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Will Namibia be next on 27 November 2024?
THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY: what for former US President Bill Clinton was "It's the Economy, Stupid" in his 1992 election campaign for the White House; is playing out for the Brenthurst Foundation - found...Published: 02 Nov 2024 at 15:01hrs | 1282 | by Jonathan Moyo
Mthwakazi Republic Party petitions ICC, UN over rights abuses in Zimbabwe
The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has called on the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to intervene in what it describes as a crackdow...Published: 13 Sep 2024 at 16:08hrs | 1022 | by Nkosi Moyo
Can Zimbabwe ZiG-zag away from the USD?
ZIMBABWE'S economy has suffered immensely since 2008, when inflation exceeded a million percent.Since then, the government has made six attempts to adopt a local currency, with the latest comi...Published: 13 Sep 2024 at 16:04hrs | 2769 | by Nkosi Moyo
The day Sadc failed
THREE weeks ago, the regional bloc,Southern African Development Community (Sadc), hosted the 44th summit in Harare.The summit saw Zimbabwe becoming the chair of the region for the next...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 10:12hrs | 220 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
The US does not cease to amaze
In a terrible case of the pot calling the kettle black, the US government is shamelessly CRIMINALISING a Russian media house RT for allegedly attempting to influence the 2024 US presidential election ...Published: 05 Sep 2024 at 09:47hrs | 587 | by Jonathan Moyo
Data from Freeman Chari is neither surprising nor new
ALTHOUGH INEXPLICABLY COMING OUT INCOMPLETE AND TOO LATE, data from Freeman Chari is neither surprising nor new. Tellingly, it vindicates ZEC and explains why:1. Nelson Chamisa did not m...Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 15:11hrs | 605 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
US elections have literally become a problematically violent affair
It's rich and absurd for the new US Ambassador to Zimbabwe - Pamela Tremont - to start her first day in her office in Harare by recklessly charging that the US has "problems with elections" in Zimbabw...Published: 19 Jul 2024 at 06:42hrs | 823 | by Jonathan Moyo
'Don't kill Chris Hani, again'
There's some ray of hope from Gauteng Premier Cde Panyaza Lesufi's cryptic message: "Don't kill Chris Hani Again." The White Monopoly Capital behind the Codesa negotiations to 'end apartheid' ...Published: 04 Jul 2024 at 13:04hrs | 9 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Joe Biden at 81 versus Robert Mugabe at 81: No match
AS HAS BECOME ITS ENTRENCHED TENDENCY, a characteristically thoughtless and delinquent segment of the political opposition in Zimbabwe has been busy using old-age to make asinine comparisons between t...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 09:17hrs | 49 | by Jonathan Moyo
ANC becomes first liberation movement to hand power back to white minority
On the eve of Cyril Ramaphosa's inauguration as South Africa's president for an uncertain second term he's unlikely to complete; a term certain to be remembered as the lowest moment for the ANC since ...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 08:27hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Moyo
Transcript of 'Russia-Zimbabwe talks' between Putin and Mnangagwa
The penchant for frivolous bluster in Zimbabwe's public discourse has once again reared its ugly trappings after the widespread circulation on social media platforms of a 2.42-minutes video clip poste...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 08:37hrs | 16 | by Jonathan Moyo
CCC strife intensifies
The internal strife over parliamentary posts within the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has intensified, with factions trading accusations and criticizing Speaker Jacob Mudenda for alleged dishone...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 08:21hrs | 7 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Ramaphosa fall: Mnangagwa scared
SOUTH AFRICA held general elections on Wednesday and results trickling in are sending shivers down the spines of regional liberation movements.The ruling African National Congress (ANC) is set...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
South Africa has a Zuma problem
Here's a copy of the intellectually embarrassing judgment handed down today by the Constitutional Court of South Africa, politically disqualifying former President Jacob Zuma from standing for electio...Published: 27 May 2024 at 15:59hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
First it was Chamisa, now it's Biti, who is next?
WHEN THE KITCHEN GETS HOT, THEY UNCEREMONIOUSLY BOLT OUT: FIRST IT WAS NELSON CHAMISA, NOW IT'S TENDAI BITI, WHO IS NEXT?The recent state of the conduct of leadership ranks in the Zimbab...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 21:17hrs | 2 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Mnangagwa's foot in the mouth again
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has an uncanny ability to frequently put his foot in the mouth, sometimes without harm but his recent episode on structured currency has left a trail of economic disaster....Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:11hrs | 6 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
CCC hara-kiri
WHEN Nelson Chamisa stepped down as Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, the social media streets were full of comments pressuring MPs to resign as a block in solidarity with their leader....Published: 30 Mar 2024 at 13:42hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Uncle Sam not letting go of little Zimbabwe
THERE is something interesting about the new United States sanctions regime announced this week. Besides President Joseph Biden making a statement, the US National Security Council made one too. What ...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 09:16hrs | 5 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Reunification sought by Tsvangirai 5 months before he died now in tatters
The implosion of CCC in Nelson Chamisa's hands is telling not only because it puts paid to Morgan Tsvangirai's widely publicised [see attached videos] last-ditch efforts - just five months before his ...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 12:48hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Moyo
Which is which: Face symbol or party logo?
