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'CCC, Zanu-PF chefs eating together'
LEADER of the Democratic Union of Zimbabwe (DUZ) Robert Chapman says Zanu-PF and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) officials actually "play and eat" together and are taking Zimbabweans for a ride....Published: 8 hrs ago | 1220 | by Staff reporter
Nakamba:- A dazzling ambassador for Zimbabwe football
IN the world of football, there are players who not only excel on the field but also embody the true spirit of sportsmanship and national pride.Marvelous Nakamba has not only raised the Zimbab...Published: 29 May 2023 at 06:31hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
What do we have to show for Africa Day except traditional attire?
When the OAU (Organization for African Unity) was established on 25th May 1963, in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), the main objective of the founding fathers was the unity and solidarity of all the people Afr...Published: 26 May 2023 at 10:31hrs | 252 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why I hate politics
So yes. I hate Zimbabwean politics. Obviously. I hate how every five years we get into this circus about giving people already with immeasurable riches and privilege the opportunity to get even more r...Published: 21 May 2023 at 09:34hrs | 723 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
The existence of God is not necessary for moral behaviour
First of all, let's just get one thing straight: I'm not a theologian, philosopher, or even a particularly religious person. In fact, if I had to describe myself, I'd say I'm more of a casual observer...Published: 19 May 2023 at 13:55hrs | 247 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
'Use legit sources of receiving cash'
POLICE in Matebeleland South have urged members of the community who receive large sums of money from the diaspora to use legitimate sources of receiving the cash as many people have fallen victim to ...Published: 16 May 2023 at 20:43hrs | 1226 | by Staff reporter
If Mnangagwa had a shop how much would he sell a loaf of bread?
It is really sickening whenever I hear senior government and ruling ZANU PF party officials always choosing to fault business every time prices of basic commodities shoot up. Over this past we...Published: 15 May 2023 at 11:19hrs | 801 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Zima nominees list detached from reality'
WHILE in other countries music awards have been hailed for recognising creativity, in Zimbabwe awards have been the subject of intense debate forcing many to lose interest in them.Several arti...Published: 10 May 2023 at 06:00hrs | 166 | by Staff reporter
Artificial intelligence and robotics: Great expectations and daunting existential risks
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is both exciting and challenging. There are opportunities and dangers. There are fascinating possibilities and existential risks.The starting point is to understan...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:34hrs | 71 | by Arthur Mutambara
CCC candidate vetting continues
THE opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change which had promised to roll out names of nominees on 11 April says it is still vetting the nominated candidates and is urging people who are querying the s...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 19:27hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
Rural folks shying away from Chamisa's CCC
CITIZENS Coalition for Change's (CCC) Consensus Candidate Selection process in rural areas has been hampered by fear of victimisation by Zanu-PF, party Deputy Spokesperson Ostallos Siziba has said....Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 19:24hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
Black people can conquer world if only we stopped moping over colonialism and racism!
So, now both the British Prime Minister and Scottish First Minister are of Indian descent.Rushi Sunak and Humza Yousaf were elected leaders of their respective parties and nations – the Brit...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 10:39hrs | 420 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Mnangagwa copying Smith's colonial handbook'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused of copying the late colonial leader Ian Smith's system of weaponising the law against critics."In fact, the methods used by the Smith regime on th...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:35hrs | 1670 | by Staff reporter
Mr. President, independence doesn't mean freedom to destroy one's country!
I recall a story I was told by my parents when I was still a little child. There was a ruling ZANU PF meeting at our local sporting facility, named 'Zisco Club', in the early 1980s – which a...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 22:51hrs | 516 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Did thousands die so that only a few enrich themselves from our minerals and land?
Having just woken up this Saturday morning, and turning on the television - I never expected to be greeted by such a heart-wrenching scene. There was a documentary narrating a harrowing ambush...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 08:53hrs | 1077 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Even ZANU PF supporters now thoroughly disgruntled with ruling establishment!
Now that the ruling ZANU PF primary elections for parliamentary and ward candidates have come and gone, what lessons can the nation draw?Of course, there can never be only one thing to be read...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 11:15hrs | 2377 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe in desperate need of national leaders not Mafia bosses and gang leaders!
It was the most heartbreaking sight - as images of a collapsed primary school in my home city of Kwekwe made the rounds across the country. In fact, the stab to my heart was made more excrucia...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:17hrs | 285 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Are Zimbabweans the easiest people to oppress?
