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ZiG is putting lipstick on a pig, says Biti
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) on Friday introduced a new currency to be known as the ZiG, which stands for Zimbabwe Gold.RBZ governor John Mushayavanhu said the ZiG would be structured an...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:31hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
'Caf never said destroy Rufaro'
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume has dismissed reports suggesting that the Confederation of African Football (Caf) has recommended the demolition of Rufaro Stadium to meet the required international standard...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 19:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
The year Mnangagwa tightened grip on power
The air crackled with anticipation on November 22, 2017 as Zimbabwe witnessed a moment etched in history.Emmerson Mnangagwa, the man once cast out, returned to his homeland not as a fugitive, ...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 12:59hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
'Dissolve CCC and join ZANU PF' Chamisa advised
In a stark warning to Nelson Chamisa, the President of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), renowned Human Rights Lawyer and political activist, Dr. Pedzisayi Ruhanya, has urged Chamisa to abandon...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 10:57hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | | by Sharon Hofisi
Are Zanu-PF and ANC Siamese twins?
BIOLOGICAL Siamese twins, are those born conjoined to each other, usually at the chest, pelvis or backside. Their conjoinment, unfortunately, is not of their own making.This results from parti...Published: 24 May 2023 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Mutemo Pisa
Dump this 99-year lease nonsense
ZIMBABWE'S land issue has cracked our heads for too long to a point that we are now unable to utilise the God-given natural resource for our own good.As we write, millions of Zimbabweans face ...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga a great disappointment at health ministry'
Vice President, who also doubles as health minister, Constantino Chiwenga, has been challenged to turn around the country's disintegrating medical care.This comes at a time social media is awa...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Time to protect people from their churches
VERY little is known about one of the worst religion-related mass murders and tragedies that occurred in Uganda in 2000 in which 700 Ugandans died. More is known about the 1978 Jonestown massacre in G...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | | by Miriam Tose Majome
Chamisa's futile attempt to steal Zanu-PF history
DURING his visit to Boston in 1921, Albert Einstein made a famous statement. "Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of minds to think," he said. This statement by one of the greates...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:25hrs | | by Major Action Mandingo (Retired)
Zimbabwe should adopt 'you eat what you gather' policy
ZIMBABWE is in crisis, but to expect the Zanu-PF government to resolve this is impossible.Today, nearly four out of every five Zimbabweans survives in abject poverty. On average, Zimbabweans a...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:43hrs | | by Mwana Ngundu
Chamisa's MDC petitions UN over ‘biased' report
THE main opposition MDC Alliance has accused United Nations special rapporteur Alena Douhan of acting unprofessionally during her 10-day fact-finding mission to Harare to investigate the impact of san...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:04hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
ZRP lifts Zimbabwean flag very high
The first pillar of the UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights (hereinafter UN Guiding Principles) underscores that the duty to protect human rights lies with the State.Assessment of police eff...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe police have achieved more in difficult times thanks to ED's choice of Matanga
The first pillar of the UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights (hereinafter UN Guiding Principles) underscores that the duty to protect human rights lies with the state. Assessment of police effectiven...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 07:31hrs | 9 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF putting lipstick on a frog
ZIMBABWEANS thought that the November 2017 events would usher in a new era, but events that have followed indicate that a leopard will not change spots.Many now see that the late former Presid...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 06:09hrs | 2 | by Rerutsai Shangwa
March against sanctions a banal, scapegoating exercise
THIS lot do not get it, do they?Or maybe they are deliberately obtuse?When I first read that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was due to address an anti-sanctions march, I thought it was o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Chamisa asks Ian Khama to mediate in Zimbabwe crisis
MOVEMENT for Democratic Change leader Nelson Chamisa, who is plotting a #ShutDownZimbabwe protest, has approached former Botswana leader Ian Khama and Namibian President Hage Geingob in a bid to try a...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 14:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti tears into Mthuli Ncube's 'lipstick and mascara'
