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Zimbabwe may suffer an internet shutdown
ZIMBABWE may suffer an internet shutdown in the 2023 general election, just like Uganda and Zambia in 2021. In 2019, Freedom House rated Zimbabwe as a "not free" country with a 28% global freedom scor...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 07:42hrs | | by Phillip Anjorin
Mnangagwa scared of being eaten by protests: run Mnangagwa run!
Not too long ago, protests would not subdue a dictator. Not now! Second only to military coups in deposing dictactors, protests have developed huge teeth that can crush a dictator to nothing in a matt...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:32hrs | | by Israel Dube
Demos counter-productive
Democracy has become one of the most widely adopted political systems world over and Zimbabwe's Government is also a product of this dominating political system.It comes in different forms and...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:16hrs | | by Wallace K. Musakanyi
The Fifth Estate: A threat to national security
The turn of the century has seen the evolution of various communication platforms. This development also saw the rise of citizen journalism. The bad side of citizen journalism is that the writer i...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 08:26hrs | | by Elijah Chihota
Mnangagwa regime's weapon of choice against dissent
Joshua Nkomo, Morgan Tsvangirai, Dumiso Dabengwa, Lookout Masuku, Abel Muzorewa, Tendai Biti, Renson Gasela and Ndabaningi Sithole all have something in common.The firebrand politicians challe...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Desmond Chingarande
One year after 'Asante Sana', coup sounds still rumbling
One Tuesday, November 14 2017, military elites took control of all security arms of government and moved tanks into Harare's central business district to take control of government. Four hundred and f...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 06:14hrs | | by Pearl Matibe
Gwisai acquitted in Mugabe ouster plot
FORMER Highfield legislator Munyaradzi Gwisai and five other activists who were six years ago convicted for conspiring to commit public violence, with a view to remove former President Robert Mugabe f...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Petals of bloody betrayal: Deal with Mugabe
In Petals of Blood, the 1977 novel published by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, three central themes - corruption, capitalism and land, weave a web of unbearably harsh betrayal and stifling neediness upon a small ...Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 07:48hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Mugabe is right, Mnangagwa must go
I believe in democracy, fairness and justice. So media reports on army tanks moving into Harare last November crushed my hopes and dreams for Zimbabwe. I was mad. I was Mad at Gushungo and Grace Mugab...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 15:08hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Mugabe suffers Mubarak Ceausescu shame
THE army has taken President Robert Mugabe and his wife into custody, triggering speculation of a military coup, though the military's supporters called it as a "bloodless correction." It wasn't clear...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 10:47hrs | 1 | by Associated Press
How to spot a coup!
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has been detained by the country's military, who have seized control of the national broadcaster, ZBC.Soldiers and army vehicles are on the streets of the ca...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 08:00hrs | | by BBC
The fall of the Zimbabwe dictator is gathering speed
A soft political coup led by G40 has taken place in Zimbabwe. The dictatorship of Robert Mugabe and his patronage political machine linked to the liberation struggle is now crumbling at a fast pace dr...Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 08:15hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa
Will Grace Mugabe become the president of Zimbabwe in 2018?
When Grace Mugabe called out a shamefaced Kazembe Kazembe at a Zanu-PF Youth Interface Rally in Bindura earlier this year, to rebuke him over calls he made for Saviour Kasukuwere to resign, it was rea...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 09:53hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Zimbabwe is every dictator and tyrant's paradise
I can just imagine a gathering of all the dictators and tyrants who have ever lived on this earth, and they are asked which country would be the easiest to rule over - I bet most of them would choose ...Published: 10 Oct 2017 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Is democracy un-African?
Libya has experienced nothing but war and brutality since the reign of King Idris I started in 1951. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi deposed the monarch in a bloodless coup in 1969. Under Gaddafi, or 'Brother...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 17:39hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
Leaders who want to rule forever should have been traditional chiefs, not presidents
This past week witnessed another embarassing dent to the image of African national leaders - as Ugandan parliamentarians broke into a fist fight during a fierce debate on removing presidential age lim...Published: 30 Sep 2017 at 08:29hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
No fire in the belly of Zimbabweans
Our nation is in desperate need of salvation but no saviour is going to miraculously appear among us; we Zimbabweans must redeem ourselves.Not so long ago people were being arrested and prosec...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 11:56hrs | | by Tapson Muchena
Mugabe 'charms' his enemies
Any visitor to Zimbabwe watching local television on Thursday afternoon would have been forgiven for thinking that the characterisation of President Robert Mugabe and his government by the media i...Published: 10 Oct 2016 at 12:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Disjointed protests useless and only hurt innocent citizens
Some 20 000 years ago, there lived the oldest tribe in the Southern Africa, referred to as the San. The most intriguing thing about the San was their hunting methods. They used bow and arrow...Published: 15 Sep 2016 at 01:09hrs | | by Garikai Mafirakureva
Outing Mugabe in 24 Hours, Power of WORD!!!
