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WATCH: Prof Ibbo Mandaza did not proffer any new data to support his unorthodox call
Herewith is a link to the OR Tambo School of Leadership Public Lecture given today by Prof Ibbo Mandaza on "The State of Democracy in the Sadc Region: a Reflection on the National Elections of Zimbabw...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 08:19hrs | 681 | by Jonathan Moyo
Chamisa linked NGOs pray for transitional govt in Zimbabwe
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have submitted a petition to the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and the African Union (AU), urging them to advocate for a transitional government to ad...Published: 25 Sep 2023 at 08:39hrs | 769 | by Staff reporter
Ibbo Mandaza lecture to be held at ANC political school
AFTER a face-off with Fikile Mbalula over a seminar on Zimbabwe's presidential elections, leaders of the ANC's political school are forging ahead with the event. The seminar will be held on September ...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 09:13hrs | 579 | by Staff reporter
Poll observers embarrassed by what they saw in Zimbabwe
Veteran academic and political analyst Ibbo Mandaza says election observers, including those from Africa, were embarrassed by what they witnessed during Zimbabwe's disputed elections.Mandaza (...Published: 17 Sep 2023 at 07:59hrs | 1897 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters demand extraordinary Sadc summit
A significant number of Zimbabweans affiliated with the opposition have submitted a petition to the Southern African Development Community (SADC), urging the organization to convene an extraordinary s...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 06:23hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's election are the worst ever witnessed says Ibbo Mandaza
Renowned political analyst Ibbo Mandaza has disclosed that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan were highly critical of Zimbabwe's recent e...Published: 13 Sep 2023 at 19:02hrs | 768 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa never sought to postpone polls'
President Mnangagwa never entertained the idea of postponing this year's harmonized elections, firmly adhering to constitutional principles, according to Mr. George Charamba, Deputy Chief Secretary in...Published: 13 Sep 2023 at 18:57hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
SADC plans to reverse Mnangagwa poll victory?
Prominent Zimbabwean academic and SAPES Trust leader, Ibbo Mandaza, has revealed that he has knowledge of plans within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to overturn President Emmerson ...Published: 12 Sep 2023 at 20:12hrs | 5900 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wanted to postpone 2023 polls
Prominent political analyst and Sapes Trust convener, Ibbo Mandaza, has asserted that President Emmerson Mnangagwa attempted to postpone this year's elections by two years to extend his rule and then ...Published: 12 Sep 2023 at 08:30hrs | 4169 | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts on Mnangagwa as Zambia tries to topple him
President Mnangagwa's government was particularly stung by findings of the Sadc Election Observer Mission (Seom) led by former Zambian vice-president Nevers Mumba.Pressure is mounting on Presi...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 10:50hrs | 7487 | by Staff reporter
OR Tambo School of Leadership cancels lecture by Ibbo Mandaza
African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general, Fikile Mbalula has forced the OR Tambo School of Leadership to halt a mooted public lecture with Ibbo Mandaza, a Zimbabwean academic who is not afrai...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 06:34hrs | 497 | by Staff reporter
ANC's Mbalula undermining Zimbabwe's stability and democracy, says CCC
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) has said South Africa's ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula's conduct undermines Zimbabwe's stability and democracy after the latter dismissed suggestions of an el...Published: 07 Sep 2023 at 06:16hrs | 686 | by Staff reporter
SA, Namibian presidents roasted over Zimbabwe Mnangagwa inauguration
CONTROVERSY over Zimbabwe's disputed elections continues to hog the global limelight as foreign Parliaments debate the polls which saw President Emmerson Mnangagwa being declared winner last month....Published: 07 Sep 2023 at 06:14hrs | 1540 | by Staff reporter
Let's not talk about Zimbabwe and democracy right now, says Fikile Mbalula
After launching a barrage of attacks on Zimbabwe's main opposition, ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has hinted that the governing party is involved in behind-the-scenes talks to deal with Zimbabw...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 18:57hrs | 462 | by Staff reporter
South Africa, Zimbabwe in behind the scenes talks
The South African government and the governing ANC under President Cyril Ramaphosa are engaged in new secret talks with Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's freshly-minted administration to resol...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 18:56hrs | 1067 | by Staff reporter
ANC engaged in 'delicate' talks with Zanu-PF after disputed poll
South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), is engaged in "delicate" talks with Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe following disputed elections, secretary general Fikile Mbalula has said....Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 22:04hrs | 1266 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa keeps Mnangagwa guessing amid tension
Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa has kept President Emmerson Mnangagwa guessing about his next move by not filing a Constitutional Court challenge against the Zanu-PF leader's...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 07:36hrs | 3051 | by Staff reporter
Ibbo Mandaza and friend petition SADC, AU to front establishment of ZImbabwe Transitional Govt
IN the aftermath of a disputed plebiscite, civil society organisations have demanded the intervention of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to create a Transitional Government in Zimbab...Published: 02 Sep 2023 at 20:44hrs | 532 | by Staff reporter
Girlfriend stabs lover in jealous affair
