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Mafume promises to rebuild decrepit Rufaro to international standards
HARARE Mayor Jacob Mafume has declared that council will rehabilitate Rufaro Stadium to world class standards on its own, declaring the local authority has the financial capacity to implement the ambi...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'SADC must rally to cushion Zimbabwe against sanctions' argued Lumumba - Zanu PF apologist masquerading as intellectual
"I was disappointed myself when sanctions are levied against Zimbabwe, it is the people who suffer. Those in position of political power never suffer when there are sanctions," argued Professor P L O ...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 08:54hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa: When the Goliath Complex Afflicts
My early days in primary school were dominated by the story of Goliath, the giant of Philistine.Goliath's name was onomatopoeic; this sonorous name heavily suggested physical hugeness afflicte...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:38hrs | 3 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Zimbabwe democratic transformation requires strong middle class
IT has become apparent that Zimbabwe's ruling party, Zanu PF, is perpetually endangering democratic processes by not only weakening, but also decimating the opposition movement ahead of 2023 general e...Published: 19 May 2021 at 06:42hrs | 4 | by Anotida Chikumbu/ David Chikwaza
Foreign capital will never build Zimbabwe
LOVE it or hate it, the success of the Command Agriculture programme should force local banks to revise the long-held view of tying loans to collateral.If they identify bona fide indigenous pe...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 22:36hrs | 1 | by Terence Mukupe
The Grand plan, gukurahundi, the Unity Accord 1987 - A program of invasion
This is a follow up of my Press Release released on 3rd July 2019. The focus today is Gukurahundi; its origins, meaning, and its role in the unprecedented influx of the Shona community in every part o...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:14hrs | 51 | by King Mzilikazi II
'Inflation will be 10% by December' boasted Ncube - end corruption and pariah state curse
When the then Minister of Finance, Bernard Chidzero, introduced the 1990-1995 Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) he assured the people adjustment was routine and necessary in gearing the ...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 09:38hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
In memory of Zimbabwe's Independence
On 18th April 1980, Zimbabweans celebrated their Independence both from Britain and from the Ian settler state. The celebration was rather muted because it was the little headmaster, Robert Mugabe, wh...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 11:46hrs | | by Ngqabutho Mabhena
Piece-meal austerity without reforms a wild goose chase
AUSTERITY measures introduced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) will have a devastating effect on the economy and is at variance with Zanu-PF's elec...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 07:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF proposes to give away platinum to foreign Capitalists
In 1991, the Zimbabwean economy took its first major dive with the adoption of the IMF/World bank neo-liberal "Economic Structural Adjustment Programme" (ESAP). In Zimbabwe, this process was headed by...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 10:06hrs | 2 | by ZCP
Minister Ncube's 2% tax caused 16% economic decline - austerity for pain's sake, no gain
"Finance minister Professor Mthuli Ncube introduced the 2% per every dollar transaction tax in October last year as part of his "austerity for posterity" measures in a development which saw him receiv...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 09:45hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Recent stay-away will NOT deliver the Zimbabwe we want - 'no planning and due diligence'!
"Demonstrations are planned and must be planned, how do you demonstrate without prior due diligence!" argued Nomazulu Thata in her recent article in Bulawayo24.Many, many things went wrong in ...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 21:59hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Austerity does not bring prosperity - ED, stop destroying our lives, please!
Ever since the current economic crisis bedeviling Zimbabwe started, sometime around October, the Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa regime has been at pains trying to reassure the nation that they were on to...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 14:33hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe has potential to become economic giant
When I listened to the remarks to the Press by Finance and Economic Development Minister Dr Mthuli Ncube after he was sworn in last September, I shared the same sentiments and fully supported him, lik...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:19hrs | 3 | by Noah Manyika
We have been patient for 38 years - sorry ED, Zimbabweans don't have anymore patience to give!
