Opinion / Columnist
No, Mr. Chivayo, it's not your money, it's ours!
It's mind-boggling how easily some people slip into delusion.Wicknell Chivayo's recent outburst on social media - declaring that he has no obl...Published: 20 May 2025 at 21:36hrs | 1351 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's hustle culture is affecting mental health
IntroductionIn Zimbabwe, the phrase "we hustle to survive" is more than just a saying - it is a way of life. From street vendors t...Published: 19 May 2025 at 09:31hrs | 423 | by Dr Farzana Naeem
Nyokayemabhunu will not survive!
About Nyokayemabhunu, it has become clear that he was sent by big people in politics to do the dirty work for them outside Zimbabwe. South Africa is a...Published: 18 May 2025 at 18:11hrs | 3205 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe needs a reset through an NTA to prepare for democratic transition
Zimbabwe is teetering on the brink. We are witnessing a nation sliding further into economic despair, political illegitimacy, and social disin...Published: 18 May 2025 at 17:46hrs | 423 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Welshman Ncube should seek political settlement with Tshabangu
PROF WELSHMAN NCUBE SHOULD FORGET HIS LOSING COURT LITIGATION AGAINST SENATOR TSHABANGU AND SEEK A POLITICAL SETTLEMENTFor Prof Welshman Ncube...Published: 17 May 2025 at 15:16hrs | 385 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Setting the record straight on Qoki Zindlovukazi Land Projects
I would like to set the record straight on the opinion piece by Solabanye Nqabeni titled ...Published: 15 May 2025 at 18:19hrs | 1753 | by Yolandah Nyathi
Is the Trabablas Interchange a monument to Zimbabwe's misplaced priorities and corruption?
Is Zimbabwe's so-called ‘spaghetti road' just another highway to corruption?The recent announcement by Zimbabwe's Ministry of Transport that...Published: 15 May 2025 at 08:08hrs | 356 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The war in Sudan is still happening and the world has moved on
Somewhere between the latest tech layoffs, celebrity gossip, and viral TikToks about how to season your trauma with lavender oil and affirmations, a w...Published: 14 May 2025 at 23:00hrs | 353 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
The Uphill Battle for Economic Freedom: The Story of Qoki Women of Zimbabwe
The challenges of trying to gain economic freedom as women in Africa are not limited to having to fight against some men who are bent on denying you t...Published: 14 May 2025 at 21:30hrs | 766 | by Solabanye Nqabeni
Zimbabwe land reform scam - 13 years after the genocide in Matebeleland and Midlands
This article intends to capture the poignant moment when Zanu began its unpunished abuse of public office soon after Zimbabwe's independence.A...Published: 14 May 2025 at 21:00hrs | 349 | by Moses Mzila Nkalange (Ndlovu)
'Generals for sale' and the cracks in Zimbabwe's military
Blessed Geza's recent broadcast, in which he dramatically declared there are "generals for sale," may have sounded like another bitter outburst from a...Published: 13 May 2025 at 16:43hrs | 1471 | by Silambe Over
Tribalism, fear, paranoia drive Zanu PF's response to Ndebele king
A seemingly innocuous picture of Bulawayo mayor David Coltart and Bulelani Khumalo, who claims to be the Ndebele king, seems to have caused panic in t...Published: 13 May 2025 at 16:31hrs | 449 | by Nqaba Matshazi
ZANU PF Politicians Protecting Nyokayemabhunu?
The Nyokayemabhunu extradition saga is still waters that are hiding a deeper truth. The battle for Nyokayemabhunu's custody is now exposing the vulner...Published: 12 May 2025 at 19:43hrs | 2056 | by John Mbizvo
Why Zimbabweans should worry about our relationship with Belarus
How is it that Zimbabwe consistently chooses to engage with questionable figures?President Emmerson Mnangagwa is in Minsk for a working visit,...Published: 12 May 2025 at 19:32hrs | 703 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Deputy Minister of Health offside
Zimbabwe's Deputy Minister of Health Sleiman Timios Kwidini, a former nurse, told Parliament recently that Zimbabwean people utilising public hospital...Published: 12 May 2025 at 19:28hrs | 581 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe Generals are all style and no substance!
As I sit in my library in a far away foreign country, I see clearly what my brothers on the ground in Zimbabwe fail to see.An Ashanti idiom th...Published: 11 May 2025 at 16:41hrs | 1660 | by Kenneth Mufuka
A narrative is created around Mrs. Auxilia Mnangagwa!
