Opinion / Columnist
Beam programme 'killing' schools
GOVERNMENT's failure to assist disadvantaged children timeously is making schools unable to cater for pupils' needs as it pays the fees when the money...Published: 8 hrs ago | 244 | by Isaac Mupinyuri
Let our youth register to vote en masse
ON October 15, 2021, Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (Viset) launched its informal sector voter education campaign dubbed th...Published: 9 hrs ago | 155 | by Viset information
Zimbabwe still bound by chains of Mugabe dictatorship
Zanu-PF and MDCs have indicated that they want to give themselves monopoly over political power in Zimbabwe. Recently, I felt bad when I saw some peop...Published: 9 hrs ago | 215 | by Paul Dzimano
When desperate, tactless opposition fakes victimhood
Last Monday the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction was at it again. It was involved in skirmishes with the people of Masvingo in an incident which involved ...Published: 9 hrs ago | 129 | by Nobleman Runyanga
A red card or exit package for ED and his ZANU-PF Govt in 2023
The ground is shaking for EDiot and his cronies as they crave to hold onto power in 2023 when their fall is imminent. The sudden rise and revi...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 14:25hrs | 2822 | by Mjibha Ndlovu
He who acknowledges his failings has started his journey to success
Have Zimbabweans ever wondered why they appear 'cursed' - in a country seemingly entrapped in a never-ending vicious cycle of economic malaise and pov...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 14:22hrs | 540 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Is Guvamatanga altogether there?
An observation made by my daughter, Dr Rumbi, when she was 27 years old has haunted me ever since. Dr Rumbi was preparing for her doctoral defence on ...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:08hrs | 1124 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Why Zanu-PF is under siege
If Africans knew even half their history, they would understand the reason why they continue to stew in poverty, misery and disillusion while other pa...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:59hrs | 251 | by Bishop Lazi
Sanctions affect ordinary people
IN a week's time, we will have the Anti-Sanctions Day again.In August 2019, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) declared October...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:59hrs | 49 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chamisa needs our support now
I am not a member of MDC-Alliance. However, I will defend Chamisa with all my might. I consider Chamisa as my son and therefore he needs my support no...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 22:26hrs | 1552 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mr President, even a husband who makes excuses for failing his family soon finds himself with divorce papers!
Excuses, excuses, excuses! Thats is what the people of Zimbabwe have come to expect from their government, ever since coming to power in 1980 ...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 18:40hrs | 1128 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa's Life is in danger
About 200 ZANU-PF sponsored youth and women were baying for Chamisa and his team's blood on their way to meet the people of Masvingo community in chie...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 18:31hrs | 1844 | by Nobukhosi Moyo
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 suffer...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 07:43hrs | 1140 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa acquiring more public debt to fund second term bid
WINNING or losing an election is a referendum on the economy by citizens. More often than not politicians are aware of this fact and, therefore, go ou...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | 860 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Govt will keep digging in on currency
IN the week under review the Zimbabwean dollar (Zimdollar) swept past the psychological 1:90 mark. The local unit has been losing ground against the U...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:20hrs | 170 | by Respect Gwenzi
Mnangagwa's ignorance on economics: Mthuli Ncube his best Boss ever
Even Mnangagwa's law degree is questioned by many. If Mnangagwa had a slender idea how the economy works, they would never launder money to Chinese ba...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 18:45hrs | 1287 | by Nomazulu Thata
Violence in Masvingo makes Chamisa a hero
The recent events in the Masvingo province against MDC-Alliance President Advocate Nelson Chamisa raised his bar graph very high. The MDC-A leader is ...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 17:41hrs | 1211 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Hats off to security forces at Beitbridge Border
MEMBERS of the security forces deployed along the Zimbabwe/South African border deserve praise for their efforts towards the eradication of crime at t...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:17hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Who remembers Ben Kofi?
Fabisch, Sunday Chidzambwa, Peter Ndhlovu, Benjani and Konjera. Not forgetting the mercurial Francis Shonhai, Kaitano Tembo and Dumisan Mpofu the defe...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 19:10hrs | 985 | by Tondorindo. Chinehasha.
Mnagagwa and Zanu-pf are defeatable
There is a despondency nationwide about the prospect of unseating a Zanu-PF government together with its leader ED Mnangagwa. It is sad that the ordin...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 07:53hrs | 2043 | by Zakhele Maphosa
Kick ZIFA out
Zimbabwe national team nicknamed The Warriors tumbled again at their own magnificent hunting ground National Sports Stadium in Harare.The Blac...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 07:52hrs | 1206 | by Leonard Koni
What's the point in building Zimbabwe 'brick by brick' whilst dismantling it 'wall by wall'?