A Madziwa woman is assisting police with investigations after she allegedly stabbed her boyfriend with a broken beer bottle in a jealous affair.Selina Mandaza is facing an attempted murder cha...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 06:29hrs | 262 | by Simbarashe Sithole
South African media has failed to bring regime change in Zimbabwe
Over the past 22 years since sanctions were imposed on Zimbabwe, western governments have invested billions of dollars into South African white owned media, with the aim of discrediting Zanu-PF. ...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 12:34hrs | 1329 | by Rutendo Matinyarare
The odds were stacked against Chamisa on August 23
Zimbabwe went to the polls last week, weighed down by a cost-of-living crisis and rural food shortages, but the ruling party's 40-year grip on the electoral process suggested it was unlikely to lose p...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 12:51hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter
EU-EOM plot to tarnish Zimbabwe polls exposed
A PLOT to tarnish and discredit the outcome of harmonised elections being held in Zimbabwe today by the European Union Observation Mission and the United States-based Carter Centre has been exposed am...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:31hrs | 49 | by Staff reporter
Zim-born Chris Maroleng deported from Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean authorities have reportedly deported former SABC broadcaster, and Global Advisor and the SADC Executive Director of Good Governance Africa Chris Maroleng who flew into the country Tuesday t...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 18:48hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's DRC ambassador dies suddenly
Johannes Tomana, Zimbabwe's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, died on Sunday aged 55.The former Prosecutor General was visiting his rural home in Honde Valley when he fell sick s...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 17:46hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbavwe sleepwalks into another unfair, discredited election
AS Zimbabwe sleepwalks into yet another sham election, amid the brazen subversion of citizens' constitutional right to vote for representatives of their choice, the 23 August polls are already irretri...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:12hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Court disputes have dampened the election spirit in Zimbabwe
The election spirit in Zimbabwe has been dampened by 133 election court disputes.There were also high court judgments, which barred independent presidential candidate, Saviour Kasukuwere, and ...Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 07:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZBC, a national embarrassment and huge shame on journalism!
Who can still remember the late great Bornwell Chakaodza?I can still see the images of the fiery no-nonsense renowned journalist and media lecturer - as he bombarded government officials on pe...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 18:06hrs | | by by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Zimbabwe's political landscape tilted in Zanu-PF's favour'
The constant subjugation of the opposition parties by Zanu-PF over the years has created an uneven political ground in the country, Dr Ibbo Mandaza has stated. The publisher and political anal...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 21:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rough campaign for opposition as election nears
AS Zimbabwe gears for the polls, opposition members have been arrested, dozens of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) events blocked and the party complains of being given little airtime on national t...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:38hrs | | by AFP
Kasukuwere presidency bid revives Zanu-PF factional battles
The decision by former Zanu-PF minister Saviour Kasukuwere to run for the presidency has rattled the ruling party as it is a reminder of the unsolved issues since the takeover of power by President Em...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 21:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Junior Sables go down fighting against Scotland
ZIMBABWE'S Under-20 rugby team put on a thrilling second half performance but their efforts were in vain as they began their World Rugby Under 20 Trophy campaign against Scotland with a 64-33 de...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Mwonzora's MDC facing imminent collapse'
Founding members of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have accused current president Douglas Mwonzora of killing the once vibrant opposition political party.Mwonzora wrested the MDC fro...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 07:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's most wanted robber arrested
One of the country's most wanted suspected robber Cornwell Junior Kasambarare, who is believed to have masterminded a spate of armed robbery, including the famous Mashwede Holdings heist and housebrea...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 06:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa file nomination papers all eyes now on Kasukuwere
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa (Zanu-PF) and opposition Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa on Tuesday successfully filed nomination papers ahead of today's sitting of the nomination cou...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC candidates selection latest
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa is reportedly fighting to contain the fallout in his party after some party leaders, including his deputy Tendai Biti reportedly lost in the c...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's cost-of-living nightmare terribly deepens
NINE weeks before Zimbabwe's general elections, President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces a moment of truth as the imploding economy plunges the country into its third hyperinflation in 15 years amid rising ...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 15:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Biti must remain MP, it's in national interest' argue Zamchiya. Surely, not just to 'legitimise sham elections!'
