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'CCC struggles with Parly recognition'
Professor Welshman Ncube, acting leader of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), says the party's leadership does not have full control over its relationship with Parliament, the State, and quasi-i...Published: 24 Jun 2024 at 14:31hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Opposition Politics in Zimbabwe, 1999 - 2024: An Obituary
Advocate Nelson Chamisa's capitulation last week at the behest of the fifth column led by Sengezo Tshabangu was the final nail in opposition politics in Zimbabwe. Armed with state institutions and exp...Published: 03 Feb 2024 at 09:09hrs | 5 | by Innocent Mpoki
The difference between Mugabe and Mnangagwa
Based on pure analysis it can be argued that the difference between the late and former president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe and the incumbent and successor Emmerson Mnangagwa can be cited in the fact ...Published: 05 Aug 2023 at 22:22hrs | 10 | by Martin Stobart
Chinamasa, please also explain why ZANU PF imposed sanctions on my one-year-old son!
I cannot stand it when the powerful and wealthy whine over clearly banal ‘injustices' inflicted upon their high and mighty little angels - yet, these same people have, themselves, perpetrated the mo...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 16:22hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mthuli Ncube raises VAT, restores duty on basics
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube unveiled his 2023 budget on Thursday, raising value added tax (VAT) in a move the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) described as "an attack on working p...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Paul Kagame: Cruel Betrayal of Matebeleland
In the first week of September 2022, Emmerson Munangagwa visited the Rwanda Genocide Memorial while he was attending a continental African Green Revolution Forum Conference in that country. Many peopl...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 08:56hrs | | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka's Phala Phala farm robbery investigator managed by Ramaphosa' people
One of the Public Protector investigators probing the Phala Phala farm robbery is allegedly being managed by two people on behalf of President Cyril Ramaphosa.The investigator, whose name is k...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 17:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mai TT, A full blown ZANU PF sideshow political project
Despite intense infighting that characterizes Zanu PF, the fact remains that ZANU PF is determined to win the next election at any cost. For them, there is just too much at stake and they cannot affor...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:27hrs | | by Knowledge Hakata
Your 'new dispensation' claims are banal
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, authority of the Office of the President is being undermined by the incumbent.Oftentimes your speeches are unwholesome and not in tan...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Cyprian M Ndawana
By-elections: The morning after
ZANU-PF's Wednesday St Mary's rally was a turning point in several ways. Of course, the most obvious marker were the numbers that attended, something even the blind could see and feel.I cannot...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:14hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
Mnangagwa slowly morphing into a Mugabe
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, it was typical of Zanu-PF banality that its 19th National Annual People's Conference, held in Bindura last week, rubber-stamped your candidac...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 7 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
March against sanctions a banal, scapegoating exercise
THIS lot do not get it, do they?Or maybe they are deliberately obtuse?When I first read that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was due to address an anti-sanctions march, I thought it was o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Nqaba Matshazi
How to think in Dark Times
"DO nothing but think" is a philosophical proverb that is much mistakenly attributed to the Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Zizek. Slavoj Zizek only stole and made famous the pithy statement. The genera...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:48hrs | | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
The future of Slot Machines
Despite restrictions, laws and other problems, slot machines survived and became very popular. The story of this entertainment began in the basement where Mr.Fey created the first prototype of machine...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 11:18hrs | 23 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe is one giant crime scene!
