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Busisiwe Mkhwebane merely annoyed agents of white monopoly capital
In my view, both Tina Joemat-Pettersson (may her soul repose peacefully) and Busisiwe Mkhwebane are victims of a system that lives off the subjugation of women, where women are treated very differentl...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 17:18hrs | 1 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
Clandestine dealings with Mnangagwa! Thokozani, you stripped your dignity
Drear Dr Thokozani Khuphe, Much as activists would like to assist women against gender discrimination in public spaces, we find your case too complex to intervene. We do not have the loci stan...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 16:24hrs | 12 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa Chete Chete: New party with very old habits
It's only a new name! The rest is not so different from the disbanded Movement for Democratic Change - Alliance (MDC -A) from dictatorship, imposition of candidates, fielding double candidates to shov...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:45hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
SA Constitution is not sacred, judges not demigods
SOUTH Africa's Tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu penned an opinion piece on January 7 2022 titled: Hi Mzansi, have we seen justice?It was quite a refreshing critique of the challenges confrontin...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:18hrs | | by Arthur GO Mutambara
Cabinet meetings by Ndaba Sibanda: A review by Banqobile Virginia Dakamela
The book kicks off with a scene featuring a technology-crazy old man who is drinking with a girl young enough to be his granddaughter. The old man's table manners do not endear him to the girl either....Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 12:13hrs | 6 | by Banqobile Virginia Dakamela
Is Dr Masimba Mavaza a bag of contradictions?
It is not easy to describe Dr. Masimba Mavaza with a single sentence. He is not complex; he makes it abundantly clear where his political allegiance lies. It is easy to throw him in a Zanu PF bag and ...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 17:48hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Go to Harare and arrest Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa
For someone who studied chemistry, I know that a chain of reactions has a lot to do with the heat that produces those reactions. Chain reactions can be a sequence of reactions where a reactive product...Published: 24 May 2021 at 15:51hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Angela Merkel and Liz Cheney are conservatives, but their political values and principles are worth of gold!
We are also called anarchists; our socialistic values about removing a capitalist world to an order that puts emphasis on humanity and not profit. Activists defy status core, demand a remake of our tu...Published: 13 May 2021 at 22:03hrs | 9 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mugabe's ghost torments Chief Zvimba and Grace Mugabe
The late president of Zimbabwe cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe has refused to exit the lime light. Now he has ignited a huge traditional problem for the nation and the world. Mugabe has proved to be a sourc...Published: 13 May 2021 at 21:54hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Khupe wins the mantra for a bad loser
In a bizarre move characteristic of child play.Thokozani Khupe becomes referee in a contest where she is a player. While the practices of the MDC(s) provide Zimbabwe with a comedy to cheer the nation ...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 14:33hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Bulawayo's unsung 'heroines' honoured
A BULAWAYO-BASED non-governmental organisation has honoured the city's unsung heroines credited with pioneering women's activism in the country, a departure from the past where leading persons are hon...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Unpacking Nelson Chamisa; MDC Alliance turns into a coven under Chamisa
The word Coven is defined as "a meeting of witches". Witches are associated with the highest level of cruelty mass destruction and inhuman actions covered in catastrophic end. So in a meeting of w...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 23:55hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Dr. Masimba Mavaza, please do not excite!
I have hardly recovered from the last article you wrote on Bulawayo24: an article that sees female gender as unreasonable and out of sic with African traditions and culture. Here we go again today: "M...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 20:57hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Heroic mother who saved baby from crocodile grip honoured
CHIREDZI woman Morina Musisinyani (30) who, in April this year saved her three-year-old son from the jaws of a crocodile, was honoured on Friday by a feminist organisation.Whispers, whose lead...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Not all men are bad, says gospel artiste
BULAWAYO budding contemporary gospel musician and leader of the Preachers of the Word Gospel group Nobesuthu Shyleen Mkandla is disturbed by the continued prejudice against women in all spheres of lif...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mawarire; Wadyajena clash over Auxilia Mnangagwa
National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire and Gokwe-Nembudziya Member of Parliament Mayor Justice Wadyajena have clashed over the exhibition stand erected by the First Lady Auxilia Mnang...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 09:49hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
The Cult of Rhodes: Remembering an Imperialist in Africa
Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902) remains a controversial figure in colonialism and imperialism studies. Paul Maylam's 2005 publication is useful in confronting debates on his role in the colonization of ...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 14:06hrs | | by Brian Maregedze
Patriarchal dominance, misogyny in Zimbabwe's political economy
WOMEN in Zimbabwe constitute about 54% of the population of about 14 million people. In the just-ended 2018 harmonised elections, statistics compiled by Women In Politics Support Unit (WiPSU) indicate...Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by Linda Masarira
When a woman says NO it is a No! Period!