The worst thing that has happened in Zimbabwe since MDC leaders sold out of implementing democratic reforms was for the nation to abandon the fight to implement the democratic reforms as the only sure...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 07:17hrs | 7 | by Wilbert Mukori
Dumiso Dabengwa's widow dies
MRS Zodwa Dabengwa, the widow of the liberation stalwart and national hero Dumiso Dabengwa has died.Mrs Dabengwa succumbed to cancer yesterday in the United Kingdom.Chronicle could not...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 20:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Teacher bashed at funeral
A Nzvimbo High School teacher Shake Makwiramiti was bashed at his father's funeral by his cousin brother over funeral news.The matter came to light at Concession magistrates courts today where...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 18:49hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Kasukuwere: Red herring, Chamisa's double
Becoming a political clichéGustave Flaubert of the 19th Century licentious novel, Madame Bovary, said this of language: "Language is indeed a machine that continually amplifies emotion."...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 17:46hrs | 5 | by @Jamwanda2 0n Saturday
The return of Saviour Kasukuwere: Will Tyson punch above his weight?
The comeback of Saviour Kasukuwere, a former Zanu-PF political commissar and ex-cabinet minister who recently declared his presidential ambition, is capable of dividing Zanu-PF in a way that can influ...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 16:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Man blames ex-wife for non-functioning manhood
A man from Chegutu is seeking urgent help to cure his non-functioning manhood, which he claims was locked by his ex-wife. According to the H Metro publication, Elias Mandaza Kassam hasn't seen his ex-...Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's political culture is schizophrenic and historically underpinned by violence
Professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, who leads studies on Epistemologies of the Global South at the University of Bayreuth in Germany and a visiting fellow at Johannesburg Institute for Advanced...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:43hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume jailing sends shock waves
Six years ago President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to transform Zimbabwe's politics, which he said "had become poisoned, rancorous and polarising".After being sworn in to replace long time ru...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 09:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Speed freaks turn Zimbabwe highways into racecourses
WITH a cigarette stuck between his shaking fingers, Moses Nerutanga (37) puffs up clouds of smoke into the air as he relives how he escaped death by a whisker in a recent bus accident.As he sa...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF is rigging 2023 and CCC is participating out of greed; it's insane. Even the mentally challenged must know this
"You should be ashamed of yourself! How can you keep attacking Nelson Chamisa and his CCC party? They are the only hope for Zimbabwe!" came the caustic attack. How naïve!In my article, I ...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 07:36hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe politics: Lineaments of stock characters
What are stock characters?LET me be basic so I am accessible to many of my readers, whatever level of education, and from whichever discipline they hail.In literature we have what are ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 2 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Zimbabwe records 45% surge in crime
ZIMBABWE recorded a 45% surge in crime last year after 208 027 criminal cases were reported to the police in the last quarter of 2022, compared to 143 923 cases in the first quarter, latest Zimbabwe N...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:32hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa will die in office'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will die in office, a close ally has claimed. However, constitutionally if Mnangagwa wins the forthcoming elections, this should be his last term.Ambassador-at-lar...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe elections will go ahead as planned
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says nothing will stop the holding of elections this year, despite a court challenge by MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora who wants the polls postponed because of con...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
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