"In the beginning was the WORD…." I beg Zimbabwean Theologians, Scientists, Philosophers, Hypothesisers, Politicians, Thinkers, Researchers, Change seekers, and Academics to finish that phrase in th...Published: 14 Jul 2016 at 16:38hrs | | by Rakanga Danble
Zimbabwe not Mugabe's private company
President Robert Mugabe's utterances at the just ended African Union (AU) Ordinary Summit in Addis Ababa Ethiopia that he will "rule until God says come" are irresponsible and an insult on the sufferi...Published: 01 Feb 2016 at 12:28hrs | | by Moses Manyengavana - PDP Youth Assembly Chairperson
Mugabe threatens UN with AU walkout over veto reform - contrived skunk fight to hide sinister agenda
"Chidembo kana choda kuramba mukadzi chinoshereketa!" (When the skunk (bad husband) wants to desert the wife, it will do anything and everything to provoke a fight, beat her up and then divorce her fo...Published: 01 Feb 2016 at 07:22hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Desperate Tsvangirai wrong to incite violence
As the hope of becoming the leader of the Zimbabwean government is fading away on a daily basis as well as is dawning on him that he would never be the one, the MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai thinks t...Published: 12 Nov 2015 at 13:21hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Mugabe is the best leader for the country, says Grace
First Lady Grace Mugabe has said President Robert Mugabe is the best leader for the country and was incomparable to anyone, while also warning Zimbabweans to stay away from Arab Spring like uprisi...Published: 12 Oct 2015 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohammed Morsi sentenced to death
An Egyptian court has pronounced death sentences on ousted president Mohammed Morsi and more than 100 other people over a mass prison break in 2011.Morsi is already serving a 20-year prison t...Published: 16 May 2015 at 13:56hrs | | by BBC
Ncube admits to 'fleeing from the political crime scene' of rigged elections but not to being the criminal!
"Fortunately, for us as the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), we not only participated in constructing Zimbabwe's national constitution but also our value systems and operational ethos fall squar...Published: 10 Apr 2015 at 16:27hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
A Weekly Commentary on Bread and Butter Issues - Prof Welshman Ncube
Are elections the only democratic means for an opposition party to assume political power?Zimbabwe is a constitutional democracy. What this means is that most, if not all political proces...Published: 10 Apr 2015 at 09:18hrs | | by Prof Welshman Ncube, President, MDC
'HSBC helped conceal over $100 billion in Swiss accounts'
Global banking giant HSBC for years catered to a motley crew of weapons dealers, tax evaders, tin-pot dictators and celebrities, using its private Swiss arm to shield accounts worth more than $100 bil...Published: 09 Feb 2015 at 10:38hrs | | by CNNMoney
Gerontocracy ruins Mugabe legacy
A gerontocracy can be described as a societal system of rule where leadership is reserved for elders - usually only those over 60 years of age who are meant to rule until they die.Belief i...Published: 18 Jan 2015 at 09:53hrs | | by The Oracle Tangai Chipangura
Mugabe should be allowed to rest
As Zanu PF goes to congress in December, many Zimbabweans will expect that President Robert Gabriel Mugabe, now 90, will accept he has had his time and should be allowed to rest.I am one of th...Published: 03 Aug 2014 at 10:54hrs | | by Tangai Chipangura
Zimbabwe wants 'popular uprisings' criminalised
Zimbabwe has flatly refused to identify itself as an ally of the popular uprisings in North Africa, amid debate in the African Union (AU) that the putsch represented real democratic revolutions....Published: 02 Jun 2014 at 12:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala warns 'ambitious' Chamisa
Maverick MDC-T member Job Sikhala has warned 'ambitious' party organising secretary Nelson Chamisa that he is "still junior" to think of leading the opposition movement.He advised Chamisa to c...Published: 26 May 2014 at 09:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe's days are numbered,' says Sikhala
MDC-T returnee Job Sikhala yesterday stepped in the vacuum created by Tsvangirai's absence and sent the crowd into frenzy when he said Zanu-PF leader President Robert Mugabe's days at State House were...Published: 26 May 2014 at 09:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa's liberation movements maintain 100% victory record
From South Africa and Zimbabwe to Ethiopia and Rwanda, no liberation movement government leader has ever lost power in the last 40 ye...Published: 10 May 2014 at 20:09hrs | 8 | by C. ONYANGO-OBBO
Car bomb near an Egyptian army intelligence wounds six soldiers
A car bomb exploded on Saturday near an Egyptian army intelligence building in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, wounding at least six soldiers, security sources said.No group has claimed respo...Published: 19 Oct 2013 at 14:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Hosni Mubarak's release adds more turmoil in Egypt
