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Zanu-PF warns detractors
ZANU-PF has warned some critics to stop lecturing the country's leadership on implementing Covid-19 lockdown measures. Self-exiled G-40 members have on a number of occasions attacked the rulin...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:25hrs | 258 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to offer Trump a word of advice?
Chamisa sits in his office feeling highly encouraged by the events in America. Should he offer Trump a message of solidarity? Amidst all the hypocrisy and pretence of democracy and being a democratic ...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 09:44hrs | 2947 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
My heart is in Zimbabwe!
As we pass from the year 2020, let us establish some homegrown truths about ourselves as Zimbabweans.While I will challenge our readers to this debate, on penalty of paying a fine of a goat if...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 07:49hrs | 925 | by Ken Mufuka
Mnangagwa's leave, a pitstop to nowhere
Now that we have seen the edited versions of people's lives across social platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram during Christmas and New Year festivities, its back to the basics, the da...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 10:21hrs | 1792 | by Josiah Mucharowana
A bad-bye to a bad year
Arsenal's emphatic win over Chelsea at the Emirates stadium on Boxing day lifted my spirits in a tenuous and gloomy year in which the despondent people of this country were boxed down mainly by the tw...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 19:08hrs | 197 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
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 | 924 | by Staff reporter
Whilst the politicians scramble for power, who cares about suffering Zimbabweans?
If ever there is one major lesson I am so grateful to have learnt very early in my life, it was that, politicians, and participating in active political party politics, have absolutely nothing to do w...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 14:35hrs | 451 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chiyangwa laughs last?
NO ONE can fault former Zifa president and now Cosafa boss Phillip Chiyangwa for boasting that Zimbabwean football made a huge mistake in rejecting him in favour of Felton Kamambo.Events at Co...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:12hrs | 1731 | by Michael Kariati
Chamisa is Trump's 'perfect biological son', says Chinamasa
ZANU PF has drawn parallels between opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and United States losing presidential candidate Donald Trump who has refused to concede defeat in the just-ended Ameri...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:47hrs | 4410 | by Staff reporter
War vets challenge Chamisa
War veterans have challenged the leader of the opposition MDC Alliance Nelson Chamisa to dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other political players to gain acceptance from the former liber...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 21:34hrs | 6589 | by Staff reporter
Call me a sell out, I will dialogue with Mnangagwa, says Khupe
Acting MDC leader Thokozani Khupe was yesterday treated to a standing ovation from almost all Zanu-PF legislators in parliament yesterday after she vowed to dialogue with President Mnangagwa despite c...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:43hrs | 5525 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance MPs walk out on Khupe
THE circus within the opposition MDC continued yesterday when MDC Alliance MPs walked out on MDC-T interim leader Thokozani Khupe as she made her maiden speech in Parliament.Khupe, who recentl...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:35hrs | 6148 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC-A should give Zimbabwe a break
ON October 25, Zimbabwe will be walking tall, arm in arm with its regional partners in calling for the unconditional removal of illegal sanctions imposed on the country by Western nations that seek to...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:14hrs | 2790 | by Staff reporter
The inscrutable Mr Trump!