This is the strong message that President Ramaphosa of South Africa gave to the women of South Africa who demonstrated at the Union buildings on the 2nd of August 2018, commemorating the past event of...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Open letter to President Mnangagwa, and all political party leaders
Dear President Mnangagwa, I feel the need to open this letter by saying; Women are humans, they share the same rights as men, they deserve same human dignity as their male counterparts, thus e...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 16:17hrs | | by Nyaradzo 'Nyari' Mashayamombe
As a first-time voter, I have been robbed of my choice in the elections
In only a matter of weeks I will go to the polls for the first time. While I am a first-time voter, I join millions of my fellow Zimbabweans in what will be everybody's first real and fair vote....Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 11:09hrs | | by R Mujuru
Political Campaigns in Zimbabwe: Voters worried about what candidates do to them
MDC official Discent Collins Bajila has said the situation in Zimbabwe has resulted to many voters are no longer concerned about the history of the candidates during political campaigns but they are w...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 11:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Dzimiri; bootlicking is just below the pale!
I read your article with dismay arguing your absolute loyalty to Zapu, unfortunately for wrong reasons this time around. If you have nothing better to say it's best to keep your silence! You cannot en...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 16:49hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Confessions of an MDC supporter: Why I am voting ED
I have voted for the MDC my whole voting life. I went to rallies, yearned to hear Morgan Tsvangirai speak and dreamed of a day when an MDC leader would enter State House. This was my greatest hope....Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 09:43hrs | | by Charlse Kanye
Demystifying the Chamisa myth
Guys, a quick walk around the streets of Kuwadzana left me wondering and questioning some 'truths' we have over the last months had begun to take as universal truth.It was, and I must confess ...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 08:57hrs | | by Charles Motsi
Does Chamisa think he is auditioning for Mr Universe or running for president?
One sometimes has to wonder if Nelson Chamisa understands what he is running as a candidate for. Almost no event or rally passes with the MDC leader without a reference to either his age or ho...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 10:09hrs | | by Innocent Dube
What does the MDC stand for under Chamisa?
Since late last year and the beginning of this year, both of Zimbabwe's main parties have new leaders. While President Emmerson Mnangagwa has stamped his vision on the ZanuPF and in essence the co...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 16:55hrs | | by Faith Hope
Say no to Chamisa's chauvinism
Another day, another derogatory, sexist and chauvinist remark by MDC-T President Nelson Chamisa. There have been the discussions, the criticisms and the analyses, but all is left to say is that Chamis...Published: 29 May 2018 at 15:24hrs | 1 | by Joice, Harare
1893 MHRRM strongly condemns ill-treatment of Nkosazana Khuphe
The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) is deeply concerned by continued and sustained cowardly and violent attacks directed at Nkosazana Thokozani Khuphe by seemingly MDC-Tâ...Published: 25 May 2018 at 08:52hrs | | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
Women to face sexism in Zimbabwe elections - 'Witch', 'prostitute'
Since 2008 Zimbabwe has been holding harmonised elections whereby representatives of local authorities‚ parliament [National Assembly and Senate]‚ provincial councils and‚ most importantly‚ th...Published: 24 May 2018 at 15:06hrs | | by James Thompson
Khupe shocked over police's failure to arrest Chamisa's hooligans
THOKOZANI Khupe's breakaway faction of the MDC-T has expressed shock over police's failure to arrest suspected party hooligans, who verbally abused the former Deputy Prime Minister during her Supreme ...Published: 24 May 2018 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe lashes 'tribal and chauvinist cabal'
It is sad and unfortunate that while pro-democracy forces are putting efforts towards a change for a better Zimbabwe, some have opted to embark on self-serving retrogressive behaviour marked by beastl...Published: 23 May 2018 at 15:22hrs | | by Dr Thokozani Khupe
Chamisa's desperation is becoming very worrying
Nelson Chamisa desperately needs a win. The last few weeks have been torturous for the new MDC leader and his supporters. For the first time, he has been under the spotlight and he has been left wanti...Published: 22 May 2018 at 20:07hrs | 1 | by Innocent Dube
Generational gaps and false dichotomies
In the recent BBC HARDtalk episode, Stephen Sackur, the host, asked presidential hopeful Nelson Chamisa to respond to the allegation that some see him as a young man in a hurry.While the insin...Published: 22 May 2018 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by David Mungoshi
Hither elections, Statesman or Politician?
