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This & that with Mal'phosa: When the honeymoon is over
I was in a train the other day, which happened to be stationary for over an hour because of load shedding. Most of the passengers look restless; some were shouting their lungs out; others were mummeri...Published: 13 Dec 2022 at 09:42hrs | 1 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Politicians are fuelling hate crimes
ONLY hate and barbarism could have produced the sort of spectacle the world witnessed a few weeks ago when a baying mob of South Africans moved from house to house in Johannesburg's Diepsloot slum to ...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:37hrs | 1 | by Addy Kudita
Precedent that undermines credibility of Human Rights Council
On April 7, the UN General Assembly decided to suspend Russia's membership in the Human Rights Council. This establishes a destructive precedent not only for the future of the Human Rights Cou...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Alfred de Zayas
Mnangagwa agents hunt for Jonathan Moyo
From fierce clashes in the Zanu-PF politburo meetings after a bitter political fallout over a hotly contested leadership succession during the late former president Robert Mugabe's rule to resorting t...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 19:22hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Dembare face bogeyman
The man who helped Highlanders exorcise a 10-year winless jinx against Dynamos three years ago, Erol Akbay, is back in the capital city this afternoon.Akbay returns to Rufaro as a coach who ha...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
'ZANU PF is bleeding from inside'
Exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo says ZANU PF is bleeding from inside hence it is panicking and warning ,DC leader Nelson Chamisa from engaging in violent demonstrations. "Deja vu. Bogeyman poli...Published: 03 May 2019 at 12:11hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo's statements haunt him
Exiled former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo was forced to explain what he meant when he said, 'Harare is not Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe is not Harare in 2002'.This was after he posted tweets ...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 08:06hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF enemy dependency politics is an erosion of peace and security
Zanu-PF has a rampant and untreated case of enemy dependency syndrome to politics. By far, the greatest threat to Zimbabwe right now comes from within Zanu-PF political obstructionists and the know-no...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 15:20hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa
Mugabe: Factor or bogeyman on July 30?
At a bar somewhere a guy – possibly some political party panjandrum or activist – was shouting knowingly and betting his last dollar that in the few weeks to come we were going to see former presi...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff writer
The advantages Nelson Chamisa has so far
I was just wondering about the upcoming election and pondering on whether there are people still to be won over, so-called floating voters.The electoral dynamics in Zimbabwe are very interesti...Published: 14 May 2018 at 16:26hrs | 1 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
2018 polls could be Zanu-PF's waterloo
In the past few weeks, the chorus has been how good Zanu-PF is at organising and how they have got the rural areas on lockdown.There is a defeatism about it, as activists and some in the media...Published: 03 May 2018 at 07:02hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
ED, I have something to tell you, you will never hold free elections - too tough for a seasoned thug
"I got something to tell you I got something to say I'm gonna put this dream in motion Never let nothing stand in my way When the going gets touch The tough get going!"Billy Ocean, a...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Mnangagwa delivers impassioned 90-minute address to visiting US senators'
I had a chat with an amiable insider who was in the delegations that met with President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week on Saturday.In what has been described as a spirited but calm performance t...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 10:57hrs | 1 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Political deception has its limits
The World Bank yesterday published its 2018 Global Risks Report which confirms that in today's topsy-turvy geopolitical landscape characterised by heightened global uncertainty and strengthening popul...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 16:58hrs | | by Brezhnev Malaba
Mnangagwa's executive decisions prove the continuation of Mugabe regime
If further proof of our long held view that newly-appointed Zimbabwean President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa was merely a continuation of his predecessor Robert Gabriel Mugabe, then his latest executi...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 10:17hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The rise of a liberator . . . and fall of a tyrant
BROUGHT into the nationalist movement reportedly because of his eloquence and clarity of thought, former President Robert Mugabe's legacy as one of the most ruthless tyrants of modern times will remai...Published: 22 Nov 2017 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Who is the bogeyman - Mnangagwa or Mugabe?
It was not his real name but the entire community knew him as Jangwa. If a child misbehaved during those days, elders would threaten that they would call Jangwa "to deal with you". That name would sen...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 10:14hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
South Africa is making a 'historic mistake'
Proponents of the mantra of "radical economic empowerment" have found a new argument to the question whether it would destroy the South African economy as has happened in Venezuela and Zimbabwe: black...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 18:01hrs | 19 | by Max Du Preez
LISTEN: 'Zimbabweans are again unwittingly being sent into a choreographed 2018 electoral dance'
Pundits warn: Zimbabwe has a bleeding economy and only has 6 months if the country does not get any international bailout package. Violet Gonda's guest on the Hot Seat programme is eminent commentator...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 09:48hrs | | by Violet Gonda
Freed from Zim prison - Kiwi journo speaks for the first time
A foreign photojournalist Robin Hammond who got arrested in Zimbabwe for working undercover for four months speaks for the first time after being released from prison....Published: 20 May 2012 at 05:20hrs | | by Robin Hammond
The bogeyman of white supremacy
The documentary "Mugabe and the White African" is quite unbearable to watch, more for its outrageous propaganda content and much less for the vile and depraved image of Robert Mugabe it vainly attempt...Published: 19 May 2012 at 09:09hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
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