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Why Kasukuwere is giving Mnangagwa a torrid time
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is panicking over the presidential candidature of former Zanu-PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere at a time his administration is battling a floundering economy ahea...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 17:28hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF readmits Fay Chung and other ex-members
THE Mashonaland East Zanu-PF national disciplinary committee (NDC) has readmitted Noah Mangondo into the party after he was suspended in 2018.His readmission follows that of Beatrice Nyamuping...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Respect former ZANU PF leaders on political sabbatical
Walter Mzembi is a renowned thinker, innovator and all-round nice guy who would add value to any political or corporate organization. It comes as no surprise that some within the ruling party ...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 19:01hrs | 2 | by Nicholas Ncube
Why Zanu-PF is not so successful after 2001
Last Sunday I tried to answer the question, Why Was Zanu/Zanu PF so successful in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. This week I concentrate on why is Zanu-PF not so successful after 2001...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 19:55hrs | | by Fay Chung
Why Zanu, Zanu-PF were successful in the 1970s, 80s and 90s
I was in a meeting recently when someone who is not a member of Zanu or Zanu-PF asked the question: Why was Zanu and Zanu-PF successful in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and not successful after 2001? ...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:48hrs | 2 | by Fay Chung
Margaret Dongo lifts lid on liberation war sex abuses
WAR veteran Margaret Dongo says the story of sexual abuse of women ex-combatants by their commanders during the armed struggle in the military camps is yet to be told fully.Dongo lifted the li...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The death of the Zimdollar shows the King has no clothes
The death of the Zimbabwe dollar is proof that with all our education, there is something terribly rotten in Simbao (ancient name for Zimbabwe).I want to make an apology to Sister Fay Chun...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:16hrs | 27 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Lack of boarding facilities hits ZimStats
THE lack of boarding facilities in Karoi district was exposed recently when 221 enumerators were forced to travel an estimated 380km in search of accommodation for census training.The enumerat...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unpacking Nyika Inovakwa Nevene Vayo Philosophy
During our War of Liberation, we had a huge rear base in Mozambique called Mudzingadzi.As with many of our rear bases, Mudzingadzi suffered repeated Rhodesian air raids.One such raid c...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:18hrs | 4 | by E.D. Mnangagwa
Mugabe's education revolution collapses
ZIMBABWE'S education system, a source of pride for citizens and envy of many across the continent under the late former President Robert Mugabe, is now on a downward spiral seeking urgent intervention...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's education system is outdated
Former Education minister Fay Chung says Zimbabwe's education system was designed to last for at least 20 years, but now has been in use for over 40 years, rendering it outdated.Chung (FC), wh...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:11hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Why elections matter in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has its next elections in 2023. That is less than two years ahead. It is imperative that every Zimbabwean should examine why we have elections. What are elections for?What will we ach...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:15hrs | | by Fay Chung
Mugabe: A nationalist hero and authoritarian dictator
A group of Robert Gabriel Mugabe admirers, linked to Zanu-PF, has published a profile of Robert Mugabe. They are trying to provide a profile of the late president, combining both the positive and nega...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Fay Chung
Abraham Lincoln and building national unity in Zimbabwe
There is a national consensus that the economic Structural Adjustment Programme (eSAP), imposed on Zimbabwe in 1991 by donors led by the IMF and the World Bank, has been one of the leading causes of t...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Fay Chung
Mnangagwa accords wife national honour
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has awarded his wife, First Lady Auxillia a gold medal for her "outstanding performance in her philanthropic activities among 99 other outstanding institutions, civilians ...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF a militarised graveyard, says Jonathan Moyo
FORMER Information Minister Jonathan Moyo says Zanu-PF has become a military outfit working against the interests of the majority of the country's citizens.Commenting on the readmission of for...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fay Chung, Makhosini Hlongwane bounces back
Zanu-PF has readmitted some former members who had been expelled and suspended for deviating from the ethos of the revolutionary party. Notable figures who have bounced back are former Zanu-PF...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kudzi Chipanga readmitted back into Zanu-PF
Former Zanu-PF youth leader Kudzai Chipanga has been readmitted into the party following 2017 expulsion. Others readmitted include Tapiwa Matangaidze, Fay Chung, Makhosini Hlongwane and Chirat...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 16:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Why did Zimbabwe regime invest so much in our post-independence education, yet always insults our intelligence?
