Columnist / S dube
Mwonzora's MDC amends constitution, readmits Abednego Bhebhe and Dorcas Sibanda
The National Executive and National Council today met, as an extension of the Extra Ordinary Congress, to consider and resolve on a number of internally and externally focused issues. Key on t...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 17:21hrs | | by itness Dube
Zimbabwe embassy becomes an instant hit at Zim Expo 2019 in USA
Staff members from the Zimbabwe Embassy have become an instant hit in Chicago at this year's annual Zim Expo, a business and social networking event being held in Chicago, United States of America....Published: 25 May 2019 at 19:46hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
Boarding school life - past, present
BEFORE deeply exploring themes in the play, I think it is quite safe to say that the playwright Chinodya covers various themes in the text. The theme of boarding school life is proffered to conscienti...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Charles Dube
Chamisa a young Robert Mugabe
Editor,Nelson Chamisa who has falsely appropriated himself the robes of a Messiah remains an unrepentant and dangerous toddler dictator. The dismissal of the democratically elected May...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:34hrs | | by S Dube
Government Must Intervene in Bulawayo TM Saga
Editor, I must salute you for giving us refreshing news and and the good work that your Team has done in reporting fairly and without fear or favour. We hope that this excellent service contin...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 19:53hrs | | by S Dube
I have lost faith in ZEC
Editor, As a proud Ndebele speaker who without apology associates with fellow Nguni speakers (Swati, Xhosa, Zulu,Ndebele) to form the largest group in Southern Africa, I have lost faith in ZEC...Published: 22 May 2018 at 20:10hrs | | by S Dube
Khupe seeks legal relief over Parly expulsion
MDC-T Acting President, Hon Dr Thokozani Khupe, finds her recall from parliament as a malicious act of interfering into the internal matters of a political party, considering that she had long written...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 12:27hrs | 1 | by Witness Dube
Mugabe as an independent presidential candidate
There is an argument that must be resolved by the people of Zimbabwe. There are certain people and I am one of them who believe that Robert Mugabe was the worst President and his treatment of opponent...Published: 11 Jan 2018 at 15:57hrs | 1 | by S Dube
Traditional leafy vegetables into your garden
A garden can be defined as a piece of land next to a house, meant for growing flowers, fruits or vegetables. A garden with a variety of rape, spinach, lettuce, okra, spider flower, moringa, pigweed, b...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 10:10hrs | 11 | by Praxedis Dube, Rico Ihle, Wim Heijman and Paul Struik
Lost crops: Food for thought for Zimbabwe
Many do remember the yesteryear song of Oliver Mtukudzi "Tsika dzedu" in which the musician pitched the importance of the traditional way of living, when people used to consume traditional leafy veget...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 18:44hrs | 4 | by Praxedis Dube1, Rico Ihle1, Wim Heijman1 and Paul Struik2
Zanu-PF has always been obsessed with power
Zanu-PF is a party built on lies. One of the most-told lies by President Robert Mugabe's party is the constantly parroted claim that it (alone) liberat...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 10:46hrs | | by Chris Dube
Mugabe to be pressed to quit
A group calling for the resignation of President Robert Mugabe says they will intensity their campaign this year.Charles Nyoni of Occupy Africa Unity Square, led by abducted political activist...Published: 02 Jan 2016 at 13:32hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
'Life is tough in Britain,' says Zimbabwean asylum seeker
A Zimbabwean seeking asylum in the United Kingdom says life is hard in Britain where she is not allowed to look for a job.Ester Nyambi, who sought asylum soon after completing her graduate stu...Published: 06 Dec 2015 at 15:56hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
Trevor Carelse Juul pledges to revive the 'Dream Team'
ZIFA presidential candidate Trevor Carelse Juul says he is contesting the hot seat in order to revive soccer in Zimbabwe where the local soccer body is saddled with a $6 million crippling debt....Published: 26 Nov 2015 at 20:22hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
Mujuru never attempted to assassinate Mugabe
Former Vice President Joice Mujuru says President Robert Mugabe and other top Zanu-PF officials should stop making false accusations against her as they have failed to prove that she wanted to topple ...Published: 24 Nov 2015 at 19:12hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
Can Zimbabwe MPs impeach Mugabe?
