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Do not blame Mugabe or Mnangagwa: blame Zanu-PF
Zimbabwe has been in reverse gear since the early eighties. The late Robert Mugabe inherited a sound economy with sound infrastructure and amenities. He wasted no time exhausting the state resources a...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 17:44hrs | 13 | by Zenzo Siziba
Banks: If gold rusts, what will iron do?
Native Commissioner Oates, I presume!LORD Jonathan Oates' ambition is becoming a latter-day colonial Native Commissioner.Too late chum, both by age and history! Still both don't deter ...Published: 14 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 6 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Zimdollar: The writing is on the wall
THE United States Agency for International Development food security watchdog, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, reported a 20% increase in the price of bread and cooking oil last month....Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans politicians lining up their pockets
THE silly season is slowly approaching with less than 20 months left before the next elections. We now have President Emmerson Mnangagwa promising voters manna from heaven, declaring that what happene...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:07hrs | 2 | by Batsi Gonzo
Zanu-PF does not deserve our votes
TIME and again I have been questioning Zanu-PF's 2018 election manifesto on education, health and housing. It left me with so many doubts about the ruling party's capability to fulfil the highly exagg...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Concerned
Mbudziyadhura's health deteriorates
POPULAR actor Blessing Chimhowa who plays Mbudziyadhura in the Gringo series broadcast on ZBCTV - was rushed to a local clinic in Gweru in the early hours of Wednesday after developing abdominal compl...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 09:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ex-police commissioner spills the beans on corrupt top cops
A LEAKED police internal correspondence has exposed how top police fat cats are frustrating criminal investigations by allegedly shielding criminal cartels in return for money and gold.The let...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, a year on
Angry and defeated! This is exactly how I feel one year since Robert Mugabe passed on. Angry because the country he left in a mess has gone completely bad and inhabitable in many respe...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 20:04hrs | 3 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Mnangagwa needs to walk the talk on corruption
Two critical developments, separate but intertwined, happened on Monday.As a Harare magistrate was castigating President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Anti-Corruption Prosecution unit for lack of serio...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:20hrs | | by Editorial - Newsday
Unite against big business' deathly grip
THERE is a lot to criticise about what is going on, but not all price increases we are seeing are that inevitable because in many cases, these are contrived with many big retailers taking advantage of...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Conway Tutani
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 ...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:00hrs | 2 | by Harry Peter Wilson
Mnangagwa's anti-corruption campaign insincere
THE failure by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to tackle high-level corruption-which has contributed immensely to economic decay-has raised serious questions about his sincerity to fight the...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 13:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Was Nelson Chamisa right after all?
I liked Emmerson Mnangagwa and I cheered him on in-person and through my writings but today I am write in utter despair at what my hero has turned out to be. Could there be some element of truth to Ch...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 21:20hrs | | by Wezhira Sam
Mnangagwa claiming to be the light in darkness
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been telling us ad nauseam that Zimbabweans should not abuse the democratic space which he claims the so-called "Second Republic" has opened up."The advent of ...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 09:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's corruption laws must not just be paper tigers
WHILE we applaud President Emmerson Mnangagwa for gazetting regulations meant to deal with the scourge of corruption in the financial services sector, it is more important to ensure implementation of ...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 06:08hrs | 1 | by Editorial - newsday
'Mangudya deserves our support'
Zimbabweans must support the country's recently announced monetary policy measures because they are "meant to preserve people's savings at banks", a youth empowerment activist has said.This al...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 12:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim economy in typical labour pains
Some pains are just but a necessary evil and ought to be lived through than avoided if the benefits are to be harnessed in totality. Joys of motherhood come with excruciating pain, sweating and energy...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 11:13hrs | 4 | by Caitlin Kamba
'Mnangagwa is a Mugabe extension'
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has dismissed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a failure who was not any different from his predecessor Robert Mugabe.ZCTU president Peter Mutasa to...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 07:12hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe's fat cats too must feel pain of ordinary citizens
THAT the majority Zimbabweans have started feeling the pain of Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's economic reforms as a necessary rite of passage in the healing of the Zimbabwean economy which has been s...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Editorial - newsday
RBZ, fat cats rule the black market
Someone must do the right thing, grab the office keys from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, John Mangudya, and take him to a job that he actually deserves. Because he looks and acts like a...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 08:53hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zimbabwe: Troubled nation now faces tough foreign policy choices
The toxic presidency of Mugabe may be over, but the new Zimbabwean government of Emmerson Mnangagwa must quickly make some hard foreign p...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 17:18hrs | | by Stephen Chan, Professor of World Politics, University of London
Mnangagwa must commit to rooting out corruption
AS Zimbabwe battles to turn the corner following over three decades of rot in both the public and private sectors, it is important to draw lessons from other countries that have implemented internatio...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 12:50hrs | 3 | by Editorial - newsday
Zimbabwe police disband traffic branch
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has disbanded the traffic section, rendering top posts in that department redundant, as he moves to create a lean structure at the top following indications ...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 10:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
From whose hands will their blood be required?
