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Ntshavheni's 'concomitant action' moment to kill zama zamas
In a controversial statement on Wednesday, Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said the government intends to "smoke out" as many as 4,000 illegal miners reportedly trapped underground nea...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 18:16hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter
The MK Party and the contestation of history
An angel of history is haunting the ANC - the spectre of the historical uMkhonto Wesizwe. The announcement of the MKP on December 16, 2023 by President Jacob Zuma conjured certain spirits or the ghost...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 20:11hrs | 453 | by Sankara Bizela
Malema urges BRICS leaders to boycott upcoming summit in solidarity with Putin
EFF leader Julius Malema has urged prime ministers from the BRICS nations not to attend the upcoming summit in South Africa in solidarity with Russian President Vladimir Putin.Malema was addre...Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 19:54hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa 'liable' in Marikana mine massacre debacle, says judge
President Cyril Ramaphosa might be liable in the 2012 Lonmin mine disastrous strike, the South Gauteng High Court ruled in an application by workers seeking compensation against the president and mine...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 16:20hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Malema goes after Ramaphosa, captured NPA
EFF leader Julius Malema has given the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) an ultimatum to prosecute President Cyril Ramaphosa for his role in the Marikana massacre within three months or his party w...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 17:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Zuma's jail case was a golden opportunity: a catalyst to real issues
Criminals have taken a golden opportunity to hide behind another criminal who disdained the nation's constitution he once presided. Chinua Achebe writes about corruption in Nigeria's early independenc...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 18:40hrs | 18 | by Nomazulu Thata
Ramaphosa declared personas-non-grata
Injeje yabeNguni Council has declared Cyril Ramaphosa and Raymond Zondo Personas-Non-Grata in South African provinces until they release President Jacob Zuma.Injeje is a body of Zulu Chiefs &a...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 18:43hrs | 9 | by Injeje yabeNguni
Mugwadi's 'mischief' divides Zanu-PF?
The News Hawks reported that reckless utterances by Zanu PF Director of Information Tafadzwa Mugwadi against SA President Cyril Ramaphosa and the ANC, as well as on other issues, have divided senior Z...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 16:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics
The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | 3 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Ramaphosa celebrates Marikana 'tragedy'
President Cyril Ramaphosa's Marikana massacre commemoration tweet has been met with a number of negative responses, with most replies saying it was ironic that Ramaphosa would send out such a tweet....Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 16:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Presuming 'no normal person votes Zanu-PF' is what makes MDC lose
Appearances can deceive big-time.Perusing the South African media before that country's general elections in May this year, one would have concluded that the ruling ANC was finished and would ...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Conway Tutani
World frowns upon Zimbabwe recolonisation call
It is sad to find that in this globalised age of our society, there is still a human specie that can talk, let alone think about colonising another nation.Speaking in the British House of Lord...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:01hrs | 1 | by Danny Musukuma i
ARTUZ on Swaziland authorities shooting at SNAT protestors
Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe, ARTUZ condemns in the strongest of terms the shooting of teachers in Swaziland on 25-08-2018.The teachers who are members of the Swaziland National Assoc...Published: 27 Aug 2018 at 16:48hrs | | by ARTUZ
Impact of Zimbabwe's post-electoral violence
On the eve of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s announcement of the outcome of the contested presidential results, Harare's central business district was barely recognisable, yet familiar, as ...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 06:40hrs | | by Mandipa Ndlovu
Mnangagwa an ideologically weak leader and a passionate heartless villain
Mthwakazi activist Hloniphani Ncube has said Emmerson Mnangagwa is an ideological weak leader while he is passionate heartless."Ever since the capture of the government by the callous and ideo...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 07:52hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe and African countries urgently need a new generation of leaders?
For the youth in Zimbabwe, you have a chance for "youth quake" on July 30, 2018! Zimbabwe like most African countries' populations is dominated by young people. Unfortunately, these young peop...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 18:34hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
The People Vs Obert Mpofu and Emmerson Manangagwa: We must march for Zephaniah Nhamo and finish what Morgan Tsvangirai started
A casual attempt to buy toothpaste and camphor cream two weeks ago, on a Sunday morning, was welcomed by demonstrators gathered outside Dischem Pharmacy in Midrand, Johannesburg. Undeterred by...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 08:33hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Winston Coltart, tell Nkosana Moyo he is in wrong basket: Gukurahundi demos have started in London!