I am always seized with amazement everytime anyone in the ruling ZANU PF party, especially its leader Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, pleads with Zimbabweans to be patient, as the government fixes the ec...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 12:45hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe Communist Party solidarity speech to ARTUZ conference
Long live the spirit of Joshua Nkomo!Long live the spirit of Josiah Tongogara!Long live the spirit of Lookout Masuku!Long live the spirit of Benjamin Burombo!Comrades,l...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 12:24hrs | | by Ngqabutho Mabhena
Mnangagwa speaks on national budget
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday expressed mixed reactions to the 2019 National Budget statement with a majority saying it represented a bold, painful but very necessary step to return the country to prosperity....Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nkosana Moyo dismisses Mthuli tax reforms
Former Industry and Trade minister Nkosana Moyo has dismissed Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's tax reforms, noting that they do not address the real stem of the economic crisis, which is government's o...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 14:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nkosana Moyo offers free advice to Mnangagwa and Mthuli Ncube
Statement on Fiscal and Monetary StatementsThe population is trying to understand what happened on 1st. October. Should they be happy, unhappy or indifferent?As APA and in my own capac...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 11:58hrs | 1 | by Nkosana Moyo
Mthuli Ncube just the same as Chidzero
Zimbabwe Communist Party secretary genral Ngqabutho Mabhena has said Zimbabwe's Minister of Finance Prof Mthuli Ncube, is no different from the late Minister of Finance Dr Bernard ChidzeroHe s...Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 09:09hrs | 4 | by STep[hen Jakes
Zimbabwe economy in safe hands
THE appointment of a leaner Cabinet by President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not only welcome, but also goes a long way in demonstrating that the President listened to the people, mindful of the need to man...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Daniel Ngwira
Economic war cabinet
After the noise and deliberate anti-development scheme by the opposition President Mnangagwa has appointed a new well balanced and surprising Cabinet. The nation is very anxious for change and the anx...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Daunting task awaits Mnangagwa's new Cabinet
WITH Zimbabwe in serious economic woes, announcement of the new Cabinet was obviously a keenly awaited event. Tongues had for some time been wagging, posturing on a number of possibilities, ranging fr...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:43hrs | 4 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Mukupe enjoys good relationship with Chinamasa
Under-fire deputy Finance minister Terrence Mukupe has claimed he enjoys a good working relationship with his boss Patrick Chinamasa.This comes amid reports of fierce run-ins between the two a...Published: 27 May 2018 at 16:29hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
When I met Mugabe behind a wall of fear
On each occasion that I happened to come across him a sense of fear consumed me. One day, in 1989, he visited our school. He looked so presidential and awfully detached behind his bodyguards. Then I s...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 09:52hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
Mnangagwa's timeline
Emmerson Mnangagwa was born on September 15, 1942. He did his early primary education in Zvishavane in the Midlands Province, before his family relocated to Zambia in 1955, where he attended Mumbwa Bo...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 05:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Is the 'catch' slipping through Mnangagwa's jaws?
"Mugabe unveils heir," screamed one local newspaper on its front page the morning after President Robert Mugabe named the then Justice minister, Emmerson Mnangagwa as one of his two deputies in Decemb...Published: 04 Sep 2017 at 14:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
When Mugabe or Mnangagwa go: Are Zimbabweans fixing their eyes on wrong goal posts?
Genesis 21:19 "And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water, and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink."History has shown that when dictators die order is ...Published: 21 Aug 2017 at 21:22hrs | 3 | by Andrew Manyevere
Like the mighty Warriors: what's Zimbabwe's game plan?
It is the 117th minute of an African Cup of Nations final at the Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The match is tied 3-3. The Warriors are battling hard and creating chance after chance - wa...Published: 10 Aug 2017 at 11:32hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Nkosana Moyo must take the gloves off
Last week, former Industry and International Trade minister, Nkosana Moyo, announced that he will be running for the presidency in next year's harmonised elections.He is arguably among the fin...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 14:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
What Britain did (and didn't) on Gukurahundi
CONTRARY to allegations that Western governments "did nothing" when Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's army went on the rampage in the early 1980s, they may have helped prevent total slaughter. But ...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 17:30hrs | 2 | by Stuart Doran Historian & Author
Is Patrick Chinamasa Ready for Ministerial Harakiri?
