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Zimbabwe celebrates independence amid doom
WHEN visiting some towns, urban and rural areas across the country one is greeted by sullen and dropping faces with sorrow and hunger written all over their faces.In a few days to come Zimbabw...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 18:03hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
44 years into independence a giant is still facing economic collapse
Visiting some towns, urban and rural areas across the country one is greeted by sullen and dropping faces with sorrow and hunger written all over their faces.In a few days to come Zimbabwe wil...Published: 13 Apr 2024 at 16:40hrs | | by Leonard Koni
'Mnangagwa is corrupt because he is still in liberation war mode.' True still shaming him will not end kleptocracy
There is an audio of "Retired Army officer speaks" complaining about Zanu PF's corrupt leaders and how their insatiable greed is the root cause of Zimbabwe's economic melt down. Corruption started soo...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 19:39hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa must not exempt state entities from scrutiny
GOVERNANCE watchdogs has demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa discard his gazetted General Notice 164B of 2024 which exempts 21 key state entities from complying with the Public Procurement and ...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 20:03hrs | 40 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's real 'Second Republic' was actually established under Mugabe!
Ever since Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa grabbed power from then president Robert Gabriel Mugabe in a military coup d'état in November 2017, he has sought to portray his government as the 'Second Repub...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:58hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa 'pretentious elections will not work'
South African opposition leader Julius Malema has warned that "pretentious elections" in Zimbabwe "will not work" as he called for a free and fair vote on August 23.The leader of the Economic ...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 17:23hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Malema says Zimbabweans must fight for their country
South African opposition leader Julius Malema yesterday said Zimbabweans must fight to reclaim their country from "kleptocrats" in pointed criticism of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government....Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 09:00hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mangwana tells Malema to go to hell
SOUTH African opposition party, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says Zimbabwe should undertake a cocktail of measures for a free and fair elections saying window dressing plebisci...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 08:57hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has been hijacked by criminality, says Malema
Ahead of Zimbabwe election slated for 23 August 2023 Julius Malema told SABC News Zimbabweans must fight for their country and reclaim it from kleptocracy and the criminality that hijacked Zimbabwe. ...Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 13:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Youth conscientization critical in liberating Zimbabwe!
As youth in Zimbabwe mark the 'Day of the African Child', it is clear that today's generation lacks conscientization on why the country is still not free. A few days ago, I penned an article, ...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 13:45hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa must not deliver another Lima
WHITE commercial farmers forced off their land over 20 years ago have waited since 2018 — when government agreed to a compensation deal — to receive their settlements. It is important to note that...Published: 26 May 2023 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bans disclosure of public procurement
President Mnangagwa on Tuesday okayed a new decree under which all procurement in construction, medical equipment, medicines and drugs as well as protective clothing in hospitals "shall not be publicl...Published: 10 May 2023 at 06:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
SA chrome tycoon 'pays millions' to Zanu-PF chefs
A FIRM controlled by one of South Africa's richest tycoons suspiciously moved millions of United States dollars to politically connected Zimbabwean companies and powerful individuals, about five years...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 19:32hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, Mnangagwa entangled in massive chrome scandal
COMPANIES linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga received US$3 million from South African chrome miner Zunaid Moti following a US$120 million deal signed betwee...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 20:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has failed the youths, through Mutoriro and Kambwa
As far as Zimbabwe is concerned things are not appealing ranging from economic, social to political discourse. The government of Zimbabwe is supposed to start now to lay out robust and effective mecha...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:11hrs | | by General Franco
'Mugabe did not actively push for his family's primitive accumulation of wealth'
THE late president Robert Mugabe stopped his son-in-law Simba Chikore and daughter Bona from joining the scramble to take over the country's third-largest mobile network operator, Telecel Zimbabwe....Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
White skin, black masks!
Two developments caught my attention this week. One is a Brenthurst Foundation scholarship invitation to young Africans intent on pursuing postgraduate studies.Brenthurst Foundation is owned a...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:08hrs | | by Jamwanda
How can Zimbabweans be helped when they don't want to help themselves?