Auxilia married a murderer Emmerson Mnangagwa, a minister for security back then who went on a killing frenzy in Matabeleland and Midlands and left a ...Published: 11 May 2025 at 13:32hrs | 958 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe's 45-year fall
The country is emerging from the celebrations of the statehood of the Republic of Zimbabwe on 18 April 2025, just under five years to celebrate half a...Published: 10 May 2025 at 14:21hrs | 392 | by Vivian V. Siziba
Blessed Mhlanga's Fury Exposes Zimbabwe's Broken Justice
The fenced gate of Harare Central Remand Prison swung open on Wednesday night, releasing Alpha Media journalist Blessed Mhlanga after 73 days of pre-t...Published: 09 May 2025 at 12:03hrs | 1366 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Why Kingship in Zimbabwe is Constitutional
True to the proverb that a stitch in time saves nine, the controversy surrounding Local Government Minister Daniel Garwe's letter dated 22 April 2025,...Published: 09 May 2025 at 11:32hrs | 512 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
We celebrate the release of the iconic Blessed Mhlanga!
People who believe in the dignity of mankind are happy today: Blessed Mhlanga is out of a notorious prison. Seeing him coming out of prison reminded m...Published: 09 May 2025 at 10:44hrs | 259 | by Nomazulu Thata
Have our churches turned into sanctuaries for the corrupt?
Have our churches become places where criminals go to cleanse their reputations and whitewash their activities?In Zimbabwe, we are witnessing ...Published: 09 May 2025 at 10:38hrs | 262 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Some ailments require traditional methods, others hospital care
There are many illnesses affecting people these days. Some of them can be treated easily with traditional methods, while others require hospital care....Published: 08 May 2025 at 11:17hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
Interest in Geza might be waning
I was quite surprised to hear that Blessed Geza had another video last Wednesday, an indicator that my interest in him and that of many is waning....Published: 07 May 2025 at 21:23hrs | 1682 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Mnangagwa tightening his grip on Zimbabwe's military and state security services
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is reported to be tightening his grip on the military and state security services with immediate key appointments made t...Published: 07 May 2025 at 20:52hrs | 3398 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
ZANU-PF's own conference resolutions tell a story of a party that doesn't care about the people
Talk about upside-down priorities!I recently went through the list of resolutions adopted at the 2024 ZANU-PF Annual People's Conference - and...Published: 07 May 2025 at 19:47hrs | 508 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe opposition needs to rebrand, not as angry protesters
OPPOSITION politics has been reduced to a one-dimensional game of criticising the ruling party.Zimbabwe is no exception.For decades, o...Published: 06 May 2025 at 15:01hrs | 426 | by Yunah Bvumbwe
Mombeshora's propaganda in defence of a failed healthcare system is a shame
The Ministry of Health's recent statement is a masterclass in political gaslighting - a brazen attempt to sugar-coat the rot that defines Zimbabwe's h...Published: 06 May 2025 at 13:53hrs | 1069 | by Wa Malikongwa
Mr. President, Zimbabwe already has a new breed of heroes - but your regime persecutes them
A country's liberation struggle never ends.During the burial of the late Air Vice Marshal (Rtd) Winnie Cabby Mandeya at the National Heroes Ac...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:35hrs | 567 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Boreholes are not the solution to Zimbabwe's water crisis - they may worsen it
There has been a growing disturbing trend.The Zimbabwean government has, in recent years, taken to vigorously drilling boreholes across the co...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:30hrs | 890 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Africa's Underdevelopment: A Criminal Enterprise Enabled by Complicit Leadership
Africa's continued underdevelopment is not a mystery - it is a direct result of kleptocratic leadership, entrenched corruption, and systemic human rig...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:27hrs | 143 | by Wa Malikongwa
We As Zimbabweans Are The Only Ones Who Must Rescue Our Health System
45 years on, the time for silence has passed. Every Zimbabwean, whether at home or in the diaspora, knows the painful truth, our health sector is crum...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:24hrs | 177 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Who Owns the Future When the Youth Are Just Campaign Props?
