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Military cog undermining democracy in Zimbabwe
A recent report from the Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) highlights the growing influence of the Zimbabwean military in undermining democratic processes and manipulating the country's electoral sys...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 11:58hrs | 472 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wants two more years via backdoor
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his close political allies are now weighing the best constitutional and legal options to secure an additional two years in power outside an election when his second te...Published: 20 May 2024 at 16:41hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga tightens army grip amid succession manoeuvres
ZIMBABWEAN Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga - a politically ambitious retired commander of the defence forces - has formally tightened his grip on the military as new Air Force of Zimbabwe boss Air...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 08:47hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF now needs a leader chosen on merit!
For as long as Zimbabwe has existed as an independent country, we have only known ZANU PF as the ruling party. In spite of several attempts at removing the party from power through democratic ...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 21:12hrs | 4 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF's crude path
When things become unbelievably smooth on the trot, you just need to do a reality check by tuning into ZTV, for there you will certainly find the dose that will wake you up from your island siesta....Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:59hrs | 59 | by Tawanda Majoni
Gukurahundi genocide brigade was deployed on this day 41 years ago
Today in history: On this day 41 years ago and three years after Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s Fifth Brigade was deployed in Matabeleland North on 2...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:40hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Scrap December 22 public holiday
ANY nation has its own historical landmarks, political or otherwise, that are peculiar to its survival and embedded in its heritage.Such landmarks are revered in certain ways, in the form of p...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:27hrs | | by Vivian Siziba
Mnangagwa miserably failed to utilise the coup d'état dividend
Robert Mugabe on Herbert Chitepo (and a Rejoinder on the Missed Opportunity of the 2017 Coup)Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 16:49hrs | 23 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
Politics of ethnicity: Jumping from the pan into the fire
BELOW is a book excerpt from In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas and Solutions) by Professor Arthur Mutambara.President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet shocked many b...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 08:31hrs | 9 | by Arthur Mutambara
Jonathan Moyo opens up after David Coltart 'insult'
Zimbabwean former minister and MP Jonathan Moyo has written a long open letter to main opposition CCC senior leader David Coltart over his remarks about his late father Melusi Job Mlevu who was ...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 08:03hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
David Coltart operated in Matabeleland where he did dastardly things
Dear David Coltart,WHY I CANNOT SUPPORT QUINTUPLE C: COLTART, CHAMISA AND CCCMy attention has been drawn to your fraudulent and disgusting tweet you posted on my Twitter TL yesterday D...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 18:58hrs | 11 | by Jonathan Moyo
The enablers of Shona hegemony and enemies of Mthwakazi's peoples' emancipation from the MLF President
Greetings to all!, The compilation of this article identifies the enablers of Shona hegemony among others as the so-called "ZPRA Legacy Group". This group is comprised of charlatans who are in...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 09:37hrs | 12 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
First commander of Mkushi Camp declared National Hero
LIBERATION stalwart Highten Nkomo, who was the first commander of the Mkushi Women's Camp in Zambia, has been declared a National Hero.He was 70.Nkomo, who was also known as Billy Mzam...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa name drops Ndabaningi Sithole to woo votes in Manicaland
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has promised to honour the late revered nationalist Ndabaningi Sithole through championing development in Manicaland province.Ch...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 19:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Sithole, Chikerama honour a Mnangagwa vote buying ruse'
Renowned political analyst and publisher Ibbo Mandaza has described President Emmerson Mnangagwa's belated honour bestowed on Ndabaningi Sithole and James Chikerema as a vote buying gimmick targeted a...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 18:05hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Real' Zimbabwe heroes struggling to survive
AS the country celebrates Heroes Day Monday, former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) instructor, Grace Ethel Noko remains one of the unsung liberation struggle heroines despite having play...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Huge send-off for gukurahundi linked Brig Gen Mabenge
GOVERNMENT officials, services chiefs, Zanu-PF supporters and church congregants yesterday thronged the revered National Heroes Acre to pay their last respects to Brigadier General (Rtd) Benjamin Mabe...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe will win economic war
ZIMBABWE will attain a prosperous future and overcome the economic challenges being engineered by its detractors bent on making the economy "scream" through asymmetrical warfare targeting ordinary cit...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Brig-Gen Mabenge
President Mnangagwa has described national hero Brigadier-General Benjamin Mabenge (Retired) as an intelligent and principled cadre who never deviated from the cause of the revolution from the time of...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Of Joshua Nkomo and the raging fires of Matabeleland independence
"The fly that does not heed advice follows the corpse to the grave", goes the Igbo proverb. MLO is happy that Matabeles refused to follow the Joshua Nkomo political corpse to the grave.It must...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 20:15hrs | 9 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa sounds death knell on armed robbers and ritual murderers
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday sounded the death knell on armed robbers and ritual murderers, calling on law enforcement agents to decisively deal with the violent criminals.Speaking at the bur...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Politicised military threatens 2023 poll
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is abusing state institutions, including the military, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and judiciary, to maintain his tight grip on power ahead of the...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jubilation as more boreholes are sunk in Harare
THERE was jubilation in Glen Norah yesterday after President Mnangagwa dispatched borehole drilling equipment with the aim of providing clean water to residents.It was the same in Epworth, whe...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staf reporter
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
Double heroes' burial today
President Mnangagwa will today preside over the burial of two national heroes, Zimbabwe National Army Commander, Lieutenant General Edzai Chimonyo and Michael "Vhuu" Chakabva at the national heroes ac...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga mourns Chimonyo, Nkiwane
Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has consoled families of national heroes, Zimbabwe National Army Commander, Lieutenant-General Edzai Absalom Chanyuka Chimonyo and Abraham Dumezweni Nkiwane. ...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 10:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
151 children, 16 wives, still counting
Mbire man, Misheck Nyandoro, has fathered 151 children with 16 wives and he is still counting. "Mine is a project. This polygamy is a project that I have undertaken since 1983 and will end wit...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says youths will be prioritised in new land offers
Youths will be prioritised when the Government begins redistributing vacant and underutilised land that has been identified through the recent land audit, President Mnangagwa has said.In his e...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Former ZRP deputy commissioner dies
ZRP has announced that former Deputy Commissioner-General Moses Mpofu has died. The news of Mpofu's death was announced by ZRP in a statement that stated that he died after a long illness. and...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 19:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 a ruthless juggernaut, says Chiwenga
Acting President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday described Covid-19 as a ruthless juggernaut, which kills everyone despite societal status as Zimbabwe buried three national heroes at the Heroes Acre....Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga says we will conquer Covid-19
ZIMBABWE is in the process of acquiring Covid-19 vaccines to fight the global pandemic which has left a trail of destruction across the country but can be conquered through unity, Acting President Chi...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to preside over triple burial tomorrow
Acting President Dr Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga will tomorrow preside over the burials of three departed National Heroes.Chiwenga, 64, was last week reported...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 17:16hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 induced triple heroes burial set for tomorrow
Zimbabwe will tomorrow witness the interment of three national heroes on the same day, the first time this is happening, in what will also highlight the grim times the country is enduring because of t...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matiza, Zimondi declared national heroes
The late Transport and Infrastructural Development minister, Joel Biggie Matiza and former Zimbabwe Prisons& Correctional Services Commissioner General, Major General (Rtd) Paradzai Zimondi have b...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 20:18hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
SB Moyo: Epitome of Zimbabwe revolution's finest cadre
Comrade Sibusiso Moyo, the General of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces who pronounced the demise of the four decade-old Mugabe dictatorship in November is no more. Comrade SB Moyo, what a journey we have t...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:21hrs | 9 | by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa
Brig-Gen Moyo national hero
Decorated military commander, Brigadier-General Collin Moyo (Retired), who died in Harare last Friday, has been declared a National Hero. Defence and War Veterans Affairs Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kas...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is the MDC burying its head in the sand?
The piece by former Zanu-PF elections strategist Jonathan Moyo chronicling the missed opportunities by the opposition in the political history of Zimbabwe has once again raised debate on the state of ...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:21hrs | | by Karsten Noko
'They called me a dissident,' says Thambolenyoka
Tennyson Ndlovu is quite an enigma. Having joined the liberation struggle at 21, he quickly became a highly-respected instructor for the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA), only to be demobil...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:45hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
How Zanu-PF came into existence
The born-free generation, born after Zimbabwe gained its independence in 1980, has grown up knowing a political system run by the Zanu PF party.Unbeknown to many people, the ruling party, is a...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 19:17hrs | 2 | by Irvine Sibhona
Thambolenyoka was hurt to leave military life
WE continue our interview with Tennyson Mlobi Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu who during the post-independence conflict operated as a dissident and was known as Thambolenyoka. However, during the war of liberati...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:34hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'The path had to be set for Mugabe'
Last week, Farai Tafirenyika claimed there were Zipra cadres eliminated by Zanla combatants at the front during the ZIPA era. Levi Mukarati continues to seek answers on events surrounding the ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Malema attacks war veterans
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema says War veterans must stop ransoming Africa by saying they fought for it therefore they deserve special recognition. In a fiery speech Malema sa...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 10:35hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dabengwa: Zimbabwe's intelligence Czar
On the night of August 15, 2011, I attended the launch of Wilfred Mhanda's (nom de guerre Dzinashe Machingura) memoir, Dzino: Memories of a Freedom Fighter in Harare. Mhanda was an important figure in...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:00hrs | | by Blessing Miles-Tendi
Jonathan Moyo spills the beans on Grace Mugabe
Former ZANU PF Politiburo member Jonathan Moyo has revealed that former First Lady Grace Mugabe was in a fierce competition with the G40 grouping in the battle to succeed President Robert Mugabe. ...Published: 18 May 2019 at 10:44hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chihuri opts for out of court settlement
Exiled former police commissioner general Augustine Chihuri is now settling a claim in which he was dragged to the High Court for allegedly impounding five cars and a house from a Harare businessman....Published: 17 May 2019 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I was never part of the system' Jonathan Moyo says
Exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo has denied being part of the 'system' that has ruled the country since 1980. Prof Moyo was responding to Activist Brighton Chiwola who had said, "But honestly sp...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 12:17hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo fires shots at Mnangagwa
Exiled former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has fired warning shot at President Emmerson Mnangagwa'a government telling him that he is presiding over a wilting banana republic which has rea...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 09:59hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Valerio Sibanda's war time exploits
LET me congratulate General Philip Valerio Sibanda for his new post as the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) commander.I met Comrade Ananias Gwenzi (General PV Sibanda), in Zambia in March 1974 at...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 09:01hrs | 6 | by Dr Milton, Chemhuru
Mnangagwa's false start
AS undergraduates in our day, one of the most cynical commentaries on post-independent Africa was French writer, Rene Dumont's book False Start in Africa (1966).Those were the years of militar...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga fight divides Zimbabwe army?
The political fight between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and General Constantino Chiwenga over the control of the party and state apparatus has sharply divided the Zimbabwe National Army i...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 11:42hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
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