Columnist / Isdore guvamombe
British obsession with Zimbabwe politics nauseating
It is election time again in Zimbabwe and the British are at it again, pushing a narrative to discredit the August 23, 2023 harmonised elections, because it is clear Zanu-PF is winning.It seem...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:41hrs | 9 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Patriotic Bill: The guilty are always afraid
If you are a law-abiding citizen of Zimbabwe or a bona fide organisation, why should you panic over a law that seeks to ring-fence the foreign policy of your country? Your own country?After al...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Reminiscing the thrills, pains of village life
The only shop in the village was perched precariously on a rock promontory, competing with itself in stature, grandeur, glamour, ambience and trinkets.It was a tapestry.Pricing was not...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:29hrs | 10 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Growing up in the village
Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve the moon rose slowly, tentatively and imperceptibly, its soft rays breaking the virginity of the night. Slowly darkness gave w...Published: 15 May 2021 at 09:40hrs | 10 | by Isdore Guvamombe-
Every child must at one stage stay at grandmother’s home
The eldest of us was Tapfuma, whose eggshell head made him look awkward. In our hierarchy Tapfuma was followed by me and then Obedience, a tall slim boy full of humour. The rest were toddlers. We so l...Published: 08 May 2021 at 07:58hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Job Sikhala to have his day in court
The trial of MDC-Alliance vice chairman, Job Sikhala, on allegations of inciting public violence sometime last year, has been set for June 30 at the Harare Magistrates Court. Prosecutor Mr Gar...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:34hrs | 6 | by Isdore Guvamombe
NGOs mustn't be surprised when Govt cracks whip
I am not a regular imbiber but once in a while I go into a decent bar for an hour of two, just to catch up. And just last week, I popped into a hotel bar, seeking decency, social distance and a bit of...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:34hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Cyberspace new frontier for US regime change agenda
Just a few days ago, while receiving a donation of personal protective equipment (PPE) from the Chinese government, President Mnangagwa pointed out that Zimbabwe was reeling under a sustained cyber-at...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:01hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Cry our beloved 'Sunshine City'
In the mid-1990s, I left my village in Guruve to work in Harare and it was a city of bliss and flamboyance. My uncle Obedience Masakara, who was streetwise aat the time, took me around the city centre...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:56hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
When looters become 'human rights defenders'
Zimbabwe and many other countries not subservient to the United States of America, it has become common practice that the US instigates opposition political activists to deliberately break the law of ...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Isdore Guvamombe
US regime change in Zimbabwe getting brazenly silly
Some of us were not surprised because there was really nothing to be surprised about! When Job Sikhala announced his party would remove constitutionally elected President Mnangagwa before 2023, we kne...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Let's deal with puppets
Back in the village, in Rhodesia, colonialism came in several waves, imposing itself on our people, who had their original political ideas, economic innovations and cultural idiosyncrasies, and sought...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Mnangagwa ups re-engagement drive with UK, Diaspora
Since the coming in of the new political dispensation, Zimbabwe has set its eyes on re-engagement. One of the critical countries that Zimbabwe has set its eyes on is the United Kingdom, the former col...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:18hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Of Zimbabweans in the UK
The Government has been clear that, while there are problems back home, authorities alone cannot sort them out. It needs all Zimbabweans, including those in the Diaspora to work towards rebuilding the...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Job Sikhala must stop behaving like a teaser bull
MDC-Alliance deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala, who has been arraigned before the courts on allegations of subverting a constitutionally-elected Government, is indeed, not new to controversy. It...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:28hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Zimbabwean attitude, self hate
Is it not a shame that over the years, a lot of us have been taught by the West to define everything from democracy to good governance and accountability in the eyes of foreigners as if we are still a...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Ndiweni: A goat skinner in the place of a chief
Back in my village, when elders with cotton tuft hair sit to discuss matters of State and governance, among intermittent sips and sniffs, there are those whose contribution is known to stupidly go aga...Published: 28 May 2019 at 07:44hrs | 1 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Africa doesn't need this thing called Africom
Back in the village, the best men are known to ring-fence their interests and defend them to the last stain of their blood. There, the best man is he who, against all odds, crafts a policy tha...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:54hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
The DA - MDC unholy Alliance
South Africa goes to elections next month at a time when the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is under siege for taking a decision to redistribute land. President Cyril Ramaphosa has bee...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 06:54hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
The fad of sanctions: Crimea lessons for Zimbabwe
Well, Zimbabwe has been under sanctions for about two decades now and it has become very clear to all and sundry that the United States of America and its allies, will continue using one excuse after ...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 06:41hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Willing recolonisation will forever be the hallmark of MDC-Alliance
