Opinion / Columnist
Parliament walkouts: MPs must serve the national interest
ZANU-PF legislators' decision to boycott the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Accounts (PAC) sitting where Sakunda Holdings was expected to...Published: 2 hrs ago | 211 | by Nyasha Chingono
There's a US$1,13 billion skeleton in the RBZ vault
EARLIER this year, I conducted an investigation into the catastrophic failings of Zimbabwe's governance architecture. For the most part, the probe foc...Published: 2 hrs ago | 159 | by Brezh Malaba
Mortgages gold to pay loans
PARLIAMENT has accused the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) of illegally mortgaging the country's future gold sales as security for the central bank's e...Published: 2 hrs ago | 110 | by Staff reporter
What happened to voice of the people?
When Zimbabwe was on the verge of political and economic collapse in 2007, it took the late former President Robert Mugabe and his long-time nemesis M...Published: 2 hrs ago | 53 | by NewsDay Comment
SB Moyo sanctions backtracking
In what seems to be a major U turn, by the Zimbabwe Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, S. B. Moyo, whilst writing in the EU Observer...Published: 7 hrs ago | 3889 | by Thabo Makuyana
Mnangagwa's repressive regime continues to brutalise innocent protesters
For so many years we waited for it, even hoped against the hope that the long and painful draconian rule of Robert Mugabe would fall apart. Mugabe's h...Published: 8 hrs ago | 1126 | by Deborah Harry
High time Chamisa choose a jacket that fits him
"A jack of all trades is a master of none" is an old English adage that simply means a person cannot be an expert in all things. This saying should be...Published: 11 hrs ago | 4864 | by Innocent Mujeri
By firing doctors Zanu PF delivered coup de grace on healthcare and, more notably, on Zanu PF itself
From November 2017 to July 2018 Mnangagwa had his party thugs, the rogue war veterans, the Police, Army and CIO on the leash. He did not want to see a...Published: 13 hrs ago | 1085 | by Wilbert Mukori
Institutional violence of the ZANU PF regime
Police Attack on Civilians on the 20th of November 2019 is unacceptable and abhorrent. This conduct by the Zimbabwean government is an attack on human...Published: 13 hrs ago | 1660 | by Bigboy Sibanda, Human Rights Activist
Mnangagwa should now engage Prophet Makandiwa to stop this, 'economic rot'
A shortage of foreign currency has put Zimbabwe in a dire economic situation with little means for short-ter...Published: 13 hrs ago | 3236 | by Knowledge Hakata
It is an honour but...
The clueless clowns occupying the echelons of power in our government have decided to rename streets and buildings. The timing is just wrong. lt...Published: 13 hrs ago | 1103 | by A Kadada
Why Mnangagwa has failed to improve the economic prospects of Zimbabwe?
It is now more than two years since President ED Mnangagwa assumed power with an ostensible mandate from his backers to improve the country's economic...Published: 23 hrs ago | 517 | by Martin
King Lobengula Royal Family Condolence Message: The Passing on of Ikumukani, His Majesty Zwelonke Sigcawu of the Xhosa Nation
King Lobengula Royal Family in Ebudlamnondo mourn with the Xhosa nation on the passing on of their mighty Monarch. We not only know His Majesty Ikumuk...Published: 23 hrs ago | 477 | by Crown Prince Zwide Velezulwini Khumalo
Zimbabwe police indiscriminately attack citizens
The international community and SADC need to call out on Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangangwa to accountability and all the armed forces for attacking innocen...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 16:11hrs | 1253 | by Simbarashe J Jingo
'Legitimacy is irrelevant, ConCourt declare ED winner' - Yeah right, declared coup 'constitutional' too
"What are their (opposition) demands? They should tell us their demands. We are not aware of them. These people have been saying a lot, they are playi...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 15:47hrs | 1381 | by Nomusa Garikai
Nothing hopeful about Chamisa's HONA
The much hyped, but shallow, so called ‘Hope of The Nation Address', (HONA) by opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa had nothing new in it that Zi...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 14:50hrs | 2340 | by Sibusiso Ndlamini
MDC never staged an 'illegal regime change' (coup) in Zimbabwe, but it was ZANU PF itself - so why repress the opposition?
