak that has killed 49 people out of 6 643 suspected cases countrywide has been contained must not lull the country into complacency.This is the time to put i...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 07:35hrs | 3 | by The Standard Comment
Mthuli Ncube's biggest headache
NEWLY-appointed Finance minister Mthuli Ncube entered the national political scene with a lot of verve, making very ambitious pronouncements, including the scrapping of the bond note, among other loft...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 14:33hrs | 1 | by Zimind Comment
Chamisa's MPs must go beyond heckling, walkouts
WHILE heckling and walkouts during parliamentary sessions are common the world over, and are considered legislators' privileges, it is important that in countries like ours, where a positive attitude ...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Newsday Comment
Mnangagwa chooses strong team for Cabinet
President Mnangagwa promised a new-look Cabinet of high-end talent and yesterday he delivered with a core of seasoned political leaders joined by lot of new faces, almost all being top professionals i...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Herald Editorial Comment
Mnangagwa sets tone for economic turnaround
ONE of the hallmarks of the remarkable turnaround of the Chinese economy since that country launched sweeping economic reforms in 1978 has been the strict discipline enforced by that Government and ze...Published: 30 Apr 2018 at 06:25hrs | | by Chronicle Editorial Comment
Gigaba probes abuse of Zimbabweans at SA border
SOUTH Africa's Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba on Thursday visited Beitbridge Border Post following alleged abuse of Zimbabwean travellers by South Africa immigration officials.His surpris...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 07:27hrs | | by Chronicle Editorial Comment
$4bn platinum deal major confidence booster
Last Thursday was yet another historic day for Zimbabwe when Government signed a $4,2 billion platinum investment agreement with a Cyprus-based company, Karo Resources.The agreement, the large...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 07:24hrs | | by Chronicle Editorial Comment
MRP leaders called to CID law and Order
Mthwakazi Republic Party leader Mqondisi Moyo has said the party's National Executive Council members have been called to CID law and order at 09:30 am at office number 4 for a short meeting wit...Published: 29 Dec 2017 at 08:24hrs | 1 | by Chronicle Editorial Comment
Mnangagwa: When even the opposition is charmed
A MONTH into his reign, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has already charmed a lot of Zimbabweans with his vision and initiatives for the turnaround of the country but most significantly has won praise ev...Published: 29 Dec 2017 at 08:21hrs | | by Chronicle Editorial Comment
SONA lays ground for new prosperous Zimbabwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's first State of the Nation Address (SONA) delivered on Wednesday has set the tone for his reform agenda anchored on the crown values of honesty, transparency, accountabil...Published: 22 Dec 2017 at 10:12hrs | | by Chronicle Editorial Comment
ZRP must remember motto on return
Seven traffic officers "gang up" against a motorist along the Harare-Bulawayo Highway in Warren Park, Harare, recently. — Picture by Innocent MakawaAPOSTLE Peter writes in the Bible that "wi...Published: 19 Dec 2017 at 23:17hrs | | by Herald Editorial Comment
Social media real threat to governance
SOCIAL media are as important as they are dangerous to human life. Like the Central Nervous System which helps the body function by processing information from all its parts as well as the outside wor...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 06:49hrs | | by Chronicle Editorial Comment
Grace openly tells Mnangagwa to quit
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe reportedly confronted under-fire Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa during a tense briefing ahead of a Zanu PF youth league national assembly meeting in Harare on Saturday and o...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 10:02hrs | | by NewsDay Editorial Comment
Biometric voter registration exposes Karoi council
THE ongoing Zimbabwe Electoral Comission (Zec)-led biometric voter registration (BVR) has exposed Karoi Municipality's poor service delivery, as more than 300 registration officers camped at Chikangwe...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 09:59hrs | | by NewsDay Editorial Comment
Mugabe Cabinet reshuffle - Recycling of dead wood
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe at the weekend promised a Cabinet reshuffle, which instead of inspiring hope evokes a sense of déjà vu.In the past 18 years, Mugabe has literally had countless reshuf...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 09:57hrs | | by NewsDay Editorial Comment
Mugabe's latest jaunt a disGrace
President Robert Mugabe is in New York on yet another useless jaunt where there are no prospects of him returning home with something that can lift the spirits of a country in economic turmoil....Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 14:01hrs | | by comment
Mnangagwa should stop watering dead plants
LET'S give it to US President Donald Trump - if he thinks anyone is his team is excess baggage and is becoming a liability, he is very swift and ruthless in showing even his good friends the exit door...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 08:53hrs | | by Sunday Mail Editorial Comment
Kwese TV ban exposes Mugabe's govt
The government's swift move to bar Econet Media's pay TV service last week was predictable, but deeply worrying because the regime is once again demonstrating that it is averse to reforms.Zimb...Published: 27 Aug 2017 at 12:53hrs | | by Editorial Comment
