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'African dictators face resistance'
AFRICA is witnessing increasing resistance to autocratic regimes, Zimbabwe included, where opposition and human rights activists are taking to the streets at the risk of being arrested or shot, the Hu...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:24hrs | 1144 | by Staff reporter
5 pieces of evidence that show why Mnangagwa's trip to the UK was a complete disaster
Over a week after the beginning of the COP26 Climate change summit, all Zimbabweans will have come to the conclusion that Mnangagwa's trip to Scotland did not achieve what he wanted it to do. In fact,...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 19:40hrs | 16 | by Dudzai Mukondorongwe
Joe Biden's simple message to Africa: Save yourself
I went to university during the days of United States president J F Kennedy, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and the American dreamer, the Reverend Martin Luther King.The last 20 years have been dogged ...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:44hrs | 18 | by Ken Mufuka
Mnangagwa will fall with a thud
As I prepared to leave Sydney and its congestion and retreat to a quieter place this past Sunday morning, my curiously inquisitive eye caught a disturbing news report in one of the weekend newspapers ...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 07:36hrs | 51 | by Mutsa Murenje in Alice Springs, Australia
Mnangagwa! Hands off Comrade Sydney Malunga's farm, Revenge of Zapu in graves is barbaric
We have been saying for a long time now that that the evil in Mnangagwa is unimaginable by common sense. We can speculate what Mnangagwa and Robert Mugabe were smoking while he lived. Hon. Kate Hoey, ...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 15:35hrs | 373 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa warns Mnangagwa against 'stoking political fires'
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa yesterday warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa against "stoking political fires" through arbitrary arrests of his opponents and silencing of divergent voices....Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
USA democracy under the spotlight
The year has started on a bad note with the COVID-19 pandemic taking lives, causing sickness, destroying livelihoods and depriving people of freedoms. It is like starting a new a day under a thick dar...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:58hrs | 14 | by Tapiwa Gomo
When God uncovers mortal men
The true length of a frog is known on the day it dies. Such has been wisdom since time immemorial. Juxtaposing that with the recent deaths of Genius 'Ginimbi' Kadunungure and Lazarus '...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 12:51hrs | 1 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Sikhala secretly transported out of Harare by police
A GROUP of MDC supporters yesterday brought business near Harare Central Police Station to a halt as they protested against the arrest of their leaders, including vice-chairman Job Sikhala.Sik...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Israel Dube warns Mnangagwa govt on one and threatens the people of Mathebeleland on the other hand! Is that not fascism!
A Republic of Matabeleland or Bloodshed: my reply We have spoken on several occasions about the marginalisation of Mathebeleland and that we demand the reburial of mass-shallow graves in this ...Published: 12 May 2019 at 08:32hrs | 6787 | by Nomazulu Thata
African leaders responsible for xenophobia in South Africa
We condemn xenophobia currently underway in South Africa in the strongest terms it deserves, it cannot be justifiable. We have been watching some of the gruesome murders, maiming, and attempted murder...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 13:30hrs | 4642 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Gwisai roasts 'capitalist' Masiyiwa for faking national interest
ZIMBABWEANS must not be fooled by Econet founder Strive Masiyiwa when he talks about national interest as he was only concerned about profits, International Socialist Organisation (ISO) leader and fir...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 06:21hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Sadc, EU positions on Zimbabwe: Attempting an end of history
Last week, there were two very important statements issued on Zimbabwe by two very important inter-State political bodies. The first of these statements and closer to home was issued by the Southern A...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 07:22hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Please Robert Mugabe Stop it! Lest we forget
I call upon the African Union, European Union whichever intergovernmental body to stop tolerating this 94 year old man who is crying every day that her wife is being tormented for attaining a fake PhD...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 12:05hrs | 4353 | by Knowledge Hakata
Zanu pf a natural disaster to Zimbabwe
Zanu-PF's rule in Zimbabwe can only be compared to a natural disaster, destructive to anything in its path. Still they, in their myopic minds, think they are the answer so people have to retain them i...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 22:45hrs | 1308 | by Albert T Kadada
