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Dr Masimba Mavaza is a tribalist: Inherent hatred for non-Shona people
I want to excuse myself right from the beginning of this article: It is not about protecting VP Mohadi and his scandals of his previous marriage with Senator Tambudzani Mohadi that left us cold about ...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 18:02hrs | 2005 | by Nomazulu Thata
African 'Dead Aid' will stop within 5 years: Part Two
In part one I concentrated on Dr. Dambisa's "Dead Aid" book she passionately wrote in 2009 highlighting the need for Africa to shift its focus away from foreign Aid and instead, seeking solutions that...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 10:12hrs | 878 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu: A splendid traditional leader, cultural activist, nationalist
UGODLWAYO! Yithi! This is a familiar slogan in the Godlwayo Communal Land whenever people are gathered. Yesterday at around 01.00 hrs their Chief, Vezi Maduna Mafu passed away.Chief Maduna was...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:45hrs | 463 | by Pathisa Nyathi
State capture: Time to declare party financiers
SINCE time immemorial, the political class has been defined across the world by class, capital and raw power.In many instances, these groups of people have formed elite pacts to foster their h...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 10:15hrs | 169 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mnangagwa squanders international goodwill
THIS week's decision by the British government to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe's top security officials has thrown President Emmerson Mnangagwa's re-engagement agenda into disarray as the internationa...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:23hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
The new Minister of Foreign Affairs in Zimbabwe puts sanctions in disarray
The United Kingdom of Britain imposed sanctions on three security chiefs plus a minister of state security. If the president of Zimbabwe appoints cde Isaac Moyo who is currently the Director. General ...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 14:16hrs | 4301 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa signs Africa Factbook
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday signed copies of The Africa Factbook and accompanying letters, which will be distributed to the heads of state and government of the other 54 African Union countries. ...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:17hrs | 219 | by Staff reporter
An independent state is the only viable option for the people of Mthwakazi from the MLF president
Greetings to all! It is important to underline in addition to the emphasis on the importance of skills development for Mthwakazi which was published last week, that we look forward to fruitful...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 15:04hrs | 759 | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Zimbabwe chiefs to dump colonial regalia
CHIEFS are set to abandon their colonial regalia as it does not reflect Zimbabwe's traditional heritage and cultural values but cements colonial dominancy. The red and purple gown and round sh...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:48hrs | 1348 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga and the decolonisation of the field of political science
WHILE the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter Rodney, Archie Mafeje, Ali Mazrui, Thabo Mbeki, Asan...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 173 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Chiwenga triggers important political science debate
Black Epistemologies and the Non-Writing PoliticianWhile the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter R...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:41hrs | 1533 | by Richard Mahomva
Mbuya Nehanda's remains must be repatriated first then erection of the statue
One of the greatest achievements of the President of Zimbabwe comrade Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is to honour the heroes. The president has shown that he does not forget those deserving to be honoured...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:40hrs | 1769 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Former Zanu-PF official vows to take Mnangagwa head-on
RECENTLY-EXPELLED Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central official Goodman Tamuona Musariri says he is going to challenge President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy in the courts of law. He allegedly denounced Mna...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 23:25hrs | 6645 | by Staff reporter
Chief Mtshana hero status: A veiled insult on Matabeleland
Although the all-conquering Chief Mtshana, was a bona fide and outstanding freedom fighter of all-time requiring recognition, the recent villainous conferment of hero status on him by the relevance-se...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 09:20hrs | 2963 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Zanu-PF demands heroes' remains from Britain
ZANU-PF is demanding the return of heads of the country's heroes and heroines who were beheaded during the First Chimurenga for decent burials from Britain. This comes as the country is presen...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:26hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Hideous mayoral robe wears thin
A red robe trimmed with black velvet and mock sable fur worn with lace frill, a hat and gold chains have for years made up the city's mayoral regalia. Be it under the hot October sun or the freezing w...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:35hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa shocked by UK hostility
