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DA chickens out of withdrawing from the GNU

Steenhuisen says Ramaphosa concocted a reason to remove Whitfield, who had travelled to the US without the President's authorization.Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen says the party is withdrawing from the National Dialogue …

Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 16:15hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter

South Africa's GNU at risk after parliament backs budget

South Africa's parliament approved a key piece of budget legislation despite objections from the second-biggest party in the coalition government, raising the risk of the alliance unravelling.The National Assembly approved the fiscal frame…

Published: 03 Apr 2025 at 07:57hrs | 277 | by Staff reported

Choosing Chiwenga or Mnangagwa is as false choice as mouse picking black mamba or cobra. Escape whilst snakes fight!

Many people will answer Blessed Geza's call to come out in support of the so-called Geza revolution, because feel they must choose to support the Chiwenga or the Mnangagwa faction. The truth is, these are all equally bad choices so bad the…

Published: 12 Mar 2025 at 22:03hrs | 699 | by Wilbert Mukori

'There is no friction between Zanu PF and CCC!' boasted Mnangagwa

In Zimbabwe there is no friction between Zanu PF and the opposition party!" Mnangagwa boasted at the festive party held at his Kwe kwe farm to celebrate that Zanu PF and CCC opposition MPs had agreed to postpone the 2028 harmonised electio…

Published: 14 Jan 2025 at 22:27hrs | 316 | by Wilbert Mukori

Zanu PF will never reform itself out of office no more than ED appoint a competent cabinet. After all he is deadwood himself!

"Opposition official, Stephen Sarkozy Chuma has castigated ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa for recycling same old faces in cabinet. Commenting on the latest cabinet reshuffle, Chuma told *Citizens Movement Radio that people like July Moy…

Published: 07 Jan 2025 at 18:12hrs | 1677 | by Wilbert Mukori

South Africa GNU sees +1,000 businesses shut down in less than a month

South Africa has shut down 1,041 mom-and-pop stores in a bid to stop people from consuming pesticide-laden food, which has led to the deaths of 38 children across the country.President Cyril Ramaphosa's government also extended a deadline …

Published: 21 Dec 2024 at 09:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Change will not come from participating in more rigged elections, protests, etc. We have been down all these rabbit holes

"Winds of change don't blow automatically: Zimbabweans need to fearlessly stand up against oppression," argued Tendai Ruben Mbofana in his blog, mbofanatendairuben.news.blog. "In recent years, a transformative shift has been sweeping …

Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 20:28hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori

Eddies Cross insists Mnangagwa won 2023 elections, defying SADC. Americans sussed out MDC leaders are 'flawed' back in 2007!

Mr Eddie Cross, former MDC MP and confidant of MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai reiterated his claim on Denny J Show that Mnangagwa won the 2018 and 2023 Zimbabwe elections. This is an outrage!Comrade Cross and his MDC/CCC friends were elected…

Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 21:15hrs | 1096 | by Wilbert Mukori

SACP rejects ANC invitation for 100 days of GNU celebrations

Johannesburg, South Africa â€“ The South African Communist Party (SACP) has officially declined an invitation from the African National Congress (ANC) to participate in the celebrations marking the first 100 days of the Government of Natio…

Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 16:06hrs | 832 | by Staff reporter

Cosatu slams Ramaphosa's 'sellout' GNU government

Long serving ANC alliance partner the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) in KwaZulu-Natal has broken ranks, saying the once-ruling party was teetering on the brink of total collapse due to the unemployment rate.On the back of …

Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 08:52hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter

WATCH: South Africa general work Visa step by step application

Prominent civil society activist Nicholas Ngqabutho Mabhena, chairperson of the Zimbabwe Community in South Africa, has provided insights into obtaining a general work visa, a crucial pathway for foreign nationals looking to work and resid…

Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 08:38hrs | 1401 | by Staff reporter

South Africa intensifies crackdown on foreigners

South Africa is ramping up efforts to tackle illegal immigration with a renewed crackdown on undocumented immigrants, implementing a series of measures that include roadblocks, house searches, restaurant raids, and random checks on individ…

Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa to host GNU dinner

In a media briefing on Wednesday, presidential spokesperson Vincent Magwenya outlined President Cyril Ramaphosa's programme and addressed topical issues of interest.In his address, Magwenya said Ramaphosa has received a report from the Min…

Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 20:04hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter

Lovemore Moyo was Speaker of GNU Parliament yet did not know its primary task was implementing reforms. Shocking!

