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Uncle Sam lacks moral authority to lecture on democracy
ON Thursday 29 June, President Mnangagwa addressed a gathering of small scale miners where he emphasised his Government's support to the most productive sectors of the economy. He told the min...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:05hrs | 7 | by Ranga Mataire
Youth blend in Zanu-PF candidates excites observers
The election season is upon us.It is an exciting time for the electorate and aspiring candidates for both parliamentary and local authority elections.While other political parties are ...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 06:41hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Zimbabwe-based NGOs in panic mode
A new law governing operations of non-governmental organisations is likely to be operational in Zimbabwe before year end.Predictably, there is uproar and panic in the NGO sector, including som...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:17hrs | 1 | by Ranga Mataire
Zimbabweans will reject political mannequins
FOR over two decades, some Western administrations have sponsored proxy political entities in Zimbabwe with the primary goal of dislodging ZANU-PF from power. Over two decades of moral, financ...Published: 21 Feb 2023 at 05:51hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Thandiwe Newton: When little knowledge is dangerous
This week, social media got a dose of some revolting diatribes from one Thandiwe Newton, a bygone era British actress whose desperation for relevance is forcing her to utter the most outrageous things...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:33hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Mnangagwa directs party to support NDS1
Zanu-PF First Secretary, President Mnangagwa, has directed party structures to work with Government ministries and agencies for the success of National Development Strategy 1 and attainment of Vision ...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | 4 | by Ranga Mataire
West's Zimbabwean political project crumbling
There is an interesting quotation from the Old Man in Charles Mungoshi's "Waiting for the Rain" (1975). It is a quotation that epitomises his lament about the alienation that has afflicted Lucifer, hi...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Sadc waits for signal from Mozambique
Let's face it, any disturbing developments in a neighbouring country have the effect of being contagious if not carefully managed. There is something disturbing taking place in Mozambique in the provi...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 05:50hrs | 1 | by Ranga Mataire
Unmasking sanctions promoters
Many had hoped that the coming of a new administration led by President Donald Trump in America was going to usher in a fresh foreign policy trajectory. This deduction was wrong. Let me ...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:13hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Who Owns England?
Who Owns England? The question sounds oblique, when one considers the country's documented long history of "civilisation". One would think that, by now, this question should have long been settled. Ye...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:33hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
MDC and the colonial ghost of whiteness
David Coltart, the self-confessed former British South African Police (BSAP) member, who authored a rehashed moribund autobiography, recently rebounded as treasurer of the MDC at the party's congress ...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:16hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Sacked UK Minister reflects inherent imperial hangovers
Speaking on 16 February 2001 on the need for European Unity, then President of the European Commission, Romani Prodi exclusively told Britain's The Guardian newspaper something that anyone interested ...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Ranga Mataire
Who is profiting from negative reporting?
Not so long ago, Aljazeera correspondent Haru Mutasa was denied a visa by one Western embassy ostensibly because of lack of a guarantee that she would return home.While it is the prerogative o...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 22:44hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Chamisa's skulduggery will not blight Mnangagwa's reform agenda
The usual opposition cynics are employing all manner of tactics to blight the impact of reforms being implemented by President Mnangagwa.However, as is the case with any skulduggery antics, th...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:46hrs | | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
An analysis of Chamisa's recent trip to Israel
In the midst of a gruelling election campaign, MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa surprised many by posting pictures on social media holidaying in Israel, which he dubbed a private vis...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:06hrs | | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
Rugeje is just what the doctor ordered for Zanu-PF
Rugeje's sincerity in ensuring vibrant internal democracy in zanu-pf is widely acknowledged even by those who used to be on the other side of the political divide.Exactly two months ago, Zanu-...Published: 04 May 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Ranga Mataire
US seeking a 'soft-landing' in Zimbabwe?
Many independent observers were shocked when the United States recently renewed economic sanctions on Zimbabwe at a time when it appeared Harare and Washington were warming up to each other following ...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Ranga Mataire
Time we tell Mugabe some home truths
Having worked with ex-President Robert Mugabe as editor of the Zanu-PF's publication, The People's Voice, for close to three years, I must admit that there was a time when I sincerely believed the man...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
It's called a guided revolution
What has become apparent to anyone following developments in Zimbabwe is the irrefutable reality that the situation in the country can never by any stretch of definition be called a coup.Accor...Published: 19 Nov 2017 at 08:43hrs | | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
Mnangagwa's road to Waterloo
OUSTED former Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's political career could be over as he appears to have little chance of bouncing back after his spectacular fallout with long-standing ally President Ro...Published: 12 Nov 2017 at 07:55hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
'Zuming' against white monopoly capital
Long after President Jacob Zuma announced his midnight Cabinet reshuffle that claimed the scalps of four ministers and several deputies, South Africa is still ruminating on the possible impact of the ...Published: 06 Apr 2017 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
Trump's secret Rhodesian connection
A CASUAL reader of history may find it very remote to connect the historical dots between US President Donald Trump's "America First" mantra with a similar slogan popularised in the then Rhodesia....Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 05:48hrs | | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
No sacred cows on corruption, says Mnangagwa
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said Government will "ruthlessly" deal with individuals implicated in corrupt deals regardless of their status.In an exclusive interview, VP Mnangag...Published: 14 Sep 2016 at 07:14hrs | | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
Zanu Day and supremacy of politics of the gun
Heroes Day is a day set aside by Government to commemorate and reflect upon the suffering and supreme sacrifice of patriotic sons and daughters who waged the arduous struggle against settler coloniali...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 06:30hrs | | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
Killer prophetess' baptism from hell
Villagers in Muriwo communal area near Mupatsi in Mashonaland East Province collectively shoulder the blame for not reining in Maud Dzvuke's weird activities which bore signs of a tragic end. The vill...Published: 18 Jun 2016 at 10:46hrs | | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
Has Zimbabwe become a nation of jokers?
In African literary discourse, the centre is the locus-standi that bestows an identity, integrity and legitimation of one's perception of his or her environment. In other words, the centre is the spac...Published: 09 May 2016 at 06:29hrs | | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
War vets' indaba was no talk-show
Far from being just a talk-show, the war veterans' indaba with President Mugabe lived up to its billing as it succinctly located the morass behind the current seemingly endless factional wars bedevill...Published: 11 Apr 2016 at 09:59hrs | 1 | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
Mugabe still tops - Survey
THE majority of Zimbabweans approve of President Mugabe's leadership despite the economic challenges faced by the country as a result of economic sanctions imposed by the West while trust and support ...Published: 15 Mar 2016 at 06:59hrs | | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
Shona-Chinese/Chinese-Shona dictionary launched
The University of Zimbabwe has scored a first among all local institutions of higher learning to have a Shona-Chinese/Chinese-Shona dictionary that is set to enhance multilingualism among scholars and...Published: 14 Oct 2015 at 06:05hrs | | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
Is Zimbabwe ready for a non-liberation war leader
As the country gears up for harmonised elections this year, Zimbabweans are faced with the choice of either electing to remain on the path of the nationalistic project of national empowerment and anti...Published: 17 Apr 2012 at 04:48hrs | | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
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