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said he was shocked by the United Kingdom's current hostile attitude towards Zimbabwe, especially considering the two countries' "excellent relations" dating bac...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 06:29hrs | 10107 | by Staff reporter
War vets blast Britain
WESTERN nations such as Britain should snap out from daydreaming that Zimbabwe is still their colony that they can control, Zanu-PF national Political Commissar Victor Matemadanda has said. Th...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 06:10hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe expects good relations with UK'
The National Railways of Zimbabwe Museum in Bulawayo is now a national tourism development site with one of its more enthusiastic visitors being President Mnangagwa who yesterday spent some hours tour...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 06:05hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
Securocrats scale up surveillance
THE State security establishment is reportedly planning to track and attack perceived opponents of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime, with local and foreign based journalists, ex-security officers...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:39hrs | 2749 | by Staff reporter
The Wayward Child
After an uneasy pregnancy and long hours of labour pains, there was a great celebration when baby Lerato was finally born. Lerato was born into a broken family of school dropouts. Her elder siblings n...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 12:05hrs | 797 | by Salom Shilongo
Zanu-PF calls for slavery reparations
Zanu-PF has joined the rest of the continent in calling for reparations from Western countries that enslaved and looted resources from Africa years ago.The clarion call comes as the Namibian G...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 20:30hrs | 1651 | by Staff reporter
Ministers selling out, says Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has accused its ministers of leaking confidential Cabinet minutes to "hostile" countries such as the united Kingdom amid allegations of a rift between President Emmerson Mnangagwa's appointees...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:43hrs | 2517 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF ministers 'leaking confidential Cabinet minutes to the UK'
Zanu PF has accused its ministers of leaking confidential Cabinet minutes to "hostile" countries such as the United Kingdom amid allegations of a rift between President Emmerson Mnangagwa's appointees...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 08:33hrs | 3521 | 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
Malawi leader jets in
MALAWIAN President Lazarus Chakwera is expected to arrive in the country today for a two-day State visit. President Chakwera, who won the Malawi election run-off in June this year, is making h...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:16hrs | 493 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa clears air on land, SA envoys
Taxpayers' funds will not be used to compensate white former commercial farmers for improvements made on farms, but the money will be sourced externally, President Mnangagwa has said.The Presi...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:02hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe not a province of SA, says Zanu-PF
Zimbabwe and South Africa are two independent countries with sovereign rights and some members of African National Congress (ANC) should not harbour notions of coming to meet with opposition parties a...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:42hrs | 574 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF in major climbdown
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa's emissaries yesterday held a closed-door meeting with Zanu-PF officials and later indicated that they would be back in the country "in a month"to engag...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 07:22hrs | 7159 | by Staff reporter
The binding African spirit in challenging the Zimbabwean crisis
The Zimbabwe African Nationalist Union Patriotic Front is indebted to the steeped bona fide pan-Africanist spirit which facilitated the convening of the interparty dialogue with our sister revolutiona...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:51hrs | 365 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Chinamasa warns former colonisers
Zanu-PF acting secretary for Information and Publicity Patrick Chinamasa yesterday said land reform was something that the revolutionary party guarded jealously. Speaking at the ruling party's...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:09hrs | 1035 | by Staff reporter
South Africa interference in Zimbabwe 'problematic'
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's latest diplomatic push to find a solution to the crisis in Zimbabwe drew an angry response from President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesmen on Tuesday.Mn...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 07:50hrs | 5347 | by Staff reporter
Cyberspace new frontier for US regime change agenda
Just a few days ago, while receiving a donation of personal protective equipment (PPE) from the Chinese government, President Mnangagwa pointed out that Zimbabwe was reeling under a sustained cyber-at...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:01hrs | 281 | by Isdore Guvamombe
ED's human rights record as the president of Zimbabwe under scrutiny
