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Highlanders versus Dynamos: The anatomy of violence
Once again — and not for the last time — a Highlanders versus Dynamos football match ended in violence with the usual accusations and counter accusations of referee bias and oppression being the o...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 21:33hrs | 8 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo through the eyes of his bodyguard
THE late Vice-President Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo was an open -minded and friendly person who freely interacted with everyone throughout his entire political life regardless of social standing, one of h...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chief begs for another coup
In a daring move alien to Zimbabwean traditional leaders, Chief Murinye born Ephias Munodawafa who recently castigated the President Emmerson Mnangagwa administration for failing to deal with corrupti...Published: 25 Dec 2021 at 09:32hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP calls Martin Dinha a 'thief'
NATIONAL Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) chairperson Martin Dinha, has been called a "thief" who is busy stripping the state-owned entity's assets for resell and thereby reversing the gains of Zimbabwe's l...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil War has technically started in Zimbabwe
After the November 2017 coup, President Mnangagwa (ED) does not only have the colonial instruments of repression but also improved means of controlling population movements, geographical reach-thanks...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 15:10hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Mnangagwa's wife interfered with The Herald Editor's job
FORMER Herald Editor, Tichaona Zindoga has opened up on his tough experience when he was at the helm of the state controlled daily where he claims First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa constantly interfered w...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 07:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC needs to rethink by-elections strategy
An inquest was inevitable following the opposition MDC's loss in the weekend by-elections, particularly the Lupane East constituency, with finger-pointing predictably being the order of the day. For m...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
'Good evening General Peter Walls'
It was just after 8pm, and the night was still. A few crickets were chirping and stridulating, interchanging with hooting cars which were roaming the almost deserted streets of the then Salisbury indu...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:56hrs | 1 | by Forward Nyanyiwa
Damnatio memoriae and Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day?
In the recent past few years, it had become a norm in February to see pomp and extravagance in Zimbabwe's state and independent media with preparations towards and celebrations on the birthday of "com...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 21:18hrs | | by Brian Maregedze
'ED stepping up fight against graft' Mangwana praised - praise as contrived as fight itself
Nick Mangwana has worked hard as a Zanu-PF apologist and was recently rewarded with the appointment as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Media, Publicity and Broadcasting Services. The post was h...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:44hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Evangelist's wife in 5 man love affair
AN evangelist's wife is involved in a love scandal involving five men.Evangelist Ndashata has been sharing his wife Angela Bhudhe, 26, with four other men in the subsistence of their marriage....Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 19:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo, Manheru rivalry
Former minister of Media, Information and Broadcasting Services Jonathan Moyo, is escalating his war of words against top bureaucrat, George Charamba - the President's spokesperson.In a blizza...Published: 25 May 2018 at 16:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo exposes Charamba's secret past
Jonathan Moyo promised to post online a comprehensive thread revealing details about George Charamba (author of UNDER THE EAVES) and other hitherto unknown details about him.Below are posts do...Published: 21 May 2018 at 15:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nathaniel Manheru resurfaces as Igomombe?
DEAR reader, we regaled each other leisurely under the eaves last week. But it can't be play, play, play forever. We have to get down to the business of interpreting our times, what with so much happe...Published: 15 May 2018 at 16:23hrs | | by Igomombe
Manheru is back with Mnangagwa's 100 Days: Defying Horace's Burden
In one of his mature Odes, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, better known in the English-speaking world as Horace, coined the famous "delicta maiorum immeritus lues".Now sounding pedantic and obscure ...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:20hrs | | by George Charamba
The real coup in MDC-T
My People First things first, my deepest condolences to the Tsvangirai family for the loss of the family head, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai.By extension, I would also like to proffer my condolenc...Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 22:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
She turned him down free touristic, free boarding in Germany: NUST Professor insults her hard!
A woman of 64 years, I have been officially pensioned beginning of January 2018 at the same time can continue working for another 5 years if I so wished. My age will inform that under normal circumsta...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Hope Jonathan Moyo now knows 'chine vene vacho chinhu ichi?'
