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Mnangagwa miserably failed to utilise the coup d'état dividend
Robert Mugabe on Herbert Chitepo (and a Rejoinder on the Missed Opportunity of the 2017 Coup)Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 16:49hrs | 23 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
ANC engaged in 'delicate' talks with Zanu-PF after disputed poll
South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), is engaged in "delicate" talks with Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe following disputed elections, secretary general Fikile Mbalula has said....Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 22:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Controversial Nevers Mumba excluded from SADC Panel of Elders meetings
THE Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Secretariat in Botswana has dispatched its Panel of Elders (PoE) on a fact-finding mission into disputed 2023 harmonised elections results in Zimbabwe....Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fadzai Mahere's five minutes of shame
The speech of shame by Fadzai Mahere has exposed CCC's treacherous tendencies. Mahere made very serious allegations against her own country. Issues raised by Mahere were unfounded, untrue and overly c...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:06hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa's politics of salving troubled consciences
Politics and poetryWilliam Butler Yeats, I think it was he who said out of our arguments with others we make politics, but out of arguments with ourselves we make poetry!We can forgive...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:10hrs | 4 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
ANC cannot continue treating Zanu-PF with kid gloves
SOUTH Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) should once again confront its sister revolutionary party Zanu-PF over the escalating immigration crisis across the Limpopo, with analysts sayi...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 20:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ndebele artists compelled to perform in their 'oppressor's' language?
In his analysis of ethnicity and tribalism in Zimbabwe, Eleph Gula-Ndebele explains that the ethnic cleansing of Ndebele people during the Gukurahundi genocide is a sore that refuses to go away for ma...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 07:21hrs | 10 | by Gibson Ncube & Gugulethu Siziba
China: Zimbabwe 'all weather friend'
Antipathy between Zimbabwe and the West led to the Mugabe government to look east. As he said " We have turned east where the sun rises, and given our back to the west where the sun sets" In the midst...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 16:24hrs | 6 | by Rumbidzai Zimunya
Africa in global cold war: A return to consciousness struggle
THE British daily, the Guardian recently published a story on how Russia has new plans to exert its influence across the African content. All in return for the usual imperial desires such as natural r...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha
Biti, this world will humble you!
Even after having gone through the intellectual rigours of philosophy and theology at seminary, Bishop Lazi still doesn't fancy the nature versus nurture debate.But there is a particularly ine...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:48hrs | 2 | by Bishop Lazi
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
Southern Africa's problem of political elite impunity
Former South African deputy foreign affairs minister Aziz Pahad's support for the Maduro regime in Venezuela throws into sharp relief the acceptance by political elites in Southern Africa of die-hard ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Tendai Biti and Mills
Zimbabwe: Troubled nation now faces tough foreign policy choices
The toxic presidency of Mugabe may be over, but the new Zimbabwean government of Emmerson Mnangagwa must quickly make some hard foreign p...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 17:18hrs | | by Stephen Chan, Professor of World Politics, University of London
Mnangagwa preparing for a Coalition of Patriots
I spent past several months resisting to write a commentary about the going on in Zimbabwe. As a political junkie, I read Zimbabwe news daily. What I did differently this time was to read all news (al...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Parly should stop playing to the gallery on Mugabe appearance
The merry-go-round between former President Robert Mugabe and the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy continues to go on, but a time has come for it to come to an end, as it is unhel...Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's permanent friend
THERE may be good reason for the new president's praise for Zimbabwe's former leader.It is not usual for a person who has seized power through a military coup to heap praise upon his deposed p...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 15:57hrs | | by Derek Matyszak
Zimbabwe's shady police roadblocks reflect its failing governance
First published by ISS TodayIn Harare, it is sometimes said, nothing is what it appears to be. This is certainly the case with the city's omnipresent police roadblocks, which give the impressi...Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 17:00hrs | | by Derek Matyszak for ISS Today
Mugabe wanted a Civil War in Zimbabwe
THE so-called Entumbane disturbances of November 1980 and February 1981, during which President Robert Mugabe's then guerrilla army, Zanla, fought that of his nationalist rival Joshua Nkomo's Zipra, a...Published: 14 Aug 2017 at 15:18hrs | 3 | by Stuart Doran
Mutsvangwa now pressing for regime change
War veterans executives ousted from Zanu-PF are now pressing for regime change under the façade of succession politics in revenge for their expulsion, analysts have said. They said antipathy was now ...Published: 12 Aug 2017 at 12:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi Origins: Myth and reality, part 1 - 'war' in Bulawayo, 1980-1
The so-called Entumbane disturbances of November 1980 and February 1981, during which Robert Mugabe's guerrilla army fought that of his nationalist rival, Joshua Nkomo, are typically cited as among th...Published: 02 Aug 2017 at 08:00hrs | | by Stuart Doran
Independent presidential candidates are a joke
There will be elections in Rwanda in August this year. President Kagame is being challenged by 35-year-old Diane Shima Rwigira. She is clearly an underdog. The likelihood is that she will have a big m...Published: 20 Jun 2017 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana
Tendai Biti seeking power through back door
IN recent times, there has been a push by vanquished opposition groups for what some have termed the National Transitional Authority (NTA) to run the affairs of Zimbabwe. The strangest thing is that t...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana
'Trump will not be president because it's a serious job,' says Obama
Republican Donald Trump will not be president because it's a "serious job", President Barack Obama has said."I continue to believe that Mr Trump will not be president. And the reason is becaus...Published: 17 Feb 2016 at 07:29hrs | | by BBC
Tsvangirai, Mujuru plot coalition
Former Vice-President Joice Mujuru and MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai are ready to coalesce, as the political temperature in the country soars ahead of the 2018 elections, NewsDay reported."We...Published: 10 Sep 2015 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Zimbabwe slides into famine
Zimbabwe's schizophrenia is in vivid evidence on Friday afternoons in the capital Harare's leafy northern suburbs.At the Tin Cup restaurant round the back of the Chisipite Shopping Centre, whi...Published: 17 Jul 2015 at 18:54hrs | | by Newsweek
Robert Mugabe defies gravity again
Against all odds, President Mugabe yesterday bagged the African Union chairmanship. He did not waste time, immediately striking the tenor as to the nature of his year-long leadership of the continent...Published: 31 Jan 2015 at 09:52hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Equality:- A Never-Ending War between Men And Women
The politically-correct aim for 'equality' between 'men' and 'women' is not achievable.It is absolutely impossible.It will never be found.It will never be discovered.It will ne...Published: 25 Jun 2014 at 06:44hrs | | by Kufakunesu Mawira
Albertan Canadians launch Development Forum of Zimbabwe
With an ever increasing awareness being given to Zimbabwean issues; by people within the Diaspora, a group of motivated Zimbabweans within Edmonton Canada have begun to organize forums in which to enc...Published: 12 Feb 2014 at 09:49hrs | 1 | by Tsungai Chipato
Asylum seekers threaten to sink Australian govt
Australian Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare crouches uncomfortably in a suit on the canvas of a youth boxing ring in Sydney's hardscrabble Western Suburbs, shaping up for the election fight of his li...Published: 29 Aug 2013 at 04:56hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's speech to 66th UN General Assembly: Full text
You can watch and listen to the speech >>>>> HERE...Published: 26 Sep 2011 at 12:19hrs | | by Robert Mugabe
Mugabe attacks NATO's role in Libya
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe addressed the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York Thursday attacking NATO countries for their "blatant, illegal, brutal, callous and murder...Published: 23 Sep 2011 at 05:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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