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Not yet Uhuru @41
As Zimbabwe celebrate her birthday today 18 April 2021, we are going to hear empty prepared speeches from those who killed this nation pontificating on he...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 12:17hrs | 737 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa copying and pasting Mugabe toxic policies
THE move to reintroduce the National Youth Service training programme has sent chills down most Zimbabweans' spines who experienced brutality at the hands of Green Bombers in 2008. The re-intr...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:34hrs | 1297 | by Leonard Koni
The return of Green Bombers
The re-introduction of the National Youth Service Training Border Gezi popularly known as The Green Bombers has sent chilling feelings amongst most Zimbabweans who have experienced the brutality of th...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 09:02hrs | 1937 | by Leonard Koni
Sentence corruption and poverty not makomborero
A very dark cloud hovers on the motherland sending a very sombre atmosphere to every progressive Zimbabwean who is crying for good governance.Instead of sentencing poverty, corruption, poor go...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 19:03hrs | 990 | by Leonard Koni
Who were the targeted criminals surrounding Mugabe?
I HAVE been checking on those detained at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, but I failed to locate one criminal who is among those that were "surrounding" the late former President Robert Mugabe befo...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 22:35hrs | 1925 | by Leonard Koni
A political crisis looming in Zimbabwe ahead of 2023 election
The once prosperous southern African country's economy is now at its weakest point with low investment, low exports and very high debts. Corruption is ripping the country apart with little effort bein...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 12:05hrs | 404 | by Leonard Koni
An open letter to Victor Matemadanda
Dear Mr Matemadanda, Hope this letter find you in good health wherever you are and I believe you are enjoying every minute of your heartbeat.I really know that you are a real war veter...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 13:07hrs | 2993 | by Leonard Koni
The centre is not holding in ED's government
It seems the centre is not holding in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new republic. What he promised people as soon as he got elected is somewhat different from the people's expectations.Presid...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 20:36hrs | 1841 | by Leonard Koni
Unravelling Douglas Mwonzora's web of Zanu-PF capture
Procrastination is the thief of time. To Mr Douglas Mwonzora the wait was just too much and he made sure that the tables were turned to his favour. The only way was to hide under constitutionalism whe...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 15:06hrs | 1079 | by Leonard Koni
Politics of the stomach choking Zimbabwe
It is really sad and beyond imagination to see democracy being shoved into the blast furnace with the aim of creating a one party state.Is recalling members of parliament by any chance g...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 19:35hrs | 1454 | by Leonard Koni
Dialogue with Chamisa
The year 2021 started at a very sad note. A year which everyone thought was going to breath a new lease of life has turned into a very bleak one coupled with myriad of challenges.As long as we...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 14:41hrs | 1742 | by Leonard Koni
Reform and sanctions will go
Barely a week after President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sworn in Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Ambassador Dr Frederick Shava, Joseph Biden the United State of American President sla...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:34hrs | 1312 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabweans celebrated a wrong move
WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa assumed power in 2017, he promised to change the political landscape in Zimbabwe through implementing good policies, listening to the people and respecting human righ...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:43hrs | 1099 | by Leonard Koni
Zanu-PF hijacked Soul Jah Love's funeral
Zimbabwe's ruling party Zanu PF has been for time immemorial leading in hijacking funerals, especially of celebrities.The party was shamelessly at it again this time around when they declared ...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 08:57hrs | 2214 | by Leonard Koni
Will Zimbabwe national army allow a civilian rule
Zanu PF without the army is like a shell. Our government institutions are heavily militarised from Zimbabwe Electoral Commission which runs elections, government schools, hospitals, universities a...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 09:59hrs | 2105 | by Leonard Koni
Zanu-PF without army is a shell
TO tighten the grip on State institutions, intelligence officers are deployed in communities to sniff out and monitor any malcontents and report on those going against government policies.In Z...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:57hrs | 256 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa must not create his own opposition