WHEREVER he is, Professor Jonathan Moyo should know vakarumwa nechekuchera. As he reflects and takes stock with his G40 cabal, he should always remember James 1 vs 19 which says: "Know this, my belove...Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 08:25hrs | | by Bishop
Marujata vs Nathaniel Manheru - signs of a crumpling empire
Madness is when Grace Mugabe and George Charamba both pretend to be what they are not. Not long ago, George Charamba, the presidential spokesman and secretary for information, "disclosed" to the world...Published: 02 Aug 2017 at 13:20hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Grace Mugabe crushes Mnangagwa
First lady Grace Mugabe yesterday launched a scathing attack against a Zanu-PF faction aligned to Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, accusing it of plotting against her ageing husband and persecuting ...Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says, They are possessed with the 'biblical Legion' demon'
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday strongly castigated elements that pretend to be Zanu-PF when at heart they are not, saying they were free to leave the revolutionary party. Addressing horde...Published: 13 Jul 2017 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Over to you, Nkosana Moyo!
One of the worst-kept secrets in Zimbabwe is out.Nkosana Moyo has finally announced his long-anticipated formal entry into next year's presidential race with many people not taken by surprise ...Published: 07 Jul 2017 at 19:50hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Nine Lives of a Democrat, A Journey to New Zimbabwe Post 2013
Background Every political party and its supporters need to rise again and retain their relevance in the political sphere especially after losing an e...Published: 29 Jun 2017 at 10:00hrs | | by Chana ChaVatete
'Civil servants entitled to join any political party'
THE conferment of the right to vote to civil servants and members of the security services by the Constitution means they are entitled to belong to a political party of their choice, a senior Governme...Published: 27 Jun 2017 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Manheru inherited column from Jonathan Moyo
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's spokesperson George Charamba has claimed that he inherited the acerbic Nathaniel Manheru column from its "founder", Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo."It's been...Published: 26 Jun 2017 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Manheru slams civil society
Secretary for Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Mr George Charamba yesterday slammed civil society organisations who criticise Government institutions for not providing certain information ...Published: 26 Jun 2017 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZBC not a parastatal but a commercial station, says Manheru
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services, George Charamba said the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Cooperation (ZBC) is now a commercial broadcasting station as it cea...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 18:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nathaniel Manheru - where is the 'revelation'?
UMthwakazi has known this character as a wide-nosed, strong-jawed anti-Mthwakazi Gukiurahundist and Shonaist, who like the rest of them who harbour these rabid anti-Mthwakazi, Gukurahundist feelings, ...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 17:42hrs | 1 | by Xoxani Ngxoxo
Media should follow ZEC rules during elections, says Manheru
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services, George Charamba says during elections the media is governed by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) rules re...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 14:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Goodbye Nathaniel Manheru, Godspeed & good riddance!
George Charamba, President Robert Mugabe's spokesperson, who until recently was the ghost character behind the caustic Nathaniel Manheru column in the State-controlled Herald newspaper, has announced ...Published: 24 Jun 2017 at 19:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai clothed in borrowed robes and forgot to think beyond slogans
IT'S been many seasons ever since this column was launched, more accurately ever since I adopted it from its "tired" founder, Professor Jonathan Moyo. While I know Nathaniel to be his middle name, I w...Published: 24 Jun 2017 at 13:29hrs | 31 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Nathaniel Manheru exposes self
Permanent secretary of information George Charamba said he is paying tribute to the late liberation singer Dickson Chingaira aka Cde Chinx, by disclosing that he is the shadowy character Nathaniel Man...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 13:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai and Mujuru are beginning to excite
MY heart bleeds for Comrade Chinx. What a jolly good comrade? Shamwari yeropa. Music was his gun. 2 Timothy 4 vs 7 comforts me: "I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:09hrs | | by Bishop
How Rhodesia ended tribes
The year 1970 saw the birth of a publication titled "The Passing of Tribal Man in Africa". Edited by a Canadian academic, the late Peter C. W. Gutkind, the publication challenged entrenched Anglo-Saxo...Published: 17 Jun 2017 at 10:03hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Jonathan Moyo, Charamba fight over Mnangagwa
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson, George Charamba has accused Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo of seeking to sneak his "personal tiff" with Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, which began in 2004, into...Published: 12 Jun 2017 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe media split into rival camps that parallel various political divides
I don't know what triggered it, but I just woke up craving for hard-reading stuff. Deep and tough reading. If happens quite often, especially when you suffer a surfeit of the mundane, the everyday, wh...Published: 10 Jun 2017 at 17:01hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Tsvangirai might meet his political demise
The inimitable Nathaniel Manheru opined last week in his Saturday column that Zimbabwe faced a real prospect of a national by-election next year. That's instead of a so-called eagerly-anticipated harm...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 08:28hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
ANC the toddler
AM I wrong? I have always thought the goal of opposition is to govern? And I haven't said the goal is to lead. To govern. You can lead anything, at any level, including leading a village co-operative....Published: 03 Jun 2017 at 11:08hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Manheru and Mrs Charamba's so-called death?
