Columnist / 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 | 3057 | 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 | 1052 | 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 | 662 | 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 | 3900 | 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 | 4010 | 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 | 687 | 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....Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:52hrs | 20 | 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....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 ...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:10hrs | 2 | 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 | 8 | 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 | 5 | 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 | 12 | 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 | 15 | 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 | 8 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 21 | 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 | 8 | 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 | 5 | 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 | | 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 | 38 | 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 | 8 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 15770 | 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 | 245 | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | 395 | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | 375 | 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 | 3817 | 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 | 344 | 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...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 22:27hrs | 590 | 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 an...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:51hrs | 444 | by Tawanda Majoni
How the Motlanthe commission of inquiry shot itself in the foot
The seven-member commission of inquiry into the August 1 disturbances wound up its work last week and presented the executive summary of its report to President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday, three m...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:39hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
So it was General Chiwenga, after all?
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is crouching under a downpour. And it seems he has little space to run into, so chances are high he may drown in the rain.First, he developed an unusual pig...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 13:03hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa's Cabinet: The skeletons are tumbling
The last time a Zimbabwean Cabinet minister publicly claimed that his hands were clean, he got rapped on the knuckles with handcuffs and thrown into the cooler for his efforts. Another minister has ju...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Moyo is Mnangagwa's new acid test
Back in the days, every old, frail and ugly country woman was believed to be a witch. It didn't matter if, indeed, she was. Her looks and age naturally turned her into that ogre that drank our blood a...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 10:02hrs | 10938 | by Tawanda Majoni
RBZ, fat cats rule the black market
Someone must do the right thing, grab the office keys from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, John Mangudya, and take him to a job that he actually deserves. Because he looks and acts like a...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 08:53hrs | 2968 | by Tawanda Majoni
Chamisa's statement made him sound like that false Pentecostal prophet
Last Friday, Nelson Chamisa declared that he would be challenging his electoral loss to Emmerson Mnangagwa, and even promised his supporters that change was still coming. His latter statement is unbel...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 10:00hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Chigumba's sex life and the pitfalls of social media
I am not sure if Priscilla Chigumba, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chair, bleached to be such a yellow-bone. But I am not rushing to make her pigmentation any of my business because it's not...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 10:32hrs | 1423 | by Tawanda Majoni
Postal votes scam and the forgotten postman
Too many cooks spoil the broth. That's true, of course, but once in a while, it takes only one cook to do that, breaking the utensils and burning down the kitchen too. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commissio...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 16:55hrs | 127 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mangudya's colourless phishing joke
I miss Gideon Gono. That's only because John Mangudya, his successor at the central bank, is that turtle you can't pick out from the rocks, which when it strays onto the road, looks and sounds like a ...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 08:22hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
A double-faced opposition
There is a problem when a crab, which tends to move sideways, starts complaining that snakes slither. The local opposition is behaving pretty the same way like a crab.The MDC Alliance and smal...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 20:49hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Zec's old habits dying hard
Last Friday, the European Union head of delegation in Zimbabwe, Philippe Van Damme, took to Twitter to participate in the broad conversation on the freeness and fairness of the coming elections. His t...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 17:56hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Why Mnangagwa won't prosecute Kasukuwere for graft
A week before the military intervention that toppled ex-president Robert Mugabe in mid-November last year, Saviour Kasukuwere was addressing a Zanu-PF crowd in Harare, and yelled: "Down with Emmerson ...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 19:46hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa rattling towards dictatorship
Once upon a time, a sheep farmer got a new and larger farm. Complete with a big sheep pen. Instead of using the pen, the farmer decided to keep his sheep in the lounge. Sheepish, you would say....Published: 27 May 2018 at 09:15hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Nurses scandal reveals new govt's smart authoritarianism
When Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga dramatically "expelled" striking nurses last Tuesday, the responses from different quarters were somewhat predictable. Understandably so. Because the move was ...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:30hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
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