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Mnangagwa's 2 moves that surprised delegates

First was his turning to Vice President's wife for the pronunciation of a Ndebele word, promising the Vice President's wife would ensure his Ndebele came right. He could have turned to Vice President Mohadi and new Secretary General Jacob …

Published: 18 Oct 2025 at 10:41hrs | | by Jamwanda

The death of coalitions

To drag out or not to drag Biden!What a disaster for the Democrats in United States elections!With little foresight or care, Democrats pitted a dead-man-come-to-life by the name of Joe Biden, against the waspish and already bitterly hostil…

Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 17:16hrs | | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday

Why SADC is happy with the Mumba Report

Franz Kafka's worldFranz Kafka's art rests and runs on the bizarre and overawing grotesquery. Yet it is that de-familiarised, out-of-size world which he so ably colours which becomes the vehicle for his creative genius. Coupled with his sh…

Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 06:36hrs | 442 | by @Jamwanda2

Zimbabwe: Chekhov's middle age monks

From a writer, critic, traveller, doctorI am reading selected letters of Anton Chekhov, the Russian writer, critic, traveller and medical doctor.The letters span a big chunk of his life, reflecting all the four roles rolled into one.This g…

Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 07:03hrs | | by @Jamwanda2 On Saturday

Kasukuwere: Red herring, Chamisa's double

Becoming a political clichÃ©Gustave Flaubert of the 19th Century licentious novel, Madame Bovary, said this of language: "Language is indeed a machine that continually amplifies emotion."Nowadays we speak of the expressive force of languag…

Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 16:46hrs | | by @Jamwanda2 0n Saturday

Anything called the Zimbabwean GEIST?

Zimbabwe's GEIST?NATIONS have what Antonio Gramsci terms "particularity of their mind", GEIST in German language, or ESPRIT in French.Here in Africa, thinkers called the same variously, including "African Personality", or the "African Soul…

Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 06:32hrs | | by @Jamwanda2

When all friendship ceases!

Von Hornick's nine principles on National EconomyIn 1684, an Austrian lawyer-turned-civil servant, Philipp Wilhelm von Hornick, published nine principal rules of a National Economy.The 17th century was the age of mercantilism, which is how…

Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 07:57hrs | | by Jamwanda

Chamisa: Hoping for tricks of providence

A belch from a priest has greater valueFor a shiny trinket / Give not away your country / The foreigner is a trafficker / To mind him is no bargain / If you were skilled and artful / You'd stay away from all concoctions: / The stranger alw…

Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 06:49hrs | | by Jamwanda

Chamisa left the fact-finding Mission deeply unimpressed

One Morris too manyWhat it's a name?The name of the old Triple C activist "beaten" in Murehwa is Morris Seremani. Morris as also the name of one turncoat freedom fighter who betrayed the Liberation Struggle, and led Rhodesian soldiers to Z…

Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:22hrs | | by Jamwanda

Triple C: Puny-wise, Pint Foolish!

Obdurate immaturityIT is not like Nelson Chamisa had not been warned, whether by living men or by past circumstances. Both did; yet he still hurtled headlong towards yet another blunder, which left him bloodied, again underlining this obdu…

Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:56hrs | | by Jamwanda

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 WB Yeats, the Irish poet who died in January 1939.He l…

Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:10hrs | | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday

The dangers of a long colonialism

Walking the last mileBY the time you read this piece, Queen Elizabeth II, late sovereign of the United Kingdom and titular head of the pizza-like Commonwealth, will be two days away from her final interment. I condoled with the British Roy…

Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 05:41hrs | | by Jamwanda

Kasukuwere: To be or not to be!

