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Political elites' vacuous populism not serving Zimbabwean people's interest
IN a recent eloquent but rather dense article titled "Dynamics of the Zimbabwe crisis in the 21st century" adopted from a 2003 academic paper of a similar title, Professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni ma...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Dr Mike Chipere
Netherland gambling adverts will be regulated
The Netherlands persists to prioritise consumer rights in its soon-to-be-launched gambling industry, with the media oversight committee, the Commissariaat Voor de Media (CdvM), and the nation's bettin...Published: 28 Oct 2021 at 17:40hrs | 26 | by Staff Writer
Zimbabweans abusing social media to bolster fake abuses
When many protests go unnoticed, creating drama can seem like a good strategy to draw attention. But if they become self-harming and harming others the public opinion can turn against the protestors....Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 17:57hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Lack of forex stalls broadcasting digital migration
ZIMBABWE'S Digital Migration Project (ZDMP) completion, from analogue to digital, has been stalled due to lack of injection of financial resources by the government, it has emerged.The project...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 18:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cyber Security Bill sails through
THE Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill on Wednesday sailed through the Senate without debate, but media lobby groups have immediately expressed wary over the potential abuse of the law by the gov...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa goes after social media as he cracks down on protests
South Africa, rocked by violent protests that have turned deadly, is now looking to social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter to crack down on looting and destruction of property and infrastr...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 11:20hrs | | by Tawanda Karombo
Afrobarometer opinion is it is flawed and manipulated
Zimbabwe woke up to a report by Afro Barometer which was so negative to the efforts being made in the democratisation of Zimbabwe and positive on the fight against COVID-19. The mixed bag from Afrobar...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 16:27hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Give Mnangagwa tsvimbo (sceptre) or else..?
No amount concrete on Mugabe's grave or temper proof installed on his coffin will stop ritualist Mnangagwa from digging up Mugabe's remains. According to Mugabe's nephew Leo Mugabe, Emmerson M...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 14:23hrs | 6 | by Israel Dube
'41 years of Independence or 41 years of ZANU PF Oppression?'
As Zimbabwe celebrates 41 years of independence from British colonial rule on April 18, many Zimbabweans look back and question were everything went wrong. The once promising and flourishing Southern ...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Prince Njagu
'Independence Day' a continual reminder of how Zimbabweans are still in painful bondage
I have never had any hesitation asserting that the holidays that I regarded most appealing to my heart on the Zimbabwean calender, were "Independence Day", and "Heroes Day" - not for the skewed and ba...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 09:47hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's govt hunts social media offenders
IN A move which shows the government's growing concern with the rising abuse of social media in the country, authorities will treat all such cases as a threat to national security.Giving a lec...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 14:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vaccine at Zimbabwe State House?
Once again in a desperate move to cause anarchy and pandemonium in Zimbabwe an audio which featured Mr Simba Chikanza and an i identified male made rounds. The audio was celebrating the deaths of Zimb...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 09:02hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa will not be removed by demonstrations and social media activism
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said his Zanu-PF government would not be removed from power by demonstrations and social media activism.Addressing central committee members, Mnangagwa s...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How to measure the ROI of your social media campaigns
One of the most significant marketing strategies in today's time is perhaps leveraging social media platforms to reach the target audience. You can find almost everyone on social media nowadays. Thus,...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff writer
Creative ways to make money in the United States
Over the years, the American economy has taken a turn. It is was booming leading up to the COVID-19 outbreak. Now, Americans are worried that they'll lose their jobs and be unable to find more work. T...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Staff writer
Mnangagwa's govt targets social media activists
GOVERNMENT has threatened to intensify its snooping into citizens' social media posts to thwart dissent and any plots to unseat or sabotage President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration.Home A...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 15:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gamification and its impact on the online gambling sphere