In a LIVE HS TV interview with Blessing Mhlanga, Lovemore Moyo revealed that he did not know that the primary purpose of the 2008 to 2013 GNU was to implement the democratic reforms. Shocking! He was the Chairman of the MDC-T, third rankin…

Published: 23 Aug 2024 at 21:47hrs | 5 | by Wilbert Mukori

Ramaphosa has long been engaging Helen Zille for a coalition

The DA's federal chairperson, Helen Zille, has intimated that President Cyril Ramaphosa had long been in negotiations with her party about the possibility of a coalition before the decision was taken with the ANC.Zille made the revelation …

Published: 02 Aug 2024 at 14:15hrs | 977 | by Staff reporter

Helen Zille says South Africa's GNU was a lie

In a dramatic twist, DA federal chairperson Helen Zille has, for the first time, publicly admitted that the multi-party government in its current form is not a Government of National Unity (GNU).Zille said that the current government was a…

Published: 02 Aug 2024 at 14:10hrs | 2413 | by Staff reporter

South Africa: Is it the time for unity or is it just the end of the ANC?

There is little doubt that, politically, the DA is the ultimate beneficiary of the government of national unity. It was always clear that the African National Congress (ANC) was headed for political and electoral decline in the 2024 electi…

Published: 24 Jul 2024 at 20:38hrs | 497 | by Dr William J Mpofu

Zimbabwe's civil servants long for GNU days

ZIMBABWE Prison and Correctional Service (ZPCS) officer Mbekezeli Dube* sits hunched over his desk in his discoloured uniform.The once-vibrant green shade is now a pale shadow of its former self.Dube pauses a bit and heaves a sigh."The sec…

Published: 06 Jul 2024 at 11:48hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Herman Mashaba's ActionSA rejects ANC of Ramaphosa's overtures

Herman Mashaba's ActionSA has declined an invitation to join the ANC-led Government of National Unity, saying it was important for Parliament to have a strong opposition to the government.Leaders of ActionSA met with the African National C…

Published: 26 Jun 2024 at 12:57hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

South African GNU and Zimbabwe economy

GNU as portfolio controlThis week, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa was inaugurated for his second and last term in office under the current Constitution.What is now awaited is announcement of the new Cabinet under the GNU arrangem…

Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 11:28hrs | 11 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday

DA's Moonshot Pact rebranded under GNU name

The Government of National Unity (GNU) appears to be nothing more than the failed Democratic Alliance (DA)'s Moonshot Pact, rebranded under a different name.The African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee (NEC) has announc…

Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 14:09hrs | 12 | by Junior Lebese

'Zimbabweans must unite for a shared vision,' argued Komichi. What vision has MDC/CCC ever had other than a seat on gravy train!

"Veteran opposition politician and anti-Zanu PF hardcore, Senator Morgan Komichi has claimed that there is need for opposition movements must to unite and fight Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangwagwa's administration head-on in order to save the cou…

Published: 17 May 2024 at 17:04hrs | 33 | by Wilbert Mukori

The shameless road to Political Dominance: Zanu pf unwanted but in power

The 2023 elections should all be a forgotten story, a brazen electoral theft but the story is not coming to an end.The CCC MPs and councilors recall by a pseudo-Secretary General is a drama fit for a low-budget movie. Well, it's happening …

Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 08:46hrs | 24 | by Albert Madya

Failure to comprehend CCC's sell-out on reforms is symptomatic of incurable stupidity and worse

"Chounorasiswa ndochiri muruoko. Chirimudumbu unorotwiswa. Hupenzi chifo, unofa nahwo!" (What you are holding, you can throw away. What is on your stomach, you can vomit. Stupidity is a curse you take to your grave!) So goes the Shona adag…

Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 22:30hrs | 31 | by Wilbert Mukori

'Chamisa made lots of mistakes; he is trying.' Participating in flawed elections out of greed in NOT a mistake. Trying what?

