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What lure Mzembi out of SA fox hole into Zimbabwe prison? Obvious answer is his slush fund was spent, he was broke!

Why did Walter Mzembi leave his exile fox hole in SA only to be thrown in jail back in Zimbabwe?One plausible explanation is that Walter Mzembi returned to Zimbabwe because his slush fund was spend. Others like Grace Mugabe, Saviour Kasuku…

Published: 07 Sep 2025 at 19:59hrs | 212 | by Wilbert Mukori

Zimbabwe is a failed state. So, who will care for the carers when they are old?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? "Who will guard the guards themselves?" or "Who will watch the watchmen?" Asked Roman poet Juvenal.Replace guard with political leader and you can see why democratic accountability is a pre-requisite for good…

Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 13:18hrs | 415 | by Wilbert Mukori

Choosing Chiwenga or Mnangagwa is as false choice as mouse picking black mamba or cobra. Escape whilst snakes fight!

Many people will answer Blessed Geza's call to come out in support of the so-called Geza revolution, because feel they must choose to support the Chiwenga or the Mnangagwa faction. The truth is, these are all equally bad choices so bad the…

Published: 12 Mar 2025 at 22:03hrs | 698 | by Wilbert Mukori

'ED2030 is dead and buried,' said Charamba. Nonsense! Not before Mnangagwa is himself certified dead and buried

Zimbabwe's Catholic bishops have joined in the condemnation of the Zanu PF regime's address the litany of political and economic problems affecting the lives of the ordinary people. They were particularly disappointed that the nation shoul…

Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 20:35hrs | 1177 | by Wilbert Mukori

Zimbabweans must ignore Geza's signal to give the swapping of yet another set of dictators political legitimacy

Jeremiah Masawi aka Nyoka Yamabhunu, the self-appointed spokesperson of Blessed Geza and company, is just a rabble-rouser with no clue why Zimbabwe is a failed state much less what should be done to get the nation out of the mess. Indeed, …

Published: 27 Feb 2025 at 11:29hrs | 1501 | by Wilbert Mukori

Zimbabweans have penchant for sugar-rush solution of Mnangagwa must go even at the cost of retaining the dictatorship yet again

"Zimbabwe is in desperate need of transformative leadership, not the routine recycling of failed politicians," argued Trevor Ncube. "A change in leadership might offer temporary relief, Zimbabwe's issues run deeper, demanding a systemic ov…

Published: 18 Feb 2025 at 20:04hrs | 891 | by Wilbert Mukori

Zimbabweans have penchant for sugar-rush solution of Mnangagwa must go even at the cost of retaining the dictatorship yet again

"Zimbabwe is in desperate need of transformative leadership, not the routine recycling of failed politicians," argued Trevor Ncube. "A change in leadership might offer temporary relief, Zimbabwe's issues run deeper, demanding a systemic ov…

Published: 14 Feb 2025 at 12:03hrs | 614 | by Wilbert Mukori

Comrade Geza, swapping Mnangagwa for Chiwenga will change nothing; most war veterans will remain poor as a church mouse

"Isu hatina kusafira vanhu vemezvibvindo. Takasafira povo yanetsva nevarungu. Ndiyo yavakusupwa nesu nhasi!" (We did not suffer for the few ruling elite. We suffered to free povo who were suffering from white colonial oppression. The same …

Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 20:37hrs | 2471 | by Wilbert Mukori

We cannot stop Chamisa or Zanu PF rigging referendum, we can deny them legitimacy by refusing to participate

Tendai Biti has acknowledged that Mnangagwa has corrupted the opposition to make sure he will have no problem getting the 2/3 majority approval in House of Assembly and in Senate for the proposed constitutional amendment to enable Mnangagw…

Published: 01 Feb 2025 at 21:35hrs | 1393 | by Wilbert Mukori

Trump serving 3rd term cannot be compared to vote rigging Mnangagwa 2030 imposition

"A Republican House member introduced a resolution to amend the American Constitution to allow President Donald Trump - and any other future presidents - to be elected to serve a third term." reported CNBC.The news was greeted with joy and…

Published: 24 Jan 2025 at 20:38hrs | 775 | by Wilbert Mukori

45 years of Zanu PF misrule have been 'season of darkness' and even darker years ahead if 2028 elections are postpone

Zimbabwe is one of the world's suppliers of cheap labour and our contribution is not always appreciated.I was talking to a Zimbabwean Doctor who has worked in SA. His pay and working conditions were poorer than those of other staff, local …

Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 22:16hrs | 725 | by Wilbert Mukori

Chamisa: 'We refused to be lured by trappings of power' - Why did you fail to implement even one token reform in 25 years?

