Columnist / Patrick guramatunhu
'Lift sanctions to end mass poverty' insist AU - povo poor but not stupid, know Blue Roof opulence is mother of poverty
There are many reasons why Africa has remained the dark continent, forever doomed to blunder from one crisis to the next. Africa was at business-end of the slave trade, millions of Africans we...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 09:28hrs | 684 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa threaten 'radical approach' to force ED into NTA - same GNU s***t different name
"They will arrest and kill some of us, but no gun is more powerful than a conscious mind. Some people are saying why don't you focus on 2023. That is foolishness. Foolishness is doing the same thing w...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:28hrs | 654 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zanu PF did not care about destruction caused by war, since it ruined us, still don't care - Enough is enough
"If you see anyone purporting to represent Zanu-PF youth league, those people are pretenders, they are masquerades. This is the real and authentic Zanu-PF youth league that is gathered here at the par...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 09:37hrs | 310 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Tsvangirai accepted GNU to end people's suffering' - did not end rigged elections thence suffering continued
"It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt," said Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known to many by his pen name Mark Twain, a reno...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 09:34hrs | 768 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Zanu-PF funded MDC-T, we were not a real opposition' - funded MDC during GNU too and continues to this day
Many people have often asked why Zanu-PF has managed to stay in power for 40 years regardless of the party's checked track record as a corrupt, incompetent and murderous regime? The answer is slowly b...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 19:44hrs | 1879 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'RELOAD will break vicious cycle of disputed elections' said MDC - rubbish, it is time for plan B
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," said George Santayana, born Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz De Santayana, a Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and n...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 07:15hrs | 1277 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Mnangagwa is being pulled down by corruption' - feeble excuse, failed to rig economic recover and must fcuk off
Zimbabwe is facing very serious economic and political challenges. The country's economy is in total meltdown sending unemployment to the nauseating heights of 90%, basic necessities such as supply of...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 16:37hrs | 707 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Mbeki brokered stability inducing 2008 GNU, please repeat' - Rubbish, GNU was a failure, insane to repeat
To herald the 2008 to 2013 GNU as a success is a grotesque misrepresentation of historic facts that will not be allowed to go unchallenged!"Mbeki - who helped to broker the stability-inducing ...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 22:09hrs | 1170 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Mnangagwa is legitimate president' says MDC leader - chastise rigged election deniers, slap them with sanction
"Here we go!" I sighed! The minute I saw the name Eddie Cross as the author of the article in Zimeye. I expected nonsense from him and nonsense I got! "Mr. Mnangagwa could then claim, for the ...Published: 06 Jan 2020 at 09:20hrs | 3285 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'2020, give God a chance to help' - helps those who help, not shoot, themselves
"First, the year 2019 was one of the hardest for us as citizens. The socio economic situation deteriorated and life continued to be harder for ordinary Zimbabweans," said Jacob Ngarivhume, President o...Published: 02 Jan 2020 at 21:56hrs | 941 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Mat provinces are marginalised' - same folly caused mess in post Gaddafi Libya
The Zanu PF dictatorship is imploding, the regime was rotten to the core and the centre can not hold. 40 years of this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical misrule has left the country in economic ruin...Published: 02 Jan 2020 at 19:50hrs | 1594 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa lines up his Animal Farm ducks 'to count blessings' of rigged elections
It is no secret that both PF Zapu and Zanu PF have each wanted to impose one-party state in Zimbabwe. The compromise position was for the two parties to come together but all past attempts to unite th...Published: 29 Dec 2019 at 23:56hrs | 10094 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Do POLAD because we love Zimbabwe' says Gutu - then why selling-out on free elections
Some of us still remember Bishop Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa, the 1979 (one year wonder) Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia following the Internal Settlement with Ian Smith...Published: 25 Dec 2019 at 10:52hrs | 3718 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa wants Chamisa in dictator's POLAD tent pissing out, on democracy
"I told (President) Mbeki that we have a platform for political dialogue which is Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD). It is the only one that we will use. If anyone wants to join including the MDC led ...Published: 22 Dec 2019 at 07:24hrs | 1200 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Mbeki led to MDC crashing defeat' Ruhanya - wash your foul mouth with bleach, MDC did that themselves
"Once beaten, twice shy. The MDC led by @nelsonchamisa should apply its wits in rational, logical, robust, rigorous ways taking into account how it was duped in the GNU President Mbeki brokered that l...Published: 17 Dec 2019 at 19:20hrs | 3028 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mbeki is pushing MDC to join Mnangagwa in POLAD - no reforms will be implemented
Nelson Chamisa met former South African president Thabo Mbeki and this is what he had to say: "We want dialogue that is meaningful, where the political will to change for the benefit of Zimbab...Published: 17 Dec 2019 at 19:12hrs | 6087 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'What coup! It was a change of administration' said SADC - sheer folly, let coup gene out, again
For the last 39 years the country has drifted like a log, with ordinary people hang on to the log for dear life, in the flood Zambezi River, totally at the mercy of a corrupt, incompetent and murderou...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 10:39hrs | 1673 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
After decades of Police State misrule chicken have come home to roost - Police and soldiers are starving
"The Defence, Home Affairs and Security Services portfolio committee said soldiers and police officers are being poorly fed, a situation that compromises their discipline and poses a grave dange...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:21hrs | 615 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Our fundamentals are now sound' IMF told - not so with corrupt, rigged elections, game changers
"Zimbabwe's central bank has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to overlook the country's shortcomings in achieving fiscal targets and allow a program to help restore the economy to run...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:20hrs | 389 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Church leaders are "local midwives delivering home-grown solution" - appeasing Zanu PF is no solution, never was
