Columnist / Jealousy dutiro
How Zimbabwe has become the world's top tourist destination
A few weeks ago, Lonely Planet, perhaps the number one travel publication in the world, released their top 10 countries to visit in 2019. Zimbabwe was number three. A few days later, National Geograph...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 14:27hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
Want to understand ZANU-PF Conference… Ignore the noise!
Over the past few days, the media has been dominated by the 2018 ZANU-PF party conference, with both sides going into hyper-partisan overdrive.On the one hand you have the state media. Everyth...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 07:35hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
Zimbabwe's great war
There are many benefits to the study of history. While granted, some episodes of our past provide for great entertainment, the main benefit in my view is the ability to calmly examine historical event...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 12:21hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
Nelson Chamisa is by now pathologically delusional
Since his entry into national politics, Nelson Chamisa has made a lot of outlandish claims. Well, to be honest, even his entry, through a window after the passing of MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, was ...Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 10:32hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
Chamisa's cyber democracy is a fraud
The will of the people shall never be overshadowed by the voice of the minority just because they shout loudly. This is a basic concept of modern democracy. There are legitimate and academic discussio...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 13:15hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
The undertaker of the MDC as we know it: Nelson Chamisa
In hindsight, one always has perfect vision. This is as true as it is obvious, but sometimes you can clearly see and understand current developments as they unfold in front of your eyes. This of cours...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 09:27hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
Beware of liars like David Coltart: We need to be responsible!
David Coltart has been looking for excuses to justify the crushing MDC defeat all evening. I woke up to this tweet this morning;"No results displayed for Victoria Falls Ward 2. Tent has been r...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 09:05hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
How Nelson Chamisa lost the elections
If you were looking for the perfect candidate to run in an elections after over three decades of undemocratic rule to replace a dictator who is 94 years, you would probably assume that someone young, ...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 07:37hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
When Chamisa lost me
Like many people, I had been looking forward to attending the MDC final rally in Freedom Square. To enjoy the atmosphere, hear the music and to listen to the inspirational final words before polling d...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 12:49hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
How Grace Mugabe lost the election for Nelson Chamisa
So we are almost there! The great harmonised elections are just around the corner. ED is winning in every poll. He is going to win. And quite frankly, this time he deserves it.I have spent my ...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 18:22hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
Political expediency must have red lines: keep Grace Mugabe out
Recently Zimbabwean politics has looked a little like Game of Thrones. All sorts of strange and surprising alliances have popped up. Former foes become friends. Former friends become foes. The moving ...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 13:28hrs | 1 | by Jealousy Dutiro
Chamisa slip reveals dangerous plans
There is only so long a person can keep up the pretence. Eventually, however hard he tries try, the mask will slip and a person's true self is revealed. That is what American crime writer Robert Bloch...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 19:48hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
Revealed - the only woman Chamisa respects
Over the past few months one thing about Nelson Chamisa has become abundantly clear - he has no respect for women. None at all.Let's start with his own family. His sister for example, who he o...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 13:03hrs | 22 | by Jealousy Dutiro
Why Chamisa doesn't want elections
MDC-T President Nelson Chamisa doesn't seem too keen on elections and democracy.For many months now, Chamisa has been bragging that he doesn't even need the elections because he has already ta...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 08:26hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
The lessons of the Rwandan Genocide have not been learnt by Chamisa's MDC
In 1992, an official in Rwanda's ruling Hutu party, Leon Mugeseraa, said in front of more than 1,000 party members that the Tutsis were cockroaches and they should be disposed of.Only a few mo...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 15:16hrs | 1 | by Jealousy Dutiro
Like Judas Iscariot did to Jesus, Chamisa has sold out his people for money
One of the most devastating texts in the whole Bible is when Judas Iscariot sells out Jesus to the authorities which leads to the Crucifixion of our Lord and Saviour.Luke 22 details the episod...Published: 08 Jul 2018 at 09:43hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
Chamisa and Mugabe: Tell us the truth about your relationship
While reports that Chamisa met former president Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace in Dubai, agreeing on a 20-member Cabinet team if he wins the elections on July 30, may not be true, there are still ve...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 17:11hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
Defeat to Khupe proves Chamisa lacks the judgement to be president
Amidst all the claims and counter-claims, the conflicting reports and the fake news, one fact is now indisputable. We don't know if Chamisa ever met Mugabe in Dubai. Or if Mugabe is funding him or not...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 12:43hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
Since when has the MDC been the racist party?
Everything it seems in Zimbabwean politics today is upside down, the opposite of what we have been used to. Suddenly it is ED preaching peace, love and unity, and committing time and again to free and...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 12:05hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
Is Chamisa's rhetoric fanning the flames of violence?
There is no suggestion that anyone in the MDC was behind the attack on President Mnangagwa, members of his government and supporters on Saturday in Bulawayo. That much is clear. Yet nonetheless, some ...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 10:56hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
Why Chamisa and Grace won't kiss and tell
It seems like the greatest soap opera in Zimbabwe these days is the seemingly on and off romance between MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa and Grace and Robert Mugabe.We have heard both si...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Jealousy Dutiro
MDC has now officially become the party of violence
Many of us long standing MDC supporters were worried this day would eventually come.Unfortunately, according to the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP), an organisation founded in 2000 by church-base...Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 16:31hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
Chamisa is managing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
"Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory," is an ironic reversal of a well-known idiom that sort of sums up MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa's election campaign so far....Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 18:04hrs | 1 | by Jealousy Dutiro
Chamisa's lack of a unique vision and plagiarism has left me despondent and rudderless
Perhaps we always knew but didn't want to believe. Since the last elections in 2013, many from within the MDC had complained about Nelson Chamisa. Many blamed him for the loss of those elections....Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 20:20hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
Nelson Chamisa's Attitude Problem
Manifestos are often mundane policy heavy affairs. The launches are produced with much fanfare, and policies are thrown around from housing to health, infrastructure to ICT. Policies which...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 09:14hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
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