The Zimbabwe government has always prided itself in the phenomenal strides it made in the country's post-independence education, that witnessed the proliferation of schools to reach nearly all section...Published: 17 May 2021 at 10:25hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Tribalism and politics in Zimbabwe
Tribalism regularly comes into play in Zimbabwe. sometimes it is in terms of political rivalry and competition. at other times it is based on a friendly joking relationship between different tribes....Published: 14 May 2021 at 07:00hrs | | by Fay Chung
Chiwenga and the decolonisation of the field of political science
WHILE the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter Rodney, Archie Mafeje, Ali Mazrui, Thabo Mbeki, Asan...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 4 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Chiwenga triggers important political science debate
Black Epistemologies and the Non-Writing PoliticianWhile the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter R...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Richard Mahomva
Wrong to blame Zimbabwe crisis on war veterans
I have always been a fan of Zimbabwe Independent. It has an excellent record of providing the nation with sound and truthful analyses of the economic situation in Zimbabwe.The last edition of ...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's National Dialogue monopolised by a few'
Zimbabwe's national dialogue processes must deal with the problem that many Zimbabweans feel, and indeed are, alienated from the system economically, socially and politically, a leading academic has s...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 14:17hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Muchinguri should allow Zimbabweans to move on after Tongo's death
Following rants by Zanu PF chairperson and Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri regarding a book she claimed to have written on the death of Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (Zanla) comm...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 09:14hrs | 10 | by Roy Muroyi
Mugabe's former white minister pens biography 'Mugabe's White Hand Man'
FORMER Agriculture minister, Dennis Norman, flew into the country from his retirement base in England to launch his autobiography - The Odd Man In: Mugabe's White Hand Man - which traces his life in t...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe behind Harare mayhem, claims War vets
FORMER President Robert Mugabe could have had a hand in the violence that rocked Harare on Wednesday, where soldiers allegedly opened fire on opposition protestors and killed six and injuring several ...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's brother sued over coalition deal
A man who claims to have stitched a coalition deal for the late MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai during the 2013 elections has approached the High Court demanding payment from the former prime minister's ...Published: 08 May 2018 at 11:46hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Who exactly was former President Mugabe?
The late VP Nkomo warned us in his 1984 book that there is a Robert Mugabe we don't know, but we were too consumed by the dummy we had been sold by the dominant liberation war discourses. These warnin...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 08:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's greatest opposition is not Tsvangirai's Alliance
AS THE Zanu-PF wars continue to grip the State, amid serious economic meltdown and a disjointed opposition, our reporter Tendai Kamhungira took time to speak to respected political analyst and civil s...Published: 10 Nov 2017 at 13:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to host Intombi awards for young businesswomen
RADIO personality Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa and ex Muvhango actor Lesley Musina who played Ndalamo will next month host the Intombi Young Women In Business Awards pencilled for Bulawayo's Nesbitt Castle....Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 07:29hrs | 15 | by Staff Reporter
Jonathan Moyo according to the Gukurahundi mastermind
Nyaya yaanotaura kuti akaenda ku Liberation Centre after he left Mgagao; the fact is Zanu ne Zanla leadership dzanga dzasungwa neZambian government following the death ya VaChitepo.Mind you, d...Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 07:23hrs | | by Air Marshall Perrance Shiri
Mujuru has no capacity to run an organisation, says Gumbo
Former vice-president Joice Mujuru last week sparked debate after she claimed that some of the senior Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) members she fired recently wanted to sleep with her after descri...Published: 19 Feb 2017 at 09:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe the man'
I was fortunate to work closely with President Mugabe soon after Independence in 1980 as one of the few people seconded to strategic parastatals by the party. Thomas Nyagumbo, Kumbirai Katsande, Lazar...Published: 19 Feb 2017 at 09:12hrs | | by Hon Christopher Mushohwe
Mutasa and Gumbo are just dwarfs in large robes
