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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 will burst each other any time; but let them do i…

Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 10:25hrs | 2526 | 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 in that year's presidential run.He did…

Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:28hrs | 12 | 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, respectivelyâ€”what will you get?Correct. Darkness. Lots of darkness. Not because naughty Zesa will switch the li…

Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:30hrs | 10 | 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.That's what I did this other day in my sea…

Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:59hrs | 164 | 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 country's main opposition movement is neve…

Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 10:45hrs | 17 | 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-run Hwange Coal Gasification Company.Guta…

Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 10:43hrs | 8 | 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 emphatic on the need to respect the constituti…

Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 10:42hrs | | 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 and shameful for the parents or guardians to hav…

Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:43hrs | 30 | 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 before, during and a few days after vote casting, wh…

Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:22hrs | 22 | 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 before, during and a few days after vote casting, wh…

Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:45hrs | 24 | 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't really done anything that attracts attention…

Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:36hrs | 11 | 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 Robert Mugabe was nudged off the power stool - when Mnan…

Published: 07 May 2023 at 19:33hrs | 11 | 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 using his overestimated diplomatic immunity.Straigh…

Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 07:48hrs | 16 | 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 interestingâ€” albeit unsurprising â€” watching.The exposÃ©s have spawned all sorts of reactions from all sorts of cor…

Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:04hrs | 2310 | 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 deposits. The Arcadia lithium project just outsi…

Published: 12 Mar 2023 at 06:47hrs | 8 | 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 caused to be posted a video in which he was ur…

Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:25hrs | 6 | 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 the Airforce of Zimbabwe, and met him at…

Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:15hrs | 7 | 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 Chinhoyi to wow up his supporters. He said some…

Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 19:56hrs | 7 | 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 question you would not want to wish away too soon, no…

Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 12:34hrs | 21 | 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 for those of a nervous disposition. With the w…

Published: 06 Feb 2022 at 06:56hrs | 12 | by Tawanda Majoni

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.In all elections since independence in …

Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:52hrs | 7 | by Tawanda Majoni

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. Ten or so revellers have formed a ring round a…

Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:02hrs | | 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 will win in 2023 when the country holds…

Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:10hrs | 15 | 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, you can say he is a good schemer.To you, he is the goo…

Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:35hrs | 9 | 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 â€” who, sure, has access to President Emmerson Mnangagwa now and then - told me that the head of state was a very muc…

Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:49hrs | 8 | 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 on the ordinary citizen.Late last week, the rul…

Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 10:02hrs | 25 | 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 hours of the morning on Thursday, Kazembe - to re…

Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:41hrs | 22 | 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.It churned out these notorious militia - the Green B…

Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:25hrs | | 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 regimes ever come.Just recently, the gover…

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 conferment of hero status in Zimbabwe.You will remember…

Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:57hrs | 12 | 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 the stuff.There is both good and bad news in the…

Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 12:33hrs | | 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 taught us - a long time ago - that elections ar…

Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:53hrs | | 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 downstream jobs. Travel and tourism suffered. Mo…

Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:07hrs | 13 | 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 right about it.By now you must be knowin…

Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:35hrs | 21 | 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 royal family to its toes.Collins Mnangagwa was/i…

Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:03hrs | 15 | 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 congress to November 30. The party had applied for t…

Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 10:04hrs | 15 | 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 Sunday. Maybe we were never going to know about hi…

Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:59hrs | 27 | 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 corruption in almost every place you go to…

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 politics.When he said that at his inaugur…

Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:41hrs | | 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.Gono was the de facto prime minister of Zimbabwe.…

Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 11:26hrs | | 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 administration must learn a thing or two in this branch…

Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 14:18hrs | 19 | 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 pictures yet very, very bad at sound.Th…

Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 18:23hrs | 14 | 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 self-christened "new dispensation" and te…

Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:27hrs | 8 | 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 political rally.Jacob Zuma got his tongue …

Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:31hrs | 17 | 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 involving militias who use all manner of weapons that i…

Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:11hrs | 10 | 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 ever were, sometimes worse.Under Mugab…

Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 14:10hrs | | 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 â€” deep scars that will not go away.In January, government deployed …

Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 13:40hrs | 13 | 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 clowns pretending to be ruling Zimbabw…

Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:38hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni

Mnangagwa's anti-graft body in turmoil

Back in the days, we had a teacher we nicknamed "Rubbish". That was a bit unflattering and unfair, of course, but he earned that moniker because, at the drop of the hat, he would always exclaim, "Good riddance of bad rubbish!"He certainly …

Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 22:27hrs | 21 | by Tawanda Majoni

Mnangagwa endorsements dangerous for Zimbabwe

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has repeatedly told us that his post-Robert Mugabe administration won't bother about politics, but the economy. That's a measured lie that was never going to make sense anyway. Politics, by definition, is the b…

Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:51hrs | 9 | by Tawanda Majoni

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