The folly of Zimbabwe's destiny lies in a fetish plinth that Sadc and the African Union (AU) are insignificant to the African cause, while the European Union (EU) and International Criminal Court (ICC...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 22:35hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Chamisa is THE problem
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is no longer a factor in solving Zimbabwe's problems and neither is he worthy talking to over governance. He is a waste of time. For President Mnangagwa to dialogue ...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:01hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Enoughof Uncle Sam's bullying
The sanctions are indeed about the US's proclivity for regime change in order to achieve its goal to change the power matrix in Zimbabwe from Zanu- PF to the opposition MDC Alliance that will be subse...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 06:40hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Chamisa: Cross of Savimbi, Odinga
No one and virtually no one votes for a person who has no respect for women. Someone who thinks women should be restricted to domestic chores. No. Nelson No! Life is not like that. Zimbabwe needs peac...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 07:09hrs | 12 | by Isdore Guvamombe
MDC Alliance remains talk show as clock ticks
Two weeks before the elections the MDC Alliance has largely remained a talk show of kindergarten stories that have no takers in the adult world, which unfortunately, constitutes the voting college....Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 06:59hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Chamisa, prepare for defeat in a dignified manner
Two weeks before harmonised elections the MDC-Alliance has largely remained a talk show of kindergarten stories that have no takers in the adult world, which unfortunately, constitutes the voting coll...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Thank God it was not at an MDC rally
WELL, the explosion that killed two people and injured 47 others at a Zanu PF rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo recently was barbaric, heinous, cruel and should be condemned with all the condesc...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Isdore Guvamombe
MDC Alliance and the consensus nonsense
When the Movement for Democratic Change was formed in 1999, it pivoted around the word democracy. There is no doubt the catchword "democracy" earned the party unlimited intimacy with Western Europe, a...Published: 22 May 2018 at 06:05hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Mnangagwa's first 100 days and traffic police
Last weekend I left Harare for Victoria Falls - that international crib of tourism - by road and indeed, it made me reflect on the past. The last time I had done Harare-Victoria Falls by road was in O...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 05:44hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
When criticising Evan Mawarire becomes a crime
BACK in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, we know of teaser bulls - those small bullocks that fret and strut on the stage - beating the bushes and anthills with their green ho...Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 08:02hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Africa endorses Mzembi's candidature for UN post
It is confirmed, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Dr Walter Mzembi is now the official African candidate for the United Nations World Tourism Organisation Secretary-General's post.Dr ...Published: 21 Jul 2016 at 06:38hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Mzembi takes UNWTO campaign to African Union
Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, a cock is seen the day it is hatched. Dr Walter Mzembi, the longest serving Minister of Tourism in the world, this week takes his ca...Published: 07 Jul 2016 at 22:40hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Critics will always be there Sir Wicknell
Dear SirFirstly, hearty greetings from the village autochthons in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve.Secondly, the entire ancestral lineage is extremely happy with the work you...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 06:30hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Prostitution, the phenomenon of pushing volumes
Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, the ageless village autochthons - the original people who saw the virginity of the sun - say one should not question a blind man for...Published: 23 Oct 2015 at 11:00hrs | 1 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Jesus is not Magaya and the two are incomparable and incompatible
Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, issues about religion and religiosity, the art and the belief, occupy a very important space in socialisation. In the same vein, vil...Published: 20 Feb 2015 at 14:32hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Unpacking Zimbabwe's 2034 World Cup bid
From 2005 when I launched this column - Tourism Matrix - I have been in the thick of things in the tourism and hospitality industry. Prior to launching the column, I had been writing mere tour...Published: 18 Jul 2014 at 11:43hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Meet Zimbabwe's super dad - 15 wives, 128 kids, still counting
HE has fathered 128 children with 15 wives but has not stopped marrying and "manufacturing" more children. For Misheck Doctor Nyandoro, it is game on . . . three of his wives are pregnant and ...Published: 12 Jul 2014 at 20:30hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Inside a polygamous marriage
In the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, a man who swallows a mango seed, surely trusts that he has a big opening, for, the undigested seed would want to come out one day. What w...Published: 15 Jun 2012 at 08:10hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
The gospel of prosperity has become the in thing
The curtain finally came down on 2011, burying behind it moon-after-moon of activities and guess what, this villager who had taken a brief sabbatical to consult the soothsayer in the land of milk, hon...Published: 21 Jan 2012 at 20:52hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
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