Zimbabweans dotted throughout the world woke up on the morning of 14 th January 2019 not feeling particularly patriotic. Tired of long queues, runaway prices very grumpy not patriotic anymore. Very fe...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 00:12hrs | 4853 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza and Amanda Mavhaza
Dr Obert Mpofu: How I joined the struggle at 16
THE Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration and former Cabinet Minister, Dr Obert Moses Mpofu, has penned his autobiography titled: On the Shoulders of Struggle: Memoirs of a Political Insider which amon...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 11:16hrs | 1168 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Transforming the Judiciary in post colonial Zimbabwe
The judiciary forms one of the pillars of democracy in the tripartite alliance known as the Executive,Legislature and Judiciary.The Zimbabwean judicial bench namely the High Court and Supreme Court wa...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 20:04hrs | 248 | by Mzilikazi Zwane
A comprehensive language policy will solve the street naming conundrum in Zimbabwe
I wish to add my voice to the recurrent debate over the naming and renaming of geographical places, particularly streets, in Zimbabwe. The debate over the renaming of physical infrastructure such as s...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 09:02hrs | 1022 | by Dr Vincent Jenjekwa
Julius Malema eats a humble pie
The EFF leader Julius Malema was left with egg shells in his face after realising that he backed a dead horse. Malema did not do a fact finding enquiry before he issued puke on Zimbabwe. Juliu...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 22:55hrs | 23980 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Decolonisation of Zimbabweans
Dear fellow Zimbabweans we need to remove this yoke of bondage and free our minds, spirit and bodies from this Zanu-PF and its government and their colonised leaders' minds that still continue to suff...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 22:08hrs | 1228 | by Mzilikazi Zwane
Mnangagwa to address nation
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is today expected to address the nation as Zimbabweans commemorate Heroes' Day at home due to the threat of Covid-19. Over the years, commemorations were punctuated by spectacular ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 11:49hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
#Blacklivesmatter: Slavery and the church
SLAVERY can be defined as a form humanto-human captivity to extract some servitude of one kind or another. A human thus becomes the property of another. Since time immemorial, slavery has existed for ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:04hrs | 436 | by Prosper Tingini
Tony Blair courts Mnangagwa
FORMER British Prime Minister Tony Blair is prepared to meet President Mnangagwa to lend support to Harare's political and economic reform programme.Relations between Zimbabwe and its former c...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:41hrs | 1708 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, ANC unite against renewed onslaught
African countries have once again become targets of a smear campaign to discredit former liberation war movements, with the continent erstwhile colonisers working with opposition parties to cause disc...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:29hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
Zim signs US$3.5bn White Settler Farmer Deal! Betrayal of Chimurenga!
White Colonial Settlers are going to be compensated by Zimbabweans for land developments they made on the land prior to Land reform exercise. Poor peasants with no land rights to their own pieces of l...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:49hrs | 398 | by Ms Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
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 | 8241 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
West lacks moral high ground to lecture us on human rights
There were many lessons from the total failure of the Western instigated July 31 regime change planned demonstration. The first lesson that must have dawned on local opposition, including their Wester...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:48hrs | 142 | by Ranga Mataire
Zimbabwe election system free and fair and adopted by the world.
Despite the negative publicity Zimbabwe receives from only the west its electoral system has actually been adopted by so many countries and this model is now used worldwide. The concept of election ob...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 21:23hrs | 3260 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Give us our daily bread: Giving thanks
Today I woke up thinking of a certain event that touched my heart a few years ago. This is a true story, and I believe the person concerned would find no qualms in me sharing the story. This is a stor...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 11:30hrs | 463 | by Robert Sigauke, fellow servant in the Lord, Johannesburg
Why I am standing with Hopewell Chin'ono
THE harsh treatment of journalist hopewell Chin'ono has shown the extent to which President Emmerson Mnangagwa can go to protect those robbing future generations of their wealth through unbridled corr...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:13hrs | 1362 | by Obey Manayiti
July 31 will definitely come
Well, July 31 is now five days away; it will come and go largely without incident, but it simply represents the largely mutating strategies of the country's sworn enemies.EONS ago, on one fine...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:55hrs | 1983 | by Bishop
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