Columnist / John mukumbo
Coalition of opposition parties is a pipe-dream
Opposition political parties are still an amazing lot. Their dreams of a grand coalition which they think would dislodge the revolutionary party ZANU PF from power, come 2018 is still being talked abo...Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 07:05hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Opposition grand coalition, just a rhetoric
I was once a believer in opposition coalition politics in Zimbabwe but after reading an article by former Crisis in Zimbabwe executive director, Macdonald Lewanika in the Dailynews of 21 August 2016, ...Published: 25 Aug 2016 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by John Mukumbo
Command agriculture the way to go for Zimbabwe
The recent announcement by government on the $500 million command agricultural programme where it aims to produce two million tonnes of maize from 400 000 hectares of land, is an indicative that...Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 09:17hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Command agriculture the way to go for Zimbabwe
The recent announcement by government on the $500 million command agricultural programme where it aims to produce two million tonnes of maize from 400 000 hectares of land, is an indicative that the g...Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Mujuru offside on demonstrations
The formation of the Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) political party some few months ago was received by pomp and fanfare by some various Zimbabweans who thought that the new kid on the bloc led by the ...Published: 07 Jul 2016 at 14:38hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Mugabe's unity initiatives should be embraced
The move taken by President Robert Gabriel Mugabe on Saturday 25 June 2016 in which he forgo his busy schedule and flew to the Lowveld in Chiredzi to unite the factional parties which were acceler...Published: 29 Jun 2016 at 15:47hrs | | by John Mukumbo
No confidence votes: President Mugabe gives solutions
The ruling party, ZANU PF should take seriously President Robert Gabriel Mugabe's statement outlining how the no confidence votes can be carried out as to make sure that the exercise...Published: 13 Jun 2016 at 14:35hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Civil service audit implementable welcome
Reports from some public media that government has started to hunt for some ghost workers within the civil service could not have come at a better time considering the fact that the government has bee...Published: 01 Jun 2016 at 11:47hrs | | by John Mukumbo
#ThisFlag pastor is nothing but only seeking political relevance
The economic problems that are currently a talk in every Zimbabwean`s lips have driven people into believing and applauding any Tom and Dick who comes over saying that he/she can come up with solution...Published: 24 May 2016 at 14:24hrs | | by John Mukumbo
ZANU PF youths must denounce violence
The events of some few days ago where reports in the media that one of the ZANU PF youth leaders in Nemanwa business centre in Masvingo was assaulted by his counterparts over disagreements with others...Published: 18 May 2016 at 12:13hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Lumumba took it too late now seeking political relevance
Listening to Acie Lumumba, the former Chairman of a Steering Committee on the Zimbabwe Youth Empowerment Strategy for Investment's video, which he posted on his Facebook account recently makes o...Published: 05 May 2016 at 12:45hrs | | by John Mukumbo
MDC-T fuels corruption in local authorities
The move taken by the MDC-T leadership recently to influence the MDC-T-run Harare City Council to block a forensic audit of some Harare City Council-owned companies by the Auditor-General-appointed Pr...Published: 28 Apr 2016 at 12:06hrs | | by John Mukumbo
War vets demands; their right to do so
Every country the world over do recognises the importance of their people who would have fought for the liberation of such country. Some countries even attach that importance to the extent that even i...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 11:36hrs | | by John Mukumbo
The NPC needs to unite the feuding ZANU PF
Reading different newspapers in both the private and public media houses on a daily basis, one never misses the reports that allegedly show that there is chaos and division among ZANU PF members and s...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 10:12hrs | | by John Mukumbo
ZANU PF needs compromises on no confidences votes
The nationwide campaigns by the main opposition political parties in the country should send clear message to the governing revolutionary party ZANU PF that the time of back-biting and unnecessary vot...Published: 23 Mar 2016 at 12:04hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Father Zim's Kezi home falls apart: Senator being mischievous
The story by the Newsday of 15 March 2016 claiming that Father Zimbabwe's Kezi home is falling down, cannot go unchallenged as leaving it like that gives a wrong perception to the public. The Ne...Published: 16 Mar 2016 at 14:00hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Mujuru betraying her maturity through inconsistencies
Since the 2014 dismissal of Dr Joyce Mujuru as Vice President from both government and ZANU PF and the subsequent formation of her political party, the Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) meant to challenge...Published: 03 Mar 2016 at 09:49hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Mujuru using the dead for political relevance
