Columnist / Patrick guramatunhu
'Economy will grow 6%' insist Ncube (Tsvangirai mark 2) - not without real political change first
"Zimbabwe will be joining the group of six countries which have the fastest growing economies with a growth rate of six percent per annum which comprise Rwanda, Ghana, Tanzania and Ivory Coast," said ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 2417 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'I prefer big bang policies' says Ncube - hurt poor hardest, reckless since doomed to fail
"My preference is a fiscal shock, but there is what you call the political collar or the politics of policy making, which then slows you down. My preference would be more of a big bang approach becaus...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 07:25hrs | 920 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'His Excellency assured American investor' - hollow title and assurance for one who is illegitimate
Poor Professor Mthuli Ncube, ever since his appointment as Minister of Finance, he has clearly lost whatever intellectual ability he had until that point. "His Excellency ... Mnangagwa assured...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 07:21hrs | 554 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ED 'will woo investors' in maiden UNGA speech - no takers, given Mugabe mark-2 reputation
The Zanu PF apologists, spin-doctors and propagandists are out like the cicada flooding the world with nose. Their mission is to flood all available space with colourful portrait of Mnangagwa as a com...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 19:59hrs | 3476 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Seek ye first the political kingdom' advised Dr Nkrumah. We did not and have paid dearly for our folly
"Seek ye first the political kingdom and all else shall be added unto you," said Dr Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Independent Ghana. After 38 years of blundering from pillar to post wh...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 22:16hrs | 368 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
UK want 'serious dialogue' with ED on debt but not vote rigging - history repeating itself
The British are not helping Zimbabwe get out of the economic and political mess the country is in. Not at all!"Ambassador Catriona Laing said an International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme wou...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 16:36hrs | 3875 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'What can deadwood cabinet advise dream team?' ask ZCTU - no ask; what will we do if it fails, yet again?
"The reshuffle of cabinet actually promoted all those deemed 'excess baggage' by certain sections of the media. The big boys whom the majority called dead wood were actually reassigned to full time jo...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 14:24hrs | 803 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'We are stuck with (vote rigging) ED junta, make it work' argue Cross - how, GNU fog has never cleared
The trouble with dealing with single track minded people like Eddie Cross is once they have made up their minds on something they are off. Even a train on a single track can be stopped and even revers...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 3004 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zanu PF rigged elections and stampeding us to move on - we must, never again, forget past with sleep
"Usa kanganwa chezuro nehope!" (One must never forget yesterday's troubles with sleep!) so goes the Shona adage. All those who forget the past are doomed to repeat the same mistake over and over again...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 19:55hrs | 2199 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ED rigged the elections, first came cash shortage and next is the exodus - no lights to turn out
"If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights." Screamed the headlines in The Sun April 1992, Britain's leading tabloid newspaper. Neil Kinnock, Labour, did n...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:56hrs | 1181 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'GNU is best foot forward' some say - feeble excuse for appeasing vote rigging Zanu PF, again
Desperate people do desperate things but there is nothing more irrational that doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.Everyone knows that Zanu PF rigged these el...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 19:43hrs | 1458 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'ED stole elections!' insist Chamisa - what happened to 'stringent measures to stop rigging'?
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa wants any talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to yield electoral reforms and an economic rescue package for the country. "On 29 August 2018, the national...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 08:13hrs | 1446 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Chamisa and ED must find each other,' argues Standard - to what end, appease vote rigging junta
It is heartening that many Zimbabweans are finally taking the country’s economic and political situation with the seriousness the matter demands. After decades of burying their heads in the sand and...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 13:17hrs | 935 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Con-Court helped ED bury vote rigging evidence - just as Smith's judges did
Before independence it was common to hear of a white farmer beating up his black worker, tie him up with a rope and drag him around in his vehicle. The worker would die of his injuries. The court woul...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 07:35hrs | 739 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Thucydides' 'something is not quite fair' with elections - is no licence to rig elections
One of the things that has helped to drag us into the economic and political mess we are in as a nation is our failure to distinguish the wood from the trees, the trivial from the important, lies and ...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 21:21hrs | 731 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa is 'mark 2 Mugabe and deserves no support!' says UK MP - Hallelujah! Amen!
If President Mnangagwa was beginning to feel that he had blatantly rigged the elections and going to get away with it he has just had a very rude wake-up call. British MP Kate Hoey has spelt it in pla...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 19:08hrs | 10000 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'There is massive doctoring of evidence,' charged MDC - with no voters' roll, cannot prove it
Let me say it again, these elections were rigged and the only way to have stopped the rigging was by implementing the democratic reforms designed to take away Zanu PF's carte blanche powers to rig the...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 07:17hrs | 2703 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'MDC did well, winning 64 MP seats,' boasted Cross - elections were rigged, for Pete's sake
MDC leaders sold-out during the GNU, if you lot had implemented the democratic reforms we would not still be in this mess! Many thinking Zimbabweans have long lost patience with you MDC leaders and I ...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 07:08hrs | 5946 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Chamisa cannot be trusted in the GNU much less to govern,' says ED apologist - true but neither can ED
Those who defend the indefensible are fools and Zanu PF apologists are some of the biggest fools there is. Give a fool a long rope and he will hang himself, so goes the adage. Bishop Lazarus, a season...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 18:47hrs | 10224 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'MDC frothing over rigged elections,' says Newsday - theatrical farce, Biti et al are gloriously happy!