Zimbabweans never cease to amaze! I was watching a local news bulletin, when there came a report, whereby villagers in Chingwaru, Murewa North, were celebrating and praising the ruling ZANU PF...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 18:08hrs | 320 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The mountain is high
Back in 1926, America witnessed the clash of two African-African American giants — then they were called Negroes — over the notion of Negro Art.Was Negro Art a separate creative tradition ...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:35hrs | 250 | by @Jamwanda2
Zimbabwe-based NGOs in panic mode
A new law governing operations of non-governmental organisations is likely to be operational in Zimbabwe before year end.Predictably, there is uproar and panic in the NGO sector, including som...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:17hrs | 336 | by Ranga Mataire
When all friendship ceases!
Von Hornick's nine principles on National EconomyIn 1684, an Austrian lawyer-turned-civil servant, Philipp Wilhelm von Hornick, published nine principal rules of a National Economy.The...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 07:57hrs | 111 | by Jamwanda
Zimbabwe's tragedy is being led by a coward!
Over the past few days, I was in the breath-taking mountain city of Mutare - attending a dear cousin's funeral.During this visit to this captivating and awe-inspiring place - besides the immer...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 18:11hrs | 838 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The poor are on their own in Zimbabwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was all smiles as he officially opened the privately-developed Aspindale apartments in Harare. His infrastructure programme - housing for all - seemed to be all in order y...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:30hrs | 707 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
18 Binga schools post 0% pass rate and Zanu PF post 80% rural vote regardless - thx to voter rigging mastery
"18 Binga schools record 0% passes!" screamed the headlines in Newsday Zimbabwe and Bulawayo24. "At least 18 schools in Binga, Matabeleland North province, recorded a zero percent pass rate at...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 15:02hrs | 663 | by Nomusa Garikai
God has done more in my life in a few years praying alone, than going to 'church' for decades!
After penning my article entitled, 'Support ED all you want, but please don't blaspheme our God', I received so many messages of agreement, encouragement and endorsement of my sentiments.Indee...Published: 29 Jan 2023 at 08:27hrs | 1865 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Writing's on the bright yellow wall
The Bishop is back.What a restful, restorative and therapeutic sabbatical it was!Once in a while, it is quite helpful to extricate ourselves from the maddening rush of our manic lifest...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 09:38hrs | 177 | by Bishop Lazi
Historic reception for Morocco's Atlas Lions on homecoming
Following a World Cup performance that was well above the North African country's wildest dreams, Morocco's national football team returned home to a hero's welcome.The team landed at Rabat-Sa...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 16:33hrs | 721 | by Moyo Roy
NSSA shouldn't act as if they derive some depraved pleasure from elderly's suffering
Whenever I witness the sad plight of the elderly in Zimbabwe, the adage, ‘there's no rest for the weary' always comes to mind.Having gone to the local Kwekwe branch of the state-owned POSB (...Published: 29 Dec 2022 at 20:23hrs | 807 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Shock as new scarry Coronavirus hits China...mass deaths reported
American public health scientist who is currently an epidemiologist and Chief of COVID Task Force at the New England Complex Systems Institute Eric Liang Feigl-Ding has reported that China is facing a...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 17:55hrs | 5421 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bring back Bulawayo council parks' glory
FOR most parents in Bulawayo, council parks were safe places where they knew their children could innocently play and have fun.During Christmas time, parks like Centenary Park along Leopold Ta...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:30hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's politics of salving troubled consciences
Politics and poetryWilliam Butler Yeats, I think it was he who said out of our arguments with others we make politics, but out of arguments with ourselves we make poetry!We can forgive...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:10hrs | 170 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Zimbabwe documentary selected for Climate Story Lab ZA
The 2023 Climate Story Lab ZA is excited to announce that nine creative projects from five African countries have been selected to participate in the Lab. The 4-day residential lab brings together cli...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 12:36hrs | 342 | by Agencies
Ncube's 2023 budget will take 150 years to deliver upper middle income, forget Vision 2030. The maths do not lie!
