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Bones of Bhalagwe, arise!
The voice speaks to the bones that are scattered all over Matabeleland and Midlands. Arise! Bones that are in the stomach of Bhalagwe, stand up and refuse to be silenced. Arise and be counted! All the...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 20:10hrs | 979 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Kasukuwere guns for Mnangagwa?
EXILED former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere has claimed that it was time for him to make "difficult decisions" to "save the revolutionary movement" and to act on the injustices that President Em...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:35hrs | 4368 | by Staff reporter
'Difficult decisions have to be made' Kasukuwere says
Dear ComradesWe all carry deep and painful wounds of the treatment that has been meted out by fellow comrades to many of us. You loved the party and respected President Mugabe. You willingly s...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 16:08hrs | 4067 | by Saviour Kasukuwere
Madiro, war veterans square off
RECENTLY re-elected Zanu-PF Manicaland provincial chairperson Mike Madiro has blasted "a few war veterans" whom he accused of causing divisions in the party.His statement comes after war veter...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:39hrs | 1161 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa a cunning megalomaniac
THERE is a problem that the Zimbabwean electorate is not seeing in the opposition politics of our country.The situation cannot even be explained using the words disaster and catastrophe. Many ...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1094 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Change your name!: Zanu-PF's new trump card against Chamisa
IN a surprise move, President Emmerson Mnangagwa proclaimed 26 March 2022 as the date for long overdue by-elections. This should fill in vacancies created through the controversial recalls of elected ...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:12hrs | 1051 | by Reginald Murendo
Sisulu tko Ronald Lamola in an open letter
I ask you, why are some so irritated with my opinion piece? Until all daggers, some agonizingly blunt, are drawn, and some have already assumed my head must go to the guillotine in the narrowness of m...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 17:52hrs | 639 | by Lindiwe Sisulu.
Blacks representation should be more than just wokeism and hypersensitivity - our values need representation too
In one of the popular interviews of our generation, Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, told Oprah Winfrey about the importance of representation. I agree. But, by the same token, black people have ...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 10:29hrs | 313 | by Mandlenkosi Siziba
'Zimbabwe's operation restore legacy was a lie'
FIREBRAND MDC Alliance activist Makomborero Haruziviishe says the so-called Operation Restore Legacy of November 2017, which led to the fall of late former president Robert Mugabe was a lie which will...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 18:21hrs | 1591 | by Staff reporter
Zondo's stunt backfires as his credibility is questioned
Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo's press briefing to ‘address' tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu's opinion piece has backfired and opened him to questions regarding his credibility.Various s...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:38hrs | 3819 | by Staff reporter
Lindiwe Sisulu hits back at Zondo
Less than a week ago, I published an opinion piece that captures the importance of where ordinary South Africans find themselves.This opinion piece is my contribution to a conversing South Afr...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:35hrs | 2818 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
ANC calls for 'lifting of sanctions' against Cuba, etc but not Zimbabwe - new awakening condemn rigged elections too
"The #January8statement at @MYANC's 110th anniversary by @CyrilRamaphosa called for the unconditional lifting of sanctions against Cuba, solidarity with Palestine and Western Sahara, but was silent on...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 17:29hrs | 1373 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Resources wasted by by-elections
Freebies worth US1,2million delivered to Polad membership will never be a resources wasting agenda but a legal, useful and necessary adventure bent on the betterment of Zimbabwean peoples lives and vi...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 17:22hrs | 310 | by Phosiwe Ncube
On the persecution trail with Ngarivhume: trailing the harassment of human rights leaders/activists by Zimbabwe regime
I called Jacob Ngarivhume the previous day and asked if I could be with him from morning to end of day. I wanted to get into his world, I wanted to follow up on the stories of harassment he has been c...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 17:13hrs | 210 | by Fungai Muridzo - a freelance journalist
Zimbabwean teachers stampede for SA Educators Council certificate
HUNDREDS of Zimbabwean teachers working in neighbouring South Africa this week applied for the SA Educators Council certificate to avoid deportation as they hold Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEPs) whic...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:33hrs | 3329 | by Staff reporter
SA immigrants crisis: Zimbabwe must play ball
AT the centre of the immigration crisis that has been making headlines for the past few days in South Africa is the failure by the Zimbabwean government to provide better living standards for its citi...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:29hrs | 944 | by Tatenda Kaponda
