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No single individual, group, or political party can fight an entrenched dictator alone
Whatever happens in Zimbabwe on 23 August 2023, we must pay homage to both President Mnangagwa and his challengers for the prevailing peace in this hotly contested plebiscite. The receptivity of Presi...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 14:22hrs | 10 | by Sam Wezhira
What if US president is wrong on Ukraine?
Since the once great newspapers, the New York Times, the Washington Times and Los Angeles Times have been captured by the Democratic Party, they are all blowing President Joe Biden's narrative about t...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:24hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Harare backs Moscow
WINDS of a renewed Cold War between the United States and Russia - thunderously manifesting itself in Ukraine through iron and blood - swept across the southern African region this week as Russian For...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nigel Chanakira, please leave politics to politicians
Nigel Chanakira, please leave politics to politicians-no single individual, group, or political party can fight an entrenched dictator alone. One of the requirements of regime change is Unity of Oppos...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 14:44hrs | 13 | by Sam Wezhira
Europe cannot beat a bitterly cold winter through fire from faggots
They can't make fire from faggotsAS I write, for the short month of conflict in Eastern Europe, global food prices have risen by an average 17 percent.Energy costs have gone through th...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by @ Jamwanda2
Zimbabwe Communist Party says to the USA, NATO and their allies hands off Russia!
Russia, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, has challenged the right of the USA to implement regime change through the use of extremist groups, terrorism and media manipulation and then establish ...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 07:46hrs | 30 | by Zimbabwe Communist Party
Mnangagwa had a chance to be a Gorbachev, but he chose to be Milosevic!!!
Zimbabweans celebrating the fall of the late ex-President Robert Mugabe during the November 2017 military coup which brought President E.D Mnangagwa to power. Pic Credit; Google.Reader, Mnanga...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 20:36hrs | 8 | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo Sr
What Zimbabwean leaders can learn from FW de Klerk's legacy
WHEN the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe met the last apartheid South African leader Frederik Willem de Klerk, who died of cancer-related complications at 85 this week, in Gaborone, Bot...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's intellectual prostitutes and the national question
My Ghanaian broth er, Dr George Ayiteyi, was the first to connect fraudulent claims to the title of professor to Professor Jonathan Moyo as the quintessential intellectual prostitute. I scolded Ayitey...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:41hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabweans disillusioned with the 'new dispensation'
MORE than a year ago events touted as an unfolding new beginning in this Southern African nation raised public hope. The Zimbabwean "benign" coup in November 2017 must be counted among the greatest of...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:07hrs | 1 | by Ray Matikinye
Isolated Mnangagwa to punish renegade soldiers?
Whistleblower Prisca Mutema has alleged that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been isolated by his colleagues in the Politiburo due to his reformist stance. She claims that a strong group ...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:14hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa will regret ignoring Matabeleland restoration cause
In his letter addressed to the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, MLO President Cde Paul Siwela selflessly warned against the dangers of undermining or ignoring Matabeleland restoration ...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 12:19hrs | | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa's new cabinet will either kill or awaken Zimbabwe's economic prospects
The real threat to Zanu-PF's survival does not come from Nelson Chamisa's election petition court challenge. It comes from within Zanu-PF itself and how its leader will decide to confront the politica...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 17:09hrs | 1 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
NPF: Possessed by a retrogressive agenda?
Mark Duncan, writing from Moscow, felt compelled to advise The Economist [Letters - A party of the people, April 14, 2018], that its belief that Russian youth post Gorbachev generation offered optimis...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 08:22hrs | | by Tapiwa Nyandoro
How Britain shifted policy on Zimbabwe
BRITAIN has shifted its foreign policy on Zimbabwe which was previously anchored on seeking to influence political change via opposition political parties, and is now pushing for change from within Za...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 16:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nathaniel Manheru resurfaces as Igomombe?
