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Zimbabwe's rot of corruption began at the top - that's where it must end
No one can deny that Zimbabwe has become synonymous with corruption.This morning, I woke up to deeply disturbing news reports that shook me to the core - not because they were shoc...Published: 01 May 2025 at 19:53hrs | 986 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Nyarota the Gukurahundi Cheerleader
Geoff Nyarota, that Gukurahundi cheerleader and genocide supporter is no more. He died in a country with hospitals without medicine. Yet he died better than the thousands who were bayoneted in the kil...Published: 25 Mar 2025 at 21:53hrs | 537 | by Victim of Nyarota Gukurahundi Editorials
Nyarota aided and downplayed the Gukurahundi Genocide
When someone dies, their entire life is spotlighted..their greatest attributes as well as their awful weaknesses and terrible vices. Many speak glowingly of Geoff Nyarota's attributes as a jou...Published: 24 Mar 2025 at 13:30hrs | 837 | by Siphosami Malunga
Geoff Nyarota betrayed the people of Matabeleland and Midlands
The recent passing of Geoff Nyarota, an award-winning veteran journalist and writer, has reopened a painful chapter in Zimbabwe's history.While lauded by others as a doyen of journalism, both ...Published: 24 Mar 2025 at 05:29hrs | 1669 | by Staff reporter
Geoff Nyarota: A legacy of fearless journalism in the fight against corruption
Zimbabwe has lost a legend! The passing of veteran journalist Geoff Nyarota is not just a loss to the journalism fraternity - it is a deep wound to the soul of a nation still crying out for ac...Published: 23 Mar 2025 at 21:12hrs | 368 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Gukurahundi cover-up editor dies
Veteran journalist Geoffrey Nyarota, renowned for his pioneering investigative journalism and his role in exposing the Willowgate scandal in 1989, passed away on Saturday at the age of 74 after a prol...Published: 23 Mar 2025 at 08:15hrs | 2363 | by Staff reporter
Journalism is not a crime, but looting national resources surely is!
On Monday, February 24, 2025, Blessed Mhlanga, a senior journalist with Alpha Media Holdings, handed himself over to the Zimbabwe Republic Police at Harare Central Police Station.Hours later, ...Published: 26 Feb 2025 at 22:04hrs | 623 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Prof. Moyo's Political Career in Limbo
Discarded knowledgeable academic Professor Jonathan Moyo, who is currently eking out a life somewhere in East Africa's dungeons, has confessed that factional fights in his previous party exist and is ...Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 20:22hrs | 2433 | by Leonard Koni
Chivayo rescues ailing gukurahundi cover-up editor
BUSINESSMAN Mr Wicknell Chivayo has donated US$15 000 to help assist in the medical needs of veteran journalist and former Chronicle Editor, Geoff Nyarota.Nyarota is arguably known for exposin...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:56hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi cover-up editor urgently needs medical help
Geoffrey (Geoff) Nyarota is in critical health and urgently requires medical treatment for a trio of serious conditions: cancer, heart disease, and kidney failure. Nyarota, who has a long career in jo...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 15:54hrs | 745 | by Staff reporter
Nyarota's latest book takes aim at opposition
Journalist Geoffrey Nyarota has released his latest book, 'The Journalist as an Outcast: Perils of Investigative Reporting in Zimbabwe.'Alpha Media Holdings chairman, Trevor Ncube was the gues...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 09:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Geoff Nyarota to launch his fourth book
Award-winning veteran Zimbabwean journalist Geoff Nyarota, one of the best local scribes, will tomorrow launch his fourth book, The Journalist as an Outcast: Perils of Investigative Reporting in Zimba...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 07:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
3 Zimbabweans die in SA crash
A YOUNG Zimbabwean couple based in Cape Town, South Africa, and a friend died last week in an accident which occurred just outside Polokwane in South Africa's Limpopo province.The couple, Wend...Published: 30 May 2022 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Geoff Nyarota revisits Willowgate scandal
I WAS at the time two months short of 38 years of age and a little-known editor of The Chronicle, the Bulawayo-based daily newspaper.In a building in our neighbourhood in central Bulawayo was ...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:49hrs | 5 | by Geoff Nyarota
Mnangagwa's govt fails to fill gaps in compensation debate
THERE are issues in the compensation debate to which government has closed its mind and, therefore, has miserably failed to justify the decision. They include government's failure to justify compensat...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:55hrs | 3 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Power outages affect medical drugs storage
Many Zimbabweans who are on self-administered medical drugs requiring refrigerated storage are going through a torrid time as crippling power outages continue unabated.Drugs that require stora...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo exposes Strive Masiyiwa's Zanu-PF links?
