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CCC in uncertain waters
WE are only a month into the new year, but it already feels like it has been long. The political year has started in earnest, lending credence to the counsel of political sages: A day is a very long t...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 10:02hrs | 1 | by Ntando Dumani
Hail King Nero: Impotence as strength
Hail King Nero, The First and Last!"There shall be a leader and Change Champion-in-Chief (Advocate Nelson Chamisa) who shall be the Administrator and President tasked by the citizens to champi...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:42hrs | 14 | by @Jamwanda on Saturday
Unpacking Zimbabwe's 'well-educated' myth
The widely acclaimed narrative - correlation fallacy - that Zimbabweans are "well educated" and are some of the highly literate people on this continent is a myth. Myths build egos, not economies; nei...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:47hrs | 71 | by Rejoice Ngwenya
Zimbabweans must avoid self-destruction
WITH our motherland not completely out of the West's evil economic sanctions woods, but encouraged the warmth of some European union members, excluding this country's former coloniser Britain — whic...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:28hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
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 continues to shame doomsayers, as opposition pins its hopes in PATHOGENS
During my schooling days when I chewed works of Karl Marx, Frederich Engels and Vladimir Lenin, one term one repeatedly met in one's study of the three sources and three origins of Marxist thought was...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 08:17hrs | | by Jamwanda
MDC is not only falling apart, it has actually fallen apart
THE Daily News has been a lone voice over the past few months in highlighting the folly of the country's opposition engaging in self-immolation, and taking counsel from dubious characters.For ...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 17:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Muzamhindo presents an Alternative, Clear and sound Development plan which will take Zimbabwe forward
Academic Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo writes:A policy is a declaration of an intention of an organisation or institution. These are rules and regulations which will set terms of references for an o...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 09:56hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
The Monologue of Dialogue is deluded and self immolation
There are what we call synonyms of Dialogue, argument, argy-bargy, colloquial, colloquy, soliloquy, confab, confabulations, give and take, palaver, parley, consultations, moving back and forth. ...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 19:52hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
The curse and case of Linda Masarira
When I hear the word "sellout" I think of the infamous Morrison Nyathi, a former liberation war fighter who became an informant of the Rhodesian Army and led them, deep into Mozambique to slaughter th...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 14:05hrs | | by Michael Mhlanga
Political violence prescription for self-immolation
POLITICS is often described as "a dirty game", and the in-fighting in the MDC-Alliance after the party's losses in both the parliamentary and presidential elections would appear to validate the dirty-...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 10:02hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Power hunger Zimbabwe's die hard challenge
The moment Zimbabweans and the global community had anxiously awaited came in the early hours of yesterday when Justice Priscilla Makanyara Chigumba announced that Mnangagwa had triumphed in the presi...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 09:21hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
South Africa hardly recovered from the race sentiment of apartheid
It is very easy to think it is the flash, not the flame; that burns big logs. The local media excitedly reported on the resignation of an aide of Mujuru's Nats, in the process missing the actual burni...Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 11:54hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mujuru 'daft, unfit to govern' says Nathaniel Manheru
In a New Year's message, Zim Papers columnist Nathaniel Manheru has attacked the most prominent members of the Zimbabwean opposition saying that they are blind and set to lose in the upcoming election...Published: 07 Jan 2017 at 10:38hrs | | 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
Army denies Dzamara claims
THE Zimbabwe National Army has denied recent allegations by Patson Dzamara that the Military Intelligence is behind the disappearance of his brother, journalist-cum-opposition activist, Itai Dzamara....Published: 03 Jun 2016 at 06:43hrs | | by Freeman Razemba
Prof Welshman Ncube This Week - RBZ Governor transfers monetary headache to skeptical citizens
Dr John Mangudya is an eminently reasonable and sincere fellow. Passionate and intense about his country. I know this because I worked with him closely during my days as Minister of Industry and Com...Published: 13 May 2016 at 18:09hrs | | by Welshman Ncube
Killing in the name of God
RELIGION, seen by many as an oasis of tranquillity and hope, appears to be going bonkers with strange stuff happening in most faiths, particularly in Christianity and Islam.With followers bein...Published: 21 Feb 2016 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Fatima Bulla
Tendai Biti, a very small man masquerading as leader of a political party
As I write this piece, I am reminded of one Dennis Brutus and his "Gore'e". "Gore'e" is a poem about an island off Senegal by that name, an island from where Africans were loaded into ships for slaver...Published: 05 Dec 2015 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zimbabwe Otherwise
From the outside Zimbabwe is a true object of political and intellectual tourism, somewhere to explore and experience but never really dwell in. This country is also politically p.ornographic, well un...Published: 15 Nov 2015 at 17:35hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Mugabe accuse US newspaper of attempting to 'contrive conflict' between Zimbabwe and Kenya
PRESIDENT Mugabe's Office has accused a top American newspaper of attempting to "contrive conflict" between Zimbabwe and Kenya by publishing made-up quotes in which the Zimbabwean leader is shown sayi...Published: 07 Nov 2015 at 07:01hrs | | by Mduduzi Mathuthu
Supper that smells too doggy
Zimbabwe: Assassins without gunsOctober 31, 2015 Shingirai Huni Features, Opinion & Analysis, Headlines, Nathaniel ManheruJoram NyathiNathaniel ManheruI will part w...Published: 31 Oct 2015 at 10:53hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
$10 000 reward for Dzamara
Police have offered a reward of $10 000 to anyone with information on the whereabouts of journalist-cum-opposition activist Itai Dzamara as investigations into his disappearance intensify. Dzamara wen...Published: 18 Jul 2015 at 13:10hrs | | by Elita Chikwati
If I am Kalanga, so what?