There is a popular saying, "taking two steps forward, and one step backwards" - that describes a scenario whereby things are not going smoothly, when ...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 07:51hrs | 3055 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chinamasa needs to tone down rhetoric
Zanu-PF acting national political commissar Patrick Chinamasa's dramatic Press conference on Tuesday represents everything rotten about the leadership...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 2856 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must beware of COVID-19 fourth wave
WE note with concern reports that a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic driven by variants is imminent in Zimbabwe. While we are fully aware of the m...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:24hrs | 435 | by Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe
Brain drain too rampant in the health sector
IN 1963, the first medical school in then Rhodesia was established and was affiliated to the University of Birmingharm. This followed the establishmen...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | 234 | by Johannes Marisa
Chamisa attacks harbinger of a more violent 2023
THE 2008 run-off elections pitting former President Robert Mugabe and MDC founder Morgan Tsvangirai (now both late) witnessed violence on an unprecede...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:14hrs | 1623 | by Staff reporter
No leader has enjoyed universal approval
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, if ever there was a period in your life that you needed to exercise diligence and foresight...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:13hrs | 1935 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Opposition must remove fear in rural voters
THE 2023 polls, which both Zanu-PF and MDC Alliance desperately need to win, will be determined by the rural vote.With the majority of people ...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:13hrs | 1406 | by Taneta Fambai
Govt must be serious about devolution
DEVOLUTION means transferring power and authority from central government to lower tiers of government, especially local authorities and provincial co...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:13hrs | 550 | by Harare Residents Trust
RBZ must keep tight lid on forex auction system
FOR a while the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has been "availing" United States dollars to businesses at a capped auction rate.This means RBZ...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:12hrs | 417 | by Ndebele
What's makes some people believe they're presidential material, when they clearly aren't?
Who can ever forget those dreamy days, when we used to be asked by our parents and teachers what we wanted to be when we grew up?I remember th...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 11:43hrs | 2312 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Govt needs to stabilise bread and butter prices
THE looming increase in bread price will pile pressure on the country's citizens already battling a wildly inflationary environment aided by poor mone...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:00hrs | 792 | by Eddie Cross
The impact of US sanctions on Zimbabwe
WHEN the American government passed the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Amendment (Zidera) Act 20 years ago, it argued that the Act was not i...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:00hrs | 446 | by Eddie Cross
Mnangagwa took Sona for political grandstanding
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition has noted with huge concern the failure by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to face the reality of the situation prevailing i...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:59hrs | 321 | by Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition
Zanu-PF leadership consigning people to abject poverty
THE rate at which government is destroying the nation boggles the mind.Zimbabwe's woes are complex and are compounded by the Zanu-PF governmen...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:59hrs | 198 | by Forget Sanhu
Mwonzora afraid of election
The centre is no longer holding anymore. The cow no longer produces creamy milk as it used to do.Douglas Mwonzora is suffering from leadership...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 07:03hrs | 3179 | by Leonard Koni
What China's overseas coal exit could mean for Zimbabwe
IN response to What China's overseas coal exit plans could mean for Zimbabwe' XYZ says: Is being fair to acknowledge that the environmental accusation...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:02hrs | 1472 | by MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora
Elections will cut Mwonzora to size
THE centre is no longer holding anymore. The cow no longer produces milk as it used to do.MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora is suffering from lead...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:01hrs | 2281 | by Leonard Koni
'People of Zimbabwe have become sanctions collateral damage'
WHEN the American government passed the Zidera Act 20 years ago, they argued that the Act was not intended to punish the people of Zimbabwe but to tar...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:54hrs | 182 | by Eddie Cross
Democracy is not about generational entitlement
Following the United Parties for National Development's (UNPD) win in Zambia's August 12, 2021, general elections, the MDC Alliance faction leader Nel...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:52hrs | 125 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zimbabwe soccer referees crying foul
The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) is alleged being accused of gross incompetence, mismanagement and laundering of Fifa funds meant for the deve...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 18:20hrs | 1411 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe isn't any different - even at school we had those who celebrated failure!
I am sure we all remember those school days - with all the craziness of youth.Surely, who can forget those ever-present mind boggling scenes o...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 17:29hrs | 3086 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Only credible, free and fair elections no banditry will lead to lifting of sanctions
Basotho bare "nama kapeletjwa ithuba lepetja", this sums all in northern sotho, Sepedi about the behaviour of the army installed government of Zimbabw...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 17:26hrs | 509 | by Phosiwe Ncube
'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 D...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 17:21hrs | 794 | by Nomusa Garikai
Africa's future is being sold out even as we speak
Even if one disagrees with their policies, one must recognise that European policies towards Africa and Asia were guided and designed by deep thinkers...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:56hrs | 696 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Show us criminals that surrounded Gushungo
My People,Ignatius Chombo, the man who was branded the biggest criminal around Gushungo, is now a free man.Chombo was seized by soldie...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:55hrs | 1312 | by Dr Stop It
Pay day in 1973, indlovu iwile
THIS week the writer reels back to 1973 to give you an in-depth picture of the setup Ekasi on a pay day when all employees had received their monthly ...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 265 | by Clifford Kalibo
Mnangagwa subtly launches 2023 election campaign
POLITICAL leaders gain power to retain it. The power of incumbency is fully exploited to make sure they succeed themselves. They will use subtle means...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:32hrs | 445 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
No to abortion in Zimbabwe
IN recent months, there has been a lot of buzz about abortion. Tens of thousands of women in America have demonstrated as they felt outraged that thei...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:30hrs | 165 | by Alexio Rashirai
Mnangagwa must arrest corrupt ministers
IN Zimbabwe, it is very easy to stop corruption and demonstrations. President Emmerson Mnangagwa does not have to use brutal force and intimidation....Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:30hrs | 385 | by Community Podium
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