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Is Zimbabwe on the brink of collapse?
Zimbabwe is standing at a dangerous crossroads as the nation endures an escalating energy crisis that threatens its economy, livelihoods, and future prospects. The recent wave of prolonged pow...Published: 18 Dec 2024 at 13:05hrs | 1931 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans are educated for nothing: A nation of intellectuals with no voice
Zimbabwe is a country blessed with a wealth of intellectual capital.Its people are among the most educated in Africa, with a strong tradition of academic excellence, particularly in fields lik...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 14:26hrs | 35632 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Siya Kolisi's marriage crumbles
Springbok rugby player Siya Kolisi and his wife Rachel on Tuesday afternoon, released a joint statement announcing that they have decided to end their marriage.The shocking news comes just aft...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 19:45hrs | 2443 | by Staff reporter
Zille, DA exploits ANC turmoil to 'push own political agenda'
On June 30, 2024, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that eleven political parties had joined the multiparty coalition, which he called the 'Government of National Unity (GNU).'The United Afr...Published: 06 Oct 2024 at 13:59hrs | 816 | by Bheki Mngomezulu
Ramaphosa's political authority crumbles under DA and coalition pressure
In South Africa's evolving political arena, the Democratic Alliance (DA) is increasingly challenging the African National Congress (ANC) with newfound vigour, placing President Cyril Ramaphosa's leade...Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 09:06hrs | 1736 | by Michael Andisile Mayalo
Zanu-PF has betrayed Zimbabwe war heroes
Zimbabwe's opposition parties claim that the sacrifices of the country's heroes have been betrayed by those in power, who have shown brutality, violated human rights, engaged in rampant corruption wit...Published: 13 Aug 2024 at 17:14hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Why is Zanu-PF opening branches and office in South Africa?
Out of all liberation parties in Africa, Zanu PF is the only one that is opening offices and branches in all major South African cities and beyond. For an independent country like Zimbabwe, an embassy...Published: 17 May 2024 at 13:45hrs | 21 | by Israel Dube
Opposition Politics in Zimbabwe, 1999 - 2024: An Obituary
Advocate Nelson Chamisa's capitulation last week at the behest of the fifth column led by Sengezo Tshabangu was the final nail in opposition politics in Zimbabwe. Armed with state institutions and exp...Published: 03 Feb 2024 at 09:09hrs | 6 | by Innocent Mpoki
House crumbles in Kwekwe
A Kwekwe family escaped death by a whisker after their flat at Globe and Phoenix compound caved in due to illegal mining underneath the compound.Family spokesperson, Ms Kimberly Rusike, said t...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
July Moyo's empire crumbles
Literature pundits, especially those who have read William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar would be familiar with the reason Brutus participated in the murder of his very close friend.Brutus justi...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:16hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Opposition 4ED crumbles like a deck of cards
It never rains but pours for MDC-T leader Mr Douglas Mwonzora. The centre is not holding at his party which he unconstitutionally grabbed from Nelson Chamisa with the help of President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 13:25hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe paying the price for not holding leaders to account
AS much Zimbabwe scares me, sometimes!It is terribly unsettling and outright creepy, to say the least, whenever I watch how some Zimbabweans treat their leaders.I try to imagine if I h...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:27hrs | | by Tendai R Mbofana
Let's not be a nation of stooges!
Zimbabwe scares me, sometimes!It is terribly unsettling and outright creepy, to say the least, whenever I watch how some Zimbabweans treat their leaders....Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 19:17hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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
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 | 8 | by Bishop Laz
Zimbabweans' fear of their oppressors makes them an attractive magnet for dictators!
I have often wondered whether Zimbabweans were the easiest people to oppress on this planet.I once even wrote any article, some years ago, postulating that Zimbabweans themselves were the main...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:45hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnagagwa and Zanu-pf are defeatable
There is a despondency nationwide about the prospect of unseating a Zanu-PF government together with its leader ED Mnangagwa. It is sad that the ordinary man in the street now believes that Zanu-PF is...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 07:53hrs | | by Zakhele Maphosa
ANC crumbles under Cyril Ramaphosa
UNDER President Cyril Ramaphosa, the ANC seems to be falling apart. The once-glorious movement seems to be a former shadow of its past. These sentiments are shared by, among others, the staff ...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dairibord, Dendairy merger crumbles
MULTI-MILLION-DOLLAR historic merger between the country's largest and second largest milk processor by market share Dairibord Holdings Limited, and Kweke-based Dendairy has crumbled, one of the parti...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Eradicating extreme poverty critically essential
The World Bank Economic Update on Zimbabwe released in June 2021 contains some worrying trends on the increase in extreme poverty in the country. The report points that the number of extremely poor re...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 13:27hrs | 9 | by Victor Bhoroma
A wave of political change blowing over SADC region
The recent events characterizing developments happening in the Sadc region are pointers to a very big change in the political arena of region.The current wave of protests and looting in South ...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 21:56hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Mugabe business empire crumbles
THE late former president Robert Mugabe's business empire has crumpled amid revelations that Gushungo Dairy Estate is being leased to a company linked to a millionaire businessman.A once thriv...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 08:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe's business empire crumbles
THE blistering sun scorches vast swathes of lush green land in the picturesque Mazowe Valley, 40 kilometres north of Harare, as the November heat takes a toll on the baked surface below.It is ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 05:25hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Karo's US$4 billion venture crumbles?
