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'Chamisa court ruling does not affect MDC Alliance'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime is deeply concerned about the threat that Nelson Chamisa's MDC Alliance party poses to its hegemony and on Tuesday it went to extraordinary lengths to try to neut...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1794 | by David Coltart
Challenging the attempt to remove Nelson Chamisa as MDC president in Zimbabwe
On 30 March, Zimbabwe's Supreme Court has issued a judgement that would effectively remove Nelson Chamisa as the leader of the MDC-A. Although the name of the party is not essential as a new moniker c...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 14:20hrs | 3895 | by David Coltart
FULL TEXT: David Coltart speak on Khupe - Chamisa judgment
The Mnangagwa regime is deeply concerned about the threat that Nelson Chamisa's MDC A Party poses to its hegemony and yesterday went to extraordinary lengths to try to neutralise that threat. On the f...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 12:21hrs | 4554 | by David Coltart
Achieving an efficient interbank market
The Zimbabwean government announced that it was going to introduce a managed floating exchange rate system in order to manage exchange rate volatility. The move is also aimed at bringing transparency ...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 18:32hrs | 1129 | by Victor Bhoroma
Achieving an efficient interbank market
The Zimbabwean government announced that it was going to introduce a managed floating exchange rate system in order to manage exchange rate volatility. The move is also aimed at bringing transparency ...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 11:58hrs | 918 | by Victor Bhoroma
'Ban social media corona virus chit-chat' argue Zanu PF - fearful truth will open our eyes, at last
"His (Chamisa) cheerleaders prayed and wished that the country suffers from this coronavirus that has killed thousands globally and in his unfathomable melancholy Chamisa appropriates for himself powe...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 21:04hrs | 2965 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zanu-PF govt's biggest weakness
FROM time immemorial, Zimbabweans have been subjected to numerous promises, many of which have remained pipe dreams.This has especially happened in the run-up to elections the country has held...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 17:46hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
'So encouraged by covid-19 preparedness' approved Chamisa - better not be Marange debacle mark2
"I visited Wilkins hospital. So encouraging to see how the City of HARARE leaders & staff are working to enhance training, capacity and preparedness in dealing with COVID-19. I was taken through t...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 23:12hrs | 1958 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Before re-engagement, first hold all-stake holders meeting' Mnangagwa told - it's beginning of the end of Zanu PF
"A report by the Khupe-led committee presented by Kwanele Hlabangana and gleaned by NewsDay Weekender revealed that the team met British ambassador to Zimbabwe Melanie Robinson, US ambassador to Zimba...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 09:02hrs | 1569 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Waiting for Mbeki, we ready for genuine reforms' - and getting nowhere, must now think outside the box
Nelson Chamisa and his MDC friends have moved from being the opposition party championing the ordinary citizen's cause of free, fair and credible elections to the party betraying the cause during the ...Published: 14 Mar 2020 at 10:22hrs | 3541 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Chamisa is a 42 year old with 2 year old's brain' - folly inviting inside tent hoping will piss out
"There is an old English adage that says life begins at 40. If the adage is true, maybe that's the reason Chamisa is behaving like a toddler. Maybe indeed his life started at 40 and he is now a 2 year...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 07:16hrs | 1958 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
LWF Secretary call for Mnangagwa vs Chamisa dialogue - to free hostages not to legitimise pariah state
Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Secretary General, Dr Martin Junge, add his voice to those calling for Mnangagwa and Chamisa to meet. "He (Mnangagwa) referred to the efforts of the government ...Published: 06 Mar 2020 at 10:22hrs | 1320 | by Wilbert Mukori
Terrence Mukupe blasts Mnangagwa and Zanu PF, tips Chamisa to win 2023
The former deputy minister of Finance Mr Terrence Mukupe came out guns blazing castigating the party and predicting that Chamisa will win the 2023 elections. The former deputy minister labelled ZANU P...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 06:56hrs | 2417 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Kamba is turning in his grave at heartbreaking oppression' - rubbish, never bothered him alive
It was the Spanish-American writer and philosopher George Santayana who said, "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it!"We, in Zimbabwe, have yet to sit down and learn fr...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 07:17hrs | 566 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
MDC launch PRICE promising 20 reforms before 2023 plebiscite - failed to implement even one last 20 years
On 21 January 2020, Nelson Chamisa and his MDC Alliance launched the party's Agenda 2020 programme of action. Yesterday, 27 February 2020, just a month later, the party launched its Principles for Rel...Published: 28 Feb 2020 at 17:46hrs | 1150 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa dumps Thabo Mbeki
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has all but dumped foreign-meditated talks with his nemesis, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, preferring a home-grown solution to the current economic and political crises facin...Published: 28 Feb 2020 at 08:01hrs | 3098 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt has not brought desired change
