Columnist / Gibs
Zimbabwe will not regret taking back land!
ON January 1, 1994, a group of indigenous Mexicans took up arms against their government in what became known as "the struggle of the Zapatistas".While the idea of an armed insurgency was quic...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:19hrs | 74 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Zimbabwe politics is no game for naive thinkers
They say hope is for people who cannot see the truth! There are those hopeful one day Zanu-PF will stop governing Zimbabwe, yet the truth is speaking against their hope.In a candid conversatio...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 05:17hrs | 2 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Why Zanu-PF will remain in power
Western countries, through some of their election observers, are interfering in the country's elections. The interference is being done to aid their preferred candidate, Nelson Chamisa.They po...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 06:25hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Incompetent Western puppet faking political bravery
There is a sequence that can be employed to identify CCC leader Nelson Chamisa as a snollygoster!A snollygoster is a political candidate, usually willing to be an instrument of another country...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:41hrs | 9 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Ndebele artists compelled to perform in their 'oppressor's' language?
In his analysis of ethnicity and tribalism in Zimbabwe, Eleph Gula-Ndebele explains that the ethnic cleansing of Ndebele people during the Gukurahundi genocide is a sore that refuses to go away for ma...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 07:21hrs | 10 | by Gibson Ncube & Gugulethu Siziba
US, CCC and local journalists gang up to foment chaos
The US government through its Harare embassy has started sponsoring local journalists to write more negative stories about Zimbabwe, at the same time undermining Chinese investments to create national...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:19hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
African NGOs: Conveyors of national subversion?
Did you know that over 75 percent of the world's poor today live in Africa compared to 10 percent in 1970?Did you know that despite receiving a total US$4,6 trillion in aid between 1960 and 20...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Is imperialism faltering or restrategising?
IMPERIALISTIC activities of western industrialised countries in Africa have since 1990 subtly changed, bearing violent objectives and consequences.Colonialism and imperialism today in Africa h...Published: 31 Jan 2022 at 05:43hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Chamisa a cunning megalomaniac
THERE is a problem that the Zimbabwean electorate is not seeing in the opposition politics of our country.The situation cannot even be explained using the words disaster and catastrophe. Many ...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
#GodIsInIt an unscientific political lie
The worst experience of being a politician is that one's loss is always on public display. Architects and handlers who conceived the idea to challenge Zanu-PF's political establishment through the opp...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
No democracy works without dialogue
WHEN a President in the United States of America (USA) is set to address the nation, it is often report-ed that many citizens tend to go about their business and catch up with the address afterwards. ...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:12hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Is UK impeding Zimbabwe's democratisation?
WHERE persuasion does not work, the big powers continue turning to sanctions.The imposition of sanctions against perceived powerful individuals in "undemocratic regimes" like Zimbabwe has been...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:48hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Malema on plot to depose Botswana President
South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema will use commemorations of the June 16 Soweto uprising of 1976 to lift the lid on a plot to unseat Botswana President Mokgweet...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 18:10hrs | 1 | by Gibson Nyathi
Mliswa takes dig at Wadyajena's Lamborghini acquisition
Outspoken Norton independent legislator Temba Mliswa has taken a dig at Zanu-PF Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena who recently imported a US$210 000 Lamborghini Urus in a show ...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 17:46hrs | | by Gibson Nyathi
Zimbabwe under scrutiny from the West
Zimbabwe is under close scrutiny by diplomatic missions posted in the country over the recent human rights abuses by the government, which has seen a surge in the arrest and torture of activists by st...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 17:48hrs | | by Gibson Nyathi
BREAKING: Morgan Tsvangirai's daughter dies
MDC founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai's daughter Vimbai Tsvangirai-Java has died from injuries sustained in an accident last month.Tsvangirai-Java who was MDC Alliance Glenview Sou...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 14:34hrs | | by Gibson Nyathi
Matabeleland North snubs Mthuli Ncube
