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Hlophe hits back at detractors over his appointment to JSC
In a lengthy statement issued on Friday, Hlophe told nay-sayers that he was ready to take them on."Regarding their threats of a lawsuit to have me removed from the JSC, I say to them; Bring it...Published: 13 Jul 2024 at 12:56hrs | 70 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa miserably failed to utilise the coup d'état dividend
Robert Mugabe on Herbert Chitepo (and a Rejoinder on the Missed Opportunity of the 2017 Coup)Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 16:49hrs | 20 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
CCC MPs recall ignite legal debate, Mudenda ruling under microscope
Legal heads collided Tuesday as parliament boldly executed a recall order on 18 CCC legislators in a space of an hour after a High Court judge ordered a halt in the opposition carnage pending a determ...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 05:21hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says CCC candidates to boycott December 9 by-elections
Nelson Chamisa, the leader of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has labeled the upcoming by-elections, which aim to fill 14 National Assembly vacancies and 17 local authority seats, as a farcic...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 19:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Highlanders versus Dynamos: The anatomy of violence
Once again — and not for the last time — a Highlanders versus Dynamos football match ended in violence with the usual accusations and counter accusations of referee bias and oppression being the o...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 21:33hrs | 10 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Zimbabwe could yet again be heading for a two-thirds Zanu-PF majority
With 38 parliamentary election constituencies still awaiting to be declared across the country, Zimbabwe could yet again be heading for a two-thirds Zanu-PF majority unless the main opposition CCC hol...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 10:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The difference between Mugabe and Mnangagwa
Based on pure analysis it can be argued that the difference between the late and former president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe and the incumbent and successor Emmerson Mnangagwa can be cited in the fact ...Published: 05 Aug 2023 at 22:22hrs | 11 | by Martin Stobart
Chamisa was desperate to see the back of Tendai Biti?
THE beleaguered CCC party is teetering on the brink of another split just a few hours before the Nomination Court sits ahead of the 23 August harmonised elections.Fissures, for long papered by...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
13 distressed Zimbabwe firms rescued
Testifying to its commitment to tangible deliverables aimed at transforming the livelihoods of the people, the Second Republic, under the stewardship of President Mnangagwa, has resuscitated 13 previo...Published: 11 May 2023 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in 2023: There is great disorder, chaos under the heavens
GEORGE Orwell wrote so much and so well that one day it became cause for a whole essay to explain to himself and the world why he wrote as such.In the essay of 1946, Why I Write, Orwell recoun...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 68 | by Dr William Jethro Mpofu
Buyanga bailed but remains in jail on new charges
Frank Buyanga was Friday released from a South African prison where he has been held for over a month but his freedom was immediately curtailed by new charges which were slapped on the property tycoon...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 17:54hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF has been in power for 42 years so let's not pretend as if we've new government!
