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The abuse of freedoms and upending of Constitutional order

THE freedoms of expression, assembly, and association are fundamental human rights, essential for the flourishing of democratic societies.However, these rights are not absolute, and their limits must be clearly understood. In recent times,…

Published: 03 Apr 2025 at 08:39hrs | 341 | by Nick Mangwana

Why Zimbabwe should break free from the US dollar's grip

Government Up Close"Normalcy is that a country must have its own currency," President Mnangagwa is on record highlighting this fact.Some people have argued that one of the gravest financial mistakes Zimbabwe made was to put in place a bask…

Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 14:10hrs | 3 | by Nick Mangwana

Zanu-PF pays for all the rallies that are aired live on television

We have been made aware of a Statement made by the Opposition party Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) regarding what they characterized as "ZBC, STATE MEDIA REPORTING UNCONSTITUTIONAL & BIASED IN FAVOUR OF Zanu-PF". The Public Broadc…

Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 21:19hrs | | by Nick Mangwana

Transporters must adopt required pre-clearance processes at border

It's just over a week since the new Beitbridge Border Post freight terminal has been opened to the public and the results of improved border management systems are slowly beginning to show.Like any project, migration from old systems to ne…

Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana

Re-imagining education in the Second Republic

OUR education should produce goods and services and it's not doing so. It should produce solutions to our challenges, but it's not. It should produce job creators, but its producing job seekers. So there is something wrong with this educat…

Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:40hrs | | by Nick Mangwana

Unpacking 100-Day Cycle: Bringing transparency, accountability to people

TRANSPARENCY is a key ingredient in the recipe for success. When mixed together with accountability and sustainability then you have a mix that helps build trust for the establishment. It is these that will help define the success of the N…

Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:37hrs | 14 | by Nick Mangwana

Legislative reform agenda buttresses Mnangagwa's sincerity

This is the second part of a trilogy of articles that I am writing outlining the reform agenda being pursued by President Mnangagwa in the Second Republic. In the previous article I dwelt on political reforms that spelled out change of pol…

Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:16hrs | 3 | by Nick Mangwana

Regulating the right to protest

One of the biggest duties and responsibilities of any government is the protection of its citizens and all those that fall within its jurisdiction. Ironically, that protection is from other citizens.  To ensure that human rights are n…

Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana

Chamisa, Mnangagwa dialogue is not about power-sharing

Within five weeks of coming to power in November 2017, President Mnangagwa did the unthinkable.He drove to ailing opposition MDC-T  leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai's place of residence and held a face-to-face meeting with him.They spoke a…

Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:44hrs | 2 | by Nick Mangwana

Mnangagwa building Zimbabwe block by block

The fascination with negativity and self-hate is creating an artificial but widely accepted false narrative that everything in Zimbabwe is going backwards and that Zimbabwe is at its worst time.Nothing can be further from the truth.Whilst …

Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 11:47hrs | 2 | by Nick Mangwana

Driving policies towards Vision 2030

Zimbabwe has a new socio-political order. This has been dubbed the Second Republic, which is under the new dispensation. A new national policy is being crafted and hopefully will soon be unveiled. The challenge, which this policy is alread…

Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Nick Mangwana

Why the party is always supreme

Political parties are constructed in order to conquer and exercise political power. The political party does the conquering but the Government does the exercising of the power. Therefore, the question of supremacy is answered by establishi…

Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 06:34hrs | | by Nick Mangwana

Court of public opinion is real

Tomorrow Zimbabwe is going to experience a reality show as the Constitutional Court presides over the election petition against President Mnangagwa's electoral victory. Lawyers are going to turn into artists. There will be grandstanding ac…

Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Nick Mangwana

No to power sharing with Chamisa

Richard Nixon said that one must never be satisfied with losing. He said that after losing one should get terribly angry at losing. He goes on to say that "the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not on his…

Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:14hrs | 2 | by Nick Mangwana

Chamisa's polarising politics should be rejected

One of the first things President Mnangagwa did within a few weeks of coming to power was to extend a hand of benevolence to then stricken MDC-T leader, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai. The world was in awe as it witnessed the motorcade rolling onto …

Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 06:57hrs | | by Nick Mangwana

Perrenial malcontents trying to undermine Zec

There are two sides to Zimbabwe's elections. There is a side that wants to portray the country as peaceful and going through a democratic process in which the will of the people will prevail and be respected.They have done a lot and beyond…

Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Nick Mangwana

Why digital money makes sense

William Arthur Ward was an American who contributed a lot to the Reader's Digest. His main genres were inspirational maxims and meditations and poems. One of the things he said was: "A pessimist complains about the direction of the wind, a…

Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Nick Mangwana

Chamisa's MDC Alliance too unstable to govern

A delusion is defined simply as a belief or impression that is falsely held despite being contradicted by reality and rational argument. There have been many of those around. One of the most prominent ones being that the MDC Alliance is th…

Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:41hrs | | by Nick Mangwana

Insults, nastiness do not win votes

The election date has been proclaimed and campaigning has shifted gears upwards for all serious political parties.We are seeing all sorts of attention- seeking gimmickry being deployed. The presence of international observers who have alre…

Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana

Bhora musango is insurgency

An American clinical psychologist Nancy Molitor described how after primary elections her practice is full of people with serious emotional distress.She says that some come to vent about broken friendships and some even broken relationship…

Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:01hrs | | by Nick Mangwana

Chamisa and Biti: Hubris personified

HUBRIS is defined as excessive pride or over-confidence. It is epitomised by arrogance. It often indicates a disconnection with reality and overestimating one's own competence. It is a disease that afflicts those in positions of power. It …

Published: 15 May 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Nick Mangwana

Chamisa's dangerous post-fact politics

Has anyone ever stopped to ask themselves why Nelson Chamisa lies, is caught out and does not backtrack or apologise or retract but will repeat his lie or totally ignore the fact that he lied?Is he just an unrepentant compulsive liar or th…

Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana

Not good to debate Mr Spaghetti roads

Cde Victor Matemadanda is a member of the Zanu-PF Central Committee and Politburo where he is Secretary for the War veterans. He is known for speaking his mind and will never get an accolade for pulling punches. He is an aspiring Member of…

Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 10:53hrs | 2 | by Nick Mangwana

Chamisa should stop grandstanding

Let us say things as they are. Threats to boycott elections are a very stupid idea, especially in cases where one is singing the threat as part of some attention seeking tomfoolery. This is one of those things in politics where brinkmanshi…

Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana

Rent-a-crowd; delude others not self

A few days ago, this columnist appeared to have steered a hornet's nest by appearing to criticise the recycling of crowds from one rally to another as a show of support.There are people in the opposition who are quite aggressive and frankl…

Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana

We should have said, No to Robert Mugabe!

People in Zanu-PF have been called cowards and all such names. Maybe we were. For surely talking to some comrades it is clear very few genuinely loved Robert Mugabe in his last years as President.An even less figure wanted him to continue …

Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 05:49hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana

Mnangagwa's compassionate politics good for country

There are many good things that people can do which they won't do. We all know what's right but we don't always do it. We all see rubbish on the street and we don't pick it up and throw it in the next bin because we just cannot be bothered…

Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 07:56hrs | 2 | by Nick Mangwana

Mugabe must focus on writing memoirs

There are reports concerning a development in our polity where our former leader Robert Mugabe is said to be attempting to play the joker. He is not so subtly trying to use whatever clout he believes he has to endorse a candidate for the n…

Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 05:38hrs | | by Nick Mangwana

Chiefs' cars not vote-buying

Every election promise is predicated upon the promiser winning the election. The fulfilment of that promise is contingent upon the electorate one is trying to lure fulfilling their part of the transaction by voting for the candidate. Shoul…

Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 05:38hrs | | by Nick Mangwana

The Operation to Restore Legacy

This column has been absent for nearly six weeks. There was just so much going on and the job to inform and represent views had to be done through other means. But we have a new Government in power now. It is being heralded as a new era an…

Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 05:18hrs | | by Nick Mangwana

Drivers cause accidents, not road blocks

It used to be that whenever one travelled a long journey by plane, parents would insist on being informed of a safe arrival. Even though the news would have reported no plane crash anywhere in the world, they would only rest when they got …

Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana

Current songs in our politics are off-key

There is a lot of talk of the 2018 elections. These elections are dispensational in that according to the Constitution, that is President Mugabe's last term.Whichever side one is, there is no taking away his iconic role as the nation's fou…

Published: 18 Jul 2017 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana

Independent presidential candidates are a joke

There will be elections in Rwanda in August this year. President Kagame is being challenged by 35-year-old Diane Shima Rwigira. She is clearly an underdog. The likelihood is that she will have a big majority of bystanders rooting for her. …