Rule of law vs historical imbalances
CRIMINALS broke into a homestead and stole everything, taking over the family means of livelihood. They pushed everyone to the periphery of the homestead and ordered them to remain there and obey thei...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 524 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Chamisa's Makomborero Haruzivishe to fight on
MDC Alliance activist Makomborero Haruzivishe says he will not be deterred by the state's political persecution and has vowed to continue fighting against civil and political injustice.Address...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:00hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa use divide and rule tactic to force Chamisa to abandon #PRICECAMPAIGN
Divide and rule, it is a tried and tested tactic as old as human history that has worked, particularly in conquering those easily divided!Talk of easily divided, it really does not take much t...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 06:58hrs | 4762 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa's call to polls rattles opposition parties?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has proclaimed March 26 as the day for holding by-elections to fill vacant Parliament and council seats, a move welcomed by the country's major political parties.The Nomina...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 05:56hrs | 1668 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa condemns 'chicanery' in Zanu PF elections - hypocrite orchestrated wanton violence in national elections
"Irregularities and political chicanery across party structures must be decisively dealt with and expunged from the party," said President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 23:25hrs | 405 | by Nomusa Garikai
Adv Sibanda declared national hero
THE Zanu-PF Politburo has posthumously declared the late former High Court Judge Advocate Siwanda Kennedy Mbuso Sibanda a national hero.Adv Sibanda, a legal icon of the liberation struggle, di...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 18:58hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, who has bewitched you?
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, as I see it, the spirit of the Lord is not upon the clerics who surround you. They were not anointed to preach the good news to the poor. The...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:58hrs | 1114 | by Cyprian Muketiwa
Burning South African Parliament houses Freemasonic secret temple
The currently burning South African Parliament ground is home to the Lodge De Goede Hoop an old, white, plastered building that is a temple to one of the oldest secret societies in South Africa, the F...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 19:51hrs | 4895 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The heartbeat of a lost nation!
The first time I visited freedom park in 2009, I had mixed emotions about the past, the present and the future. The selfless sacrifices of the fallen heroes left me speechless. At that point I knew th...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 11:59hrs | 926 | by Eric Shikobela
Zimbabwe peddles a world-class Constitution that guarantees
The truth however, is this is just for show and is rarely enforced. How then can we use the beautiful...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 16:49hrs | 872 | by Sam Wezhira
Makomborero Haruzivishe out of notorious Chikurubi: Halleluiah
My mother, Mrs Sihwa sat in Chikurubi accused of the same accusations that sent what could be her grandson Makomborero to prison: same length of time. When she was released on grounds of ill-health, s...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 11:14hrs | 1401 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa activist tastes freedom after 9 months
THE High Court yesterday granted bail to MDC Alliance activist Makomborero Haruziviishe who was jailed early this year for staging an illegal demonstration last year.Justice Webster Chinamhora...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:55hrs | 499 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, please calm down and be a sober leader
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, the intensity of the fire and fury you unleashed on the blogger, who posted on social media that you had proclaimed the lockdown was extreme....Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:27hrs | 5051 | by Cyprian Muketiwa
Zanu-PF elections kick off in Bulawayo
ZANU-PF provincial elections in Bulawayo kicked off smoothly on Tuesday despite delays in the distribution of ballot papers to some polling stations in the metropolitan province.The ruling par...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 18:58hrs | 703 | by Staff reporter
UK online casinos in 2022
Over the past few years, if not months, we have seen a large number of new online casinos thanks to the convenience and affordability that online casino games are renowned for. And now that the larges...Published: 27 Dec 2021 at 19:21hrs | 189 | by Staff Writer
'Let's go Brandon' man gets threats
The Oregon father who added "Let's go Brandon" at the end of a live-streamed Christmas Eve phone conversation with Joe Biden said he is now being "attacked" for "utilizing freedom of speech." He claim...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 16:04hrs | 1665 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dragged to court for appointing Chinamasa Air Zimbabwe board chair
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been dragged to the Constitutional Court for behaviour that is inconsistent with provisions of the constitution after the appointment of Zanu-PF politburo member Patri...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 15:32hrs | 2264 | by Staffreporter