HARARE East MP Tendai Biti yesterday tore into Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's 2019 supplementary budget, describing it as a big fraud and misrepresentation of the true state of the economy.He...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 17:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Applying lipstick on a pig will not work Mnangagwa
EACH American election cycle produces a phrase or word that either becomes controversial or defines the election.In 2008, then Senator Barack Obama found himself in the eye of a storm when he ...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Nqaba Matshazi
'Reforms are empty words, lipstick on Zanu PF crocodile' - and MDC meerkat
I once watched a documentary on a family of meerkats. In their daily foraging they group came across an ostrich egg. The whole group was certainly very excited with the find, there was a lot of good f...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 06:34hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa cannot fix Zimbabwe's crisis. He needs Chamisa WRITES Tendai Biti
Zimbabwe is in crisis. But to expect the ruling ZANU-PF government to resolve this is improbable at best. It is, more likely, impossible.Today nearly four out of every five Zimbabweans just ab...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 17:15hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Biti challenges Ramaphosa
MDC Deputy National Chair Tendai Biti says President Ramaphosa has a key role to play in resolving the crisis in Zimbabwe. And he warned: 'If Zimbabwe implodes South Africa will suffer'.Biti w...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 19:44hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Renaming Chipo to Sipho: The POSA and MOPA mischief
Before the enactment of POSA1 in the year 2000, and prior to the demise of LOMA2 in 1993, the right to picketing was regulated by common law. During this period, the police wantonly resorted to the un...Published: 02 May 2019 at 14:55hrs | 7 | by A.K Malunga
Zimbabwe National Dialogue happening in the coming week
On 24 April at Harvest House press conference Nelson Chamisa responding to State of The Nation (online) reporter Tafadzwa Nyikadzino on him seeming to be a choir master singing all of Zimbabwe's probl...Published: 27 Apr 2019 at 15:02hrs | | by Terence Simbi
Mwonzora & MDC Guptas' untimely political menopause
I suffered a psychological stroke upon receiving news of the defeat of Hon Mwonzora in his Sakubva home ground. The defeat of Hon Mwonzora in Manicaland should not be taken for granted. Politica...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 09:02hrs | | by Don Chigumba
'Zimbabwe invented State Capture and SA refined it,' says Tendai Biti
Zimbabwean opposition MP and constitutional lawyer Tendai Biti told a Durban audience on Tuesday night that his country had invented state capture and South Africans had merely refined it. "I ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by African News Agency (ANA)
Sanctions are the Achilles Heel inhibiting Zimbabwe economic growth
Sanctions, sanctions and corruption are the Achilles Heel inhibiting economic growth in Zimbabwe. The illegal restrictive measures are causing untold suffering to those at the bottom of the economic p...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 19:14hrs | 1 | by Tondo Murisa
Zimbabwe branding:- Lipstick on a pig
Former Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi used to be keen on what he called 'rebranding' Zimbabwe. He could see that the country's image abroad had been tainted by Mugabe's misrule and thought cosmetic pu...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 21:52hrs | | by ZimVigil
Massive arrests of opposition/civic society leaders resonate with the dictates of the struggle
Key among the duties of MPs is not only to pass laws in parliament but can also be arrested or even die for the sake of the struggle. Josiah Magama Tongogara never saw a new Zimbabwe, he spent his ent...Published: 02 Mar 2019 at 09:52hrs | | by Don Chigumba
Reconciliation a must for economic, political progress
AS the push for national dialogue between political parties and different stakeholders to turn Zimbabwe's economic fortunes intensifies, a recent meeting involving the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZC...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa govt incurs credibility deficit'
Government is running under a serious credibility deficit, as the long-suffering Zimbabweans continue to lose hope in its economic policies, analysts have observed.The four months preceding th...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 14:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nothing for the poor in the anti-people budget
After the events of November 2017, then Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa announced a budget filled with sound bites in what he termed the "New Economic Order".The gullible gave him a standin...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 12:05hrs | | by Clr Jacob Mafume National Spokesperson
Prophet attempts to fly to heaven
With the rapid increase of Prophets performing bizarre signs and wonders in Africa, a Nigerian Prophet has attempted to fly to heaven but was begged by his congregants not to fly. The founder ...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 10:39hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Chiwenga talks about Prophet Walter Magaya's lipstick