In 2014, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi the foreign affairs minister had the audacity to boast to his peers at the SADC summit held in Victoria falls, saying that even if the economy crumbles, Zimbabweans wil...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 15:26hrs | | by Whitlaw Mugwiji
Tichaona Zindoga was right Mutasa and Gumbo are just dwarfs in large robes
In 2014, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi the foreign affairs minister had the audacity to boast to his peers at the SADC summit held in Victoria falls, saying that even if the economy crumbles, Zimbabweans wil...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 00:09hrs | 1 | by Whitlaw Mugwiji
Corruption will not fall until Mugabe the godfather of corruption has fallen
Former Hong Kong anti-corruption administrator Bertrand de Speville in his book Overcoming Corruption says, political will is the key driver in fighting corruption. I could not agree more with this st...Published: 06 Feb 2017 at 18:28hrs | | by Whitlaw Mugwiji
'Zimbabweans ready for female President,' claims Mujuru
ZIMBABWE People First leader Joice Mujuru yesterday said Zimbabwe was ripe for female leaders in both politics and business, and encouraged them to break the gender barriers.Mujuru said th...Published: 20 Nov 2016 at 13:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru wows war veterans
OPPOSITION Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) leader Joice Mujuru was the star attraction at Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZNLWVA) spokesperson Douglas Mahiya's bail hearing in Ha...Published: 02 Aug 2016 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Age' helped Mnangagwa escape the hangman's noose
HARARE - Post-congress Zanu PF bigwigs opposed to embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa say among the many things that allegedly "don't add up" about him are his age and liberation struggle hist...Published: 30 Dec 2015 at 17:35hrs | 15 | by Staff Reporter
Cephas Msipa launches book titled 'In Pursuit of Freedom and Justice'
Veteran nationalist Dr Cephas Msipa has completed a book titled: In Pursuit of Freedom and Justice.The book launched last night in Harare takes the reader through narratives of Dr Msipa's pers...Published: 27 Nov 2015 at 16:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Government on the right track with the IMF
It would be an oversimplification for a rather complex issue to say that the Zimbabwean government is making a mistake in implementing the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recommendations for revivin...Published: 02 Oct 2015 at 11:18hrs | | by Stewart Murewa
Mnangagwa challenged to come clean on his war record
With the warring post-congress Zanu-PF's ambitious Young Turks, the Generation 40 (G40) faction, cranking up the heat on Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle h...Published: 28 Sep 2015 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe a student of Smith
The Zanu-PF government scored many successes during the first 10 years of independence because it had adopted former Rhodesian leader Ian Smith's "lock-stock-and-barrel" management style, former C...Published: 28 Sep 2015 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Stop frustrating teachers'
FORMER MDC-T Bulilima West MP, Norman Mpofu has said the government must stop frustrating teachers considering the fact that the education sector is already fractured after the 2007-2008 economic decl...Published: 28 Sep 2015 at 07:10hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
What is ZANU People First, Cdes?
CABINET FILES AND CZ's NOTEBOOKDear Cabinet andPolitburo membersCOMRADES we should congratulate ourselves that we are almost there… completing cleaning the soul of our great revo...Published: 10 Apr 2015 at 07:52hrs | 4 | by CZ
'The Robert Mugabe I know'
I first heard about Mugabe around 1962 when he was in the National Democratic Party. I didn't get to meet him though; I just heard about him.I had been expelled from Hodgson Technical College ...Published: 23 Feb 2015 at 12:27hrs | | by Mnangagwa interview
Mugabe attending his last congress
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe (almost 91) - in the twilight of his long political career - is attending what is likely to be his last Zanu-PF congress as leader of both the party and Zimbabwegiven h...Published: 05 Dec 2014 at 18:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe profile: The rise of Zimbabwe's first lady
Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Ntombizodwa Mugabe has taken centre stage as the ruling Zanu-PF party holds an important meeting on the future leadership of the country. BBC Africa's Zimbabwe corresponde...Published: 04 Dec 2014 at 09:11hrs | | by BBC
Mujuru opposed Makoni, they are antagonists
Mavambo/Kusile/Dawn founding member Fay Chung says Vice President Joice Mujuru had nothing to do with the formation of the Simba Makoni-led outfit, saying the two are actually "antagonists".W...Published: 21 Nov 2014 at 16:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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