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Zanu-PF's controversial 2030 plot a calculated
A controversial plan by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's loyalists to extend his presidential term from 2028 to 2030 is not just a political maneuver but a critical test of Zimbabwe's constitutional int...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 12:09hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's liberation was the greatest farce of all time
The truth can be a bitter pill to swallow, but it needs to be taken if we are to heal our nation.Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, celebrated as a triumph over colonial oppression when independe...Published: 25 Feb 2025 at 21:11hrs | 1162 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF, CCC of accused of undermining electoral reforms
The Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC has accused the ruling Zanu-PF and the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) of undoing the democratic gains achieved during the era of the late Prime Minister Mo...Published: 18 Nov 2024 at 15:07hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF is responsible for scuttling development in rural areas!
Forty-four years after Zimbabwe attained her independence, rural areas are still largely as backward as they were under colonial rule. Nothing much to write about, in terms of development, has...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 12:57hrs | 21 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe Communist Party elections observer report for 2023 elections
OBSERVATIONS ON THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONGeneralFirstly, as Communists, we do not confuse democracy with voting.The word ‘democracy' is derived from Greek and means ‘rule by the pe...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 06:34hrs | 3 | by Central Committee of the Zimbabwe Communist Party
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 | 14 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zec incompetence could lead to disputed elections
ZIMBABWE is heading towards another disputed election should the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) adopt the discredited delimitation report without correcting the glaring shortcomings, analysts hav...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'1987 Unity Accord brought peace!' Shut up! It brought capitulation and the de facto dictatorship
It is a matter of public record that Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi of Zion Christian Church (ZCC) is one of Zimbabwe's many church leaders who have received far...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 00:18hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa's CCC blasts ZEC's delimitation report
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has dismissed Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's (ZEC) recently released 900 page delimitation report, insisting the constitution had not been adhered to in...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:56hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mutambara wants Zimbabwe to dump, rework delimitation
FORMER Deputy Prime minister in the 2009-2013 Government of National Unity (GNU), Arthur Mutambara says the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) must redo the delimitation exercise as he dismissed the ...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:54hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fulfils land compensation obligations?
WITH allocations in next year's budget and the Government and white former commercial farmers ready to work together to raise funds through long-term bonds, the farmers will start receiving compensati...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 05:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
We know our heroes
THOUSANDS of people yesterday thronged the National Heroes Acre to remember the country's luminaries who sacrificed limb and life to liberate Zimbabwe and deliver freedom that flourishes today....Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:17hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
What's to celebrate; that independence replaced white oppressors with black ones?
On 18 April 2022 Zimbabweans should have been celebrating the country's 42 years of independence. For the overwhelming majority, there was really no cause to celebrate, and many did not bother. The pe...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 22:37hrs | 4 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Trevor Ncube's dalliances with Mnangagwa run much deeper
This article on the mysterious and controversial relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and local publisher Trevor Ncube is a summary based on an extract from...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:22hrs | 418 | by Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
Adv Sibanda declared national hero
THE Zanu-PF Politburo has posthumously declared the late former High Court Judge Advocate Siwanda Kennedy Mbuso Sibanda a national hero.Adv Sibanda, a legal icon of the liberation struggle, di...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 18:58hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's growing love for rule-by-decree
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been increasingly making use of Statutory Instruments (SI units) during his tenure as head of State. Analysts are describing it as a form of command politics steering ...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Malaba crisis: Ex-MDC minister, lawyers pile pressure on Mnangagwa
FORMER Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs minister Eric Matinenga, has ganged up with lawyers Beatrice Mtetwa and Valerie Ingham-Thorpe to challenge recent constitutional amendments which they s...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Malaba fight turns factional
SUSPECTED Zanu-PF youths on Wednesday invaded the farm of war veteran and businessman Fred Mutanda, accusing him of teaming up with Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga and Judge President Justice Geor...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Where are the millions who voted for Zimbabwe's 'new' 2013 Constitution when it's being ravaged and raped by ruling elite?