An opposition Member of Parliament says Zimbabwean lawmakers fed up with President Robert Mugabe's 35 year rule can unseat the president if a secret ballot is used in a motion to impeach him.G...Published: 23 Nov 2015 at 20:42hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
White Zimbabwean farmer still under siege
A Mashonaland Central farmer, Phillip Rankin, is still under siege after his land in Centenary was invaded by supporters of a British-based doctor, Sylvester Nyatsuro.According to Ben Freeth o...Published: 25 Oct 2015 at 12:45hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
Zimbabwe's constitution and Tobaiwa Mudede's office at odds on dual citizenship
Hundreds of Zimbabweans living in various countries are flocking to the Registrar-General's Office to get passports in reaction to provisions of the new constitution and recent Cnstitutional Court dec...Published: 16 Jul 2015 at 21:32hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
Zimbabweans in marriages of convenience to avoid deportation
Some Zimbabweans without proper immigration documents in various countries have resorted to getting hooked into marriages of convenience in order to avoid being deported.This has been happ...Published: 14 Jun 2015 at 13:55hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
Japanese car dealer opens branch in Bulawayo
A LEADING Japanese car dealer, SBT Global Car Exporter, has spread its wings to Bulawayo as it seeks to tap into the growing market of people seeking to buy Japanese cars from the southern parts of th...Published: 31 May 2015 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Shepias Dube
Zimbabwe opposition party looking for victory in June Parly by-elections
A peripheral political party in Zimbabwe is claiming that it is making inroads in the country's forthcoming June parliamentary by-elections.One of the candidates of Progressive Democrats o...Published: 09 May 2015 at 16:37hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
Canaan Banana's son speaks out on state of Zimbabwe
A son of Zimbabwe's first post-independence president, Canaan Sodindo Banana, says centralization of political power has devastated the southern African nation once regarded as one of the continent's...Published: 19 Mar 2015 at 21:32hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
'Abduction' of Dzamara haunts Grace Kwinjeh
A victim of political violence in Zimbabwe says the alleged abduction of Occupy Africa Unity Square leader Itai Dzamara reminds them of a series of abductions since independence.Grace Kwinjeh,...Published: 15 Mar 2015 at 10:36hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
Zimbabweans in diaspora now struggling to make ends meet
Some Zimbabweans living outside the country are now struggling to make ends meet due to lack of jobs.According to several organizations representing hundreds of Zimbabweans living in Britain a...Published: 08 Mar 2015 at 17:07hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
Mavambo tells 91-year old Mugabe to step down
Some Zimbabweans say 91-year old President Robert Mugabe should now retire due to his advanced age.These remarks come at a time when thousands of people attended his lavish birthday party on S...Published: 01 Mar 2015 at 13:42hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
Mphoko urged to apologize for Gukurahundi remarks
A non-governmental organization says Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko should apologize for claiming that Zimbabwe's five brigade atrocities were a conspiracy by the west to block the spread of commun...Published: 01 Mar 2015 at 13:38hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
Do women know what they want?
