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Understanding the collapse of Zimbabwe
THE first two decades that followed the independence of Zimbabwe in 1980 were characterised by a number of major developments. Government expanded social services such as health and education — the ...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:20hrs | 887 | by Eddie Cross
Zimbabwe, Rwanda relations put to test again
ZIMBABWE'S diplomatic relations with Rwanda face a new test as it emerged a prominent Zanu-PF and anti-sanctions activist has launched a tirade against President Paul Kagame.Apart from denounc...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:12hrs | 2637 | by Staff reporter
'There is room for Thokozani Khupe in CCC' Chamisa lawyer says
Advocate Thabani Mpofu, the CCC President Nelson Chamisa's legal representative, says the newly formed political party is open to welcome MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and former G40 Kingpins to be par...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 10:02hrs | 3187 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwean failure
LOOKING back over the past 40 years in Zimbabwe, I am surprised we are still here.In 1980, I was playing a small part in the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe in that I was selected as one ...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:57hrs | 25 | by Eddie Cross
Zanu-PF policies driving poverty, not sanctions
WITH the arrival of United Nations special rapporteur, Alena Douhan, to look into the impact of sanctions on Zimbabwe, there is a danger that looking on the surface it can easily be argued that sancti...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:37hrs | 6 | by A Mbire
Why Zanu-PF is under siege
If Africans knew even half their history, they would understand the reason why they continue to stew in poverty, misery and disillusion while other parts of the world are swimming in prosperity, happi...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:59hrs | 5 | by Bishop Lazi
Mnangagwa's ignorance on economics: Mthuli Ncube his best Boss ever
Even Mnangagwa's law degree is questioned by many. If Mnangagwa had a slender idea how the economy works, they would never launder money to Chinese banks in billions of dollars. He would know that kis...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 18:45hrs | 21 | by Nomazulu Thata
Africa's future is being sold out even as we speak
Even if one disagrees with their policies, one must recognise that European policies towards Africa and Asia were guided and designed by deep thinkers in their societies.African leaders today ...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:56hrs | 15 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Africa: A complex trajectory and legacy of military coups
FOR their spectacular nature, coups always appear like new phenomena when actually they are an old military and political issue that dates back to the genesis of humanity.It is like that in th...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 17 | by William Jethro Mpofu
Zezuru hardliners blocked Mnangagwa from becoming Defence minister
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's previous ambition of becoming the country's Defence minister was blocked by the ethnically driven politics of hawkish Zezuru stalwarts in the ruling Zanu-PF, a new book ...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 18:38hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
On land, Mugabe walked path other African leaders would not
Forget what you may have read in Western press about the late Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Forget the propaganda and Western hate. Forgive the excesses of his rule – human rights abuse and ex...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:55hrs | 9 | by John Kamau
Mnangagwa! Hands off Comrade Sydney Malunga's farm, Revenge of Zapu in graves is barbaric
We have been saying for a long time now that that the evil in Mnangagwa is unimaginable by common sense. We can speculate what Mnangagwa and Robert Mugabe were smoking while he lived. Hon. Kate Hoey, ...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 15:35hrs | 392 | by Nomazulu Thata
What are we really worth?
