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Don't you feel envious seeing democracy at work in neighboring countries, Mr. Mnangagwa?
Zimbabwe stands as a glaring anomaly in a region where democratic transitions have become the norm. Since gaining independence in 1980, the country has never experienced a smooth transfer of p...Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 22:34hrs | 317 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chivayo and Russia: Lessons from South Africa
Among those Zimbabweans observing the elections in South Africa was Owen Chikukwa in Cape Town.The loss of power by the African National Congress can easily be explained. Brother Owen put it s...Published: 23 Jun 2024 at 10:46hrs | 12 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Mutarisi confronts Java, Mudiwa Hood
Local businessman Tinashe Mutarisi has issued a stern warning to self-proclaimed prophet Passion Java, who is linked to the ruling Zanu-PF party, over what Mutarisi perceives as "attention-seeking beh...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 05:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How hope dies with every election in Zimbabwe
"People died. The fear of being asked whether you wanted a short or long sleeve cut (cutting your hand or your arm) by soldiers made people vote in fear, not with their heads. We were voting with our ...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 13:10hrs | 1 | by Beauty Dhlamini
Zanu-PF defends lavish spending on Mayweather
Zanu-PF has come out guns blazing defending the lavish spending and Hollywood-style treatment given to former world Welterweight boxing champion, Floyd Mayweather Jnr by gold dealer Pedzisai "Scott" S...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 07:00hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's undying legacy
THE 1st of July 2023 marks 24 years since the passing away of Zimbabwe's former Vice-President of Zimbabwe, Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo, after a long battle with cancer.Nko...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 09:09hrs | | by Taona Blessing Denhere
Arsenal buckle under the pressure
The only real surprise about Manchester City's march to a fifth Premier League crown in six seasons is that a callow Arsenal side managed to keep Pep Guardiola's serial winners honest for such a long ...Published: 20 May 2023 at 20:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gold smugglers use South African banks, bribes to launder money
Several key officials at three major South African banks are helping a gold smuggling gang launder millions of dollars of dirty cash in exchange for regular bribes, an Al Jazeera investigation has fou...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 17:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Who are Zimbabwe's Gold Mafia?
They operate from the shadows. Al Jazeera's latest investigation, The Gold Mafia, brings their crimes out into the open. Last week, Part 1 of ‘Who are the Gold Mafia?‘ dove into the lives of some ...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa-Malema handshake impossible in Zimbabwe as EFF no threat to ANC rule!
As much as this may shock many - the African continent is full of 'democratic leaders' - but, there is always one catch......their tolerance and good-heartedness towards the opposition is on t...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 18:57hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chatunga makes Jonathan Moyo a babarian
Chiwenga moved from the barracks to state House while Phelekezela Mphoko was there in the structures. This is according to Chatunga Mugabe son of the late rabid tribalist, genocidal, dictator Robert M...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Paranoid Zimbabwe regime that sees enemies everywhere can't be trusted with solving country's problem!
In our growing up, we were told of individuals who were always prone to accusing their enemies (whether real or imagined) for everything that went wrong in their lives.When they fell sick, in ...Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 09:27hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The Mundoza tree has become an oracle
The two trees stand side by side as if nature's siblings, one a Casternabar and the other a 'Mutohwe'. One is domesticated and the other wild but they are both fruit trees. Their combined cano...Published: 08 May 2022 at 15:35hrs | 8 | by Mutanda Wachingama
Stalinist approach to COVID-19 vaccines only fuels more hesitancy and skepticism!
The easiest way to make someone mistrust and distrust you (arousing suspicions about you), is to act as if you are hiding something from him....Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 08:41hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Despite OECD tax fixing, Wyoming remains a top choice for incorporation
According to SBA figures, small companies account for 99.9% of all enterprises in the United States and employ 47.1% of all workers. Thousands of new businesses open each year, and many of them strugg...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 22:43hrs | 5 | by Staff Writer
Is Guvamatanga altogether there?
