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Teachers forced to attend 4ED gigs
Teachers across Zimbabwe have raised alarm over being allegedly forced to attend Teachers for Economic Development (Teachers4ED) workshops, with claims that participation comes at a compulsory US$35 f...Published: 26 Aug 2025 at 07:50hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt pushes for mandatory brainwashing for MPs, councillors
Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi has thrown his weight behind a proposal to require all elected councillors and legislators to attend ZANU PF's Herbert Chitepo Scho...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 20:25hrs | 380 | by Staff reporter
'Tribalism dividing Zimbabwe'
ZAPU leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo has lamented rising tribalism among Zimbabweans who are increasingly identifying themselves as either Shonas or Ndebeles.Nkomo blamed the ruling Zanu-PF party fo...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 06:01hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
'Africa a victim of Western brainwashing'
Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science, and Technology Development Minister Professor Amon Murwira has highlighted the need for Africa to break free from the psychological conditioning imp...Published: 22 Sep 2023 at 06:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The Tyranny Continues
I find myself once again standing on the aftermath of another election. It is a time after we were supposed to freely exercise our democratic right to choose our leaders, a fleeting moment when our vo...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 14:23hrs | | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Does propaganda work in a nation of enlightened citizens?
Of late, there has been a lot of noise, most notably from the ruling ZANU PF camp, to the effect that opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa threatened to displace those who benefited under Zimbabwe's l...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 20:53hrs | 15 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why the Zimbabwean Government is broken: The inherent flaws of democracy
Welcome to the land of opportunity, or rather, Zimbabwe. This country, located in southern Africa, is blessed with a diverse range of natural resources, cultural traditions, and historical heritage. H...Published: 15 May 2023 at 11:13hrs | 5 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Why does ZANU PF become so bitterly angry with those desiring Zimbabwe to succeed?
It is always perplexing!Why would I be offended by those who want me to do better - pushing me to attain phenomenal heights reached by other legendary writers - and, in so doing, identifying w...Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 07:44hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What makes anyone believe blacks can't 'brainwash' whites?
It is always so extremely disturbing watching how much self-decrepitation and self-hate there is amongst us as black people - a sickening trait more prominent here in our own Zimbabwe.Why do w...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 16:55hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans aren't fools and refuse to be hoodwinked with 'sanctions on country' yarn!
Today, 25 October, was put aside as a so-called 'Anti Sanctions Day' - in which, the ever suffering people of Zimbabwe, and even citizens across the regio...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 19:05hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa sends Mohadi to funeral of Japan's Abe
Shamed former vice president Kembo Mohadi represented Zimbabwe at Tuesday's funeral of ex-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, ZimLive has learnt.Mohadi, who resigned in March 2020 after being ...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 19:57hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
The political agency of xenophobia, violence in SA
SOUTH Africa is home to millions of immigrants, mainly from Lesotho, Nigeria, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The regional giant has played an immense role for more than a century in attracting labour for it...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:50hrs | 1 | by Tatenda Mazarura
Thandiwe Newton: When little knowledge is dangerous
This week, social media got a dose of some revolting diatribes from one Thandiwe Newton, a bygone era British actress whose desperation for relevance is forcing her to utter the most outrageous things...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Ranga Mataire
Grown up Zimbabweans are 'more Zanu PF than Zanu PF parents' - more brain-dead than Zanu PF buffoons, it's true
"An untold but deep seated sociological truth about Zimbabwe today is that many grown up kids with ZanuPF parents are more ZanuPF than their parents. Therefore, Zimbabwe does not only need new leaders...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 13:38hrs | 13 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Sex-treatment 'prophet' has rape conviction and 22-year sentence quashed
A self-styled prophet jailed for 22 years in July 2017 for raping two women is a free man after the High Court quashed his conviction and sentence.Grace Ministries founder Onbert Mapfumo, now ...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 19:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it!' Magaisa will baffle you with bullshit
"'Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.'" argued Nicholas Clairmont in Big Think."The quote is most likely due to writer and philosopher George Santayana, and in its original...Published: 12 Aug 2021 at 06:51hrs | 3 | by Wilbert Mukori
Journalism has always been cornerstone of activism, and Zim regime's attempts to curtail this is a sign of cowardice and fascism