Recently I had breakfast with three friends and we were charged at the rate of ZW$115 to US$1 for our food, which was priced in US dollars.later I had coffee with another group of friends and ...Published: 28 May 2021 at 08:06hrs | 7 | by Eddie Cross
Kabila's general flees to Zimbabwe
An army general under the government of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) former President Joseph Kabila has fled to Zimbabwe, according to reports from the mineral-rich country.This comes as...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 16:09hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
African 'Dead Aid' will stop within 5 years: Part Two
In part one I concentrated on Dr. Dambisa's "Dead Aid" book she passionately wrote in 2009 highlighting the need for Africa to shift its focus away from foreign Aid and instead, seeking solutions that...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 10:12hrs | 11 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa replaces Mobutu Sese Seko as most corrupt African leader
"If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little."Shocking as it is, the above statement that apparently legitimises graft, is attributed t...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 19:10hrs | 21 | by Israel Dube
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 37 | by Samantha Power
Afro-Sino economic relations in the 21st Century: Mixed Reactions and Misinterpretations
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National U...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 19:21hrs | 27 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Sikhala bids to end Zimbabwe's myriad challenges
FIREBRAND opposition grandee, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has joined other MDC bigwigs in calling for dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF, to end the country's myriad challenges.Spe...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 16:09hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala says 'It's time for talks with Mnangagwa'
FIREBRAND opposition grandee, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has joined other MDC bigwigs in calling for dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF, to end the country's myriad challenges....Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 07:03hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa tactics miserable'
AS TURMOIL consumes the country's opposition, renowned professor of World Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, Stephen Chan, has once again warned Nelson...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:55hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa under growing pressure for failing to tackle Mnangagwa & Zanu-PF
LARGER-THAN-LIFE MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has advised his principal Nelson Chamisa not to think that popularity will guarantee him to become Zimbabwe's next leader...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 18:40hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala tells Chamisa that popularity alone won't be enough
LARGER-THAN-LIFE MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has advised his principal Nelson Chamisa not to think that popularity will guarantee him to become Zimbabwe's next leader...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 07:07hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Coordinated attacks as weapons to destabilise Mnangagwa's gov't
The West is very proud of its relationship with Africa and has invested heavily in ensuring that its economic interests on the continent are not threatened, undermined or dislodged. The rise of China ...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's doctrine before his arrest
EDITOR,BEFORE the fateful August 21, which heralded the end of Job "Saro Wiwa" Sikhala's revolutionary campaign against corruption outside the iron bars of prison, he had a few days befo...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 20:37hrs | 3 | by Charles M. Mutama
Chamisa so obsessed with power
As Tsvangirai lay dying in a posh hospital in South Africa on a fully government funded health trip, against all African ways Nelson Chamisa was in the arms of the soon to be widow scheming on ways of...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | 3160 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC demo preparations at an advanced stage
Preparations for the much awaited People's Free Zimbabwe Peaceful March remain on course and are now at an advanced stage.The people's Free Zimbabwe peaceful march will be held on Friday 16 Au...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 17:13hrs | | by Daniel Molokele
WATCH: Tendai Biti says Mugabe was better than Mnangagwa
MDC Deputy President Tendai Biti says former President Robert Mugabe was better than the current Present Emmerson Mnangagwa. In a video that has gone viral on social media, Biti is heard sayin...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 18:54hrs | 7261 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's coup: Net gain or no gain?
The scene in downtown Harare, Zimbabwe, on 21 November 2017 was extraordinary.Thousands walked through the streets, cheering, waving Zimbabwean flags, greeting soldiers as heroes, and taking s...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 07:12hrs | 925 | by Linda Thomas-Greenfield & Bruce Wharton: US Diplomats
Chamisa so obsessed with power
As Tsvangirai lay dying in a posh hospital in South Africa on a fully government funded health trip, against all African ways Nelson Chamisa was in the arms of the soon to be widow scheming ...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 18:18hrs | 4792 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa should avoid Angola, DRC path
REPORTS this week that Angolan police arrested former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos' son, José Filomeno, over the alleged illegal transfer of US$500 million from state coffers to a Swiss bank acc...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 13:12hrs | 4337 | by Editorial - the independent
Chamisa legitimising neo-colonialism
Because Mother Africa's children residing at home and abroad are paying extremely close attention to Zimbabwe's upcoming harmonised elections, the individual profiles of the candidates will automatica...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:33hrs | | by Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye
'Mugabe in same league as Mobutu, Bokassa,' says gukurahundi commander
AGRICULTURE minister Perrance Shiri has lumped President Robert Mugabe in the same league with some of Africa's late dictators, Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire) and Jean Bédel Bokassa of the Central African ...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans hoodwinked
One of the greatest acts of disservice that we Africans do to our fellow citizens is to keep quiet when our brothers and sisters lose their way. We cast down our eyes and hold our tongues when it is t...Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 08:20hrs | | by Justice Malala
Will Grace Mugabe become the president of Zimbabwe in 2018?