Exiled former G40 Kingpin and Robert Mugabe's spin doctor Professor Jonathan Moyo who had threatened to expose embattled telecoms guru Strive Masiyiwa of being a two-timer who played double standards ...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 16:15hrs | 2 | by Ndou Paul
BREAKING: Jonathan Moyo spills the beans on Strive Masiyiwa
Exiled former G40 Kingpin Jonathan Moyo has come out guns blazing against telecoms guru Strive Masiyiwa. In a series of Twitter thread Moyo revealed how Masiyiwa has always been a staunch supporter of...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 15:53hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Our journalists must up their game
Many have asked me why our media is as bad as it is today. It is not a question that can be answered with one magic sentence. It is true that we have a crisis in journalism; today's reporters ...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 17:00hrs | 1 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Nyarota launches 'The Graceless Fall of Robert Mugabe'
VETERAN journalist Geoffrey Nyarota last week officially launched his second book - The Graceless Fall of Robert Mugabe: The End of a Dictator's Reign - published by Penguin in August 2018.Geo...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bullet-train pledge, splits cost Chamisa
As Zimbabwean opposition leader Nelson Chamisa considers mounting a legal challenge to last week's election results, he's also counting the cost of fissures within his alliance and campaign pledges th...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Bloomberg
Mnangagwa novel expected in October
The first book on Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to be launched in October. Ray Ndlovu has been a correspondent for the Mail & Guardian in Zimbabwe since 2009. His areas of interest includ...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 10:31hrs | | by Ndou Paul
When I met Mugabe behind a wall of fear
On each occasion that I happened to come across him a sense of fear consumed me. One day, in 1989, he visited our school. He looked so presidential and awfully detached behind his bodyguards. Then I s...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 09:52hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
William ‘Bill’ Saidi, a classic example of Zanu PF media capture.
The passing on of journalist cum writer Bill Saidi in Zambia yesterday opened a can of worms in Zapu circles especially in as far as the Gukurahundi genocide of the 1980s is concerned, Zapu has said i...Published: 05 Jan 2017 at 16:02hrs | 12 | by Stephen Jakes
Tsvangirai & Co now appreciate rule of law, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I am happy that the courts have started showing in a practical way that there is rule of law in this country. I was very pleased that three of Morga...Published: 15 Dec 2016 at 05:40hrs | | by CZ
The audacity of hope for Mthwakazi: Restoration Awakening Series: 1
Dr Mpiyseizwe Churchill GuduzaMLF Vice PresidentLondon, United Kingdom3 June, 2016I. IntroductionMy argument is three-fold. Firstly, that the major thesis of Shona intellec...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 14:52hrs | 2 | by Dr Mpiyseizwe Churchill Guduza
Jonathan Moyo, Coltart's cyber warfare
Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo's reaction to veteran politician and human rights defender David Coltart's recently released explosive memoirs has been brutal but also telling.Coltart ...Published: 03 Apr 2016 at 12:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Geoff Nyarota backs Coltart on Mnangagwa's gukurahundi comments
Former Chronicle editor, Geoffrey Nyarota has backed David Coltart in challenging Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa to sue him.Mnangagwa has been irked by Coltart's new book that puts hi...Published: 23 Mar 2016 at 12:51hrs | 8 | by Thobekile Zhou
'Geoff Nyarota distorting facts'
Media self-regulation is a valuable model in pursuit of press freedom, professionalism and healthy interaction between journalists and consumers of news and information.The Voluntary Media Cou...Published: 15 Nov 2015 at 10:11hrs | | by Loughty Dube
Nyarota, CIO journalist must probe Dzamara's disappearance - Sikhala
Geoff Nyarota and CIO journalist by the names Alezander Kanengoni must probe the disappearance of journalist and democracy activist Itai Dzamara.MDC-T senior member Job Sikhala said Geoff ...Published: 15 Jul 2015 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
War erupts within IMPI over unpaid allowances
MEMBERS of the Information Media Panel of Inquiry (IMPI) are holding on to Samsung smart phones and iPads they were given as they try to force official to pay them outstanding allowances.IMPI ...Published: 25 Mar 2015 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Jonathan Moyo regrets media industry polarisation
Government has expressed concern over polarisation that characterised the country's media industry in the past 15 years adding that the vice will be dealt with accordingly in line with the provisions...Published: 11 Jul 2014 at 07:30hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe
Prof Jonathan Moyo deserves a pat on the back
Speaking at the funeral of veteran journalist, Nathan Shamuyarira, President Robert Mugabe branded the minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Jonathan Moyo a "devil incarnate" becaus...Published: 22 Jun 2014 at 12:42hrs | | by Pious Wakatama
Jonathan Moyo's world crumbles