Zimbabwe's economy is in total meltdown; unemployment has remained 90% plus, 3/4 of the population are living on US$40 per month and the country's estimated 1000% hyperinflation is dragging them even ...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 09:12hrs | 398 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Mnangagwa is illegitimate' MDC maintains - yeah, but to what end and purpose
"MDC Monday stood firm it will never relent on its stance not to recognise President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the country's legitimately elected leader," reported New Zimbabwe."This comes after F...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 11:06hrs | 2373 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Ncube hit the poor hard by scrapped grain subsidies and is yet to tax looters
One of the few things Professor Mthuli Ncube did as soon as he was appoint Zimbabwe's Minister of Finance was to introduce the 2% electronic transaction tax. The tax was to raise some revenue from the...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 10:11hrs | 2272 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Expect steady economic recovery by December 2019' - nonsense, none as long as we remain a pariah state
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 10:52hrs | 1816 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zanu PF brutality goes into overdrive, buoyed by EU ambivalence and indifference
Let us all be very clear here; Zanu PF blatantly rigged last year's elections, the regime does not have the people of Zimbabwe's mandate to govern the country and must therefore step down, especially ...Published: 23 Nov 2019 at 07:15hrs | 1201 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
We are stuck in a (Zanu PF and MDC) 'man-made crisis' - they cannot be man-made solution too
"For months now, we have been asking our African brothers and sisters to look into the man-made governance crisis in Zimbabwe and help us restore the dignity of citizens," said MDC President, Nelson C...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 07:47hrs | 795 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Nightmare is madman wielding a stick - pity Zimbabweans have corrupt president wielding absolute power, for 39 years counting
"If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him ...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 09:15hrs | 1266 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zanu PF to freeze prices and wages - too late, prices soared 350% vs 50%. You failed, step down
"During a post cabinet briefing held on Tuesday, Information Minister, Monica Mutsvangwa said government does not dispute the need to give a cost-of-living adjustment to workers but it was faced with ...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 07:03hrs | 5691 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Zanu PF leaders are clueless' - established this 20 years ago, ask why they're still in power
"It is time that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and finance Mthuli Ncube wake up to reality. Both Leaders do not have a strategic and plausible solution to the economic problems prevailing in Zimbabwe. ...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 10:40hrs | 2135 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Only a Zanu PF and MDC GNU will move country forward' - fixation of panicked housefly
Zimbabwe's worsening economic situation has some Zimbabweans in such a panic they have a fixation with the idea of a Zanu PF and MDC GNU as the solution they cannot listen to reason. "It's hig...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 11:58hrs | 69 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'MDC with no eyes supported ED's coup' - double jeopardy, failing to see being led by the blind
"Rinemanyanga hariputirwi!" (The truth will always come out no matter how much one tries to conceal it!) so goes the Shona adage. After 20 years of blundering from pillar to post the truth is now comi...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 17:20hrs | 160 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'ED Mnangagwa must learn to listen' - forget him, he is beyond the pale and so is Chamisa
"ED Mnangagwa, You must learn to listen first so that you are listened to," wrote Luke Tamborinyoka MDC party deputy spokesperson."Listen to the suffering cries of those abductees, the 2,6 mil...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 18:25hrs | 1501 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Economic meltdown force Zanu-PF "to fast-track reform bill" - gimmick to dodge stepping down
Zanu-PF rigged last year's elections confident the party will "rig" economic recovery; that has proved a bridge too far. There is no doubt that the regime is now feeling the political pressure brought...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 22:27hrs | 3254 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Put 'new dispensation' into action now' UN commanded - and all lived happily ever after, want to puke
"A UN human rights expert has called on Zimbabwe to embrace and safeguard democracy, saying that the country’s change in leadership provided an opportunity to promote political tolerance, accou...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 10:57hrs | 587 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mujuru facing liquidation as business empire collapse - one in Blue Roof is worried sick, she is up next
"Former Vice President Joice Mujuru and her company, Ruzirun Investments, have approached the High Court seeking an order stopping a couple she owes money from attaching her property as she fears goin...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 19:35hrs | 5359 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
BCC parking tender saga continues
A TENDER for the installation of parking management system in Bulawayo which has taken more than eight years to implement has stalled again after the city's councillors failed to agree on how best to ...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 08:19hrs | 727 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
What good is 95% literacy without common sense to stop Mugabe madness
"The record is mixed, at best. No doubt he (Mugabe) gave black Zimbabweans dignity, pride and opportunity. In the early days of independence, we built a new school every day, every district got a hosp...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 08:09hrs | 404 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Zanu PF has no reason to destabilise Zimbabwe' - has, insatiable greed for power and loot
Zimbabwe is a failed state. The last two weeks following the late Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe's death have provided the international community with some gruesome details of the coun...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 16:42hrs | 1528 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Mugabe died in exile!' - Rubbish, Singapore was dictator's haunt and very costly one to the nation
The sheer arrogance, contemptuous disregard for the truth and heartless indifference to the suffering of the masses by the Zanu-PF thugs has never seize to amaze me. Never!Zimbabwe's former dictat...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 21:10hrs | 563 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
It is impossible to portray dictator Mugabe as a hero, impossible, 'Rinemanyanga hariputirwi!'