The people of Zimbabwe have risked livelihoods, limbs and even their lives (over 500 were murdered by Zanu PF during the 2008 presidential run-off alone) to elect MDC/CCC leaders not power on the understanding they would implement the nece…

Published: 19 Jan 2025 at 19:57hrs | 817 | by Wilbert Mukori

Postponing 2028 elections tantamount to usurping people's power over politicians for all time - that's dangerous & high treason!

Zanu PF has always wanted to impose a de jure one-party state in independent Zimbabwe, the party's prize for spear heading the liberation war. Mnangagwa is hell bent on getting his wish. Or is he!Zapu and Zanu, the two parties with freedom…

Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 20:14hrs | 517 | by Wilbert Mukori

'There is no friction between Zanu PF and CCC!' boasted Mnangagwa

In Zimbabwe there is no friction between Zanu PF and the opposition party!" Mnangagwa boasted at the festive party held at his Kwe kwe farm to celebrate that Zanu PF and CCC opposition MPs had agreed to postpone the 2028 harmonised electio…

Published: 14 Jan 2025 at 22:27hrs | 311 | by Wilbert Mukori

Visit by my nemesis ED and Chiwenga will be story of my life!" boasted Chamisa. But why nemesis!

This visit by my nemesis ED and General Chiwenga and the dynamics around it will feature prominently in the story of my life." Posted Chamisa on X accompanied by a video of motorcade of the two arriving for the visit.This is rich! Why is C…

Published: 11 Jan 2025 at 10:06hrs | 1575 | by Wilbert Mukori

Zanu PF will never reform itself out of office no more than ED appoint a competent cabinet. After all he is deadwood himself!

"Opposition official, Stephen Sarkozy Chuma has castigated ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa for recycling same old faces in cabinet. Commenting on the latest cabinet reshuffle, Chuma told *Citizens Movement Radio that people like July Moy…

Published: 07 Jan 2025 at 18:12hrs | 1672 | by Wilbert Mukori

Mnangagwa has reclaimed Harare's 'Sunshine City' status, said mayor Mafume. Dumb and stupid singing for his supper

"Usa kangamwa chezuro nehope!" so goes the Shona adage, warning of the dangers of a selective memory. Zimbabweans have a very selective memory, they see only what they want to see and ignore the rest.Harare's Mayor, Jacob Mafume, went town…

Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 19:06hrs | 1450 | by Wilbert Mukori

'Let us root our corruption,' said Mnangagwa. Never happen now Zanu PF and CCC are partners in crime

When he assumed power following the 2017 military coup Mnangagwa promised "zero tolerance of corruption" and we all know that corruption has gone into overdrive since then. Every so often he has admitted his failure to end corruption."Mean…

Published: 28 Nov 2024 at 15:04hrs | 277 | by Wilbert Mukori

By brazenly rigging Mozambique elections Zanu PF crossed double red lines, Zimbabwe must be booted out of SADC

"Former President of Botswana Ian Khama has called on the Southern African Development Community SADC to expel Zimbabwe if proven to have meddled with member states' elections," Bulawayo24 reported.It is bad enough that Zanu PF has repeate…

Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 12:49hrs | 561 | by Wilbert Mukori

Paid an arm and leg for Hwange Unit 7 & 8 and yet they not generating - Chinese demanding head in a silver platter!