Winston Coltart sees injustices in our history of Zimbabwe Nkosana sees ANOTHER opportunity to make FAME AND FORTUNE in Zimbabwe market opportunities Winston Coltart seeks justice for ...Published: 28 Dec 2017 at 19:00hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Reform the police force
The Zimbabwe Republic Police is the national police force of Zimbabwe, known until July 1980 as the British South Africa Police.The force consists of at least 40,000 officers and is head-quart...Published: 02 Oct 2017 at 17:40hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
South Africa: Dirty, dirty politics
THE ruling African National Congress (ANC) is going for its elective congress in December to choose who is going to replace President Jacob Zuma as his term at the helm of the revolutionary party expi...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 06:36hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Mandela bashing an insult to the intellect of all decent Africans
Many right thinking people are shocked by Robert Mugabe's dragging of Mandela's name through the sewer in a fit of extremely provocative infantile remarks while addressing a Zanu rally in Gweru on Sep...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 09:45hrs | 1 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
The collapsing empire
The Alliance for National Salvation (ANSA) would like to express its profound disappointment and its deep sense of shock at the apparent miscarriage of justice in the case involving Mrs Grace Mugabe a...Published: 25 Aug 2017 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Moses Mzila-Ndlovu
Grace Mugabe dominates news headline
Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe dominated headlines last week with almost 45% of reports focusing on the alleged assault case.According to statistics from Mediawatch, there was little room ...Published: 21 Aug 2017 at 12:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu Youth Front's Africa Day message
25th May is the heroic day in African continent and to all the Africans as they celebrate being AfricansAfrica is made up of diverse, languages, cultures, norms, traditions and customs.African...Published: 25 May 2017 at 15:08hrs | 1 | by Zapu Youth Front Africa Day Message 25th May is the heroic day in African continent and to all the Africans as they celebrate be
Survivors of the 'Ramaphosa massacre' reject apology
Survivors of the Marikana massacre have rejected Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa's apology for calling for "concomitant action" days before 34 miners were shot dead by police.According to ...Published: 08 May 2017 at 16:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa admits to having an influence in Marikana killings
Deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa has apologised for his role in the Marikana massacre, saying that he tried to prevent "looming disaster" and that it was never his intention to have 34 miners killed, ...Published: 07 May 2017 at 19:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Al Jazeera highlight: 'Julius vs The ANC'
On 26 April 2017, Julius vs the ANC will broadcast South Africa's political turmoil to more than 310 million households in over 100 countries. Starting with the police killing of 34 strik...Published: 10 Apr 2017 at 10:11hrs | | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
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 | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
WATCH: Ramaphosa has uncontrollable love for white people, says Malema
Malema also presents allegations that Ramaphosa will fire blacks and hire whites if he is elected the next South African president....Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 09:06hrs | | by facebook
Zuma is the first president in SA to directly assault white privilege
Dear editor,Zuma is the first president in SA to directly assault white privilege. That is hella impressive. Some of y'all don't understand what's really happening, you just re-iterating what ...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 08:32hrs | | by social media
Bayethe poet wins in Mpumalanga
Johannesburg - The Bayethe Music Production and Promotion company (A division of Bayethe Media), has finally secured a space in the December trending arts news through its award winning poet Gugulethu...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 16:07hrs | 2 | by Future Moyo aka Jamelah
Election boycotts, Demos and Rigging
AFTER MARCHING THEN WHAT?DEMOSOf late Media has been awash with National Electoral Reforms Agenda demonstrations where Opposition parties engage...Published: 01 Oct 2016 at 07:48hrs | 2 | by Mangosuthu Mbele
War Veterans Persecuted for calling for Mugabe to step down
Heal Zimbabwe Trust has said the arrested of war veterans in early July were a clear victimization after they called for President Robert Mugabe to step down.The trust said the Zim...Published: 15 Sep 2016 at 06:45hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Anti-Zuma faction of the ruling party responsible for main losses suffered by the ANC
The 2016 local government elections results show that the anti-Zuma faction of the ruling party is responsible for the main losses suffered by the ANC. The result of the three Gauteng metropolitan cit...Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 14:22hrs | 9 | by Andile Mngxitama
Kevin Malunga nominated to replace Thuli Madonsela
Deputy Public Protector Kevin Malunga is among those nominated for the top position at the Chapter Nine institution as Thuli Madonsela's term comes to an end, and although he says he is not entitled t...Published: 22 Jun 2016 at 15:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mbeki would blame even the drought on the ANC'
Former president Thabo Mbeki's brother, Moeletsi Mbeki, would even blame the drought on the ANC, said the party's spokesperson, Zizi Kodwa.Kodwa was responding to a recent statement by Mbe...Published: 16 Jun 2016 at 16:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Presidents Mugabe Gabriel Robert; Zuma Jacob Gehleyihlekisa, Fort Hare students say voetzek!
