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Democrats are trying to fool Americans about Kamala!
The allegories and stories we were taught at school were supposed to teach us something about life and the real world.In one of the masterpieces of all time, Mark Antony addresses Brutus, a co...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 13:02hrs | 690 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabweans in SA express willingness to return home
Some Zimbabwean nationals who live and ply their trade in South Africa have expressed willingness to return to their home country to participate in its economic growth and voting in the upcoming elect...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 21:10hrs | | by Staff reportert
ZITF showcase dates approved
THIS year's Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) will be held from April 26 to 30 in Bulawayo with a focus on strategic transformation in the configuration and operation of value chains locally an...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's ghost torments Chief Zvimba and Grace Mugabe
The late president of Zimbabwe cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe has refused to exit the lime light. Now he has ignited a huge traditional problem for the nation and the world. Mugabe has proved to be a sourc...Published: 13 May 2021 at 21:54hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Medium-scale commercial farming in Zimbabwe post-land reform programme: A new picture is emerging
WE have a new open access paper out in the Journal of Modern African Studies "Medium-scale commercial agriculture in Zimbabwe: The experience of A2 resettlement farms".Contrary to assertions t...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 05:02hrs | 2 | by Ian Scoones
Ramaphosa needs more diplomatic muscle to crack Zimbabwe's defiant government
Amid a spiralling economic and political crisis, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa addressed the people of his country on August 4. His speech, though sudden - four days after his government's v...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 13:03hrs | | by Sikhululekile Mashingaidze
Is it time for Africa to teach Europe what democracy and passive racism are?
Picture it. The aftermath of a national election, where senior international observer from a leading European country declares of the election process he has just witnessed: "In all the many election ...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:26hrs | | by Anonymous
The dictator's dilemma: How to succeed at succession
Have dictators finally had their day? From retirements to coups d'etat, presidential term limits and opposition candidates winning elections, democracy appears to be making progress across Africa. But...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 07:21hrs | 3 | by Joe Devanny, Marco Jowell
Manheru is back with Mnangagwa's 100 Days: Defying Horace's Burden
In one of his mature Odes, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, better known in the English-speaking world as Horace, coined the famous "delicta maiorum immeritus lues".Now sounding pedantic and obscure ...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:20hrs | | by George Charamba
The dramatic rise and fall of Grace Mugabe
On July 25, 2014, two days after her 49th birthday, then First Lady Grace Mugabe was unanimously recommended by the Zanu-PF Women's League to take up the post of its secretary.Some 3 000 women...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 05:09hrs | | by Christopher Farai Charamba
Mbeki should be the last person to preach Zuma about values
That the administration of Jacob Zuma has structural flaws is no longer in dispute. But - having masterminded his accidental elevation to power - the last people to preach to Msholozi about values and...Published: 12 Apr 2017 at 20:14hrs | 1 | by Khaya S Sithole
David Pocock flies to Zimbabwe to hunt for Rhino poachers
Battered and bruised with two black eyes, a broken nose and bandaged fingers, you'd expect Wallabies superstar David Pocock to put his feet up while he's got the chance.But Pocock is not what ...Published: 08 Nov 2015 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Liam Croy
Murder mystery: The Death of Rex Nhongo
THIS novel comes with two mysteries attached, one substantial, the other superficial.The big mystery is the author's identity. Gender-neutral, nominally Anglo-Saxon, almost provocatively bland...Published: 08 Aug 2015 at 07:31hrs | 2 | by Michaela Wrong
CAR appeals to Mugabe over KPCS registration
The Central African Republic (CAR) says it will engage the African Union chair to seek solutions following strong objections to its Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) registration bid by ci...Published: 25 Jun 2015 at 16:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rendering Mujuru superfluous
I AM reading a book under the Oppenheimer series, a book on Thomas Leask's diary entries covering his travels in Botswana and Zimbabwe, travels undertaken between 1865 and 1870.Like Livingston...Published: 07 Mar 2015 at 15:02hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mujuru remains a wandering ghost hovering above the whole initiative
I AM so happy we are, as a people, now able to construct meaning outside Western hegemony. It takes a lot to be able to do that, certainly much more than intellect. The recent developments in France w...Published: 17 Jan 2015 at 12:16hrs | | by Nathanie Manheru
'Mutasa implicates Mujuru'
EMBATTLED former Zanu-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa has, through his utterances since being fired from the government, implicated ex-Vice President Joice Mujuru in the plot to subver...Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wilfred Mhanda; a hero's unfinished story
Great men can never be made by other men, they must live their lives and do that which they must do unhindered by circumstances. "Why man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus...Published: 19 Jun 2014 at 10:34hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Why should Mugabe's name be sounded more than ours
Upon what meat doth this our Mugabe feed, that he is grown so great?"Why man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus and we petty men walk under his huge legs and peep about to fin...Published: 24 Apr 2014 at 05:58hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Hosni Mubarak's release adds more turmoil in Egypt
Cairo - Egypt's toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak was transferred from prison to house arrest at a military hospital on Thursday, in a move overshadowed by a blistering crackdown against his Islamist suc...Published: 23 Aug 2013 at 04:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tsvangirai - meeting fate's malignancy
Once upon a time there lived a thoughtful Roman called Boethius. Known for his discourse on Fate's role in the Universe, this Roman scholar is credited with developing the idea of "fortune's wheel", a...Published: 27 Apr 2013 at 06:15hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Bulawayo beauty survives Big Brother eviction
Zimbabwean Big Brother representative, Maneta Mazanhi, rode a campaign of hate to stay in the M-Net TV show on Sunday.Maneta was up for eviction with Namibia's Lady May and Zambia's Mampi √...Published: 28 May 2012 at 05:18hrs | | by Showbiz reporter
Zuma is coming on a rescue mission
Russia's Putin has won a new term into Presidential Office. With that victory comes a new ogre for Europe and America, both of which are already talking of discovering Putin's vulnerabilities for a co...Published: 12 Mar 2012 at 07:24hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Tsvangirai - The master of political intrigue and political contradictions
In this instalment I posit that Mr. Tsvangriai is indeed a leader of serious political intrigue, serious political contradictions and serious short comings....Published: 22 Feb 2012 at 06:46hrs | | by Thembani Mthembo
Libya: Imperial conquest and control
"Age: approximately forty years.Race: white.Height: approximately 5' 9" . . . The following injuries were noted in the general examination; 1. Bullet wound in the left clavicular reg...Published: 30 Oct 2011 at 08:05hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Secret desert grave for Gaddafi's burial
Misrata - Ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will be buried on Tuesday in a secret desert grave, a National Transitional Council official said, ending a wrangle over his rotting corpse that led many...Published: 25 Oct 2011 at 04:58hrs | 1 | by -
Muammar Gaddafi's decomposing body still on show
Misrata - Libyans filed past Muammar Gaddafi's decomposing body for a fourth day on Monday, to see for themselves that the dictator was dead, while talks dragged on among emerging local factions over ...Published: 24 Oct 2011 at 14:00hrs | | by -
MDC-T had hope in Mujuru but considered Chihuri 'hopeless'
The untimely death of the retired Army General Solomon Mujuru has left MDC-T in a slightly undesired position as the General had been their only hope to negotiate a way to topple Mugabe.In a...Published: 05 Sep 2011 at 11:32hrs | | by Matthews Estell
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