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Call for reparations: A mere excuse by failed African leaders!
As the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) kicked off this week in Samoa, the topic of reparations for slavery and colonialism has once again been thrust into the spotlight. Sever...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:31hrs | 273 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chafuka on Zimbabwe social media will topple Mnangagwa government!
I should be forgiven if I said this man is an implant of president Mnangagwa masquerading as a revolutionary. Yet he is playing a political game that speaks the opposite to loo as many as he can get t...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 21:12hrs | 1560 | by Nomazulu Thata
When dark babies are not good enough! Thank you Andile: what an article!
It is a pity such articles never attract attention they deserve. Your article Andile was a good read and spot on. I do not need to seek far, why our African communities do not see the need to read it....Published: 29 Aug 2024 at 16:28hrs | 1346 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa tells Zimbabweans not to take for granted the freedom they enjoy today
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in his Heroes Day commemoration message, urged Zimbabweans to appreciate the freedom gained after the country’s independence in 1980. He emphasized that the peace and i...Published: 12 Aug 2024 at 16:40hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
Music that doesn't speak for the oppressed is not really music!
Of late, we have witnessed divided opinions on our music legend Winky D (Wallace Chirumiko).This is on account of his recent songs, which have mainly touched on the social injustices faced by ...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 20:12hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Hail King Nero: Impotence as strength
Hail King Nero, The First and Last!"There shall be a leader and Change Champion-in-Chief (Advocate Nelson Chamisa) who shall be the Administrator and President tasked by the citizens to champi...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:42hrs | 14 | by @Jamwanda on Saturday
Ngidlaliswe amatope mina?
Reading Edward GibbonWhere is God bakithi?Edward Gibbon is no writer for easy readers. Yet he is so important to Britain's governing myth. No wonder why every British-born Prime Minist...Published: 14 Oct 2023 at 07:21hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
Mnangagwa mourns Ezekiel Guti
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has mourned the death of the founder of Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa (ZAOGA) Forward in Faith Ministries Archbishop Professor Ezekiel Guti.He described the late evange...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Chekhov's middle age monks
From a writer, critic, traveller, doctorI am reading selected letters of Anton Chekhov, the Russian writer, critic, traveller and medical doctor.The letters span a big chunk of his lif...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:03hrs | 3 | by @Jamwanda2 On Saturday
'One year under arbitrary detention in my oppressor's prison'
Chikurubi Maximum Security PrisonChikurubi FarmHarareTo My DEAR Zimbabweans,Regional and Worldwide FriendsWhere ever they may be found14 June 2023DEAR Z...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 12:24hrs | 4 | by Job Wiwa Sikhala
History of organised violence, torture in Zimbabwe (1972-2020)
ON Wednesday May 24, 2023, I joined a panel of human rights defenders to reflect on the problem of organised violence and torture in Zimbabwe.This was during the launch of the report A Short H...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | | by Dzikamai Bere
Edd Branson and Chris Okafor host biggest event in Harare
The stage is set and ready for the Mighty Storms Visitation service which is scheduled to be held on the 19th and 20th of May 2023 in Harare Zimbabwe.The event is set to see 2 powerful preache...Published: 17 May 2023 at 14:29hrs | 12 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Why RBZ introduced the Gold-backed digital currency
With the local currency on a free-fall and Zimbabwe already a digital economy, ninety six percent of our transactions traded on digital platforms. The digital currency was long overdue. Zimbabwe is on...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Mnangagwa was never appointed by God!
As the Christian world moves out of the so-called 'Easter holidays' - to be expected, there were multitudes who gathered in various places to commemorate the death and resurrection of our Lord and...Published: 11 Apr 2023 at 09:45hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chiwenga preaches peace
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has called on people to uphold peace and harmony as a prerequisite for development. VP Chiwenga, a devout Catholic, made the call when he joined fellow Cath...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Supporting someone merely because he can remove Mnangagwa is dangerous for Zimbabwe!
