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Choosing Chiwenga to replace Mnangagwa is like a mouse telling a black mamba bites better than a green mamba!
I wonder still if I could have said it better than this! (Wilbert Mukori's last article on BYO 24) Zimbabwean GenZs are a problem, not a solution. They will muddle with water instead of coming up with...Published: 16 Mar 2025 at 15:13hrs | 1297 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chafuka on Zimbabwe social media will topple Mnangagwa government!
I should be forgiven if I said this man is an implant of president Mnangagwa masquerading as a revolutionary. Yet he is playing a political game that speaks the opposite to loo as many as he can get t...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 21:12hrs | 1584 | by Nomazulu Thata
Why Jacob Zuma is now winning court cases
On Tuesday, 9 April 2024, the electoral court set aside the IEC's decision to bar former president Jacob Zuma from running for a parliamentary seat. The IEC had disqualified Zuma due to his criminal r...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 15:26hrs | 10 | by Siyabonga Hadebe
Oil thieves jailed
Two Hwange men were arraigned before Hwange magistrates courts yesterday for stealing 53 drums of oil from Hwange Coal Gasification Company.Mubita Mulundano (46) and Karl Marx Nyoni (21) both ...Published: 18 Jan 2024 at 08:08hrs | 4 | by Peter Matuka | Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe's promises of mega deals are yet to materialise
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, there could be no vainly venture than perversion. It cannot withstand scrutiny. It melts on the onset of cross-examination.As I ...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 14:52hrs | 20 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
CCC recalls: Hope is a finite resource
HOW is one Sengezo Tshabangu's recalls of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Members of Parliament a dress-rehearsal for politics of manipulation and inconsistence in Zimbabwe?For students of...Published: 18 Nov 2023 at 19:44hrs | 2 | by Sharon Hofisi
Religion is new trump card ahead of Zimbabwe elections
EVER wondered why President Emmerson Mnangagwa has, in one breath, donned apostolic sect robes, practised traditional African religion, on the other, and congregated with the charismatic Protestants â...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 18:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean candidates solicit church votes ahead of Zimbabwe elections
Zimbabwe's major political parties are turning to religion in a bid to secure votes in the general elections next month.Zanu-PF and the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) are attending church...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 07:32hrs | | 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...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Jamwanda
Modern democracy now outdated and in urgent need of reformation!
I am sure every single one of us has some particular obsessions or quirks in life that we appear constantly focused on - possibly, taking precedence over other matters that may also be in our lives....Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 11:35hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe in 2023: There is great disorder, chaos under the heavens
GEORGE Orwell wrote so much and so well that one day it became cause for a whole essay to explain to himself and the world why he wrote as such.In the essay of 1946, Why I Write, Orwell recoun...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 81 | by Dr William Jethro Mpofu
Zimbabwe: Class IN itself versus Class FOR itself
US goose versus NED ganderTHERE is always more to write about than there is space to publish. Last week I had to drop two key matters, to allow myself to address in extenso what I sought to ra...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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
The rise and fall of the MDC: Winners, losers and neutrals
AS Zimbabwe approaches crucial by-elections in March, which will test the strength of main contestants while determining the authentic opposition, there is no denying that the MDC, which has posed the...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:21hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
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 | 4 | by Jamwanda
God doesn't carry a red political party card
God is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, which simply means He is all-powerful, all-knowing and everywhere in that order.His sheer preponderance as a Supreme Being means He cannot be app...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi
'Mugabe to blame for Zimbabwe crisis'
Zanu-PF's new commissar Victor Matemadanda has dismissed claims that his recent appointment was meant to address growing concerns about the re-emergence of factionalism in the party.President ...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 09:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mushava's valentine in austerity and Zimbabwe's political economy
A few weeks ago, I wrote on Stan Mushava's autobiographical poetry anthology, Rhyme and Resistance and it has become a habit for me to check on his Facebook page for any latest poetry. On this Valenti...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 09:35hrs | 3 | by Brian Maregedze
Time to confront bloodsuckers wherever and whenever
THAT things could be on the verge of boiling over is not an overstatement, but for the "big boys" these are the best of times as they are making a killing.But it should be pointed out from the...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:39hrs | 2 | by Conway Tutani
Zimbabwe Communist Party solidarity speech to ARTUZ conference