ZESA's explanation of reduced generation from Hwange Thermal Power Station especially due to repeated Units 7 and 8 did not make any sense at all. The two units costing US$ 1.4 billion were commission last year, for Pete's sake. How can th…

Published: 20 Nov 2024 at 21:17hrs | 2653 | by Wilbert Mukori

Change will not come from participating in more rigged elections, protests, etc. We have been down all these rabbit holes

"Winds of change don't blow automatically: Zimbabweans need to fearlessly stand up against oppression," argued Tendai Ruben Mbofana in his blog, mbofanatendairuben.news.blog. "In recent years, a transformative shift has been sweeping …

Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 20:28hrs | 1108 | by Wilbert Mukori

Affinity to shut out truth don't want to hear is one cause we're a failed state

In 1975 lan Douglas Smith, Prime Minister Rhodesia said, "If blacks are to rule themselves people in towns will walk on sewage until they believe it's normal, all the gains from colonisation will varnish, infrastructure will collapse, road…

Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 20:17hrs | 805 | by Wilbert Mukori

MDC/CCC have 'fought in the trenches for change' said Mahere. Nonsense! Name one change they have brought in 24 years?

The sheer chutzpah and hypocrisy of Zimbabwe's opposition leaders stinks!"On the 1st of November, I spoke on the phone with Duma Boko to congratulate him on an outstanding victory in Botswana's elections. My voice crackled as we spoke.," w…

Published: 13 Nov 2024 at 21:58hrs | 879 | by Wilbert Mukori

No quality leaders can ever justify participating in flawed 2028 elections especially after 44 years of rigged elections

Let us be clear on this one thing: Zimbabwe is a failed state, a pariah state, stuck with this corrupt, incompetent, tyrannical and vote rigging Zanu PF regime and its equally corrupt and useless MDC/CCC opposition side-kick.  After 4…

Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 22:42hrs | 636 | by Wilbert Mukori

EDfor2030 is a Zanu PF sting operation to draw attention away from rigged elections and illegitimacy. It is working!

What if I tell you that the EDfor2030 hoo-haaa was a decoy to draw attention away from the more pressing matter that Zanu PF was illegitimate because both SADC and AU had condemned Zimbabweâ€™s 2023 elections as flawed and illegal. Well th…

Published: 30 Oct 2024 at 22:19hrs | 743 | by Wilbert Mukori

'I'll be back!' Chamisa is back to con you to participate in 2028 and perpetuate all our suffering

"I'll be back!" Nelson Chamisa might as well have said, Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger style, when he resigned as president of CCC in a huff complaining Zanu PF had infiltrated his party. Chamisa is back!"President Chamisa informed the h…

Published: 28 Oct 2024 at 23:11hrs | 1062 | by Wilbert Mukori

Eddies Cross insists Mnangagwa won 2023 elections, defying SADC. Americans sussed out MDC leaders are 'flawed' back in 2007!

Mr Eddie Cross, former MDC MP and confidant of MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai reiterated his claim on Denny J Show that Mnangagwa won the 2018 and 2023 Zimbabwe elections. This is an outrage!Comrade Cross and his MDC/CCC friends were elected…

Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 21:15hrs | 1094 | by Wilbert Mukori

Of all the don'ts, send Mnangagwa begging UNGA for US$5.8b food aid for SADC; he's eyeing 'pound of flesh' cut for himself

Of all the SADC leaders to be begging for food aid on behalf of SADC,  Emmerson Mnangagwa would be the last leader anyone would choose to do it!"President Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken the urgent plea for assistance from the Southern A…

Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 12:38hrs | 727 | by Wilbert Mukori

Of all the don'ts, send Mnangagwa begging UNGA for US$5.8b food aid for SADC; heâ€™s eyeing 'pound of flesh' cut for himself

Of all the SADC leaders to be begging for food aid on behalf of SADC,  Emmerson Mnangagwa would be the last leader anyone would choose to do it!"President Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken the urgent plea for assistance from the Southern A…

Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 23:01hrs | 777 | by Wilbert Mukori

Ncube sheds buckets of crocodile tears over 'disputed elections'! Disputed by who; certainly not him!

