Columnist / Tawanda majon
Is Zimbabwe headed for another coup?
This season we are living in, it's not a time for a hairdo. People are perching on the edge of the cliff. There is a loud whisper drifting around, almost like a wish among many. These chaps wi...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 10:25hrs | 2473 | by Tawanda Majoni
Has Chamisa been bought?
IN early 2008, Simba Makoni, with the covert but obvious backing of the late powerful ex-general, Solomon Mujuru, sprung up to the podium and made the brave announcement to stand against Robert Mugabe...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:28hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa government's game of darkness
NOW, if you put President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mthuli Ncube and Kuda David Mnangagwa-the Finance minister and deputy minister, respectively—what will you get?Correct. Darkness. Lots of darkne...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:30hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Zanu-PF's crude path
When things become unbelievably smooth on the trot, you just need to do a reality check by tuning into ZTV, for there you will certainly find the dose that will wake you up from your island siesta....Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:59hrs | 53 | by Tawanda Majoni
Fierce battle over Chamisa face ensues
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's main challenger in the August 23 presidential elections Nelson Chamisa might have quit his Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party, but the confusion engulfing the cou...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 10:45hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa ally in US$300,000 coal heist scandal
A WOMAN, who is said to have close links to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his family, is at the centre of an alleged theft scandal involving the seizure of coke worth US$300 000 from the Chinese-ru...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 10:43hrs | 7 | by Tawanda Majoni
Why Mnangagwa could be seeking a third term
IN 1990 to 1991 when Fredrick Chiluba was hot on a campaign for multi-party democracy that finally ushered him in as Zambian president to replace founding nationalist Kenneth Kaunda, he was so emphati...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 10:42hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zimbabwe police systems are crumbling
I don't know about these days, but one of the most shaming things back in the days was when a learner was sent back home because he or she didn't have a uniform.It was shaming on the learner a...Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:43hrs | 9 | by Tawanda Majoni
The pitfalls of Zimbabwe's 2023 elections
One thing that many people might not be seeing right now is that the 2023 general elections have already started.That's for the simple reason that elections are not just about a few days befor...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:22hrs | 8 | by Tawanda Majoni
The pitfalls of the 2023 elections
One thing that many people might not be seeing right now is that the 2023 general elections have already started.That's for the simple reason that elections are not just about a few days befor...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:45hrs | 10 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zimbabwe's August 23 elections are already rigged
Forever Associates of Zimbabwe (Faz) is, in deed, a new kid on the block, even though it's not that new.It's new in the sense that while it was established as a trust way back in 2012, it hasn...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:36hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa's dark trail
CorruptionAs for the optics and visuals, you wouldn't say President Emmerson Mnangagwa - where corruption is concerned - has disappointed.During the hot days - months before the late R...Published: 07 May 2023 at 19:33hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni
Uebert Angel's PR disaster
Uebert Angel is, easily, the man of the moment, for all the wrong reasons.He was recently outed by the Al Jazeera undercover investigative team for trying to aid gold and money laundering usin...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 07:48hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
How the gold mafia scandal will affect Mnangagwa
The Al Jazeera investigative unit last week served the second episode of a four-part documentary, Gold Mafia, that makes interesting— albeit unsurprising — watching.The exposés have spawn...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:04hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
LITHIUM is fast becoming the new resource curse in Zimbabwe.
Government has already made it a strategic mineral considering its high-end socio-economic and national defense value.On the African scale, Zimbabwe is considered to hold the largest lithium d...Published: 12 Mar 2023 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Job Sikhala's case is exposing the opposition
In three months' time, Job Sikhala would have clocked a full year in jail for allegedly inciting public violence and attempting to defeat the course of justice.They say, among other things, he...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Jail has cost Job Sikhala a fortune already
Just before the presidential elections of early 2002, two young MPs from the united MDC, Job Sikhala and Tafadzwa Musekiwa, arranged a meeting with the late Perrance Shiri, who was then commander of t...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:15hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Nelson Chamisa is just not serious
Slightly into the second week of last month, CCC's Nelson Chamisa said something that, by the end of the same month, he was already contradicting, practically.In the first instance, he was in ...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 19:56hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Chamisa's CCC must not be a ghost organisation, it needs to be accountable
The question of whether or not CCC must frame a constitution, come up with structures and go to congress to select party leaders is, no doubt, such a hot and wearying one.But that's one questi...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 12:34hrs | 8 | by Tawanda Majoni
Chamisa, Mwonzora, Khupe fights are killing democracy
Just imagine that Zanu-PF had succeeded in establishing a one-party state as it had initially wanted, after drinking too much off the communist-socialist mug.Well, the scenario wouldn't be fit...Published: 06 Feb 2022 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa needs a generous miracle!
Make no mistake about this, President Emmerson Mnangagwa had this hugely golden chance to become Zimbabwe's political legend, post-coup.If he had done the right things after the removal of ex-...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 18:56hrs | 5 | by Tawanda Majon
Chinese will cost Zanu-PF votes
The history of Zimbabwean elections would never be complete without a loud enough reference to one big patch on our map. This place they call Uzumba-Maramba-Pfungwe (UMP) in Mashonaland East province....Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:52hrs | 9 | by Tawanda Majoni
Who needs two VPs, anyway?
TODAY is six months and 11 days since former vice-president Kembo Mohadi resigned from his post following two weeks of juicy revelations of his bedroom commissions with two married women, one of who w...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:59hrs | 5 | by Tawanda Majon
Lockdown guards need guarding
Lockdown robbery. That's perhaps the best thing to call it.The setting is a once-famous nightclub off Old Mazowe Road on the outskirts of New Marlborough. The time is 10pm on a Friday evening....Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:02hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
Will the Zambian winds blow in Zimbabwe?