I have read some good article and some bad articles, this is one of the best I have read in many moons!"The MDC Alliance has been frothing at the mouth before, during and after the polls, stating ...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 13:27hrs | 4384 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ED proud 'elections were peaceful' - but even he dropped 'free, fair and credible'
Tyrannical regimes are hard to change because they not only brainwash the populous but worse still they brainwash themselves - they start to believe their own lies and propaganda - making it next to i...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 14:16hrs | 615 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Magaisa get this in your thick head: President Chamisa + 2/3 Zanu PF MPs = most dysfunctional govt ever
Alex Magaisa was the late Morgan Tsvangirai's chief adviser in the last 11 months of the 2008 to 2013 GNU. History will judge the GNU was a wasted golden opportunity to implement the democratic reform...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 17:30hrs | 13250 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Rural voters show fealty to Zanu PF,' says Matyszak - but does that count as free vote
Dear Derek MatyszakI would like to thank you for your excellent article in Zimeye. Thank you.I believe the issue of whether or not these elections were free, fair and credible is a ver...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 06:49hrs | 1485 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'ConCourt can declare Chamisa president,' says Veritas - but to what end and purpose
Some people like to waste time chasing shadows and fairy tale stories just to escape dealing with reality.Veritas, in its latest election watch bulletin, said MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chami...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 14:47hrs | 8646 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'ZEC must release proper result!' says Chamisa - Tell us right figures then and stop being coy
MDC Alliance leaders' breath-taking incompetence would try the patience of a saint! The international community elections observers are five star saints but still even they must be running out of pati...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 19:34hrs | 4074 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'ED is duly elected President!' Who elected him, he rigged, What to do now!
When the late Morgan Tsvangirai and then Nelson Chamisa decided to contest this year's elections with not even one democratic reform in place, the nation's fate was sealed there and then. Zanu PF was ...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 14:16hrs | 2810 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Army has been deployed, don't expect a picnic!' twittered J Moyo - look business end of AK47
"I repeat what I said in 2002: WHERE THE ARMY IS DEPLOYED, DON'T EXPECT A PICNIC. When the Army was deployed in 2008, it was not a picnic, it was a reversal of a poll result; and when it was deployed ...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 18:40hrs | 5409 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Broke MDC begging just to feed election agents vs big-spender Zanu PF - KO before the voting started
BY: SOURCE: "Zimbabweans we need your help to finish the struggle. We still need your hand in feeding our polling agents. Donate $5 and adopt one election agent. We have a tota...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 16:07hrs | 1083 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
After 38 years, yet another rigged election all because MDC leaders are stuck in the narrow-minded ghetto mentality
"In a famous exchange between Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald is reputed to have said, "The rich are different from the rest of us," to which Hemingway replied, "Yes, I know, they have more money...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 14:44hrs | 1810 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'A farmer, white or black, is a Zimbabwean,' assured ED - only assure everyone by holding free elections
Ever since he came to power following the November 2017 coup, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has certainly hit the ground running when his efforts to assure everyone that "Zimbabwe is open for business!...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 07:37hrs | 386 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Elections are not free and fair. Pull out!' ZCTU tell Chamisa, straight - no putting the genie back now.
"We must clearly express that there are irregularities in the conduct of the elections and that they can't be free and fair. We must tell the opposition parties to pull out of the election," said ZCTU...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 07:06hrs | 1418 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'With no fiscal stability nothing works,' says Cross - no, political stability matters the most
"My first call on my bucket list for Zimbabwe was fiscal stability and discipline, the second was monetary stability and predictability. This week on Monday the informal rate of exchange for the RTGS ...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 07:05hrs | 471 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Mnangagwa are you tired of stealing elections!,' cried Biti - to put nation's destiny at mercy of ED's whim is insane
MDC leaders have proven to be breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent, after nearly 20 years of blundering from pillar to post one is tempted to say "Nothing that lot does or says, will surprise me any...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:31hrs | 2493 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'We are prepared to die for free elections!,' says Biti - read, 'to sacrifice povo for gravy train seat!'