This epitome of throwing the baby out with the bath water should not be tolerated.Where on earth have you heard of a President saying that, "this is the official opposition party" referring to...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 08:23hrs | 2565 | by Leonard Koni
Mwonzora a puppet of Zanu-PF
As we draw near 2023 elections, there are going to be many surprises and the one surprise would be the walloping of Mr Douglas Mwonzora and signing off his political carreer.You can't be calle...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 09:18hrs | 4257 | by Leonard Koni
Failed Mnangagwa resorts to prayer, fasting
IN November 2017, the military replaced the late former President Robert Mugabe with his long-time confidante Emmerson Mnangagwa, who declared that Zimbabwe is "open for business", but up to now, the ...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 06:25hrs | 1402 | by Leonard Koni
The new dispensation now the new error
In November 2017, the military replaced the late Robert Mugabe as head of state with his long-time confidante Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa and declared that Zimbabwe is “Open for Business” bu...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 00:18hrs | 953 | by Leonard Koni
Allow African youths to take charge of their destiny
Democracy in Africa if not checked will be like a sheep being accompanied to a slaughtering house.Elections in Africa are slowly showing signs and symptoms of a dying democracy.The rec...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:31hrs | 236 | by Leonard Koni
Allow African youths to take charge of their destiny
Democracy in Africa if not checked will be like a sheep being accompanied to a slaughtering house.Elections in Africa are slowly showing signs and symptoms of a dying democracy.The rec...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 09:12hrs | 459 | by Leonard Koni
All hope is not lost
Crushing the peoples' voices is not the answer. No nation has ever risen or built by crushing the voice of justice.Zimbabwean citizens in all walks of life have been fighting for change at gre...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 13:26hrs | 587 | by Leonard Koni
Deepening economic and political crisis pushing Zimbabweans out of the country
The year has started at a very sad note with Zimbabwe going for strict lockdown restrictions deliberately ignoring and not putting into consideration the 80% informally employed people.T...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 20:25hrs | 1279 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe opposition must smell the coffee
Politics is a clumsy game. As we approach 2021 there are going to be interesting moments.The whole thing is now in the public eyes. The writing is on the wall.People must be wary of th...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 16:52hrs | 1465 | by Leonard Koni
It's time for people to take the struggle
The sun does not go down twice in a day. The current political , economic and social settings in Zimbabwe are in dire straits and leave a lot to be desired.The country is stuck in between two ...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 14:38hrs | 598 | by Leonard Koni
It's time to take the bull by its horns
THE country is stuck in the horns of a dilemma. It's high time the people unite and break the political logjam so as to solve the situation once and for all.Relying on elections to solve Zimba...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 07:02hrs | 464 | by Leonard Koni
Who has destroyed Zimbabwe?
The country is troubled to the borne marrow. It is so disheartening that those who destroyed the country through nepotism, corruption, poor governance and thieving are telling the people that they sho...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1639 | by Leonard Koni
Zanu-PF government scoring own goals
This is pure and refined drama which is being exposed to the majority of Zimbabweans and must be rejected the people are being subjected to.At the time Zimbabweans thought the government was n...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 08:36hrs | 2565 | by Leonard Koni
Yesteryear songbirds who kept us going
I wish life could be rewinded backwards anti-clockwise the days we used to gather together in our dining rooms playing music on our one deck radio cassette player listening to those great songbirds....Published: 07 Dec 2020 at 15:12hrs | 677 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa's new republic, worse than Mugabe era
THE country looks like a civilian regime where everything is run by civilians in which democratic institutions exist in form, but not in substance, because the electoral, legislature, judicial, media ...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 07:03hrs | 1230 | by Leonard Koni
Operation restore legacy was a no brainer
This regime that looked democratic in appearance but grounded in authoritarian rule is a time bomb and waiting for the right time to explode.The country also looked like a civilian regime wher...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 17:10hrs | 899 | by Leonard Koni
Failed economic blueprints
The status of paralysis in which Zimbabwe has slipped throughout the past 40 years might be traced back to the early 1980s.A number of economic policies have been formulated and subsequently i...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 10:27hrs | 1363 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe slowly going down under the new dispensation
