Self-ordained 'Mother of the Nation' got it all wrong

SELF-ORDAINED Mother of the Nation Auxilia Mnangagwa has called for three days of national fasting."May I, as the Mother of the Nation, call upon all women in Zimbabwe and all those abroad who...

Old habits that will kill Zimbabweans

ZIMBABWEANS are masking, and that's good! But a look at the masks will reveal the futility of the effort. The surgical masks which are generally made of a thin paperlike material are supposed ...

Dabengwa burial snub cannot erase his legacy

Twitter: @MuckrakerZimTHE presidium was last week conspicuously absent at the burial of Zimbabwe's liberation war stalwart, the late Zipra intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa, at his Ntabazin...

MDC-T succession war, violence and tribalism

THE death of MDC founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai - a hero of the new struggle for democracy - triggered a succession war in the main opposition MDC-T party (one wonders why the party should maintain...

What sort of a president would Mnangagwa be?

A shocking report appeared in the Johannesburg Sunday Times this week in which Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) veterans beat up party supporters during a train trip from Cape Town to Johannesburg.The d...

Robert Mugabe is redundant, leaves a tainted legacy

Much is currently being said of President Mugabe's legacy. What will it look like and can a new generation hold it in high regard as a benchmark for governance?Look at Nelson Mandela as an Afr...

Mujuru, fired ministers deserve no sympathy

Zanu-PF's "cyclonic gangsters" led by the newly-appointed Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and supported by Jonathan Moyo, Saviour Kasukuwere, Patrick Zhuwao, Obert Mpofu and others, finally persuade...

The Gushungo syndrome

"Gumbo is a murderous pathological liar," the Sunday Mail declared last weekend.Expelled Zanu-PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo was branded a "coup plotter" by the state-controlled Sunday Mail aft...