Part One Wednesday, 1st August 2018 will forever be a day to forget for many Zimbabweans who found themselves in the Harare City Centre that fateful aft...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 23:19hrs | 1 | by Patrick Tendayi Huni
Chamisa hits back at Chiwenga
At the launch of Zanu-PF's election manifesto on Friday, Vice- President Constantino Chiwenga devoted the bulk of his speech to attacking MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa, describing...Published: 06 May 2018 at 10:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Voting for Zanu pf will take us further back
People always make a comparison between Zimbabwe and our neighbours, South Africa, especially after a visit there. Someone will say our country could have been like this Africa economic giant because ...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 07:27hrs | | by AT Kadada
Silence Gukurahundi purveyors
The way things are trending with Gukurahundi enterprise fundis strenuously casting a small dark cloud to discolour the armed revolution that brought uhuru to the motherland in 1980 — and...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 10:14hrs | 1 | by Stephen Mpofu
The implications of the Zimbabwean military coup
What constitutes national security? The importance of national security - measures taken by a state against external and/or internal threats to its economy ...Published: 22 Dec 2017 at 17:53hrs | 2 | by Kingstone Jambawo
Mnangagwa fails to address cash crisis
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday failed to proffer tangible solutions to the ongoing cash crisis, but pledged to hold free and fair elections, while declaring zero tolerance on corruption in his...Published: 21 Dec 2017 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Sanctions to remain and Zanu PF blames Biti for it - for once, deal with cause and not tea-boy messenger
We have had the debate on whether the targeted sanctions on Zanu PF leaders to pressure them to uphold human rights including holding free, fair and credible elections are justified or not. The debate...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 07:20hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe can be as prosperous as Singapore, say Gono - not with 'EDNomics' in a pariah State
We all welcome praise but not from every quarter because praise from certain quarters is but a curse. Here is a typical example of praise from the wrong quarter."President Emmerson Mnangagwa's...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 23:37hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Workers confront Mugabe
HARD-PRESSED Zimbabwean workers yesterday called on President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF government to immediately step down and pave way for a new transitional authority to avert a total collapse ...Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabes' show of opulence scandalous
PICTURES of President Robert Mugabe's step son Russel Goreraza gallivanting in Harare's potholed roads in a brand new and super luxurious Rolls Royce amid widespread poverty underlined how insensitive...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 20:36hrs | 1 | by Owen Gagare
Punish Zanu-PF in 2018
Reports that top Zanu-PF bigwigs closed Mutare at the weekend flaunting their ill-gotten wealth driving top-of-the-range all-terrain vehicles amid a sea of poverty are a clear indication that the ruli...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by NewsDay Editor
Mbalula attacks Pravin Gordhan
Durban - Former finance minister Pravin Gordhan is not a hero of "our people" but a hero of fat cats and capitalists, ANC NEC member Fikile Mbalula said on Friday.Most of those who took pa...Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 12:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bond notes likely to feed corruption
Where opacity and unaccountability thrive, corruption grows in direct proportion. The elite, like many other people in positions of influence, get carte blanche to abuse and manipulate systems. Th...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 12:29hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
If Americans erred in electing Trump, they will learn and emerge stronger - the beauty of democracy