The livelihoods of the people of Zimbabwe had been brought back and down to the levels of 1953.For the last fourty years ZANU PF government has lept from one corruption scandal to the other. I...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 08:52hrs | 5282 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe in a crisis
A crisis where the government deployed the army, rolled tanks into the streets and killed innocent unarmed civilians at 45°angle and a commission of enquiry instituted but no one is held accountable....Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 10:04hrs | 6695 | by Leonard Koni
Zanu-PF blames everything on sanctions
The sanctions which were imposed by the British, the Americans and European countries on Zimbabwe were as a result of human rights abuses and the land which was taken from the white farmers.I ...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:29hrs | 304 | by Leonard Koni
Time for African youths to silence the gun
Africa as a continent needs a fresh start with new crop of leadership who are not necessarily militant or use their muscles to solve the problems facing their nations but who will use their brains....Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1270 | by Leonard Koni
Restore teachers' dignity and pay their dues
The disdain that this new dispensation government has against it's own people boggles the mind. The ruling party has failed and is not in sync with the current economic turmoil bedevelling everyone in...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 16:04hrs | 1232 | by Leonard Koni
Douglas Mwonzora has lost his political campus
Zanu PF political elite's Frankenstein monster was hatched after years of incubation.All what is happening today started manifesting long back, during the time when former late Army General Vi...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 13:22hrs | 6342 | by Leonard Koni
Thokozani Khupe's wings must be clipped
The Iron lady of recalls is at the headlines again and the people are living no stone unturned and have vowed to give her an agitated finger. The storm is raging more than ever. The ship is wrecking a...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:28hrs | 6622 | by Leonard Koni
Khupe an embarrassment to women
IT is clear MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe does not have a political compass, neither does Douglas Mwonzora have gravitas and that extra touch, worse Morgen Komichi is just a natural disaster and a time...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:49hrs | 2892 | by Leonard Koni
Leonard Dembo's music will live on - Tendai Dembo
Born Tendai Dembo on 8 August 1987 in Harare Zimbabwe, Tendai is the second born in a family of three siblings of the late sungura musical icon Kwangwari Gwaendepi popularly known as Leonard Dembo or ...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 15:30hrs | 1478 | by Leonard Koni
Zanu PF has dismally failed
This is the second time now that Zanu PF has admitted that it has failed the nation and now appealing for patience and more time from the electorate to fix the mess.The Zanu PF acting Spokespe...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 09:30hrs | 2746 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe lacking visionary leaders
Allow me to unpack some of the few things which are derailing the country from progressing and if they are fixed, we can all enjoy the treasures in our country.The recent developments witnesse...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 12:34hrs | 965 | by Leonard Koni
Douglas Mwonzora and Thokozani Khupe have nothing to offer
Now the cat is out of its bag. You cannot conceal something which has horns. The truth will always come out.I remember when political corridors were abuzz with discussions about how Zanu PF an...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 14:37hrs | 3246 | by Leonard Koni
Social media are vehicle of change
We are victims of propaganda news disseminated by the government. We are always bombarded by news whose agenda has been set by those in authority to maintain the status quo.We always spoil the...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 09:19hrs | 985 | by Leonard Koni
People must free themselves from ZANU-PF chains
To say our situation in Zimbabwe is not so different from the one Guatemala experienced is very wrong and lacks factual points.The Zimbabwean government led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa mus...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:44hrs | 579 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe govt's clamp down on protestors a recipe for disaster
The country's constitution allows people to demonstrate and express their grievances anywhere or whether such demonstrations have been called by self-styled activists or have been endorsed by oppositi...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 15:12hrs | 1569 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe needs a break
This Zanu PF government is a farce, a sham and a masquerade. The problem with this government is like a person who is going to the carpenter to pull their aching tooth. Imagine the type of a tool the ...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:12hrs | 1443 | by Leonard Koni
Open Letter to Mnangagwa, MPs, Army...
Dear, PRESIDENT, Speaker of Parliament, Chief Justice, Ministers, Members of Pa...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:17hrs | 14371 | by Leonard Koni
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