Presently, a newspaper headline reports a ticketing scam by over a hundred Zupco conductors which prejudiced the company of thousands of dollars; fast-tracking the demise of a public transport project...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 22:29hrs | | by Washington Nyasha Gwarada
Airlifted leather sofas trigger PR disaster as Mnangagwa meets Idai victims
President Emmerson Mnangagwa made his way to Manicaland this week to take in the damage from Cyclone Idai and meet with officials responding to the disaster, but the trip was sullied by featherbedding...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangangwa's burden of reform
Many who wish the President of Zimbabwe well - and these are the majority that voted for him in elections a short seven months ago - want ED Mnangagwa to succeed and carry out reforms that usher in th...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:36hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Lonely country - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
A new Zimbabwean investment drive has been taking place in the UK with a delegation led by Priscah Mupfumira, Minister of Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry. She offered a few hollow banali...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 06:55hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mnangagwa, Mutsvangwa rift widens
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is now distancing himself from his top ally Christopher Mutsvangwa amid warnings by the war veterans' leader that he won't be silenced after he spoke out against alleged s...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 09:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Beware the long queues doth come
Our rations of overnight snacks packed, our cold-water bottles stashed away, perchance some juice or can of Miranda, warm clothing and a blanket each, here Bible, there a novel in hand and DJ Mjoks on...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 09:52hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
An inherited crisis of imagination: A Long Essay concerning the understanding of Zimbabwe - Pt1
If it is a despot you would dethrone, see first his throne erected within you is destroyed lest what you call freedom is the strongest of chains. The Gibranian perception sums the November 201...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 19:02hrs | 2 | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
Incredible claims in party manifestos
Several opposition parties and President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling Zanu-PF have launched their manifestos, all projecting themselves as committed to providing a messianic solution to the vast majo...Published: 27 May 2018 at 16:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutambara trashes Zanu-PF manifesto
Despite the critique we have offered in the past, Zanu-PF in its recently launched manifesto, insist on claiming that its vision is for Zimbabwe to be a middle-income country (MIC) by 2030.Thi...Published: 14 May 2018 at 07:50hrs | | by Arthur Mutambara
Looking forward to my Gukurahundi exoneration, Cdes
MY former Cdes. I hope I find you well. I also hope you saw that Davos interview in which the Junta's poster boy was quizzed about his role in the Gukurahundi genocidal massacres and how his face went...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 10:38hrs | 1 | by CZ
Mugabe must focus on writing memoirs
There are reports concerning a development in our polity where our former leader Robert Mugabe is said to be attempting to play the joker. He is not so subtly trying to use whatever clout he believes ...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 05:38hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Mnangagwa: The bloody end of crocodile politics
Concealed to many of us is that the real misfortunes of a true crocodile pursue Emmerson Mnangagwa and the politics that he represents. The crocodile tears over corruption and crime in Zimbabwe that h...Published: 19 Dec 2017 at 15:16hrs | 4 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
MDC-T must resolve its land dilemma
LET us open the Spectrum with something pretty banal: the challenges of Africa's economic backwardness cannot and will not be resolved on the white man's terms. Closer to home, we have determined that...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 06:44hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Zimbabwe in the Theopolitics of the Future
At one level Zimbabwe has finally hit its true Dickensian political and historical moment. That moment is "the spring of hope" and at the same time "the winter of despair." Zimbabweans have everything...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 18:26hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
ZANU PF sideshows - a mere distraction
Despite intense infighting that characterises the party, the fact remains that ZANU PF is determined to win the next election at any cost. For them, there is just too much at stake and they cannot aff...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 12:56hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Zanu-PF infighting sideshows - a mere distraction
Despite intense infighting that characterises the party, the fact remains that Zanu-PF is determined to win the next election at any cost. For them, there is just too much at stake and they cannot aff...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 12:24hrs | | by Moses Chambok
Music platform 'OyOsMusic' officially launched in Zimbabwe
Innovative, captivating, awe-inspiring and revolutionary. These are all words that can be used to describe the unveiling of Zimbabwe's first ever online music store - OyOsMusic. The event occurred in ...Published: 26 Jul 2017 at 13:05hrs | | by Agencies
The uneasy 'plain folk' and Raila Odinga's student
Zimbabwe is hurtling towards elections and it's getting exciting, as usual.Think of what man and woman are doing: self-positioning, deal-cutting, love-making and falling out well before consum...Published: 15 Jul 2017 at 10:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
Cde Patrick Zhuwao is out of order
Recent utterances by Zanu-PF Politburo member and Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Minister Patrick Zhuwao, that "Zanu-PF (is) full of idiots" (The Standard, May 14, 2017); and his lates...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 08:30hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Man, the silliest animal
A soldier looks at buildings ravaged by war in SyriaIT is perhaps true that human beings in their true state of nature began as citizens of a small world in a huge planet; through intelligence...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 17:27hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Will the war veterans deliver?
