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Chiwenga will need a coup, or it will be over

Zimbabwean tenderpreneur and sanctioned businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei is now a Central Committee member, according to ZANUPF.This places him in pole position to become Zimbabwe's president as Emmerson Mnangagwa's chosen successor, unless…

Published: 09 Aug 2025 at 14:43hrs | 1575 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Mnangagwa tightening his grip on Zimbabwe's military and state security services

President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is reported to be tightening his grip on the military and state security services with immediate key appointments made this week, according to sources within the state.According to these reliable sources, Mnan…

Published: 07 May 2025 at 20:52hrs | 3423 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Chamisa blocks Hopewell Chin'ono

This tweet with a Bible verse where I was responding to Nelson Chamisa's own Bible verse got me blocked today. The tweet was merely reminding Chamisa that many Zimbabweans expect a lot from him simply because they voted for him in their mi…

Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 15:52hrs | 864 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Who is winning, Mnangagwa or Chiwenga?

The fired commander of Zimbabwe's National Army (ground forces), Lieutenant-General Anselem Nhamo Sanyatwe, has taken an oath of office as Zimbabwe's new Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture Minister.A few months ago, I mentioned on this pa…

Published: 28 Mar 2025 at 11:56hrs | 3899 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Teaching Ndebele in Zimbabwe schools will have helped Shonas

There are times when you think you are spitting someone, when in fact, you are destroying yourself.One such instance was when Robert Mugabe and his colleagues in ZANU (before it became ZANU-PF) thought they didn't need unity with ZAPU, as …

Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:21hrs | 299 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Zimbabwean have a mindset problem

Look at this picture!It is unquestionable that Zimbabwe has a terrible government, the worst it has ever had. However, Zimbabweans also have a mindset problem rooted in a competitive educational system that doesn't reward integrity and com…

Published: 12 Sep 2024 at 07:59hrs | 778 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Thokozani Khupe was from the wrong region

It has happened across the continent so many times, sometimes successfully, and sometimes it is thwarted.When the founding President of Kenya Jomo Kenyatta was dying, his Kikuyi clansmen mafia tried to block his Vice President, Daniel Arap…

Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 20:20hrs | 36 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Zimbabwe is one big Zanu-PF society

You guys are not serious at all!I told everyone who reads my social media as far back as April that there was a rift at the top of the opposition party after the deliberate but unstrategic marginalisation of the senior leadership in the op…

Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 13:04hrs | 2 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Who can Chamisa send to meet SADC presidents in the current crop of MPs?

I agree with you, the name CCC is gone, but the support remains, but that too is becoming demoralised with the lack of action to protect the votes.Nelson Chamisa is the most popular politician in Zimbabwe, but popularity without a robust p…

Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 21:27hrs | 16 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

'Reform or Perish' Hopewell Chin'ono warns CCC

Emmerson Mnangagwa was inaugurated yesterday for his second term. But as we can see from the arrest of Doug Colart and Tapiwa Muchineripi last night, nothing will change!What now, many have been asking me in my inboxes?The opposition in it…

Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 12:18hrs | 2769 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Diaspora should plan for post-Zanu-PF era

LAST week Wednesday was yet another heart-breaking day for me as I made my way through Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport to catch my flight.Many people, who came to greet me at the airport in Harare and on the plane, were mainly …

Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 06:22hrs | 3 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Zambia recovers its stolen helicopter from Zimbabwe

The Zambian national broadcaster Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) reports that the country's airforce pilots have been in Zimbabwe to bring back a stolen helicopter.According to the report, the helicopter was stolen by the f…

Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 19:26hrs | 11 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Bereka Mwana is backward, archaic and a discredited voting method

Bereka Mwana (asking voters to stand behind a candidate they are voting for) is backward, archaic and no self respecting democratic organization should ever use such a discredited voting method.Even the corrupt and incompetent ZANUPF did a…

Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 19:23hrs | 6 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Sikhala's daily life at Chikurubi

TODAY as you read this article, Job Sikhala would have woken up at 5:30am from the cold concrete floor that he has been sleeping on since his persecution and incarceration at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, which started four weeks ago.…

Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:51hrs | 19 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Will the system change if Chiwenga collapsed and died today?

Good morning my dear friends, I have been reflecting like everyone else and I have realized that we are making the same terrible mistakes that we made with Robert Mugabe.I say so because we targeted Robert Mugabe thinking that he was the o…

Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 22:56hrs | 4 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

A vote for anyone other than Chamisa at the MDC congress is a vote for political oblivion

Last night I posted an MDC rally video on my social media platforms and I asked whether the MDC elective congress campaigning was already in full swing.Many of my social media contacts responded with a multitude of opinions, but those oppo…

Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 15:28hrs | 2 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Financial illiteracy is our biggest enemy in Zimbabwe

I found a very interesting letter in one of my old books that I last read in 2004. It is a letter that I received from Barclays Bank (Zimbabwe), offering me a Z$1 million overdraft facility. Three years back in 2001, I had bought a propert…

Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:47hrs | 4 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Chamisa's folly of non-engagement exposed

The President set up the commission of enquiry into what happened on August the 1st when 6 people died as opposition supporters went on a rampage burning vehicles and destroying property. Naturally those who support the government of the d…

Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:14hrs | 7 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Mnangagwa's new cabinet will either kill or awaken Zimbabwe's economic prospects

The real threat to Zanu-PF's survival does not come from Nelson Chamisa's election petition court challenge. It comes from within Zanu-PF itself and how its leader will decide to confront the political and economic challenges before him.I …

Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 17:09hrs | 3 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Zanu-PF rejects spoiling MDC Alliance with their dirty tactics