Every year, at my High School, we had a college ball. We invited girls from the neighbouring school to the ball and, before the end of the afternoon's dancing, it was the tradition to have a lucky dra...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 19:12hrs | 1081 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Russians sincerely grieved over dictator Stalin' they didn't know better, Zimbabweans have no such excuse
"On 5 March 1953 an event took place that shattered Russia - the death of Stalin. I found it almost impossible to imagine him dead, so much had he been an indispensable part of life," wrote Evgenii Ev...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 06:53hrs | 686 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Respect foe dead Mugabe is no excuse for riding roughshod over his victims and truth – he was a dictator
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a ruthless tyrant who viewed the ordinary Zimbabweans as little more than pawns, sub-humans, to dispose of as he saw fit. In expressing their grief over Mugabe's death many p...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 19:47hrs | 331 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Zim to start talks to clear foreign debt in 2020' - Banks want money not more talks, this is catch 22
"Zimbabwe plans to start talks in early 2020 on clearing arrears on its international debt, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said, as it seeks to rebuild confidence in an economy ravaged by high inflatio...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 13:38hrs | 805 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Zimbabwe is a failed state, SA must intervene' - yes do; admit Zanu PF rigged 2018 elections
"Fellow South Africans, we cannot adopt quiet diplomacy when it comes to Zimbabwe. Reports are such that over 2 million Zim citizens went to bed hungry last night and every other. The country is fast ...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 19:12hrs | 1764 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'China attaches no condition to assistance' - so; cannot demand good governance, we do
No amount of Chinese propaganda can ever hide the reality of the tick and the cow China and Zimbabwe relationship. "The China-Africa relationship is deeply rooted in our common que...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 21:21hrs | 1033 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ED asked to stop wasting US$400 m on overseas heath care - gave a middle finger reply
Health minister Obadiah Moyo has disclosed that the country is losing about $400 million annually on overseas medical treatments."Having our own up to standard facilities will make wonders and...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 06:24hrs | 2927 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'War veterans are living on US$0.48 per day, demanding own ministry' - I am speechless.
"War veterans are surviving on US0.48c a day and nothing has been done yet everyone and everybody who could be driving a Mercedes Benz, living in a nice house and things like that; it came from the wa...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 08:54hrs | 642 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Diplomats sowing disharmony' - by pretending Zim is a democracy MDC has sown death and destruction
When MDC was launched in 1999 the party's mission was simple and straightforward: to bring about the democratic change to end the corrupt, vote rigging and tyrannical Zanu" dictatorship, as the party'...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 21:32hrs | 850 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'I'm positively impacting Zim's development' Gutu insist ' are you, 'many were called but few were chosen'
"I have got absolutely no apology to make to anyone for loving my country, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is currently facing serious political & socio-economic challenges but these challenges aren't insurmou...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 21:31hrs | 546 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Diplomats sowing disharmony' - by pretending Zimbabwe is a democracy MDC has sown death and destruction
When MDC was launched in 1999 the party's mission was simple and straightforward: to bring about the democratic change to end the corrupt, vote rigging and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship, as the part...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:45hrs | 839 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Zimbabwe needs international help' says Japan - above all, help to end cancerous bad governance
It is now nearly two years since Mnangagwa launched his "Zimbabwe is open for business!" campaign. He was cocksure this was going to open the floodgates on new foreign and local investments. That has ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:35hrs | 1617 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
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