The claim by the leader of the newly formed Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) party, Dr Joyce Mujuru, the former Vice President of Zimbabwe that her husband, General Solomon Mujuru was shot before being bur...Published: 25 Feb 2016 at 09:38hrs | | by John Mukumbo
ZANU PF should heed the President's call for unity
The address to the nation by President Robert Gabriel Mugabe on Friday 19 February 2016 calling for the factionalists in the ruling party ZANU PF to "Shut up", needs all peace loving Zimbabweans to he...Published: 20 Feb 2016 at 11:23hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Zanu-PF should guard against the emergency of ZP-FP
Recent reports by both the private and public media indicating that the People First project led by the former Vice President Dr Joyce Mujuru has registered with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC...Published: 17 Feb 2016 at 13:08hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Nothing can jolts President Mugabe
The First Lady Dr Amai Grace Mugabe spent most of her time last year going around the country meeting various people in which she ended up addressing multitudes of people who gathered to meet her duri...Published: 03 Feb 2016 at 13:07hrs | | by John Mukumbo
President Mugabe's UN Security Reform stance laudable
Some private media houses have chosen to ignore the good work that President Robert Mugabe did as the AU Chairperson only to shame themselves by saying that his big brother stature is what makes the A...Published: 03 Feb 2016 at 13:04hrs | 1 | by John Mukumbo
Land barons menace needs urgent attention
A lot of the urban Zimbabwean dwellers have been under pressure to own houses in various cities and towns where they work and reside but such dreams have been eluding them for time immemorial. It has ...Published: 26 Jan 2016 at 13:29hrs | | by John Mukumbo
God is for everyone big or small
In Zimbabwe some people have developed a tendency in which they want to create an issue where there is none and end up getting away with it. A lot of them have developed a habit in which they see noth...Published: 20 Jan 2016 at 11:49hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Media stoking fires of violence
Reading stories from the private media last week, and not last week only but every time and again, one could not appreciate what the private media stands for in the country.Their line of think...Published: 13 Jan 2016 at 05:17hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Biti seeking political relevance through shadow councillors
While ZANU PF is getting down in business preparing for the 2018 harmonised elections through coming up with tangible projects that are being implemented throughout the country for the benefit of the ...Published: 06 Jan 2016 at 18:47hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Coltart crying more than the bereaved
It is a fact that Zimbabweans fought for their independence as a move to create the good environment for everyone to walk and talk freely in the independent Zimbabwe without fear of any arrest that mi...Published: 04 Dec 2015 at 13:51hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Corruption: Zimbabwe should emulate China
Zimbabwe is in dire need of the foreign direct investment which could make the economic turnaround of the economy viable but such a move cannot be possible if a country is full of corrupt individuals ...Published: 03 Dec 2015 at 14:20hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Unity is what is needed in Zanu-PF
The First Lady Dr Amai Grace Mugabe has set the ball rolling by calling for all ZANU PF members to be united for the betterment of the country in general and the ruling party in particular. The First ...Published: 25 Nov 2015 at 13:02hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Serious farmers needed for successful land reform revolution
For over a decade now Zimbabwe has managed to transfer the land ownership scheme from the few white commercial farmers who were just about four thousand and five hundred to the black commercial farmer...Published: 19 Nov 2015 at 06:39hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Desperate Tsvangirai wrong to incite violence
As the hope of becoming the leader of the Zimbabwean government is fading away on a daily basis as well as is dawning on him that he would never be the one, the MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai thinks t...Published: 12 Nov 2015 at 13:21hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Investment on electricity generation most welcome
For more than a decade now, Zimbabwe has been experiencing short supply of electricity in both domestic and industrial consumption thereby hindering essential production of goods and services in the c...Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 13:26hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Success of the Conference hinges on the united ZANU PF
As the ruling party, ZANU PF heads towards its Annual People's Conference penciled for Victoria Falls in December 2015, its members and supporters should be united and make sure that they are not divi...Published: 29 Oct 2015 at 12:50hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Zanu-PF should heed Mugabe's call for unity
