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Mounting concerns over breach of ethical journalism

The names of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post reporters who gained international eminence as premier investigative journalists, following their investigation and exposure of the Watergate Scandal have remained embed…

Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:51hrs | 26 | by Geoffrey Nyarota

Zanla fighter's daughter now top medical officer in US

While a good number of gallant veterans of Zimbabwe's war of liberation brawled this week in Harare with the police, who charged them with seeking to incite public violence, a city in a distant land toasted the daughter of one deceased war…

Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:14hrs | 25 | by Geoffrey Nyarota

Journalistic tenets lost to 'hits' and the quest for followers

One of the greatest problems currently confronting journalists on the Zimbabwean media landscape is the emergence of social media, with the attendant proliferation of platforms populated by content producers who are anxious to attract foll…

Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:50hrs | 3 | by Geoffrey Nyarota

Simple recipe for Zanu-PF or MDC victory

A good number of those outstanding Zimbabweans who have chosen to serve their country as doctors, accountants, teachers, clergymen, lawyers, journalists, businessmen, politicians, documentary film-makers or whatever else, derived tremendou…

Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:54hrs | 11 | by Geoffrey Nyarota

How Nick Mangwana tweet invoked my memories of old

As a good percentage of Harare's social media community exploded in anger following the reintroduction last Tuesday, by Local Government minister July Moyo, of the former Rhodesia Railways coaches, now camouflaged by the much despised live…

Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 09:01hrs | 17 | by Geoffrey Nyarota

My desperate plea to billionaire Masiyiwa

Last Sunday I dwelt on the depressing theme of the hardship that journalists often endure for failing to toe the ill-defined line drawn by intolerant politicians.Newspaper editors must be the most vulnerable of workers. Volumes have been w…

Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:10hrs | 22 | by Geoffrey Nyarota

HH finally president after five losses, Chamisa will rise to become the next president of Zimbabwe

The victory of Hakainde Hichilema, or HH as he is popularly known among his fellow countrymen, as the seventh president of Zambia, our sister republic across the Zambezi, has been variously viewed by different political observers.They incl…

Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:07hrs | 2 | by Geoffrey Nyarota

Penchant for luxury in midst of abject poverty

Back in 2000 the BMW people in Harare, along Samora Machel Avenue invited a selection of business executives and motoring journalists to test-drive the first-generation BMW X5 luxury Sport Utility Vehicle or SUV, which had just been launch…

Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:58hrs | 17 | by Geoffrey Nyarota

How MDC-T lost a safe constituency

One of the most sensational stories of the 2013 harmonised elections the MDC-T primary election fraud at Mutungagore never saw the light of day in Zimbabwe's media.Zanu-PF secured victory as a result in what was an MDC-T safe constituency,…

Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:37hrs | 14 | by Geoffrey Nyarota

How committed is Mnangagwa to eradication of corruption?

PreSIdenT emmerson dambudzo Mnangagwa addressed the nation on the auspicious occasion of the fifth edition of the African Anti-Corruption day on July 12, 2021.I listened to the president with keen interest in the context of the crescendo o…

Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 06:56hrs | 4 | by Geoffrey Nyarota

Mystery of the Mberengwa 'ambula-cart'

AS Zimbabweans wallowed over the weekend in the boredom induced by the second coronavirus lockdown, an unusual but interesting picture went viral on social media.The image featured an ordinary-looking scotch cart, freshly painted in a verd…

Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:57hrs | 23 | by Geoffrey Nyarota

Saidi a journalistic giant among midgets

Yesterday a legend of newspaper journalism in Zambia and Zimbabwe was laid to rest in the city of Kitwe, in the Republic of Zambia, where he died two days into the New Year last week while visiting.The late William Sylvester Saidi, who bec…

Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 05:49hrs | 5 | by Geoffrey Nyarota

Grand coalitions no silver bullet for electoral victory over Zanu-PF

IN January 1980, as the Patriotic Front forces returned to Zimbabwe, after years in exile engaging in a bitter struggle against the Rhodesian military, then Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa and his United African National Congress (UANC) party…

Published: 17 Mar 2016 at 07:34hrs | 1869 | by Geoffrey Nyarota

If West can embrace East, why can't Zimbabwe?

This offering was prompted by an article that appeared in NewsDay last Thursday (December 3) at the peak of the visit to Zimbabwe by Chinese President Xi Jinping, who was accompanied by a huge delegation that signed along with their local …

Published: 16 Dec 2015 at 07:46hrs | 2 | by Geoffrey Nyarota

Onslaught on independent candidates unreasonable

Over the past few weeks I have found myself losing faith in my fellow Zimbabwean citizens in terms of their capacity to uphold democratic principles, as espoused in the founding documents of the two main political parties, my own MDC-T led…

Published: 14 Jul 2013 at 19:11hrs | 5 | by Geoffrey Nyarota

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