Last year I wrote about what various group players in our sad politics can do improve their performance. I particularly looked at the extent to which the youths, the Church and political parties can p...Published: 09 Jan 2015 at 07:46hrs | | by Chris Dube, Political Commentator
Possible scenarios if Mugabe dies in office
A constitutional law expert says Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is in a position to assume power in the event that President Robert Mugabe is incapacitated.Dr. Alex Magaisa of the Universit...Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 22:23hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
Mugabe, Tsvangirai teacher, student
NOW that the dust is settling after the political whirlwind in Zanu PF, let us go back to mother earth, and do what has to be done.Again, we felt betrayed and beaten by cunning old Robert ...Published: 16 Dec 2014 at 16:10hrs | | by Chris Dube
Retailers to use RBZ Special Bond coins
The Retailers Association of Zimbabwe says its members have accepted the special bond coins unveiled recently by the country's central bank designed to ease change problems faced by members of the pub...Published: 16 Dec 2014 at 08:12hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
Over $9k salary per month for Zimbabwe's 2 VPs and Mujuru
Zimbabwe will for the first time in history be paying salaries of two vice presidents and a pension for former deputy vice president Mrs. Joice Mujuru, who was sacked by President Robert Mugabe for al...Published: 14 Dec 2014 at 15:49hrs | | by Gibbs Dube, Ndimyake Mwakalyele
Define yourselves better; opposition politicians
With profound excitement, like most of our fellow Zimbabweans, I also welcome the coming together of MDC led by Prof Ncube and MDC Renewal to form the UMDC. Zimbabwe has been waiting and wondering...Published: 01 Dec 2014 at 15:48hrs | | by Chris Dube
Zimbabweans welcome Obama's immigration plan
WASHINGTON DC - Zimbabweans living in America have welcomed President Barack Obama's executive order granting undocumented and law-abiding immigrants, who have been staying in the country for five yea...Published: 22 Nov 2014 at 14:00hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
Opposition should rise to the occasion
"There comes a time in every sect, party, or institution when it stops growing, its arteries harden, its young men see no visions, its old men dream no dreams; it lives in the past and desperately tri...Published: 21 Nov 2014 at 14:59hrs | | by Chris Dube
'We have nothing to do with Zanu-PF factionalism,' says Zimbabwe Army
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) says it has nothing to do with Zanu-PF factionalism currently ravaging the party ahead of its elective congress in December.In an interview with VOA Studio 7, ...Published: 15 Nov 2014 at 18:09hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
Zimbabweans fail to regularize status in USA, marriages collapse
Hundreds of Zimbabweans failing to regularize their status in America are facing various challenges including the collapse of marriages as their spouses are stuck in Zimbabwe.Dumephi Mema of t...Published: 27 Sep 2014 at 15:42hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
Tsvangirai's MDC-T selects top candidates ahead of elective congress
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Morgan Tsvangirai continues its nomination process ahead of the party's elective congress next month with Masvingo expected Saturday to choose its candi...Published: 27 Sep 2014 at 15:34hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
MDC-T youths vow to continue Mugabe protests
Battered Movement for Democratic Change youths say they will continue staging street protests until President Robert Mugabe unveils jobs promised in the run up to the 2013 general elections.MD...Published: 03 Sep 2014 at 21:42hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
MDC, Zanu-PF youths visit US
Eight youths drawn from Zimbabwe's parties in the unity government have arrived in Washington for a month-long visit to familiarize themselves with America's democratic processes as Zimbabwe prepares ...Published: 05 Jun 2013 at 13:26hrs | 1 | by Gibbs Dube
MDC-T, Zanu-PF to fight elections as one party
ZANU-PF and MDC-T are set to sign an electoral pact in a Harare today 1 April 2012. The two parties have agreed on a coalition and they will fight the up coming elections as one party. ...Published: 01 Apr 2012 at 09:01hrs | | by Ngqabutho Nicholas Dube
Renaissance Merchant Bank financial realm crumbles
Participants and observers of the Zimbabwean financial sector have been closely following the collapse of the financial empire constructed by Patterson Timba since 1999 on the foundation of his Renais...Published: 15 Jun 2011 at 05:55hrs | 8 | by Gibbs Dube
More power woes at Zimbabwe's largest hospital
An electric power outage at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe, has led medical authorities to send patients home until electricity can be restored.One doctor at Parirenyatwa who declin...Published: 07 Jun 2011 at 08:36hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
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