The past week has, arguably, been the darkest epoch in the history of our beloved Zimbabwe - possibly, up there with such events as the signing of the Rudd Concession in 1888, and enactment of the Lan...Published: 09 May 2021 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
We are like 'stray animals'
According to the United nations High commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), the exact number of stateless people globally is not known.However, the Un refugee Agency estimates that there are many ...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:17hrs | 1 | by Amnesty International
'Recall of MPs is Mugabe's baby,' says Madhuku
THE provision of recalling legislators from Parliament, which has been widely used in recent months to decimate the opposition MDC Alliance should never have found its way in the 2013 Constitution, Lo...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff repporter
'What kind of leaders will an armed struggle throw up?' - we should have considered and have paid dearly for our folly
During India's struggle for home rule, especially during the years when some felt Mahatma Gandhi's passive resistance was going nowhere, the question did arise on whether they should wage an armed str...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 20:25hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa clears air on land, SA envoys
Taxpayers' funds will not be used to compensate white former commercial farmers for improvements made on farms, but the money will be sourced externally, President Mnangagwa has said.The Presi...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean economy unlocked to empower Zimbabwean
A large proportion of Zimbabweans if not 99,9 % are still trapped in poverty post-1980 since gaining independence from the colonial regime.One of the reasons of poverty faced by Zimbabweans cu...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 06:16hrs | 2 | by Mandla Nkala
Matabeleland guns for devolution amid government delays
Chagrined by government delays in the implementation of devolution people in Matabeleland feel marginalised and is gunning for its speedy completion. The military government of President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 14:30hrs | 1 | by Makho Precious Moyo
Pregnant pupils divide Parliament
Parliament was left divided on Wednesday over a clause in the Education Amendment Bill which bans the expulsion of girls who fall pregnant while in school. Primary and Secondary Education Mini...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 09:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
The birth of tribal domination in Zimbabwean politics
On 8 November 1978, at the age of 61 years Chief Khayisa Ndiweni, formed the United National Federal Party (UNFP), as a break away from the Zimbabwe United Peoples Organization (ZUPO), a political par...Published: 17 May 2019 at 20:42hrs | 20 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
'No elections for 10 years whilst focus on reconstruction' - what if leaders focus on corruption, what then
"Elections have become a problem that has sunk us into vicious violence, unreformed state institutions, political and economic strife.Let us do away with them for 10 years and focus on reconst...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 06:36hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Whites score big against blacks - land compensation
Land is and was at the centre of all political developments for the indigenous black Zimbabwean population's pre and post independence movements. The liberation war against white minority rule's black...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 15:37hrs | 1 | by Terence Simbi
'Way forward is a10 year GNU with no election' - clever, punish nation to appease those rigging elections!
I have read some foolish things in my life but what Hopewell Chinono said in his recent article takes the biscuit!"Elections have done completely nothing democratic for Zimbabwe, except removi...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 22:25hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Pastor demands an end to 'elitist dialogue' - confused, doesn't even know elections were rigged
Confusion reigns supreme in Zimbabwe. Confusion is when one says this, the other says that and the third says something else which is neither this nor that in a matter as simple as 1 + 1 = 2. ...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 09:11hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
No armoury was broken into, says Matemadanda
Deputy Defence minister, Victor Matemadanda, yesterday said no armoury was broken into during the recent violent protests, contradicting Zimbabwe Defence Forces Chief of Staff Major-General Douglas Ny...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
No armoury was broken into, says Matemadanda
Deputy Defence minister, Victor Matemadanda, yesterday said no armoury was broken into during the recent violent protests, contradicting Zimbabwe Defence Forces Chief of Staff Major-General Douglas Ny...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa supporters foil opponents
With factionalism refusing to die in Zanu-PF, anxious power-brokers in the party are scheming to keep President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the helm of both the former liberation movement and the government...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's succession, Zanu-PF bigwigs brawl