DEAR reader, we regaled each other leisurely under the eaves last week. But it can't be play, play, play forever. We have to get down to the business of interpreting our times, what with so much happe...Published: 15 May 2018 at 16:23hrs | 1 | by Igomombe
Our bad patch called Nelson, more ambitious than Satan
DEAR reader, we regaled each other leisurely under the eaves last week. But it can't be play, play, play forever. We have to get down to the business of interpreting our times, what with so much happe...Published: 12 May 2018 at 13:23hrs | | by Igomombe
Wither Zimbabwe?
For the last two years I have warned that Zimbabwe was facing a perfect storm - the unique convergence of several factors which could tear the country apart. The eye of that storm hit Zimbabwe in mid ...Published: 31 Dec 2017 at 17:12hrs | | by David Coltart
Was the Zimbabwe guerrilla war of liberation worth it?
The article written by Tsolo Dube on Bulawayo24 asks a very painful but pertinent question: The War Veterans owe the Nation an Explanation: why they went to fight in the liberation of our country. Thi...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 11:49hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Xenophobia in Germany, among Germans: where is the space for the foreigners?
Part 4.1.1 The fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification of Germany There are two sequences that led to the fall of Berlin Wall. One was the develo...Published: 08 May 2016 at 08:13hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Putin vowes to punish killers of Kremlin critic
Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to punish the killers of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov as opposition figures denounced what they called a "political murder" and Western leaders called f...Published: 01 Mar 2015 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe and his wife Grace are terrified people
An observant student of power and its effects, the late French philosopher Michel Foucault noted that "we are subjected to the production of truth through power" and that "we cannot exercise power exc...Published: 02 Nov 2014 at 19:43hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Inside Mugabe's sealed succession envelope: Fear, self assassinations and a coup
An observant student of power and its effects, the late French philosopher Michel Foucault noted that "we are subjected to the production of truth through power" and that "we cannot exercise powe...Published: 01 Nov 2014 at 08:36hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Crimean case, a carbon copy of Kosovo
While the United States of America (USA) and the European Union (EU) connived to impose sanctions on Russian authorities for accepting the March 16, 2014, Crimean referendum results that led to th...Published: 26 Mar 2014 at 12:03hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Mandela had been a 'cruel and unfair' political opponent - FW de Klerk
Johannesburg – Former South African president Nelson Mandela is not a "holy man" unlike some people's idea of him and he had been a "cruel and unfair" politic...Published: 11 May 2012 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vladimir Putin claims victory in Russia's presidential vote
MOSCOW (AP) — Vladimir Putin claimed victory in Russia's presidential election before tens of thousands of cheering supporters Sunday, even as the opposition a...Published: 04 Mar 2012 at 22:51hrs | | by VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press
Demonstrators gather for new mass rallies across Russia
A human rights group set up by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called for snap elections, as thousands of demonstrators gathered across the country to protest against the results of the country'...Published: 24 Dec 2011 at 08:49hrs | | by -
Nobel Peace Prize Award: 1901-Present
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the person "who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and prom...Published: 04 Oct 2011 at 12:16hrs | | by Ryan Williams
Zimbabwe's old guard cannot be expected to pursue real change
Zimbabwe; Perestroika the only way outIt is treacherous and intolerable to expect change to be managed by the old guard.One cannot really fathom the challenges that Mikhail Gorbachev f...Published: 05 Sep 2011 at 12:06hrs | | by Vince Musewe
MDC Congress 2011 Cautionary Statement
MDC will start its congress tomorrow with the women congress, then the Youth and finally the Main wing Saturday 30 April 2011. This will be the third congress after MDC formation and ironically will ...Published: 28 Apr 2011 at 13:45hrs | | by Elliot Pfebve
Here and there: Transport eMalokishini
Cotton farmers made headlines this week for the wrong reasons. The merchants allege that the farmers are adding weight to their bales of cotton by hiding a few stones inside.I could not help but ...Published: 15 Apr 2011 at 13:16hrs | | by Courtesy of William Phiri Chronicle 4 June 2005
Here and there: Transport eMalokishini
Cotton farmers made headlines this week for the wrong reasons. The merchants allege that the farmers are adding weight to their bales of cotton by hiding a few stones inside. I could not h...Published: 21 Oct 2010 at 04:43hrs | 1 | by Courtesy of William Phiri Chronicle 4 June 2005
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