The Zimbabwe regime has never been shy in exposing its true colours as far as its disdain and repulsion with anything synonymous, symbolic, or symptomatic of democracy and free expression, in its fort...Published: 11 May 2021 at 22:48hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Biti vows 'a floodgate to protect constitution' - excuse for participating in yet another flawed election
There are many reasons why Zimbabwe is in this serious economic and political mess and many of them dovetail to the nation's inability and/or disrespect for truth, facts and reality; especially the co...Published: 09 May 2021 at 07:59hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
West's Zimbabwean political project crumbling
There is an interesting quotation from the Old Man in Charles Mungoshi's "Waiting for the Rain" (1975). It is a quotation that epitomises his lament about the alienation that has afflicted Lucifer, hi...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Bulawayo firm commercialises umsuzwane herb
A BULAWAYO company, Green Afrique Technologies, has ventured into processing green tea using umsuzwane/zumbani to promote local herbal remedies for various respiratory ailments.Umsuzwane recen...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Ndebele King : A Constitutional Right
The President of Zimbabwe ED Mnangagwa declared over the past weekend in Gweru that the Ndebele nation shall not be allowed to install a King of the Ndebele since Zimbabwe is a Republic and not a King...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 18:49hrs | 1 | by Mzilikazi Zwane
New Zanu-PF/ MDC GNU is 'ordained by God' - brainwashing Magaba theology at its worst
"I know some of you have been saying 'why are you praying'. There is no dialogue between man and man which is not ordained by God. Now that we have dialogued with God, we have to dialogue man and man;...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 15:19hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zanu-PF rescues apostle Chiwenga from the jaws of death
Zimbabwe and social media has been awash with the sad news of the accident of apostle Talent Chiwenga of the TF Chiwenga ministries. Apostle Chiwenga lost his wife and another church member. I...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 13:13hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Ncube, like Moses, deserves a chance to lead' - to tax the poor whilst protect looters
"Well, this is not a pie in the sky. What is our attitude to Mthuli Ncube's Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP)? A lot of us really want us to go back to the hiatus," is the latest diatribe fro...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 19:12hrs | 2 | by Nomusa Garikai
Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland
While I was going through my archives I came across the Election Manifesto below. Quite interesting.PATRIOTIC UNION OF MANDEBELELAND (PUMA)ELECTION MANIFES...Published: 21 May 2019 at 12:35hrs | 23 | by PUMA
'Sanctions do not target povo' USA explained, again - link to free elections is not obvious to brainwashed
"The U.S. does not maintain comprehensive sanctions against Zimbabwe. Suggestions that the U.S. intends to harm the Zimbabwean people with sanctions are false and misleading," explained the US Embassy...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 11:06hrs | 5 | by Nomusa Garikai
'USA sanctions will harm the poor,' argue analysts - garbage in garbage out
"In computer science, garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) is where flawed, or nonsense input data produces nonsense output or "garbage"!" explained Wikipedia."The principle also applies more genera...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 07:51hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Elections were NOT free and so US sanctions a back - but so too is the brainwashing
People like Hloniphani Ncube have been thoroughly brainwashed by Zanu PF propaganda and misinformation into believing that sanctions are the root cause of Zimbabwe's economic meltdown. This is nonsens...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 06:43hrs | 4 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa performs worse than Mugabe in election - people reject 'new dispensation'?
As the dispute over the recent Zimbabwe harmonized election results rages on - with the opposition MDC Alliance contemplating legal recourse - one can not help but take a different analysis of the off...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 18:45hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The immediate aim of the Nov 2017 coup leaders, Mnangagwa & Chiwenga is to put on the garment of legitimacy.
The coup junta led by interim President Mnangagwa and interim vice President Chiwenga seized power from dethroned former president Mugabe insisting that it was a necessary evil to deal with the crimin...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa
'There will always be corrupt leaders,' argue Maphosa - compare bruise to severed head, detail matters
There are many, many reasons why Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess. One of those reasons has to be our, we the people, failure to appreciate the importance detail resulting in us making ...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 19:03hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Fake prophecy' haunt Prophet Makandiwa
United Family International Church leader Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa and wife, Ruth, will tomorrow appear before High Court Judge Justice David Mangota for allegedly making fake prophecies concerning ...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 10:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Makandiwa to face judge
United Family International Church leader Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa and wife, Ruth, will tomorrow appear before High Court Judge Justice David Mangota for allegedly making fake prophecies concerning ...Published: 05 Nov 2017 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cruelty has her rewards: Could Mugabe recover his downfall in 2018?