THE Zimbabwean economy has been teetering on the edge of a crisis for the past 20 years, save for a brief interlude during the Government of National Unity (GNU) between 2009 and 2013.The econ...Published: 28 Feb 2020 at 05:41hrs | 771 | by Ringisai Chikohomero
Why Prof Mthuli Ncube and John Mangudya must resign
In this dossier I am challenging the Finance Minister, Mr Mthuli Ncube, and his RBZ counterpart Mr Mangudya to resign with immediate effect citing their combined failure to fulfil their objectives and...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 09:19hrs | 1241 | by Magugu Benard, ZAPU NPC member (Midlands province)
Mthuli Ncube, Mangudya must resign
In this dossier, I am challenging the Finance Minister, Mr Mthuli Ncube, and his RBZ counterpart Mr Mangudya to resign with immediate effect citing their combined failure to fulfil their objectives an...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 08:43hrs | 1412 | by Magugu Benard, ZAPU NPC member (Midlands province)
Fuel crisis rages on in Bulawayo
Fuel crisis that started almost two weeks ago continues to rock the city of Bulawayo with all the garages that sell the energy liquid in local currency having nothing at all while only a few that are ...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 12:10hrs | 4751 | by Stephen Jakes
'Will not rest until Zanu PF is extinguished' - shadow boxing, failed to implement even one reform in 20 years
As much as Zanu PF thugs would want to believe they will rule Zimbabwe until "donkeys have horns" the reality is that change is coming. The best they have...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 07:58hrs | 357 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Zanu PF hegemonic grip on power depends on poverty and violence' - without reforms, never be broken
Last week, former Zanu PF Minister Walter Mzembi promised to spill the beans of how Zanu PF has been rigging elections. Those who know Mzembi is but a man of little substance, an intellectual midget m...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 08:43hrs | 718 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa threaten 'radical approach' to force ED into NTA - same GNU s***t different name
"They will arrest and kill some of us, but no gun is more powerful than a conscious mind. Some people are saying why don't you focus on 2023. That is foolishness. Foolishness is doing the same thing w...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:28hrs | 661 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe's tragic failure of leadership can be reversed
In 2008 Nelson Mandela said there was a "tragic failure of leadership" in Zimbabwe. His words have never been truer than they are today. There is evidence of failure everywhere you look.In Mar...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:58hrs | 2548 | by Nelson Chamisa
'Free elections are a process not event' - given will, 18/4/1980 event and not 40+ year process
Zimbabwe is facing a very serious social and economic crisis that is now causing untold human suffering and deaths and is threatening the country's stability and that of the whole southern African reg...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 21:42hrs | 531 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa approaches Sadc, AU on Mbeki, talks
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa says he will approach Sadc and the African Union (AU) in a bid to compel the government to accept former South African President Thabo Mbeki as a mediator in the count...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 20:09hrs | 2011 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai was a 'sell-out' says Mutodi
INFORMATION Deputy Minister Energy Mutodi has described the late MDC founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai as a ‘sell-out' who invited sanctions imposed by the West and the US against Zimbabwe....Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:06hrs | 1095 | by newzimbabwe
National interest or Partisan dynamics in Economic Policy Design
This instalment marks the end of this series on political transitions and economic policy architecture in Zimbabwe. To refresh your memory reader, you would recall that policy-making is a seri...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:36hrs | 81 | by Richard Mahomva
The MDC circle of despair continues
THE MDC has been going round and round in circles heading nowhere, in a case of chasing one's tail. To this end that party has not achieved anything meaningful. Its existence now depicts a circle of d...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:35hrs | 528 | by Khumbulani Vodloza Sibanda
'Let's smoke peace pipe' Chamisa invited ED - never had peace, ain't tobacco they are smoking
"Zimbabweans have their rights. They are the authors of the history of this country. They are the last line of authority in this country. It is not just the question of Mr Mnangagwa. Mnangagwa has no ...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 18:25hrs | 1716 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Tsvangirai accepted GNU to end people's suffering' - did not end rigged elections thence suffering continued
"It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt," said Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known to many by his pen name Mark Twain, a reno...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 09:34hrs | 863 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabweans ready for Kasukuwere to lead them
Inflation in Zimbabwe has gone past the 500% mark, while salaries remain stagnant. A number of households are currently living below the poverty datum line and the future seems bleak for the 90% of th...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 12:14hrs | 8675 | by Ntokozo Msipha
'Zanu-PF funded MDC-T, we were not a real opposition' - funded MDC during GNU too and continues to this day
Many people have often asked why Zanu-PF has managed to stay in power for 40 years regardless of the party's checked track record as a corrupt, incompetent and murderous regime? The answer is slowly b...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 19:44hrs | 1913 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'RELOAD will break vicious cycle of disputed elections' said MDC - rubbish, it is time for plan B