There is a popular Chinese adage - 'it's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness'.Indeed, as the people of Zimbabwe, we have endure unbelievable untold suffering, oppression and po...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 13:22hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Reluctance in registering to vote shows distrust in current political players
I said it before - and, I will say it again and again. I can totally understand the immense frustration amongst some sections of our Zimbabwean society - as they wonder why there appears to be...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 08:58hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Will Mnangagwa ever learn, reform?
IN terms of the constitution, Zimbabwe's 2023 general elections will be convened either in July or August. Already, it seems inevitable that the Gukurahundi genocide could turn out to be one of Matabe...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's sanctions a smokescreen
LAST week, the United States updated targeted sanctions against Zimbabwean individuals and entities responsible for committing grave human rights abuses, undermining democracy, or contributing to corr...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 05:58hrs | | by Michelle Gavin
Zimbabwe's problem is Zanu-PF's intimidation and kleptocracy, not the country's youth
THERE is a certain blindness in understanding the nature of Zimbabwean politics and elections if the problem is mostly attributed to an apathetic youth. A more analytical view includes other consequen...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Tony Reeler
Zimbabwe govt to blame for xenophobic scourge
BETWEEN 1980 and the mid-1990s, Zimbabwe's economy was a force to reckon with in Africa.It was stable, with healthy growth rates that underpinned a massive industrial rebound.Zimbabwe ...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Money changers a product of misgovernance
IN his address at a Zanu-PF campaign rally in Marondera on Sunday, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga threatened to lock up and impose stiff jail terms on money changers.The Vice-President gl...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 05:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa had a chance to be a Gorbachev, but he chose to be Milosevic!!!
Zimbabweans celebrating the fall of the late ex-President Robert Mugabe during the November 2017 military coup which brought President E.D Mnangagwa to power. Pic Credit; Google.Reader, Mnanga...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 20:36hrs | 5 | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo Sr
Electoral reforms must dominate political discourse in 2022
AS we bask on the cusp of a new year, Zimbabweans appear to have gone agog about the pending by-elections and what many deem to be the watershed plebiscite of 2023.And yet for some of us, high...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zimbabwe must be liberated from Zanu-PF!!!
Reader, let's start the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty two by telling each other the truth, nothing but the truth. We can turn right, left and centre looking for solutions to our prolonged s...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 10:29hrs | | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo, Sr
Nothing new from tired Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF's annual conference is underway in Bindura and, predictably, the former liberation party is not proffering any fresh ideas to extricate Zimbabwe from the quicksand of corruption-induced povert...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:44hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Idolisation of champions of corruption
We are just two days away from celebrating Zimbabwe's independence from the shackles of colonialism. For some painful years, we have been trying to decide how best we can fight the cancerous worm of c...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 08:00hrs | | by Sharon Hofisi
ZCTU now wants national dialogue to end Zimbabwe's crisis
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has become the latest organisation to call for a comprehensive all-stakeholder dialogue to solve the country's multi-faceted crisis.ZCTU president ...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 05:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF stuck in a cycle of old habits
WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa was installed as President of Zimbabwe in November 2017 following a military coup and his predecessor Robert Mugabe's enforced resignation, he boldly announced to the...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Tendai Dumbutshena
Democracy under siege in Zimbabwe
MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda has said democracy has been put under threat after MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe was sworn in in Parliament as a leader of opposition despit...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 14:04hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Coordinated attacks as weapons to destabilise Mnangagwa's gov't
The West is very proud of its relationship with Africa and has invested heavily in ensuring that its economic interests on the continent are not threatened, undermined or dislodged. The rise of China ...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Can Zimbabwe Diaspora Women in UK allow trade talks, with a country abusing its women?
