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What happens to Sam Nujoma's mantle? Who inherits it?
There are speculations in parts of the world, particularly in modern Western nations, individuals of remarkable are cloned. Human cloning refers to creating a genetically identical copy of a person, t...Published: 18 Mar 2025 at 09:15hrs | 627 | by Hosea Shishiveni
Zimbabwe politics: Lineaments of stock characters
What are stock characters?LET me be basic so I am accessible to many of my readers, whatever level of education, and from whichever discipline they hail.In literature we have what are ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 14 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
US Afghanistan spies enter Zimbabwe to fight for asylum in South Africa
THE group of 22 Afghan nationals, who worked closely with United States military and security agencies after the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack on Americ...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: Hoping for tricks of providence
A belch from a priest has greater valueFor a shiny trinket / Give not away your country / The foreigner is a trafficker / To mind him is no bargain / If you were skilled and artful / You'd sta...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 06:49hrs | 4 | by Jamwanda
Moral ambivalence in the midst of darkness
OH, what a sad, heavy and dark week! The COVID-19 pandemic has eventually stamped its indelible wound on our nation. It has been with us since the first quarter of last year, though. But it was hittin...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:30hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
No respite for Zimbabwe under Biden
The United States of America, believed by many to be the sole superpower post-Cold War, has arguably the most staggering defence budget ever known to humanity. Post the cataclysmic attacks of ...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Sapien Sapien
Zimbabwe fears terrorists attack from Al-Qaeda
Zimbabwean Senators have expressed fears that the country could be attacked by affiliates to the AlQaeda terrorist group. Discussing in Senate on Thursday, Senators said Zimbabwe could b...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 18:29hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Let us work for and defend Zimbabwe
We are in the second Republic, the christened new dispensation, and we are in the process of economically re-engaging the Western world, and I do not in anyway wish to undermine the decent efforts of ...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:24hrs | 3 | by Reason Wafawarova
Zimbabwe violent protests 'false flag' operations by ZANU PF to suppress opposition?
One of the most efficient and effective strategies of dictatorships - that has been used since time immemorial - to suppress any form of opposition, has been the employment of 'false flag' operations,...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Taurai J. Pachena
Mnangagwa in Osama bin Laden's WhatsApp Group, says Jonathan Moyo
EXILED former Higher education minister Professor Jonathan Moyo, has scorned President Emmerson Mnangagwa's nomination among the 100 most influential people in the world by Times magazine.Acco...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 12:13hrs | | by staff reporter
Censured Zanu-PF members told to abide by party constitution
ZANU-PF yesterday said respective provinces where officials were recommended for censure for colluding with axed Vice President, Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa, should abide by the party's constitution in hand...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 05:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tough times beckon for Mnangagwa allies
DUE processes will be followed in dealing with more than 100 Zanu-PF officials who have been recommended for suspension or expulsion for allegedly supporting a bid by sacked Vice-President Emmerson Mn...Published: 12 Nov 2017 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland want Mnangagwa fired
Bulawayo and Mashonaland provinces yesterday resolved to ask President Mugabe to immediately drop Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa over allegations of undermining him.The Mash Central provinc...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 05:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UK special forces hunt Osama Bin Laden's son in 'kill or capture' mission
Osama bin Laden's son is being hunted in a "kill or capture" mission by UK special forces.Hamza bin Laden, 28, has followed in his evil dad's footsteps to head terror group al-Qaeda .N...Published: 02 Oct 2017 at 07:27hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
West setting dangerous precedent in Kenya, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, as a committed pan Africanist, I am deeply disturbed by the very sad developments taking place in Kenya in the name of democracy. You don't need to ...Published: 07 Sep 2017 at 13:09hrs | | by CZ
Zanu-PF bosses fight over suspensions
THERE was drama in Bulawayo last week after suspended Zanu-PF provincial women's league chair Eva Bitu and the organ's transport secretary Nokuthula Sibanda stormed out of a disciplinary hearing meeti...Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 10:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF political drama unravels in Bulawayo
Barely two weeks after suspending seven of its top members, Zanu-PF Bulawayo Province has barred the organ's provincial chair Eva Bitu and three others from co-ordinating party activities.Bitu...Published: 28 May 2017 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Let's all protect brand Zanu-PF, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I am unable to fully address you this week, as you are all aware that I am away for yet another important engagement.I should make it very c...Published: 26 Oct 2016 at 21:16hrs | 2 | by CZ
Stay Safe, Stay Away Dr J Mujuru
In my capacity as the General of Zimbabwe Economic Freedom Fighters and on behalf of peace loving Zimbabweans, I want to make a direct appeal to the leader of PF Dr Joyce Mujuru on the issue of her pl...Published: 20 Sep 2016 at 22:15hrs | 1 | by Innocent Ndibali
To Decide is to Govern!