IF the opposition in Zambia wins the elections this year, then the Zimbabwean opposition will win the elections in 2023. The Zambian opposition won the elections. Therefore, the Zimbabwean opposition ...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Politics behind Mnangagwa's 'buying spree'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is such a political fox. His charm is without comparison. Or, is that so?Well, there are different ways of looking at this "charm".If you like him so much,...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:35hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa-Tagwirei links getting clearer
THE other day I was talking to a respected colleague who said something that got me thinking hard and long.The colleague — who, sure, has access to President Emmerson Mnangagwa now and then ...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:49hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Patrick Chinamasa's troubling return
IN Zanu-PF, they are changing political commissars at the rate of a diaper.You may want to say this is a purely internal matter, but not exactly so, as it has direct and indirect implications ...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 10:02hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni
Cut the crap, Cde Kazembe Kazembe
HOME Affairs minister, Kazembe Kazembe, must be watching quite a load of blurred James Bond comic strips under this partial lockdown.This dude drew out a limping stunt last week. In the wee ho...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:41hrs | 10 | by Tawanda Majoni
Varakashi: New agents of terrorism
THERE'S a big, big omen of nasty things to come. The Zanu-PF government wants to revive the Green Bombers.You will remember the youth training programme at the turn of the new millennium....Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Chilonga evictions: State capture at play
You would have hoped that the post-Mugabe establishment could - at least - get one or two things right. But, ouch, this so-called "new dispensation" is as crude, primitive and self-serving as such reg...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:16hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Soul Jah Love debacle exposes rot
A popular dancehall artiste, Soul Musaka, known to many as Soul Jah Love, passed on just under two weeks ago.What happened subsequently sparked the now fickle and feeble debate on the conferme...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Covid-19 vaccination must be compulsory
THE ministry of Health and Child Care says Zimbabwe will start receiving Covid-19 vaccines from the Ides of February.China and Russia - you guessed right - and maybe India also, will give us t...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 12:33hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Reasons why by-elections spook Zanu-PF
ZIMBABWE is in perpetual election mode, so there is no harm yapping on this subject even as the year is just starting and we are more than two years away from the next national polls.The west ...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Beware of post-lockdown gravy train
COVID-19 and the resultant lockdowns around the world, no doubt, killed the life for just about everybody and everything.Trans-border ships docked. That meant loss of thousands of direct and d...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:07hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
The mystery of the Mnangagwa gold mill
NOTHING is wrong when a president deals in gold, ordinarily. But, when you hear that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his family run a gold mill, you struggle to convince yourself that everything is r...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa's bad friends
In its short years as the Zimbabwean first family, the Mnangagwas have fared quite sorely in one area: Choosing good friends.You will naturally remember Draxgate, the scandal that rocked the r...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Black Friday and the new Chiwenga law
THREE very interesting but equally disturbing, sinister and disruptive developments took place last Friday.The Supreme Court granted the MDC-T party an extension to hold its long-overdue c...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 10:04hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
What's Mnangagwa and Auxillia up to?
QUITE a morsel of things doesn't add about the trip that Sheik Fayez Muhamad Salem Sultan Al Qassimi has just made to Zimbabwe, outside the winding name. The sheik arrived in Zimbabwe last Sun...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Dirty things happen at Mnangagwa's State House
An unsaid but angry war is raging in the State Residences department as you fret over the prices of essential commodities, government's cluelessness to fix the economy and, of course, the swarm of cor...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 19:00hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Chamisa demo: a bad govt and bad news
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa wrested power from Robert Mugabe with the help of soldiers in late 2017, he promised his government would give us the economy, economy, economy, and less of badass po...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:41hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
The futility of Mthuliconomics
We used to have that chap called Gideon Gono at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. He was always full of energy, busy doing things that never solved any problem. The cynics called that egonomics.Go...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 11:26hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa admin ignoring root cause of rot
Poisonous snakes' teeth regenerate. It, therefore, doesn't work to remove the serpent's fangs and think you won't get snake bites anymore. The venom lies deep inside too.The Mnangagwa administ...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 14:18hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mupfumira arrest: Good visuals, poor on sound
The biggest problem with the post-Mugabe administration is that it has this weird fantasy of itself as an award-winning film producer. But that's a no-no because the ruling band is only good with the ...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 18:23hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Nothing new about the 'new dispensation'
Grace Mugabe is like a civet cat's stench. It's so strong it will burn your nostrils. And it doesn't go away in a hurry. Now, that disgraceful smell is hanging around President Emmerson Mnangagwa's se...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
There goes Mnangagwa bluffing, yet again!
History has a rich record of dumb presidents, so you really don't worry too much when President Emmerson Mnangagwa forgets the name of the National Sports Stadium or messes up simple math during a pol...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa, Zanu-PF babysitting a time bomb
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his party, Zanu-PF, have a ticking bomb on their lap. And they look quite cozy with that.The so-called "mabhemba" wars - a group reference to violence involvin...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:11hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
Robbing the poor in the name of patriotism
The post-Robert Mugabe administration led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa fancies itself a new dispensation. That is a useless fantasy, of course. Things are as old in the "new" administration as they...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 14:10hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
The scars of Zimbabwe military deployments
Soldiers are back at the barracks and things look normal. That is as normal as things can ever be in Zimbabwe. But that's an illusion. Beyond the veil of quiet are ruins — deep scars that will not g...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 13:40hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zimbabwe's internet clampdown: A tale of absurdities
When the current crop of leaders in government executed a clever coup that drove out Robert Mugabe in November 2017, most of us overestimated their ability to think. Those guys are just a dumb lump of...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:38hrs | 12 | by Tawanda Majoni
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