ZHRO (Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisation) Leadership has rallied its members to join the MDC (Movement For Democratic Change) (Zimbabwe's main Opposition party) in the UK to Protest the arrival of a h...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 12:55hrs | | by ZHRO
The reluctant reformer, Mnangagwa is thy name
IT'S nearly a year since Emmerson Mnagangwa (ED) was sworn as the President of Zimbabwe after the disputed July 2018 elections.The common talk among many is that Zimbabwe should be better than...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Rashweat Mukundu
Unexplained wealth orders here to stay
THE proposed introduction of a free-standing procedure which compels an individual to explain the source of his wealth is a radical development in English law. For instance, the human rights and polit...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Prosper Simbarashe Maguchu
Go deeper Auditor-General, probe and do forensic audit of the Office of President and Cabinet
Allow me to start by congratulating you Auditor-General Mildred Chari for such a job well done. After reading your audit report I was shocked to see how public officials bled Zimbabwe dry through corr...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 10:20hrs | | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo
Khupe is dancing Nobert Kunonga music
Not so long ago the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe had tasted abhorrent deep factional fights pitted embattled cleric Bishop Nobert Kunonga and the then incumbent Chad Gandiya cabal. Kunonga, a stan Muga...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:44hrs | | by Benny Gudo
Corruption damaging Zimbabwe recovery
TRANSPARENCY International's 2017 corruption perception index ranked Zimbabwe number 157 out of 180 countries. Using a scale of 0 to 100 (where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean), Zimbabwe has...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 06:03hrs | | by Paddington Masamha
Mutsvangwa a distracting sideshow
THAT former War Veterans' minister and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's special advisor Christopher Mutsvangwa is a motor mouth, who is self-serving like many in the ruling Zanu-PF party is not in doubt...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Editorial - newsday
Democracy, elections bad for collective cause
SOMETHING is going wrong with democracy. Something has gone wrong with democracy. It was the most successful political idea of the 21st century, but increasingly democracy is running into trouble, not...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Don't submit to Mugabe's divide and rule stylish
I was flabbergasted and fazed by the behavior of the two front runners (Former President Mnangagwa and Nelson Chamisa) following an interview by Robert Gabriel Mugabe at his Blue Roof residence in whi...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 20:53hrs | | by Benny Gudo
July 30 gives Zimbabwe opportunity to break from past
The upcoming election is a great opportunity for Zimbabweans in general, for the current political leadership and even for the ousted dictator, himself, I will explain why.Of course, for the m...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 07:39hrs | | by Charles Kangai
Once beaten twice shy - How about this Election and the processes?
The Zimbabwean de javu! We have come a full circle as a country, but whether can we identify where the path begins and branches remain the questions with elusive answers. The first twenty years of our...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 17:24hrs | 1 | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
If I can be Chamisa’s advisor only for a day
Nelson kindly allow me to be your advisor only for today. In Shona they say ‘vamwe vakaudzwa hondo nemurwere wepfungwa’ which can be loosely translated as, in life you can get advice even from the...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 11:39hrs | | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyoo
Military Dictatorship
Zimbabwe is one of the many failed states of Africa. The people of Zimbabwe spent slightly more than two decades fighting to free themselves from British colonisation and then Ian Smith's racist Rhode...Published: 28 May 2018 at 13:39hrs | | by Clement Dumisani Moyo
Zimbabwe is one of the many failed states of Africa
Zimbabwe is one of the many failed states of Africa. The people of Zimbabwe spent slightly more than two decades fighting to free themselves from British colonisation and then Ian Smith's racist Rhode...Published: 25 May 2018 at 14:27hrs | | by Clement Dumisani Moyo
The Zimbabwean economy
The strength of any country revolves around its economy which is determined by how we account for every resource and every cent we make when doing business; manufacturing and exporting more goods than...Published: 03 May 2018 at 13:57hrs | 1 | by Clement Moyo
The Zimbabwean economy
The strength of any country revolves around its economy which is determined by how we account for every resource and every cent we make when doing business; manufacturing and exporting more goods than...Published: 30 Apr 2018 at 18:34hrs | | by Clement Moyo
Drawing parallels between the ZANU PF and ANC recalls, the issue of Constitutional order
Whether this is by design or it is the swinging pendulum of fortune swinging in reverse it stands to be seen. The ANC has had two recalls in successive Presidencies. This is the biggest problem Africa...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 12:25hrs | | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
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