I have made a pledge to you my readers. A pledge I will always endeavour to fulfil for as long as I write. That pledge is to raise difficult questions, break taboos, speak and spill the truth, so this...Published: 27 Aug 2016 at 07:51hrs | 8 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Bin Laden's son vows revenge
NEW YORK - The son of slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has threatened revenge against the United States for assassinating his father, according to an audio message posted online.Hamza...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by agencies
Zimbabwe: Let us say Grace
At the expensive risk of being a hyperbolist, I argue that Zimbabwe is presently a political disaster that is impatiently waiting to happen. Anything can go wrong. Robert Mugabe, the old man, ha...Published: 10 Oct 2015 at 21:48hrs | 4 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Former Afghan president calls al-Qaeda a 'myth' and denies 9/11 attacks were plotted in Afghanistan
On the 9/11 anniversary, former Afghan president Hamid Karzai challenges the consensus view on al-Qaeda, Afghanistan and the so-called ‘war on terror'Says al-Qaeda is a "myth": ...Published: 11 Sep 2015 at 11:22hrs | | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
Bin Laden relatives killed in UK
London - Members of Osama Bin Laden's family were among the victims in the crash of a private jet in Britain, the Saudi embassy in London said Saturday in a message of condolences.Four people ...Published: 01 Aug 2015 at 15:39hrs | | by Agencies
Obama lied over Osama bin Laden's death
A top journalist has claimed that Barack Obama lied over Osama bin Laden's death to make himself look better.Pulitzer prize-winning Seymour Hersh said that the facts surrounding the Taliban l...Published: 11 May 2015 at 19:05hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Off to another summit, Cdes
CABINET FILES AND CZ's NOTEBOOKDear Cabinet andPolitburo membersCOMRADES, as you are all aware, I am away for the Asia-Africa Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, so I won't be able to ad...Published: 23 Apr 2015 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by CZ
Former ISI head Lt. Gen. Asad Durrani says Pakistan probably harboured Osama Bin Laden
Lt. General Asad Durrani (retd), the former head of Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency, has told Al Jazeera's Head to Head that Pakistan most likely sheltered Osama Bin Laden in the years leading up t...Published: 12 Feb 2015 at 10:38hrs | 15 | by Al Jazeera
Zimbabwe: Memory, Knowledge and the difficult Future
Sometime in a lonely day in 1749, a small scale thinker with a taste for music and a reputation for familial irresponsibility was walking on a foot path in a village a few miles from Paris in France. ...Published: 19 Jan 2015 at 14:30hrs | 2 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
USA created Al-Qaeda and the ISIS terror group
MUCH like Al Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS) is made-in-the-USA, an instrument of terror designed to divide and conquer the oil-rich Middle East and to counter Iran's growing influence in the region. ...Published: 23 Sep 2014 at 08:01hrs | 9 | by Garikai Chengu
Islamic State opens new anti-US front with beheading video
Baghdad - Islamic State's beheading of a US journalist and its threat to "destroy the American cross" suggests it has gained enough confidence seizing large areas of Iraq and Syria to take aim at Amer...Published: 20 Aug 2014 at 18:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Even Mandela was Pro-Palestine
He who controls the media can commit war crimes and get away with it.Israel for one. On Sunday 20th of July they refused a 3 hour humanitarian ceasefire requested by the International Red Cros...Published: 20 Jul 2014 at 21:28hrs | 4 | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere
Sources of Islamist group, Boko Haram, funds revealed
Just over a year ago, armed men on motorcycles entered a national park in Cameroon, near the Nigerian border, and swiftly abducted a family of vacationing French tourists - a husband and wife and thei...Published: 20 May 2014 at 07:35hrs | 15 | by Kathleen Caulderwood, International Business Times
Zim man claims to have assisted the FBI to kill Bin Laden
MBABANE - A Zimbabwean national who claims to have played a role in the capture of executed al- Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been arrested by Swaziland police.Elliot Bakasa, 50, of Harare...Published: 16 Jan 2014 at 19:15hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Al-Qaeda Africa wing dreams global jihad but acts local
Washington - Armed extremist groups in North and West Africa may have pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda's vision of global jihad, but they act independently of its core command and have yet to make good ...Published: 16 Dec 2013 at 09:38hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
Tekere absent in Planet Gliese, but Gukurahundi victims there!
