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ZiG to join global currency club with ISO Code
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is in the process of applying for an International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) code for the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) as it moves to make the unit a standalone ...Published: 23 May 2024 at 19:25hrs | 19 | by Tafara Shumba
Chamisa a predator of press freedom
When Nelson Chamisa formed a new political party which he christened the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), many people had expectations that there would be a paradigm shift from the MDC, where the ...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 05:39hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Hichilema is not Chamisa, Zambia is not Zimbabwe
The electoral victory of the Zambian President-elect, Hakainde Hichilema has excited the MDC Alliance, particularly its leader, Nelson Chamisa who already perceives the triumph as a glimmer of hope th...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:08hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Suffocating enablers of Zimbabwe's vision is the new plot
When the European Union and its big brother, the US, imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe, the central object as the then US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Chester Crocker put it, was to m...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:15hrs | 13 | by Tafara Shumba
For there is no authority except from God
After taking a lengthy Covid 19 induced sabbatical from church, yours truly had an opportunity to attend one this week which was characterised by a blast sermon which was topical, intellectually and s...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 18:55hrs | 1 | by Tafara Shumba
Outcry on Maridadi's appointment: Much ado about nothing
The appointment of former MDC legislator for Mabvuku-Tafara, James Maridadi as one of the 15 ambassadors- designate, has torched a storm which, nonetheless, is much ado about nothing.Section 1...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 20:06hrs | 1 | by Tafara Shumba
MDC Alliance congress: Of a leopard devouring its cubs
In May this year, the MDC holds its first elective congress after the death of its founding president, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai. It is the first congress under the stewardship of its youthful leader,...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Tafara Shumba
MDC always sees the shadow of Zanu-PF
In May this year, the MDC holds its first elective congress after the death of its founding president, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai. It is the first congress under the stewardship of its youthful leader,...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 22:51hrs | 1 | by Tafara Shumba
Democrats hold democratic congresses
In May this year, the MDC holds its first elective congress after the death of its founding president, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai. It is the first congress under the stewardship of its youthful leader,...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 19:41hrs | 1 | by Tafara Shumba
Of a leopard devouring its cubs
In May this year, the MDC holds its first elective congress after the death of its founding president, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai. It is the first congress under the stewardship of its youthful leader,...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 13:56hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
You ain't a saint Mr Mugabe
Reading through Jealousy Mawarire's Twitter handle, the alleged to utterances of former president Robert Mugabe on his birthday celebrations, one can see a clear confirmation that the old man's anger ...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 13:55hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
The sorrow of self-exaltation
During the interment of the late music icon and national hero, Oliver Mtukudzi, friends and relatives spoke about his attributes and humility was the common thread in all the graveside orations....Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 15:57hrs | 2 | by Tafara Shumba
Chamisa's desperation leads to political miscalculation
When former President Robert Mugabe resigned, there was an overpowering excitement from across the political divide. For once, Zimbabweans appeared to be united.The opposition, particularly th...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 16:50hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Desperation sometimes leads to desperate decisions
When former President Robert Mugabe resigned, there was an overpowering excitement from across the political divide. For once, Zimbabweans appeared to be united. The opposition, particularly t...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 13:57hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Kombi operators have themselves to blame
The modernisation of the mass public transport system in Zimbabwe through the introduction of the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) buses will restore sanity and ameliorate the challenges that...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 14:13hrs | 2 | by Tafara Shumba
Eloquence without wisdom is vain
The invitation of MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa and his party deputy chairperson, Tendai Biti to give testimony before the Commission of Inquiry into the August 1 incident did not help the commission muc...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 07:32hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Gratitude is the queen of all virtues
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will, starting this Saturday, embark on 'thank you' rallies to express his gratitude to millions of Zimbabweans who voted him into power in a democratic election. ...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 15:04hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Chamisa and the politics of paranoia
Yours truly was one of the vociferous critics of a proposition proffered by some Zanu-PF legislators on the need to have a 55 year- threshold for a presidential hopeful.The events of Saturday,...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 13:20hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Mangwana is a round peg in a round hole
The appointment of Mr Ndavaningi Nick Mangwana as a Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services is one of the most merited promotion done by President Emmer...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 16:19hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Mnangagwa's UN performance shames detractors
The hatched plan by the MDC-Alliance supporters in the United States to humiliate President Mnangagwa, through demonstrations during the just-ended 73rd Ordinary Session of the United Nations General ...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:42hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Mnangagwa’s speech offset MDC Alliance demo
The hatched plan by the MDC Alliance supporters in the United States to humiliate President Emmerson Mnangagwa, through demonstrations during the 73rd Ordinary Session of the United Nations General ...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 08:55hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Trump's isolationist message dangerous
Listening to the United States President, Donald Trump's speech at the 73rd Ordinary Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), yours truly could not help but join the leaders of other nat...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 07:05hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Sanctions affect the man on the street sir
The newly appointed United States ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Brian Nicholas had an interesting interview with one of the pirate radio stations, Voice of America, wherein he was very economic with the ...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 11:50hrs | 1 | by Tafara Shumba
UNGA, an opportunity to tell the Zimbabwean story
The 73rd Ordinary Session of the United Nations General Assembly currently in motion in the United States provides boundless opportunities for Zimbabwe to tell its story following the recent political...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 17:05hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Adapt technology to solve African problems, says NMB COO
"It is important for us as Africans to understand the challenges we face and find ways of using technology to solve them," NMB Bank chief operating officer Gerald Gore told participants in the Enactus...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 14:38hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Panic grips MDC Alliance as elections draw closer
With the do-or-die elections now on the horizon, the MDC-Alliance is apparently showing signs of panic. Reality has crossed their mind that the match ahead is a delayed one with a scoreboard that is n...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 14:12hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Hither elections, Statesman or Politician?