President Mugabe to stage double burial
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe will tomorrow conduct a double burial for the late Vice-President Simon Muzenda's widow, Maud, and Zanu PF politburo member George Rutanhire at the National Heroes' Acre....Published: 25 Aug 2017 at 09:17hrs | | by Newsday Editorial Comment
Grace Mugabe a laughing stock
Below is the Editorial Comment from today's Newsday. THE storm around First Lady Grace Mugabe's debacle in South Africa is still far from calming, yet s...Published: 25 Aug 2017 at 09:13hrs | | by Newsday Editorial Comment
Circus about Ndebele King must come to an end
The circus regarding the revival of the Ndebele kingdom continues to play out in the public domain, with rival groups each declaring who they prefer to be the successor.In the past month alone...Published: 24 Aug 2017 at 18:55hrs | | by Newsday Editorial Comment
Mugabe is no demi-god
NOW that the push by the Zanu-PF youth wing has yielded results after government declared President Robert Mugabe's February 21 date of birth a national holiday, multitudes of them may be asking thems...Published: 21 Aug 2017 at 08:47hrs | | by Newsday Editorial Comment
MDC-T and its gukurahundi culture
The signing of a pact by opposition players got off to a false start with the barbaric assault on MDC-T vice-president Thokozani Khupe after reports of a fallout over the coalition.Depending o...Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 10:43hrs | | by Editorial Comment
Zimbabwe's bond notes project collapsing
That sooner or later Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe chief John Mangudya's bond notes project would run into problems was a foregone conclusion.The bond notes, which were touted as the panacea to...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 12:13hrs | | by The Zimbabwe Independent Comment
Zanu-PF indaba must focus on economy
The Zanu-PF 15th National People's Conference began in earnest yesterday, with the revolutionary party holding its Politburo meeting in the capital while the Central Committee will meet tomorrow....Published: 08 Dec 2015 at 03:52hrs | | by Comment
Mugabe hit nail on the head
PRESIDENT Mugabe last week implored authorities to engage contractors with the capacity to deliver quality work on our roads after noting that a lot of money had been spent on some shoddy work in the...Published: 29 Nov 2015 at 10:04hrs | | by Comment
Comment: 'Mugabe does not like anyone not even the Shona people'
This comment was in response to Ryton Dzimiri's 'Conmen led us to Zimbambwa'"...Published: 14 Nov 2015 at 08:55hrs | | by Byo24News Comments
Do women know what they want?
Last year I wrote about what various group players in our sad politics can do improve their performance. I particularly looked at the extent to which the youths, the Church and political parties can p...Published: 09 Jan 2015 at 07:46hrs | | by Chris Dube, Political Commentator
Mujuru struck a presidential pose and tone in her press statement
Below is the Editorial Comment from today's Herald.VICE President Joice Mujuru struck a presidential pose and tone in her press statement released exclu...Published: 19 Nov 2014 at 07:02hrs | | by Herald Editorial Comment
Mugabe's Zanu-PF must bring conspirators to book
There is a group in Zanu-PF that is power-hungry. It hastens after President Mugabe's position while he is still in office. It is insolent and assumes, wrongly, that the President is no longer a f...Published: 30 Oct 2014 at 10:11hrs | | by Chronicle editorial comment
Grace Mugabe's PhD must be investigated
BRUISED but determined to cling to power, the Zanu-PF regime led by President Robert Mugabe, whose interest seems to be safeguarding his family interests by manoeuvring his wife in the succession race...Published: 19 Sep 2014 at 10:19hrs | | by Candid Comment with Godwell Gwavava
Chihuri: Apology not accepted, just retire please
Our African culture says a man may not refuse to be accorded an apology but has the right to refuse to accept that apology, say why they can't accept the apology and agree to disagree with the per...Published: 30 May 2014 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter | Commentary
A view from the sideline: More questions than answers on Sikhala's MDC T move
So Job "Wiwa" Sikhala has decided to find his way to the Morgan Tsvangirai led Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) after nine years of continuously bashing of his ex political love.Job Si...Published: 14 Mar 2014 at 06:06hrs | | by Correspondent (Commentry)
Give Thabo Mbeki a 'BELLS'
Yesterday we carried a story which quoted former South African president Thabo Mbeki revealing that his government had been under pressure from the Labour regime of British premier Tony Blair to co-o...Published: 28 Nov 2013 at 11:50hrs | | by Herald Editorial Comment
Zanu-PF is inseparable from former guerrillas
For the past few weeks there has been an outcry from the western backed parties and their supporters claiming that elections in Zimbabwe would not be free and fair because the military is campaigning ...Published: 31 Oct 2012 at 13:07hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani, a Harare-based social and political commentator
Messi grabs a hat trick as Argentina dismiss Brazil
That was probably the best game I have witnessed in the last few years. In the end it was Messi who won it for Argentina with a sublime finish but Brazil have done well to take the Albiceleste so far....Published: 09 Jun 2012 at 19:57hrs | | by Live commentary
To win back Bulawayo, Zanu-PF must deliver
For the next seven days, Bulawayo will temporarily transform from a decaying metropolis to Zimbabwe's most important city.Among all the towns and cities in this country that are crying out for...Published: 04 Dec 2011 at 07:16hrs | | by Editorial Comment
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