Columnist / Omusa garikai
Zanu PF launches 'Zimbabwe is open for business: Mark 2' Someone is making a killing from these dunderheads!
The Zanu PF spirit to revive the Zimbabwe economy is willing but the intellect is weak!When then Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his fellow conspirator staged the November 2017 military ...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 20:07hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa's latest revised plan: 'Nyika inovakwa inorakashwa ivenevayo imashefu namaChina!'
"Zimbabweans jam UK work visa applications" screamed the headline. 8 363 skilled and semi-skilled Zimbabweans were granted UK work permit in 2022 up from 499 in 2019. The truth is Zimbabweans have bee...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 18:57hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'Zanu PF is rigging 2023, it's normal and CCC must be hard-hat equipped for it!' It's insane and must be stopped, now
In an interview with AFP Nelson Chamisa admitted that Zimbabwe's electoral process has "always attracted controversy" and is "littered with rigging, manipulation" and it is his reaction that we should...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 16:54hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
18 Binga schools post 0% pass rate and Zanu PF post 80% rural vote regardless - thx to voter rigging mastery
"18 Binga schools record 0% passes!" screamed the headlines in Newsday Zimbabwe and Bulawayo24. "At least 18 schools in Binga, Matabeleland North province, recorded a zero percent pass rate at...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 15:02hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
CCC duplicity, hell bent on participating in 2023 with not cat in hell chance on winning, has exposed SADC duplicity
Yes, Zimbabwe is heading for yet another rigged elections. Zanu PF has learned the lessons from the past and by putting these into practice, the party is hoping to get political legitimacy from SADC a...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 09:52hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Why was Army granted licence to export lithium ore?' - Not because ZDI is on sanctions, there're no investors
"Embattled state arms manufacturer, the Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI) has been controversially granted a special permit to export raw lithium by the government, a decision expected to inject life ...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 19:21hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Ramaphosa hell bent on granting vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy - sacrificing povo to gratify Zanu PF
"The ANC supports the calls for the lifting of punitive sanctions against Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Syria, Zimbabwe and elsewhere where such sanctions have been imposed unilaterally and unjustifiably, ca...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 10:32hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'Nyika inovakwa nevene vayo' insist Mnangagwa - Reality, Zimbabwe is a failed state in ruins, mocks him
On Monday, 12 December 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated four Zimbabwean individuals and two Zimbabwean entities and removed seventeen Zimb...Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
'CCC will win the 2023 elections' Need a reality check here, especially after 42 years of rigged elections
"Our motive is clear, we want to win the 2023 Presidential Election. Let it be known that Chigumba cannot stop the wave of change, said CCC Task Force Com...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 21:27hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Rascal Moyo is broke and is licking rogues who tried to kill him' - They're luring him back for a wallop!
Ever since the day Professor Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao penned off their letter accusing Mnangagwa and company for the 15 November 2017 military coup; many Zimbabweans have had a good laugh at t...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 21:52hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Zanu PF is desperate to be readmitted into the Commonwealth before 2023 - its legitimacy depends on it
Zanu PF stall: Readmit Zimbabwe into Commonwealth before 2023 elections and lift the sanctions soon thereafter.The number one priority to Zanu PF is to retain its iron grip on political power ...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 08:59hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa and co are hell ben on participating in flawed 2023 elections out of greed - pure and simple
Nelson Chamisa and his CCC friends are hell bent on participating in these 2023 elections just as they have done in 2013 and 2018. They are after the few gravy train seats Zanu PF is giving away as ba...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 10:25hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Yes, Mnangagwa is at UN COP 27 in Egypt to mourn about sanctions, photo opportunity and nothing else
Yes, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is in Egypt for UN COP27 Climate Summit. He will, no doubt, be accompanied by the usual high-powered delegation of hangers-on. He will complain of how sanctions are ...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 13:11hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Zanu PF will never win free elections!' said CCC. True. So, why is CCC one insisting on elections with NO reforms?
When it comes to elections, Zimbabwe is caught in a catch 22 situation. After 42 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule that has left the country in economic ruins, a pariah state and forced mil...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 13:51hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'We're not far from Rwanda in 1994,' warned Biti. Because we're cursed with great man who're easily corrupted by power
"He (John Kumalo) is a big man, in this place, your brother. His shop always full of men, talking as you have heard. But they say you must hear him at a meeting, he and Dubula and a brown man named To...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 17:56hrs | 9 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Hospitals must be exempt from ZESA load shedding' – how when it's generating capacity, wake up for Pete's sake
"These power cuts are already piling more costs in some hospitals such as Ingutsheni and Ekusileni Hospital that now have to rely on generators, yet fuel ...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 05:53hrs | 6 | by omusa Garikai
Why MDC/CCC participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy in an open book - read it for yourself
"Electoral watchdog, the Election Resource Centre says Zimbabwe's total eligible voters should hover around eight million, meaning that nearly three million people are not interested to vote," reporte...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 20:01hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
CCC is an autocracy masquerading as a democracy, 'it is not a dirty tactic to point out this fact!'