Controversial Apostle Talent Chiwenga dives right in and talks about Prophet Walter Magaya's lipstick and how this shows the PHD Ministries leader has mental challenges.Apostle Chiwenga says M...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya plans Aguma clinical trials
PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverance leader (PHD) Prophet Walter Magaya yesterday retracted his claims that he had found a cure for HIV and Aids and apologised for making the announcement. He blamed hims...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo vendors lash out at council's archaic by-laws, wants city to be like Harare
Bulawayo vendors and informal traders here have taken aim at Bulawayo city fathers for simply trying to put cosmetic amendments to the existing archaic by-laws.The Bulawayo Vendors and Traders...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 14:11hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accused of 'name bombing'
Smarting from his failure to wrestle power from Zanu-PF, the main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has poured cold water on rave views on Mnangagwa's government cabinet appointments sayin...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 20:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa issues a statement on Mnangagwa's Cabinet
Zimbabwe is naturally endowed with beauty and brains. The Declared-President Mnangagwa cannot put lipstick on a pig and then declare it Miss Zimbabwe. An illegitimate President cannot put two fresh ap...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 20:46hrs | | by MDC Alliance
As long as there is corruption Minister Mthuli will not do anything - Ruhanya
Political commentator Pedzisai Ruhanya has said even though President M=Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed some of the good brains in the country, that will not change any thing as long as corruption an...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 16:07hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
The dirty truth about OIL
What does "oil" make you think of? Do "invasions" and "emissions" top your list? Why have leaders thought it worth spilling so much blood for the sake of this pungent mud? And why has it been so hard ...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 10:13hrs | | by Erick Matotoba
Pokello getting married AGAIN!?
The queen of swag, Pokello Nare seems to be searching high and low for a wedding dress as plans are reportedly afoot for her to tie the knot again.Barely six months after "confirming" the end ...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The grandmother of all demos against ZEC, A replica of the Chinhoyi Seven Battle
I am on record telling ZEC that the way they are handling the process of 2018 election is likely to spark another 'Chinhoyi Seven Battle' before 2018 elections. I warned ZEC that they should take the ...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 13:52hrs | | by Don Chigumba
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 | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Gweru calls for democracy, good governance
One of Zimbabwe's leading think tanks, Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI), held a transition dialogue meeting in Gweru this morning, focusing on democracy and the rule of law post Mugabe era.P...Published: 22 May 2018 at 20:13hrs | | by Agencies
MDC Alliance holds Zimbabweans at ransom
In any democracy, every political party or any individual has the right to make checks and balances in as far as the implementation and non-implementation of reforms are concerned. Likewise, t...Published: 21 May 2018 at 09:23hrs | | by Bruce Zvandasara
Cooked up figures do not win election
The privately owned daily newspaper, the NewsDay, risks losing credibility after it appointed itself the MDC Alliance's mouthpiece, a position that has forced it to throw into the bin, the basic journ...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 15:07hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano
Militarisation of politics rarely delivers democracy
In an effort to rebrand and remake himself, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made glaring misrepresentations on the nature of the political transition, commitment to free and fair elections, ability a...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 07:19hrs | | by Pedzisai Ruhanya & Bekezela Gumbo
Spare a thought for Tsvangirai's wife
There are reasons why every political party tries to have women in top positions. Most African countries are patriarchal.They believe men make the rules and women were created to serve men and...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:23hrs | | by THANDEKILE MOYO
Wake Up Women - Part 2
It is like today many men are marrying women who they do not actually know who they really are. The makeup these days seem to be in trouble by women, women are now being abusers of the make-up kits. M...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 11:26hrs | | by Belinda Chowa
Mnangagwa, Zhuwao face off in Davos
A SHOWDOWN is looming at the ongoing World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, where former President Robert Mugabe's nephew, Patrick Zhuwao, has threatened to doorstep and embarrass P...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 05:50hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
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