Zanu-PF Matabeleland North on Saturday snubbed Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to represent the party in the Lupane East by-election.In the run up to the provincial meeting, speculation was rife...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 18:48hrs | | by Gibson Nyathi
'You bunch of hypocrites!' says Jonathan Moyo
Exiled former Zanu-PF spin doctor and minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has raised dust over the coverage of First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa by state broadcaster Zbc. Moyo, once an ally of former...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 18:45hrs | 1 | by Gibson Nyathi
BREAKING: Police in 2 tonne mbanje bust
Police in Zimbabwe have recovered more than two tonnes of mbanje in Inyanga on Wednesday. The police said they received a tip-off from members of the public to the effect that there were peopl...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 12:56hrs | | by Gibson Nyathi
Panic grips Mat South farmers
Farmers in Matabeleland South have been gripped by panic after 4000 cattle have died due to drought.According to provincial livestock experts, the drought is likely to wipe out almost half of ...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 06:52hrs | | by Gibson Nyathi
US declares interest in arrest of 7 activists in Zimbabwe
The United States has said it is closely monitoring the case involving the arrest of 7 activists charged with plotting to unseat the President Emmerson Mnangagwa led government. The activists ...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 06:50hrs | | by Gibson Nyathi
Zimbabwe tainted rights record stains regional police chairmanship
Zimbabwe has assumed the Southern African Regional Police Chiefs Cooperation Organisation (SARPCCO) chairmanship amid growing human rights concerns and arbitrary arrests of members of civil society or...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 15:29hrs | | by Gibson Nyathi
Zanu-PF to finalise Mthuli Ncube's Lupane candidacy
Zanu-PF Matabeleland North meets in Lupane this weekend where the candidacy of Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube in the Lupane East by election is expected to be discussed. The seat fell vacant fo...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 12:30hrs | | by Gibson Nyathi
'Zimbabwe fuel situation improving'
The Zimbabwean fuel situation is slowly improving although there is still more ground to be covered in restoring sanity in the sector, Energy Minister Fortune Chasi told Cabinet on Tuesday.In ...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 18:22hrs | | by Gibson Nyathi
Mliswa tackles business tycoon Billy Rautenbach
Norton legislator Temba Mliswa is headed for a faceoff with millionaire Billy Rautenbach over accusations that the business tycoon wants to evict members of the Joshua Nkomo Housing Cooperative from t...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 15:30hrs | | by Gibson Nyathi
State agents 'harass' NGO leader
Local NGO Heal Zimbabwe Director Rashid Mahiya's house was raided by state security agents on Tuesday in what the organisation has described as the perpetuation of a clampdown on civil society organis...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 14:52hrs | | by Gibson Nyathi
Zanu-PF 'spits' on Dabengwa's grave
Riled by the humiliation of senior officials suffered during the burial of struggle veteran Dumiso Dabengwa in Ntabazinduna, Matabeleland North on Saturday, Zanu-PF has come up with a new slogan denou...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 11:03hrs | | by Gibson Nyathi
Mnangagwa govt withholds Jonathan Moyo’s benefits
Exiled former Minister and Zanu-PF spin doctor Professor Jonathan Moyo has accused the Emmerson Mnangagwa led Government of deliberately withholding his terminal benefits from his service in the gover...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 10:51hrs | | by Gibson Nyathi
'You have blood on your hands,' Botswana President told
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi was at the weekend interjected by an animal rights activist as he addressed a diamond conference in Las Vegas, United States for lifting the ban on the hunt of ele...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 09:22hrs | | by Gibson Nyathi
Minister survives road accident
Mashonaland West provincial Minister Mary Mliswa-Chikoka survived a road accident when her vehicle side swiped a truck on Sunday. ...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 17:19hrs | | by Gibson Nyathi
Chamisa, Chief Ndiweni lash at missing Mnangagwa during Dabengwa burial
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa and Chief Ndiweni have lashed out at President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputies for failing to attend the Burial of struggle veteran Dumiso Dabengwa who was buried at Ntab...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 16:16hrs | 3 | by Gibson Nyathi
Mnangagwa and the genesis of the unseen
EDITOR,One African poet once remarked: "There is nothing wrong with the African mind. Our problem is the African mindset. It is not a lack of resources, but a deficit of resourcefulness. And o...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 09:00hrs | 1 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Thabo Mbeki's attempt to torpedo a people's agenda
"I am of a nation that would not allow that fear of death, torture, imprisonment, exile or persecution should result in the perpetuation of injustice. "I owe my being to the Khoi and the San w...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