PLANS by Karo Resources (Karo) to set up a US$4,2 billion platinum mining venture and a processing plant in Darwendale after it was controversially allocated claims previously held by Zimplats are cru...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira's world crumbles further
The Zanu-PF Mashonaland West province yesterday recalled incarcerated former Tourism minister Priscah Mupfumira from Parliament and central committee.Speaking at the provincial co-ordinating c...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos as MDC Money Club crumbles
A grocery importation club run by the MDC Bulawayo Provincial Women's Assembly has spectacularly crumbled amid widespread allegations that the head of the scheme has misused an estimated R7000 c...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 08:44hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
State case against Dr Parirenyatwa crumbles
The state's case against former Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa is faltering.This follows one of the key state witnesses and former Natpharm board chairperson Dr Goerge Wa...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 16:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
James Makamba's empire crumbles
PROMINENT businessman Mr James Makamba's empire seems to be crumbling after the High Court placed his Kestrel Corporation under provisional judicial management as Mr George Manyere fights to recover h...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 22:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo lawsuit crumbles
Former Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo's $9 million defamation lawsuit against Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) and its journalists crumble...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Komichi case crumbles?
THE chief witness in the case of MDC deputy president Morgen Komichi, who is being accused of disrupting the announcement of the presidential results last year, told the court yesterday that he report...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kukura Kurerwa empire crumbles
Former transport powerhouse Kukura Kurerwa is set to lose its fleet of buses and haulage trucks at a liquidation auction sale scheduled for next week. The auction will be conducted on November 23 at H...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's world crumbles
THE once powerful Joice Mujuru's political career is collapsing like a deck of cards. Her close allies are lining up to desert her following a poor showing in the July 30 elections.Former Zanu...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 18:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's legitimacy bid crumbles
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's extensive public relations campaign to position himself as a reformer and leader of a new dispensation in Zimbabwe has crumbled like a deck of cards. This is after the d...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 11:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe will not go to bed with gangsters
Talks to reunite the feuding MDC-T factions have virtually collapsed with the Thokozani Khupe-led formation saying it will not go to bed with a political outfit that is full of gangsters and is about ...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 16:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mangoma's coalition crumbles
THE Coalition of Democrats (CODE) is on the verge of collapse as more founder members pull out of because of what they called the "directionless" and "selfishness" of the alliance's leadership, NewZim...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
$206m highway crumbles before commissioning
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development has instituted an inquiry to ascertain the state and standard of the 800-kilometre Plumtree-Mutare Highway after comp...Published: 04 Mar 2018 at 17:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Churches warn MDC-T
FEUDING MDC-T leaders must peacefully resolve their squabbles before the opposition party crumbles, a situation which will threaten national unity and social cohesion, the Zimbabwe Council of Churches...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa's world crumbles
When it rains, it pours. The old adage rings true in the case of Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa after the association's former chief executive Jonathan Mashingaidze came out guns blazing, accusing th...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Bona Mugabe's empire crumbles
THE construction of former President Robert Mugabe's daughter, Bona Chikore's sprawling property in the leafy suburb of Umwinsidale in Harare has reportedly stalled following the ousting of her father...Published: 07 Dec 2017 at 05:45hrs | | by Shepherd Tozvireva
Bona Mugabe's empire crumbles
THE construction of former President Robert Mugabe's daughter, Bona Chikore's sprawling property in the leafy suburb of Umwinsidale in Harare has reportedly stalled following the ousting of her father...Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Mnangagwa
Hello Mr Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, hope this letter find you in good health.All along , why comrade you were failing to see that the party was glirding to a wrong direction?Why tell...Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 07:23hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Our future lies in the mist of political confusion
We are in a more intricate political conundrum today than at any other time in our history post-independence. Our future lies in the mist of political confusion, making it difficult to determine....Published: 23 Oct 2017 at 06:56hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
The Mupedzanhamo Revolution in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has been ruled by President Robert Gabriel Mugabe since 1980. He won all elections he contested. Since the constitution originally did not limit the presidency to two terms, he recently amend...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 16:48hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Jonathan Moyo's ZACC arrest challenge crumbles
The Constitutional Court has dismissed Professor Jonathan Moyo's application challenging the legality of his arrest by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC).The challenge emanates fro...Published: 20 Sep 2017 at 13:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Outrage over Grace Mugabe's SA episode
HARARE - Zimbabweans have reacted angrily to First Lady Grace Mugabe's brush with the law in South Africa where she faces charges of severely assaulting a 20-year-old model, Gabriella Engels she had f...Published: 20 Aug 2017 at 17:43hrs | | by Zodwa Wabantu
Confusion over police roadblocks
The Home Affairs ministry insists it is committed to the decision to limit roadblocks to 40 countrywide, but opposition and rights campaigners said the pronouncement was a half-hearted first step....Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 13:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere's world crumbles
ZANU-PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere's political career hangs in the balance after ruling party structures in his home province, Mashonaland Central, turned against him and staged a demo...Published: 04 Apr 2017 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabes' opulent lifestyle
"THIS ultra-exclusive, ultra-private neighbourhood boasts huge mansion-like villas, each unique in layout and design. Enveloped in lush, tasteful landscaping, many properties enjoy views over the ...Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 13:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutasa and Gumbo are just dwarfs in large robes
In 2014, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi the foreign affairs minister had the audacity to boast to his peers at the SADC summit held in Victoria falls, saying that even if the economy crumbles, Zimbabweans wil...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 15:26hrs | | by Whitlaw Mugwiji
Tichaona Zindoga was right Mutasa and Gumbo are just dwarfs in large robes
In 2014, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi the foreign affairs minister had the audacity to boast to his peers at the SADC summit held in Victoria falls, saying that even if the economy crumbles, Zimbabweans wil...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 00:09hrs | | by Whitlaw Mugwiji
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