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Al Jazeera and relations between Zimbabwe and Qatar

Last week CCC aligned opposition activist, Hopewell Chin'ono announced that the Qatar government-owned global television company, Al Jazeera would release a video on money laundering and resources looting in Zimbabwe.This naturally excited…

Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 14:13hrs | 15 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Of Chamisa's rally utterances, lack of substance

Following the formation of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) on January 24, 2022 after being forced by MDC-T leader, Douglas Mwonzora to adopt a new party name, the interim leader, Nelson Chamisa has been going around the country dru…

Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:28hrs | 14 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Russia-Ukraine tiff exposes hypocrisy of US, West

On the last Friday of last month, a delegation of US Embassy in Zimbabwe personnel and its European Union (EU) counterparts made a beeline for Munhumutapa Building in Harare to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade office…

Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 05:30hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga

CCC: Old wine in old wineskins

On 24 January, former MDC Alliance faction leader, Nelson Chamisa announced the formation of a new opposition political party, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC). During the announcement, which was done through a media conference, Cha…

Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga

When it gets cold outside Zanu-PF

Last week various social media platforms and some online publications were awash with the news of a meeting in South Africa between former Zanu-PF members namely G40 kingpin, Saviour Kasukuwere, expelled Zanu-PF member and former Chivi Sou…

Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:37hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Chamisa's MDC getting hot under the collar over UN rapporteur's visit

Since the news of the United Nations (UN) special rapporteur, Ms Alena Douhan's visit to Zimbabwe was broken, the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) and other anti-Government elements like political activist Hopewell Chin'ono have been having sleepless …

Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Sanctions affect ordinary people

IN a week's time, we will have the Anti-Sanctions Day again.In August 2019, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) declared October 25 as the Anti-Sanctions Day in solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe, who were slapped with sa…

Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:59hrs | 3 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Democracy is not about generational entitlement

Following the United Parties for National Development's (UNPD) win in Zambia's August 12, 2021, general elections, the MDC Alliance faction leader Nelson Chamisa became unnecessarily excited.The following month, his supporters coined for h…

Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:52hrs | 12 | by Nobleman Runyanga

ZEC spot on in excluding MDC Alliance

Recently Zimbabweans woke up to a NewsDay story entitled "ZEC bias exposed." The article informed that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) had not invited the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction for its provisional consulta…

Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:50hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Old Mutual rallies re-engagement efforts

FINANCIAL services provider, Old Mutual Holdings has implored relevant authorities to continue with international re-engagement efforts to attain healthier relations with international financial markets which are central to smooth banking …

Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga

IMF SDR release puts Biti in his place

IN April 2021, the International Monetary Fund's Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT) granted debt relief to the 28 poorest and most vulnerable countries hit by catastrophic natural disasters or public health disasters including…

Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:53hrs | 3 | by Nobleman Runyanga

The day Nelson Chamisa 'won' Zambian elections

Yesterday the world woke up to the news of the confirmation of Zambia's 12, August 2021 elections results. Opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) leader, Hakainde Hichilema had beaten the ruling party, the Patriotic Front …

Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:15hrs | 4 | by Nobleman Runyanga

The MDC Alliance's warped view of democracy

Over a week ago, President Mnangagwa launched his biography, "A Life of Sacrifice".  As expected, his detractors like journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and self-exiled G40 kingpin, Professor Jonathan Moyo out of baseless bitterness and pet…

Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga

No, Mr Biti, you are not a jack of all trades

A week ago, the local mainstream and social media were abuzz with news of MDC Alliance (MDCA) faction co-vice president, Tendai Biti's rantings against the International Monetary Fund (IMF's) report on Zimbabwe. Biti's utterances followed …

Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 07:47hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga

The fight against COVID-19 is everyone's responsibility

The first Saturday of this month saw local author, film maker and anti-Government activist, Tsitsi Dangarembwa, getting her first COVID-19 vaccination jab at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare. She did not waste the opportunity to use the exp…

Published: 19 Jul 2021 at 13:35hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Chamisa has never been serious

On Monday last week, principals of the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) met at the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs offices in Harare to deliberate on electoral reforms. This was the second time in a fortnight that the…

Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:01hrs | 3 | by Nobleman Runyanga

MDC factions have bungled in running Harare

The MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction leader, Nelson Chamisa, uses every opportunity he gets to pontificate about smart cities each time he has to talk of Zimbabwe's urban areas.Given the fact that the MDC in its various factions and formations…

Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga

When opposition underdog gives the opposition sleepless nights

Last Friday the MDC Alliance faction leader, Nelson Chamisa came out of his invisible office to sweep the streets of Mabvuku high density suburb in apparent response to Transform Zimbabwe (TZ) leader, Jacob Ngarivhume who has been cleaning…

Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 21:12hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Opposition flogs electoral reforms dead horse, again

Faced with increasing pressure from its largely impressionable and excitable young members, who are growing impatient, and the counter-attractions presented by other opposition players like Jacob Ngarivhume of Transform Zimbabwe and the 31…

Published: 31 May 2021 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga

G40 resorts to voodoo conspiracies

When the weekly Standard newspaper published a story on 2 May 2021 to the effect that a Zvimba villager, Tinos Manovengere, was not happy with the burial of former President Robert Mugabe, G40 members and other anti-Zanu-PF elements got al…

Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Constitutional amendments, the opposition's frustrations

Last week, President Mnangagwa signed into law two amendments to the Constitution, much to the chagrin and frustration of his detractors and anti-Government elements in the opposition and the civil society sector, who had been fighting spi…

Published: 13 May 2021 at 06:45hrs | 12 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Opposition offenders are no special citizens

Following the recent sentencing of MDC Alliance activist, Makomborero Haruzivishe to an effective 14 months in prison for inciting public violence, there were mixed reactions from across the political divide. The opposition, its lawyers an…

Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 11:46hrs | 8 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Haruzivishe represents everything wrong about opposition politics

A young member of the MDC formation led by Nelson Chamisa, Makomborero Haruzivishe, was sentenced to 14 months in prison by the Harare Magistrates Court this week for inciting public violence.  While many blindly joined the faction in…

Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga

MDC's poor appreciation of economy rears its ugly head

Last week an image of a Chicken Slice outlet, which was vandalised by someone who used some spray paint to create a graffiti message appealing for the release of some MDC Alliance activists remanded in custody, made rounds on the social me…

Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:38hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga

How to wreck a political party

One of the issues that MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa raised during his Agenda 2021 address last week were claims that Government was gunning for a one party State in Zimbabwe using some opposition political parties. Notwithstanding t…

Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:05hrs | 3 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Chamisa's MDC enjoys pressing self-destruct button

Last week, the social media was abuzz with the news of the defection of two senior MDC Alliance members, Blessing Chebundo and Lillian Timveous, to Zanu-PF. In response to the development, the MDC Alliance secretary general, Chalton Hwende…

Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 06:19hrs | 3 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Mafume exposes MDC Alliance's poor leadership pedigree

Last week, social media was on fire when the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Mr Nick Mangwana revealed that despite getting three times less in the Zimbabwe National Road Administrati…

Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Lightning kills 25 cattle in Chipinge

Chipinge commercial farmer Mr Dawie Joubert was left counting losses after his 25 cattle were struck by lightning on Thursday afternoon. The district's Department of Agricultural, Technical and Extension Services livestock promotion office…

Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 07:00hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga

When the opposition runs rings around the opposition

Events in the opposition camp over the past few weeks have been amusing and amazing. Fierce contestation in the MDC followed the late Morgan Tsvangirai's unilateral and undemocratic declaration that the party would not participate in the s…

Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga

MDC Alliance: An opposition effort built on a foundation of lies

Last week some of the issues making rounds on both the mainstream and social media included the arrest of MDC-Alliance deputy chairperson, Job Sikhala, MDC-Alliance spokesperson, Fadzayi Mahere and activist, Hopewell Chin'ono for using the…

Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:45hrs | 13 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Mafume must stop shifting blame

Since his election as the Mayor of Harare in September this year, MDC Alliance Ward 17 Councillor, Jacob Mafume, has not done anything to resolve Harare's woes except to shift blame on central Government. Instead of giving Harare residents…

Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 06:48hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga

Chamisa's MDC failure-bound foray to the countryside

MDC-Alliance's youth assembly held a national executive council meeting in Bulawayo two weeks ago where it resolved to boost the party's electoral fortunes in 2023 by moving to rural areas to recruit a target of one million first-time vote…

Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:24hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Impatience, tactlessness expose Chamisa's immaturity

It is just one and a half years since Nelson Chamisa seized control of the MDC following his predecessor, the late Morgan Tsvangirai's death on 14 February 2018. The guy is already showing signs of fatigue and frustration which is an indic…

Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 13:21hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga

August 16 exposes the MDC's insincerity

The much-hyped MDC's 16 August 2019 demonstration in Harare fell flat on its face despite the spirited attempts by some of its impressionable and excitable youths to defy the prohibition order issued on the eve of the ill-fated event by th…

Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 13:54hrs | 6 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Of enemies of democracy and lovers of money

Today, the Nelson Chamisa-led is set to stage a protest in Harare over almost everything that the opposition party's members could think of. Some of its members such as secretary for public service and social welfare, Maureen Kademaunga ar…

Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 23:59hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Of enemies of democracy and lovers of money

This Friday the Nelson Chamisa-led is set to stage a protest in Harare over almost everything that the opposition party's members could think of. Some of its members such as secretary for public service and social welfare, Maureen Kademaun…

Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 14:28hrs | 16 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Time to appreciate Zimbabwe progress

It is a few days after the first anniversary of the history-making 30 July 2018 harmonised election when Zimbabweans participated in the first harmonised elections in the new dispensation. And what a refreshingly different election it was!…

Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga

30 July election: one year later

It is a few days after the first anniversary of the history-making 30 July 2018 harmonised election when Zimbabweans participated in the first harmonised elections in the new dispensation. And what a refreshingly different election it was!…

Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 17:28hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga

MDC plunging depths of desperation

Following the launch of its RELOAD policy document, which turned out to be a damp squib, the MDC last week announced its intention to embark on what it described as Reload rallies throughout the country. The aim of the rallies is to mobili…

Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 18:31hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Sikhala case exposes MDC confusion, dilemma

MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa, and his top lieutenants should be ruing the day that party's deputy chair, Job Sikhala, told party supporters at a rally in Bikita East last week that the MDC would overthrow President Emmerson Mnangagwa before …

Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 5 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Bread crews promoting bread shortages for self gain

The bread delivery van crews from the country's three main bakeries are feeding the prevailing bread shortages for personal gains, the Harare Post has established. During the weekend, this publication spoke to a number of tuck shop keepers…

Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 10:01hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Chamisa: The personification of a selfish leader

When Nelson Chamisa seized control of the MDC from the heiress apparent, Dr Thokozani Khupe in February last year while his predecessor, Morgan Tsvangirai's body was still lying in a South African funeral parlour, Tsvangirai's name never d…

Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 14:20hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga

The MDC congress: All froth, no beer

The much-vaunted MDC elective congress ended the week before last. Some people such as those who were rejected by their own people, but had to give 10 head of cattle as an offering to the god of the party are rejoicing. So too are those wh…

Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 07:05hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga

The MDC Congress: So much hype, so much hot air

The much-vaunted MDC elective congress ended the week before last. Some people such as those who were rejected by their own people but had to give 10 head of cattle as an offering to the god of the party are rejoicing. So too are those out…

Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 13:12hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga

The scourge of greedy political businesspeople

Zimbabweans are on tenterhooks as unscrupulous businesspeople pursuant to aiding and abetting the ambitions of some political losers who are seeking to blackmail government into a political union of sorts have engaged in economic sabotage …

Published: 30 May 2019 at 15:34hrs | 3 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Of poor political performers, protests and stupid protestors

Those who attended or listened to the speeches delivered during Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) May Day commemorations in Dzivarasekwa, Harare, last week will testify of how the labour body's leadership is itching to stage protest…

Published: 06 May 2019 at 13:50hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga

The ZCTU should choose between labour and politics

A few days before the violent and ruinous protests of 14 to 16 January this year in the main cities of Harare, Bulawayo and Mutare, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president, Peter Mutasa and the leader of the shadowy protest …

Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 13:13hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Of the Zimbabwe bird and political ignoramuses

In the morning of the eve of the celebration of our 39th Independence anniversary last week, the MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa torched a storm on the social media when he insinuated that the Zimbabwe bird was an item of idolatry. This demonst…

Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 11:50hrs | 4 | by Nobleman Runyanga

The case for the compensations of former white farmers

Last week Government announced the commencement of the process of identifying and registering the former white farmers, who lost land during the land reform programme, in an exercise which is being co-ordinated by the Commercial Farmers Un…

Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 11:33hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Facing national challenges: None but ourselves

In mid-March Zimbabwe together with Malawi and Mozambique fell victim to the violent and destructive Cyclone Idai which killed hundreds of people and left thousands displaced in these three southern African countries. The disaster befell Z…

Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 15:31hrs | 10 | by Nobleman Runyanga

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