Change for the sake of change is the most dangerous thing!Have we ever wondered why there are some people who appear unable to sustain a relationship - who appear perennially divorcing!...Published: 14 Mar 2023 at 16:50hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's ruling party hails Russia's political support
Zanu-PF has hailed the political support the country has been given by their Russia both pre and post-independence saying this has further strengthened the bilateral relations between the two co...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 07:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
When all friendship ceases!
Von Hornick's nine principles on National EconomyIn 1684, an Austrian lawyer-turned-civil servant, Philipp Wilhelm von Hornick, published nine principal rules of a National Economy.The...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 07:57hrs | | by Jamwanda
Mutsvangwa urges Zimbabwe media to preach peace ahead of elections
Let's dance to this, Minister Mutsvangwa and her Deputy Kindness Paradza take to the floor leading the dignitaries and the crowd in Dulivhadzimo Stadium Beitbridge at the launch of Lotsha FM, the Beit...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 17:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is NOT a democracy and Zanu PF is rigging 2023 - the reality we must accept and act accordingly
Zimbabweans love to talk about democracy but most of us have no clue what they are talking about. None! "Democracy is the government of the people, for the people and by the people!" said Abra...Published: 14 Feb 2023 at 07:05hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Shock as new scarry Coronavirus hits China...mass deaths reported
American public health scientist who is currently an epidemiologist and Chief of COVID Task Force at the New England Complex Systems Institute Eric Liang Feigl-Ding has reported that China is facing a...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 17:55hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Zimbabweans are serial plan B people!' Where is plan B if millions are in the dark and starving
"Zimbabwe did not become a failed state overnight. The collapse of the country happened over a period of decades, starting as early as the 1980s," wrote Malaika Mahlatsi in an article circulating in m...Published: 15 Dec 2022 at 10:01hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa's politics of salving troubled consciences
Politics and poetryWilliam Butler Yeats, I think it was he who said out of our arguments with others we make politics, but out of arguments with ourselves we make poetry!We can forgive...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:10hrs | 4 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Zimbabwe warms up to more investments from China
Zimbabwe stands ready to welcome more investments from China across all sectors of the economy as Harare accelerates a sustainable and mutually beneficial modernisation and industrialisation of the tw...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:05hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Beware of the folly of Trojan rulers!
Government, folly of mankind?Barbara W Tuchman is a prolific writer on politics as read through history. I enjoy her take on her subject.But she is American, western, itself an importa...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 18:07hrs | 1 | by on Saturday
Mr President, Zanu-PF oftentimes erupts in annoyance
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as I see it, your party, Zanu-PF, exhibited the dearth of its democratic essence by denying the NewsDay crew accreditation to cover the party...Published: 02 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | | by Cyprian M Ndawana
China to continue support Zimbabwe's development
China will continue to support Zimbabwe's economic and social development and improve its capacity for self-generated development, Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe Guo Shaochun said on Friday.Gu...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Virginity and the Johanne Marange religious customs
THE state has outlawed virginity testing as a human rights violation.However, it is surprising to note that Johanne Marange Apostolic Church (JMAC) still teaches and conducts mandatory virgini...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 19:54hrs | | by Matthew Mare
Lies have short legs, Cde Ziyambi
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi ZiyambiIN 1997, the first recognisable social media site, Six Degrees, came on stream, redefining the world of communication as ...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Opposition: Politics and Pisgah sight fallacy
A student of CultureAT heart and at soul, I am a student of culture.This is why I opted to read Literature at college, much of it drawn from the Western World.But that was to g...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 07:15hrs | 13 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Mnangagwa, credibility crisis has dogged your leadership
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, it is my fervent conviction that your conferring the national hero status on Rev Ndabaningi Sithole was motivated primarily by ulterior motiv...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
What exactly is Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF afraid of?
THAT Zanu-PF has ruled this land called Zimbabwe for the past 42 years would make one believe that by now the governing party would have matured to the level of being tolerant to those opposed to its ...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:43hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
CCC is an autocracy masquerading as a democracy, 'it is not a dirty tactic to point out this fact!'