I am always flabbergasted when listening to senior government officials in their attempts at convincing the citizenry that development cannot be expected to occur overnight, as the country was being b...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 12:43hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mwonzora withdraws recall on councillor, forces scrapping of by-election
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora's recent recalls on elected opposition representatives turned farcical last week when the politician was forced to reverse the recall of Victoria Falls Ward 8 Councillor ...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Chevrons target Pakistan upset
FROM one big test to another, the Zimbabwe national cricket team are today set to continue with their search of a big scalp at the ICC Men's T20 World Cup when they face former champions Pakistan at t...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why MDC/CCC participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy in an open book - read it for yourself
"Electoral watchdog, the Election Resource Centre says Zimbabwe's total eligible voters should hover around eight million, meaning that nearly three million people are not interested to vote," reporte...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 20:01hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Cyril Ramaphosa is an agent of imperialism and white monopoly capital
On the 8 July 2021, I was arrested in front of the Estcourt prison where President Jacob Zuma was illegally imprisoned because of a travesty of justice committed by the Constitutional Court (CC)....Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 11:53hrs | 8 | by Carl Niehaus
High Court rejects Mtetwa bid
The High Court has rejected the bid by activist lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, to compel the Judicial Service Commission and President Mnangagwa to release results of interviews held six years ago for Supre...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
No joy for Mtetwa as High Court rejects her case
The High Court has rejected the bid by activist lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa to compel the Judicial Service Commission and President Mnangagwa to release results of interviews held six years ago for Supreme...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 20:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
A political accident waiting to happen
Communities are glued and bound together by more than blood.They share a common past, history, heritage, values, norms and aspirations.The commonality bred by sharing similar languages...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 07:58hrs | 7 | by Bishop Laz
Prophet T Freddy screamed 'thank you God' while raping victim
A Harare woman who lives with disability yesterday chronicled how Goodness and Mercy Ministries prophet Tapiwa Freddy (T Freddy) allegedly took advantage of the illness and subsequent deat...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 05:54hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF internal poll meddling a harbinger to election crisis
THE chaos surrounding Zanu-PF provincial elections following which the ruling party banned its members from celebrating presumed victories in internal polls has once again exposed that democratic proc...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Shrine death: Cops hunt for girl's grave
The death of a married 14-year-old Johanne Marange Apostolic Church girl during childbirth at the church's shrine in Marange, and the location of her grave, are now subjects of a police investigation ...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei's Sakunda in massive retrenchment exercise
OIL firm, Sakunda Holdings (Sakunda) has embarked on a massive retrenchment exercise, a move which has seen the company laying off most of its workers and leaving a skeleton staff of only 16 employees...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 14:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora has sold his soul for a bowl of soup
THE Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T's support for constitutional amendments in the Senate last week exposes the so-called opposition party's lack of principles and its desperate quest to be part of the gra...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa advised against election boycott
ANALYSTS yesterday urged the MDC Alliance not to boycott elections as doing so would leave the ruling Zanu-PF party enjoying unbridled power.Nelson Chamisa's party looks set to fight with the ...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Stop giving despotics regimes in Africa a free pass
Authoritarian and dictatorial governments are repressive, corrupt and inefficient, and they threaten Africa's chances of unleashing the productive potential of its youth, writes Nelson Chamisa....Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 18:16hrs | | by MDC Alliance President, Nelson Chamisa.
Countering reactionary and authoritarian politics in Africa
Africa cannot afford to continue with the authoritarian, dictatorial and despotic forms of governance that are predominant on the continent.Authoritarian and dictatorial governments are repres...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:50hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa
Fake 'unity' gestures will never bring Zimbabweans together, but urgent need for real leadership
My views on political parties are very much on public record - as, I consider them the main drivers in dividing a nation apart, through purely artificial plots, deliberately designed by politicians in...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 16:10hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
South Africa now feeling the consequences of its own myopic irresponsible policies towards Zimbabwe
Each and everyone of us has a family, has friends, and lives in a community - and, there is one common thread between all these: a strong sense of peer review, as we have a responsibility towards one ...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 18:52hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Will true Zimbabwe liberation heroes always be 'unknown soldiers' whilst ruling elite over-glorified for sitting pretty in Mozam
If ever there was anyone still harboring inexplicable and incomprehensible doubts regarding the grossly opportunistic, selfish, and self-conceited dark cloud hanging over Zimbabwe's ruling elite, one ...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 09:33hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Since when have opposition parties 'cooperated' with ruling parties - the tragic opportunism of Zim politics
