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AU accomplice in Zimbabwe corruption
THE sincerity of African leaders and institutions in fighting corruption has come under scrutiny following the appointment of controversial Zimbabwean self-styled prophet Uebert Angel as its Pan-Afric...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 08:24hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Upcoming Zimbabwe, DRC polls a bellwether for Sadc, African democracy
IN the era of democratic decline, signs of hope persist. One example in our region is the Electoral Support Network — Southern Africa (ESN-SA) which comprises domestic civic organisations of the 16 ...Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:23hrs | 5 | by John Stremlau
Mnangagwa says, 'Only friendly nations will observe Zimbabwe polls in future'
ZIMBABWE will not be dictated to on who to invite to observe its elections and, in future, only those countries that invite Harare to observe their own elections will be invited in return, President M...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 06:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries: Behold democracy in motion!
Our party primary electionsFOR two days towards the end of last month, our Party, the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front, Zanu-PF, held its primary elections. Primary elections ar...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 13:22hrs | 9 | by President E.D. Mnangagwa
Canada agonize readmitting Zanu PF into Commonwealth - trade democracy for ED's company, gold for fool's gold
"After allowing a wave of authoritarian regimes to become members in recent years, the Commonwealth and member states such as Canada are now pondering one of their toughest dilemmas: whether to approv...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 19:22hrs | 6 | by Wilbert Mukori
Ndabaningi Sithole: Zimbabwe's forgotten intellectual and leader
NDABANINGI Sithole was one of the founding fathers of the modern state of Zimbabwe in southern Africa. In August 1963, he became the first president of the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu), the ...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Zambia's ruling UPND party leader blasts Jonathan Moyo
Zambia's ruling UPND Publicity and Information Secretary Joseph Kalimbwe has accused Professor Jonathan Moyo of having a hand in the destruction of Zimbabwe during his days at the core leadership of Z...Published: 29 Apr 2022 at 17:01hrs | 11 | by Mandla Ndlovu
What Zimbabwean leaders can learn from FW de Klerk's legacy
WHEN the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe met the last apartheid South African leader Frederik Willem de Klerk, who died of cancer-related complications at 85 this week, in Gaborone, Bot...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:38hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Africa: A complex trajectory and legacy of military coups
FOR their spectacular nature, coups always appear like new phenomena when actually they are an old military and political issue that dates back to the genesis of humanity.It is like that in th...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 8 | by William Jethro Mpofu
South Africans thought they were better Africans than black Africa: Thanks Zuma has set the record straight
"All of us must thank Jacob Zuma for introducing African Republic of South Africa and not some outpost of European values." This comes from a Sowetan column sent to me by a friend. The article is an i...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 16:17hrs | 25 | by Nomazulu Thata
Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics
The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | 7 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
The death of Dr Dumiso Dabengwa - A fiting tribute to an enigma
1. Paying tribute to an enigma I was on a bus on Thursday morning, the 24th May 2019, travelling through Botswana from Kwa Bulawayo, Mthwakazi when news abo...Published: 30 May 2019 at 15:45hrs | 6 | by Dr Mpiyesizwe Churchill Guduza
'The independent mind of an American son'
I have often heard people saying Devine Mafa is doing his father a lot of injustice by criticizing Chamisa. Listening to his father's unfettered support of Chamisa I took it upon myself to find out if...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 15:08hrs | 6 | by Simangalizwe Khumalo
Botswana! The sinking of Africa's democracy basket
It was difficult to remain as silent when Africa's jewel of democracy took seat and comfort upon an imminent time bomb.The growing conflict between the most recent former president, Lt. Genera...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 06:58hrs | 5 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Chamisa splits MDC?
It happened there: how democracy died in MDC. A new kind of authoritarianism is taking root in the opposition and there are warning signs for Zimbabwe and its people.The MDC T or A's border ru...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 07:12hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Is it time for Africa to teach Europe what democracy and passive racism are?
Picture it. The aftermath of a national election, where senior international observer from a leading European country declares of the election process he has just witnessed: "In all the many election ...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by Anonymous
Chamisa in the eyes of the outside world, could he be the face of the renascence of African democracy?
Too much publicity is being given to the western media styles and tastes of who is fit to become a leader and ruler of countries where they have huge historical investments and prospects for more inve...Published: 14 May 2018 at 08:57hrs | 2 | by Andrew M Manyevere
Is democracy un-African?