Long live the spirit of Joshua Nkomo!Long live the spirit of Josiah Tongogara!Long live the spirit of Lookout Masuku!Long live the spirit of Benjamin Burombo!Comrades,l...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 12:24hrs | | by Ngqabutho Mabhena
'Chiwenga is not dying'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba has revealed that he once considered throwing in the towel, but changed his mind after he was persuaded by his new boss.Last year Ch...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 10:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Decolonising Political Philosophy in Africa
It is the argument of the present piece that in the history of the world Africans have and still can produce, independent of Europe and America, political and economic ideas that can save the world. F...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Let's give Nelson Chamisa the credit
"If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless," says James 1 verse 26. James 3 verse 5 is even more explicit: "The tongue...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:43hrs | 1 | by Bishop
Chamisa: don't play with fire in a village so full of thatched roundavels
Where I come from you don't begrudge a child for darning clay into a mighty 'bull'. That is called creative play, for clay hurts no living being, and does not add one beast more into the kraal. So you...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:33hrs | | by Igomombe
Chamisa's bullet trains are but an escape from implementing reforms and 'povo's opium for false hope for millennia'
Do not get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with Nelson Chamisa's 800 km/hour bullet trains (faster than the current world record holder 431km/hour maglev train), spaghetti junction at every growth-po...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 17:11hrs | 2 | by Nomusa Garikai
UK in Zimbabwe: From tragedy to farce
A poetic cliché by Karl Marx which claims that in the life of nations "history repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce" does not only keep gaining new meanings for all countries but at ...Published: 28 May 2018 at 16:05hrs | 2 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
African politics: Why corruption grows more than reduce in nations developing? (part one)
International Transparency defines corruption as… the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. It can be classified as grand, petty and political, depending on the amounts of money lost and the se...Published: 23 May 2018 at 19:02hrs | 1 | by Andrew Manyevere
Religion is the opium of the people: Mnangagwa a pathological charlatan
According to Karl-Marx religion has similar practical functions in society to those functions of opium abusers. Religions reduce people's immediate suffering and provide them with pleasant illusions, ...Published: 02 Apr 2018 at 16:53hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
Who exactly was former President Mugabe?
The late VP Nkomo warned us in his 1984 book that there is a Robert Mugabe we don't know, but we were too consumed by the dummy we had been sold by the dominant liberation war discourses. These warnin...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 08:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai was never for the National Heroes Acre
THERE is something that has gone terribly wrong with some Zimbabweans. While others are seeing a funeral, others are seeing power. It's really dirty and messy, but then that's MDC-T politics for you....Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 22:31hrs | 4 | by Bishop
Daily Sociology Questions And Answers with Sir Mwiinde
Question Religion in modern society is the masses opium or tool for development. DiscussComment overview...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 12:24hrs | 1 | by Sir Mwiinde (Author, Sociologist and Mentor)
Daily Sociology Questions and Answers with Mwiinde Laison - Discuss the vitality of secularization
QUESTION: Discuss the vitality of secularization SUGGESTED ANSWER The seminal social thinkers of the nineteenth century -- Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Ka...Published: 30 Sep 2017 at 20:02hrs | | by Mwiinde Laison (sociologist, teacher and author)
Daily Sociology Questions and Answers with Mwiinde Laison - Discuss the vitality of secularization
QUESTION Discuss the vitality of secularization. SUGGESTED ANSWER The seminal social thinkers of the nin...Published: 24 Jun 2017 at 19:12hrs | 1 | by Mwiinde Laison (sociologist, teacher and author)
Bosso, Majaivana and other taboos
A number of political philosophers and sociologists of the Global South have noted how sport and religion were used by colonialists to divert the minds and energies of natives from politics.Of...Published: 30 May 2017 at 09:24hrs | 2 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena writes from South Africa
Lacoste faction can not be described as pro democracy- critics
Zanu PF critics have dispelled the notion that the Lacoste faction in the ruling Zanu PF which is led by Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa that it is a pro-democracy group since it is backed by the mi...Published: 12 May 2017 at 06:30hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Response to Dr Joice Mujuru - President of NPP
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Bond notes: When mere depositors debate
An interview Donald Trump is alleged to have had with People Magazine in 1998 quoted him as saying: "If I were to run [for US presidency], I'd run as a Republican. They're the dumbest group of voters ...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 15:49hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
The solid alternative to Capitalism: wishful thinking! Reflections of a Trade Unionist.
