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Zanu-PF has propensity to fail
I AM thoroughly enjoying tutoring my son, in preparation for his Ordinary Level examinations - although, the task can be demanding, at times - nevertheless, the experience is quite fulfilling and a ne...Published: 2 hrs ago | 44 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
As long as Zimbabweans are such unmitigated cowards - Chamisa will grow old, and go into the grave without ever tasting power!
I have written extensively on how our appalling cowardice as Zimbabweans is the greatest single most outstanding factor holding us back as a nation - preventing us from pushing for the change we despe...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 21:39hrs | 1160 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Africanise the law and land
In Mzansi, most citizens can only own real estate when they are dead - their graves and tombstones if they can afford one. From the living majority, they become the silent majority.Throughout ...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 19:29hrs | 378 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
Longing for a bygone era will not fix Zimbabwe's economy
Social media can be a tool for comedic relief, venting frustration and a means of trolling at the same time. My favourite Social Network is Twitter due to its remarkable interface and ability to conne...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 16:03hrs | 461 | by Dr Farai Nyika. Economics Academic at Management College of Southern Africa (MANCOSA).
Time to offer title deeds for Rural Dwellers
According to the world bank ,"Secure property rights and efficient land registration institutions are a cornerstone of any modern economy". This gives confidence to the national individuals and busine...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 11:58hrs | 1027 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
What's to celebrate; that independence replaced white oppressors with black ones?
On 18 April 2022 Zimbabweans should have been celebrating the country's 42 years of independence. For the overwhelming majority, there was really no cause to celebrate, and many did not bother. The pe...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 22:37hrs | 440 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Colleen Bawn segregation: Spacious and crammed villages
VICTORIAN style houses surrounded by beautiful greenery on cosmic pieces of land characterised Village 1, a gated community for the white minority living in Colleen Bawn, Matabeleland South before the...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:31hrs | 426 | by Yoliswa Dube-Moyo
CCC's winning the March by-elections: a trap for 2023 general elections
The by-elections that were handsomely achieved in favour of CCC must bamboozle young kids in the political play to think the elections were free and fair....Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 06:17hrs | 5042 | by Nomazulu Thata
Did war veterans fight for a political party or the people of Zimbabwe?
The 1960s and 70s liberation struggle against colonial and White supremacist rule - where the majority Black population was largely subjugated and stripped of their dignity and humanity, by a minority...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 13:11hrs | 1666 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Black children subjected to racism in UK
Racism hurts children, in real and fundamental ways. It hurts not just their health, but their chances for a good, successful life.It destroys their confidence and it is mostly applied by teac...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:40hrs | 184 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
South Africa and foreign labour
THE unemployment rate in South Africa hit a new record high of nearly 35% in the third quarter of 2021 which some allege had an influence on the African National Congress (ANC) dismal performance in l...Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | 872 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Apartheid leader De Klerk to be burnt
The funeral of South Africa's last white president, Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk, who died last Thursday aged 85, will take place on November 21 in a private ceremony, his foundation said in a statem...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:39hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's education system is outdated
Former Education minister Fay Chung says Zimbabwe's education system was designed to last for at least 20 years, but now has been in use for over 40 years, rendering it outdated.Chung (FC), wh...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:11hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
London government of BoJo says no opposition party in Zimbabwe
It is with great shock and despair to hear about President Mnangagwa's trip to meet BoJo in London the coming days or weeks! Indeed, there are no permanent friends in politics but only permanent inter...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 08:53hrs | 10 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zambians: Who do you think you are?
Dear Zambians, What has gone wrong with you dear Zambians, curiously our neighbours north of us? Are you slipping over to those countries north of the Mediterranean and elsewhere who practice ...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 15:44hrs | 112 | by Nomazulu Thata
Open letter to Jean Gasho!
Dear Jean, Its already August 2021; incredible how time has flown!My recent conversation with you was uplifting it is one of those rare telephone calls one gets out of the blue we comm...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 23:44hrs | 52 | by Nomazulu Thata
Insurrection! Sounds like copy and paste United State America's 6th of January 2021 - a global circus!!