When I was in High School; many, many moons ago; the high light of the year was a College Ball. The Master of Ceremony one year was X (real name withheld to protect the guilty as charged), a pompous guy. It was traditional to crown the day…

Published: 25 Sep 2024 at 18:37hrs | 1508 | by Wilbert Mukori

CCC participated in 2023 to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate our suffering for US$1.6m bonanza. Will sellout again 2028!

"Tshabangu smiles all the way to the bank." screamed the Bulawayo 24 headline accompanied by a picture of Senator Sengezo Tshabangu smiling from ear to ear!"Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim leader Sengezo Tshabangu stands to ben…

Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 19:45hrs | 718 | by Wilbert Mukori

Team Pachedu belated V11 data does not 'vindicate' ZEC, it confirms the folly of CCC participating in flawed elections

Nelson Chamisa and company were hell-bent on participating in the flawed and illegal elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy for the sake of a few gravy train seats reward. The folly of participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legiti…

Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 13:21hrs | 680 | by Wilbert Mukori

Lovemore Moyo was Speaker of GNU Parliament yet did not know its primary task was implementing reforms. Shocking!

In a LIVE HS TV interview with Blessing Mhlanga, Lovemore Moyo revealed that he did not know that the primary purpose of the 2008 to 2013 GNU was to implement the democratic reforms. Shocking! He was the Chairman of the MDC-T, third rankin…

Published: 23 Aug 2024 at 21:47hrs | 989 | by Wilbert Mukori

If wishes were fishes be chanting '2030 Mnangagwa still president and SADC chairman!'

Mnangagwa has fcuked up (excuse my French) big and so many times, he is been shunned like the skunk. Even SADC and AU publicly dismissed Zimbabwe's 2023 elections as a sham making him illegitimate. It is little wonder that he is milking hi…

Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 15:06hrs | 756 | by Wilbert Mukori

SEOM condemn 2023 elections and should have denied Mnangagwa legitimacy and now can't deny him SADC chairmanship.

Last year SADC Election Observer Mission (SEOM), led by Dr Nevers Mumba of Zimbabwe, reported that Zimbabwe's election process was flawed and illegal. The regional body should have denied the Zanu PF political legitimacy, at the very least…

Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 06:30hrs | 540 | by Wilbert Mukori

Of course, Chamisa acted 'without democratic oversight'. Herd refuse to accept it out of blind personality cult

"Ncube pointed to Chamisa's consolidation of power, describing him as having reduced the party into a one-man show where he held multiple roles including president, spokesperson, secretary general, and treasurer general without democratic …

Published: 26 Jun 2024 at 21:03hrs | 11 | by Wilbert Mukori

Zimbabweans must stop blaming SADC for rigged elections and, at long last, own up to our own foolishness

"Zimbabwe is one of those countries that has benefited immensely from this "see no evil, hear no evil and say no evil" policy maintained by SADC," argued Tendai Mbofana in his recent article in Bulawayo 24."That is why, in spite of a damni…

Published: 13 Jun 2024 at 22:09hrs | 9 | by Wilbert Mukori

'Mnangagwa MAY retire soon.' Cold comfort as long as Zanu PF rigs elections whacking povo; tail mercilessly whacking the dog.

"Mnangagwa may retire soon!" read the headline in Bulawayo 24. Judging from the number of views, the story was well received."Speaking in Shona, Mnangagwa suggested that he might not seek further leadership beyond the constitutionally defi…

Published: 27 May 2024 at 21:25hrs | 14 | by Wilbert Mukori

After 9 months of Chamisa faking news of SADC resolving disputed 2023 elections; he finally admits he was lying

Chamisa's long anticipated update on what SADC is doing to end the disputed Zimbabwe elections confirmed what we already knew - i.e that SADC is doing nothing.Chamisa confirmed the following sequence of events: on the 26th of September 202…

Published: 27 May 2024 at 19:48hrs | 17 | by Wilbert Mukori

Zanu PF stubbornly deny povo title deeds, they're poorest and rural ares are party's strongest hold. Surprised!