So, how did a face symbol, which ended up breeding the cancerous one-man syndrome witnessed in CCC, end up trumping the party logo that was adopted by the collective leadership in January 2022?...Published: 18 Feb 2024 at 09:29hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Moyo
Mount Pleasant and Harare East constituencies declared vacabt
The Speaker of Parliament, Advocate Jacob Mudenda, announced in the National Assembly that vacancies exist in the membership of Parliament in respect of Mount Pleasant and Harare East constituencies, ...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 15:07hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Chamisa Praise and Worship' political circus
If a picture tells a thousand words, then these pictures of Nelson Chamisa displayed by Gift Ostallos Siziva and Amos Chibaya today at McDonald Community Hall in Mzilikazi township in Bulawayo tell th...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:24hrs | | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Ostallos and Chibaya told to go and tell Chamisa that Manicaland says 'NO'
Gift Ostallos Siziva and Amos Chibaya had a torrid time this afternoon in Manicaland when they were told off by a charged crowd; in their ill-fated push for Nelson Chamisa's latest solo campaign to fo...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 19:36hrs | 11 | by Jonathan MOyo
Tshabangu's legal team continues winning streak
The High Court in Harare has this afternoon granted CCC and its Interim Secretary General - Sengezo Tshabangu - leave to execute pending an appeal ex-CCC recallees in the Supreme Court in case Number ...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 17:03hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Moyo
Promise Mkwananzi turns Chamisa's ship-jumping into a circus
When Nelson Chamisa wrote his resignation statement from Triple C last week on 24 January 2024, a day he should have been commemorating the party's second anniversary, he effectively dissolved his CCC...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 19:29hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
A generation of EDiots
THE politicians keep fiddling while Zimbabwe is burning. The opposition is at sixes and sevens, while Zanu-PF is at sea when the education system is now in comatose and the peril of having a generatio...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Is today a birthday, a funeral or a resurrection for CCC?
On this 24th day of January in 2022, the then MDC-Alliance unveiled Triple C, which the National Council of the MDC-A had founded two days earlier on 22 January 2022.The unveiling of Triple C ...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 20:15hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe's longest electoral season
IN exactly two weeks, Zimbabweans are going to the polling booth again, as the silly season that began last May stubbornly refuses to end for various reasons — single-minded pursuit of power by oppo...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 10:00hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
A chitchat ain't an interview
It's been quite a spectacle to witness people – who since 3 October 2023, have been painting Sengezo Tshabangu as a Zanu-PF tortoise that has allegedly caused the mayhem which has ravaged CCC throug...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 17:00hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
High Court case to expunge 23 CCC recalees from ballot box
HIGH COURT CASE TO EXPUNGE 23 RECALLEES FROM BALLOT PAPER FOR 3 FEBRUARY BY-ELECTIONS SET FOR TOMORROWThe Urgent Chamber Application by CCC and its interim secretary general, Sengezo Tshabangu...Published: 17 Jan 2024 at 05:12hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Moyo
Mature Zambian leader suspends SADC conclusion on DRC elections
SADC'S DRC ELECTORAL OBSERVATION MISSION 2023 PRELIMINARY REPORT SUSPENDS ITS CONCLUSION ON RECENT DRC ELECTIONSIn a rare but refreshing display of the ...Published: 29 Dec 2023 at 09:18hrs | 8 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Rival CCC candidates nominated to face a Zanu-PF candidate
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has published an Election Notice with the names of local authority candidates nominated in some 28 wards for the 3 February 2024 by-elections.Some highlights:...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 18:12hrs | 8 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
MP calls for unity against vandalism in Emakhandeni Luveve Constituency
Bulawayo, 27 Dec 2023 - Discent Collins Bajila, the Member of Parliament for Emakhandeni Luveve Constituency, has issued a passionate plea to end vandalism after a recent incident in New Lobhengula. D...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 09:50hrs | 8 | by Moyo Roy
Tshabangu's colleagues can recall CCC MPs
Some lunatics here are asking me if I've seen what they claim is the "latest" judgment by Justice Chitapi allegedly on Tshabangu's 'legitimacy', and if so, what's my opinion on it.The so-calle...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 08:52hrs | 10 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe's house negroes
THERE was once a fire at the slave master mansion and the house negro was heard wailing: "Our house is on fire!" much to the astonishment of the field negroes.This small anecdote flashed and r...Published: 23 Dec 2023 at 10:21hrs | 9 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Chamisa's facial image belongs to CCC founded by MDC Alliance
RIGHTS TO NELSON CHAMISA'S FACE IMAGE AS AN ELECTION SYMBOL BELONGS TO CCC FOUNDED BY MDC-A ON 22 JAN 2022, NOT TO CHAMISATHROUGH ONE OF THE LEGION OF THE LAWYERS acting for him and his beleag...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 13:37hrs | 9 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
CCC banked on ZRP blocking the Chitungwiza rally?