Zanu-PF's notorious succession demons have resurfaced, with the party's senior officials locking horns over who should take over from President Emmerson Mnangagwa - a few months after the 76-year-old ...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 10:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Seek ye first the political kingdom' advised Dr Nkrumah - after 38 years of blundering, the penny has finally dropped
There is a growing hunger by an ever increasing pool Zimbabweans to engage in serious debate and search for the country's way out of this hell-on-earth mess the nation finds itself in. This is just wh...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 20:20hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Alignment of Zimbabwe laws can't be delayed any longer
MEMBERS of the Ninth Parliament this week went through an induction and orientation exercise in order to familiarise them with parliamentary processes and procedures and flag out some of the issues in...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by John Makamure
Mnangagwa will not follow Mugabe's ways
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says he will chart a different path from that of his much-criticised predecessor - former leader Robert Mugabe - adding that he will only serve the two terms permitted by ...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 14:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Elections more open than any since 1980,' says Cross - for once, answer the question asked
The root cause of Zimbabwe's economic meltdown and political paralysis is the failure to remove Zanu PF from office even when it was clear the party was incompetent and corrupt. Zanu PF rigged the ele...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 07:33hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa's 2018 Heroes Day message to the people of Zimbabwe
LEST WE FORGET... ONE PERSON ONE VOTE IS OUR FOREBEARS' LEGACY On 13 August 2018, Zimbabwe once again pays tribute to its gallant sons and daughters, wh...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 18:12hrs | 1 | by Nelson Chamisa
Zanu-PF's majority enables it to amend Constitution
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF party has won a commanding majority in Zimbabwe's parliamentary elections on Monday, sweeping aside opposition parties and securing a powerful mandate tha...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 19:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo dumps Mugabe?
G40 cabalist Professor Jonathan Moyo yesterday finally admitted that former president, Mr Robert Mugabe, was removed from office by the masses, departing from his stance that it was the military that ...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's Chamisa Moment
AS Zimbabweans countdown to the Monday realignment elections, there is a palpable self-organising and self-propelling clamour for historic change - the spirit of 2018 - blowing in the air across Zimba...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 15:31hrs | 3 | by Jonathan Moyo
The birth of tribal domination in Zimbabwean politics
On 8 November 1978, at the age of 61 years Chief Khayisa Ndiweni, formed the United National Federal Party (UNFP), as a break away from the Zimbabwe United Peoples Organization (ZUPO), a political par...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 13:05hrs | 4 | by Taurai Njabulo Chirandu Njekete
Bombs have 'no place in democratic elections,' says President Ramaphosa - ED is rigging, so stop wittering!
"Kamoto kamberevere ndikokano pisa matanda mberi!" (It is the unattended small fire that will burn down the forest!) Shona elders advise. There is no denying that Zimbabwe is in a serious econ...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 14:10hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Zimbabwe Electoral Act not aligned with Constitution'
LEGAL think tank Veritas, says the Electoral Act, which was recently signed into law by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has not been aligned with the Constitution, arguing several classes of citizens wil...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 15:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZSD Press Statement - appeal to SADC observers to judge Zimbabwe elections truthfully and follow own advice
Executive Summary Our appeal to Zimbabwe election observers is simple: please judge whether these elections are free, fair and credible as you would wis...Published: 21 May 2018 at 21:56hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Tsvangirai the legacy
No one would have ever thought that the son of Dzingirai-Chibwe Tsvangirai and Lydia Tsvangirai (née Lydia Zvaipa) would one day become the major key in the political arena of Zimbabwe. Morgan Richar...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 11:18hrs | 3 | by Daniel Itai
Queen seeking to reconcile Britain with Zimbabwe
THE Queen of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II, is seeking to reconcile Britain with Zimbabwe and is pinning hopes on the latter rejoining the Commonwealth. The Queen honoured Robert Mugabe during the ...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
There are 3 reasons Mnangagwa want another GNU and they are all for selfish gain
There is a growing chorus of people supporting the idea of Zanu PF inviting the opposition to form another GNU or National Transition Authority."ACADEMIC and political analyst Ibbo Mandaza say...Published: 22 Nov 2017 at 16:59hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
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