KALANGA is one of the officially recognised languages embedded as an obligation in section 6 of Zimbabwe's constitution. To someone with normal, functional faculties, this would mean those of our citi...Published: 09 May 2015 at 15:41hrs | | by Welshman Ncube
Zimbabwean tables must serve what Zimbabwean farms produce
One riotous evening in the eighties, the late Dambudzo Marechera started his vivid address to a writers' indaba by what seemed a senseless, irreverent postulate: "We are a sexually active nation!"...Published: 14 Feb 2015 at 11:49hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
'We only look for opinions that belittle Mugabe'
I have just been reading Didymus Mutasa's interview with the South African Mail and Guardian newspaper, and two things stand out in the welter of words he spewed.First, the pronominal "we" is ...Published: 07 Feb 2015 at 07:25hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Obama's 'Rumble in the Jungle' highlights issues affecting Africa
Throughout history, very few people have had the rare ability to conjure up such a concoction of emotions in people when they speak. Hate him or love him, President Barack Obama has distinctively set ...Published: 01 Jul 2013 at 11:17hrs | | by Perry Munzwembiri
Father of 5 sets self ablaze
Rabat - A Moroccan man died after setting himself on fire in the central Meknes region in protest at having his application for a residency permit rejected, a human rights activist said on Tuesday....Published: 25 Jun 2013 at 11:58hrs | | by AFP
Saudi man dies after self-immolation
A Saudi Arabian vegetable seller, who set himself on fire in the capital Riyadh on Thursday to express discontent over social and economic injustices in the kingdom, has died.Saudi media repor...Published: 19 May 2013 at 23:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The 'President said' syndrome
Take the case of Mary Wambui and Othaya. Of course you cannot take both, for both are found in Kenya, that great East African country which has just gone through a rigorous election that so beautifull...Published: 13 Apr 2013 at 09:10hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
The paradox of the 'white African' - when white is black and white
"I move that the House take note that tomorrow (Thursday) I will move a motion to nationalise and prescribe all Marange diamond fields."...Published: 22 Jul 2012 at 10:44hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Youth set self on fire at a mass protest rally
New Delhi - A Tibetan exile youth today set himself on fire at a mass protest rally organised by the Tibetan Youth Congress in New Delhi, days ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to India....Published: 26 Mar 2012 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Art of Self-immolation - Zanu-PF style!
In skydiving circles, it is accepted – scientifically proven for that matter - a 'bullet-shape free fall' not secured with a chute may attract terminal velocit...Published: 15 Mar 2012 at 16:45hrs | | by Rejoice Ngwenya
Three protesters set themselves ablaze in China: report
Three more people have set themselves on fire to protest China's policies toward Tibetans in a politically sensitive area that has already been the scene of ethnic violence this year, a report said Su...Published: 04 Feb 2012 at 23:36hrs | | by AP
9-11, the day bullies play victims
A decade after the 9/11 bombings of the World Trade Centre and Pentagon; the symbols of America's capitalist dominance and military destabilisation, Uncle Sam once again played great victim at the sit...Published: 14 Sep 2011 at 04:47hrs | | by Contributor
Nyikayaramba: Teaching the MDC what the soil refuses
The mighty argument between our death-wishing Prime Minister and Brigadier-General (Douglas) Nyikayaramba is just too sumptuous for cantankerous Manheru to let pass. I have to dip into the pot, mould...Published: 03 Jul 2011 at 05:22hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Egypt did it, Zimbabwe when will this day be
The whole world watched on Friday, all eyes were riveted by the spectacle that just weeks ago seemed impossible: the toppling of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak after nearly 30 years in power....Published: 12 Feb 2011 at 10:54hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
Two men set themselves ablaze in Egypt
Two men set themselves ablaze in Egypt on Tuesday, security officials said, bringing to 10 the number of such cases in the Arab world, including a Tunisian whose action sparked a revolution. A...Published: 18 Jan 2011 at 17:09hrs | | by Byo24NEWS | AFP
Protest burnings spread to Egypt, Algeria in Tunisia echo
A self-immolation that triggered unrest which brought down Tunisia's leader has led to apparent copycat protests in other north African states, with four men setting themselves on fire in Algeria and ...Published: 17 Jan 2011 at 15:14hrs | | by Byo24NEWS
Algeria, Man set himself on fire, yelling Tunisia!
In Algeria a man has died after setting himself on fire at a government building in Algeria, state radio reported on Sunday, yelling the self-immolation that triggered the protests that toppled the le...Published: 16 Jan 2011 at 17:52hrs | | by Byo24NEWS
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