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Failed state warning for South Africa

Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) chief executive Busi Mavuso says that businesses cannot function properly in a failed state, but partnering with the government to fix its failures comes at a steep cost.The key signals of a failed s…

Published: 11 Aug 2025 at 10:10hrs | 740 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo councillors split over Egodini mall project

City councillors remain deeply divided on how to handle the stalled Egodini Mall redevelopment, as frustrations mount among residents over continued delays and traffic congestion attributed to the failed project.During a heated full counci…

Published: 07 Aug 2025 at 09:00hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter

Has democracy failed in Zimbabwe?

This is the million-dollar question we all need to ask ourselves.Democracy, by its very nature, is a noble and necessary concept. It is anchored on the principle that every human being, regardless of race, colour, creed, or religion, …

Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 22:28hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Botswana's Boko is right: any president who wants to remain in power for more than 10 years has failed

The truth, although unpalatable at times, shall set us free.When Botswana's President Duma Boko recently declared that any president who desires to hold on to power beyond ten years is "instantly a failure," he wasn't merely making a polit…

Published: 25 Apr 2025 at 14:19hrs | 556 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

The day Sadc failed

THREE weeks ago, the regional bloc,Southern African Development Community (Sadc), hosted the 44th summit in Harare.The summit saw Zimbabwe becoming the chair of the region for the next 12 months, but worryingly, no discussion was done abou…

Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 10:12hrs | 225 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu

Zimbabwe heading nowhere faster!

I HAVE noticed a very disturbing trend in Zimbabwe - which I strongly believe is one of the main reasons why we are not moving forward as a nation.As much as there is polarisation in the political realm,  there is also polarisation in…

Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 07:14hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Zimbabwe govt has failed us, says teachers

TEACHERS yesterday said they felt let down by government following its decision to export teachers to Rwanda while the country is facing an acute shortage of teachers.The country's education sector requires an estimated 200 000 teachers.La…

Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:23hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Failed Zimbabwe govt economic policy met with excuses

I AM not an economist or financial fundi neither was I good nor enjoyed such subjects as economics and accounting, in high school but, to use a cliche, it does not take a rocket scientist to lose confidence in someone who has continually f…

Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:35hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Mnangagwa symbolises a failed leadership

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa symbolises a failed leadership. When a leadership fails to provide basic services such as clean water, shelter, food, jobs and power, that leadership deserves urgent replacement. Too much corruption is breed-in…

Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 05:55hrs | 3 | by Chief Muzivikanwi

Mnangagwa has FAILED on 5 fronts

Mnangagwa has failed to lead the country in the interests of all Zimbabweans. He has continued to be in election campaign mode and thus prompted him to act as a Zanu PF leader who is there to only look after the interests of the ruling par…

Published: 05 May 2019 at 14:25hrs | 3 | by Shoneboy Nembaware and Darlington Nyambiya

We've failed to guard our independence

ZIMBABWE's independence in 1980 did not come on a silver platter but it came at a huge cost and most of the people who made sure this day became a reality are long gone.But for those who were lucky to remain behind, we should ask if they a…

Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:00hrs | 5 | by Harry Peter Wilson

Mnangagwa has failed to revive economy and Gono to take over in 2020 - he too will fail, guaranteed

Zanu-PF hardliners are in panic mode and for good reasons, the economic meltdown is in overdrive! The country's de fact local currency the Real Time Gross Settlement Dollar (RTGS$) has been losing more ground in a day than most other curre…

Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 09:04hrs | 18 | by Wilbert Mukori

'Mnangagwa has failed'

LOSING presidential candidate and Alliance for the People's Agenda (APA) leader Nkosana Moyo (NM) says President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Cabinet have shown that they have no idea how to run the country. He told our senior report Obey Ma…

Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:09hrs | 1200 | by Staff reporter

3 reasons why the Gabon coup failed

Military coup drums continue to beat on the African continent in 2019. At 4:30am on January 7, Lieutenant Kelly Odong Obiang, leader of the Patriotic Youth Movement of the Gabonese Defence and Security Forces, and a handful of soldiers sto…

Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:30hrs | 4 | by Martin R Rupiya

'Mnangagwa has failed'

In spite of claims by President Emmerson Mnangagwa that his first 100 days in office have been successful, analysts are not convinced, citing the plight of the long-suffering majority of Zimbabweans which has remained unchanged.Mnangagwa w…

Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 06:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mujuru failed Zanu-PF

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall" so the saying goes. Last week's instalment remembered the MDC tripartite and how it has failed to correct what it dismissed.This week I want to remind Zimbabwe of Runaida Mugari whose history in …

Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:22hrs | 7 | by Micheal Mhlanga

Biti admits that regime change agenda has failed

MDC-T secretary-general and Finance Minister Tendai Biti has publicly admitted that the regime change agenda was no longer sustainable in Zimbabwe and implored the West to stop their policy of trying to isolate President Mugabe.He told Can…

Published: 11 Jan 2013 at 05:46hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Failed Zim asylum seeker hangs himself in UK

AN ASYLUM seeker from Zimbabwe who had been refused British residency sent several poignant messages to his partner in the last moments before he was found hanged.Factory worker Bee Moyo, 45, came to the UK five years ago but was upset aft…

Published: 28 Jul 2012 at 17:40hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

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