Libya has experienced nothing but war and brutality since the reign of King Idris I started in 1951. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi deposed the monarch in a bloodless coup in 1969. Under Gaddafi, or 'Brother...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 17:39hrs | 2 | by Tafi Mhaka
South Africa will be better off if the vote to oust Zuma proves to be a damp squib
Relying on one event to change a country usually ends in tears - particularly when you pin so much on it that you endanger your future.The event on which many in the South African mainstream a...Published: 05 Aug 2017 at 09:40hrs | | by Steven Friedman, University of Johannesburg
Principles for a truly African democracy in Zimbabwe
Recently, there was this exchange on Twitter between political analyst Vince Musewe and Zimbabweans United for Democracy (ZUNDE) Musewe: We must s...Published: 01 May 2017 at 11:30hrs | | by Denis Moyo Hunt, Team ZUNDE
Cyril Ramaphosa: A Presidency long overdue
I have noted with some trepidation at the general deterioration of what was once the first and foundational political party in Africa, the African National Congress (ANC).The ANC was found...Published: 20 Aug 2016 at 20:40hrs | 1 | by Ken Tecumseh Sibanda
Open letter to President Jacob Zuma concerning Zimbabwe
Sir:Parliamentary Panel on Zimbabwean Situation NecessaryI write this letter with a heavy heart as I contemplate how best to address you ...Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 13:54hrs | 34 | by Ken Sibanda
Come on, tribal politics in this age?
President Mugabe spoke authoritatively about the issue saying we are all one. The moment people or groups of people try to raise the tribal card they become anathema.Are we not all happy that ...Published: 24 Feb 2016 at 05:26hrs | 1 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Media can't do PR for Zanu-PF
In my more than two decades in academia and as a politician, I have heard again and again the often repeated assertion that the bond of any professional and ethical media practitioner is the maxim, "F...Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 19:46hrs | | by Welshman Ncube
Botswana sliding into a monocracy that is punishing the media
Africa's model democracy is sliding into a monocracy that is punishing the media a ...Published: 18 Jun 2015 at 14:47hrs | 2 | by Joel Konopo
Could xenophobia in SA be qualifying Mugabe's indigenization?
Zimbabwean President Cde. Robert Mugabe and South African President Jacob Zuma during Mugabe's recent state visit to South Africa. Current ruthless massacres going on in South Africa targeting imm...Published: 16 Apr 2015 at 18:35hrs | | by Zisunko Ndlovu
Is democracy Africa's share?
For the people By the people With the people Democracy, Democracy Is democracy Africa's share? Africa, Africa, Africa The cradle of mankind A land of possibil...Published: 31 Mar 2015 at 10:15hrs | | by Wangu-Mine
Outrage over Baleka Mbete's cockroach comment
POLITICAL analysts have condemned South African National Assembly Speaker Ms Baleka Mbete for referring to Economic Freedom Fighters' leader Julius Malema as a cockroach, describing her statements as...Published: 17 Feb 2015 at 08:45hrs | 2 | by Tendai Mugabe
Mugabe wants to quit says Zambia's new president
Zambia's new president, Guy Scott insisted that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe wants to quit.Talking to the Guardian soon after Margaret Thatcher's funeral in 2013, he said of Mugabe: "I ...Published: 31 Oct 2014 at 20:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'South Africans are backward'
One of the most colourful men in African politics happens to be white. Guy Scott is the vice-president of Zambia but his race is probably the least exceptional thing about him.On a recent aft...Published: 02 May 2013 at 09:29hrs | | by David Smith I guardian
The giant erect penis that split the rainbow nation
As I write, South Africa is boiling with anger, divisive anger. Never in the history of mankind has a society debated so heatedly, has a society been divided so sharply over a matter so private, a mat...Published: 02 Jun 2012 at 19:01hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
US First Lady Michelle Obama meets Nelson Mandela
Johannesburg - US First Lady Michelle Obama met former president Nelson Mandela at his home on Tuesday, in a rare visit with the ageing icon whose legacy frames much of her journey here.The m...Published: 21 Jun 2011 at 15:17hrs | | by Sapa
There is no big brother in Sadc
If there are some people who are in for a rude awakening this week, it's the mindless regime change scribes and their handlers whose wishful thinking is that President Jacob Zuma will use the extrao...Published: 08 Jun 2011 at 11:24hrs | | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
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