Zimbabweans love burying their heads in the sand and see and hear only what they want to see and hear - even in the face of a mountain of evidence saying otherwise. There is a dear price to be paid for such foolishness and we have and are …

Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 12:39hrs | 18 | by Wilbert Mukori

'Entire budget is anti-people in the extreme' We know that, tell us why you hell-bent on perpetuating Zanu PF rule!

Zimbabwe's main opposition parties are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless. Zimbabwe is a failed state, 43 years and counting of Zanu PF corrupt and tyrannical rule has left the country in total economic ruins and 49% of the populatio…

Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 20:38hrs | 20 | by Wilbert Mukori

Corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless CCC are mile-stone round nation's neck. Alas! Povo still don't know it!

You can count on MDC/CCC leaders to fight each other like wild cats. If it is not one thing it over half a dozen of the other - all trivial and irrelevant to the long suffering voters who elected them."Embattled Citizens Coalition for Chan…

Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 21:08hrs | 25 | by Wilbert Mukori

'GNU is not a local herb: excluding Zanu PF would bring spectre of instability.' So hangs the sword of Damocles!

"GNU is not a local herb!" wrote Jamanda2 in Bulawayo24. "The West also made sure there was no third party or parties with which to enter into a governing alliance that would exclude Zanu-PF from post-electoral settlement. Zanu-PF had to b…

Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 07:52hrs | 399 | by Wilbert Mukori

Mbeki advised Mnangagwa to put 'best national interests above self'. Must reprimand Ramaphosa for interfering

After the SADC election observers virtually said the 23 August 2023 Zimbabwe elections are not representative of popular opinion and submitted their report. It was then for SADC to decide," commented Former SA President Thabo Mbeki.He then…

Published: 22 Sep 2023 at 16:06hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori

'Chamisa has a solid plan.' Muscle into new GNU and thus guarantee yet another wasted opportunity to implement ALL reform

"Chamisa has a solid plan!" read the Bulawayo24 headline!If each one of Chamisaâ€™s "solid plan" was a brick then one would have built by now a pyramid of solid brick ten kilometres square and ten kilometres high! A pyramid higher than Mou…

Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 23:27hrs | 1329 | by Wilbert Mukori

'Diaspora must return and vote for change' Blame CCC for dragging us into flawed elections out of greed, not diaspora

"I get annoyed sometimes when l discovered that a person who is in Diaspora is supporting Zanu PF and they have got an offices in other countries. We must defeat Zanu PF politically like HH did in Zambia. We don't use violence. Our dignity…

Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 14:25hrs | 21 | by Wilbert Mukori

CCC are participating in these elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. Will penny finally drop on 24 August!

"Sunday was a bad day to forget for Amos Chibaya in Bulawayo where he was heckled and rebuffed by an angry CCC crowd, after Advocate Nelson Chamisa sent him there to calm down boiling tensions over CCC's imposition of candidates - for the …

Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 16:35hrs | 30 | by Wilbert Mukori

Zanu PF's to power will is burn Zimbabwe than let anyone else rule. CCC's will is do absolutely nothing, let everything burn

It is a historic fact that the MDC opposition sold out big time during the 2008 to 2013 GNU when the party failed to implement even one meaningful democratic reform designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. Ever since the GNU debacle…

Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 14:57hrs | 14 | by Wilbert Mukori

'In power Tsvangirai will be an albatross round nation's neck' warned USA Ambassador. That is exactly what CCC is!

