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'ERC call for reform in not push for regime change' - why apologise, it is consequence of free elections
Zimbabwe is in this economic mess and political paralysis (both the ruling party and the opposition are corrupt, incompetent and clearly have no clue how to get the nation out of the mess and paralysi...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 17:14hrs | 331 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mugabe's contested legacy far from settled
TWO years after the death of former president Robert Mugabe, there remains no consensus regarding his legacy, with conflicting perceptions of the liberator-turned-despot dominating debate whenever his...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:40hrs | 793 | by Staff reporter
The lessons from Zambia
I have just celebrated my 77th birthday and have settled on two proud new titles. I have now added a new title to my repertoire. I was given the title of mukoma at the Manica Post. Governor Josiah Hun...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:03hrs | 338 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Ziyambi's rants reflective of state siege on judiciary
THE angry outburst by Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi (pictured) following the landmark ruling by the three High Court judges, rendering null and void the decision by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to ...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:04hrs | 614 | by Staff reporter
Professor Jonathan Moyo, why do you want us to participate in flawed elections to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy?
"Some people have said to me, 'If you want us to believe you are no longer working for Zanu PF then tell us how Zanu PF rigged the elections!’ They say that expecting some Mafia like, Movie like, wa...Published: 19 May 2021 at 07:10hrs | 2910 | by Wilbert Mukori
MDC linked NGO push for Ziyambi arrest
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi faces arrest on contempt of court charges after his shocking weekend outburst following the landmark ruling by three High Court judges trashing President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:51hrs | 1877 | by Staff reporter
US hypocrisy knows no bounds
The United States is a two faced nation that says one thing and turns around and does the exact opposite. It has been known to be the proponent of democracy and of civil and human rights. ...Published: 17 May 2021 at 06:41hrs | 329 | by Prosperity Mzila
Mnangagwa entrenches authoritarian rule
THE incarceration of opposition MDC Alliance activist Makomborero Haruzivishe this week has all but confirmed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's unwillingness to reform as his regime continues to use lawf...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:36hrs | 824 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 'zero tolerance' to corruption rings hollow
REPEATED corruption allegations levelled against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his family have blighted Zimbabwe's fight on graft, making a mockery of his "zero tolerance" stance.Mnangagwa ...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 08:12hrs | 1494 | by Staff reporter
Magaisa advise 'MDC A strategies to win rigged election' - must stop the rigging by implementing the reforms
If there is one thing the ordinary Zimbabweans do NOT want right now is to be dragged into yet another meaningless election process whose outcome will be to confirm the corrupt, dysfunctional and tyra...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 09:31hrs | 1717 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chiwenga faction loses ground
THE appointment of Frederick Shava to the Foreign Affairs ministerial post this week has further entrenched President Emmerson Mnangagwa's hold on power, capitalising on political contingency and oppo...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 15:02hrs | 7710 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt has no strategy beyond lockdown
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has no comprehensive Covid-19 plan beyond the strict 30-day lockdown triggered by a recent spike in cases, spelling trouble in the health sector for his broke...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 18:38hrs | 1532 | by Staff reporter
'Change is unstoppable' said Chamisa - should be done and dusted yet failed to start it in 20 years
"What we know is victory is certain, it's only a matter of time. Every struggle has its own unique characteristics. We know exactly what we are doing – please do not panic," Nelson Chamisa told his ...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 10:10hrs | 1642 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
News headlines over reform headways
Since Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, the concept of "reform" or "change" of institutions, political culture and the constitution to "widen and deepen individual, political, economic, social, cultura...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:30hrs | 680 | by Ibbo Mandaza
'No cheer under Mnangagwa administration 3 years on'
RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's new dispensation will this month mark three years in office, with analysts saying there was nothing to cheer about as the regime had failedto fulfil most of its promi...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:35hrs | 5690 | by Staff reporter
'2008 GNU stabilised economy' - true but that was not its primary purpose much less justify new GNU
"In 2009, the late former president Robert Mugabe was forced into forming a GNU with the MDC's late and much loved founding father, Morgan Tsvangirai, after the hotly disputed 2008 polls," reported Da...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 18:48hrs | 807 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Police arm-twisted to exonerate Mnanaggwa's wife in gold smuggling case'
