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It's a puppet show at townhouse
Zimbabwe is now well and truly a banana republic,nay, it has moved a notch up to become a certified armpit of the world , thanks largely to ZANU PF's authoritarian rule It is abundantly clear ...Published: 29 Aug 2024 at 16:15hrs | 877 | by Wonder Bvungura
Who is Chivhayo panyama yehuku?…as Youth League bays for his blood
Businessman, Wicknell Chivhayo, who was once convicted of fraud, is caught in a firestorm after showing that he has the physical stature of an elephant, but the mental acuity of an ant, having excited...Published: 15 Jun 2024 at 12:14hrs | 11 | by Tonderai Ndoro
Without Zuma's 58 MPs parliament will collapse
Should the MK Party's (MKP) 58 MPs decide not to show up in parliament, as its leader Jacob Zuma has indicated to be a possibility after their contesting of the 2024 national elections, the Natio...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zuma first day Parliament boycott will force a new election
The South African National Assembly cannot form a quorum if Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe chooses to boycott the first day of Parliament.Many so-called legal experts like Casac's Lawson Naidoo...Published: 09 Jun 2024 at 13:11hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora court challenge raises stink
ELECTION data analysts have expressed concerns over MDC T leader Douglas Mwonzora's bid to have general elections postponed, saying his timing and motive is suspicious.They, however, feel that...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
This & that with Mal'phosa: When the honeymoon is over
I was in a train the other day, which happened to be stationary for over an hour because of load shedding. Most of the passengers look restless; some were shouting their lungs out; others were mummeri...Published: 13 Dec 2022 at 09:42hrs | 1 | by Clerk Ndlovu
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
Chamisa: When the Goliath Complex Afflicts
My early days in primary school were dominated by the story of Goliath, the giant of Philistine.Goliath's name was onomatopoeic; this sonorous name heavily suggested physical hugeness afflicte...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Chamisa: Illusions of democracy, statesmanship
LAST week CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa was pontificating about the sovereignty of Ukraine, railing against the Russian special mission into its neighbour as a travesty that trampled on international s...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
March by-elections inconsequential
IMMEDIATELY after President Emmerson Mnangagwa proclaimed the March 2022 by-elections, he started the week by firing his State Security minister Owen Ncube in dramatic fashion. The decision stole the ...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:15hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Chamisa gives Mnangagwa sleepless nights
THREE days before the 31 July 2018 general election, Harare erupted into a riot of colour as the top contenders brought their campaigns to a roaring crescendo.The capital city was hosting two ...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Divisions rock teachers' unions
DIVISIONS have rocked teachers' unions, with some accusing the Zimbabwe Teachers' Association (Zimta) leadership of having a "secret" meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday.This c...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 17:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Idai exposed misplaced priorities in Zimbabwe
The devastating cyclone effects as witnessed and experienced in the eastern parts of the country makes a very sad reading of the kind of leadership Zimbabwe has had since the advent of indepen...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 08:01hrs | 1 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Loose lips can really sink ships
As Jesus liked his teachings in parables, the Bishop will continue to use intelligible riddles and anecdotes to help you understand the workings of the world, at least as how I understand them....Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:31hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Tallest man in Zimbabwean?