"Morgan Tsvangirai is a flawed figure, not readily open to advice, indecisive and with questionable judgment," wrote then USA Ambassador to Zimbabwe 2004 to 2007, Chris Dell, in a top-secret cable to his bosses back in Washington, USA. The…

Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 10:14hrs | 13 | by Wilbert Mukori

Give the MDC Concort Challenge a chance

There have been various reactions to the Movement for Democratic Change led by Senator Douglas Mwonzora in which the party is challenging the delimitation report produced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and gazetted by President…

Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 09:07hrs | 28 | by Kennedy Kaitano

'We have learned GNU lessons' insist Chamisa - yet participating in flawed elections for umpteenth time!

It is bad enough that we should find ourselves ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs whose only priority is to secure absolute power and retain it at all cost. Of course, they know that in securing absolute power for themselves…

Published: 22 Mar 2023 at 07:30hrs | 9 | by Wilbert Mukori

'A new great Zimbabwe is possible!' says Chamisa. Not as long as pay lip service to reforms before elections

Nelson Chamisa, President of CCC, Zimbabwe's main opposition party penned a three pages long article - a departure from his usual two paragraph tweets - affording a very rare glimpse into what's cooking in the hermetically sealed thus impe…

Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 18:05hrs | 13 | by Wilbert Mukori

'Zanu PF is rigging 2023, it's normal and CCC must be hard-hat equipped for it!' It's insane and must be stopped, now

In an interview with AFP Nelson Chamisa admitted that Zimbabwe's electoral process has "always attracted controversy" and is "littered with rigging, manipulation" and it is his reaction that we should focus on."It's going to be a rough cam…

Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 16:54hrs | 7 | by Nomusa Garikai

CCC duplicity, hell bent on participating in 2023 with not cat in hell chance on winning, has exposed SADC duplicity

Yes, Zimbabwe is heading for yet another rigged elections. Zanu PF has learned the lessons from the past and by putting these into practice, the party is hoping to get political legitimacy from SADC and AU and thus get away with the riggin…

Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 09:52hrs | 3 | by Nomusa Garikai

'It is nice to call the US$40k to MPs a loan, it is a bribe' admitted Chamisa - his first tacit admission he too was bribed

Renemanyanga hariputirwi!" (The one whose defects stick out like horns cannot hide them forever. They will stick out!) so goes the Shona saying. Nelson Chamisa and his CCC friends are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent. For the last 22…

Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 08:59hrs | 15 | by Patrick Guramatunhu

'Fellow citizens, be strong' edges Chamisa - but why forfeit free for uphill battle of violent elections

"VIOLENCE IN MATOBO, INSIZA & CHIRUMANZU ..Zpf panicking, desperate & violent because they are not supported in villages, in rural areas. Thuggery is not politics. Violence is not civilized campaigning. Their violence will increase…

Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 17:24hrs | 14 | by Wilbert Mukori

'Zanu PF will never win free elections!' said CCC. True. So, why is CCC one insisting on elections with NO reforms?

When it comes to elections, Zimbabwe is caught in a catch 22 situation. After 42 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule that has left the country in economic ruins, a pariah state and forced millions in abject poverty; the nation is …

Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 13:51hrs | 11 | by Nomusa Garikai

'I am sending you to Pharaoh!' twittered Chamisa - being conned to believe the upstart is Moses!

Referring to the biblical situation, CCC leader President Nelson Chamisa assured the nation of the anticipated freedom from Zanu PF repression."THE CRIES HAVE BEEN HEARDâ€¦And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen h…

Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 11:11hrs | 13 | by Patrick Guramatunhu

SA will slam door shut to Zimbabwean refugees - all we ask, please stop endorsing rigged elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy

Zimbabwe is a textbook case failed state â€“ a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and lawless thugs who have rigged elections to cement their iron grip on power. 42 years of criminal waste of the nation's human and material resourc…

Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 21:53hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu

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