Elections are just two months away; the electorate must prepare to invest their votes judiciously to shape their lives and those of posterity.Although there are over 100 presidential hopefuls,...Published: 11 May 2018 at 16:23hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Mugabe's cash demand exposes his duplicity
It has become clear now that Mugabe has been indicating right while turning left. In him, Zimbabwe had a first degree whited sepulchre, a cash and land baron. Most of the banks are giving out less tha...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 06:11hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
President is gender sensitive
President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week appointed High Court Judge Priscilla Chigumba as the new Zimbabwe Electoral Commission Chairperson. The appointment comes hard on the heels of other appointments...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 13:48hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Grace Mugabe under attack over 'panties'
The MDC led by Welshman Ncube has blasted first lady Grace Mugabe for allegedly donating used pants to the needy in Mutare."How can a woman purported to be the mother of the nation donate used...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 13:44hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Some were not happy with the resurrection of Lazarus
According to the Shona culture, a deceased's belongings especially clothes, are shared among relatives, a day or two after his or her interment. Imagine the Biblical Lazarus was living in Zimb...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 13:40hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
RG Mugabe International Airport: Zimbabweans have made a statement
While a few rouge protestors, not exceeding 20 to be precise, are demonstrating against President Mugabe at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, US, the generality of Zimbabweans ha...Published: 20 Sep 2017 at 12:10hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Diasporas cannot chart Zimbabwe's destiny
While growing up in the mountainous area of Manicaland, the Shona elders would school youngsters on social propriety. That was great, and products that came out of such schooling would be soci...Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 10:27hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Pastor Chamisa, a dictator in the making
The dangerous remark on compulsory voting system recklessly made by the vice president of the MDC-T, Pastor Nelson Chamisa, came at a time when many people had almost pinned the hope and future of the...Published: 24 May 2017 at 15:09hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Donor funds must be channelled through Government
The Shona people have an edifying truism in their rich language that goes - 'vana vembwa havasvunuri musi umwe chete.' The literal translation being that, pupp...Published: 15 May 2017 at 13:15hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Tsvangirai a master of empty promises
Monday's NewsDay had a story that exposes the MDC-T leader's insincerity. "Tsvangirai in court over 2013 poll coalition." Interesting, isn't it?For the benefit of those who skipped the story, ...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 05:57hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Has Chiyangwa lost his mind?
While yours truly was growing up in the Eastern Highlands, the name Phillip Chiyangwa was synonymous with a successful native businessman. Every young person was envious of him though they were not pr...Published: 16 Dec 2016 at 08:15hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
ZACC investigation on Tsvangirai exposes MDC-T
The MDC-T has reacted to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC)'s probe on Edwin Tsvangirai, son to the MDC-T leader, in a manner that has exposed its two-facedness.All this while, the...Published: 21 Nov 2016 at 14:21hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
The spy is back in Parliament
A party which fielded a winning candidate ordinarily walks on air upon the announcement of election results. Temba Mliswa who romped to victory on an independent ticket in the Norton by-election on Sa...Published: 02 Nov 2016 at 13:21hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Khama is a US agent for regime change
Ian Khama's bizarre call for President Robert Mugabe to step down, evidently shows that there are some sinister forces behind him.Mr Khama might not know what he is doing and this might be the...Published: 28 Sep 2016 at 07:32hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Nera demonstrations expose Mujuru
The involvement of the Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) in the barbarous protests that rocked Harare recently exposed the true stripes of that party's founding fathers and mothers.For a while, Dr. ...Published: 08 Sep 2016 at 14:40hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Saboteurs in vain attempt to block Zimbabwe's access to funds
It is quite disappointing that while Government is working tirelessly for economic revival, some local intended beneficiaries are equally working untiringly to throw spanners into that endeavour....Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Tafara Shumba
A Prophet is not without honour, except in his own country
Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama was to confer on the Zimbabwean leader a Millennium Life Time Achievement award for his role in Zimbabwe's liberation struggle from British colonial rule had the...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 18:31hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Watch out what you follow
Zimbabweans would do well if they draw some lessons from a bizarre incident that recently took place across Limpopo in which a self proclaimed prophet set himself and 21 church members on fire while t...Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 10:09hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Tribalism and Patriarchy at play in the appointments of MDC-T VPs
The unilateral addition of Nelson Chamisa and Elias Mudzuri to the MDC-T presidium is set to split the party amid revelations that it is ultra vires the constitution of that movement.The MDC-T...Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 14:43hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Attempts to incite civil servants failed
A few days before the much vaunted call for Evan Mawarire's stay away, there were hysterical efforts by the shadowy groups to incite civil servants to join the futile job action. That was a complete d...Published: 15 Jul 2016 at 09:20hrs | 1 | by Tafara Shumba
Zesa must put its house in order before hiking tariffs
One day, yours truly made a sacrifice and doled out the last dollar in the pocket to a poor beggar in the street. End of day, he bumped into the same freeloading beggar at a drinking hole imbibing and...Published: 18 May 2016 at 13:45hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Tsvangirai's explicit support for gays will cost him politically
"Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency," noted Joseph Addison (1672-1719), an English essayist and politician....Published: 06 May 2016 at 20:31hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Tsvangirai must come out clear on homosexuality
"Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency," noted Joseph Addison (1672-1719), an English essayist and politician.&nbs...Published: 06 May 2016 at 07:58hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Devolution and the devil's workshop
Indeed, a renewed call for devolution is coming from idle minds. This is not what nation builders do. Nation building entails bringing different people together, not dividing them.Former Vice ...Published: 18 Apr 2016 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Tafara Shumba
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