Gukurahundi is just the name, an encapsulation of a mass-murder committed on an industrial scale on the Ndebele - uMthwakazi - by Shonaist and Gukurahundist Zimbabwe, solely because uMthwakazi is Ndeb...Published: 18 May 2017 at 15:44hrs | | by Mavis Mathole
Tribal and regional schism finds expression during Bosso, Dembare matches
Once again - and not for the last time - a Highlanders versus Dynamos football match ended in violence with the usual accusations and counter accusations of referee bias and oppression being the order...Published: 18 May 2017 at 07:56hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
This nonsense about Mthwakazi is just that - flatulent nonsense
ONE quote which high school history pupils in this country spout out with remarkable ease is one attributed to Otto von Bismarck, the German aristocrat and leader who is credited with the unification ...Published: 14 May 2017 at 14:50hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
South Africans wake up to the horror of white interests in the rainbow
My deepest, heartfelt condolences to the Chidyausiku family on the loss of Godfrey, our recently retired Chief Justice. He was a fine character, an enormous lawyer by any measure.Above all, he served ...Published: 06 May 2017 at 12:27hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Morgan Tsvangirai: Where small planets orbited
For me the important thing about the so-called memoranda of understanding signed between Morgan Tsvangirai on the one hand, and separately Joice Mujuru and Welshman Ncube on the other, was the cast in...Published: 22 Apr 2017 at 10:45hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
South Africa hardly recovered from the race sentiment of apartheid
It is very easy to think it is the flash, not the flame; that burns big logs. The local media excitedly reported on the resignation of an aide of Mujuru's Nats, in the process missing the actual burni...Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 11:54hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
In Mujuru's Party, they break each other's knee caps
Of course political pressure comes in many ways, and manifests in many forms.In Mujuru's National People's Party, they break each other's knee caps in order to hurt Zanu-PF! In the MDCs, they ...Published: 02 Apr 2017 at 13:03hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Bishop Lazarus, Manheru, Sharp Shooter afraid of change
The Sunday Mail never fails to surprise and annoy me about its viciousness and malice against anyone who opposes the failed Robert Mugabe and his corrupt system. Now that we are getting close to t...Published: 28 Mar 2017 at 11:04hrs | | by Zanda Shumba
Spectacle of Dead-mouse Mutasa
So it's true after all? That Tsvangirai's MDC benefited from Mai Mujuru and her late departed hero-husband, Chauya-Chauya's Mavambo project? So why was she denying it when this column made that revela...Published: 25 Mar 2017 at 14:21hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Around claims of a dying Zanu-PF
One question many of my readers pose and even criticise me for is taking contrary thoughts too seriously. I fully understand where my readers are coming from. We have become a virtual community of opi...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Succession: Nothing succeeds like success
One of The Sunday Mail's online readers, posting on our website under the profile name Landela, recently said, "Small minds discuss succession, great minds discuss developmental ideas."It ...Published: 12 Mar 2017 at 08:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pseudo-Reformists: When Beasts of England Roar
A cryptic but interesting response to my piece last week came from one "yowe" who advised me to read George Orwell's classic, Animal Farm. I can only surmise that "yowe" is unaware that literature, En...Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
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