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Nelson Chamisa's CCC resignation
ON 25 January 2024, Zimbabwean opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa quit.Looking through the dancing ropes, it is more like a boxing match. Remember when Mi...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:52hrs | 2 | by Vivid Gwede
World War III might already be underway
IN life, it is absolutely critical to learn to pick your battles.While celebrated English playwright William Shakespeare once noted that "cowards die many times before their deaths", Nigerian ...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:15hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
A golden future: Unpacking the new direction
LAST week, Advocate Nelson Chamisa unveiled the Citizens Coalition for Change as the new name of the people's movement. Our old name had been pilfered and Zanunised by the political pirates of our tim...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:28hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa's difficult political calculus
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa — who is hugely popular and got over two million votes in the 2018 presidential election — is caught between a rock and a hard place a...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:14hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
Mnangagwa turns 79
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa today celebrates his 79th birthday with the dream of a better and greater Zimbabwe still his main mission. Since his inauguration in November 2017, Mnangagwa has remained ...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Family 'hurt' by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu hero snub as late journalist buried
The family of the late journalist and war veteran Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu said it was disappointed he was not accorded national hero status as he was laid to rest on Thursday.Gwakuba died aged 87 ...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
The infamy of Mnangagwa's US$18m chopper toy
A parent's aptitude is determined by their priorities. As teachers and other civil servants table legitimate grievances regarding their grossly inadequate salaries and parlous living circumstances, Em...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zimbabwe pilot makes waves in US
GROWING up in the dusty streets of Highfield in Harare more than 40 years ago, Felix Chiota would gaze in awe at the sky each time an airplane flew over his neighbourhood. At a young age, Chio...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
How South Africa can nudge Zimbabwe toward stability
What's new? As Zimbabwe's political and economic crises worsen, South Africa is moving beyond its policy of "quiet diplomacy" with its northern neighbour and applying more pressure on Harare to open...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | | by crisisgroup
Did Britain back Mnangagwa?
Nyathi said that in the meeting, Laing "sounded to be really forcing a line that Mnangagwa is the person to work with, and she wanted our opinions around that".Zanu-PF's opponents have alleged...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:08hrs | | by Rahul Nagvekar
Lest you invite bad omens
Much has been said and discussed about the vetting and subsequent compensation of war collaborators but to date there is no substance. Most of these people are now in the twilight zone of their lives ...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 15:27hrs | | by Thomas Murisa
The role of peace in the economy
We are still struggling, in Zimbabwe and Africa as a whole, when it comes to understanding and executing economic programmes that give sustainable growth. Most analysts tend to paint this poor underst...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 14:17hrs | 2 | by Kernan Mzelikahle
The Role of Peace in the Economy - Mthwakazi Forum
We are still struggling, in Zimbabwe and Africa as a whole, when it comes to understanding and executing economic programmes that give sustainable growth. Most analysts tend to paint this poor underst...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 20:52hrs | 7 | by Kernan Mzelikahle
Mnangagwa's new political order
South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko and black consciousness icon once said, "It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die". President Mnangagwa o...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Keith Guzah
Mnangagwa's likely trajectory
THE most significant political fact about Zimbabwe today is that it is mired in a complex and turbulent multi-dimensional transition of which the just-ended elections were a part. The bitterly contest...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 13:48hrs | 1 | by Eldred V Masunungure
ZEC has proven that 10 + 4 = 40
By the time Comrade Mnangagwa joined politics in the early sixties, most Black Zimbabweans were uneducated and would accept 10 + 4 = 40.During those years, a person wearing a neck tie would ta...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 15:00hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri
Chamisa is not a factor in parliament, which is good
Since there are so many impious hands on Zimbabwe's internal affairs, so many hands challenging its sovereignty, I thought my opening paragraphs should address those meddlesome, self-righteous foreign...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 07:53hrs | | by Igomombe
Why elections are bad for democracy
Brexit was a turning point in the history of Western democracy in general, and that of Britain in particular. A drastic decision was taken through a one round referendum based on a simple majority, an...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 06:42hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Spotlight on poll observers
Zimbabwe heads for elections on July 30, eight months after the removal of Mugabe. The African Union (AU) and the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) have a mandate to ensure that the countr...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 11:22hrs | | by Siphosami Malunga
Mnangagwa claims Zimbabwe economy is recovering
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's, spokesperson, George Charamba, has claimed that the economy is recovering, suggesting the ongoing cash and fuel shortages were symptoms of an upsurge in purchasing powe...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 15:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The black man must unite in one grand racial hierarchy!
