Columnist / Fungi kwaramba
Chamisa has no one to blame but wapusa wapusa
Growing up in the country's ghettos, playing plastic balls was commonplace. Young boys stripped to their shorts, sometimes with holes that revealed their nether parts, and ran in the scorching...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 06:24hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
How the EU captured Sadc observer Mission
THE SADC Election Observer Mission (SEOM) and the opposition CCC were pawns in the European Union (EU) grand scheme to effect regime change in Zimbabwe with the August 23/24 harmonised elections the t...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Zimbabwe must bolt the doors to biased observers
Recently, an African teenage boy living in the French ghettos known as banlieues was shot dead in a botched traffic stop that was captured on video, spotlighting systematic violence and racism in Fran...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 07:12hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Bodies of seven miners retrieved from shaft
THREE nights of pumping water out of the 240-metre-deep shaft at Bucks Mine in Colleen where seven miners have been trapped underground since Saturday were met with dead silence when the first body wa...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 6 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Surely, there is no honour among thieves
NO honour among thieves is a universal truth, a biblical saying that has found resonance globally to denote the actions of robbers who usually double-cross each other, never mind the perils involved i...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:19hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Biti regurgitates application
CCC official Tendai Biti, who is facing charges of manhandling Russian investor Ms Tatiana Aleshina outside Harare Magistrates Court, is yet again seeking the recusal of Harare magistrate Mrs Vongai G...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:40hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Stayaway that never was exposes Western puppets
TODAY, Pachedu, a shadowy troll on Twitter, manned by some faceless characters, stands starkly naked, exposed as a Trojan horse of Western nations that have an incurable colonial hangover.In t...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:39hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Chamisa: Illusions of democracy, statesmanship
LAST week CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa was pontificating about the sovereignty of Ukraine, railing against the Russian special mission into its neighbour as a travesty that trampled on international s...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Something stinks in Nelson's yellow shack
The fissures in the country's opposition party recently ruptured as Mr Nelson Chamisa formed a new political party going by the ideologically-barren name; Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), but ther...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:26hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
MDC aversion to democracy - its death knell
A simple definition of democracy is a system of governance in which people choose their leaders by voting for them.That very definition, in its simplicity, was recently on display in the gover...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:31hrs | 1 | by Fungi Kwaramba
RevivED, on course, CompletED
FULFILLING a century-old dream, President Mnangagwa in February this year commissioned the Gwayi-Shangani Dam project, which will come with a 245 km water pipeline to Bulawayo and put an end to the se...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:39hrs | 6 | by Fungi Kwaramba
MDC violence a threat to national peace
TIME and again many have inked articles articulating how the MDC-Alliance is wired in violence, with the streak running so deep that removing it simply means an end to the political outfit that was fo...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:01hrs | 1 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Mugabe, former lieutenants shift blame: Who really was behind Gukurahundi genocide?
WHEN former president Robert Mugabe was swept away through a popular coup, the world celebrated the departure of an "evil dictator". Many hoped for a fresh start but that dream remains elusive...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:13hrs | 1 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Is this the end of Joice Mujuru?
It was in March 2016 when Joice Mujuru emerged in public for the first time since her dismissal from Zanu-PF and government in December 2014 to announce that her party - the Zimbabwe People First (ZPF...Published: 23 May 2018 at 14:53hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Bigwigs pillage new $500m agric scheme
HARARE - Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs minister, Martin Dinha, has made startling claims that senior Zanu PF officials and members of the military are looting the new $500 million government-...Published: 04 Jan 2017 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by FUNGI KWARAMBA
Mujuru daring to dream
It reads like a story plucked from a fiction novel, an adopted daughter being cast into the wilderness by her aging father, and out in the jungle there is nowhere for her to go but to return armed and...Published: 21 Mar 2016 at 13:33hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Mugabe ignores Grace in politburo debate
President Robert Mugabe flexed his muscles at Wednesday's long politburo meeting in Harare, where he apparently rejected outright passionate pleas by his influential wife Grace and other senior party ...Published: 18 Jul 2015 at 13:46hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Temba Mliswa ready to die for Hurungwe
Expelled Hurungwe West legislator and former Zanu-PF Mashonaland West chairman - Temba Mliswa - is not fazed by the State machinery and security agents deployed in his constituency by his former part...Published: 26 Apr 2015 at 16:03hrs | 1 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Mutsvangwa fêted by 'hated' Americans
Chris Mutsvangwa, the outspoken deputy minister of Foreign Affairs, who is often quoted by State media when they are denigrating other senior Zanu-PF officials accused of colluding with the West in th...Published: 14 Nov 2014 at 13:55hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Friends at referendum, enemies thereafter
Even before the ink had dried on ballots cast in the constitutional referendum held on Saturday, the camaraderie between Zimbabwe's shaky "unity" government parties was already crumbling.The ...Published: 20 Mar 2013 at 06:28hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba and Richard Chidza
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