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We are boycotting the elections: Chigumba concede

Enough is enough! We won't be fooled by the current fake democracy any longer! This electoral system is fundamentally undemocratic and a fraud. We have a choice and a right to withhold our vote to press for an electoral environment the pro…

Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 07:54hrs | 2 | by Themba Mthethwa

Zanu-PF enemy dependency politics is an erosion of peace and security

Zanu-PF has a rampant and untreated case of enemy dependency syndrome to politics. By far, the greatest threat to Zimbabwe right now comes from within Zanu-PF political obstructionists and the know-nothings, money corrupted politicians and…

Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 15:20hrs | 1 | by Themba Mthethwa

Goodbye Mugabe, Welcome Mnangagwa

The ZANU PF political predisposition  The Zimbabwe political transition as it stands now is carried out by a military intervention code named "Operation restore legacy". This military intervention is a by-product ZANU PF political pre…

Published: 21 Nov 2017 at 19:43hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa

The fall of the Zimbabwe dictator is gathering speed

A soft political coup led by G40 has taken place in Zimbabwe. The dictatorship of Robert Mugabe and his patronage political machine linked to the liberation struggle is now crumbling at a fast pace driven from within its patrons and client…

Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Themba Mthethwa

Mudede tells Rita Makarau to abandon the biometric voter registration

Rita Makarau, chairperson of ZEC will announce that the biometric voter registration and verification technology will not be used for 2018 watershed general elections. Rita will defend her decision by implying that the challenges of using …

Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 22:25hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa

The first lady Grace Mugabe to admit she has a behaviour problem

Rage does not and should not necessitate physical violence. Violence is not power. Violence is symptomatic to an emotional deficit and a larger personality disorder linked to a sense of loss of control of a situation, lack of self-esteem a…

Published: 20 Aug 2017 at 13:58hrs | 5 | by Themba Mthethwa

They want to kill Emmerson Mnangagwa

It is greatly unfortunate that there was a grave attempt to take Mnangagwa's life at Gwanda [sic] Somhlolo Stadium youth interface rally by food poisoning. Prayers and best wishes go to Mnangagwa for a speedy recovery and a return to work.…

Published: 12 Aug 2017 at 23:51hrs | 14 | by Themba Mthethwa

'Policemen gang rape a suspect'

The paedophilic and exhibitionist Charity Charamba supervised sadistic and sexually predatory policemen based in Victoria Falls sexually abused Zibusiso Moyo who they accused of prostitution and loitering. Newsday reported that ten policem…

Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 21:00hrs | 2 | by Themba Mthethwa

The Zimbabwe army regiments are now led by warlords

Zimbabwe is in state of a political crisis and decay. The political authority, influence, responsibility and control has debilitated and collapsed. The central power holder is now shrunken and malfunctioning exhibiting diminished administr…

Published: 04 Aug 2017 at 21:23hrs | 3 | by Themba Mthethwa

The army shoots at ZEC, Dabengwa is in defensive formation

The supreme commander of ZIPRA forces and president of ZAPU Dr Dumiso Dabengwa warns that Zimbabwe security services top aides to President Mugabe, the Joint Operations Command (JOC) have invaded and captured ZEC. Junior army officers and …

Published: 27 Jul 2017 at 23:06hrs | 4 | by Themba Mthethwa

Makarau surrenders professional values & ethics by letting her judicial robe fall to her knees

Justice Rita Makarau, former ZANU PF appointee none constituency MP for parliamentary legal committee, professional lawyer, constitutional and supreme court judge, current secretary of the judiciary services commission (JSC) and current ch…

Published: 24 Jul 2017 at 06:35hrs | 2 | by Themba Mthethwa

The lottery of birth of Robert Junior and Chatunga is getting them wasted

Some people will say it is a jack pot to be born of the rich, powerful and famous. Some would say count your blessings to have won the lottery to be of the loins and womb of the rich but other people would think otherwise. The reports in e…

Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 11:03hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa

Grace Mugabe runs amok, something has happened to her

The relentless obsessive and compulsive looting, grabbing and stealing of private and state resources by Grace without a recourse to those resources, and without financial compensation to the affected and a disregard of the rights of other…

Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 14:18hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa

If there was a coup our society will blame it on Chiwenga

The attacks on Professor Jonathan Moyo by the army man Constantine Chiwenga are symptomatic of a developing trend of a command and coercive doctrine within the establishment. Professor Moyo's views should be freely expressible as part of p…

Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 19:05hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa

We are re-using the 2013 election rigging template to win again in 2018 elections

The following is a hypothetical synopsis of ZANU PF rigging mission for the 2018 elections written in the first person. 'You are well aware that any election is a threat to the rule of our ZANU PF government, political positions of our com…

Published: 23 Jun 2017 at 22:46hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa

Chipanga is a troubled juvenile exploited by G40

Kudzai Chipanga is a young lad whose brains are still forming and his thought processes are greatly influenced by the here and now. It is certainly safe to say that Chipanga is unable to think beyond his stomach and he is unable to see how…

Published: 15 Jun 2017 at 22:25hrs | 2 | by Themba Mthethwa

Mugabe laughs at his image in the mirror

Mugabe runs the country in his own image best described as a dictatorial, totalitarian, autocratic, tyrannous and authoritative. Those that have been inducted, indoctrinated and trapped in the Mugabe doctrine and creed have lost their self…

Published: 07 Jun 2017 at 23:29hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa

Stash of cash and diamonds under Mugabe's bed

The shocking revelation by Robert Gabriel Mugabe that $15 billion worth of diamonds went missing from Marange diamond mines without him ordering an investigation that could have led to prosecutions of this grievous fiscal crime brings into…

Published: 30 May 2017 at 14:38hrs | 5 | by Themba Mthethwa

ZANU PF grand theft of the bank

ZANU PF grand theft of the century has wiped out all the money from the depositors' bank account to buy luxury cars for its election campaign. ZANU PF top leaders are pathological thieves rooted in a diminished moral responsibly to self-re…

Published: 20 May 2017 at 14:59hrs | 1 | by Themba Mthethwa

Grace Mugabe and Emmerson Mnangagwa fight over Chiwenga

The struggle over ZANU PF succession has affected the texture of the democratic processes in Zimbabwe that has experienced flawed elections one after the other. The ramifications of the succession process are integral to the apparent disco…

Published: 18 Apr 2017 at 08:09hrs | 3 | by Themba Mthethwa

The bond notes will fail in the same way the Zimdollar

.....and the bearers' cheque failed The Zimbabwe dollar that was inherited from the Rhodesian government in 1980 with the exchange rate of one to one with the US dollar collapsed in 2009. The Rhodesian government used the dollar for the re…

Published: 29 Nov 2016 at 21:13hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa

Shona speaking teacher locked up in a Ndebele lessons classroom: A linguistic genocide

The politics, language, ethnic and culture problems began soon after the independence of Zimbabwe leading to the Gukurahundi atrocities in the 1980s in Matabeleland precipitated mainly by the ideologies of a one party state by ZANU PF part…

Published: 23 Sep 2016 at 20:48hrs | 3 | by Themba Mthethwa

ZANU PF supporters poisoned

ZANU PF officials and supporters have been poisoned by the culture of political correctness that has curtailed the independent thinking of its members. The party of Robert Mugabe has turned Zimbabwe into a country that values free speech a…

Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 21:56hrs | 1 | by Themba Mthethwa

Mugabe rips the flag, a question of ethics

The ZANU PF establishment is haunted by the resurrection of the national flag running sacred as the public is flying the flag high reminding the government of its failed mandate to honour the principles of what the Zimbabwe national flag s…

Published: 09 Sep 2016 at 22:46hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa

Mugabe held hostage

Zanu-PF replicates many of the doctrines that defined the Rhodesia colonial regime by devoting much of its energy to victimize and demobilize the popular constituency that brought the independence of Zimbabwe through personal sacrifices an…

Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 21:10hrs | 29 | by Themba Mthethwa

Barbourfields Stadium to erupt into ZAPU songs as Highlanders displays its new bus.

