Columnist / Dumisani muleya
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 Chami...Published: 16 Dec 2023 at 18:58hrs | | 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 disru...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 09:32hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 11 | by Dumisani Muleya
Chamisa's difficult political calculus
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa — who is hugely popular and got over two million votes in the 2018 presidential election — is caught between a rock and a hard place a...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:14hrs | | 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 pu...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 20:22hrs | | 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 differen...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Dumisani Muleya
Why protests are important
LAST night as I was scrolling down latest postings - usually not very useful except for banter and comic relief - on our WhatsApp chat group feed with former journalism training classmates, I came acr...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:55hrs | | 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 — for good reasons.Since being appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa i...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:07hrs | | 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 th...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 15:16hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
Mugabe's shadow lingers on...
IT'S a tedious cliché, 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 th...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 19:31hrs | | 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 ...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:10hrs | | 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 ...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:55hrs | | 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...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:16hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
The cost of botched transition
WHEN former president Robert Mugabe was ousted through a cautious military coup in November 2017, most Zimbabweans across the political divide and from all walks erupted with jubilation and relief....Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 18:47hrs | | 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 retribut...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 14:48hrs | | 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 s...Published: 12 May 2018 at 15:27hrs | | 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 o...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 15:59hrs | | 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 ...Published: 06 Oct 2017 at 13:02hrs | | 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...Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 10:08hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
Mugabe, Chiwenga face off
FOR a long time now we have been writing that the stage in which we are in terms of President Robert Mugabe's succession matrix is brinkmanship. We have reached a point where Mugabe and the military -...Published: 28 Jul 2017 at 14:38hrs | | 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 ...Published: 23 Jun 2017 at 12:47hrs | | 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 succe...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 13:40hrs | | 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, ...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 15:48hrs | | 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-combat...Published: 11 Jun 2016 at 16:07hrs | | 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-change...Published: 04 Mar 2016 at 08:18hrs | | 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 dism...Published: 07 Jul 2015 at 11:13hrs | | 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 issu...Published: 06 Feb 2015 at 12:16hrs | | 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, ...Published: 12 Dec 2014 at 20:28hrs | | 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 Pres...Published: 17 Nov 2014 at 21:06hrs | 2 | 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 p...Published: 14 Mar 2014 at 08:35hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
Tsvangirai, cousin in $1,5m public funds fraud probe
POLICE are investigating Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai over an alleged fraud involving US$1,5 million in public funds released two years ago by the government to enable him to buy a mansion in the...Published: 05 Aug 2011 at 08:32hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya & Faith Zaba
Where is the $300 million: Biti
THERE were furious scenes at a stormy high-level government meeting on Tuesday attended by President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai over the missing US$174 million in diam...Published: 28 Feb 2011 at 06:23hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
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