*This letter uses American jargonIt took me sometime to figure out why the inscrutable, rascally US President Donald J Trump drives so many elites into a lunatic frenzy until I read a post fro...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:09hrs | 578 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Mixed views over Khupe's return to Parliament
Political analysts have expressed mixed views over former MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe's return to Parliament Wednesday, two years after her expulsion in April 2018.Khupe, now acting presid...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 08:20hrs | 5471 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF not to blame for MDC internal strife
ZANU-PF cannot be blamed for the divisions rocking the MDC, a senior ruling party official has said. The MDC is mired in a vicious internal strife with party leader, Dr Thokozani Khupe recalli...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:43hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
MDC circus continues as 2023 beckons
So sad to note that the President of the world's superpower is down with coronavirus after having tested positive last week. There is something intrinsic about Africans. We are generally a kin...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:40hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF targets 65 percent vote
ZANU-PF is confident of garnering at least 65 percent of the vote and securing a landslide victory in the 2023 harmonised elections, a senior party official has said.During the 2018 general el...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 09:56hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa distances self from MDC circus
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says he had nothing to do with this week's seizure of the party's headquarters even though the NewsDay report says his party challenged a spoliation order. H...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:42hrs | 9001 | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF headquarters shaken as Africa calls spade a spade
Once you see the bigmouth trio of George Charamba aka Jamwanda, Presidential Spokesman, Victor Matemadanda aka Taximan, Deputy Minister of Defence and Monica Mutsvangwa, Minister of Information, spewi...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 11:13hrs | 12566 | by Israel Dube
Zanu-PF has an undying love for lies, propaganda
LIES and threats have now become the order of the day for the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government.Since his inauguration, people have been subjected to gross human rights violations, t...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:50hrs | 1676 | by Toedza Fungai
Bhebhe frustrated by Khupe 'mindless' recalls
FRUSTRATED MDC organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe has taken aim at acting party leader Thokozani Khupe for allegedly concentrating on strengthening her position by "mindlessly" recalling MPs and cou...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 16:56hrs | 9153 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa thinks white people are stupid!
The former Vauxhall Labour MP Hon. Kate Hoey said: Mnangagwa is Mugabe mark two. This week has been spectacular by proving this statement as more or less correct but in reverse. In a feat of rage, Mug...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 13:48hrs | 8618 | by Nomazulu Thata
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 | 257 | by Staff reporter
Tich Mataz and 'Hello Mwari'
JAH Master's dancehall hit song Hello Mwari has rekindled an episode that happened some years ago in which popular radio and television presenter Tich Mataz "communicates" with God over the phone at c...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 17:12hrs | 2435 | by Staff reporter
The Tent of Meeting in the Book of Exodus was a marvel
Even from biblical times, the Tent of Meeting in the Book of Exodus was a spectacle, both in appearance and reverence. It was a place where Israelites, mere mortals, were in the presence of God, hence...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 21:03hrs | 766 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Lawyer pushes for judge's arrest
PROMINENT Harare lawyer Admire Rubaya has filed a criminal complaint against Bulawayo High Court judge Thompson Mabhikwa for allegedly abusing public office after he ordered his "unjustified" 10-day i...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 15:58hrs | 4634 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says they are denied freedom to honour heroes
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said his administration had consolidated democracy, constitutionalism and rule of law in the pursuit of social justice, but main opposition MDC Alliance and othe...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:23hrs | 1229 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda jumps on Malema's throat
Comrade Victor Matemadanda lashes out at "idiot Malema" outspoken South African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema who has described President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a fool...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 00:40hrs | 8236 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The 'witchcraft' of Nehanda's statue
There is nothing that Bishop Lazarus finds as nauseatingly revolting as the holier-than-thou brigade.Yes, those low-lives that seemingly have the uncanny ability of seeing past the girthy logs...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:35hrs | 702 | by Bishop Lazarus
Open letter to RBZ governor Mangudya
Dear Governor,I hope I find you well and in good spirits in your office on Samora Machel Avenue, Harare.My last article, Arresting Inflation in Zimbabwe, a couple of weeks back drew brickb...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:07hrs | 5215 | by Bart Star-James
Unemployed volunteer nurses pitch up, turned away from Masvingo hospital
There was a circus at Masvingo Provincial Hospital Thursday after a group of 15 trained but unemployed nurses turned up at the health facility to purportedly take up posts rendered vacant by nurses wh...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:50hrs | 857 | by newzibabwe
Biti and Job Sikhala to be struck off the roll?
