Opinion / Columnist
Chamisa, violence and the absence of leadership
In February, at Morgan Tsvangirai's funeral, Nelson Chamisa's private militia, The Vanguard, attacked his opponents and tried to torch a hut in which ...Published: 31 mins ago | 175 | by Anthony Mkondo
A certain Dr Charles Kangai's errors on his analysis of the late Kumbirai Kangai
There is an opinion circulating online purported to have been written by a certain Dr. Charles Kangai. The opinion is attacking the former president R...Published: 2 hrs ago | 424 | by Don Chigumba
'Elections are not free and fair. Pull out!' ZCTU tell Chamisa, straight - no putting the genie back now.
"We must clearly express that there are irregularities in the conduct of the elections and that they can't be free and fair. We must tell the oppositi...Published: 5 hrs ago | 989 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'With no fiscal stability nothing works,' says Cross - no, political stability matters the most
"My first call on my bucket list for Zimbabwe was fiscal stability and discipline, the second was monetary stability and predictability. This week on ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 294 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Biti, Chamisa need not cross the red line
The recent threats by both the MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa and Tendai Biti, who leads the People's Democratic Party, one of the...Published: 20 hrs ago | 4141 | by Staff reporter
Chigumba must talk to Chamisa
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is right to agree to participate in talks with Nelson Chamisa over how to resolve the serious threat posed by ...Published: 20 hrs ago | 1792 | by Staff reporter
Chigumba reminds me of Tobaiwa Mudede
Priscilla Chigumba reminds me of Tobaiwa Mudede- arrogant, Zanu PF sympathiser. A man who presided over biased elections for years.What Mnanga...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1349 | by Dr. Gus Manatsa
Mnanganwa's Authoritarian Elections
"Busing of kids to rallies is Zanu-PF's way of creating the image of a supermajority, which signals to opponents that a contest is hopeless"....Published: 21 hrs ago | 1275 | by Dr Gus Manatsa
Harurwa consumed as delicacy in Masvingo but Claude Maredza says, 'there is more that people should know'
Harurwa is an insect, consumed as a delicacy mostly in the Masvingo province of Zimbabwe. The insect is naturally light green in colour. It's usualy p...Published: 22 hrs ago | 2706 | by Enos Denhere
Why Chamisa doesn't want elections
MDC-T President Nelson Chamisa doesn't seem too keen on elections and democracy.For many months now, Chamisa has been bragging that he doesn't...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 08:26hrs | 4158 | by Jealousy Dutiro
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything
I hate to be the source for sad news but the opposition party behavior has betrayed the change people were looking for. Mnangagwa is allowing a ...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:34hrs | 1522 | by Sam Wezhira
'Mnangagwa are you tired of stealing elections!,' cried Biti - to put nation's destiny at mercy of ED's whim is insane
MDC leaders have proven to be breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent, after nearly 20 years of blundering from pillar to post one is tempted to say "N...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:31hrs | 2145 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ZBC's problem is editorial, not advertorial
THE Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) recently issued a statement on its coverage of political parties during the current campaign period of Zim...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:17hrs | 425 | by Takura Zhangazha
MDC Alliance remains talk show as clock ticks
Two weeks before the elections the MDC Alliance has largely remained a talk show of kindergarten stories that have no takers in the adult world, which...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 06:59hrs | 406 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Biti anoints himselves custodian of all Ndebele memory
It has become common practice that political foes often depart from the conventional meaning of common vocabulary with astonishing flaccidity, that on...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 06:52hrs | 714 | by Reason Wafawarova
Chamisa, prepare for defeat in a dignified manner
Two weeks before harmonised elections the MDC-Alliance has largely remained a talk show of kindergarten stories that have no takers in the adult world...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 06:51hrs | 2224 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Zanu pf has only taught us to hate each other
If you do not agree at least do not kill each other, Zanu PF on other hand has mastered the legacy of hate. Black on black violence, against minority ...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 20:51hrs | 1310 | by AT Kadada
Why army warning is omnious
Army press conferences are rare and ominous events in Zimbabwe. When the army calls a press conference in Zimbabwe, it is a serious matter and you bet...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 18:20hrs | 4594 | by Siphosami Malunga
Mugabe's tactics persist in first election without him
Most Zimbabweans have only ever known one president: Robert Mugabe.But on July 30, a new man will represent the ruling party on the ballot for...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:10hrs | 374 | by WashingtonPost.com
Postpone Zimbabwe's elections and address serious issues of concern
The past few days have been marked by electoral scandals of enormous proportions.Zanu-PF apparently has access to registered voters' private d...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:04hrs | 265 | by Zimbabwe Election Watch
Fears of military interference persist as Zanu-PF denies backing
The Zimbabwean army has revised its political involvement in electoral processes ahead of the 2018 presidential, parliamentary and municipal polls so ...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:01hrs | 241 | by Nkosana Dlamini
Trust, not arrogance, will deliver a good election
The 2018 World Cup spectacle has been a jarring and intriguing global tournament at many levels. Besides the remote control tensions and conflicts it ...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:01hrs | 69 | by Zifiso Masiye
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...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 16:55hrs | 170 | by Tawanda Majoni
MDC Alliance: Pitfalls of running without ‘mother's milk of politics'
"DADDY, I think Chamisa will be defeated by ZEC. He can't win this election," my seven-year-old daughter said to me last week. "What do you mean?" I a...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 16:48hrs | 267 | by Bishop
Mnangagwa accepts that women should not lead!
