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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 seems to have suddenly dawned to the British that t…

Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:41hrs | 17 | 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 all, when the law applies to you, you are presume…

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 an issue, for, there was absolutely no other shop to c…

Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:29hrs | 14 | by Isdore Guvamombe

Every child must at one stage stay at grandmotherâ€™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 liked grandmother because she rarely bea…

Published: 08 May 2021 at 07:58hrs | 2 | 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-attack. "The social media attack is most …

Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:01hrs | 2 | 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 to familiarise, and after trudging the…

Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:56hrs | 4 | 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 their own countries, and when the law e…

Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 07:58hrs | 3 | 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 knew he was a mere brave messenger, the ow…

Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | 2 | 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 to establish a new system in which the…

Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | 190 | 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 colonial master, whose bilateral dispute w…

Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:18hrs | 94 | 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 appears the motor-mouth MP has a way o…

Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:28hrs | 3 | 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 colony and as if we are stupid, uneduc…

Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 1 | 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 against the thread and are dismissively se…

Published: 28 May 2019 at 07:44hrs | 5 | 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 that underpins his interests and then structures t…

Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:54hrs | 5 | 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 been strong and determined to implement the land r…

Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 06:54hrs | 1 | 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 another to maintain the illegal sanctio…

Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 06:41hrs | 5 | 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) are the gods, what they say is divine…

Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 22:35hrs | 3 | 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 with Chamisa at the moment would be sto…

Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:01hrs | 2044 | 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 subservient to it and give US access to our …

Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 06:40hrs | 1 | 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 peace and tranquillity, not rogue and irres…

Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 07:09hrs | 16 | 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.Back in the village as the 2018 harmonised…

Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 06:59hrs | 4 | 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 college. Back in the village as the 2018 ha…

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 condescending superlatives in our diction.Bloo…

Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 07:51hrs | 2 | 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 continental bloc that swallowed the id…

Published: 22 May 2018 at 06:05hrs | 1 | 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 October last year, about a month before …

Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 05:44hrs | 3 | 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 horns, mooing, spattering dung and spoili…

Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 08:02hrs | 3 | 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 have done as a benefactor of Zimbabwe's football. No o…

Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 06:30hrs | 2140 | 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 buying a mirror, for there is certainl…

Published: 23 Oct 2015 at 11:00hrs | 2 | 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, village elders, the ageless autochthons of…

Published: 20 Feb 2015 at 14:32hrs | 3525 | 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 tourism stories, period. Since then I have been in …

Published: 18 Jul 2014 at 11:43hrs | | 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 with the dictates of nature!And, it is a…

Published: 15 Jun 2012 at 08:10hrs | 2179 | 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, honey and dust, entered 2012 in style, pom…

Published: 21 Jan 2012 at 20:52hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe

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