Columnist / Stephen mpofu
'Brick by brick, a country is built by its owners'
The two often repeated philosophies of the Second Republic - "A country is built by its owners" and "Leaving no one and no place behind" - are not mere rhetorical statements to pontify the niceties of...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 08:06hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Zimbabweans must avoid self-destruction
WITH our motherland not completely out of the West's evil economic sanctions woods, but encouraged the warmth of some European union members, excluding this country's former coloniser Britain — whic...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:28hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Sperm harvesters on the loose in Bulawayo
A GROUP of female sperm harvesters is on the loose in Bulawayo after three women reportedly drugged and sexually assaulted a man who they had given a lift, with police warning the public not to accept...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:18hrs | 2 | by Stephen Mpofu
Zimbabwe men soon on the pill
Scenario 1: "Hello, pretty, I want you to have a feel of what I possess. Don't fear, I'm on the pill. I'll give you lots of cash to buy the things you want and show off to your friends." An inveterate...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:17hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Four Decades of Uhuru - Minus.....
"ZIMBABWEANS at 42" is the shrill theme on many a Zimbabwean lip as our nation ages towards April 18 which marks 42 years of freedom and independence for our motherland - but so what?So what!...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Stephen Mpofu
Soldiers take over vaccination programme
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health and Child Care minister Constantino Chiwenga has said government will soon rope in soldiers to speed up the second phase of the COVID-19 mass vaccination programme. G...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:19hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Mnangagwa's govt funds non-existent provincial councils
GOVERNMENT has reportedly released budgetary allocations to provincial councils, which are yet to be formally constituted in terms of the country's Constitution.Section 268 of the Constitution...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:19hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
'Weak policies fuel food insecurity'
WEAK policy implementation, climatic shocks and natural hazards have made it impossible for Zimbabwe to ensure food security, local civil society groups have noted.In a recent joint report tit...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:18hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Manhunt for $15,000 Chicken Inn fraudster
BULAWAYO police have launched a manhunt for a man who defrauded desperate job-seekers of $15 000 after promising them jobs at Chicken Inn fast-food outlets.After swindling the victims of their...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:18hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
School fees payable in all currencies
SCHOOLS should accept all currencies usable in the country as legal tender, a development that will bring relief to parents who are being forced to look for United States dollars to pay school fees. ...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Let's banish the urban-rural chasm
Devolution now steadily but surely underway in our country, with provincial ministers of state also tasked with implementation of the new beginning, must sooner rather than later see rural areas where...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Stephen Mpofu
God made no concubine for Adam
A story published by some local news media recently and now so hot on the lips of gossips that no fly dares alight on them, has triggered consternation in the realm of holy matrimony with some worried...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Make corruption suicidal
Time seems long overdue for the Second Republic to supplant with dizzifying actions rhetorical denunciation of maggots fattening themselves on what does not belong to them so that Zimbabweans are spar...Published: 25 May 2019 at 08:28hrs | 1 | by Stephen Mpofu
Make them fight a losing battle
The simple, clear message encoded in the Bi-National Commission signed between Zimbabwe and South Africa earlier this week and in the other between our country and Botswana earlier, ...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:09hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Full Zimbabwe bellies threatening USA?
The heading for this discourse is no doubt a big question that today finds itself paraded not only on the lips of patriotic Zimbabweans but also on those of the leaders of Sadc and of the African Unio...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:53hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Zimbabwe NGOS' sinister Agenda
In pursuit of a more sinister, hidden agenda conscience-deficient foreign-funded non-governmental agents of imperialism working with social groups leave behind a trail of destruction of property worth...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 17:05hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Mnangagwa has unveiled beacons of hope
The Second Republic under President Emmerson Mnangagwa has unveiled beacons of hope which, if not sabotaged by indolent or mischievous workers put in office by God to help rule this country, will go a...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:26hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Zimbabwe's dawn of hope will break
HEADS, big and small must roll, and be seen by the masses in this country to tumble as both a warning and an example that any people driven by insatiable power hunger cannot, and should not be allowed...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:59hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Political violence prescription for self-immolation
POLITICS is often described as "a dirty game", and the in-fighting in the MDC-Alliance after the party's losses in both the parliamentary and presidential elections would appear to validate the dirty-...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 10:02hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Power hunger Zimbabwe's die hard challenge
The moment Zimbabweans and the global community had anxiously awaited came in the early hours of yesterday when Justice Priscilla Makanyara Chigumba announced that Mnangagwa had triumphed in the presi...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 09:21hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Politics not a picnic
Zimbabweans are on the brink of reviving a revolutionary flame which over the past three decades had seriously started to flag as some of those at the helm of the country lost focus and instead concen...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 15:44hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Silence Gukurahundi purveyors
The way things are trending with Gukurahundi enterprise fundis strenuously casting a small dark cloud to discolour the armed revolution that brought uhuru to the motherland in 1980 — and...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 10:14hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
God did it all for Zimbabwe
KUDOS to God's handiwork in using the military in this country as a primary tool in wrenching open a strong-room door to release a political stabilisation intervention latent with unlimited opportunit...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 06:00hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Castrate them
Their conscience inverted, they wallow in a domain of unredeemed darkness where for them - or so it seems — every line of criminal law in Zimbabwe is dotted for the maniacs the engage in rogue sex w...Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 08:51hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Dethrone yourselves
AS a pre-election year, 2017 is bound to witness flurries of activity across political isles as prospective candidates jockey with each other for ways into the hearts and minds of voters to woo the la...Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 08:58hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
'Untouchable bullies' abusing CDF funds
IN Zimbabwe's august House some (dis) honourable members flex their necks or move around with an articulated swagger to show off to an assembly of other respected MPs the stuff of which they are made....Published: 19 Apr 2016 at 06:51hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
'To hell with sexual terrorism'
The incineration of Gomorrah, a wicked town in ancient Palestine for rampant homosexuality, should serve people in post-modernity around the world that inverted sexual activities remain punishable by ...Published: 02 Apr 2016 at 14:06hrs | 1 | by Stephen Mpofu
Beautiful ones not yet born
The launch in Harare earlier this week of a new-but-not-so-new party on Zimbabwe's political landscape left this pen, an avid student of liberation politics, with a feeling of déjà vu all the way....Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 07:32hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
EU court verdict racist
SO the European Union's General Court has thrown out a complaint against sanctions imposed on former Attorney-General Johannes Tomana and 120 other individuals and companies, claiming that the punitiv...Published: 25 Apr 2015 at 10:21hrs | | by Perspective Stephen Mpofu
Zim's inheritance not up for grabs
Itinerant bashers of Zimbabwe's hope - and those of Africa at large - for an old, new economic order on the still-smoldering ashes of colonialism, are at it again, even shamelessly wielding obviou...Published: 11 Jan 2014 at 07:33hrs | | by Perspective Stephen Mpofu
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