Widening Russian War Aims What a week we have had! War works largely on laws of the unforeseen and the unintended. The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, has ominously hinted at the widening of Russian war aims in Ukraine, and this a…

Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 06:27hrs | | by Jamwanda

Chamisa's lightning rod

God's emissariesI have nothing against clerics or pastors; in fact my reverence for them is a euphemism for the abject fear I hold of being denied the side and place of comfort in the world yonder. They are, after all, our intercessors in …

Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 07:33hrs | | by Jamwanda

CCC: A Triple Legacy for Zimbabwe

 Dying for European perspectiveAMUSING if it was not tragic. The European Union, EU, has granted Ukraine candidate status. It's a remote stage along a very long continuum to eventual EU  membership. In effect, it means the EU con…

Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 06:22hrs | | by Jamwanda

CCC craving for Ian Smith and his come-again UDI

Craving for Smith, a Second RhodesiaTHOSE who have read big book know what Spinoza saw clearly as the problem which political philosophy could not crack , a problem which Wilhelm Reich rhetorically restated in the following question: "Why …

Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 08:07hrs | | by Jamwanda

Chamisa: When the snake bites the charmer

Staring the abyssVery slowly but definitely quite surely, the world is drifting towards a scary nuclear abyss. The conflict in Eastern Europe now has all the makings of a major superpower confrontation.There is no telling how matters will …

Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 15:10hrs | | by jamwanda

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 the roof in environments which have destroyed practically…

Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 07:19hrs | | by @ Jamwanda2

ABC of knowing Mbudziyadhura munyaya dzematongerwo enyika

Not many zealous seemingly political Zimbabweans know @daddyhope, better called Mbudziyadhura. Let me measure for you the depth of his political convictions and what sets him hissing. I will do so from our own experience ZANU-PF and Govern…

Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 18:38hrs | | by Jamwanda

Chilonga project runs contemporaneously with Bulawayo Kraal already quietly underway

This morning I attended a high-level meeting on Chilonga Irrigation Project following the hue and cry on this terribly misunderstood and much maligned community irrigation which is one of several planned by Government this year on communal…

Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 14:27hrs | | by Jamwanda

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Victoria Falls highway rehab injects over 300 jobs

Beitbridge drops contractor for bus terminus project

Kazembe slams poor work ethic at Forbes Border Post

Bishop acquitted of sexual assault charges

Woman gambles away husband's US$700

Mnangagwa donates vehicles and cash

Safari tourism in Zimbabwe gets a boost

Fifa derails Warriors' Afcon plans

Bulawayo struggling to contain a surge in open-air worship gatherings

Family in 101-year land dispute with school authorities

Zimbabwe cracks down on overloaded trucks

Zanu-PF benefactor's farm grab saga exposes govt

Enhancement pills: Growing health risk for men

Jilted 'prophet' commits suicide

Navaya scoops soccer star of the year and golden boot award

Man snatches best friend's wife

Witness D from the Madlanga Commission shot dead

Gwanda police arrest trio for unlawful entry and copper cable theft

How sports bring local communities together and strengthen social life

A nation of vendors is not a nation on the rise

Nkulumane independent candidate Fuzwayo donates to local garden project

Bulawayo councillors concerned over costly sewer system vandalism

Ministry clarifies road construction cost discrepancies

Sweden to cut aid to Zimbabwe and close embassy

Mnangagwa's railway revamp deal balloons from US$533m to US$3bn

BCC fire brigade urged to maintain standby teams for fires and flash floods

Zimbabwean identity thief jailed in UK

WhatsApp ban risk

Zvimba West communities benefit from new water points and road upgrades

Zanu-PF government provides central hospitals with critical care equipment

Bulawayo City Council tackles over 1,800 sanitation chokes in October

Mthuli Ncube's 2026 budget does not pass the constitutional test

ZINARA to roll out e-Tags for all motorists by 2026

Econet claims its shares are 'grossly undervalued'

Mahere urges action on US$98 million BEAM arrears

Mnangagwa focuses on term extension

Higher royalties will boost gold smuggling from Zimbabwe

'2030 talk a decoy'

Wage storm rocks Highlanders

Warriors camp hit by turbulence, but Marinica says 'all is well'

Crackdown on unregistered schools

Spike in severe diabetes cases hits Zimbabwe

ZACC achieves 61% success in corruption fight

Madzibaba Ishmael faces at least 15 years in jail

Construction of Zanu-PF US$1m HQ in full swing

HIV infections surge among Ama2000

South Africa at a crossroads: Lessons from Zimbabwe's democratic decline

Woman fined for pouring hot porridge on husband

Mwaruwari set to join Highlanders as technical director

'Zimbabwe economy to grow 6%'