Not long ago I warned about the dangers of coalitions built on political convenience and not values and ideological leanings. I warned that such coalitions bring unsavoury characters onboard whose main purpose will be at variance with…

Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 13:35hrs | 3 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Very little separates MDC Alliance from Zanu-PF

Last year sometime around September, I realised that Robert Mugabe's grip was not about to be released anytime soon, unless if his own people summoned the courage to turn against him.He seemed to be consolidating his power base by denigrat…

Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 16:42hrs | 5 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

MDC movement has proved that very little separates them from Zanu PF

I turned to Professor Brian Raftopolous and a senior respected civil society leader for ideas and discussions about our country.I proposed to them that the best way out of this political nightmare for the country was if Morgan Tsvangirai a…

Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 11:40hrs | 3 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Chamisa needs to stick to written speeches

Zimbabwe hasn't had a brilliant political orator of Robert Mugabe's proportions, but even Bob, the titanic speaker of note, stuck to his written scripts and speeches and would only deviate to emphasize a point which would have been well th…

Published: 31 May 2018 at 14:49hrs | 4 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Biti is offside on the British loan to Zim businesses

The opposition politicians must know what to oppose and what to support unless if they want to lose respect in the eyes of the citizens.The Tendai Biti attack on the $100M private sector loan to Zimbabwe by Britain's CDC and Standard Chart…

Published: 18 May 2018 at 11:00hrs | 4 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

The advantages Nelson Chamisa has so far

I was just wondering about the upcoming election and pondering on whether there are people still to be won over, so-called floating voters.The electoral dynamics in Zimbabwe are very interesting for political watchers.What matters now is h…

Published: 14 May 2018 at 16:26hrs | 1 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Mandiwanzira's 'Supa' corruption exposed

It is amazing how we get animated with factional fights and ignore relationships that are generally corrupt and affect us as a people.The biggest threat to the state and its survival is the continued abuse of state parastatals by governmen…

Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 14:46hrs | 7 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

'Mnangagwa delivers impassioned 90-minute address to visiting US senators'

I had a chat with an amiable insider who was in the delegations that met with President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week on Saturday.In what has been described as a spirited but calm performance to help his administration come out of the cold,…

Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 10:57hrs | 4 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Chamisa is daring us to think beyond the ordinary

I had a nice surprise this morning from Nelson "Wamba Dia Wamba" Chamisa when he called to wish me a happy birthday. We joked about the seminal promise he made in my backyard of Murewa where he talked about building us an airport if he win…

Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 11:51hrs | 5 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Mnangagwa 'doesn't have a team fit for purpose yet'

When President Emmerson Mnangagwa came into office after his former boss, Robert Mugabe, had been forced to resign following a military intervention, he could have done anything that he wanted to do and still get away with it.Such was the …

Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 10:27hrs | 4 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Why Mnangagwa dispensation keeps old problems

WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa came into office after his former boss Robert Mugabe had been forced to resign following a military intervention, he could have done anything that he wanted and still get away with it. Such was the huge an…

Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 14:55hrs | 6 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Mugabe's appeal to sympathy only exposes his many evils

I wonder what part of the human emotion and body that Robert Mugabe and his handlers wanted to appeal to. It was certainly not the brain.(This article first appears on Hopewell Chin'ono Facebook Page and is published with his permission)If…

Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 15:21hrs | 7 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Mugabe's Zezuru tribalism

THE irresponsible ethnic characterization of the political battles ahead of the next general election should be rejected by all right-thinking Zimbabweans. The idea that Robert Mugabe's NPF will get a sympathy vote from the Mashonaland pro…

Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 09:44hrs | 36 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Allowing Mugabe to rejoin politics in the name of democracy is illogical

Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe cried and lamented "betrayal by his lieutenants" when he agreed to step down last week under pressure from the military and his party after 37 years in power. If Mugabe were German, he would have b…

Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 14:34hrs | 2 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Was it correct for army to remove Mugabe

ALL those who doubted whether the Zimbabwe Defence Forces did the right thing, Robert Mugabe's rambling last Saturday is your answer. Countries are ruled via constitutions, but what if the ruler is breaking every aspect of that country's c…

Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 05:19hrs | 1 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Mugabe's exit from politics is not enough to absolve individual crimes: Chin'ono responds to Dendere

CHIPO Dendere's testimony on Wednesday at the US Congress, looking at the post-Robert Mugabe era has been the subject of various discussions online.  She made some interesting points, some which I don't agree with. This is not a gener…

Published: 04 Mar 2018 at 20:27hrs | 7 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

The inside story on Britain's shifting attitude towards Zimbabwe

The arrival of the Zimbabwean Finance Minister, Patrick Chinamasa, in London signals a new chapter for Zimbabwe's relations with its former colonial master.Britain's Foreign Minister, the sometimes clownish but intelligent Boris Johnson wa…

Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 15:53hrs | 6 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Mugabe has NO right to talk about being removed unconstitutionally

All those who doubted whether the Zimbabwe Defence Forces did the right thing, Robert Mugabe's rambling on Saturday is your answer. Countries are ruled via constitutions, but what if the ruler is breaking every aspect of that country's con…

Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 13:20hrs | 3 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Will Mnangagwa sink forever or resurface?

Thank you very much Professor Ken Mufuka for 'responding' to my article: The Demise of Mnangagwa. Please see:  Letter from America - Mnangagwa: I understand perfectly!However, I think that your argument was not actually an apt respons…

Published: 10 Nov 2017 at 10:20hrs | 3 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Mandela mocked Mugabe and Mugabe also mocked Mandela

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's verbal barbs on Nelson Mandela have a historical context, which both men helped accentuate.South Africa's first majority and black President Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in apartheid jails whilst Rober…

Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 12:05hrs | 4 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

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