Foot-sake is just the right word to tell both Mugabe and Zuma to go away! Voetzek Zuma, voetzek Mugabe! Those were Fort Hare students trying to force their way into the Hall where Preside...Published: 23 May 2016 at 18:52hrs | 6 | by Nomazulu Thata
Julius Malema, leave the drama to Morgan Tsvangirai!
The heat is on in South Africa. Things have been moving far too heady in that country, politically and economically. President Jacob Zuma of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is seen as the m...Published: 27 Apr 2016 at 10:10hrs | 1 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Zim artists gang-up on Yvonne Chaka Chaka
Zimbabwe artists have ganged up against Yvonne Chaka Chaka for ordering President Robert Mugabe to step-down, rest and write books.The artists have said Chaka Chaka should direct her ene...Published: 10 Apr 2016 at 10:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
US pushes regime change in South Africa
The ruling ANC says it is using diplomatic channels to address its concerns that the US embassy is involved in "irregular activities" and is trying to advance regime change in South Africa.ANC...Published: 01 Mar 2016 at 05:33hrs | 2 | by Katherine Frisk
Mutsvangwa and his war vets threaten to sue police
War Veterans minister Chris Mutsvangwa has threatened to sue police after its anti-riot ruthlessly put down their demonstration in support of embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa against First ...Published: 19 Feb 2016 at 13:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police tear gas war vets
A MEETING called by the deposed national war veterans' association leadership in Harare yesterday was broken up with teargas and water cannons by the police.Dozens of war veterans, who had ass...Published: 19 Feb 2016 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Fidelis Munyoro
Woman hammered to death after confessing to lover she was HIV+
A 25-year-old woman in South Africa was allegedly hammered to death after confessing to her boyfriend that she had been cheating and was HIV-positive.According to DailySun, Maria Sephokola fro...Published: 19 Nov 2015 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Summons served on SA Deputy President over Marikana shooting
A summons has been served on Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa's lawyers regarding the Marikana shooting, the presidency confirmed on Thursday, ...Published: 12 Nov 2015 at 15:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
What makes Robert Mugabe rattle his enemies so unfailingly?
What is it that makes Robert Mugabe rattle his enemies so unfailingly? Even when he does nothing at all?We have been having a big debate on the local media, more accurately, on a portion of it...Published: 26 Oct 2015 at 05:59hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Is Yusuf Abramjee a puppet master in a new Mockingbird programme driven by Primedia?
The reason I asked Yusuf Abramjee who he was during the social media storm over his open letter to President Jacob Zuma on the subject of crime, has a lot to do with public accountability. If we are p...Published: 21 Sep 2015 at 12:04hrs | 2 | by Bongani Mbindwane
Zimbabwe is moving, evolving quite fast
Zimbabwe is moving, evolving quite fast. Not in the superficial neo-liberal sense in which a backsliding country can be pampered by Bretton Woods affiliates, pampered to vertiginous growth levels....Published: 22 Aug 2015 at 20:01hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
'Zuma swims in millions'
The ANC built a swimming pool for President Jacob Zuma at Nkandla while many of the country's citizens swam in poverty, Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema said on Monday.According...Published: 20 Jul 2015 at 23:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa makes billions from Zimbabwe
South Africa could be the region's dominant economy but the untold story is that the country makes billions of dollars from the Zimbabwean market.Implats, Tongaat-Hulett, Multi-Choice, Old Mu...Published: 21 Apr 2015 at 21:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
RSA Violence: Beware the Clash of Civilisations
The poor on poor, and black on black violence that is presently spreading out in South Africa must jolt all of us in the thinking world to some thinking about our thinking in politics. In the tru...Published: 21 Apr 2015 at 08:25hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
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