Simbarashe Mhukahuru, probably Zimbabwe's tallest man at 2,11m turned heads when he walked through the streets of Masvingo on Tuesday. Above The Mirror editor Nkulumani Mlambo looks like a midget when...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 07:38hrs | 32 | by Staff reporter
Biti fled prosecution, not persecution
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa and his Government went out of their way to deliver credible, free, fair and transparent harmonised elections in the hope that all contestants would be magnanimous enough to put th...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Editorial - The Herald
Jonathan Moyo pins Gukurahundi blame on Mnangagwa
Former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo says he has always held President Emmerson Mnangagwa in contempt mainly for his role in the Gukurahundi atrocities which left an estimated 2...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 17:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Panicky Chamisa beginning to sound like Tsvangirai
Hey hoo, the Zimbabwe Defence Forces have a new quartermaster! One who knows it all, and manages the national armoury from far-away Kenya. Maybe these are the wonders of a twitter epoch: you know it a...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 07:57hrs | | by Igomombe
Politics of entitlement: A threat to electoral democracy
The election season is upon us and Zimbabwe will go to the polls on July 30. This election is both critical and unique in the sense that it is now urgent that the country moves forward after a long pe...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Terrence Muvoti
Majome, Mudzuri given lifeline
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC-T has succumbed to pressure from two of its top leaders, Jessie Majome and vice-president Elias Mudzuri and placed them on the party's Senate list after they refused to part...Published: 30 May 2018 at 08:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF/MDC-T primaries: A tale of two parties
THE two main political protagonists in the forthcoming general elections - the ruling Zanu-PF party and opposition Movement for Democratic Change Alliance have conducted their internal polls (primary ...Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri's name removed from MDC-T ballot
MDC-T VP Elias Mudzuri has described primary elections in his party as "a joke". "As a vice president, I cannot be seen being challenged by junior people unless the idea is to reduce me into a...Published: 28 May 2018 at 12:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Uproar as MDC-T bigwigs lose
Several MDC-T bigwigs, among them sitting Members of Parliament and vice president Elias Mudzuri, yesterday described the ongoing primary elections as a sham amid indications that over 80 candidates h...Published: 28 May 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Mugabe risks destroying own legacy by making unchecked rantings
The history of Zimbabwe will never ever be complete without the mentioning of the name of its first Executive Prime Minister and then President, Cde R.G Mugabe, never!!! He fronted the liberat...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 08:56hrs | | by Prof Luke Mbune Correspondent
Fake prophets use dwarf to con Bulawayo man of $7 000
THREE suspected fake prophets allegedly brought a midget to a family in Emakhandeni, Bulawayo and lied to the family that the dwarf was the goblin which was responsible for their son's mental illness....Published: 04 Feb 2018 at 09:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Midget poses as goblin
THREE fake prophets from Bulawayo allegedly defrauded a man of more than $7 000 after they hired a midget to pretend to be a tikoloshe and demanded 20 head of cattle from him as payment to spare his s...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zifa probe exposes Jonathan
ZIFA have branded former chief executive Jonathan Mashingaidze a tainted debtor and fraudster who bled the soccer mother body to its knees with the association further pressing for litigation against ...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 04:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa's world crumbles
When it rains, it pours. The old adage rings true in the case of Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa after the association's former chief executive Jonathan Mashingaidze came out guns blazing, accusing th...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Did Mnangagwa wear a dress when he absconded? Courageous Runaida Mujuru and Coward Dambudzo Mnangagwa!
We have said it before that Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa without Jonathan Nathaniel Moyo is weak and unable to act swiftly to absolve himself from false accusations: or at least to powerfully fight back...Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 21:13hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
How can we (amaNguni) be called Mthwa-kazi?
Editor, Greeting my brethren. I hope you are well and fit as I write to you. Thank you for giving us news from ko Ntuthu ezazithunqa, bt kakusela ma firms that are manufacturing that is why ng...Published: 30 Aug 2017 at 20:52hrs | | by B Timothy Mathuthu Ndlela
We never kill each other in our party, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, as we remembered the gallant sons and daughters of the land, I was saddened by the sudden passing on of Cde Shuvai, one of the young and very energe...Published: 24 Aug 2017 at 08:33hrs | | by CZ
'I can't be Tsvangirai deputy,' says Mujuru
OPPOSITION National People's Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru has reportedly stood her ground and refused to deputise MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai in the envisaged coalition pact to challenge Preside...Published: 21 Aug 2017 at 08:41hrs | | by Sfaff reporter
Election 2018: Is it a foregone conclusion?
