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Mnangagwa's Damascene moment
President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced on Thursday that he is in his final term and plans to retire when his tenure ends in 2028. Speaking at the commissioning of the Mutare Teachers' College fruit ju...Published: 06 Jul 2024 at 11:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I regret creating Nelson Chamisa the dictator' Lovemore Chinoputsa says
Former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Deputy Secretary for International Relations and Cooperation, Lovemore Chinoputsa, has become the first opposition leader to call out Nelson Chamisa a dictat...Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 14:58hrs | 1 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Chamisa now building a popular one-man dictatorship
One of Zimbabwe's seasoned political activists Lovemore Chinoputsa has painted a gloomy picture of the state of the opposition, saying its leaders have fundamentally departed from the late Morgan Tsva...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 20:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Drama-filled 2023 ends in tears for CCC
POLITICS, according to social scientists, is loosely translated as a battle to control resources with man putting political contestation as a means to ensure equitable distribution of whatever is foun...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 18:22hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Bona Mugabe divorce, yet another Damascene moment for the republic
The world is not for honest people. I am convinced. Those who toil, break a sweat in various endeavours to make an honest living a...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Triple C: Puny-wise, Pint Foolish!
Obdurate immaturityIT is not like Nelson Chamisa had not been warned, whether by living men or by past circumstances. Both did; yet he still hurtled headlong towards yet another blunder, which...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:56hrs | | by Jamwanda
Jonathan Moyo exposes Kasukuwere?
FORMER Cabinet minister Mr Saviour Kasukuwere tried to bribe his way back into Zanu-PF following the fall of their bid to thwart President Mnangagwa's ascendency in 2017, his erstwhile ally Professor ...Published: 28 Nov 2022 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean political party will not mourn Queen Elizabeth II
LINDA Masarira led fringe political party Labour Economist and Afrikan Democrats (LEAD) say it does not feel compelled to mourn the death of British monarch Queen Elizabeth II over what it described a...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 19:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Sithole, Chikerama honour a Mnangagwa vote buying ruse'
Renowned political analyst and publisher Ibbo Mandaza has described President Emmerson Mnangagwa's belated honour bestowed on Ndabaningi Sithole and James Chikerema as a vote buying gimmick targeted a...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 18:05hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Trevor Ncube's dalliances with Mnangagwa run much deeper
This article on the mysterious and controversial relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and local publisher Trevor Ncube is a summary based on an extract from...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:22hrs | 6 | by Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
'MDC grossly erred on sanctions'
BLESSING Chebundo has seen more than his contemporaries in politics.After starting off as a trade unionist when Zimbabwe gained Independence, then being a founding member of the opposition Mov...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: Illusions of democracy, statesmanship
LAST week CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa was pontificating about the sovereignty of Ukraine, railing against the Russian special mission into its neighbour as a travesty that trampled on international s...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Zimbabwe-Zambia: There goes the puppies again!
OVER the past few months, the political temperature has been heating up as if the country's general elections are scheduled for next year.Watching developments from my poshto has been quite in...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:06hrs | 9 | by Retired Major Action Mandingo
Zimbabwe political parties roll out voter mobilisation
Zanu-PF has gone for broke to attract the elusive youth vote ahead of the crunch 2023 election, including recruiting pastors, socialites and artists in a desperate bid to garner 2.5 million ballots fo...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 13:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance wounds self-inflicted, says analysts
LIKE a deck of jacks, the MDC-Alliance is crumbling, triggering a mass exodus of distressed and disillusioned former officials who are joining Zanu-PF in droves. At the centre of the collapse ...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why I decided to join Zanu-PF
MY political activism dates back to the late 1970s when I actively participated in the armed liberation struggle as a young mujibha attending pungwes in my rural area in Gutu district, Masvingo provin...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:23hrs | | by Obert Gutu
MDC-Alliance: Chickens coming home to roost
The occurrences within the MDC-Alliance have left people wondering if Nelson Chamisa has finally met up with karma and is being beaten up with what he dug up. In Shona, we have a proverb that says "ak...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Prosperity Mzila
Magashule Houdini act, a Damascus moment to Zimbabwean politics
ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule pulled a fast one this past week when he took a swipe at his party's national executive committee saying that only party branches can remove him from his position. ...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 21:05hrs | | by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria
Ginimbi to 'tour' Australia
The arts and entertainment scene definitely has royalty whether for good or bad reasons and the media seems to always feed from that fodder willingly and with such a keen and voracious appetite they s...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 22:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gutu revenging being booted out of MDC Alliance tent - outside pissing in
It is no secret that Obert Gutu's departure from the MDC Alliance was not a harmonious one. He joined up with Thokozani Khupe, another one who refused to join the proposed coalition, to form the MDC-T...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 09:04hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chiwenga to oversee negotiation with striking doctors - Merry Xmas VP, you filthy animal!