After Gukurahundi, I see no sin in any country working on ousting President Mugabe. God knows the groaning of a healthy man bound in wire and set on fire by Gukurahundi in front of his children in 198...Published: 05 Dec 2013 at 03:29hrs | 4 | by Rakanga Danble
Is Obama truly pro-black?
The day Barack Obama stood on that podium in 2009 accepting the 44th Presidential nomination of the United States of America, how many Africans within the international community that day would h...Published: 27 Sep 2013 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Tsungai Chipato
Osama bin Laden raid guided from space
Navy SEALS who cornered and killed Osama bin Laden in his Pakistan compound were guided from SPACE by a fleet of satellites, according to top secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden.The file...Published: 31 Aug 2013 at 08:29hrs | 1 | by Staff Report
Osama bin Laden was pulled over for speeding and let go
Osama bin Laden could have been captured a few months after 9/11 - if a dozy cop had recognised him.The world's most wanted man was pulled over for speeding by a traffic policeman.But...Published: 09 Jul 2013 at 10:51hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Baba Jukwa, the Mzekezeke of Zimbabwean politics
Baba Jukwa is the Mzekezeke or the Robin Hood of Zimbabwean politics. Just like Mzekezeke, Baba Jukwa has taken Zimbabweans by storm. From 22 March 2013 when a self-proclaimed Zanu-PF insider who cal...Published: 03 Jul 2013 at 03:03hrs | 4 | by Jukwa Asijiki
U.S. President, Obama, seeks to end 'war on terror'
Washington - Twelve years after the "war on terror" began, President Barack Obama wants to pull the United States back from some of the most controversial aspects of its global fight against Islam...Published: 25 May 2013 at 04:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tsvangirai - meeting fate's malignancy
Once upon a time there lived a thoughtful Roman called Boethius. Known for his discourse on Fate's role in the Universe, this Roman scholar is credited with developing the idea of "fortune's wheel", a...Published: 27 Apr 2013 at 06:15hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Get ready for June 29, Cdes
CABINET FILES AND NOTEBOOK WITH CZDear Cabinet andPolitburo membersCOMRADES, I am happy that after recent court rulings, it has become clear...Published: 11 Apr 2013 at 11:45hrs | 1 | by CZ
Soldier who shot, killed Osama bin Laden breaks his silence
The special forces soldier who shot and killed Osama bin Laden has broken his silence to tell of the moment he watched the al-Qaeda leader take his last breath.The Navy SEAL, whose identity re...Published: 11 Feb 2013 at 19:49hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
House of Commons condemns the shooting of Air Rhodesia Viscount by Zipra forces
ZIMBABWEANS have expressed outrage at the move by the British Parliament to move a motion condemning the shooting of Air Rhodesia Viscount RH827 by Zipra forces during the liberation struggle which th...Published: 11 Feb 2013 at 05:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
US group attacks Obama for taking credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden
A group of former U.S. intelligence and Special Forces operatives is set to launch a media campaign, including TV ads, that scolds President Barack Obama for taking credit for the killing of Osa...Published: 15 Aug 2012 at 03:59hrs | 1 | by Reuters
Christians seek US help in Nigeria
WASHINGTON, USA (AFP) - The leader of Nigeria's Christians called yesterday on the US to declare the Islamist group Boko Haram to be terrorists, but a US official said it was more important to address...Published: 11 Jul 2012 at 10:43hrs | | by AFP
Woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery
A Sudanese woman aged around 20, Intisar Sharif Abdalla, has been sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery, rights groups and lawyers have said.The Ali Jazeera reports that the woman is b...Published: 01 Jun 2012 at 16:03hrs | | by
Underwear Plane Bomb Plot Foiled By US
An al Qaeda plot to blow up a US-bound aircraft using an underwear bomb has been foiled, the SkyNews reported yesterday.The plan, around the first anniversary of Osama bin Laden's killing by ...Published: 08 May 2012 at 01:34hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Right hammers Obama for playing politics with anniversary of bin Laden's death
As the US President Barack Obama embraces the killing of Osama bin Laden as a campaign theme, the right is hammering him for playing politics with the approaching one-year anniversary of the terrorist...Published: 29 Apr 2012 at 00:48hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Osama bin Laden had ordered his followers to attack Obama's aircraft: Reports
Washington - Before his death, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had ordered his followers in Afghanistan and Pakistan to attack the aircraft of President Barack Obama, the Washington Post reported on F...Published: 17 Mar 2012 at 04:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
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