"It is a confirmed fact that CCC is a brand new party with no founding process, no constitution, no structures, and no elected leadership. This fact means CCC is operating illegally, like a secret soc...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 11:15hrs | 9 | by Nomusa Garikai
'2013 elections were so flawed, so illegal withdraw was the only logical step' - today it's only sane step
"Zanu PF has won the Masvingo West ward 21 by-election," reported Zimeye."Sources in the ward spoke of intimidation of voters and rampant rigging by Zanu PF."What is really infuriating is thes...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by P Guramatunhu
'Win we shall! God is in it!' Chamisa proclaimed - Curse of discerning mind ossified into fat
Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all th...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 15:57hrs | 8 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe a pariah state that can't even be trusted by fellow African countries!
Can African countries genuinely trust the rogue Zimbabwe regime?In fact, should African nations be so foolhardy and naive as to place their trust in a proven pariah state as Zimbabwe?W...Published: 17 May 2022 at 16:41hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why others will land man on Mars whilst we still 'struggle to cross the street!'
"And we (in Africa) are still struggling to cross the street!" was the spontaneous respond of "Mwalimu" (Teacher) Julius Kambarage Nyerere, then President of Tanzania, when he learnt the American had ...Published: 11 May 2022 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
CCC's winning the March by-elections: a trap for 2023 general elections
The by-elections that were handsomely achieved in favour of CCC must bamboozle young kids in the political play to think the elections were free and fair....Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 06:17hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
By-elections: The morning after
ZANU-PF's Wednesday St Mary's rally was a turning point in several ways. Of course, the most obvious marker were the numbers that attended, something even the blind could see and feel.I cannot...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:14hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
'Zanu PF will not rig 2023 elections' 40 000 in Gweru believed it - proof we are still a naïve lot
Mankind is supposed to be a creature of reason, of rational behaviour and can think. In Zimbabwe many of us have taken leave of their senses and rational thinking and hence the reason the country has ...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 10:17hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Headache over soaring fertiliser prices
Ben Riensche, who farms 16 000 acres in Iowa, would be ecstatic to get US$80 per acre selling his corn.But it'll cost him US$240 an acre to feed the plants with nitrogen, triple what he's used...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Russia's legitimate demands on security should be taken seriously'
Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday elaborated on China's basic position on the Ukraine issue.Wang also had an in-depth exchange of views on the situation in Ukrain...Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
George Soros' rant, anti-Chinese movement in Zimbabwe
ON January 31, 2022, the founder of "Open Society Foundations", George Soros, who is a billionaire "political philanthropist", made a revealing statement about China that should shine a light on recen...Published: 20 Feb 2022 at 08:47hrs | | by Kuda Bwititi
Parties fail gender parity test
WOMEN activists have decried the low number of female representation in the March 26 by-elections, saying this hinders progress in achieving the 50/50 gender representation quota as stipulated in the ...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF cults, national myths, hegemony
THE British are renowned for their liking of leaders, particularly those who took them through tough periods like the Second World War and the Cold War-era. Most notable are army commander Winston Chu...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:23hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Blacks representation should be more than just wokeism and hypersensitivity - our values need representation too
In one of the popular interviews of our generation, Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, told Oprah Winfrey about the importance of representation. I agree. But, by the same token, black people have ...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 10:29hrs | | by Mandlenkosi Siziba
Zimbabwe-Zambia: There goes the puppies again!
OVER the past few months, the political temperature has been heating up as if the country's general elections are scheduled for next year.Watching developments from my poshto has been quite in...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:06hrs | 11 | by Retired Major Action Mandingo
China remains a strategic partner for Zimbabwe
MY mission from His Excellency President Mnangagwa upon deployment as Ambassador in 2019 was to deepen the levels of co-operation in all respects between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Zimba...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:10hrs | 7 | by Ambassador Martin Chedondo
Factoring 'animal spirits' into Zimbabwe's economic discourse
John Maynard Keynes is considered by many to be the most consequential economist of the past century. Perhaps one of his boldest contributions to economics was postulating, perhaps correctly, that the...Published: 18 Nov 2021 at 19:02hrs | 10 | by Simbarashe Bepete
Mnangagwa addresses COP26 today
President Mnangagwa, who had a busy schedule yesterday, meeting a number of leaders in a major boost to the engagement and re-engagement drive and to build up joint action on climate change, is expect...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
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