Ian Smith refused to give rural peasants the right to own even a piece of land the size of football field and yet white settlers were given title deeds to farms thousands of square kilometres. No one owned the land; all land was owned by t…

Published: 22 May 2024 at 09:00hrs | 20 | by Wilbert Mukori

Zimbabwe's very own Emperor Nero is burning down povo's hovels to build palatial villas for filthy rich few

"The closer the collapse of the empire, the crazier its laws" Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Well we in Zimbabwe are witness this first hand. Zanu PF introduced the new local currency insisting it would never lose its value pegged at ZiG 13.…

Published: 18 May 2024 at 20:47hrs | 16 | by Wilbert Mukori

'Zimbabweans must unite for a shared vision,' argued Komichi. What vision has MDC/CCC ever had other than a seat on gravy train!

"Veteran opposition politician and anti-Zanu PF hardcore, Senator Morgan Komichi has claimed that there is need for opposition movements must to unite and fight Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangwagwa's administration head-on in order to save the cou…

Published: 17 May 2024 at 17:04hrs | 22 | by Wilbert Mukori

'No one will starve!' Zanu PF has never accounted for 40 000 + political murders much less indirect deaths

"As I stated in my recent declaration of a nationwide state of disaster due to the drought last week, our Zanu-PF government will not let anyone starve," Mnangagwa said."Our government is capable of handling this situation."The bottomline …

Published: 15 Apr 2024 at 15:47hrs | 7 | by Wilbert Mukori

There is evidence to prove CCC is Zanu PF team B in all but name and it's foolish to deny it

There is a mountain of evidence to prove that MDC/CCC is Zanu PF team B in all but name. MDC/CCC leaders, especially during and since the 2008 to 2013 GNU, have  played the role of Zimbabwe's main opposition party but one that underst…

Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 22:28hrs | 6 | by Wilbert Mukori

Zimbabwe politics is a rat race and the antagonists' trump cards are deception and betrayal

Zimbabwe's political system is not a caucus race but a rat race! Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland explained what a caucus race is: "After swimming around in Alice's pool of tears, the animals need to dry off, and The Dod…

Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:29hrs | 16 | by Wilbert Mukori

'Are there quality leaders - no paying lip service to free elections?' Need discerning and lip-reading voters to find them

"In our midst, can we not find today leaders who do not pay lip services to freedom, justice and liberty to gain the people's trust?" asked one whatsApp group member.This is not a simple question and so there is no simple answer.The proble…

Published: 28 Mar 2024 at 22:57hrs | 13 | by Wilbert Mukori

Zimbabwe is a failed state in dire need of democratic reforms. We must stop Mnangagwa 'cementing' the dictatorship

Dictators live in their own cloud cuckoo-land world in which they, characteristically, see and hear only what THEY want to see and hear. It is no surprise therefore that Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe is now at complete variance with the reality, th…

Published: 28 Mar 2024 at 22:49hrs | 7 | by Wilbert Mukori

'2018 elections were free and Mnangagwa won; Americans know it.' claimed Cross. A lie, dismissed with contempt it deserve

I have heard Eddie Cross say a lot of rubbish over the years but his latest claim that the 2018 elections were free, fair and credible, Mnangagwa won and the Americans knew it; takes the biscuit. He made the outrageous claims in "Inside ED…

Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 20:18hrs | 22 | by Wilbert Mukori

'Mnangagwa is corrupt because he is still in liberation war mode.' True still shaming him will not end kleptocracy

There is an audio of "Retired Army officer speaks" complaining about Zanu PF's corrupt leaders and how their insatiable greed is the root cause of Zimbabwe's economic melt down. Corruption started soon after independence, he argues, and it…

Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 19:39hrs | 7 | by Wilbert Mukori

'We want regime change!' clamoured Mt Pleasant 'fat cows'. They did not get it, punishment for decades of navel-gazing

A picture is worth a thousand words. A recent Zimbabwe Daily cartoon was one such picture. It depicted Mt Pleasant resident family, the fat cows in Pharaoh's dream, shouting "We want change! Ngaapinde hake mukomana!" on one side. On the ot…

Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 22:01hrs | 6 | by Wilbert Mukori

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