"Vice President Constantino Guvheya Nyikadzino Chiwenga has taken over the oversight role on the negotiations between government and striking doctors," reported Bulawayo24.Most people wo...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 07:17hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'Love-in between Grace Mugabe and Mnangagwa'
Kuraone Chihwayi of the opposition MDC party said love-in between Grace Mugabe and President Emmerson Mnangagwa proved the hypocrisy of Zimbabwe's rulers.According to NewZimbabwe.com, Mnangagw...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 08:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's greatest test, camel through needle's eye, was to hold free elections - he failed miserably
The greatest test If Zimbabwe's 2018 elections were free, fair and credible would President Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF junta have won the elections? The answer must be an emphatic YES. ...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 20:19hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Going back to our roots
The 'I receive' mantra is now dying a natural death, followers of later day prosperity Gospel Prophets have had their Damascene Day and most are now trooping back to their traditional churches. What m...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 14:45hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa
Mr Chamisa, it's game over!
IT'S game over, and this writer cannot agree more with the thinker who says, "Good management is what creates results." The same with Paul Hawken's flip-side when he says, "Good management is the art ...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Tendai H. Manzvanzvike
Zimbabwe, yet another opportunity gone begging? Possibly?
November, 2018, another heart stopping moment for Zimbabwe. Could that be the long awaited moment? Many wondered. The long dreamed about dawn when the nation would rediscover its soul? Hadn't the nati...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Dr Ralph Mguni
Mnangagwa's govt in catch-22 situation
Government is caught between a rock and a hard place on whether to use force in quashing escalating anti-Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) protests or stick to its desire to project itself as a refo...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 14:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Election Support Network's damascene moment
In April 2008, Canadian writer and blogger Stephen Gowans wrote an insightful piece in which he revealed the unbelievably intricate web of local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and Western organ...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 06:43hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
'Zimbabwe is going through a democratic process,' says Zanu PF apologist - via yet another rigged election
"Shiri imwe neimwe inemaririro ayo!" Every bird species has its own characteristic song! This is certainly true of Zanu PF propagandists and apologists! Some of the notable characteristic notes in the...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 09:56hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Full Text: Zhuwao reveals why Mugabe will vote for Chamisa
When Nelson Chamisa stated on 19th March 2018 in an SABC interview on that he suspected President Mugabe would vote for him in this 2018 election, my ego, arrogance and emotions refused to accept such...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 12:04hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
'We left all the bad things behind,' says ED - leopard smelling of elephant dung, it is still a killer
Things are bad enough when tyrants bombard the people with their propaganda and brainwash them with falsehoods. Hell breaks loose when the tyrants begin to believe their own propaganda and lies. In Zi...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 16:42hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mugabe allies vow to spoil the meal for Mnangagwa
Former president Robert Mugabe's allies have started coming out of their shells to challenge his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa in a move that is likely to stoke tension between the two Zanu-PF gladiato...Published: 02 May 2018 at 11:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe is open for business!' cried out Mnangagwa in Davos, SA, …now ZITF - still no investors, why
For the last 38 years Zimbabwe's economy has been in decline and yet year on year without failure our political leaders have said steadfastly refused to even acknowledge the decline and talked of econ...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 23:27hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Elections are free if in compliance with constitution,' says Minister - so was 2013, why did we need coup!