"It is a confirmed fact that CCC is a brand new party with no founding process, no constitution, no structures, and no elected leadership. This fact means CCC is operating illegally, like a secret soc...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 11:15hrs | 7 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zanu PF anti-western rhetoric is but a tacit admission they are not masters in their own home and never were!
Zimbabwe gain her independence back in 1980, marking the end of white colonial rule. But to listen to the anti-Western rhetoric from the country's ruling elite one would be forgiven to believe the whi...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 14:24hrs | 5 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Win we shall! God is in it!' Chamisa proclaimed - Curse of discerning mind ossified into fat
Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all th...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 15:57hrs | 6 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa assures Junta their looting rights are safe - expect zero changes from 'Change Champion in Chief'
Ignorance is a curse worse than death! The dead are not tormented by anything whereas the ignorant are forever blundering from pillar to post; excited, it does not take much to get this lot excited, o...Published: 20 May 2022 at 10:20hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'Need pact and reforms to avoid disputed elections.' Need to end CCC sell out and confusion galore
One says this, another says that and a third says something else that is neither this nor that. Indeed, in Zimbabwe politics the same individual will say one thing now and say the exact opposite in th...Published: 04 May 2022 at 12:29hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'CCC cannot work with Mwonzora and Khupe, snakes' - who amongst CCC did not sell out on reforms, cast first stone
"We have a situation where a snake sneaked into the house, swallowed all the kids and when we attempted to kill it, we did not finish it off … And now we want it to be part of the family. No. You ca...Published: 04 Apr 2022 at 16:10hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Zanu PF is blatantly rigging by election, forewarning of 2023, and none of Chamisa's strategies are working
Zanu PF is rigging these by-elections; none of Nelson Chamisa's "winning in rigged elections strategies" are working."Saturday's by-elections could be reduced to a sham after it emerged Citize...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 12:09hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Team Pachedu condemns failure to produce verified voters' roll but not CCC for participating in the flawed elections
A few weeks ago, Team Pachedu, a group of IT savvy Zimbabweans, revealed some pretty shocking irregularities and illegalities in the voters' roll such as the transfer of some voters from one Polling S...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 09:36hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'It's settled, Chamisa, not Mwonzora, is nation's hope' - just another Mnangagwa vs Mugabe false choice
In 2017 outsiders not familiar with the Zimbabwean people's warped thinking were rightly surprised that Zimbabweans came out in their hundreds of thousands to support the November 2017 military coup. ...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
CCC duplicity: insidiously participated in rigged elections banking on '(violent) peaceful protests' to end Zanu PF dictatorship
Zanu PF is rigging the 2023 elections! No one in Zimbabwe should ever say they did not know this! "Team Pachedu said a total of 170 867 addresses that were in the 2018 voters roll have been ed...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 12:54hrs | 7 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Your vote matters!' Yes, but only when elections are free just as water only flows downhill
"Zanu PF's steals Elections via assisted voters and stuffing ballot papers in rural areas with no agents. We know it, Zanu PF can be beaten with a huge turnout, polling agents deployment and a clean v...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 15:04hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'We want Zimbabweans to work in SA but locals first' - can't have the cake and eat it too, not even Malema
"We want to make an emphasis to the owners of restaurants that no-one should stop employing Zimbabweans and say the EFF said they don't want them," said Julius Malema on Wednesday."We want Zim...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 09:59hrs | 7 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa condemns 'chicanery' in Zanu PF elections - hypocrite orchestrated wanton violence in national elections
"Irregularities and political chicanery across party structures must be decisively dealt with and expunged from the party," said President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 23:25hrs | 5 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Ngaapinde Hake Mukomana' is game-changer" - Yeah right, sun will rise in West
You can read through all the available Zimbabwe 2018 elections reports, none has ever attributed Zanu PF's landslide victory to slogan. NewsDay, is claiming MDC A's new slogan for the 2023 elections i...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 09:55hrs | 8 | by Nomusa Garikai
Omicron send covid-19 cases soaring 2 555 per day, up 5 000% in a week - with it pressure to ensure free elections
As of 6 December 2021, Zimbabwe had 141 601 cumulated covid-19 cases, 2 555 new cases up from the 50 or less per day of last week. The country has vaccinated 3.8 million and 2.8 million with t...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 08:14hrs | 7 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa in fresh call for dialogue following murder of MDC activist - implement reforms, hypocrite
The sheer hypocrisy and duplicity of MDC leaders when it comes to dealing with the thorny issue of Zimbabwe's political culture of violence, never seize t...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 19:40hrs | 7 | by Nomusa Garikai
'No individual can be bigger than Zimbabwe' Kasukuwere readily admits, now - 'Terror the human form divine' W Blake foretold
Anyone who read the latest remarks from Zanu PF former Cabinet Minister Saviour Kasukuwere must have laughed their head off. What is the idiot wittering about, they must have asked themselves!...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 09:38hrs | 5 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Votes are won by ideas, not intimidation' tweeted USA - how naive and infuriatingly so too