Chances are you have experienced gamification multiple times, even you don't realize it. Gamification is a marketing strategy used by businesses to enhance customer experience and increase brand loyal...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 11:40hrs | 291 | by Staff Writer
State media acted unconstitutionally: Court
STATE-controlled media acted unconstitutionally by reporting in an impartial manner during the 2018 general election, a High Court judge has ruled.The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Cooperation (ZBC) a...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army and police came out in the open - Dangers of misinformation and disinformation
Most of the information spread on social media have been found to be largely false.We need to recognise that some journalists are being influenced by sources peddling a political agenda, and that ...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:01hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
How Facebook and Whatsapp fuelled chaos and confusion in Zimbabwe
The riots wouldn't have happened without Facebook and Whatsapp. On the morning of January 14th 2019 a swelling mob of hundreds of angry residents flocked the towns filling the streets in the commercia...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 15:59hrs | 4016 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Social Media the new agora
Social media in the form of new technologies has become a new agora world-wide providing a platform for communication among different people regardless of space and time.Several applications s...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:43hrs | | by Tawanda Matende and Lovemore Chidemo
Corporates and cholera philanthropy
IT was recently reported that Econet Zimbabwe founding chief executive officer and now majority shareholder, Strive Masiyiwa issued a social media statement that questioned the transparency of the use...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:09hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Con-Court jokes flood social media
Harare lawyer Regina Bwanali, who was representing the fifth respondent, Dr Noah Manyika, at the Constitutional Court was at the centre of social media banter after presenting her application to the c...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 15:37hrs | 10707 | by Staff reporter
More Zimbabwe political activists go into hiding
Hundreds more activists have gone into hiding in Zimbabwe as security agencies intensify a crackdown launched shortly after the election 10 days ago.Millions of people cast votes in the poll, ...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 08:29hrs | | by The Guardian
Sibanda's real views coming back to bite Chamisa
The thing about social media is that your views are preserved for eternity. Once you have shared your thoughts, they are there, in the cloud, for evermore. Sure, you can delete old posts that you may ...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 09:23hrs | 5793 | by Innocent Dube
Sympathy Vote favours Dr Khuphe in Zimbabwe 2018 polls
The Zimbabwean forthcoming elections slated for the 30th of July 2018 presents presidential candidates with different prospects, one of the key issues that politicians, key board political warriors ak...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 10:38hrs | | by Michael Mdladla Ndiweni
Cybercrime bill repressive, designed to steer self-censorship among citizens
The Cybercrime and Cyber-security Bill which seeks to regulate internet conduct in Zimbabwe is very repressive and is being crafted with authoritarian intentions to instil self-censorship among citize...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 16:34hrs | | by Byo24News Reporter
Activist seeks Mnangagwa intervention in TV, radio licensing
MATABELELAND media activist, Nothiwani Dlodlo, supported by local chiefs, has pleaded with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to facilitate the licensing of his Ndebele radio and television stations by the ...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa is not the messiah,' says Dzamara
Activists and human rights campaigners in Zimbabwe fear a new crackdown that could roll back gains made during the eight-day crisis that culminated in the resignation of President Robert Mugabe last w...Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
U.S. official engages youth in Bulawayo on citizen journalism
A senior United States Embassy official says citizens can contribute towards the successful conduct of elections if they constructively use citizen journalism techniques to share information about the...Published: 26 Oct 2017 at 06:09hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe's govt presses panic button
Feeling the heat of the country's worsening economic crisis, the government has pressed the panic button — threatening a savage clampdown on the media and pro-democracy groups in its desperate bid t...Published: 26 Sep 2017 at 13:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF must face it; the balance sheet reflects failure in absolute terms
Recent developments that have seen service stations running dry and poor Zimbabweans failing to make it to work this morning are an indictment on Mugabe's leadership, Patrick's Chinamonics and the hyp...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 12:19hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Grace Mugabe confronts Mnangagwa
FIERY First Lady Grace Mugabe on Wednesday confronted under siege Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa at a tense Zanu-PF politburo over claims he was recently poisoned at the party's youth interface ral...Published: 08 Sep 2017 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo goes against Zanu-PF, supports Kwesé TV