The Zimbabwe economy has been in decline for the last 42 years, it shrunk staggering 50% in the period 2000 to 2008 alone fuelled by the hyperinflation, that soared to dizzying heights of 500 billion ...Published: 26 Nov 2022 at 21:28hrs | 722 | by Wilbert Mukori
Anti-Mnangagwa vapostori fined US$18 each
THIRTY-FOUR Apostolic sect congregants who were on trial facing charges of staging an anti-government protest over the country's political and economic crises were yesterday fined $12 000 (about US$18...Published: 23 Nov 2022 at 04:59hrs | 910 | by Staff reporter
Ndiweni thought Mnangagwa's wife is Priscilla Chigumba
DETHRONED Ntabazinduna chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has been forced to correct the caption on an image he posted on social media.The outspoken traditional leader, Chie...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 17:33hrs | 5607 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's readmission to the Commonwealth could help Zimbabwe a lot
Human Rights are indivisible. Human Rights are an integral part of all human beings. Human Rights are inalienable (no on...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 21:51hrs | 467 | by Njabulo
Zimbabwe satellite launch should open our eyes
THAT Zimbabwe has launched its first satellite in the United States of America is more than enthralling given that the country has for too long continued to linger in the dark shadows of a fast-moving...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Social media 'war' looms ahead of Zimbabwe's 2023 polls
ZIMBABWE'S major political parties are planning to up the ante on the usage of social media ahead of the 2023 polls as they scramble for the hearts of voters.Different political parties have u...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
Another ploy of rewriting history by the Zanu-PF regime
Greetings to all! FROM THEMTHWAKAZI LIBERATION FRONT PRESIDENTDR CHURCHILL MP...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 15:13hrs | 1319 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Zanu-PF should not hide under sanctions
The late former President Mugabe was much stronger when he started talking about the removal of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West but nothing chan...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 06:38hrs | 965 | by Leonard Koni
Kagame comes to Zimbabwe to bolster Zanu-PF's 2023 poll campaign
RWANDAN President Paul Kagame will be in Zimbabwe next week to launch a massive US$800 million rural electrification project which President Emmerson Mnangagwa sees as a game changer in his bid to sec...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:25hrs | 3518 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF regime deliberately cutting off rural areas from modern technology in order to keep them ignorant!
It is quite easy for a president to tell rural folk that he met with his US counterpart, who promised to steadily address the thorny issues of sanctions t...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 11:01hrs | 553 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Aggression won't build Brand Zimbabwe
FOR the umpteenth time, Zimbabwe this week launched Brand Zimbabwe, bringing into sharp focus why the country is endlessly rebranding, having last done so only four years back when it unveiled the "Zi...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:43hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's former adviser form his own party
UNITED STATES-BASED Maxwell Shumba (MS), a former chief adviser to the late MDC leader and former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has decided to form his own party, Zimbabwe People First (ZimFirst), ...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 20:38hrs | 1733 | by Staff reporter
Magriza Made Me Cook takes township tourism to another level
IN our African society, grandmothers play an integral part in the family. From telling folktales to disciplining, and taking care of grandchildren, these matriarchs are the glue that strengthens blood...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:02hrs | 332 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi urges Zimbabweans to be wary of unscrupulous NGOs
ZANU-PF Second Secretary Kembo Mohadi has urged Zimbabweans to be wary of non-government organisations (NGOs) which are bent on pushing a regime change agenda under the guise of providing assistance....Published: 23 Aug 2022 at 06:27hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
At least Mnangagwa regime subtly admitting there's hardly any meaningful development to talk about in Zimbabwe
It is common knowledge that one can analyse and form an impression about an individual in a matter of seconds - based on their behaviour, countenance, mannerism, and even their logic when talking....Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 11:14hrs | 2963 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa under fire over US$120,000 donation for bullet proof car
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa is under pressure to account for US$122 300 donated by sympathisers for the purchase of a bullet proof off-road vehicle for his use...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 07:15hrs | 5496 | by Staff reporter
Biti calls for mass protests
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmaker, Tendai Biti has described the recently gazetted fees for contesting candidates ahead of the much awaited 2023 general elections as a plot to seal off demo...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:51hrs | 3356 | by Staff reporter
Nhlanhla Ndiweni meet UK diplomats to exert pressure on Mnangagwa
OUSTED and outspoken Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni and four diaspora organisations, recently met representatives of the British and Namibian governments, to discuss Zimbabwe's continued disregard for...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:49hrs | 2483 | by Staff reporter
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