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," said George Santayana, born Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz De Santayana, a Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and n...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 07:15hrs | 1279 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Kwekwe to name street after Tsvangirai
Kwekwe councillors have resolved to honour the late MDC founder Morgan Tsvangirai by renaming a street in the town after the opposition leader.The MDC is in control of the Kwekwe Town Council ...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 07:01hrs | 2622 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rules out GNU
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has described the persecution of the opposition party's vice-chairperson Job Sikhala as a desperate attempt by Emmerson Mnangagwa to silence democratic voices.Chamisa...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 06:40hrs | 2055 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa suspends MDC Masvingo provincial executive
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has suspended the party's Provincial Executive.This comes as the Nelson Chamisa led party is struggling to resolve deep-seated divisions in its Bulawayo structures, w...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 06:27hrs | 2348 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa warned against 'hyenas'
SUSPENDED Zanu-PF youth league kingpin, Godfrey Tsenengamu, warned opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, last week to beware of being used by hardliners in both the ruling party and his MDC as h...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 06:08hrs | 4854 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF & MDC created mess, let them solve it' - 'mugodoyi' fallacy, 40 years still can't see they profiting from it
Tsenengamu and Matutu showed a lot of courage to publicly denounce the corrupt leaders and their cartel fronts. Most people knew these people but naming and shaming them is another ball game. The two ...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 11:33hrs | 1737 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Zimbabwe is not Malawi' true, still we too need 2018 nullified and Zanu-PF booted out
To Dr Ibbo Mandaza and Tony ReelerThank you for your article "Malawi election bombshell: Courts becoming too powe...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 20:42hrs | 2347 | by Wilbert Mukori
Tsenengamu, Matutu to push for dialogue between Chamisa and Mnangagwa
SUSPENDED Zanu-PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu has revealed that he and Matutu will be using a new organisation, Zimbabwe First Agenda, to push for dialogue between Chamisa and Mnangagwa on 21 Febr...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 15:45hrs | 1034 | by newzimbabwe
Why does the oil industry attract much corruption?
I HAVE a long indirect association with the oil business. My father joined the Atlantic Oil Company in the early years of the last century and rose through the ranks, eventually becoming a senior exec...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 06:00hrs | 661 | by Eddie Cross
Zimbabwe inflation is understated
OUR inflation, whether month-on-month or year-on-year, is understated. It seems to be more of a case of tradition — I cannot rule out a case of convenience to paint a better picture based on relying...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 05:58hrs | 778 | by The Brett Chulu
To end economic meltdown first end Zanu PF dictatorship; it is illegitimate and must step down
Mnangagwa has given up reviving the country's economy, he has no clue what to do. He is now focusing on how to stay in power at all cost. His main argument why he must be allowed to stay in po...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 09:02hrs | 1706 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Key lessons for SADC to learn from Malawi judgement,' said Chamisa - irony, you have learned nothing yourself
The root cause of Zimbabwe's economic chaos; with unemployment a nauseating 90%, public education and health care all but collapse, rocketing hyperinflation, etc. And political paralysis; we are stuck...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 13:07hrs | 1432 | by Nomusa Garikai
The road to a Zimbabwe GNU getting bumpier
It is apparent that the current crop of politicians in Zimbabwe really has little to do with the welfare of masses but self-enrichment. Statements from some officials from the two major parties, Zanu-...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 06:01hrs | 926 | by Learnmore Zuze
Reasons why Zimbabwean women cheat
Though men bear the brunt of most cheating accusations, the truth is that the number of women who have reported being unfaithful in Zimbabwe has increased. It is high time society understands the reas...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 16:52hrs | 2717 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa returns from SA
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa said yesterday that South Africa and the rest of Sadc now fully appreciated the scale of Zimbabwe's political and economic crisis - necessitating urgent intervention....Published: 01 Feb 2020 at 19:39hrs | 4993 | by Staff reporter
'Mbeki brokered stability inducing 2008 GNU, please repeat' - Rubbish, GNU was a failure, insane to repeat
To herald the 2008 to 2013 GNU as a success is a grotesque misrepresentation of historic facts that will not be allowed to go unchallenged!"Mbeki - who helped to broker the stability-inducing ...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 22:09hrs | 1186 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa flies to SA to confer with Mbeki, Ramaphosa
AMID rising political tensions and economic strife in the country, opposition leader Nelson Chamisa is in South Africa to meet former president Thabo Mbeki - in a last ditch effort to foster dialogue ...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 19:46hrs | 2926 | by Staff reporter
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