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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 about with no clear direction of where it …

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, titled "Grand coalition is a tough sell…

Published: 25 Aug 2016 at 09:25hrs | 2 | 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 government has learnt a lot throug…

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 government has learnt a lot through the …

Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 07:00hrs | 2 | 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 former Vice President of Zimbabwe Dr Jo…

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 accelerated in the allocations of sugarcane plots …

Published: 29 Jun 2016 at 15:47hrs | 1 | 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 is no longer carried out haphazardly b…

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 been struggling to pay some civil servants…

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 solutions to how the economic problems of this …

Published: 24 May 2016 at 14:24hrs | 2 | 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 on the slogan used during a provincial…

Published: 18 May 2016 at 12:13hrs | 2 | 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 one believe him as someone who is genuin…

Published: 05 May 2016 at 12:45hrs | 4 | 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 Price Waterhouse Coopers, has openly show…

Published: 28 Apr 2016 at 12:06hrs | 1 | 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 if one wants to be the leader of that co…

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 supporters who are allegedly fighting on…

Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 10:12hrs | | 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 Newsday cited Matabeleland South Senator …

Published: 16 Mar 2016 at 14:00hrs | 1 | 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 the supremacy of ZANU PF in elections,…

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 burnt is just a political smokescreen mean…

Published: 25 Feb 2016 at 09:38hrs | 1 | 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 heed the President's call so that the rev…

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) as a political party in the country s…

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 during her tours. Her addresses were as can…

Published: 03 Feb 2016 at 13:07hrs | 2 | 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 AU ignore the economic situation in the …

Published: 03 Feb 2016 at 13:04hrs | | 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 not been good news for most of the peop…

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 nothing good coming from government and alw…

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 thinking is that of a country in crisis and that any…

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 electorate, the Tendai Biti-led opposit…

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 might befall anyone unexpectedly. As such…

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 who always see the coming of any invest…

Published: 03 Dec 2015 at 14:20hrs | 2 | 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 Lady has emphasised that ZANU PF should…

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 farmers now numbering over three hundred thou…

Published: 19 Nov 2015 at 06:39hrs | 1 | 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 country. Zimbabweans had been grappling …

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 divided as a way of giving the opposition s…

Published: 29 Oct 2015 at 12:50hrs | 2 | 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 party leadership should be accountable to th…

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 country, could not have come at a better t…

Published: 16 Oct 2015 at 12:23hrs | 1 | 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 man and a woman so that the two would be…

Published: 08 Oct 2015 at 11:45hrs | | 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 backgrounds as a way of getting sympathizers fr…

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 one with more questions than others. The…

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 arresting the economic decline in the …

Published: 04 Sep 2015 at 13:18hrs | 2 | 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 sector and the agro-processing value cha…

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 since the 17 July, 2015 Supreme Court rulin…

Published: 27 Aug 2015 at 09:54hrs | 1 | 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 late become their source of news articles wh…

Published: 25 Jun 2015 at 13:28hrs | 1 | 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 Ambassador Amos Midzi, hero status. Surpri…

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 commendable to pray for his immediate …

Published: 12 Jun 2015 at 12:29hrs | 1 | 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 elections. It is a fact that Zanu-PF is a party w…

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 country. For Mapfumo to tell the nation that the…

Published: 17 Apr 2015 at 10:37hrs | 4 | 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 issuing a number of statements are meant to mak…

Published: 16 Apr 2015 at 13:56hrs | 1 | 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 in the country. Everyone is quite aware tha…

Published: 14 Apr 2015 at 15:23hrs | 4 | 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 Mujuru, are failing to read behind the li…

Published: 08 Apr 2015 at 14:49hrs | | by John Mukumbo

Tsvangirai's diplomatic offensive of shame unearthed

When the MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai left the country for the USA, the country was told by his spin doctor, Luke Tamborinyoka that his boss was on the journey to tell the west that the economic situation in the country was deterioratin…

Published: 27 Mar 2015 at 10:56hrs | | by John Mukumbo

Bloated Zimbabwe legislature is not sustainable

The proposal by the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Cde Patrick Chinamasa, that the number of parliamentarians in the country should be reduced, as a way of reducing financial pressure on the treasury, is a good move that nee…

Published: 13 Mar 2015 at 11:30hrs | | by John Mukumbo

The bloated legislature is not sustainable in the country

The proposal by the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Cde Patrick Chinamasa, that the number of parliamentarians in the country should be reduced, as a way of reducing financial pressure on the treasury, is a good move that nee…

Published: 12 Mar 2015 at 19:20hrs | | by John Mukumbo

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