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'Chivayo flying too close to the sun with wax wings'
INFORMATION and Broadcasting Services secretary Ndavaningi 'Nick' Mangwana has insinuated that controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo who implicated President Emmerson Mnangagwa in his extensive a...Published: 11 Jun 2024 at 08:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'It's dumb for CCC to boycott elections with Mwonzora lurking!' He's bait, participate and VHUMBU! Pwete-e-e!
"It is stupid to think Zanu PF will reform itself out of power. It is also dumb stupid to suggest boycotting of elections when Mwonzora is lurking in the shadows to fill that void," shot Osama23. Shoo...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 10:41hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa's politics of salving troubled consciences
Politics and poetryWilliam Butler Yeats, I think it was he who said out of our arguments with others we make politics, but out of arguments with ourselves we make poetry!We can forgive...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:10hrs | 4 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Is Zimbabwe's opposition ready for 2023 elections?
The main opposition will enter next year's election with a new name, Citizens Coalitions for Change (CCC). Hidden in the acronym perhaps not deftly is the personalistic nature of opposition politics i...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | | by Innocent Mpoki
Ndabaningi Sithole: Zimbabwe's forgotten intellectual and leader
NDABANINGI Sithole was one of the founding fathers of the modern state of Zimbabwe in southern Africa. In August 1963, he became the first president of the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu), the ...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Mnangagwa son in-law's hubris killing local football
THE Zimbabwe national football team, the Warriors, will miss the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers because the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) simply cannot swallow its pride and ad...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Surely, there is no honour among thieves
NO honour among thieves is a universal truth, a biblical saying that has found resonance globally to denote the actions of robbers who usually double-cross each other, never mind the perils involved i...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:19hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Reports of Zanu-PF defeat in 2023 polls are tad premature
SEVERAL Zimbabwe commentators have interpreted recent by-elections as raising the possibility that Zanu-PF's 42-year-long grip on power is loosening and, come the 2023 general elections, opposition le...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 08:34hrs | 10 | by Derek Matyszak
Chamisa: When the Goliath Complex Afflicts
My early days in primary school were dominated by the story of Goliath, the giant of Philistine.Goliath's name was onomatopoeic; this sonorous name heavily suggested physical hugeness afflicte...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Zimsec exam makers scoff at paltry allowances
TEACHERS yesterday described the $16 500 that the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) has offered them for marking examinations, as paltry and an insult to the profession.In a statem...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Go well my friend, Cde SK
COMRADE Simon Khaya Moyo is no more. He has joined the pantheon of Zimbabwe's finest patriots throughout the ages. Of recent note are fellow heroines and heroes of Chimurenga II who sacrificed to bury...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 09:12hrs | 14 | by Amb Chris Mutsvangwa
Chaos in SA points to failure on democracy
The spate of violence that is engulfed South Africa shows that not all citizens have internalised constitutional democracy and the rule of law as the organising principle of the post-apartheid society...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:33hrs | 8 | by Mashupye Maserumule
MDC violence a threat to national peace
TIME and again many have inked articles articulating how the MDC-Alliance is wired in violence, with the streak running so deep that removing it simply means an end to the political outfit that was fo...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:01hrs | 1 | by Fungi Kwaramba
MDC Alliance wounds self-inflicted, says analysts
LIKE a deck of jacks, the MDC-Alliance is crumbling, triggering a mass exodus of distressed and disillusioned former officials who are joining Zanu-PF in droves. At the centre of the collapse ...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa must sleep with one eye open
So Bishop Lazi heard that his treatise on the proposed Patriot Bill, which is premised on giving sellouts and other quislings of hostile forces their just desserts, had riled the runaway fugitive Prof...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kembo Mohadi presidential ambitions thwarted, we saw it coming!