I seldom delve into political party politics, because of a life-long distrust and disdain for partisanship - as I regard this as the most opportunistic and self-serving system of governance, that is f...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 09:34hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chaotic MDC-T congress spells doom for opposition
THIS week's chaotic MDC-T extraordinary congress which was controversially won by party secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora against rivals Thokozani Khupe, Elias Mudzuri and Morgan Komichi dealt the op...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 11:06hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T candidates' election agents condemn 'farcical' Congress
THE six chief election agents representing losing candidates at the just ended MDC-T extraordinary congress (EOC) are supporting the decision of former acting president Thokozani Khupe to cancel the c...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'General Chiwenga caught offside'
Vice President in charge of the Ministry of Health and Child Care Constantino Chiwenga's banning of elections has been interpreted as a politicical decision and not a COVID -19 related decision. ...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 10:17hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
Before the July 30 elections in 2018, MDC Alliance's swashbuckling and technophile public relations machine nourishingly fed us the optics of what we were told were the makings of a political tsunami ...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lies run sprints, truth runs marathons
They say time heals even the deepest of scars, but not for Bishop Lazarus.And they say everything — absolutely everything and anything — has a price, but not this man of scripture and pray...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:33hrs | 2 | by Bishop Lazi
Peter Moyo ouster was 'artificially manufactured'
Former Old Mutual CEO Peter Moyo on Thursday sought to demonstrate that the breakdown in trust cited by his former employer as a reason for his axing was "artificially manufactured".Moyo is in...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 16:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
The gnashing of teeth is nigh
The nature of Bishop Lazi's job, which often involves endlessly counselling the stricken, the infirm, the indisposed and the emotionally wounded, naturally makes him a couch potato, especially during ...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:01hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Crackdown a crude violation of rights
The scathing bail ruling by a High Court judge condemning the police over their shoddy investigations into the alleged plot to unseat President Emmerson Mnangagwa must lead the country's law enforceme...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
David Coltart shreds High Court ruling
MDC Treasurer General aspirant David Coltart has dismissed the high court judgement as an empty thunder that is seriously laden with flaws. The court ruled on Wednesday that MDC leader Nelson ...Published: 09 May 2019 at 09:14hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kasukuwere challenges dismissal of application
Former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has asked the High Court to review a Harare magistrate's decision to dismiss his application for exception to the criminal abuse of office charges....Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Behold, Chamisa's circus comes to town
The pen, when wielded by the most potent hand, can indeed become mightier than the sword.As Bishop Lazi told you last week, there are a few men and women who belong to a pantheon of gods who c...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:31hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Mnangagwa, Khupe talks no different from Smith, Muzorewa engagement
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa's spokesperson Nkululeko Sibanda says President Emmerson Mnangagwa's false attempts at a dialogue process without the main opposition leader but with Thokozani Khupe as oppos...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 06:33hrs | | by newzimbabwe
'Mthuli Ncube's budget is a waste of time'
IT is a great pleasure to debate the 2019 national budget. This budget, Honourable Speaker Sir, could not have come at a time of greater fragility and greater vulnerability of our country....Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 09:14hrs | | by Tendai Biti
'Don't abuse democratic space'
Zimbabweans should not abuse the democratic space that the New Dispensation has created, and should enjoy their rights while fully respecting fellow citizens, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has counsell...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere petitions the High Court
FORMER Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has petitioned the High Court, accusing regional magistrate Hoseah Mujaya of being biased in the manner he has been handling his court case....Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kunaka's Zanu-PF died last November
WHO does Jim Kunaka think he is fooling and for how long? For those who do not know who he is, Kunaka, was the leader of the infamous Chipangano, a gangster group based in Mbare that caused untold suf...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 05:47hrs | | by Tendai H. Manzvanzvike
Chamisa's bravado and inauguration ceremony
THE farcical "inauguration" of MDC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa as president of the country during the party's 19th anniversary celebrations in Harare at the weekend did more harm to the troubled oppositi...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 05:21hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Zimbabwe army killings probe hots up
After a near-farcical start, temperatures rose a notch up yesterday at the government's commission of inquiry into the August 1 post-election violence - which ended up with the army killing at least s...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 11:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
ED 'will woo investors' in maiden UNGA speech - no takers, given Mugabe mark-2 reputation
The Zanu PF apologists, spin-doctors and propagandists are out like the cicada flooding the world with nose. Their mission is to flood all available space with colourful portrait of Mnangagwa as a com...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 19:59hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
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