A political commentator Vince Musewe has questioned if the war veterans has a capacity to deliver the nation from the dictatorship[p they have been supporting until they themselves were chucked out of...Published: 26 Mar 2017 at 07:52hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mawarire left Zimbabwe under hard-to-understand circumstances
One basic rule in politics is never to concede ground, still less to allow shrinkage of the space you hold or dominate.You live true to this motto both by being careful not to tread on doubtfu...Published: 25 Sep 2016 at 09:34hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
MDC-T condemns the 'Million men' march that never was
The so-called million men march that was staged by the faction-ridden and crumbling Zanu PF regime on Wednesday, May 25, 2016 was a spectacular flop. A few thousand people, most of whom had been comma...Published: 26 May 2016 at 09:12hrs | | by Obert Chaurura Gutu, MDC-T National Spokesperson
Zanu-PF's million march, a spectacular flop - claims MDC-T
The so-called million men march that was staged by the faction-ridden and crumbling Zanu-PF regime on Wednesday, May 25, 2016 was a spectacular flop. A few thousand people, most of whom had been comma...Published: 25 May 2016 at 20:51hrs | | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
Prophets of doom and limited vocabulary
Yesterday, one newspaper led with the headline, "Panic as Zim economy dies".We were not surprised as such by the headline and the cynicism that is the hallmark of this opposition newspaper....Published: 07 May 2016 at 20:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Politics of Crowds
The generous ones put it at 10 000. The modest ones put it at 2 000. The niggard ones put it at 800. And all claimed to be reading from the same crowd which the MDC-T is alleged to have mustered in th...Published: 16 Apr 2016 at 11:26hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Egocentrism: The curse of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean academic, Professor Masiphula Sithole (now late) once wrote that if you sent two Zimbabweans to the moon and told them to form a political party along the way, they would have formed three ...Published: 03 Jan 2016 at 14:02hrs | 1 | by Mxolisi Ncube
Supper that smells too doggy
Zimbabwe: Assassins without gunsOctober 31, 2015 Shingirai Huni Features, Opinion & Analysis, Headlines, Nathaniel ManheruJoram NyathiNathaniel ManheruI will part w...Published: 31 Oct 2015 at 10:53hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Nelson Chamisa's dreadful mistake, 6000 workers fired
CAN someone tell me, just who is threatened by the First Lady hitting 50 years of age? Or by her celebrating that age? Or by the fact of taking advantage of that occurrence to fund-raise for charity? ...Published: 25 Jul 2015 at 10:25hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
I had to skip one key summit at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I thought there was no harm if I blessed myself with a break this week, coming as I am doing from a back-breaking schedule that has seen me go...Published: 16 Jul 2015 at 17:21hrs | | by CZ
The curse of patronage and tyranny
When a man's power is derived from the pathos of the weak and fearful, there is no greatness in that. When men ascend to the highest offices because contenders are afraid and purged if necessa...Published: 07 May 2015 at 08:25hrs | | by Vince Musewe
What is ZANU People First, Cdes?
CABINET FILES AND CZ's NOTEBOOKDear Cabinet andPolitburo membersCOMRADES we should congratulate ourselves that we are almost there… completing cleaning the soul of our great revo...Published: 10 Apr 2015 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by CZ
Dr Moyo's points are irrelevant and border on mischief
Dr Qhubani Moyo, a policy and political analyst from Bulawayo East constituency in one of his many articles in the public media last Sunday attempts to dismiss the efforts of civil society organisatio...Published: 08 Feb 2015 at 09:34hrs | | by Godwin Phiri
The story of a madman
It is common street wisdom that it is only a mad man who does the same thing over and over again and expect different results.THE reader may be tempted to jump to the conclusion that the madma...Published: 10 Sep 2014 at 17:09hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Lack of opposition spurs Zanu-PF infighting
THE Zanu-PF infighting has reached boiling point with analysts saying if it continues unchecked, it might degenerate into physical confrontation or worse.Fist fights have already been witnesse...Published: 24 Aug 2014 at 11:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
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