In more than one article we told over ambitious Kembo Mohadi that he will never be the President of Zimbabwe given his Matabele background. We told him not to fly to high because his wings were fake, ...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 13:38hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
The Graceless Fall of Robert Mugabe, the end of a Dictator's Reign
The title for this book is an attempt at a clever link between Robert Mugabe's dramatic and rapid fall from power in November 2017 and the political activities of his second wife, Grace, whose actions...Published: 10 May 2019 at 14:44hrs | 3 | by Paul Hubbard
Mnangagwa, Chamisa must stop massaging egos
WHILE the call by MDC leader Nelson Chamisa for Zanu-PF first secretary, President Emmerson Mnangagwa to urgently dialogue with him to rescue the country's sinking economy might appear sincere on the ...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 10:07hrs | | by Editorial - newsday
Democracy, elections bad for collective cause
SOMETHING is going wrong with democracy. Something has gone wrong with democracy. It was the most successful political idea of the 21st century, but increasingly democracy is running into trouble, not...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Goodbye history, hello tomorrow!
Yesterday, former president Robert Mugabe convened a press conference at his Blue Roof mansion in Harare's leafy Borrowdale surburb. In many respects the press conference was fascinating - but at the ...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Mnangagwa's true colours now emerging ahead of polls
ZIMBABWEANS will choose their next leader in four days' time, but it is not way off the mark to say there is really nothing new about President Emmerson Mnangagwa's "new dispensation".In fact,...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chigumba wrong pick for Chamisa's tango pal
The history of tango music or tango dance, a South American (specifically Argentine) routine, dates back to the late 19th century and has seen its popularity rise and fall over the years. Tang...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 06:20hrs | 1 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Chamisa and Biti: Hubris personified
HUBRIS is defined as excessive pride or over-confidence. It is epitomised by arrogance. It often indicates a disconnection with reality and overestimating one's own competence. It is a disease that af...Published: 15 May 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Poor leadership MDC's Achilles heel
ANYONE who has read the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro, last year's Nobel Prize winner for literature, will know that characters in his books cope with the bleakness of their situation through denial and se...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Itayi Garande
We should have said, No to Robert Mugabe!
People in Zanu-PF have been called cowards and all such names. Maybe we were. For surely talking to some comrades it is clear very few genuinely loved Robert Mugabe in his last years as President....Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 05:49hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Zimbabwe is being betrayed by the MDC - The opposition must think outside the box
Morgan Richard Tsvangirai stands as a giant in Zimbabwe politics. More than any other, he has taken the fight up to ZANU PF for the last 18 years and he has paid dearly for his courageous stance. At a...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 10:09hrs | | by Tapson Muchena
Same old Bob, same old Joice?
We wish we could talk nicely to one cartoonist from a private daily and his publishers for the reproduction of a wonderful cartoon they carried a couple of days back. It's too late, unfortunately. ...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 06:39hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
MDC must urgently put its house in order
When there is a fight in the neighbourhood, good neighbours will come in and do whatever they can to de-escalate the situation and restore good relations. At times people fight over very minor disagre...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 07:37hrs | | by Justice Benjamin Paradza
Jah Prayzah's luckiest week
Jah Prayzah was in the media as the trending topic since last week no less. And for someone who touts himself as a soldier; that indefatigable breed of men with spine and spleen and ready to wade in t...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 23:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's bravado is all hubris, join Tsvangirai alliance
Many people have argued that National People's Party leader (NPP) Joice Mujuru should support the MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai-led coalition because the former trade unionist has the numbers compare...Published: 01 Nov 2017 at 06:25hrs | | by Moses Tofa
Current songs in our politics are off-key
There is a lot of talk of the 2018 elections. These elections are dispensational in that according to the Constitution, that is President Mugabe's last term.Whichever side one is, there is no ...Published: 18 Jul 2017 at 06:46hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Theresa May threatened with ouster after loss
Furious Tory MPs last Friday threatened to oust Theresa May within six months after her disastrous election campaign.The party was plunged into civil war after the Prime Minister lost her Comm...Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 10:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
If not Nkosana, then who do we vote for?