ANALYSTS yesterday accused First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa of arm-twisting the police to issue a statement exonerating her and son, Collins from the Henrietta Rushwaya's gold smuggling saga.The ...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 07:32hrs | 4311 | by Staff reporter
The political economy of corruption
As a cancer inherent in varying degrees of intensity across the globe, corruption is an integral part of the political economy of world capitalism.So, the capitals of the western world lie at ...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:24hrs | 1933 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Demagogues are abandoning democratic values and high ground to defend recalled sell-out MPs
Democracy is the greatest gift the Greeks gave to mankind. "Government of the people, by the people, for the people," as US President Abraham Lincoln defined democracy in his famous Gettysburg speech ...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 08:07hrs | 1719 | by Wilbert Mukori
How the Khupe coup resonates with the import of Excelgate
Thi's time last year, Excelgate was about to be published, in the ex-pectation, inter alia, that the MDC Alliance, in particular, would capitalise on the revelations therein, to both fuel their legal ...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:11hrs | 4119 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Mnangagwa's Govt unaccountable, pervaded by military, says Ibbo Mandaza
Zimbabwean Professor Ibbo Mandaza has emphasised the need for South Africa to safeguard its democracy, the independence of institutions and to ensure that the military conforms to the constitution....Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1878 | by Staff reporter
'People must defend their vote' - never ever had a vote, can't defend what is not there
The root cause of Zimbabwe's crippling economic meltdown and political paralysis (politicians on both sides of the political divide are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless) is the failure to hold...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 13:59hrs | 1564 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF must not slam doors on helpers
WE have read stories re-garding Zanu-PF and South Africa and it comes as no surprise to us that Zanu-PF is adopting this stance with respect to South Africa. The arrogance of Zanu-PF knows no ...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:17hrs | 415 | by Corruptionforce
Beware a woman sc Beware a woman scorned - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
When is a crisis not a crisis? When it's a challenge. Despite the manifest economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe the ANC agreed to refer to it only as a challenge when it held a crucial meeting wi...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 23:27hrs | 1968 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
'Ramaphosa must promote honest critique of Zanu PF's democratic deficits' - too compromised even for that
"What can South Africa do to assist in resolving Zimbabwe‘s problems?" Piers Pigou of International Crisis Group was asked. "The shift to a more public critique is an important stepping ston...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 12:30hrs | 689 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Talking to Chamisa is Mnangagwa's only viable option'
Renowned political analyst Ibbo Mandaza believes President Emmerson Mnangagwa should swallow his pride and engage MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to settle the deepening political crisis in the cou...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 10:48hrs | 1703 | by Staff reporter
Enough is enough, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday threw down the gauntlet and declared he had had "enough of the machinations" of opposition political parties and hostile countries plotting his downfall and frus...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:20hrs | 8872 | by Staff reporter
Ex-ZPRA Forces: The power behind Mnangagwa's Presidency
Serving members of the Zimbabwe National Army who are former soldiers of the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army are the force that sustains President Emmerson Mnangagwa's power, it ahs emerged....Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 14:25hrs | 8437 | by Mandla Ndlovu
America wants Biti, Sikhala to remove Chamisa?
Ever wondered why Nelson Chamisa chose to hand over reigns to the insipid WELSHMAN NCUBE as he grieved over loss of his dear mother? Or why the WELSH man got mired in TRUST FUNDS controversy soon afte...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 10:30hrs | 14640 | by George Charamba
The need for a Social Contact
"The old is dying and the new cannot be born,in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." The above famous quote by Antonio Gramsci best captures how a citizenry finds...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 11:52hrs | 344 | by Evangelist Sendekai W. T
Radical Economic Structural transformation REST (part 3 of 10)
"No goods should leave our borders unprocessed and no goods should enter our borders that we cannot process and add value locally."It was Ibbo Mandaza who wrote on "the failure of Zimbabwe- to...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 09:43hrs | 863 | by Vince Musewe
Squabbles to weaken opposition movement
WIDENING fractures within the ranks of the opposition, which have culminated in four of its representatives being recalled from Parliament, will weaken the MDC in its various formations and retard the...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:23hrs | 918 | by Tinashe Kairiza
'Josiah Magama Tongogara was a South African'