Cairo - Egypt's toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak was transferred from prison to house arrest at a military hospital on Thursday, in a move overshadowed by a blistering crackdown against his Islamist suc...Published: 23 Aug 2013 at 04:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Death toll of Egypt's clashes rises to 638
CAIRO (AP) - Weeping relatives in search of loved ones uncovered the faces of the bloodied, unclaimed dead in a Cairo mosque near the smoldering epicenter of support for ousted President Mohammed Mors...Published: 15 Aug 2013 at 22:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'We will push until we bring down this military coup' - Muslim Brotherhood
Cairo - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said on Thursday it would bring down the "military coup" but stressed it remained committed to a peaceful struggle, despite the heavy loss of life when government fo...Published: 15 Aug 2013 at 09:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mohamed Mursi likely to be transferred to the same prison as Hosni Mubarak
CAIRO - Egypt's deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, who has been accused of murder and other crimes, is likely to be transferred to the same Cairo prison where former leader Hosni Mubarak is now...Published: 27 Jul 2013 at 17:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Tsvangirai clueless, Mugabe too old,' says Ncube
MDC leader Welshman Ncube and his team, which he prefers to call the Green Team, invaded Chikomba in Mashonaland East on Friday.Part of the team included his coalition partners Dumiso Dabengw...Published: 15 Jul 2013 at 09:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Egypt: Defence minister defends ousting
Cairo - In his first remarks since Mohammed Morsi's ouster, Egypt's military chief said on Sunday the armed forces acted according to the will of the people, because the former Islamist government had...Published: 15 Jul 2013 at 04:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Let us not experiment with our future,' says Welshman Ncube
Movement for Democratic Change president, Welshman Ncube, told supporters Friday that leaders should be servants of the people and not Chefs as he launched his election campaign at Chikomba in Mashona...Published: 13 Jul 2013 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Egypt's interim president promises elections
BEIJING Egypt's interim president promised to hold parliamentary elections within a six-month transitional period on Monday after more than 50 supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi were k...Published: 09 Jul 2013 at 10:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Muslim preacher jailed for burning the bible
A Cairo court sentenced an Egyptian Muslim preacher to 11 years in jail for blasphemy on Sunday for burning a Bible during a protest last year outside the US embassy.Convictions for insulting ...Published: 17 Jun 2013 at 04:59hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Egypt jets in for Sunday's World Cup qualifiers
The Egyptian national soccer team arrived in the country this Thursday afternoon with head coach Bob Bradley saying his team will not take Zimbabwe lightly in Sunday's World Cup qualifier.The ...Published: 06 Jun 2013 at 18:45hrs | | by Sports reporter
US condemns conservative Egyptians who blame women for being raped
The United States on Friday expressed concern about a rise in sexual violence and gang rapes in Egypt and condemned local politicians who have said the women are to blame.The response came aft...Published: 30 Mar 2013 at 13:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Kidnapped tourists set free in Egypt
Cairo - Kidnappers released a Norwegian woman and an Israeli man held in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula following negotiations mediated by Bedouin leaders between authorities and the group that seized the to...Published: 26 Mar 2013 at 09:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Politics of succession: coping African when leaders die
In December 2008, a Guinean newspaper published a photo of a frail and ailing President Lansana Conté, who appeared to be struggling to stand up. The photo stoked rumours of the president...Published: 21 Mar 2013 at 16:24hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor
Egypt's president praises country's police
Cairo - Egypt's president praised the country's policemen on Friday despite public criticism over their violent response to anti-government demonstrations, and warned officers who are also protesting ...Published: 15 Mar 2013 at 19:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Court orders YouTube blocked in Egypt
Cairo - A Cairo court on Saturday ordered the government to block access to the YouTube website for 30 days for carrying an anti-Islam film that caused deadly riots across the world, but the ruling ca...Published: 09 Feb 2013 at 11:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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