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Chamisa has made a lot of mistakes because he is trying

IN the aftermath of local political activist Sengezo Tshabangu's recalls tsunami and by-elections that have shaken the main opposition CCC to the core and disrupted it badly, party leader Nelson Chamisa - the most popular and bona fide opp…

Published: 16 Dec 2023 at 18:58hrs | 12 | by Dumisani Muleya

ZimDaily recycling a discredited historical myth

While most progressive Zimbabweans are genuinely outraged by renegade political activist Sengezo Tshabangu's calculated and determined assault on democracy at the behest of forces of darkness by disrupting the main opposition CCC, yet aidi…

Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 09:32hrs | 287 | by Dumisani Muleya

Chamisa's difficult political calculus

ZIMBABWE'S main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa â€” who is hugely popular and got over two million votes in the 2018 presidential election â€” is caught between a rock and a hard place ahead of crucial by-elections on 26 Marc…

Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:14hrs | 1173 | by Dumisani Muleya

Ndiweni catalyst for debate

WHY has Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni of Ntabazinduna in Matabeleland North, outside Bulawayo, raised so much controversy and debate in Zimbabwean social and political circles to a point where his public profile is growing at a dramatic r…

Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 20:22hrs | 18 | by Dumisani Muleya

Free advice to Mnangagwa

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is surrounded by good people. Among them, he has great formal and informal advisers; talented and eminent people from different backgrounds, who really can make a difference if given some latitude to express th…

Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:38hrs | 22 | by Dumisani Muleya

Zacc must catch big fish, not frogs!

ZIMBABWE Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairperson Loice Matanda-Moyo is currently hogging the public limelight â€” for good reasons.Since being appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa into the hot seat recently, she has been a breat…

Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:07hrs | 34 | by Dumisani Muleya

Mnangagwa's dire annus horribilis

EVEN if one is President Emmerson Mnangagwa's family member, friend, crony, diehard supporter, or staunch political ally - as long as they have common sense and are not dishonest - they would admit that since he took over after the dispute…

Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 15:16hrs | 1301 | by Dumisani Muleya

Mugabe's shadow lingers on...

IT'S a tedious clichÃ©, but best captures what is happening in Zimbabwe now: the more things change, the more they remain the same. I couldn't immediately find any better expression which describes the current situation in an equally preci…

Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 19:31hrs | 8 | by Dumisani Muleya

Obasanjo learns the hard way in Zimbabwe

FORMER Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo - who supported Zimbabwe's liberation struggle in the late 1970s when he was a military ruler - learnt it the hard way that democracy is not yet working in this country when he visited Harare yes…

Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:10hrs | 17 | by Dumisani Muleya

Advising Mnangagwa's presidential advisers

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday held his inaugural meeting with the Presidential Advisory Council (Pac) recently appointed to assist in bringing in new ideas, policy proposals and solutions to Zimbabwe's myriad of problems.Objective…

Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:55hrs | 486 | by Dumisani Muleya

Mugabeism must be dismantled

YESTERDAY Zimbabweans commemorated, or simply just observed, former president Robert Mugabe's birthday which has now been institutionalised into a national holiday, even though the majority might have done so with disdain, bitter memories …

Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:16hrs | 17 | by Dumisani Muleya

Mnangagwa needs Lincolnian wisdom

IN the aftermath of yet another hotly-disputed presidential election between President-Elect Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, as well as subsequent brutal retribution against opposition activists, Zimba…

Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 14:48hrs | 17 | by Dumisani Muleya

Mnangagwa's dangerous new slogan

THE ruling Zanu-PF last Friday launched its 2018 election manifesto which has been widely criticised as tantamount to building castles in the air, just like the 2013 one.Neutrals and critics say the party has shown beyond reasonable doubt …

Published: 12 May 2018 at 15:27hrs | 18 | by Dumisani Muleya

Nkosana Moyo best candidate available

ZIMBABWEAN politics often confound pundits, as it has done in the past and may well continue to do so in the future, and while defying the best political science tenets and common sense. So thinking outside the box is sometimes critical on…

Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 15:59hrs | 2820 | by Dumisani Muleya