The celebrated Rhodesian bush wartime General of the ZANLA forces Josiah Magama Tongogara was born in South Africa to South African parents, biographer Ibbo Mandaza has revealed.Mandaza's reve...Published: 05 May 2020 at 09:51hrs | 9551 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'We are standing on the edge of the precipice' warned Mandaza - true, Zanu PF centric NTA will take us over the edge
"Today Zimbabwe stands on the edge of the precipice, and it is no time for prevaricating, but one for action. The political crisis must be addressed with urgency, and we can see no other way than the ...Published: 04 May 2020 at 08:45hrs | 3165 | by Wilbert Mukori
There is no other way than a National Transitional Authority in Zimbabwe
SINCE 2016 the Platform for Concerned Citizens (PCC) has argued consistently for a process leading to the establishment of a National Transitional Authority (NTA). We have done this for no ulterior mo...Published: 03 May 2020 at 10:03hrs | 5377 | by Ibbo Mandaza and Tony Reeler
Gen Mujuru portrayal - valiant, but misdirected
George Shire, you are very right my revolutionary soul mate.There was a turning point way back in 1976 to 1977 at Chimoio in Mozambique. Robert Mugabe wrestled leadership.Clutching a f...Published: 03 May 2020 at 09:00hrs | 808 | by Amb Christopher Mutsvangwa
Chamisa's MDC pays price for violating the constitution
THE Supreme Court ruling to the effect that Nelson Chamisa is not the legitimate leader of the main opposition MDC, coupled with an order compelling it to hold an extraordinary congress after three mo...Published: 10 Apr 2020 at 08:33hrs | 4289 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa, Chamisa must swallow pride'
THE move by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to block the proposed mediation by former South African president Thabo Mbeki reflects the lack of seriousness and lethargy by government to engagement in mean...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:09hrs | 3133 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC sing same hymn
The ruling Zanu-PF and MDC rarely agree.This time they are singing from the same song sheet: they want their legislators to attend ideological schools to get a grounding of what their parties ...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 07:13hrs | 2845 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe a threat to Sadc stability, says Chamisa
OPPOSITION MDC president Nelson Chamisa and political analysts have said the Sadc region was volatile because of the deepening political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe which could easily destabilise ...Published: 06 Mar 2020 at 06:11hrs | 585 | by Staff reporter
G40 tearing up Chamisa's MDC
Former Zanu-PF kingpins, who for years determinedly worked to obliterate the MDC, but now claim undying love and loyalty to the party and its leader Nelson Chamisa are causing great discord in the cou...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 08:02hrs | 4197 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo accused of dividing Chamisa's MDC
A NEWLY formed pressure group, Citizens Under Bondage, Friday accused former Zanu-PF Politburo member, Jonathan Moyo of interfering with the operations of MDC and causing serious fissures within the m...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:43hrs | 1897 | by newzimbabwe
When they come with dirty hands!
I want to support my supreme brother Ibbo Mandaza and his attempt to shed light on the last election in Zimbabwe. But, first allow me to illustrate what happens when protagonists in a battle come into...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 06:13hrs | 409 | by Ken Mufuka
'Zimbabwe is not Malawi' true, still we too need 2018 nullified and Zanu-PF booted out
To Dr Ibbo Mandaza and Tony ReelerThank you for your article "Malawi election bombshell: Courts becoming too powe...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 20:42hrs | 2350 | by Wilbert Mukori
Malawi election bombshell: Courts becoming too powerful?
NULL and void, do it again: when the Malawian Constitutional Court ruled that the May elections were null and void, this was a victory for the rule of law. The Malawian Court decision follows a simila...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 06:02hrs | 1838 | by Ibbo Mandaza and Tony Reeler
'Mbeki brokered stability inducing 2008 GNU, please repeat' - Rubbish, GNU was a failure, insane to repeat
To herald the 2008 to 2013 GNU as a success is a grotesque misrepresentation of historic facts that will not be allowed to go unchallenged!"Mbeki - who helped to broker the stability-inducing ...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 22:09hrs | 1195 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ZANU PF Youths storm Jonathan Moyo's book launch
Suspected ZANU PF Youths reportedly disturbed the launch of Professor Jonathan Moyo's book Excelgate on Tuesday evening. The youths who were wearing MDC-T Tshirts stormed the Ibbo ...Published: 18 Dec 2019 at 06:59hrs | 6069 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Muddy affair at Zanu-PF conference
HEAVY rains that are pounding Goromonzi have threatened to make the Zanu-PF 18th people's conference a muddy affair.The grounds where the conference will be held are waterlogged and muddy, for...Published: 12 Dec 2019 at 20:02hrs | 1215 | by Staff reporter
US Embassy, MDC to establish think-tank?
The United States Embassy and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) are reported to be in cahoots in establishing a think-tank organisation intended at masterminding strategies to outwit ZANU PF, come ...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 14:20hrs | 1666 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa plots final push
THE opposition MDC is ganging up with citizens, civic society, churches and labour to launch a spirited campaign to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa from power through an initiative they say will b...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:44hrs | 3491 | by Staff reporter
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