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Who is reaping now?
In recent years, Zimbabwe has witnessed a rather alarming phenomenon: the emergence of what can only be described as "gospel-preneurs." These are individuals who have cunningly crafted churches with t...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 22:56hrs | 1 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
'By-election to put the final nail in Ostallos Siziba political coffin'
CCC Spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba finds himself at the crossroads of political uncertainty as his fortunes take a nosedive following his recall by CCC Interim Secretary General Sengezo Tshaban...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 10:18hrs | 10 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Chamisa in a catch-22 situation
I MUST begin by apologising, dear reader, for not informing you that I will no longer deliver my instalment weekly as had become the tradition.I received a few inquiries and some scolding from...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 19:16hrs | | by Ntando Dumani
On inflation Mthuli Ncube must listen to Chinamasa and Gono, 'in the know' advised Moyo. A very sick joke.
Professor Jonathan Moyo would be fountain of wisdom if only his contributions are not more often than not laced with propaganda, lies and damned lies whose sole purpose is to poison the mind. ...Published: 26 May 2023 at 10:22hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
18 Binga schools post 0% pass rate and Zanu PF post 80% rural vote regardless - thx to voter rigging mastery
"18 Binga schools record 0% passes!" screamed the headlines in Newsday Zimbabwe and Bulawayo24. "At least 18 schools in Binga, Matabeleland North province, recorded a zero percent pass rate at...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 15:02hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
CCC hell bent on participating in 2023 regardless rigging and damned consequences
The 2023 Zimbabwe elections will be taking place by August 2023, that is seven months to go. The political temperature is rising!When Emmerson Mnangagwa seized power following the November 201...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 07:25hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zupco fare hike a harbinger of what lies ahead
THESE are, indeed, interesting times.The State-controlled Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) last week hiked its fares as well as the exchange rate for all its routes. This increase com...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
By-elections: The morning after
ZANU-PF's Wednesday St Mary's rally was a turning point in several ways. Of course, the most obvious marker were the numbers that attended, something even the blind could see and feel.I cannot...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:14hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
Ramaphosa under pressure to decant indifference to Zanu PF rigging 2023 elections
The worsening economic situation in SA is forcing ANC to revisit its indifference to Zimbabwe's curse of rigged elections and bad governance. SA cannot afford a new wave of economic and/or political r...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 13:09hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it!' Magaisa will baffle you with bullshit
"'Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.'" argued Nicholas Clairmont in Big Think."The quote is most likely due to writer and philosopher George Santayana, and in its original...Published: 12 Aug 2021 at 06:51hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Auxilia Mnangagwa more than a hero, she deserves the award
As Zimbabwe prepares to honour their living and non-living heroes in an annually occasion, the president in his wisdom has taken this opportunity to honour some people past and present heroes. ...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 23:37hrs | 4 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Zimbabwe has 2 747 covid-19 related deaths' - what is nauseating is some still believe the lie
Zimbabweans are a naive and gullible people, easily fooled; hence the reason the country is in such a mess. Indeed, in some cases as now we like to be fooled so we do not have to deal with the consequ...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Zimbabwe's covid-19 response in the best in Africa' bragged Zanu PF - damned lie and an insult
"Despite Zimbabwe's COVID-19 response being one of the best on the continent as evidenced by fewer deaths and infections as compared to other nations, for government, a single death is one too many," ...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 15:04hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
If you sow mischief, you harvest grief
IN 2019, Zimbabwe experienced three days of darkness between January 14 and January 17.It seemed looneys had broken from the asylum and set fire on the tinderbox.Chaos and madness reig...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Conned to trade freedoms and rights for 'peace and prosperity' only to lose all to Banana Republic - haven't learnt lesson
Mnangagwa and Zanu PF do not like anything that threatens the regime's iron grip on power. The soaring numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths in Zimbabwe have been an eye opener for many Zimbabweans....Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 16:28hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
The curse of education?