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday piled more misery on Media, Information and Broadcasting Services minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo as it emerged that he had ordered an investigation into how edito...Published: 08 Jun 2014 at 17:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'ZTV programmes outdated, poor'
BULAWAYO Residents yesterday told the Information and Media Panel of Inquiry (IMPI) in Nkulumane that they are forced to watch expensive foreign stations because the ZBC has poor quality programmes....Published: 10 May 2014 at 07:24hrs | | by Sifundiso Ndlovu
Bester Zambuko joins media enquiry
Adrenalin Advertising chief executive Bester Zambuko has been added to the members of the Information Media Panel of Inquiry, which has been established by government to investigate and assess the...Published: 25 Apr 2014 at 18:15hrs | 5 | by MHPR
A Zimbabwean cartoon project launched online
It started as a simple project by a team of cartoonists throwing in ideas and making funny scenes through a culture window. Fast forward the scenes, the project has caught the attention of many Facebo...Published: 07 Feb 2014 at 06:19hrs | 4 | by Chido Wilcox
Some lost conscience, others lost focus
After Joshua Nkomo (aka Father Zimbabwe), the only other political leader who has effectively and fearlessly challenged and opposed ZANU PF and President Mugabe in recent times is none other...Published: 28 Jan 2014 at 22:12hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Jonathan Moyo sets up a 22-member Media industry probe committee
Media, Information and Publicity minister Jonathan Moyo on Friday said govt has set up a 22-member inquiry team to probe the Information and Media industry.Moyo said the team will touch every ...Published: 21 Dec 2013 at 03:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Nyarota sues over 'the Gukurahundi brand manager' label
VETERAN journalist and former Daily News editor Geoffrey Nyarota has filed a $1 million defamation suit against Alpha Media Holdings over a letter to the editor published in the company's daily newspa...Published: 19 Dec 2013 at 03:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
30 Years on... where are they, the Ndebeles?
Where are they, thirty years on … the Ndebeles?Where is an Ndebele President …30 years on? Where is an Ndebele President of the main opposition, of whom the Ndeb...Published: 05 Oct 2013 at 14:57hrs | 4 | by Stellar Msebele
Ezra 'Tshisa', Erick Knight have no plans to go back to UK
Former ZBC DJs, Eric Knight and Ezra Sibanda, who lost to Zanu-PF candidates in Mbare and Vungu parliamentary constituencies respectively, say they have no plans to go back to the United Kingdom, but...Published: 09 Sep 2013 at 05:44hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Former MDC-T MP convicted for death threats against Nyarota
Former MDC-T House of Assembly member for Makoni South Pishai Muchauraya, who threatened his political contender Geoff Nyarota and the party's treasurer for Women's Assembly in the same constituency ...Published: 28 Aug 2013 at 04:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Geoff Nyarota talks about his failure to land the MDC-T ticket
MDC-T has been rocked by allegations of dictatorship, and favouritism in its controversial confirmation exercise and primary elections. A number of the party's disgruntled supporters filed to stand a...Published: 04 Jul 2013 at 08:45hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC-T fire rebels
Zanu-PF and MDC -T have fired all rebel members who filed their papers with the Nomination Court on Friday to contest as independents in the parliamentary and council polls set for 31 uly after losing...Published: 30 Jun 2013 at 21:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Geoff Nyarota refuse to concede MDC-T primaries defeat
FORMER Daily News Editor, Geoff Nyarota, who is aspiring to represent the MDC-T in the forthcoming parliamentary elections, has lodged an appeal against MP Pishai Muchauraya's victory at the party's p...Published: 16 Jun 2013 at 11:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Geoff Nyarota trounced in MDC-T primaries
Former Daily News editor Geoffrey Nyarota's bid to enter Zimbabwe's politics took a severe knock when he was resoundingly rejected by MDC-T supporters in Makoni South during the party's elections at t...Published: 11 Jun 2013 at 05:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's ally arrested for threatening to kill Geoff Nyarota
MANICALAND MDC-T spokesperson and Makoni South MP Pishai Muchauraya was yesterday arrested on allegations of making death threats against journalist Geoff Nyarota's campaign team members at a rally in...Published: 08 Jun 2013 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
MP bonks 14, sires 4 kids with party supporters
MEMBER of Parliament for Makoni South Mr Pishai Muchauraya is alleged to have slept with 14 MDC supporters, siring four children.The Manica Post is in possession of the list of women Mr Mucha...Published: 04 May 2013 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Thirty three years on and still B*llsh*t Politics prevails in Zimbabwe!
Zimbabwe has turned 33 and today we have nothing to show for those three decades. This line sounds self-defeating to many but truth be told, our country is embroiled in confusion. The fact is only a ...Published: 19 Apr 2013 at 01:58hrs | 2 | by Mathula Lusinga
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