If Adolf Hitler had turned up at Davos 2018
If Adolf Hitler or Joseph Goebbels or Hermann Goering had turned up at Davos!Davos has come and gone. The list of those who appeared on this World Economic Forum included "heads of state (Dona...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 09:56hrs | 2704 | by Thembani Dube
Idle life can be such a yawning bore, Cdes
MY former Comrades, this being my first January - and also first ever year - in which I have nothing to do with myself in my whole life; I have to admit that I am finding life to be rather a yawning b...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 14:33hrs | 655 | by CZ
Barrack Obama and the blame game: it is a dark and twisted Zanu-PF fantasy
Ahead of an emotional and historic visit to Ghana in 2009, Barrack Obama criticised the theatrical blame game African leaders employ all the time to disclaim their failings and debunked the extensivel...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 16:36hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
How #Mugabe turned into the anti-Mandela
No two men in recent years have dominated the liberation of Southern Africa more than Nelson Mandela and Robert Mugabe. But their legacies are strikingly different: Mandela is remembered as a beacon o...Published: 18 Nov 2017 at 05:44hrs | | by Tony Burman
Ian Khama's chopper banned from British airspace
Politicians love helicopters, quick-moving aircraft that don't need a runway and can get you between meetings while others are stuck in traffic.But in Britain and Norway, a ban on a model used...Published: 26 Jun 2017 at 14:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Deny asylum to fleeing African dictators
If democracy in Africa, South Africa, as an example, is to succeed, then leaders should be denied political asylum after ruining their countries as a matter of international criminal justice. African ...Published: 28 May 2017 at 20:19hrs | 873 | by Ken Sibanda
When it comes to African dictators the African Union is a toothless bulldog
Julius Malema the opposition leader of South Africa has made mistakes as a growing politician on the continent but his call on Mr. Robert Mugabe to retire immediately ought to be seen in the light of ...Published: 28 May 2017 at 13:11hrs | 2044 | by Andrew M Manyevere
'Mugabe is the Vice Chancellor of African dictators'
Africa has been captured by vicious dictators who hindered progress, violated rights of citizens, some maimed and killed fellow countrymen of which President Mugabe is the Pope of this bunch, People's...Published: 26 May 2017 at 10:16hrs | | by PDP Communications
Zapu Youth Front's Africa Day message
25th May is the heroic day in African continent and to all the Africans as they celebrate being AfricansAfrica is made up of diverse, languages, cultures, norms, traditions and customs.African...Published: 25 May 2017 at 15:08hrs | | by Zapu Youth Front Africa Day Message 25th May is the heroic day in African continent and to all the Africans as they celebrate be
Mugabe, Museveni and Others: Dictators and Enemies of Africa, not Pan Africanists
Do not be fooled by empty speeches against America and her friends on the United Nations stage, ruthless African dictators are not Pan-Africanists.People are quick to forget the crimes of dict...Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 04:46hrs | 423 | by Staff Reporter
Dictators panic as Donald Trump wins US election
HARARE - Donald Trump's stunning victory in the American presidential election, despite losing the popular vote, has sent shock waves around the world, with African leaders cautiously welcoming his un...Published: 10 Nov 2016 at 14:40hrs | 3207 | by Staff Reporter
It is the people, by being naive, who are keeping dictators in power
In his article on "How dictators stay in power" see The Zimbabwean newspaper, UZ Student Zivai Mhetu attributed the dictators' staying-power to how they create fictitious enemies to divert attention a...Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 18:50hrs | 1002 | by Wilbert Mukori
Levels of mis-information reach alarming levels in Zimbabwe
Private media in Zimbabwe is alleging that uniformed soldiers on Friday night emptied Harare's night clubs and ruthlessly attacked people on the streets after police triggered violent protests in the ...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 14:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF confuse democracy with dictatorship- MRP
Mthwakazi Republic party has accused the ruling Zanu PF for confusing democracy to dictatorship and injustice.In a statement the MRP Youth Secretary General Kandaba Cornelius Luphahla said as ...Published: 03 Jun 2016 at 06:50hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
When Insanity becomes the norm
The unanimous endorsement of the 91 year old Robert Mugabe as the Zanu-PF's candidate in the 2018 elections can only deepen the economic malaise faced by the country. Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe with an...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 12:07hrs | | by Vusumuzi Moyo
We, the 'Useful Idiots'