I was jolted by a friend's tweet last night. It said "I have learnt much in my life… but the biggest stumbling block to my learning has been my education!"So it turns out, life is really one...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 18:59hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
'MDC does not discuss strategies on twitter' - never had any, dare you to name just one
Opposition MDC President Nelson Chamisa has refused to divulge his party's strategy and plans on social media.Chamisa was responding to a Twitter user who asked for a way forward in relation t...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 09:05hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa's MDC at crossroads: Damned if they do, damned if they don't
FOR the best part of the last 12 months, the MDC has been threatening to roll out demonstrations and mass protests to either force President Emmerson Mnangagwa out of power or at least to the negotiat...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
'Youth will rescue Zimbabwe' - no, only strong minds will; age, war hero irrelevant and failed
It was the great Greek philosopher Socrates, 2 500 years ago, who said "STRONG MINDS DISCUSS IDEAS, AVERAGE MINDS DISCUSS EVENTS AND WEAK MINDS DISCUSS PEOPLE."Socrates lived during the golden...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:16hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa's govt re-ignites currency debate
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's remarks over the weekend that Zimbabwe would have a fully-fledged local currency before the end of the year, ending the multi-currency regime enacted in 2009, effectivel...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:25hrs | | by Brett Chulu
Mnangagwa's dilemma over Dabengwa
TO go or not to go? That is the question. And damned if he does; damned if he does not.This is the dilemma President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces tomorrow over whether or not to attend the burial ...Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reels over security sector reform
AS the European Union (EU) and Zimbabwe prepare to resume formal re-engagement talks, with Brussels insisting on sweeping reforms, including security sector overhaul, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is b...Published: 17 May 2019 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa lured 2018 voters with war tales' - damned lie, he rigged the election
As Zimbabwe's economy sinks deeper and deeper into the morass the tension and panic in Zanu PF circles is palpable. The regime rigged last year's elections and was super confident that it will rig the...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 07:43hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Sanctions do not target povo' USA explained, again - link to free elections is not obvious to brainwashed
"The U.S. does not maintain comprehensive sanctions against Zimbabwe. Suggestions that the U.S. intends to harm the Zimbabwean people with sanctions are false and misleading," explained the US Embassy...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 11:06hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Ncube et al on yet another 'global roadshow' to lure investors - whilst Zim remains a pariah state, will lure no one
The real tragedy in Zimbabwe is that we have a regime that knows it will never ever be held to account for anything and so it has said and done as it jolly well pleased. It has made promises only to b...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 21:36hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa tells AU leaders ahead of summit 'opposition instigated recent violence' - another damned lie
Whilst a nation like German has earned a reputation for being confident and competent, Zimbabwe is now notorious for Zanu PF leaders' hen's teeth tales! Every time something fishy happens in Zimbabwe ...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:42hrs | 5 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Concern over using of children during riots
CHILDREN are considered as the voiceless and innocent and are often susceptible to various forms of abuse by social misfits and political vultures who use them in skirmishes for their selfish gain and...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 11:55hrs | 2 | by Peter Matika
Motlanthe proposed GNU will NOT 'move Zimbabwe forward' - stop trading bronze for gold
"PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is in a catch-22 situation over whether to implement recommendations of the Motlanthe commission of inquiry into the August 1 post-election violence, which urged him to e...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 15:34hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'In politics, treachery is inevitable'
The book 'Junctions' in one way is a celebration of the coup that toppled long-ruling Robert Mugabe, ushering in President Emmerson Mnangagwa - for a long time the former president's right hand man. ...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:08hrs | | by Staf reporter
Mnangagwa considered illegitimate by The West
WHEN Emmerson Mnangagwa took over the presidency following the November 2017 coup that toppled Zimbabwe's long-time ruler Robert Mugabe, he did not waste time in telling the world that his government ...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 10:40hrs | | by Simukai Tinhu
'Our economic fundamentals are sound' - not whilst remain a pariah state
It is John Acton who said, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." In countries like Zimbabwe where the great majority of the peo...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 07:33hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
How we Squandered Chance for Real Political Change