'Dont re-ignite gukurahundi', Mnangagwa threatens Matabeles with second genocide
"As we give space to our traditional leaders to lead processes of reconciliation and repair, we should guard against those negative elements which aim to re-ignite frozen differences to throw us back ...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 09:48hrs | 2901 | by Israel Dube
Desmond Tutu dies
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has died at the age of 90.Tutu, the last surviving South African laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize, died in Cape Town.President Cyril Ramaphosa sa...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 07:43hrs | 1808 | by Staff reporter
Rare voting rights victory for Zimbabwe
SIX political activists have been left with an egg on the face after the African Commission on Human and People's Rights (ACHPR) ruled that the Government had not violated the rights of activists who ...Published: 25 Dec 2021 at 09:20hrs | 915 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt snooping on citizens to quash dissenting voices
AFRICAN governments, Zimbabwe included, are using sophisticated surveillance equipment to snoop on citizens and to quash dissenting voices.This is contained in a report compiled by the Interna...Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 05:43hrs | 1348 | by Staff reporter
UN condemns anti-NGO Bill
FOUR United Nations (UN) special rapporteurs have condemned the Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) Amendment Bill as infringing on the civil and political rights of Zimbabweans and lamented shrinkin...Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 05:39hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa taken to court
A HARARE man has filed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's appointment of Patrick Chinamasa as director and chairman of the embattled Air Zimbabwe argu...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 04:50hrs | 2807 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa Xmas party shut down, elderly chase away
POLICE yesterday dispersed dozens of elderly people from a Christmas party hosted by MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa in Highfield, Harare, and reportedly took away groceries meant for beneficiaries...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:19hrs | 2774 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Bigwigs Cause Mayhem In Provinces
Zanu-PF is struggling fend off nagging interference by its senior officials accused of meddling in the ongoing restructuring exercise and trying to influence the outcome of upcoming provincial electio...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:18hrs | 1403 | by Staff reporter
EFF to join Polad
ECONOMIC Freedom Fighters (EFF) Zimbabwe is set to join the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) following the party leadership's endorsement of the move.Polad comprises of some opposition partie...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:17hrs | 655 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans blast Chiwenga
ZIMBABWEANS have criticised Vice President Constantino Chiwenga for threatening to take stern action against a traditional leader, Chief Murinye.The chief last week urged President Emmerson Mn...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 19:13hrs | 2590 | by Staff reporter
2021 A year that never was
On January 30, 2020, the WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak and most of the countries in Southern Africa went for fourteen days lockdown and a lot of them were not even prepared for this pandemi...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 16:59hrs | 176 | by Leonard Koni
Freedom Alliance leaders unveiled
NEW political outfit, Freedom Alliance unveiled its leaders at a congress held at White City Stadium in Bulawayo at the weekend.The congress ran on Friday and Saturday.Public policy an...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:53hrs | 1969 | by Staff reporter
200 to contest for Zanu-PF posts in Bulawayo
MORE than 200 aspiring candidates in Bulawayo submitted their CVs to Zanu-PF for consideration to contest party posts in the party's provincial elections scheduled before the end of this month....Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:38hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa shuts down dissenting voices
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa once famously declared that he is soft as wool, but beneath that woolie facade lies a ruthless determination to either co-opt or coerce those he believes are a threat to h...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 19:00hrs | 959 | by Blessing Goronga
Zimbabwe's curse of one step forward, two steps back
As the curtain comes down on the year, one cannot be blamed for being at sea as to the direction Zimbabwe is taking, considering the contrasting indicators of both progression and regression.O...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 18:57hrs | 372 | by Nigel Nyamutumbu
Chiwenga threats draw fire from chief...'Kill me if you want'
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's angry threats against a chief from Masvingo, who warned that President Emmerson Mnangagwa risked losing the 2023 elections, has drawn further ire e from the tradi...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:10hrs | 5496 | by Staff reporter
Lupane, Binga battles relived
TODAY as we continue our interview with Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired) Stanford Moyo pseudo name Lloyd Zvanananewako or Mabhikwa, the former freedom fighter takes us through operations in the Zipra oper...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:03hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
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