The call by the Zanu-PF's First Secretary and President, Cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe on 16 October 2015, during his address of the 99th Ordinary Session of the Zanu-PF Central Committee, that some part...Published: 22 Oct 2015 at 16:21hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Corruption and factionalism: threats to 2018 ZANU PF victory
The recently held survey by the Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) that revealed that the ruling party under President Robert Gabriel Mugabe still commands a following from the electorate in the cou...Published: 16 Oct 2015 at 12:23hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Donor funds cannot sacrifice our dignity
Zimbabweans should applaud President Robert Gabriel Mugabe for coming out denouncing the same-sex marriage which some of the respected leaders around the world seem to be embracing it. God created a m...Published: 08 Oct 2015 at 11:45hrs | | by John Mukumbo
No starvation as government undertakes drought relief
Coming from Masvingo province in general and Chiredzi district in particular makes one appreciate the importance of the government's intervention on drought relief. People have been suffering in that ...Published: 02 Oct 2015 at 09:48hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Bishop Bakare seeking relevance through his NCP
People of the cloth have many times tried to appear relevant in the political sphere if they see that converting more people to Christianity is a mammoth tusk. They always use their Christian backgrou...Published: 24 Sep 2015 at 12:08hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Mujuru's reversal of black empowerment unwelcome
Reading the former Vice President, Dr Joyce Mujuru's manifesto called Blueprint to Unlock Investment and Leverage for Development(BUILD) which was unveiled in the private media recently leaves o...Published: 10 Sep 2015 at 13:29hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Dinha arrest: ten-point economic plan in action
The State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Parliament by President Robert Mugabe recently emphasised the need for the government to be modeled on the ten-point plan for economic development as a way of...Published: 04 Sep 2015 at 13:18hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Revitalizing the agricultural sector commendable
The State of the Nation address by President Robert Gabriel Mugabe on Tuesday 25 August 2015 outlined a ten-point economic growth plan which cannot be ignored. The revitalization of the agricultural s...Published: 31 Aug 2015 at 09:35hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Labour Bill came at the right time
The recent passing of the Labour Bill both in the House of Assembly and the Senate without a lot of amendments is a victory for the workers who have been on the receiving end from their employers sinc...Published: 27 Aug 2015 at 09:54hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Mutasa going astray
The private media is at it again as it tries its level best to make sure that its readers have something to be occupied with as it recently wasted no time in rushing to Didymus Mutasa who has of l...Published: 25 Jun 2015 at 13:28hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Ambassador Midzi got the status befitting of him
Recently, the private media has been awash with articles alleging that some people are complaining that the ZANU PF government erred in not awarding its former Harare provincial Chairman, the late...Published: 18 Jun 2015 at 13:33hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Dzamara's prayer meeting a ruse
Opposition political parties and civil society organisations (CSOs) in the country are a surprising lot. Its welcome for everyone to be concerned about the disappearance of Itai Dzamara and even...Published: 12 Jun 2015 at 12:29hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Zanu-PF is a force to reckon with Dr Dabengwa
As the dates for the June 10, 2015, by-elections are drawing near, Zanu-PF is fully geared to sweep everything at its disposal to victory the same way it did in the July 31, 2013 harmonised elect...Published: 20 May 2015 at 16:47hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Thomas Mapfumo has missed a point
It is surprising and astounding for someone like Thomas Mapfumo, who has spent more than a decade in self-imposed exile to talk from a seemingly informed position of what is happening in the count...Published: 17 Apr 2015 at 10:37hrs | 2 | by John Mukumbo
Mujuru and company are a bunch of misguided politicians
The Mujuru cabal does not cease to amaze the nation by its failure to read between the lines that its political career is now nearing extinction. Maybe its recent ranting in the private media iss...Published: 16 Apr 2015 at 13:56hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Zimbabwe@35: President Mugabe a champion of peace
For the past thirty five (35) years Zimbabweans have celebrated flourishing peaceful and a serene environment because H.E. President Robert Gabriel Mugabe has mastered the skill of bringing peace ...Published: 14 Apr 2015 at 15:23hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Zanu - People First a non-event project
It is surprising that some delusional people like Didymus Mutasa and his beleaguered nephew Temba Mliswa with Rugare Gumbo, former spokesperson of Zanu-PF and their perceived leader former VP Joyce Mu...Published: 08 Apr 2015 at 14:49hrs | | by John Mukumbo
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