I am one of those who did not cheer when the military coup happened in Zimbabwe almost a year ago. I was traveling from the DRC as the tanks rolled into the city and in Zimbabwe when Mugabe was finall...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 12:42hrs | 5 | by Siphosami Malunga
Chamisa fuelling strife
The night is always darkest before dawn. The people of Zimbabwe should bear with the Government, that while it is trying to resuscitate the economy that has been battered for 20years fuelled by ...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 09:02hrs | | by Prosperity Mzila
The stupidity of the Majority - Zimbabwe Post Election 2018
Zimbabwe is fast becoming a nation of idiots who consistently vote for a party that has tormented them throughout the years since independence in 1980. There are various groups of these shallow-minded...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 15:42hrs | | by Sibusisiwe Tshuma
ED 'will woo investors' in maiden UNGA speech - no takers, given Mugabe mark-2 reputation
The Zanu PF apologists, spin-doctors and propagandists are out like the cicada flooding the world with nose. Their mission is to flood all available space with colourful portrait of Mnangagwa as a com...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 19:59hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'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
ZEC launch peace liaison committees but admit have 'no legal basis' - gimmick with no soul to be damned
ZEC has launched the Multi-party Liaison Committees with the usual fun fare but readily acknowledge they toothless guard dogs!"The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has intensified its prepa...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'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
Command this and that and Zim Airways: A lighter look
AFTER much brainstorming and scratching of heads on how to turn around Air Zimbabwe's failing fortunes, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Cabinet had acquired a few bald heads.The airline was sad...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Tapiwa Nyandoro
Women can think on their own
When Fadzai Mahere expressed her desire to stand as an independent candidate, many people accused her of being used by Zanu PF to split the opposition vote. Having listened to the people's concerns, w...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 11:21hrs | | by Whitlaw Mugwiji
Making Zimbabwe Incorporated work
In 1998, Zimbabwe deployed its military to the Democratic Republic of Congo to fight rebels backed primarily by Rwanda and Uganda.Since then, Zimbabwe and Rwanda did their best to ignore each ...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why the Opposition should be putting Zimbabwe first
For many decades, Zimbabwean policy was dictated by the whims of one person who treated our nation like a fiefdom and whose deals and investments were purely for his own benefit.Thankfully, si...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 12:26hrs | | by Tawanda, Bulawayo
'You want lunch in Dubai!' Chivayo taunt MPs - MPs accepting bribes is accepted gravy train etiquette
"What were MPs expecting to find on a site for a potential solar power station? A triple story 10 bedroomed mansion with a tennis court and a swimming pool?" commented Nicknell Chiyayo, the young bucc...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 20:30hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa's coup hero status is washing off fast, by elections time the vote rigging thug is back
I remember the scenes in the Streets of Harare on Saturday 18 November 2017 as if it was only yesterday. It you were a soldier wearing ZDF uniform you were a hero per excellence! The nation and the wo...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'We are stuck with ED,' says Cross - nonsense, only if MDC contest flawed elections again
Zimbabwe's curse is not only in having Zanu PF, a party of corrupt, vote rigging, coup staging and murderous thugs but to be stuck with the regime because we also have a corrupt, incompetent and utter...Published: 10 Jan 2018 at 06:30hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
SADC 'tolerate violent and rigged elections,' says Tsvangirai - what chutzpah
"Over the years, Mr. Mugabe has presided over violent and rigged elections. Unfortunately, regional bodies have tolerated this for far too long. Mr Mugabe manipulates the voters roll, ballot papers an...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 06:32hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Decoloniality and critical encounters
I found my sorry self in the unenviable position of addressing the Pharisees of quality and standards in South African higher education.The police officers and magistrates of the academy. The ...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:23hrs | 1 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
'Ideology is glue binding Mugabe and Zanu PF,' says Noyes - nonsense, it WAS loot
"Mugabe and the senior echelons of Zimbabwe's military share a nationalist liberation ideology wrought during the fight for independence from white rule during the 1960s and 1970s. Mugabe and ZANU-PF ...Published: 09 Aug 2017 at 22:06hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
I was a miracle baby...and no prophet was needed
It is always troubling to witness the countless Christians who gullibly succumb to the wiles and deception of prophets and other 'man of God', who lure them into believing that they need their prayers...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 09:53hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Open letter to prophet Magaya
It all started in Nigeria when prophetical wave came on international radar . The church in Nigeria is one of the biggest foreign currency earners attributed to millions of foreign visitors seeking di...Published: 05 Jul 2017 at 14:23hrs | | by Enos Denhere
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