Elections are just two months away; the electorate must prepare to invest their votes judiciously to shape their lives and those of posterity.Although there are over 100 presidential hopefuls,...Published: 11 May 2018 at 16:23hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
'Out of his depth': Chamisa falls flat in the UK
With the election campaign unofficially underway, MDC-T President Nelson Chamisa took the unusual step of traveling to the UK to drum up support for his bid to become President of Zimbabwe.It ...Published: 11 May 2018 at 09:21hrs | | by Charles, Harare (student)
Chamisa's out of control sexism
MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa appears to have a problem with women; he doesn't value them very much. We saw this is in the way he dealt with former, or current, depending on how you look at it...Published: 07 May 2018 at 06:45hrs | | by Faith, Harare (student)
Matebeleland a patriarchal society Mr MDC-T president always remember
Tsvangirai was a chauvinist and no one dared to challenge him. Not even Thabitha khumalo. Not even Misihairambwi. Not even the women's league. Yet it was ok for him to emasculate Ndebeles.If T...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Thabetha Mangena
Misihairabwi-Mushonga tells Welshman Ncube to 'go hang'
FIREBRAND MDC MP Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga has vowed to resist threats by the party's top leadership to recall her from Parliament on allegations of supporting expelled MDC-T vice-president Thok...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
In memory of MaWinnie, the women of the MDC must find their voices
"To those who oppose us, we say 'Strike the woman, and you strike the rock'" - Winnie Mandela. I grew up believing in equality. That's how I was raised. I was told that women and m...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:31hrs | | by Faith Hope
'Jesus Mnangagwa' stumbles: will Temba Mliswa stand up for King Lobengula Khumalo, women and ethnic minorities?
Temba Mliswa passes himself off as a clean, independent politician who supports humanitarian causes, economic progress, transparency and a zero tolerance approach to corruption. In the brilliant and w...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
Its death, power and money
First letter to the women of Zimbabwe: International Women's Day 2018I read two articles about women yesterday and today from different Zimbabwe social ...Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 18:22hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
She turned him down free touristic, free boarding in Germany: NUST Professor insults her hard!
A woman of 64 years, I have been officially pensioned beginning of January 2018 at the same time can continue working for another 5 years if I so wished. My age will inform that under normal circumsta...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Prostitution is exploitative
They say prostitution is a matter of choice, but tell that to the woman who was forced into it by her parents, tell that to the child who was abandoned and needed food to eat, tell that to the young g...Published: 29 Dec 2017 at 20:07hrs | 1 | by Clive Chiridza
MDCs rapped for trip of shame
MDC-T has once again exposed its puppet nature and lack of direction in sending its leadership to the United States of America to lobby for electoral reforms in Zimbabwe when other political parties l...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 05:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's Cabinet remains an old people's home'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet announced late on Thursday night remains a chauvinistic and "old people's home'' where there is no space for youth, women and progressive technocrats, socia...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 13:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rift between Khupe and Tsvangirai is interminable
The rift between MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, and his Deputy President of eleven years, Thokozani Khupe is like a horizon which never ends.Some sections of the media were awash with articl...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 15:51hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano
Barbaric Lacoste/G40 off our daughter Zanele Moyo
When the values of humanity/ Ubuntu escape a people, they turn into uncivilized practices that were used in the liberation war of Zimbabwe. Thousands of young people perished in very sad circumstances...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 11:39hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Fighting child marriages in Zimbabwe: From Theory to Practice
The Sunday Mail 2 July 2017 screamed with the headline, "Child brides: From frying pan to the fire." The heading itself is loaded and portray a society that has failed the girl child. But the question...Published: 07 Jul 2017 at 10:04hrs | 2 | by Johanne Mhlanga
Tsvangirai and his 'Bhora Musango' moment
Interesting! A couple of days ago, a local newspaper ran a story that alleged that MDC-T's ELECTED (emphasis mine) deputy president Thokozani Khupe was ganging up with National People's Party (NPP) le...Published: 16 Jun 2017 at 08:26hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
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