"We are very concerned about reports of rising political violence in multiple provinces," the United States embassy in Harare said in a tweeted statement."As Zimbabwe prepares for the 2023 ele...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 13:34hrs | 8 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Cannot accord diaspora vote due to legislative challenge' - in plain language; we are a quintessential Banana Republic
Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa was a senior member of Robert Gabriel Mugabe's government for 37 years. It is not that Mnangagwa did not know what the Zanu PF government was doing was wrong and even outri...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 15:22hrs | 6 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zanu PF attacks on MDC will galvanise and blind supporters to Wizard of Oz Scarecrow trickery
Zimbabwe is caught in a catch 22! We a stuck in a political and economic mess and those who have landed us here are the ones profiting from our suffering and misery and, worst of all, they have the po...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 07:43hrs | 6 | by Nomusa Garikai
'We want reforms and then elections' demanded Mwonzora - this was no epiphany; why now
"We want reforms and then elections. Unlike our colleagues in the opposition who are calling for an election whether or not there are reforms," said Douglas Mwonzora, leader of MDC - T."That g...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 17:21hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
UN to investigate negative impact of sanctions - political oppression hurts worse than sanctions
UN special rapporteur Alena Douhan, from Belarus, is expected to be in Zimbabwe from on October 18 to 28 at the invitation of government."She is currently seeking the views of all relevant sta...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 13:52hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'Sanctions against Zimbabwe are a setback' - a feeble excuse cum insult cum tool for oppression
"Sanctions against Zimbabwe are a setback to stability in our region. Botswana therefore calls on the international community to end sanctions against Zim...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 08:08hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Child marriages are evil
The story of the fourteen-year-old Marange 'girl wife' who passed on at a shrine whilst birthing made very sad reading. Adding salt to the wound and rubbing it in was the attempt to conc...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 07:06hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa and Hichilema plot to annihilate Africa old guard revealed - 'Chawanzwa usaudza Chamisa, idare rinorira nohusiku'
It was natural for then Zambia opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema (HH) to meet and hobnob with a fellow opposition leader like Nelson Chamisa. But now that HH is the President of Zambia his relation...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Allow the diaspora vote' - for umpteenth time, Zanu PF does not care monkeys about free elections
"People want to come back home and contribute in developing their nation but are being hindered by the ever rising cost of living, unstable economic environment, erratic power supply. The financial mu...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 18:44hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
'WANGU (Mine) go and register to vote' argue Chamisa - so can give vote rigging Zanu-PF legitimacy again
The primary purpose of the 2008 to 2013 GNU was to implement the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu-PF rigging elections and repeat the blatant rigging of the 2008 elections. Not even one reform...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 09:12hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'If military won't give up power, there is NO sense in holding elections' - penny has finally dropped
The Greeks all those 2 500 years ago appreciated the importance of educated and diligent citizens for democracy, government of the people, for the people and by the people, to work; and hence the reas...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 17:39hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'Sweet scent of democracy sweeping Zambia in coming to Zimbabwe' - finally, many are questioning MDC A foolishness
It is heartening to notice there is a noticeable shift is Zimbabwe politics; the old naïve, gullible ask-no-question mentality is being replace by the sober and savvy realism. "Africa must ha...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 20:16hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'On land, Mugabe travelled a path Mandela did not dare' - Yes, but look where he landed Zimbabwe!
There is overwhelming evidence out there to show Nelson Madiba Mandela was a visionary leader his greatest legacy to South Africa is a stable democratic system of government. On the other hand, Robert...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 13:53hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Entrepreneurship, no politics, will solve our problems' insist Masiyiwa - rubbish, solution is good governance
"Masiyiwa challenges entrepreneurs to solve problems in their communities" screamed the headline. When you are rich, Strive Masiyiwa, is filthy rich and so when he speaks even the rich and powerful si...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 20:06hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'Mnangagwa must learn to embrace democracy' - after 41 years, it's for us to learn to confound elephant in room
"An elephant in the room! means a very large issue that everyone is acutely aware of, but nobody wants to talk about. Perhaps a sore spot, perhaps politically incorrect, or perhaps a political ho...Published: 23 Jun 2021 at 17:46hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Struggle (for free elections) is in safe (Chamisa) hands' says Tajamuka - supposedly 'Enlightened'
"@nelsonchamisa comes straight from the Tsvangirai blast furnace of leadership.There is absolutely no doubt about his capability, dedication, hard work & loyalty to the cause & the people ...Published: 22 Jun 2021 at 22:11hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
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