"Muromo hauzarirwi nerwizi!" (To big mouth, there is no such thing as flooded river he cannot wade cross!) So, goes the Shona adage. Ever since the November 2017 coup President Mnangagwa and h...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 08:47hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Robert Mugabe: From Hero to Zero
The older generation will recall that in the early part of his leadership of Zimbabwe, former president Robert Mugabe routinely held press conferences in the Airport VIP lounge both when leaving...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 16:19hrs | | by Desmond Kumbuka
Zanu-PF must not fall into the criminal cabal's trap
THE holding of the harmonised elections sometime this year will be the highpoint for judging Operation Restore Legacy and the subsequent events that saw former President Robert Mugabe stepping down fr...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 05:55hrs | | by Hildegarde
The voice of people is the voice of God
IN the tense moments of Zimbabwe's transition on November 20, 2017, then Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa wrote a letter to his former boss, President Robert Mugabe, from an undisclosed location turn...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 05:38hrs | | by Munyaradzi Ndovuyako Ziburawa
The voice of people is the voice of God
IN the tense moments of Zimbabwe's transition on November 20, 2017, then Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa wrote a letter to his former boss, President Robert Mugabe, from an undisclosed location turn...Published: 03 Mar 2018 at 11:28hrs | | by Munyaradzi Ndovuyako Ziburawa
Mnangagwa's hundred days, much ado about nothing
The phrase a Hundred Days was made famous by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on his ascention to the American presidential throne. He promised a new deal for the people of America. Indeed he changed the fac...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 09:37hrs | | by Nqobizitha Dumakude Khumalo.
Peter Dube's suspension lifted
EMOTIONS ran high at Zifa's Annual General Meeting in Harare yesterday with the 58-member assembly differing on a plethora of issues.Members of local football's highest decision making body - ...Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 22:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zifa ropes in Fifa
EMOTIONS ran high at Zifa's Annual General Meeting in the capital yesterday with the 58-member assembly differing on a plethora of issues.Members of local football's highest decision making body -...Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
My simple wish for 2018: that Zimbabweans finally see the sheer futility of taking part in flawed elections, at long last
Power and authority in the hands of ruthless thugs is a curse because wrestling power from thugs and tyrants who claim to have the legal authority to exercise power is one of the toughest challenges o...Published: 31 Dec 2017 at 21:56hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Jonathan Moyo backs MDC Alliance
HARARE - Serial political flip-flopper, Jonathan Moyo, has backed opposition political parties' calls for the west to maintain sanctions on Zimbabwe until the ruling party has introduced noticeable re...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 18:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Jonathan Moyo calls for the US to maintain sanctions on Zimbabwe?
Serial political flip-flopper, Jonathan Moyo, has backed opposition political parties' calls for the west to maintain sanctions on Zimbabwe until the ruling party has introduced noticeable reforms....Published: 16 Dec 2017 at 21:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Many Zimbabweans thought any president would be better than Mugabe
Many Zimbabweans thought any president would be better than Robert Mugabe. What's more, they high hopes that the Crocodile - Emmerson Mnangagwa - had undergone a Dama...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 14:25hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Zanu-PF are hypocrites, says MDC Alliance
The MDC Alliance has said there is need for the ruling Zanu-PF to search its conscience in the way they operate as they have for decades now proved to be hypocrites.This, the Alliance said, wa...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 13:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Mnangagwa - publicly apologise for Gukurahundi
Dear Mr. President First allow me to say congratulations on your ascendancy to the presidency. I must say I was impressed by the smooth plan which led to your rise to the presidency, you reall...Published: 23 Nov 2017 at 14:15hrs | | by Dinika, Adio-Adet T
2 000 attend launch of Mujuru Rainbow Coalition - 2 000 too many to be certified insane
"The train has arrived!" was the buzz phrase at the launched Mai Mujuru's Rainbow Coalition in Bulawayo.2 000 or so people attended the launch. 2 000 or so people too many, I would say. This i...Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 19:44hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa sacking creates Mugabe dynasty
OPPOSITION parties yesterday said the recent expulsion of Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa was part of President Robert Mugabe's grand scheme to create a dynasty by elevating his wife First Lady Grac...Published: 08 Nov 2017 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unite or 'let Satan run away with the Bible,' Mujuru urges Mnangagwa
"Mr Mnangagwa we urge you to make a reflective damascene moment and realise that the National problem is just the Gushungo Dynasty and that its time to join the opposition trenches in resolving the Na...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 15:06hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
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