In 9 days' time America, will be witness the peaceful hand over of power from President Barack Obama to President-elect Donald Trump. It is this willingness to renew itself that has made America such ...Published: 11 Jan 2017 at 20:31hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe: Change is inevitable
Change is inevitable and Zimbabwe is no exception. The wheels of change are in motion, the situation in Zimbabwe is ripe for change. Things have been simmering for sometime and sooner or later a big c...Published: 08 Dec 2016 at 07:24hrs | | by Sicelesile Phiri
Army has a right to comment on civil matters- Mutodi
Zanu PF outspoken youth member Energy Mutodi has said the members of the Defence Forces have a right to comment on any civil matters as they are also affected by such issues.This come at a tim...Published: 15 Nov 2016 at 15:57hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Tajamuka: Bona's man will never be ashamed of a fat Air Zim cheque to Zanu PF
Zanu PF is holding its usual fundraising dinner with tables going for princely sums of $100 000 to $30 000 each. The money is to pay for the party's annual congress. The usual suspects - ...Published: 02 Nov 2016 at 17:57hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Boycott Mugabe, Mphoko, Mnangagwa business, says MDC-T
A fresh bid has been mooted to impose economic sanctions by boycotting all businesses owned or linked to Zanu PF “fat cats” ranging from President Robert Mugabe’s Alpha and Omega compa...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T plots Zanu-PF linked company boycott
THE opposition MDC-T has joined hands with civic groups and churches in a fresh campaign to boycott all businesses owned or run by Zanu-PF "fat cats" in order to cripple and financially force them to ...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
$15bn was 'not looted only mispriced' Chinamasa tells BBC HardTalk
"Zanu-PF remains a very solid, cohesive formidable political force in Zimbabwe," Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa told Zeina Badawi on the BBC programme Hardtalk. Zanu-PF is imploding...Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 19:28hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Bishop takes a swipe at the corrupt political leadership in Zimbabwe
Enough is enough says Bishop, Tudor Bismark. The leader of New Life Covenant Church was speaking to congregates at his church when he took a swipe at the corrupt political leadership in Zimbabwe....Published: 16 May 2016 at 21:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Opposition coalition: Of inflated egos and parasites
Media reports on the mooted coalition of opposition parties that is somehow miraculously expected to dislodge ZANU-PF from power makes for interesting reading. From as far back as last year, the so-ca...Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Nicole Hondo
Dismantling of Chiadzwa Mafia mining companies commendable
The recent move by the government through the Ministry of mines and mining development to dismantle mafia organisations masquerading as miners in Chiadzwa area is a step in the right direction as the ...Published: 29 Feb 2016 at 06:54hrs | | by Musavengana Hove
Let's share the cake equally
Excavators and shovels being used to dish out the Zimbabwe's economic cake are consequently short changing the vast of the weary populace waiting for a spoonful chance of the same. In proper corporate...Published: 12 Aug 2015 at 13:07hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba
MDC statement on Cabine reshuffle
Yesterday's cabinet reshuffle by President Robert Mugabe is nothing but a recycle of Zanu PF deadwood, who like all Zanu PF ministers in the present cabinet, do not have the capacity to tackle the myr...Published: 07 Jul 2015 at 10:39hrs | | by Joshua Mhambi, MDC National Spokesperson
Manheru re-issuance of corruption as black empowerment will not end economic meltdown
There once was a man whose name I will not say because we all know him. For years he denied there was no corruption in high places and blamed all the nation's economic woes on Western imposed sanction...Published: 28 Jun 2015 at 10:27hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori.
Evil destruction caused by Zimbabwe farm invasions of 1999
Coleen the daughter of a Zimbabwean white farmer: Evil destruction caused by Farm invasions of 1999Taken from the eBook, "Sweetmother" My...Published: 29 May 2015 at 16:05hrs | 11 | by Nomazulu Thata
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