This year has been pretty hectic for my learned friend and former Cabinet colleague Zimbabwe Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa. Patrick is a consummate politician, who in spite of the negative pu...Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 10:31hrs | 2 | by Welshman Ncub
UN security counsel resolution on Zimbabwe necessary
" The gunfire around us, makes its difficult to hear. But the human voice is different, - among the sounds. It can be heard over voices that bury everything else! Eve...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 17:09hrs | 2 | by Ken Sibanda
Chinamasa,Kombo Moyana clash over bond notes
FINANCE minister Patrick Chinamasa continues to take brick-bats from Zimbabweans across the political divide with respected former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Kombo Moyana the latest high-profil...Published: 14 May 2016 at 14:20hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'People of Zimbabwe celebrated Independence day with heads bowed'
"If yesterday I fought as an enemy, today you have become a friend and ally with the same national interest, loyalty, rights and duties as myself," bemeamed eloquently the charismatic Prime Minister M...Published: 05 May 2016 at 17:14hrs | | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira, a Political Scientist
Sad story of sell-outs in Zanu
BORN in Damba (now Mhangura) in 1940, John Makwasha whose Chimurenga name was Bayayi Mabhunu joined politics during the early 1960s during the days of the National Democratic Party after listening to ...Published: 27 Mar 2016 at 10:23hrs | 9 | by Chronicles from the Second Chimurenga
State of the Nation Statement by Dr Dumiso Dabengwa
ZAPU Conference, Bulawayo Amphitheater, 17 December 2015 Invited guestsLeaders from our structuresParty membersLadies and Gentlemen...Published: 22 Dec 2015 at 07:32hrs | 15 | by Dr Dumiso Dabengwa
MDC-T expel Senator Hlalo, a Chamisa supporter, build up for yet another earthquake change!
MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu on Friday confirmed the party's national council resolved to expel MDC-T Senator Mattson Hlalo. The Senator is believed to be a Nelson Chamisa supporter. MDC-T has never ...Published: 01 Nov 2015 at 17:42hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
When opposition loses sense
MDC-Renewal leader, Tendai Biti, has unashamedly thrown in the towel on politics by secretly slipping out of the country to the United States of America for an unspecified period of time.T...Published: 09 Apr 2015 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Onward Chiswa
Mutasa's court challenge of Mugabe's election rigging is a fight to end the myth Mugabe is infallible!
Zanu-PF is rolling out the party's propaganda machinery to stop Didymus Mutasa going ahead with the Court Challenge of the party's last year rigged elections. When Margaret Dongo mounted a similar an...Published: 29 Jan 2015 at 20:25hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Corporal punishment a backward and ancient tool for poverty.
I decry the backwardness of our blind Nation so full of Graduates whose job is to sell airtime. These frightened and intelligent graduates cant exploit our natural resources to create wealth. They are...Published: 20 Jan 2015 at 04:36hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri
Position Of Senior Minister
Vice President Dr. Joshua Nkomo; Dr. Bernard Chidzero; Comrade Morris Nyagumbo; and Vice President Dr. Joseph Msika, were all senior Ministers of Home Affairs, Finance, Political Affairs a...Published: 08 Oct 2014 at 05:23hrs | | by John Songo
Death warrants: Is Mnangagwa playing God
News that Zanu-PF Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa said he will not sign any death warrants because he was once sentenced to death appears to suggest he is now playing God. Of the 97 pe...Published: 26 Aug 2014 at 07:49hrs | | by Dr Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
'Zanu-PF chefs are feasting alone'
While President Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF chefs would be waxing lyrical about the liberation struggle and those who fought it during next week's Heroes Day and Defence Forces Day holidays, inevitably ...Published: 08 Aug 2014 at 12:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in economic, political crisis - Biti
THIS is the first part of a series of MDC-T secretary general Tendai Biti's address to a SAPES Trust Policy Dialogue on March 6, 2014 in which he gives his take on th...Published: 17 Mar 2014 at 09:41hrs | | by Tendai Biti
How Zimbabwe creates an inferior workforce
The first step to create a Great Nation of Geniuses is to re-configure National Culture. If our educated leaders had researched about the constraints of culture at Independence in 1980, we would ...Published: 05 Mar 2014 at 20:03hrs | 2 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Tsvangirai's generation has failed us
Four years ago, at the advent of the inclusive government, I once had an animated conversation with a lawyer and a businessman. Both were avid MDC- T supporters. They were both old school opposition a...Published: 14 Jan 2014 at 06:30hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
When the dollarisation cure poisons
THE past three instalments have seen this column deal with sample thoughts on Zimbabwe, our country. Of course the underlying issue is a Lenin-like question: What is to be done. As you notice, I avoid...Published: 24 Nov 2013 at 12:46hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Enos Nkala: A controversial nationalist giant
ENOS Mzombi (actually Muzomubi in Ndebele) Nkala will be remembered most as one of the founders of the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu), as a break-away from the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (...Published: 30 Aug 2013 at 13:11hrs | 18 | by Ibbo Mandaza
The day Charamba fell pregnant
Putting your ideas in the public domain always has its pains. You are called names, given jabbing identities, misread...you name it. And you have to bear it all, meekly as behoves a humble columnist. ...Published: 27 Feb 2013 at 04:27hrs | 10 | by Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side
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