Published: 20 Jun 2017 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana

Zimbabwe opposition lacks internal democracy

Zanu-PF'S 2018 campaign is slowly gathering momentum. In a few months, it will be all systems go at every level. This will kick in what is considered the primary election season for the party. When done well, this is where the party wins e…

Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 06:36hrs | | by Nick Mangwana

Detoxing Zimbabwe's political atmosphere

Our political differences should be differences of ideas, vision and ideology. There is nothing personal about it. Leave children out of it. The translation of verbal violence into physical violence is one of the easiest transits which hap…

Published: 06 Sep 2016 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana

Tendai Biti seeking power through back door

IN recent times, there has been a push by vanquished opposition groups for what some have termed the National Transitional Authority (NTA) to run the affairs of Zimbabwe. The strangest thing is that this call is coming from the likes of co…

Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 07:11hrs | 2 | by Nick Mangwana

The case for Internet regulation

The Internet is not only a conduit of nefarious activities but a domain of sophisticated crime which any nation would need to regulate. Other countries have already addressed this by putting in place some kind of governance to that problem…

Published: 16 Aug 2016 at 06:48hrs | | by Nick Mangwana

National pledge: The hallmark of patriotism

WHAT is clear is that most nations have national pledges of sorts.Whether these should be compulsory is another thing. Right now Zimbabwe is in a polarised State that to some, anything introduced by the ruling Zanu-PF party has to be resis…

Published: 04 May 2016 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana

Zanu-PF: Stop kicking and start pulling, please

Some members of ZANU-PF have been seized with attacking each other using social media platforms like Twitter at the expense of pressing issues like the El Nino-induced droughtThe Exchequer is still struggling to pay a lot of our bills. The…

Published: 16 Feb 2016 at 05:17hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana

Zanu-PF cannot afford perpetual 'self cleansing'

This October, Zim-Asset has reached a two-year milestone. Last year at this time, this column covered the hits and misses of this great five-year programme. So another year on, it would have been the natural thing to review and reflect on …

Published: 20 Oct 2015 at 09:28hrs | | by Nick Mangwana

Tribalism is trivialism

TWO Government ministers are pushing the Zim-Asset programme in their own very special way. If it had nobility then it would have been called lady-like. But then the whole saga is pregnant with ignobility. It's just a mess.There are accusa…

Published: 04 Aug 2015 at 12:37hrs | 2 | by Nick Mangwana

Dual nationality is an irreversible side-effect of globalisation

This writer was under the impression that the dual citizenship debate was now water under the bridge. How could it not be? First there is Chapter 3 in our Constitution, then there are the two cases of Mutumwa Dziva Mawere v Registrar- Gene…

Published: 05 May 2015 at 10:51hrs | | by Nick Mangwana

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Supreme Court nullifies Welshman Ncube AI-generated legal submissions

'Mnangagwa is panicking'

Chiwenga's wife catching strays

Family yet to bury loved one 2 years after mysterious death

'Eat my wife, I kill myself'

RBZ policies, not banks, driving high lending rates

Zimbabwe to host major Africa trade fair from 2029

Govt urged to tighten screws on human trafficking

Zimbabwe night vending ban falters

Hughton, Redknapp among 200 applicants for Warriors job

Levy scandal as Harare buys only 2 ambulances

Chiwenga missed Mnangagwa's SONA

Mega Pak Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd manager up for fraud

Fugitive car dealer arrested after 5 years on the run

Harare Councillors and directors snub 2026 budget announcement

Bulawayo Polytechnic gutted by fire

Six Dead, 40 Injured in Harare–Mukumbura Road Bus Crash

No to 2030 extension

Police confirm Bulawayo-Beitbridge road accident

Zimbabwe loans ARVs to Botswana, donates portion in regional health solidarity

Govt to launch Responsible Mining Initiative amid worsening land degradation

MP Mhangwa urges govt to cut LPG Import Bill through local gas substitution

Man dies in bicycle accident

Relegation-threatened Bosso players boycott training

Pavillon bus involved in a serious accident

Tragedy in Mt Darwin as cow falls into well, killing young woman

Zimbabwe announces strict enforcement of axle load limits

Zanu-Pf, Eureka Mine unleash violence on artisinal miners

Church Leaders Unite to Tackle Africa's Social Crises at Landmark Summit

Minister to Lead Sanitation Awareness Drive in Guruve Amid Open Defecation Concerns*