Mr Tendai Biti you, like everyone else have the right to enjoy freedom of expression just remember that with every right comes a duty. Your right to freedom of expression does not include the right to...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 19:43hrs | 2134 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ZEC read EU observers riot act: 'You are not monitors!' - observe but say nothing and touch nothing
ZEC has read the riot act to the International Election observers reminding them in no uncertain terms that they are OBSERVERS and not monitors. "The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chairperson ...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 09:21hrs | 1580 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'No reform, no elections!' threaten Chamisa - for once he is not bluffing, wheels are flying off the bullet train
Chamisa threatens to withdraw from the elections; he has bluffed in the past but this time events beyond his control are force him to withdraw - the wheels are flying off the Chamisa bullet train! ...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 17:10hrs | 938 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'No water, don't pay the bill,' argues Chiwenga - trust him to make bad situation impossible
"There is no water, council has failed to collect refuse and there is no sewer reticulation, but daily, they come knocking on your doors demanding payment for things they have failed to deliver. That ...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 15:12hrs | 1345 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'It will be first step to democracy if elections are free,'" says ForeignAffairs - try, if sun rose from the WEST!
There are many, many reasons one can give to explain why Zimbabwe is stuck in this economic and political mess. One of the reasons will be the country's failure to have any open, meaningful and progre...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 15:19hrs | 275 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'We left all the bad things behind,' says ED - leopard smelling of elephant dung, it is still a killer
Things are bad enough when tyrants bombard the people with their propaganda and brainwash them with falsehoods. Hell breaks loose when the tyrants begin to believe their own propaganda and lies. In Zi...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 16:42hrs | 606 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Those who refuse to see the coup and the bomb, ED and G40 as the same devil are making a false choice
Some people cannot resist the temptation of judging the book by its cover instead of its contents. Having made the initial blunder, they always go on to make complete fools of themselves as they despe...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 15:56hrs | 1864 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Bombs have 'no place in democratic elections,' says President Ramaphosa - ED is rigging, so stop wittering!
"Kamoto kamberevere ndikokano pisa matanda mberi!" (It is the unattended small fire that will burn down the forest!) Shona elders advise. There is no denying that Zimbabwe is in a serious econ...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 14:10hrs | 2352 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Only ED deserve your vote,' argue Dr Mavaza - how so, fool; he is one wielding the veto
People like Dr Masimba Mavaza have such poor memory, they forget yesterday's troubles with sleep. "Kukangamwa chezuro nehope!" as one would say in Shona."The world believes that only ZANU PF h...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 17:06hrs | 1571 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ERC sue Chief Charumbira for campaigning for Zanu-PF - sue the puppeteer and not the puppet!
"President of the National Council of Chiefs (NCC) Fortune Charumbira is facing jail after failing to comply with a court order that directed him to issue an apology for rallying other chiefs to suppo...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 16:49hrs | 401 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Do not underestimate Chamisa's resolve to boycott elections,' says MDC - only if his life was on the line
"Hupenzi enyama yegakava!" (Idiots are stubborn and there is no one more stubborn than the certified insane!) so goes the Shona adage. Insanity comes and goes, it is triggered by the full moon in wild...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 22:19hrs | 4957 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa rejects reforms and cherry picks 'No violence' code - we demand a la carte menu
When President Mnangagwa took over power after November 2017 coup and promised to hold free, fair and credible elections; every thinking Zimbabwean was overjoyed because the country's failure to hold ...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 07:31hrs | 1650 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Zimbabwe is NOT ready for elections,' says observers tell ZEC - we know, 'You ain't seen nothing yet!'
It is pleasing to see that the international elections observers are now in Zimbabwe and some are already "cutting their teeth"! "International Observers Claim Zimbabwe Is Not Ready For Electi...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 17:39hrs | 3920 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'ED wetting himself after demo,' says Muchaiwa - nonsense, MDC will ignore all 'red lines' reforms, as usual
"After the peaceful electoral reforms demonstrations in Harare on Tuesday the 5th of June 2018 and a statement on Mnangagwa's "no action" position by the American Senator Chris Coons, I bet Mnangagwa ...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 16:08hrs | 2544 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Zimbabwe is a one-party state,' boast VP Mohadi - worse still, Zanu PF is blatantly rigging these elections
Addressing a poorly-attended campaign rally in Chiredzi, Mohadi said: "Zim in essence, is a one-party State. Yes, we have other parties, but even when the moon is rising, the jackals bark, but will th...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 12:51hrs | 980 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Zanu PF junta controls ZEC,' admit MDC - penny has finally dropped but what next!
The issue of producing verified voters' roll is an important one. Without an audited voters' roll it is impossible to verify that all those eligible to vote are on the roll and only those eligible...Published: 30 May 2018 at 15:23hrs | 1053 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Off with Mukupe's head!' clamour opposition out of malice and to hide their own glaring incompetence
"How can we say, honestly, the soldiers took the country, practically snatched it from Mugabe, to come and hand it over to Chamisa?" said deputy Finance Minister Terrence Mukupe in a video. "A ch...Published: 25 May 2018 at 20:55hrs | 1931 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
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