A Tribute to Africa Day: Africa My Mother Land The time has come for the Black man to forget his hero worship of other races, and to create and emulate ...Published: 27 May 2018 at 08:51hrs | | by Kufakunesu Mawira
Mnangagwa strategy for Zimbabwe's recovery
The multiple initiatives that President Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's administration has launched may be confusing to a citizenry already buffeted by years of debility and decline.It is thus im...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:16hrs | | by George Charamba
Mugabe's zero-sum game
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein.President Emmerson Mnangagwa has suggested a meeting with other political leaders to discu...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 12:26hrs | | by Innocent Batsani Ncube
Mugabe rattles Mnangagwa's cage
Although former president Robert Mugabe's dramatic return to active politics has been dismissed by Zanu-PF as inconsequential, some analysts are convinced that he could inflict significant damage on t...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa moonlighting in Mugabe's library
Zimbabwe's political theatre, currently dress-rehearsing for the next act in the aftermath of Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai's vastly diverting title fight, is charged with irony.As Zimba...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:41hrs | | by Phillip Santos and Stanely MushavaStaff reporter
Chamisa: Zimbabwe's rising young hope
As the day ended on February 18, MDC-T acting president Nelson Chamisa, who had arrived from the late Morgan Tsvangirai's home, jumped out of his car. He was eased, by a group of youths, through a sea...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 12:19hrs | | by Simukai Tinhu
President Mnangagwa's inauguration speech in full
This is the Acceptance Speech delivered by President of the Republic of Zimbabwe Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa at his inauguration at the National Sports Stadium on November 24, 2017Zimbabwe bac...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 06:01hrs | 2 | by ED Mnangagwa
Grace Mugabe's rages set off army semi-coup
Nobody is safe from the rages of Zimbabwe's first lady, "Dr Amai" Grace Mugabe. There was the young South African model Grace lashed with extension cords. The 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe's lon...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 08:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Formalise art in education curricular: Artists
The Zimbabwe Applied Arts in Craft Association (ZAACA) is praying for Government's hand in improving artists and craftsmen working conditions. This, the organisation says, will improve individual live...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 10:13hrs | 3 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Mugabe, Chiwenga face off
FOR a long time now we have been writing that the stage in which we are in terms of President Robert Mugabe's succession matrix is brinkmanship. We have reached a point where Mugabe and the military -...Published: 28 Jul 2017 at 14:38hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
How Rhodesia ended tribes
The year 1970 saw the birth of a publication titled "The Passing of Tribal Man in Africa". Edited by a Canadian academic, the late Peter C. W. Gutkind, the publication challenged entrenched Anglo-Saxo...Published: 17 Jun 2017 at 10:03hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
It's the Zimdollar, stupid!
Gentle reader, I think it is a sheer waste of national time to focus on the collapse of ZimPF, spectacular though that may be. There was nothing unexpected about ZimPF's dramatic finale, especiall...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 20:52hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Jonathan Moyo stop dabbling in Zanu-PF succession politics
In history and to the outsider, Zimbabwe has always been a fabulous illusion. An Ophir. An El Dorado, a home to the Queen of Sheba. If the wishes of early European "pathfinders" were horses, Zimbabwe ...Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zimbabwe government only serves Zanu PF voters
Zimbabweans who did not vote for Zanu PF have no right to ask the government to deliver on its 2013 election promise to create 2, 2 million jobs, Herald columnist, Nathaniel Manheru has said.M...Published: 24 Jul 2016 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's Zanu-PF dismisses Mujuru's party
Hawks in President Robert Mugabe's governing Zanu-PF party have dismissed the launch of Joice Mujuru's Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) movement.The officials, who include party political commissar...Published: 08 Mar 2016 at 13:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's 'cents-less' ten point plan
"President Mugabe deliberately evaded the Eleventh Point because he resents and despises effective democracy."EACH one of us - during our childhood or as teenagers - have at one time or anothe...Published: 04 Sep 2015 at 07:47hrs | | by Welshman Ncube
Nssa squandered over US$100 million pensioners' money
The National Social Security Authority (Nssa) has squandered over US$100 million of pensioners' money in bad investments after buying shares in broke companies as well as purchasing properties at infl...Published: 23 Feb 2014 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Why has support for the MDC plummeted so much?
Fourteen years ago, Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) launched itself onto Zimbabwe's political scene with great local and international fanfare. The MDC was s...Published: 23 Apr 2013 at 20:42hrs | | by Simukai Tinhu
South Africa's interests in Zimbabwe's elections
Zimbabwe is nearing a historic period of political change, and South Africa is maneuvering to play a major role in it. This is why, as Zimbabwean Finance Minister Tendai Biti announced April 15, the ...Published: 16 Apr 2013 at 13:14hrs | | by Stratfor
The black man must unite in one grand racial hierarchy
The time has come for the Black man to forget his hero worship of other races, and to create and emulate Heroes of his own. We must canonize our own Saints, create o...Published: 02 Jan 2013 at 07:45hrs | | by Kufakunesu Mawira
Zuma is coming on a rescue mission
Russia's Putin has won a new term into Presidential Office. With that victory comes a new ogre for Europe and America, both of which are already talking of discovering Putin's vulnerabilities for a co...Published: 12 Mar 2012 at 07:24hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Israel won't warn US before Iran strike
WASHINGTON — Israeli officials say they won't warn the U.S. if they decide to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, according to one U...Published: 28 Feb 2012 at 07:23hrs | | by KIMBERLY DOZIER, AP Intelligence Writer
Mugabe helped to free, but about to be unfree again
EACH time I am low, I have this vivifying habit of raking and harassing the cradle of my credo, Marxism. It must give me answers. Or at the very least give me questions the search for answers of which...Published: 04 Feb 2012 at 13:09hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
This day in History
Friday November 11 is the 315th day of the year. There are 50 left.Today its 11-11-11 and at 11:11 on 11.11.11 some people expect somwthing awesome to happen.11-11-11 in America today ...Published: 11 Nov 2011 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by -
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