This is how low ANC has sunk to equate the last weeks violent events in South Africa as an insurrection. Again to term hungry population as criminals is a sign of a government that has lost authority ...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 22:02hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Jacob Zuma's jail case was a golden opportunity: a catalyst to real issues
Criminals have taken a golden opportunity to hide behind another criminal who disdained the nation's constitution he once presided. Chinua Achebe writes about corruption in Nigeria's early independenc...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 18:40hrs | 8 | by Nomazulu Thata
There was more democracy amongst white Rhodesians than we have between black Zimbabweans
Yesterday, I penned possibly the most painful and heartrending article, entitled, "Our elderly experienced life under both Rhodesia and Zimbabwe, so why arrest them when they say Smith was better?" - ...Published: 18 May 2021 at 10:26hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Birthday greetings, Zimbabwe
Like yesterday, I remember the day that the late former Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith declared independence from Britain.I was driving down what was North Avenue in Salisbury (now Harare)...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross
EFF Zimbabwe leader donates R25,000 towards burial of his comrade
OPPOSITION Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Zimbabwe leader, Innocent Ndibali weekend rallied party followers to lift each other financially or otherwise as he took time to shower praises on late party...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
President Magufuli: Letter to Prof. Lumumba of Kenya Cc. Energy Mutodi; Bcc African Presidents
Dear Professor Lumumba, Comrade Energy Mutodi is having his last laugh: he was spot on. He told us the bare truth about the President of Tanzania; the way he is handling the global pandemic wa...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 07:19hrs | 8 | by Nomazulu Thata
Quicker route to wealth for black Africans
AFRICANS are currently receiving education that orients them towards employment rather than real wealth creation.Most value chains for our daily consumables as black people in Africa are contr...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Dumisani Nduku
Mugabe's business empire, The death of a dynasty
BARELY five years after the demise of Zimbabwe's former ruler Robert Mugabe, the vast wealth he owned and accumulated throughout the 37 years of his reign is disappearing.A great dynasty appea...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:39hrs | 40 | by Africa Report
Tracking the genealogies of societal violence and its manifestations in Zimbabwe
Investigating the Liberation war and post war timelines 1960 – 1987Zimbabwe is a country marred by a myriad form of violence. The entry point in this article is to establish the genealogies ...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 18:02hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Nkomo 1983 Prophetic Letter to Mugabe
DR. JOSHUA M. NKOMO2 Stevenage RoadEast Ham E6 2WLLondon United Kingdom7th June 1983 Dear Robert,1. I write to you as a citizen of Zimbabwe and one of the leade...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 13:58hrs | 55 | by Dr Joshua M Nkomo
MDC circus continues as 2023 beckons
So sad to note that the President of the world's superpower is down with coronavirus after having tested positive last week. There is something intrinsic about Africans. We are generally a kin...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa warns former colonisers
Zanu-PF acting secretary for Information and Publicity Patrick Chinamasa yesterday said land reform was something that the revolutionary party guarded jealously. Speaking at the ruling party's...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dumps Mugabe's indigenisation law
Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said Thursday that an equity law blamed for scaring off foreign investors would be abolished as the country seeks to woo fresh capital to shore up its moribund...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | 2227 | by King Mzilikazi II
Zimbabwe's white farmers: Who will pay compensation?
In Zimbabwe, thousands of white farmers were forced from their farms, sometimes violently, between 2000 and 2001 under a government programme of land reform. The seizures were blamed for destroying Zi...Published: 16 May 2019 at 20:25hrs | | by BBC
Whites score big against blacks - land compensation
Land is and was at the centre of all political developments for the indigenous black Zimbabwean population's pre and post independence movements. The liberation war against white minority rule's black...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 15:37hrs | | by Terence Simbi
Rhodesian chemical-biological war crimes
As Zimbabwe celebrates its 39th year of Independence, as Africans we have either chosen to ignore or have been brainwashed to forget the terrible things white Rhodesians did to our own freedom fighter...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 08:51hrs | 1338 | by Sifelani Tsiko
Zimbabwe the way forward
Good Evening my fellow Zimbabweans, I would firstly like to offer my condolences to the bereaved families and offer some words of encouragement to the victims of cyclone Idai that affected the...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:24hrs | | by Terence Simbi
Mugabeist G4Os and their aging geriatric could not even read the signs
In November 2018, His Excellency, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, boldly declared the open and unrelenting warfare against the evil of endemic corruption."In the Second Republic, we wil...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 10:04hrs | | by Christopher Mutsvangwa
Rule of law cannot be matter of opinion
We live in this modern world that the United States purports to lead with God-ordained civility; yet in it the rule of law has been reduced to a matter of opinion, as has become the concept of democra...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 22:31hrs | 200 | by Reason Wafawarova
Post-Election violence commission submission
I am an independent member of the Zimbabwean society, meaning that I make rational decision and conclusions on political matters. Officially I am trained in the accounting profession henceforth in my ...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 13:17hrs | 1205 | by Terence Simbi
Zidera 2018 amendments Act, What does this mean for Zimbabwe?