'Live as brothers or perish together as fools'
The World Health Organisation's (WHO) International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision a few years ago officially declared immaturity an ailment. ...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 10:05hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Chamisa: Different democrat with many 'shades of grey'
"In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it," remarked Thucydides, a respected Athenian his...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:39hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Chamisa: A soldier simply fading away
There is nothing peculiar in challenging an election result in a court of law as that has been the tradition in many countries. Just a few instances suffice as examples. In the 2000 United Sta...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Chamisa's childish, fantasy promises unethical
MDC Alliance presidential candidate in the forthcoming harmonised elections Advocate Nelson Chamisa has perfected the art of political deception.In a bid to harvest votes, he has made a number...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 07:02hrs | 10 | by Gibson Mhaka
Chamisa expecting victory, yet planning defeat
ZANU-PF understands that in every circumstance, if its supporters do not pull the party agenda in one direction, they risk being pulled down. With solid structures with an ideological firmness that is...Published: 15 May 2018 at 06:58hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Tafadzwa Musekiwa resurfaces and label MDC-T candidates useless
Many of us clearly remember the young boy who was elected Member of Parliament for Zengeza West back in 2000. The young boy then fled from Zimbabwe to the UK barely months after his election. ...Published: 08 May 2018 at 08:38hrs | 2 | by Gibson Shanyika
'Elect a statesman, not a politician'
HISTORICALLY, the electorate the world over is left divided each time countries go for national elections. In Zimbabwe, where the electoral commission announced this week that the country is a thrivin...Published: 04 May 2018 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Tafadzwa Musekiwa resurfaces and label MDC-T candidates useless
Many of us clearly remember the young boy who was elected Member of Parliament for Zengeza West back in 2000. The young boy then fled from Zimbabwe to the UK barely months after his election. ...Published: 01 May 2018 at 11:51hrs | | by Gibson Shanyika
Chamisa, the curse of youthful exuberance
The parable of our time might well be: "Mind your young, or they will trouble you in your old age."During the Cold War, Chinese Premier Chou Enlai once observed: "One of the delightful things ...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 06:55hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
MDC Alliance headed for a split?
The 5th of August 2017 marked a historic day in the politics of Zimbabwe as Zimbabwean opposition political parties came together to form a united front to contest in this year's elections. Seven poli...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 19:02hrs | 1 | by Gibson Shanyika
Woman fakes pregnancy to dupe boyfriend
A Bulawayo woman was exposed by her ex-boyfriend for allegedly demanding money from him under the pretext that she was pregnant and wanted to perform an abortion.Lucy Emily Black's unconve...Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 17:06hrs | | by Gibson Mhaka
Man bashes wife over sex positions
SEX positions are apparently part of the formula to spice up things in the bedroom!This rings true for a Hope Fountain man on the outskirts of Bulawayo who is reportedly in the habit of beatin...Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 16:15hrs | | by Gibson Mhaka
SDA pastor 'forces' himself on married congregant
A pastor with the Bulawayo City Centre Adventist Church is at the centre of a sexual abuse storm following revelations that he allegedly attempted to force himself on a married congregant who is also ...Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 12:28hrs | 11 | by Bruce Ndlovu / Gibson Mhaka
Prophet Magaya speaks of rivalry between Makandiwa and him
PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder Prophet Walter Magaya on Friday night finally broke his silence on his perceived rivalry with fellow televangelist and United Family International ...Published: 08 Nov 2015 at 07:54hrs | | by Gibson Mhaka
South African rugby referee roused the ire of rugby union fans
Rugby World Cup referee Craig Joubert has roused the ire of rugby union fans after he capped a performance of debatable quality in the Australia-Scotland quarter-final by sprinting off the pitch at ...Published: 19 Oct 2015 at 09:53hrs | | by Sean Gibson
Maid delivers, keeps baby in bush
A woman, who was employed as a maid in Sizinda, Bulawayo, pulled a stunt fit for a novel when she allegedly gave birth to a baby boy and kept him in a bush where she secretly went to feed him....Published: 21 Jul 2015 at 20:48hrs | | by Gibson Mhaka
I was tricked - bashed mistress alleges
A Bulawayo woman who was allegedly beaten by her boyfriend's wife has opened up saying the man lied to her about his marital status.Nicole Mutenda said she fell in love with Rodwell Ndodana Nc...Published: 21 Jul 2015 at 20:42hrs | | by Gibson Mhaka
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