Zimbabwe goes for elections every five years and before each election we are always inundated with all sorts of predictions, be it wishful thinking, propaganda blitzes, scientific polling, prophecy, s...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 06:45hrs | | by Reason Wafawarowa
'Its game on,'Kasukuwere tell Mnangagwa's Zimpapers
UNDER fire Zanu-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has all but confirmed that he is plotting to topple President Mugabe after he accused the Mnangagwa aligned Herald of failing to unde...Published: 10 Jul 2017 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru undresses Tsvangirai
OPPOSITION National People's Party (NPP) leader, Joice Mujuru has lashed out at critics of her decision to ink various pre-elections deals, in the process taking a dig at MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangir...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Talk of 'reforms chete, chete!' complained Musewe - because they are the only 'panacea'
"For time immemorial Wilbert Mukori aka Nomusa Garikai has focused his now innosiating drivel on reforms chete chete," wrote brother Vince Museve.Wilbert Mukori, Patrick Guramatunhu, mysel...Published: 16 Feb 2017 at 21:10hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Wilbert Mukori's aka Nomusa Garikai's small mind
For time immemorial Wilbert Mukori aka Nomusa Garikai has focused his now innosiating drivel on reforms chete chete . In his latest shot he again chooses to be selective on what he wants to read...Published: 16 Feb 2017 at 06:51hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Saidi a journalistic giant among midgets
Yesterday a legend of newspaper journalism in Zambia and Zimbabwe was laid to rest in the city of Kitwe, in the Republic of Zambia, where he died two days into the New Year last week while visiting....Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 05:49hrs | | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Come on, tribal politics in this age?
President Mugabe spoke authoritatively about the issue saying we are all one. The moment people or groups of people try to raise the tribal card they become anathema.Are we not all happy that ...Published: 24 Feb 2016 at 05:26hrs | 1 | by Tichaona Zindoga
The Insanity of the confused Confucius Peace Prize - PDP
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) secretary general Gorden Moyo has said his party is utterly disgusted that President Robert Mugabe was awarded by China the Confucius Peace Prize on grounds of his ...Published: 23 Oct 2015 at 07:41hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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
Empowering the Zimbabwe Parliament
Re-engineering our politics through a systems approach and changeIntroductionParliament is a very impor...Published: 26 Feb 2015 at 06:02hrs | | by Patriotic Jukwa
Mugabe 'is indeed a colossal' says former MDC Adviser Dr Magaisa - a man with the intellect of an ant!
If you are an ant anything bigger than a mouse might as well be an elephant! After all there is no difference between an ant squashed by a dick-dick and one squashed by an elephant because way you ge...Published: 04 Feb 2015 at 06:43hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
MDC-United's unity must be applauded
On November 27, 2014, 5 000 Zimbabweans, 17 African diplomats, representatives of the embassies of Australia, France, Norway, India, USA and the UK as well as 31 local civil society organisations gath...Published: 14 Dec 2014 at 13:06hrs | | by Pius Wakatama
'MDC-T not fazed by political dwarfs union'
MDC-T says it is unfazed by the reunification of two formations of the MDC, describing the newly-created United Movement for Democratic Change as a coalition of "political dwarfs", in what analysts ...Published: 28 Nov 2014 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa has found the right platform to launch his salvos and attacks
THE Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Christopher Mutsvangwa may have found just the right platform for him to launch his salvos and attacks from.Elected two weeks ago to be the leader of t...Published: 27 Nov 2014 at 10:40hrs | | by Maggie Mzumara
Grace has her legs twisted in her designer knickers, regime change is in her bed!
It is a well-known Zanu PF tactic to blame everyone else but themselves when things are not going their way. Grace Mugabe is a slow learner by all account but she has clearly learnt this tactic now. S...Published: 10 Oct 2014 at 15:28hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Out goes the bogey of Gukurahundi
Grant defeat its creative side. It has been quite transporting to read agony pieces from officials of the two MDCs as they go through the writhing motions of confounding defeat.July 31 was a real tsun...Published: 01 Sep 2013 at 12:36hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
When the media, diplomacy make midgets taller
I suppose they are still being apprenticed by President Mugabe. Otherwise how else do you explain an astonishing picture where the leader of a rival party, his estranged secretary general and his unsu...Published: 13 Jul 2013 at 06:07hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
US wants to monitor Zim elections
THE US has officially written to Zimbabwe applauding the Government for holding a successful referendum in a major climbdown from its openly hostile partisan politics of the last decade.US Ass...Published: 06 Apr 2013 at 03:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
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