An observation made by my daughter, Dr Rumbi, when she was 27 years old has haunted me ever since. Dr Rumbi was preparing for her doctoral defence on governance, and she had returned from a research t...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Hallucinating and fabricating falsehood about Nelson Chamisa
Activism has multiple dimensions and interpretations: Every individual defines for herself/ himself what one wants to achieve at the end of the day. On Bulawayo 24 media there was an article w...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:46hrs | 7 | by Nomazulu Thata
Hallucinating and fabricating falsehood about Nelson Chamisa and Hakainde Hichilema: When activism loses its cause-and-effect!
Activism has multiple dimensions and interpretations: Every individual defines for herself/ himself what one wants to achieve at the end of the day. On Bulawayo24 media there was an article written by...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 12:57hrs | 8 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa and Charamba are envious of Zambia's democracy
The day you remove the name George (Charamba) in your birth certificate is the day you will be able to think wisely. Your first name gives you hallucinations. A spokesperson who does not even respect ...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 08:13hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Will Zimbabwe ever have any elder statesmen since our leaders want to die in office?
As the entire African continent in general, and the southern region in particular, keep their eyes firmly focused on the exceedingly emulable events unfolding in Zambia - with yet another smooth democ...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 17:16hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Is it some kind of a curse to be a Zimbabwean?
"Is it some kind of a curse to be a Zimbabwean? Why does it appear as if we are always one of those unfortunate countries to be presided over by some of the worst leaders on the planet?"These ...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 15:37hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Civics must drive the VP's office
In our new kind of normal, where restraint, moral integrity and sound values have been replaced by lumpen orgy, profanity and clown foolery, I meet the question: So what do you think of the latest VP ...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:15hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
Air Zimbabwe, the nation's pride
ON Monday, early in the morning, Government officials set camp at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport awaiting the arrival of the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines, a gift from China that c...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 05:53hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Crisis' in Zimbabwe: A neighbour's perspective
From as far back as May, several individuals and organisations from Zimbabwe, the region and beyond have been pushing the baseless and politically-mischievous narrative that Zimbabwe is mired in a cri...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:46hrs | | by Pardon Muzavazi
Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics
The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Powerful political enemies out to finish Magaya
Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries found and preacher Walter Magaya is a household name in Zimbabwe. Magaya commands crowds that would make any politician jealous and envious of the pr...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 14:35hrs | | by Nicholas Ncube
Mnangagwa's big-man politics of populism
FRENCH West Indian political philosopher and revolutionary, Frantz Fanon made an interesting observation in his book, The Wretched of the Earth that those who took over leadership were envious of the ...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 08:09hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Deaths on black women on the rise in Germany; how many deaths will it take until we know that too many women have died?
The cold-blood murders of black women in Germany are not German men as such but African men. Bremen-North is plunged into a shock, the newspapers are filled with a recent event of a mother murdered by...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:09hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa's battle of Populism vs Constitutionalism
INTRODUCTION The High Court sitting at Harare dealt a body-blow to Nelson Chamisa's leadership of the MDC on 8 May 2019. In the case of Elias Mashavira vs. Movement for Democratic Chan...Published: 11 May 2019 at 14:48hrs | | by David Tinashe Hofisi
Jonathan Moyo fires shots at Mnangagwa
Exiled former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has fired warning shot at President Emmerson Mnangagwa'a government telling him that he is presiding over a wilting banana republic which has rea...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 09:59hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Godmother Queen Wezhira defiantly sits bare on Mthwakazi
In our culture, when the legendary flowery Eve sits bare and exhibits her rhino horn, the descendants of Adam have to look aside and scurry for cover! Conversely, this time it should be a different ba...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 09:41hrs | | by Muntukaziwa
Hate and self determination
As the third window for national dialogue in Zimbabwe slowly closes due to the number of unmet preconditions and ideal settings for the proposed dialogue, I am reminded of my past works written five y...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 15:08hrs | | by Terence Simbi
Sipho Pityana is a 'drama queen', 'angry old man'
Black Business Council (BBC) president Sandile Zungu has responded to a scathing open letter from Sipho Pityana by questioning "the ethics and drama queen antics" of Pityana and calling him an "angry ...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 18:45hrs | 2 | by City Press
Knives out for Obert Mpofu
It never rains but pours for Obert Mpofu, the Zanu PF secretary for administration who is being frustrated by a group of former liberation war fighters who want him out. Dr Mpofu is topping th...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Are civil servant persecuted for Mugabe's sake??
