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Chombo can now freely rejoin the feeding trough
THE nation celebrates with Ignatius Chombo, who can now freely join the national feeding trough in peace.It was announced this week that all charges against the man had been dropped, seeing as...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:02hrs | 1 | by Muckracker
Self-ordained 'Mother of the Nation' got it all wrong
SELF-ORDAINED Mother of the Nation Auxilia Mnangagwa has called for three days of national fasting."May I, as the Mother of the Nation, call upon all women in Zimbabwe and all those abroad who...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Muckraker
Old habits that will kill Zimbabweans
ZIMBABWEANS are masking, and that's good! But a look at the masks will reveal the futility of the effort. The surgical masks which are generally made of a thin paperlike material are supposed ...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 16:56hrs | 1 | by Muckrakers
Criminals around Mnangagwa will surely bring him down
ONE night in November 2017, a chubby soldier donning a red beret and military fatigues appeared on ZBC-TV. It was immediately clear something was amiss. His demeanour immediately betrayed what mischie...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wrong to blame Zimbabwe crisis on war veterans
I have always been a fan of Zimbabwe Independent. It has an excellent record of providing the nation with sound and truthful analyses of the economic situation in Zimbabwe.The last edition of ...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa burial snub cannot erase his legacy
Twitter: @MuckrakerZimTHE presidium was last week conspicuously absent at the burial of Zimbabwe's liberation war stalwart, the late Zipra intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa, at his Ntabazin...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by MUCKRAKER
Mnangagwa now more paranoic and desperate
A REGIME failing to provide its citizens with basic necessities is unsurprisingly afraid of itself and those who differ with its lopsided policies.The arrest of four civil society activists th...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claiming to be the light in darkness
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been telling us ad nauseam that Zimbabweans should not abuse the democratic space which he claims the so-called "Second Republic" has opened up."The advent of ...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 09:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa survives frenzied London propaganda storm
MDC-T leader Nelson Chamisa must be celebrating. For months now, Zanu-PF and its attack dogs have virtually ignored Chamisa until he gained the irresistible political momentum. It was so bad that the ...Published: 18 May 2018 at 08:20hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF manifesto sounds just like juvenile delusions
So, after much anticipation, the Zanu-PF election manifesto is finally out. After reading the document, one is left with one big question: why was the nation made to wait so long for it, seeing the sh...Published: 12 May 2018 at 15:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Money and corruption in Zanu-PF
AFTER the release of Zanu-PF's list of aspiring candidates for parliament, we can now confirm that a record of fraud, crime and general crookedness is not a hurdle to one's political ambitions in the ...Published: 04 May 2018 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Military coup, devil's sermon and semantics
ZIMBABWE can be a very interesting country. Even if one says tomorrow is Saturday, which it is, someone may decide to take you head on that, more like a person appointed by the Roman Catholic Church t...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 06:44hrs | | by Tinotenda Samkange
MDC-T succession war, violence and tribalism
THE death of MDC founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai - a hero of the new struggle for democracy - triggered a succession war in the main opposition MDC-T party (one wonders why the party should maintain...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 11:25hrs | | by MUCKRAKER Twitter: @MuckrakerZim
Tsvangirai's death, political phonies and crocodile tears
WHAT a dramatic political week it was in Zimbabwe and South Africa. On Valentine's Day two momentous events happened on either side of the Limpopo River with huge implications on the politics of the t...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 16:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa: Is the West now seeking new, better puppet?
ZIMBABWE'S political discourse is intriguing. What is particularly striking is how the same old narrative that shaped Rhodesia is today playing a central role in all the factional dynamics bedeviling ...Published: 10 Feb 2018 at 09:55hrs | | by Staff writer
Mugabe juggling balls in the air
THE current situation in Zanu-PF is fragmented and fractious; it needs a unifier. There is serious factionalism, infighting and political hostilities. It's a dog-eat-dog affair.So President Ro...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 12:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chidyausiku leaves legacy of defending our heritage
I do not know what race Muckraker belongs, but sounds Caucasian. If not Caucasian, he is sold out to colonial values.In his March 3, 2017 rant against retired Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 05:36hrs | | by Godwills Masimirembwa
Mujuru - Tsvangirai: When a widow decides to go out on a binge with a long-time lover
Ice cubes in the freezer can never change the weather in the kitchen, I keep telling people. In politics, anything goes, more so for people who delight in pelting opponents. It is downright foolish to...Published: 20 Aug 2016 at 09:37hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
What sort of a president would Mnangagwa be?
A shocking report appeared in the Johannesburg Sunday Times this week in which Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) veterans beat up party supporters during a train trip from Cape Town to Johannesburg.The d...Published: 23 Jan 2015 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Muckraker
Mujuru, fired ministers deserve no sympathy
Zanu-PF's "cyclonic gangsters" led by the newly-appointed Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and supported by Jonathan Moyo, Saviour Kasukuwere, Patrick Zhuwao, Obert Mpofu and others, finally persuade...Published: 12 Dec 2014 at 19:55hrs | | by Muckraker
What opinion do you hope to get from a rival suitor?
THE OTHER SIDE I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He is late, that Nobel laureate from Columbia who passed on this year, just a day before our National Day. I have drawn from his writings, a point my loya...Published: 07 Dec 2014 at 21:10hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Chamisa of the Gumbo totem
So Chamisa was knocked out? Nikuved, as some would say? Really? Chamisa of the Gumbo totem? Sorry Chitova! Which reminds me of my paternal grandmother's favourite song after a good day's drink....Published: 08 Nov 2014 at 23:17hrs | 68 | by Nathaniel Manheru
When Tsvangirai becomes a Mandela
The beauty about running a muscular column is that oftentimes you sting your opponents into an ungainly self-display. My bad friend Muckraker did just that this week. Stung by my expos√É∆ÃÂÂ...Published: 28 Jul 2012 at 05:09hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Thwarting independent nationalism
IT is not archaic reasoning and neither is it "Cold War rhetoric" to note that the real enemy of the United States and its Western allies has long been independent nationalism, particularly when it t...Published: 14 Jul 2011 at 03:32hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
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