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2 dead, several injured in separate Zupco bus accidents
In a tragic turn of events on Wednesday, two separate accidents involving Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) buses claimed two lives and left multiple passengers injured along the Harare-Mutare...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 20:31hrs | 725 | by Staff reporter
The imbecility of Macron - 'Africa can't manage the world!'
Imbecility of MacronFollowing a wave of anti-French feelings across Francophone Africa, a former Economic Minister for France, one Thierry Breton, took to twitter and posted the following: "It...Published: 18 May 2024 at 10:43hrs | 200 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Chamisa is trying to re-brand himself as a constructive opposition figure
Born-Again Nelson?I NOTICE Nelson Chamisa is trying to re-brand himself as a constructive opposition figure, constructive in the mould of his bete noire...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 19:06hrs | 1 | by Jamwanda2
Elections have already been rigged
IN rural areas, men and women, just as cattle and donkeys, are beasts of burden.Life doesn't come cheap and easy in the village.Success also often comes from or after unavoidable physi...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti's sensational take on state of the Zimbabwe economy
MDC-ALLIANCE vice president Tendai Biti painted a bleak picture of the state of the economy this week in what he called the "State of the Economy Address". Many in Zimbabwe and abroad would find his t...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Democracy dies in darkness
Democracy is facing tough time in Zimbabwe,it is wilting, suffocating and profusely bleeding.Infact it's wasting away- dying in full view of a public that couldn't care less.A public that is p...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Taruberekera Masara
Mastering art of 'villagising' cities
In Bishop Lazi's village, there lived this super-reclusive chap who, after a quarrel with his father over witchcraft, decided to build his own hut a spitting distance from the family homestead....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:30hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Token anti-corruption drive breeding apathy and despondency
Last week, I agonised on what to write about. I had travelled and had a bit of work to do, but still thought I could get my column in.In the end, I did not write anything because I failed to f...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 08:11hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
How long shall we suffer fools, loons?
Despite their supposed genius and intellectual heft, Western scientists are still grappling with establishing the causal link between lunar cycles and madness.While there is innumerable anecdo...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Let the games begin - it's now jecha for jecha!
THE call by some in the ruling Zanu-PF party for the presidential age limit to be raised to 52 years from 40 has caused mixed reactions, but what is there to it?It should first be accepted tha...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 06:14hrs | | by Conway Tutani
It's the Zimdollar, stupid!
Gentle reader, I think it is a sheer waste of national time to focus on the collapse of ZimPF, spectacular though that may be. There was nothing unexpected about ZimPF's dramatic finale, especiall...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 20:52hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Thuli Madonsela must 'pay back the money!'
Former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela should pay back the money.Here's the story; In 2012, Thuli Madonsela's son Wanda, took his mom's beautiful X6 BMW on a joy ride.He picked up a f...Published: 07 Feb 2017 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Ferial Haffajee
West behind attempted mobile data tariff hike, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I notice that an ever-alert Cde Supa had to do a lot of fire-fighting after the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, which is u...Published: 19 Jan 2017 at 07:12hrs | | by CZ
When a Nation lacks self-belief
I AM conflicted. I would have wanted to deal with David Coltart's book or, better still, deal with the whole debate around bond notes, both of them quite urgent and substantive. But I find myself havi...Published: 14 May 2016 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
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
The day the Zimbabwean dollar died
LATELY, national focus and debate has been on breathtaking malfeasances affecting key institutions of our country. The names which have stood largest in that whole debate have been ZBC, PSMAS, M...Published: 02 Feb 2014 at 13:00hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Out goes the bogey of Gukurahundi
Grant defeat its creative side. It has been quite transporting to read agony pieces from officials of the two MDCs as they go through the writhing motions of confounding defeat.July 31 was a real tsun...Published: 01 Sep 2013 at 12:36hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
When the media, diplomacy make midgets taller
I suppose they are still being apprenticed by President Mugabe. Otherwise how else do you explain an astonishing picture where the leader of a rival party, his estranged secretary general and his unsu...Published: 13 Jul 2013 at 06:07hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
MDC-T: Inventing a matching scandal
Before the 1789 revolution which gave a bloody full-stop to the Frankish Monarchical line, France was an unliked, war-mongering polity. That dubious status continued during the "reign" of Robspierre, ...Published: 24 Mar 2012 at 04:52hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
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