TWO years ago, I completed my undergraduate studies and thus attained a Bachelor's Degree in Applied Accounting. The process towards attaining this qualification involved completing a research report ...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Terence Simbi
Zimbabwe war veterans support SA on land
WAR veterans in Zimbabwe have come out in support of South Africa's decision to expropriate land without compensation from the minority whites and redistribute it among the majority black population....Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff Reporter
In Attorney Jessie Majome and Hilma Shindondola-Mote, Meme Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela Mandela lives on!
It is barely three months when we celebrated the life of of our heroine Ma Winnie Mandela in style: we never cried our eyes out mourning Winnie Mandela; instead, we had the opportunity to reflect on h...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 13:53hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Rhodesia can teach Zimbabwe a lot about democracy
If ever there is one thing that will forever be engraved in this country's history, it is that: Rhodesia took great care of its Whites, whereas, Zimbabwe treated its people as rubbish - only to be use...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 09:41hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Joshua Nkomo letter to Robert Mugabe from exile in the UK
JOSHUA M. NKOMO2 Stevenage RoadEast Ham E6 2WLLondon E6 2WLUnited Kingdom7th June, 1983INFORMATIVE LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER MUGABEDear Robert,1. I write...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 11:00hrs | 15756 | by Joshua M. Nkomo
MDC-T tells its supporters to apply for land at government offices
Zimbabwe land reform must be rationalised One of the founding principles of the MDC clearly and unequivocally advocates for holistic and sustainable land redistribution in order to guarantee f...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 08:57hrs | | by Obert Gutu
As secessionist wave sweeps through the world - the case for Mthwakazi
As the secessionist wave sweeps through the world - especially in Spain's Catalonia, Iraq's Kurdistan, the United Kingdom's Scotland, Nigeria's Biafra, the English-speaking people of Cameroon, and man...Published: 12 Oct 2017 at 07:39hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The Chinhoyi Battle: Did Zanu send its guerrillas on a suicide mission
During the early years of Zimbabwe's struggle for independence, Zanu's military high command based in Zambia infiltrated its first group of Chinese trained guerrillas into Rhodesia with orders to carr...Published: 27 Jul 2017 at 12:17hrs | 2290 | by Thabo Kunene
South Africa is most fragile state that's not in a civil war
Johannesburg - South Africa's ranking on the Fragile States Index (FSI) has worsened significantly over the 10 years to 2017, largely due to increasing economic pressure, according to the 2017 FSI....Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 11:34hrs | 1033 | by Staff reporter
'We've destroyed indigenisation'
THE recent developments at Barclays Bank Zimbabwe have confirmed our greatest fear that indigenisation and economic empowerment would not survive in its original form, given that government ministers ...Published: 08 Jun 2017 at 13:52hrs | | by Davison Gomo
Mugabe pursued his objectives with ruthless violence
The ruthless violence with which Mugabe pursued his objectives after Zimbabwe's independence in 1980 has prompted biographers, analysts and critics to search for indications of this propensity in earl...Published: 25 May 2017 at 11:54hrs | | by Dr Stuart Doran I Daily Maverick
'Upgrade Mpilo, Harare hospitals'
Harare and Mpilo central hospitals require a major facelift to match the burden of care and modern hospital designs, Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa has said.Dr Parirenyat...Published: 14 May 2017 at 14:53hrs | | 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 | 1784 | by Stuart Doran Historian & Author
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