CCC'S MIDNIGHT POSTPONEMENT OF NELSON CHAMISA'S RALLY DUBBED, "PATHWAY TO LEGITIMACY", which had been slated for today in Chitungwiza has raised eyebrows and set tongues wagging in and outside the two...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 20:53hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Was the Emperor a Zanu-PF tortoise on some post
AND THE EMPEROR TOO, is also into stories of tortoises that have allegedly wreaked havoc in CCC?Well, well. Interesting. It is of course a refreshing break from the daily verses on the hour bu...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 18:24hrs | | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
CCC MPs sold out
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) on Thursday had a bloodrush to the head. They caused a mini commotion in the National Assembly and took with them down the people of Zimbabwe when they received...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 18:09hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Members of MDC Alliance standing committee launched CCC
JOB SIKHALA, AS VICE NATIONAL CHAIRMAN OF THE MDC-ALLIANCE, chaired the National Council meeting of the MDC-ALLIANCE, which on 22 January 2022 formed and founded CCC.About that day and that me...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 09:27hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Chamisa's CCC borrows poor language from Nerves Mumba
IN A WHAT COMES ACROSS AS A POOR CASE OF BORROWING poor language from Nerves Mumba's controversial Sadc Electoral Observation Mission on Zimbabwe's 2023 harmonised general election, Nelson Chamisa's C...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 18:23hrs | 8 | by Jonathan Moyo
Chamisa, Tshabangu emissaries in crunch 'interparty' talks
There have been at least two formal meetings between Nelson Chamisa and Sengezo Tshabangu "parties", on 15 November 2023 and 16 November 2023, both in Bulawayo.The meeting on 15 November was a...Published: 30 Nov 2023 at 20:37hrs | 5 | by Jonathan Moyo
Jonathan Moyo exposes Mahere's 'big fat lie'
EXPLAINER: Fingerprints of the MDC in the "Edited" CCC Constitution filed by Tshabangu in Chamisa's Interdict Court Case to halt Further Recalls not Fraud but Proof of MDC Paternity of Lawful CCC...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 18:06hrs | 10 | by Jonathan Moyo
Mthuli Ncube's budget dilemma
DON'T tell me what you value, show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value:" Joe Biden.Ordinarily, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube should have presented the ZWL$47,8 trillion 2024 nation...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:59hrs | 8 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Kadoma city councillors in bribery storm
Kadoma Town Councillors are in the eye of a storm amid reports that some of the councillors received kickbacks to facilitate special mining grants at undesignated areas.The opposition-led muni...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 11:09hrs | 7 | by Kundai Moyo
Constitution of Chamisa's CCC - Wapusa Wapusa finally unveiled
AT LONG LAST, herewith below is a link to the 2023 CONSTITUTION of CCC - Wapusa Wapusa, the new party led by Nelson Chamisa, which he first announced on 23 September 2023 at a public meeting in Chinho...Published: 20 Nov 2023 at 21:55hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Moyo
Recalled CCC MPs served their court application on Tshabangu at the CCC offices
Recalled CCC CHAMISA MPs Served their Court Papers on Tshabangu at CCC's Administrative Office in Bulawayo, Yet they Deny Knowing Him They say Sengezo Tshabangu is an "imposter", a "tortoise o...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 20:30hrs | 7 | by Jonathan Moyo
Chamisa sneaks into SA
CHAMISA SNEAKS INTO SA TO SEEK FUNDING AND DIPLOMATIC SUPPORT FROM THE EU AMBASSADORS FOR HIS EMERGENCY CONGRESS NELSON CHAMISA has today quietly sneaked into South Africa to meet with and see...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 14:12hrs | 8 | by Jonathan Moyo
Embattled Nelson Chamisa sneaks into South Africa
Nelson Chamisa has today quietly sneaked into South Africa to meet with and seek urgent diplomatic, financial and logistic support from EU ambassadors accredited to that country to help him stem the s...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 13:42hrs | 9 | by Jonathan Moyo
General PV Sibanda is entitled to make political choices freely
APPOINTMENT OF THE COMMANDER DEFENCE FORCES [CDF] GENERAL PV SIBANDA AS AN EX OFFICIO MEMBER OF THE ZANUPF POLITBURO: A CRITICAL REVIEWThe bottom part of this announcement of appointments to t...Published: 31 Oct 2023 at 16:32hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
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