I AM a good wife, really I am. In fact, not to beat my own drum or anything, but if there was a scale of wifehood and my husband was asked to judge, I suspect he would give me 8 out of 10 if not more....Published: 05 Jun 2017 at 14:51hrs | | by Mai vaHazvinei Mushonga
Time for a rebirth of Zimbabwean politics
The current crisis arresting the country revolves around the leadership question especially the failure to respond to problems including those of the state's making, it is a clear sign of the broken p...Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 16:44hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
PDP condemns government's lack of preparedness in dealing with floods
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) notes with great concern the lack of preparedness on the part of the Zanu PF government in dealing with the floods resulting in scores of people drowning while live...Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 16:08hrs | | by Jacob Mafume
Anger over Chihuri's Diaspora rants
HUMAN rights lobby group, Zimbabweans Without Borders (ZWB), has reacted angrily to reports that Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri at the weekend said Zimbabweans in the Diaspora had no ri...Published: 16 Aug 2016 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF members participated in the ShutDownZimbabwe protest - Zanu PF official
Zanu PF UK Chairperson Nick Mangwana has said has said claims that it was a height of arrogance to dismiss the July 6 Shut down protest which happened in the country as the work of malcontents as even...Published: 16 Jul 2016 at 07:46hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe finds himself ensnared by his favourite vices
There is something ubiquitous about the impending fall of Robert Mugabe. The walls are closing in on a leader who seemed so invincible for well over 6 decades. What is ironic is that, the same walls t...Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 11:04hrs | 2 | by Maynard Manyowa
'Economic crisis will liquidate Zanu-PF'
Former Finance minister Tendai Biti, who now leads opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) says Zanu-PF has failed to justify its continued hold on power and the current economic crisis will liquid...Published: 27 Jun 2016 at 19:20hrs | 4 | by Guthrie Munyuki
'Jonathan Moyo desperately trying to redeem himself'
Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo recently made sensational claims implicating former Vice- President Joice Mujuru in the missing 15 Billion USD Diamond Revenue. The reaso...Published: 18 Apr 2016 at 16:16hrs | | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira, a Political Scientist
Collaboration and Cooperation key to coalition success - PDP
The start of 2016 has seen the opposition political parties being thrown to face once again the twin evils of big brother mentality and toxic competition. This worrisome trend flies in the fac...Published: 12 Jan 2016 at 12:34hrs | | by Moses Manyengavana
Depreciation of the rand: Impact on Zimbabwe business
PURSUANT to the abolition of the dual exchange rate system, that is unification of the financial and the commercial rand) on March 10 1995 the unified rand was stable at around R3,60 to the US dol...Published: 02 Sep 2015 at 08:19hrs | | by Colls Ndlovu
Biti attacks Tsvangirai
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti and ex-MDC-T secretary-general Tendai Biti (TB) has attacked MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai for allegedly stifling democracy and failing to lead the opposition mov...Published: 26 May 2015 at 06:43hrs | | by staff reporter
Hope for Zimbabweans as Mugabe's Zanu-PF implodes
Zimbabweans are learning more and more about Zanu-PF's ugly modus operandi - thanks to the party's worsening internal wars and its purged senior officials who are singing like canaries.And at ...Published: 23 Apr 2015 at 14:04hrs | 1 | by Chris Goko
Edgar Lungu's first fatal mistake
It's been three months since Edgar Lungu became Zambia's sixth president. Back in January, fresh from the swearing ceremony, the impressionable president jumped into the presidential jet and flew ...Published: 01 Apr 2015 at 06:23hrs | | by Field Ruwe
New Capital city a case of misplaced priorities
Analysts have roundly slated government's plans to construct a new capital city in Mount Hampden - about 20km north west of Harare - at a time the country's economy is in free-fall and poverty levels...Published: 11 Feb 2015 at 16:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Provincial chairs' dismiss Mujuru support claim
UNDER fire Vice President Joice Mujuru has all but confirmed her ambitions at Congress saying she was ready to serve the country in any capacity if elected by the people whom she thanked for their sup...Published: 18 Nov 2014 at 08:16hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Joice Mujuru hits back, Press Statement- Full-text
PRESS STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE HONOURABLE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE, AND SECOND SECRETARY OF THE RULING PARTY, ZANU-PF HONOURABLE DR. JOICE TEURAI RO...Published: 17 Nov 2014 at 13:26hrs | | by Dr Joice Teurai Ropa Mujuru
Mujuru spoiling for a fight
Vice-President Joice Mujuru yesterday hit back at her critics who have been pushing for her ouster on allegations of corruption and plotting to topple President Robert Mugabe, saying the allegations w...Published: 17 Nov 2014 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru responds to Grace Mugabe, refuse to step down
EMBATTLED vice president Joice Mujuru yesterday dismissed allegations that she was plotting to kill President Robert Mugabe in order to take over the presidency.Mujuru broke her silence after...Published: 17 Nov 2014 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
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