ZANU-PF politburo member and former Information minister, Jonathan Moyo, yesterday appeared to go against party policy when he blasted the State-controlled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) and ...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Western sanctions weakened labour which were key in MDC formation
Zimbabwe Commiunist Party Secretary General Ngqabutho Mabhena has said so the American sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe, which sought to weaken and collapse the Mugabe regime, instead, have weakened and ...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 08:58hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe media capture
Two weeks ago, the Zimbabwean media industry celebrated as two of the country's biggest media players, Zimpapers and AB Communications, launched new media products amidst a harsh economic environment,...Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 06:45hrs | | by Faith Ndlovu
'Social movement has transformed Zim politics,' says Jambawo - yes but in what direction
"Social Movements have Transformed Zimbabwe's Politics," wrote Kingston Jambawo in The Zimbabwean.Yes, social media has brought a lot of Zimbabweans into active politics who would otherwise ha...Published: 12 Jul 2017 at 22:41hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mahere ruffles Tsvangirai's allies
The announcement last week by activist Advocate Fadzai Mahere that she will contest as an independent candidate in Mt Pleasant in harmonised elections next year has shaken the opposition, with some al...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Social media activist to contest against Zanu-PF, MDC-T
HARARE lawyer, #ThisFlag social media activist movement and University of Zimbabwe law lecturer, Fadzai Mahere, says she will run for Parliament in next year's general elections as an independent cand...Published: 29 Jun 2017 at 17:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai launches 'Bereka Mwana Strategy'
The MDC-T has continued with its intimidation of voters ahead of the 2018 harmonised elections by threatening to unleash violence on them in the event that they do not vote for party leader Mr Morgan ...Published: 05 Jun 2017 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZAPU is growing despite unknown factions created by elements of destruction
In an African culture we say" ungagijimisa uhlanya abantu bakubone ulugijimisa uphethe uswazi abantu basuke bacabange ukuthi lizinhlanya lonke"Literally we as ZAPU party and bona fide members ...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 21:01hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
'More community radios on cards'
THE Government says it has responded to calls for community broadcasting by licensing several stations, with more coming on board soon and that should "bury" the debate on community radio stations...Published: 04 Mar 2017 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mawarire goes to remand prison
SOCIAL media activist and cleric, Evan Mawarire of #ThisFlag campaign, leaves the Harare Magistrates Court last Friday after being remanded in custody to February 17. Mawarire is facing charges of...Published: 07 Feb 2017 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mawarire accuses Mugabe's govt of seeking to break his spirit
SOCIAL media activist and cleric, Evan Mawarire of #ThisFlag campaign, has accused the State of seeking to break his spirit by detaining him on a "hopelessly weak case" of seeking to subvert the Z...Published: 07 Feb 2017 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of data tariffs and social media sanity
The Postal and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe's (POTRAZ) surprise directive to have data charges raised astronomically has brewed the expected anger from the public who had s...Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 06:55hrs | | by Tawanda Musariri
Taxpayers and the youth will get a government they deserve in 2018
Are we truly equal to exercise the democratic right to vote and in determining government policy? The answer to that is clearly that we are not. It is judicious in the Zimbabwean context to opine ...Published: 14 Nov 2016 at 11:53hrs | | by Brian Sedze
Chatem House ropes in Evan Mawarire
Pastor Evan Mawarire, #ThisFlag movement founder is due to give an update on the success of the hashtag movement at Chatem House, London on October 19.He has been invited to give a speech on s...Published: 28 Sep 2016 at 07:16hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Zanu-PF and its minions cannot stop the world from advancing
Zimbabwe government is living in a time warp thinking it can control technology and net citizens!Social media campaigns have become the order of day in Zimbabwe politics. Politicians who are s...Published: 16 Aug 2016 at 08:35hrs | | by Chrispen Dhliwayo
#Movements not terrorists organisations, says Zimbabwe political parties
Eight opposition political parties have thrown their full support behind the growing social media activism saying the hashtag movements are not committing any crime.The hashtag movem...Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 13:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
A lie cannot live forever
Dr Martin Luther King, the late American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement was on the nose when he noted that "a lie cannot live forever."...Published: 08 Jul 2016 at 07:32hrs | 3604 | by John Sigauke
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