When Grace Mugabe called out a shamefaced Kazembe Kazembe at a Zanu-PF Youth Interface Rally in Bindura earlier this year, to rebuke him over calls he made for Saviour Kasukuwere to resign, it was rea...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 09:53hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Mandela vs Mugabe: A legacy of ashes
Ever get that feeling that all the lifelong plans you have ever had will burn into red-hot disappointment one day? If you live in Johannesburg for long enough, you will hear stories about men and wome...Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 12:10hrs | 927 | by Tafi Mhaka
Mugabe's sons are party animals
They are now notorious for partying into the wee hours of the morning with reckless abandon, but even by their chronically boozing standards, President Robert Mugabe sons - Robert Jnr and Chatunga Bel...Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 09:20hrs | 9018 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe is headmaster of despots'
People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Tendai Biti has said Mugabe is 'headmaster of all despots' in Africa who has reversed all the 37years of Zimbabwe's gains since independence, to the year of the ...Published: 26 May 2017 at 12:11hrs | 2199 | by Staff Reporter
Growing tribal tensions fueled by Zanu-pf succession battles will lead to the disintegration of Zimbabwe
Tribal sparks have been flying ever since other Shona tribes especially the Karanga have awaken to the glaring fact that Zimbabwe is a state captured by the Zezuru and Korekore. This discovery has cau...Published: 23 Feb 2017 at 07:44hrs | | by Israel Dube, MLO Secretary for Information and Public Affairs
How Zimbabwe's dictatorship has played out
While 2016 ominously came to a close with long bank queues nationwide owing to egregious economic mismanagement by the Robert Mugabe regime, 2017 is set to be another annus horribilis for Zimbabwe, pr...Published: 15 Jan 2017 at 08:52hrs | | by Paul Simon
'General Chiwenga to get special VP powers'
COLOGNE - Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander, General Constantino Guveya Chiwenga, is set to be granted special powers when he assumes the office of Vice President of Zimbabwe any day from now, t...Published: 09 Dec 2016 at 05:38hrs | 6469 | by Itai Mushekwe
'British monarchy must fall,' says Malema's EFF
The British monarchy must fall and be consigned to the dustbin of history, the Economic Freedom Fighters said on Friday.The party is boycotting the 62nd Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, ...Published: 02 Dec 2016 at 15:46hrs | 1565 | by Mahlatse Gallens
Mugabe's plane movements used as barometer for his health
It is an indirect clue at best, but it is often all they can get: Many Zimbabweans have taken to divining the state of their increasingly frail 92-year-old leader's health from the movements of his pr...Published: 07 Sep 2016 at 10:14hrs | | by Hopewell Chin'ono and Norimitsu Onishi | New York Times |
Truth and Reconciliation Commission to dissect accusations against Mugabe needed
The turning tide in Zimbabwe has highlighted the despotic intransigency of President Robert Mugabe and how it should be handled.Zimbabwe is important in the African scheme of things because - ...Published: 25 Jul 2016 at 17:29hrs | | by Ken Sibanda
Unpacking the Mugabe dictatorship
"We have the power. Now our gigantic work begins."These were the words of Adolf Hitler, the ruthless German dictator who committed genocides and caused a lot of suffering among his own people....Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 11:41hrs | 3343 | by Dr Admore Tshuma
Seven deadly sins by Mahatma Gandhi: Some critical perspectives on Zimbabwe politics
The Mahatma Gandhi philosophy, the seven sins that will destroy mankind are: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without h...Published: 16 Oct 2015 at 16:49hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Robert Mugabe is the Mobutu of our time
This article appeared in Spectator (London) on March 18, 2008.Nice shoes,' said a young Zimbabwean looking wistfully at my $40 Nike tennis shoes th...Published: 01 Feb 2015 at 09:18hrs | 2934 | by Marian L. Tupy
'Tsvangirai is like Idi Amin allegations,' MDC-T will not comment
Newly-elected MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu says his party will not comment on the likening of its leader to deposed former African dictators Idi Amin and Mobutu Sese Seko because they are busy with p...Published: 15 Nov 2014 at 17:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Tsvangirai just another Idi Amin,' says rivals
The MDC renewal team has described MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai like "just another Idi Amin", intolerant to challenge, personalising a movement and a hypocrite who preaches what he does not practic...Published: 10 Nov 2014 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
That PhD, the undoing of Mugabe and Zanu-Pf
It has been called many names from microwave PhD with regards to the speed of its remarkable completion, sexually transm...Published: 27 Oct 2014 at 15:05hrs | 8102 | by Shingai Mugochi, A concerned lay Zimbabwean.
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