At least with respect to political appointees, not only is this allowed, but it actually happens every time an Administration changes. Zimbabwe had never had a meaningful administration change in thir...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 16:41hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Electric Tesla car causes stir on Zimbabwe social media
A white electronic Tesla Model X has caused a stir on social media in fuel-starved Zimbabwe, with people envious of the fact that the car can skip the long queues for petrol and diesel....Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 10:03hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Fresh turmoil rocks Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
Trouble is brewing in Zanu-PF, with some militant war veterans pushing for former Cabinet ministers now stationed at the party's Harare headquarters to be expelled from the former liberation movement ...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bass' compare 'messy' USA elections to Zim's rigged elections is Antoinette's 'eat cake!'
"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!" (Let them eat cake!) is what Queen Marie Antoinette is said to have said on learning that the peasants had no bread. USA Congresswoman Karen Bass' callous indifference ...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:22hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
US Congresswoman urges Chamisa to accept defeat
United States Congresswoman Karen Bass has urged MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to accept the outcome of the July 30 elections won by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and push to win the next polls in...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 09:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of party regalia, elections
HARDLY two weeks before the 2018 polls scheduled for July 30, supporters of various parties have sought to paint towns and cities and even rural outposts or wherever their party will be holding meetin...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 11:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Machete-wielding gang in court
FIVE members of a machete-wielding gang that pounced on a shebeen in Mbizo suburb in Kwekwe and randomly attacked imbibers, killing two and injuring three have appeared in court facing murder and atte...Published: 16 Jun 2018 at 21:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
We played your game for too long
As present day events unfold in front of me, I enviously look back at my past, and characters that were around me when I grew up. The picture of my late grandmother, (Mbuya Chikaka) flashes vividly in...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 17:34hrs | | by Garikai Mafirakureva
Zimbabwean man places pregnant wife's picture on SA billboard
While other husbands show off their love for their spouses on social media through selfies on birthdays, Valentine's Day and the like, for Nhlanhla Nxumalo that was not enough.The man based in...Published: 19 May 2018 at 10:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa's open-mouth-shut-mind freestyle
One of the emerging discourses around the forthcoming elections in Zimbabwe centres firmly on the hitherto untested leadership qualities of Nelson Chamisa, leader of the MDC-Alliance.Chamisa w...Published: 10 May 2018 at 06:57hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Mnangagwa to roll out Zanu-PF election roadmap
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is set to roll out Zanu-PF's election roadmap on Friday next week as he launches the party's manifesto. In an interview yesterday, zanu-pf Secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu ...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe type 'coup' can't be repeated elsewhere in the world'
OPERATION Restore Legacy which saw the resignation of former president Mugabe is an unprecedented miracle which cannot be repeated elsewhere in the world, Presidential spokesperson Mr George Charamba ...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe is right, Chamisa is right
With the benefit of hindsight, most would believe mainstream opposition leaders ought to have made better decisions on various key issues dogging their parties and opposition politics in the country. ...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 10:04hrs | | by Robert Sigauke, Political Analyst, Johannesburg
Mrs Masuku: she gaffed!
This boot-licking is so contagious it has become a disease; it's pandemic: this disease does not belong to any political party of ethnic group in the country. Be it Shona or Ndebele or of white race t...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 20:56hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
She turned him down free touristic, free boarding in Germany: NUST Professor insults her hard!
A woman of 64 years, I have been officially pensioned beginning of January 2018 at the same time can continue working for another 5 years if I so wished. My age will inform that under normal circumsta...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Chanakira vies for Harare town clerk job
Nigel Chanakira headlines a stellar cast of top names vying for the coveted Harare town clerk Job.The Daily News can report that Chanakira, founder of the now defunct Kingdom bank and current ...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 17:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
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