Odds are a bad omen when men keep contesting age against power rescuing and do so like when there was no end to life. Ingratitude is measured by the degree of avarice beyond scope of survival except t...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Andrew Manyevere
Why were our grandparents more educated than today's PhDs?
Have we ever wondered why our grandparents - and their ancestors - never had the diseases we die from today, or why there was zero unemployment and yet our PhDs are strewn all over without anything to...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 07:22hrs | 39 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe is every dictator and tyrant's paradise
I can just imagine a gathering of all the dictators and tyrants who have ever lived on this earth, and they are asked which country would be the easiest to rule over - I bet most of them would choose ...Published: 10 Oct 2017 at 07:39hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Makandiwa prophecies challenged
A Harare couple has claimed in High Court papers that United Family International Church (Ufic) leader Emmanuel Makandiwa and his wife, Ruth, are false prophets out to make money.Upenyu and Bl...Published: 08 Oct 2017 at 15:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in UK lose children to social services
CHILDREN of Zimbabwean families resident in the UK are being seized by social workers on an astonishing scale. Most are taken never to be seen again.If the parents discipline their children an...Published: 03 Oct 2017 at 21:43hrs | 5 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Our education system weakens our minds
The current education system that we have in Zimbabwe - and even throughout the world - was deliberately designed, decades ago, as a means of weakening the mind, so as to create docile beings who coul...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 10:03hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
It is that time again - youth interface or youth interfere?
I hear the sound, the sound is highly trumpeting and melodious! I thought it's the sound of abundance, yet it's just a deceiving sound. Hyenas are back again, this time clad in goats skins. Woe to tho...Published: 06 Jul 2017 at 12:47hrs | 3 | by Godwin Mupakair Tshetu
Ninety percent of all the qualified teachers in Zimbabwe cannot pass SAT
The Editor, My pronunciation might seem a bit over the top, but it's the only accurate description of what has happened and is happening in Zimbabwe today. The vampire elites that now controls...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 22:10hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
ZCC castigate churches for endorsing political candidates
The Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) has castigated ecclesiastical groupings that are brainwashing their congregants into endorsing certain political candidates.Speaking on the side-lines of...Published: 20 May 2017 at 12:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Thanks for the Bikita birthday present, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I am beside myself with joy. I am so, so elated. I am overwhelmed with happiness coming from the sweet results of the Bikita West by-election....Published: 26 Jan 2017 at 06:24hrs | 2 | by CZ
We need NTA to guarantee free elections - forerunner of economic recovery
In his article "Biti's NTA a pointless idea for a fruitless exercise" Whitlaw Mugwiji (Nehanda Radio) has made an attempt to convince the readers on why he thinks the NTA is a "fruitless exercise" as ...Published: 15 Nov 2016 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
It is the people, by being naive, who are keeping dictators in power
In his article on "How dictators stay in power" see The Zimbabwean newspaper, UZ Student Zivai Mhetu attributed the dictators' staying-power to how they create fictitious enemies to divert attention a...Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 18:50hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Is African the waste bin of dysfunctional leaders?
Each day that I watch international news, I become more and more disenchanted to be an African, as where else in the civilised world would one encounter a leader who brutalises his or her own people j...Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 07:25hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Any politician who cannot tolerate public criticism and ridicule is not ready for politics
A vexing question that has been asked by so many people over the long course of history is, 'what does it take to be a great leader?'I do not believe that there can ever be an easy answer to t...Published: 03 May 2016 at 18:21hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZEC commissioner Moyo lambasted over national pledge remarks
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commissioner Moyo Qhubani has come under fire after he posted on Facebook saying he does not see anything wrong about the national pledge.Moyo had posted that he sees no...Published: 03 May 2016 at 06:44hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'If you can dream - and not make dreams your master' sound advice wasted on Musewe
"If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;" advised the poet Rudyard Kipling. In Vince Musewe we have an example of someone who has made his dream of a free, just and prosperous...Published: 08 Mar 2016 at 23:48hrs | 16 | by Wilbert Mukori
Woman engage police to save children she claim are being brainwashed by church
A DISTRAUGHT mother has called on the police to help save her children from a church she claims is brainwashing them, New Era reports.Daily Sun reported that Velonika Kautotwa, a Walvis Bay re...Published: 25 Feb 2016 at 13:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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