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Blitz-krieg them all! A call for action against illegal urban operations

THE heading above no doubt encapsulates the concerns of law-abiding citizens, urging those in authority to swiftly root out the undesirable elements polluting our society - without further ado or unnecessary dithering.The miscreants, it se…

Published: 05 Jul 2025 at 10:27hrs | 140 | by 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 the English language of "those without…

Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 08:06hrs | 1 | 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 â€” which has opted to resume business with Zim…

Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:28hrs | 3 | 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 gallivanter behind the wheel woos a te…

Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:17hrs | 4 | 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!Ours is an Uhuru without a picture of skeletons …

Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:21hrs | 5 | 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 most Zimbabweans live, transcending th…

Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:17hrs | 5 | 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 spared the ignominy of being frowned upon c…

Published: 25 May 2019 at 08:28hrs | 4 | 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, and also implicit in repeated calls by …

Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:09hrs | 7 | 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 long way in healing ills that bedevil …

Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:26hrs | 6 | 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 in future to ride rough shod over a de…

Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:59hrs | 5 | 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-game saying.Add to that the opposition …

Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 10:02hrs | 5 | 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 presidential contest, defeating his main riv…

Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 09:21hrs | 4 | 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 concentrated on feathering their own nests wh…

Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 15:44hrs | 6 | 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 â€” and appearing to get away with the mischie…

Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 10:14hrs | 10 | by Stephen Mpofu

Castrate them

Their conscience inverted, they wallow in a domain of unredeemed darkness where for them - or so it seems â€” every line of criminal law in Zimbabwe is dotted for the maniacs the engage in rogue sex with defenceless women and with blissful…

Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 08:51hrs | 4 | 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 latter's trump cards at the polls next ye…

Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 08:58hrs | 7 | 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. They are probably even more vocal in c…

Published: 19 Apr 2016 at 06:51hrs | 7 | 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 eternal roasting in a fiery lake of bur…

Published: 02 Apr 2016 at 14:06hrs | 6 | 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 dÃ©jÃ vu all the way.But perhaps only those people whose ratio…

Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Stephen Mpofu

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