Without a shadow of doubt, I am a rooted cosmopolitan who is of sound and sober submissions that the precariet is a class, not just a class, but a dangerous class.Equipped with a hard to get l...Published: 30 Oct 2016 at 18:46hrs | 6 | by Tapiwa Diamond Chadya
Was the Zimbabwe guerrilla war of liberation worth it?
The article written by Tsolo Dube on Bulawayo24 asks a very painful but pertinent question: The War Veterans owe the Nation an Explanation: why they went to fight in the liberation of our country. Thi...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 11:49hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Presidents Mugabe Gabriel Robert; Zuma Jacob Gehleyihlekisa, Fort Hare students say voetzek!
Foot-sake is just the right word to tell both Mugabe and Zuma to go away! Voetzek Zuma, voetzek Mugabe! Those were Fort Hare students trying to force their way into the Hall where Preside...Published: 23 May 2016 at 18:52hrs | 8 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe at 36 - broken dreams and despair
"Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitt...Published: 21 Apr 2016 at 08:49hrs | | by Vince Musewe
South Africa: The fall of reconciliation
At the dusk of the apartheid regime in 1993, laid the assassinated body of Chris Hani, killed by right wingers who sought to collapse the country into a civil war.The great communist and MK Ch...Published: 12 Feb 2016 at 07:20hrs | 10 | by Mbuyiseni Ndlozi
Zimbabwe heads of Christian denominations pander to Mugabe
So-called Heads of Christian Denominations off the Mark We, the Zimbabwe Christian Prophetic Voice, are a group of Christians from different denom...Published: 14 Jan 2016 at 14:47hrs | | by Zimbabwe Christian Prophetic Voice
The unspoken story of the ANC
After the Wankie and Spolilo campaigns of the late 1960s, it was apparent that Rhodesia was at war.The boundaries shared by Rhodesia and her neighbours became porous conduits for guerrilla inf...Published: 10 Jan 2016 at 05:54hrs | 2 | by Tjenesani Ntungakwa
Scientific socialism in 21st century Africa
The concept of scientific socialism exploded on to the world scene with the publication of the Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels in Europe in 1848. So people might ask...Published: 14 Dec 2015 at 19:58hrs | 8 | by Ian Beddowes
A snap-shot of the current political dynamics in Zimbabwe
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. - Karl Marx. In 1980 we decided that Mugabe and...Published: 06 May 2015 at 05:47hrs | 2 | by Peter Muzira
Mnangagwa, Mphoko must build confidence
The time for sounding good is over; we now need good, sound policies to be implemented.There is a lot of scepticism whether the utterances of the new Vice-Presidents (VPs) will eventually res...Published: 22 Jan 2015 at 06:36hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Robert Mugabe: An African Head of State and the State of an African Head
The political personality and historical project of Robert Mugabe is bound to arrest the attention of thinkers and writers for a long time to come. The Zimbabwean President has attracted extreme r...Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 10:27hrs | 4 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Chinese are here, the Russians are coming & the Western world quakes, courts
THE Chinese are here. The Russians are coming. The Western world quakes, courts. But this is not a poem, can't be. Reality is always deeper, more problematic than rhyme. It needs reason. Then bold...Published: 13 Sep 2014 at 13:45hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
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