To say that I was shocked to read in the media that Zimbabwe president Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa - during his recent visit to the Johannes Marange A...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 15:52hrs | 2981 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Revealed: Why Chamisa has never named a vice-presidential candidate
Does anyone else think it is strange that someone who wants to be the next President of the Republic of Zimbabwe has not named a running mate or a Vic...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 09:56hrs | 2745 | by Anthony Mkondo
Why the Zuva case is no joke: Chamisa destroyed my family
Opinion - In 2015, a Supreme Court case changed the history of Zimbabwe’s worker-employee relationship. A country that was supposed to care abou...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 17:30hrs | 5147 | by Tom Nkala
Once beaten twice shy - How about this Election and the processes?
The Zimbabwean de javu! We have come a full circle as a country, but whether can we identify where the path begins and branches remain the questions w...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 17:24hrs | 1046 | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
Our vote or face: Which right to protect?
Simmering tension brew across the entire body politic in the country as the national polling day draw near. The major standoff lies with the processes...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 12:02hrs | 645 | by Benny Gudo
Nuisance campaign messages
RECENTLY, we discussed privacy and data protection within the context of the voters' roll and certain events of the past week appear to have confirmed...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:48hrs | 182 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Will Mangondo pull a 'Samkange' in Macheke?
POLICE officers looked helpless as Zanu-PF party supporters seized ballot boxes and burnt down ballot papers at the middle of a football pitch at Crai...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:44hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Under Western eyes, again
Come July 30 2018, the harmonised elections shall be won and lost. There shall be celebrations and anger, laughter and crying, joy and sorrow, vindica...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:37hrs | 615 | by RADAR
Chamisa: don't play with fire in a village so full of thatched roundavels
Where I come from you don't begrudge a child for darning clay into a mighty 'bull'. That is called creative play, for clay hurts no living being, and ...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:33hrs | 311 | by Igomombe
Chaos in Bulawayo over postal votes proves the ballot is not secure and likewise so, too is the vote
The video of a lady counting envelopes containing postal ballots at Rose Camp Police Station in Bulawayo has ignited a social media storm fuelled by d...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 18:37hrs | 2501 | by Nomusa Garikai
Ray Goba's dismissal shows 'No Tolerance' is not just a slogan
This cannot have been an easy decision. Prosecutor General Advocate Ray Goba has not been in the job long. He was well respected by his peers an...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 18:32hrs | 2405 | by Mike Tawanda
What now Comrades?
After having watched the demo as it beamed live on the MDC Facebook handle l could feel the pain and disappointment of the marchers of Wednesday. Dear...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 15:31hrs | 2300 | by Tatenda Magumise
Priscilla Chigumba has neither Morals nor Shame
Zimbabwean people must understand that the decisions we take now affect the long future. ED may rape the nation and conduct a sham election and win ai...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 14:16hrs | 1810 | by Zanda Shumba
'I will make all residents needs a priority'
The independent candidate for ward 10 in Entumbane Bulawayo Edmonic Max Mkandla has revealed a host of plans which he intend to do for the ward among ...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 14:06hrs | 247 | by Stephen Jakes
Enough of Zanu-PF Rigging
Can a leopard ever become a sheep just because it is wearing a sheep's skin? Obviously no. The originally evil ZanuPF is still as it was before Novemb...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 13:38hrs | 1108 | by Mkhululi Zulu
Amazing, Grace just won't leave us alone
It really is quite amazing that she is still hanging around. But beyond just hanging around. Gucci Grace, the rotten of all rotten apples of the previ...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 11:19hrs | 5727 | by Innocent Dube
Zimbabweans caught abusing the benefit system in UK
After my article on the Zimbabwean parents abusing their children for benefits, I was overwhelmed by calls and emails demanding that I write about adu...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 09:46hrs | 3190 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Can MDC Alliance point finger at Zec?
THERE is a time to set the record straight so that repeated lies about anyone and anything do not begin to sound like the truth.Fellow Zimbabw...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 08:47hrs | 1416 | by Conway Tutani
Party-State conflation must be checked
THE late Father Zimbabwe Joshua Nkomo noted in his autobiography that he once asked the then Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe which was the s...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 07:30hrs | 319 | by Dumisani O Nkomo
Zec must avoid costly poll rigging antics
REPORTS that independent biometric voter registration (BVR) and data science experts analysing the voters' roll have unearthed a suspected loophole th...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 07:22hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa must not create chaos through rantings
OPPOSITION Movement for Democratic Change Alliance presidential candidate Mr Nelson Chamisa's threat to usurp the powers of the Zimbabwe Electoral Com...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 07:13hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
Disturbing Harare Demo! Pastor and Advocate Chamisa is surrounded by mob shouting HURE, to Justice Priscilla Chigumba
The Pastor and Advocate Chamisa finds it right and fitting to be surrounded by a mob shouting obscenities on Justice Priscilla Chigumba. The entire mo...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 07:09hrs | 3647 | by Nomazulu Thata
Think twice before bleaching your skin
This week we revisit the skin lightening substances, to answer inquiries that have been coming in on the subject.It is now known within our co...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 06:51hrs | 429 | by Mthandazo Ndlovu
Zimbabwe Election Commission caught with their pants down
Whistle blowers from ZRP Ross Camp in Bulawayo yesterday morning alerted the opposition political parties of a voting process which has kicked off wit...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 06:45hrs | 8408 | by Leonard Koni
Open letter to Mnangagwa
Dear Mr PresidentThere is no doubt you will win the July 30 election. Even Thomas in the Bible would believe that if he were here today. Though my...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 06:44hrs | 591 | by Staff writer
'We are prepared to die for free elections!,' says Biti - read, 'to sacrifice povo for gravy train seat!'
Mr Tendai Biti you, like everyone else have the right to enjoy freedom of expression just remember that with every right comes a duty. Your right to f...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 19:43hrs | 2061 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
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