Dear Vice-President Mnangagwa

MY name is Dumisani Muleya. I am currently the chief content officer of Alpha Media Holdings, which publishes the NewsDay, The Standard and the Zimbabwe Independent newspapers. I'm also the editor of the Independent.I have been working in …

Published: 06 Oct 2017 at 13:02hrs | 15 | by Dumisani Muleya

Tribalism undercurrents bubbling under the surface

IF there is anything terribly ominous and disturbing about President Robert Mugabe's current succession power struggle tearing Zanu-PF asunder, it is not just the involvement of the military, but also tribalism undercurrents bubbling under…

Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 10:08hrs | 747 | by Dumisani Muleya

Mugabe gets away with murder

SOUTH African opposition parties yesterday celebrated after Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng ruled that Speaker of Parliament Baleka Mbete could conduct a vote-of-no-confidence motion in President Jacob Zuma through a secret ballot.The court …

Published: 23 Jun 2017 at 12:47hrs | 9 | by Dumisani Muleya

Jonathan Moyo threw a cat among pigeons

LAST week Higher Education minister and Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo threw a cat among pigeons after he launched an unexpected yet thought-provoking review of President Robert Mugabe's succession contenders.Moyo made a useful, th…

Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 13:40hrs | 1728 | by Dumisani Muleya

Mugabe succession a puzzle

WATCHING President Robert Mugabe ungainly walking in public or labouring through some turgid and soporific prepared text - often with slurred speech - evokes different emotions ranging from sympathy, astonishment to ridicule.For some his o…

Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 15:48hrs | 18 | by Dumisani Muleya

Mugabe faces nasty endgame

JUDGING by his unprecedented attacks on war veterans in Harare yesterday, President Robert Mugabe - wobblingly on his 92-year-old legs - is clearly heading towards a nasty clash with the ex-combatants as he faces an endgame of tragic dimen…

Published: 11 Jun 2016 at 16:07hrs | 13 | by Dumisani Muleya

Mujuru a potential game-changer

FORMER vice-president Joice Mujuru, who this week launched a new party, Zimbabwe People First (ZPF), to challenge her mentor-turned-adversary President Robert Mugabe could turn out to be a game-changer. But there is a caveat: only if she a…

Published: 04 Mar 2016 at 08:18hrs | 4439 | by Dumisani Muleya

Is Grace Mugabe's 'bedroom coup' a reality in Zimbabwe?

WHEN former war veterans' leader Jabulani Sibanda last October warned of a "bedroom coup" brewing in Zanu PF ahead of the party's acrimonious December congress, his remarks could have simply been dismissed as polemics in an intensifying su…

Published: 07 Jul 2015 at 11:13hrs | 11 | by Dumisani Muleya

How the mighty have fallen!

ORDINARILY President Robert Mugabe's embarrassing tumble at the Harare International Airport soon after addressing party supporters upon his arrival from the African Union summit should not be an issue, but then when the mighty fall we can…

Published: 06 Feb 2015 at 12:16hrs | 2879 | by Dumisani Muleya

Mugabe didn't want Mujuru to be removed in a brutal way

IN the aftermath of Zanu-PF's historic congress in which the force of n*ked coercion was used in the internal power struggle, fuelled by President Robert Mugabe's unresolved succession, amid purges, the bloodbath continues as shown by this…

Published: 12 Dec 2014 at 20:28hrs | 10850 | by Dumisani Muleya

Mugabe's manipulative and ruthless politics

LAST week in this column I apparently touched a raw nerve and gave hostage to fortune by arguing suspended Zanu-PF spokesman Rugare Gumbo's interview in 1980 rerun last week gave insight into President Robert Mugabe's personality and polit…

Published: 17 Nov 2014 at 21:06hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya

Zanufication of the MDC-T

WHEN the MDC was formed in 1999, it was expected to provide a democratic alternative based on upholding democracy, human rights and the rule of law. This was necessitated by Zanu-PF's leadership and policy failures which had led Zimbabwe d…

Published: 14 Mar 2014 at 08:35hrs | 2223 | by Dumisani Muleya

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