Barbourfields Stadium in Bulawayo 'Emagumeni' is expected to be buzzing with Highlanders Football Club supporters coming to have a glimpse of Highlanders Football Club's newly acquired state of the art bus.There is going to be a titanic cl…

Published: 04 Jun 2015 at 23:08hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa

Bulawayo Zulu kaNdaba votes ZAPU

The people of Bulawayo have reaffirmed their support and voting for ZAPU candidates in the Bulawayo by-election of 10 June 2015. The slogan is "Keep ZANU PF out of Bulawayo". The younger generation of new voters in Bulawayo are saying "#st…

Published: 23 May 2015 at 09:18hrs | 2 | by Themba Mthethwa

Youths join Zapu as it gives them a fair and better deal

The move by MDC Youths to join Zapu was highly welcome and indicative of the fact that young people have finally realized that their future aspirations and social mobility can only be secured by Zapu's humanistic and democratic approach pr…

Published: 30 Mar 2015 at 10:13hrs | 1 | by Themba Mthethwa

Women shoulder the burden of the nation

The 8th of March is the world women's day. While other women in some parts of the world are celebrating the mile stone and progress in the recognition of social, political and economic development of women; the same cannot be said about th…

Published: 06 Mar 2015 at 12:20hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa

Political bullies will end with devolution of power

Zimbabwe has become a highly toxic political environment in which politics has unfortunately become the art and science of coping with overpowering political bullies that has gone beyond the moral limits of humankind. The hideous political…

Published: 29 Jan 2015 at 20:35hrs | 3 | by Themba Mthethwa

Why Gukurahundi atrocities in Matabeleland and Midland is genocide

This article can be read in conjunction with the following documents: 'Breaking the silence, Building true peace', a report by the Catholic Commission for justice and peace (1997); Dr M.P. Guduza (1998) A report on the 'International crime…

Published: 14 Jan 2015 at 23:27hrs | 20 | by Themba Mthethwa

Gukurahundi graves should be turned into monuments and shrines

Following the Gukurahundi invasion and genocide in Matabeleland and parts of Midlands over twenty years ago victims and surviving victims of Gukurahundi genocide have not received any form of restorative justice. There is no possibility of…

Published: 08 Jan 2015 at 16:22hrs | 5 | by Themba Mthethwa

ZAPU Devolution of Power Promotes Indigenization

Lack of access to credit is one of the many reasons why people in Zimbabwe remain poor. ZAPU devolution promotes micro-credit and micro-enterprise to facilitate poverty reduction. It is a human right for all citizens to have access to cred…

Published: 27 Sep 2014 at 09:41hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa

The ZAPU Devolution of Power explained, Part 4 of 4

This is the last article of the series that have been running in the last four weeks. In the first instalment I explained how ZAPU devolution of power can deal with the current negative tribal perspectives in Zimbabwe. In the second articl…

Published: 12 Sep 2014 at 17:58hrs | 2 | by Themba Mthethwa

The ZAPU Devolution of power model explained part 2

The ZAPU model of governance by devolution of power is a people centred approach.  This is the second series of the four part series explaining the ZAPU model of devolution of power. In the first installment I explained how ZAPU devol…

Published: 30 Aug 2014 at 05:54hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa

Cephas Msipa defected before the Unity Accord

Cephas Msipa defected before the Unity AccordThe sentiments expressed in an article in Zimdaily situation, â€˜Give chairmanship to Zapu cadre: Msipa' August 21, 2014 by ZimSitRep made an interesting reading. Cephas Msipa, was quoted saying…

Published: 25 Aug 2014 at 14:33hrs | 1 | by Themba Mthethwa

Devolution of Power Concept Explained, instalment 1 of 4

The explanation of the concept of devolution of power proffered herein in this first instalment and the three subsequent ones is as espoused by the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZAPU). The devolution of power envisioned by ZAPU strength…

Published: 23 Aug 2014 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Themba Mthethwa

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