The gruesome events of yesterday (21 November 2019) in the Zimbabwe capital of Harare, whereby scores of innocent people - mainly bystanders - were re...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 09:55hrs | 2140 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe police forcefully disperse opposition crowd
Riot police armed with baton sticks and tear gas used force to disperse opposition MDC supporters who had gathered at the party headquarters to listen...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 09:25hrs | 1896 | by Rangarirai Kudakwashe Chivaviro
Cashless society: EcoCash blip a wake-up call
Zimbabwe, like most nations, is moving more and more towards a cashless society where financial transactions are executed electronically than in physi...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 03:56hrs | 984 | by Staff reporter
OK Zimbabwe tribal tendencies stink
Today members of Mthwakazi Republic Party protested at Ok Supermarket in Bulawayo's Lobhengula street, following the company's failer to respond to th...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 13:44hrs | 4757 | by Mbonisi Gumede
Zimbabwe govt should stop regarding suffering citizens as 'enemies of the state', but address our legitimate grievances seriousl
This morning I was pondering over the forthcoming 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence (running from 25 November to 10 December), when I ...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 12:16hrs | 1565 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu PF grand heist, autocracy writ large
IN the aftermath of Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's budget that sounded more like was crafted in some Western world capital and delivered in Harare, m...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 08:01hrs | 1403 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
We are stuck in a (Zanu PF and MDC) 'man-made crisis' - they cannot be man-made solution too
"For months now, we have been asking our African brothers and sisters to look into the man-made governance crisis in Zimbabwe and help us restore the ...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 07:47hrs | 728 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zhuwao's open letter to South Africa leadership
I write to associate myself with Advocate Nelson Chamisa's tweet welcoming South Africa and SADC's mediation in Zimbabwe and his plea for a specific p...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 15:41hrs | 3945 | by Patrick Zhuwao
Nightmare is madman wielding a stick - pity Zimbabweans have corrupt president wielding absolute power, for 39 years counting
"If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would ...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 09:15hrs | 1204 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
This is how Zimbabwe has changed since I became President
TWO years ago, on November 18th, 2017, hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans took to the streets in the spirit of peace, unity and hope, calling for a ...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 05:47hrs | 878 | by Emmerson Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe open for business, says Mnangagwa
President Mnangagwa has urged global investors to come and do business in Zimbabwe under the new dispensation saying the country has removed all restr...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 18:52hrs | 992 | by Staff reporter
New twist to Georgias' estate saga
One of the spouses to the late national hero Aguy Clement Georgias' has been removed from her role as the executor of the deceased's estate, paving wa...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 18:52hrs | 2239 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and Mnangagwa's MPs reducing Second Republic into one big circus
THE animosity between the two political adversaries, the ruling Zanu PF party and the opposition MDC, who have perpetually been trading barbs in Parli...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 18:50hrs | 2824 | by NewsDay Comment
Robert Mugabe still with us three years down the line
For Zimbabwe to achieve stability, there was to be a return to constitutionality. Sanity had escaped the political landscape. The operation restore le...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:34hrs | 2620 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabweans caught in witchcraft practices in the UK
Zimbabweans in the UK have totally refused to abandon their beliefs in Witchcraft lucky charms and in superstitions. They have carried their beliefs i...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:32hrs | 8661 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Patients share wards with dead bodies in Zimbabwe
The medical personnel industrial action in Zimbabwe is blamed on the country's crumbling healthcare service, poor governance and corruption.Th...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:29hrs | 2885 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Behold the 4th Chimurenga!
We do no not seek to dispense ourselves from the past. We are a product of our past. We do not seek to despise our fore bearers because we are where w...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:15hrs | 5202 | by Ntokozo Msipha
A critical review of Zimbabwe’s health sector today
This morning I woke up to a headline in the Herald reporting a visit by the First Lady to a Mbare based traditional midwife celebrating the achievemen...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:02hrs | 634 | by Dr Togarepi Mawoyo
Zimbabweans reject further military coups, but demand genuine electoral reforms to freely choose own leaders
If there is anything that Zimbabweans should have regrettably learnt the hard way, over the past years, is never to support or celebrate ZANU PF inter...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:25hrs | 4903 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Cyber Etiquette: Beware how you behave in cyberspace
"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own." - Carol Burnett. In my profession of project management it is estimated that we spen...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:23hrs | 665 | by Engineer Tororiro Isaac Chaza PMP
The Menstrual Equity Journey: 200 million dollars later
The move by government to allocate $200 million for free sanitary wear for rural school girls who menstruate, in the 2020 National Budget, is a big st...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:19hrs | 647 | by Theresa Farai Nyava
'It takes an active and informed people to keep a republic' - Zimbabweans were never given a chance
There is a story, often told, that upon exiting the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin, one of America's founding fathers, was approached by ...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:17hrs | 499 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe: The tragedy of gumboot Shona hegemony and dictatorship
When the colonial masters settled in Africa in the late 1700s and early 1800s, they mainly had one goal to stretch their economic prospects. In their ...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:15hrs | 1116 | by Ayanda Manala
Villages and cattle pens are empty
It was not the usual rainfall but heavy downpour punctuated with blinding lightening and earsplitting thunder. Of course far too little when compared ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:46hrs | 1962 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
RBZ Autonomy and Quasi-Fiscal Activities
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned the Zimbabwean Government that it needs to give autonomy to its central bank if it is to avert the ri...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:46hrs | 1125 | by Victor Bhoroma
Eating mice is not poverty its our ways
When you see an African woman coming from the woods with a big bundle of firewood balanced on her head, young daughter in tow carrying a smaller bundl...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:45hrs | 1723 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Civil servants can not live on ZUPCOs alone! Zim govt should give them their worthy and dignified salaries
Never in my 46 years of existence have I been exposed to such an ignorant and arrogant government as that of Zimbabwe. Never in my life have I encount...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 08:45hrs | 2961 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
300 jobs at BCC
THE Bulawayo City Council is set to employ more than 300 professionals as the local authority seeks to address under-staffing within its departments a...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:05hrs | 3348 | by Staff reporter
Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni suspended
OUTSPOKEN Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni was yesterday "suspended" by the Matabeleland North traditional leaders' provincial assembly on ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:04hrs | 5153 | by Staff reporter
Why Mthuli Ncube will fail
While I wish Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to succeed, the path he has followed is doomed to fail. I will detail the reasons why below. The situation ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:04hrs | 2663 | by Ken Mufuka
Not yet time for Zimbabwe to go into space
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has often been accused of being far too removed from what ordinary Zimbabweans are experiencing in the wake of economic ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
'The genocide that robbed me of my father'
The doctors' strike was just one of those stories that we have become accustomed to as Zimbabweans and it didn't mean much to me until my father was h...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:58hrs | 466 | by Sinqobile Tesa
Mnangagwa's wife must step back
Barely two years into her husband's tenure as president, first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has diminished the little dignity she enjoyed having come into ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:57hrs | 3347 | by Edmund Kudzai
When teaching becomes cheating
FIVE boys formed the heart of their soccer team. Tatenda, Edzai, Anesu, Chipo and Hondo were all gifted, enthusiastic players, with Tatenda starring i...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:56hrs | 364 | by Tim Middleton
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