Every election season in Zimbabwe brings with it a familiar theatre: politicians parading youth like trophies, cladding them in party regalia, praisin...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:21hrs | 169 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Machakaire exposes the detachment of Zimbabwe's ruling elite from ordinary citizens' suffering
The surprises keep coming!It is not often that we hear a sitting Zimbabwean Cabinet minister openly acknowledge the painful reality faced dail...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:18hrs | 573 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Minister Machakaire Just Discovered What the Rest of Us Live With
I saw the post on X just after 9 a.m., while waiting in a queue for my grandmother's antibiotics at a local clinic. The power had gone out, again. The...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:13hrs | 224 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Govt cannot block the exodus of professionals through force
Let's not kid ourselves. You can burn the letters, double the fees, threaten the nurses, and chain the airport gates if you want - but people will sti...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:09hrs | 380 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Excerpts from 1968 and 1978 Sipolilo, Kachuta battles
In 1968 Comrades fought against Rhodesia Front soldiers in Sipolilo District. This was in Kachuta, Bvochora Area specifically Magama Villa...Published: 03 May 2025 at 21:27hrs | 822 | by Givestar Kamuzonde
Mid-Level managers are Destroying Zimbabwe's Health Sector
Zimbabwe's health sector is in critical condition, unfortunately no amount of propaganda or spin can change the facts on the ground. The problem with ...Published: 03 May 2025 at 11:51hrs | 886 | by Hector Madzima
It's high time foreign governments took the lead in investigating Zimbabwe's corrupt elite
The Zimbabwe ruling elite clearly won't act against high-level corruption.There is something profoundly disturbing about the silence of Zimbab...Published: 03 May 2025 at 11:48hrs | 624 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why community engagement and dialogue are key for Zimbabwe's development
Communities are the backbone of any country.I was recently privileged to moderate the Multi-Stakeholders Dialogue on Bridging Community Soluti...Published: 03 May 2025 at 11:45hrs | 151 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe at a Crossroads: A Time for Inclusive Renewal
'The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free' Dr Joshua NkomoZimba...Published: 02 May 2025 at 14:34hrs | 478 | by Fikile Motsamai Malikongwa
ZANU PF succession battles open window of opportunity for Matabeleland breakaway
Zimbabwe Independence Day Celebrations on 18 April 2025 marked 132 years of Matabeleland oppression. Firstly by the British South Africa Company, 1893...Published: 02 May 2025 at 09:33hrs | 1328 | by Israel Dube
Garwe must change colonial mentality
SOMETIME last year in August, the Zimbabwean government issued a strong condemnation and warning against Mike Moyo and Timothy Chiminya for claiming t...Published: 02 May 2025 at 09:00hrs | 983 | by Phakathwayo Gumede
Zimbabwe's rot of corruption began at the top - that's where it must end
No one can deny that Zimbabwe has become synonymous with corruption.This morning, I woke up to deeply disturbing news reports that shook me to...Published: 01 May 2025 at 19:53hrs | 975 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Kings for Harare, But Not for Matabeleland? Garwe's Letter Exposes a Deep Hypocrisy
Minister Daniel Garwe's recent rebuke of Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart over his meeting with King Bulelani Lobengula Khumalo has sparked a storm of out...Published: 01 May 2025 at 19:48hrs | 1117 | by Mfan'ufikile kaMalikongwa
Gugugu Magorira you are faking! Welshman Ncube the worst politician in town!
Citizens must be told that Sengezo Tshabangu is Welshman's brainchild. A lot was cooked behind the curtains. Welshman wants to make a comeback into po...Published: 30 Apr 2025 at 15:06hrs | 630 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa Behind Mnangagwa 2030 Agenda
Facts recently raised by journalist Jealous Mawarire about Nelson Chamisa on his x account are very correct and a tip of the ice berg.Zimbabwe...Published: 30 Apr 2025 at 09:25hrs | 3398 | by Gugugu Magorira
Restoring African Identity
Africa is a vast and diverse place. It has the ability to feed its own people through effective agricultural practices. Its natural resources are crit...Published: 30 Apr 2025 at 09:13hrs | 165 | by Leonard Koni
Minister under fire over 'Ndebele King'
In a striking letter dated 22 April 2025, Zimbabwe's Minister of Local Government and Public Works, Honourable Daniel Garwe, launched an unprecedented...Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 18:28hrs | 1345 | by Mzingaye Khumalo
NTA, best solution for Zimbabwe! Geza group is saying Chunhu Chedu!
Master of Philosophies say the same thing: without the backing of intelligenzia, there can never be remarkable national development. A Geza revolution...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 09:01hrs | 704 | by Nomazulu Thata
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