Zimbabwean politics has always been full of mystery. Politicians are normally identified by their getting into public office. There are a lot of politicians fine politicians who had never ran for an o...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 23:05hrs | 15709 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa urged to fire Obadiah Moyo
A FORMER Cabinet minister says President Emmerson Mnangagwa should stop paying lip service to his "zero tolerance to corruption" mantra and dismiss from government, Obadiah Moyo as Health Minister wit...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 2712 | by Staff reporter
Transport operators fret over Zupco scheme
Transport operators that are part of the Zupco franchise scheme are up in arms against the government-owned company, which they say is underpaying them for the use of their vehicles.Last year ...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:07hrs | 895 | by Staff reporter
MDC is a failed project for Matebeleland people, its time to move on
The Movement for Democratic Change "MDC was largely embraced by majority of Matabeleland people at it's formation in 1999 as an alternative to the tribalistic ZANU PF party which they never supp...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 09:48hrs | 484 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
The dead have no power over the living
WE do not care how long the circus in the MDC continues, with regards to who has mass appeal and takes over. As far as we were told, the late MDC founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai appointed Nelson Cha...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 09:14hrs | 1307 | by Tongai Torira
Chamisa claims Africa's electoral system is a big circus
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has slammed Africa's electoral system as a "big circus if not an embarrassment to the continent", hence the recurrence of disputed polls.In his 50...Published: 25 May 2020 at 08:06hrs | 1884 | by Staff reporter
MDC circus in new twist
THE battle for the control of the MDC took a new twist yesterday after Nelson Chamisa's allies convened a meeting in Harare that was attended by many of the party's 2014 members.The gath...Published: 22 May 2020 at 20:13hrs | 4421 | by Staff reporter
Advocate Thabani Mpofu is failing the MDC-Alliance dismally! I should be forgiven if I say he is an implant
You do not need to be a lawyer to recognize the chronic errors MDC-Alliance made after Richard Morgen Tsvangirai's death. It is equally surprising that a political party blessed with several lawyers, ...Published: 09 May 2020 at 20:26hrs | 8645 | by Nomazulu Thata
Will Tendai Biti and job Sikhala join Zanu-PF as MDC MPs are recalled?
The old saying that "if you stay in the glass house do not throw stones." It goes on to say if stones are to be thrown back you must not cry the loudest. MDC in all its shapes has been masquerading as...Published: 08 May 2020 at 19:40hrs | 6902 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF's 'revenge tactics' irks MDC bigwigs
THE country was plunged into political turmoil yesterday after the MDC-Alliance suspended participation in parliament pending wider consultations on total withdrawal, as the opposition furiously accus...Published: 08 May 2020 at 17:48hrs | 2054 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa' MDC expels 3 rebels
Full transcript of a statement by MDC Alliance deputy national chairman Job Sikhala delivering the position of the party's National Standing Committee on the recalling of four of their legislators fro...Published: 07 May 2020 at 16:49hrs | 6150 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mwonzora expels Tabitha Khumalo and Hwende from Parliament
MDC Secretary-General Douglas Mwonzora has recalled Tabitha Khumalo, Chalton Hwende and Prosper Mutseyami from Parliament following their expulsion by MDCT.The announcement was made by th...Published: 05 May 2020 at 14:15hrs | 4962 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo responds to reports that he killed ZBC
Former Information Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has refuted allegations that he was involved in the destruction of the Zimbabwean radio during his time as Minister of Information. In a Twi...Published: 28 Apr 2020 at 10:13hrs | 4736 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'A circus called MDC-Alliance'
The opposition in Zimbabwe is a real circus. In 2008, the electorate voted for the opposition giving them a majority in Parliament. When they joined Government through a coalition arrangement,...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 07:44hrs | 5948 | by Obert Gutu
Gutu rips into Chamisa, Khupe
FORMER MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu has taken a swipe at his former colleagues Nelson Chamisa and Thokozani Khupe for failing to read and interpret a recent Supreme Court ruling, which ordered the MD...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 07:43hrs | 7164 | by Staff reporter
Constitutionalism not populism will take Zimbabwe forward
From the outset, let me make it abundantly clear that I am neither a member of Zanu-PF nor of any permutation of the MDC. If I say anything that you may not like, it is not because I belong to the oth...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 07:54hrs | 431 | by Moses Chamboko
Is the New Dispensation keen on devolution?
It should be recalled that the nationalist struggle's main focus was the achievement of an electoral system with one person one vote as its basis and the resultant establishment of a newly independent...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 07:41hrs | 255 | by Vivian Viyo Siziba
Constitutionalism not populism will take Zimbabwe forward
From the outset, let me make it abundantly clear that I am neither a member of ZANU PF nor of any permutation of the MDC. If I say anything that you may n...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 07:07hrs | 852 | by Moses Chamboko
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