Please Note: The term "useful idiots" applies to those individuals, including politicians, who are being derisively used by the Chinese for a cause they are reluctant to fully comprehend. Perh...Published: 22 Dec 2015 at 18:39hrs | 2716 | by Field Ruwe
Khama attacks African dictators
BOTSWANA President Ian Khama, the new chair of the South African Development Community has said the region needs to be a beacon for democracy for Africa, and blasted leaders who cling to power....Published: 22 Aug 2015 at 10:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
The rise and fall of Morgan Tsvangirai
FROM a trailblazing labour leader who transformed into a fiery democracy activist who came within a whisker of deposing one of Africa's strongmen, to the sorry sight of his furniture strewn outside hi...Published: 09 Aug 2015 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obama advocates for democracy
It would be an oversimplification for a rather complex issue to use Barack Obama's speech to label President Robert Mugabe a dictator and accuse him of seeking to be a life President. This is a cl...Published: 30 Jul 2015 at 13:54hrs | | by Stewart Murewa
AU - ICC stand-off: Justice and Peace Paradigms
A Speech by Dr Gorden Moyo made at the Bulawayo Agenda Dialogue Series-23 June 2015The current stand-off between the African Union (AU) and the Interna...Published: 23 Jun 2015 at 20:47hrs | 5893 | by Dr Gorden Moyo
Absolute vanity besets the politics in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has become a land of apologists who do not mean what they say except aiming at swindling the masses again through a seemingly change of heart language. Unless Africa is inventing a new term a...Published: 10 Jun 2015 at 07:03hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Biti speak on challenges facing Zimbabwe - Video
Zimbabwe's former finance minister Tendai Biti says he has no faith in the new look Zanu PF team, including newly-minted vice presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekhezela Phoko, and their capacity...Published: 18 Dec 2014 at 12:49hrs | 3163 | by Blessing Zulu
'Tsvangirai is like Idi Amin allegations,' MDC-T will not comment
Newly-elected MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu says his party will not comment on the likening of its leader to deposed former African dictators Idi Amin and Mobutu Sese Seko because they are busy with p...Published: 15 Nov 2014 at 17:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai spoils Mugabe's big bash
PRESIDENT-elect Robert Mugabe is planning a big inauguration to make a grand exit as his seventh term is likely to be his last which he wants to use to restore his battered legacy following decades o...Published: 16 Aug 2013 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Leaked papers reveal Mugabe plan to rig polls
DAMNING top-secret intelligence documents that expose President Robert Mugabe's plans to rig the forthcoming election and crush his political rivals have been handed to The Mail on Sunday.Th...Published: 21 Jul 2013 at 18:39hrs | | by Dailymail.co.uk
Mugabe, the hot favourite
It's election season in Zimbabwe, and no one seems ready except Comrade Bob - who, despite his advanced years, is always ready for everything, at least in politics. S...Published: 09 Jul 2013 at 08:02hrs | | by SIMON ALLISON
Will Morgan Tsvangirai be Africa's next fallen hero?
The 'heroic' leaders who follow notorious African dictators to power frequently fall from grace themselves. If Morgan Tsvangirai replaces Robert Mugabe as president of Zimbabwe, will he be next? ...Published: 14 Mar 2013 at 08:47hrs | | by John Campbell I Africa Monitor
Xtreme Opinion - Tsvangirai's 2013 Electoral Albatross
Iconic film-maker Animal Planet offers valuable lessons on African dictators. Even the largest of all predators, the lion, has its own pound-for-pound adversary â€â€â‰...Published: 20 Apr 2012 at 14:41hrs | | by Rejoice Ngwenya
Welshman Ncube 'is the most trigger-happy president': Mwonzora
MDC-T spokesperson Douglas Mwonzora has dismissed claims that Mugabe and Tsvangirai were conniving to block Ncube's ascendency by supporting Mutambara. Mwonzora claims that Ncube 'is the most trigg...Published: 25 Dec 2011 at 13:46hrs | | by Ndou Paul
The Dawn of Zimbabwe's Independence
In a cynical way, 2011 resembles the eve of Zimbabwe's political independence, 1979. Three harsh African dictators fell in 1979: Idi Amin Dada, Macas Nguema Negue Ndong and Emperor Bokasa I....Published: 14 Jun 2011 at 09:25hrs | 673 | by Mpumelelo Ndlovu
Coalition government a model for African dictators like Mugabe: Odinga
The Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has told an audience in Washington US on Wednesday that the Kenyan coalition government appears to have become a model for African dictators desperate to hold on...Published: 14 Apr 2011 at 17:34hrs | | by Mafu Sthabile
Africa must urgently stop Mugabe
THE imperialists who enslaved Africans and colonised their countries had one excuse for their evil project: that Africans were not exactly human beings but savages. The Africans were described a...Published: 06 Apr 2011 at 04:21hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
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