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Zimbabwe after Robert Mugabe
This opinion-editorial piece was written by Japhet Ncube, a Zimbabwean-born former editor of South African daily, The Star, in November 2017 during the coup which ousted the late former president Robe...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:10hrs | 9 | by Japhet Mathanda Ncube
Zimbabwe must be liberated from Zanu-PF!!!
Reader, let's start the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty two by telling each other the truth, nothing but the truth. We can turn right, left and centre looking for solutions to our prolonged s...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 10:29hrs | | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo, Sr
'Nehanda not a national heroine'
A LOCAL historian has said government erected Mbuya Nehanda's statue for political expediency, distorting history since the heroine of the first war of resistance against colonial rule was not a natio...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe coups: What now for the legacies?
Three months after President Emmerson Mnangagwa deposed Robert Mugabe on November 15, 2017, Nelson Chamisa applied the same template to supplant Thokozani Khupe, ensuring he replaced Morgan Tsvangirai...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:54hrs | 1 | by Toendepi Shonhe
Has Mnangagwa dumped re-engagement efforts?
IT appears that in Zimbabwe, despite the change of guard which ushered in the so-called new dispensation, nothing has changed on the ground, we are still steeped in Mugabeism.It seems the ruli...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa rubbishes Khupe's overtures
Zanu-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa has rubbished opposition MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe's push for a government of national unity.Chinamasa told journalists during a party Press co...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fare thee well comrade president
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017. He chaired the Zimbabwe African ...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 08:58hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The reluctant reformer, Mnangagwa is thy name
IT'S nearly a year since Emmerson Mnagangwa (ED) was sworn as the President of Zimbabwe after the disputed July 2018 elections.The common talk among many is that Zimbabwe should be better than...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Rashweat Mukundu
Mugabe is gone; long live Mugabe!
When a king dies, an announcement is made that: "The king is dead; long live the king", quite a confusing statement for many of us that may not be aware of the intricacies of death and ascension in mo...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 09:02hrs | 1 | by Nqaba Matshazi
MDC trashes Midlands peace committee
THE MDC has trashed the Midlands provincial peace committee set by the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) chairperson, Justice Selo Nare, in Gweru on Friday, saying it was not inclusi...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Policy uncertainty disrupts investors
THAT President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Finance minister Mthuli Ncube are trying and well-meaning is not in doubt. Even their trenchant critics and cynics would agree they are making the right noise...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:08hrs | | by Zimind Comment
Mugabe's shadow lingers on...
IT'S a tedious cliché, but best captures what is happening in Zimbabwe now: the more things change, the more they remain the same. I couldn't immediately find any better expression which describes th...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 19:31hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
Mnangagwa now mirror of Mugabe's patronage system
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent appointments of High Court Judge Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo to lead the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) and Gerald Mlotshwa to the Sports and Recreatio...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
A Squirrel Wedding Party, As the MDC's Internal Independent Electoral Commission(IIEC) Makes No Show?
The originally proposed Internal Independent Electoral Commission(IIEC) by the Movement for Democratic Change(MDC), as it geared itself to hold its electoral congresses in 2019 had been hailed a...Published: 03 May 2019 at 15:20hrs | | by Nhlanhla Moses
Outcry as ZANU PF thug gets community service for attempted murder
Zimbabweans have made an outcry after a Kadoma magistrate Takudzwa Gwazemba on Monday sentenced ZANU PF thug Litten Chikore, to eight months in jail for attempted murder, but the whole sentence ...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 13:09hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa is a worse devil than Mugabe
Mnangagwa took over the presidency of Zanu PF and Zimbabwe in the background of a November 2017 coup that toppled long serving president Robert Mugabe. The people of Zimbabwe and the inter...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 12:55hrs | 5 | by Frazer Muzondo
Advising Mnangagwa's presidential advisers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday held his inaugural meeting with the Presidential Advisory Council (Pac) recently appointed to assist in bringing in new ideas, policy proposals and solutions to ...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:55hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
Mugabeism must be dismantled
YESTERDAY Zimbabweans commemorated, or simply just observed, former president Robert Mugabe's birthday which has now been institutionalised into a national holiday, even though the majority might have...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:16hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
The victim and savior card
The mugabeism system is hindering development for the people of Zimbabwe. Mugabe used to down play his ministers by giving them the platform to announce changes when he is abroad. He knew it would rai...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 20:36hrs | | by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya
Mnangagwa's military crackdown a reincarnation of Gukurahundi
We, the deeply concerned, patriots of Zimbabwe living here in the United States, are here because we have a problem, a problem of State-sponsored terror and atrocities ordered and sanctioned by someon...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Pearl Matibe
BREAKING: MDC leader charged with treason
Opposition Movement for Democratic Change Organising Secretary Amos Chibaya was on Tuesday charged with plotting to subvert a constitutional elected government. He was re-detained shortly his ...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 16:18hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe a country broken by a cabal syndicate
What is going on in Zimbabwe is an imaginative Animal Farm saga typifying complete childish decay soaked in greedy that has overcome many Zimbabweans today because of a few who called ZANU cult. Since...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 17:31hrs | | by Andrew Manyevere
Robert Mugabe: The second coming
With a clenched fist punching the air in a marquee-filled to capacity with men and women dressed in colourful Zanu-PF attire, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga declared that they would be no challen...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 17:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth leader targets Chamisa
With a few days to go into the new year, the omens don't look good politically in 2019, following the Zanu-PF youth league's ominous threats this week against the country's opposition forces, the Dail...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 18:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fails to shake off Mugabe dust
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa took over from former president Robert Mugabe, he was received with much zeal and hope.In his inaugural speech, he promoted the slogan the "Voice of the peopl...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 10:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has created 800,000 jobs, claims govt
It is a year since President Emmerson Mnangagwa came into power after the army dislodged long-time ruler Robert Mugabe in dramatic fashion.Mnangagwa, who bounced back a few days after being fi...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 08:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Saturday with Stanley Dube: Mnangagwa is Mugabe's old leftover fart
November 18; Zimbabweans marched and on November 21 the nonagenarian despot Robert Mugabe resigned after pressure from the military and from ZANU PF. Surely chickens had come home to roost...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 13:31hrs | | by Stanley Dube
A year after Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean politics appear to have changed due to the media reportage of the past twelve months since Robert Mugabe's ouster in the political scene. The question of a new Zimbabwe in the name of the n...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 12:29hrs | | by Brian Maregedze
Supporting Mnangagwa without backing Zanu PF, backing MDC without supporting Chamisa
"Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator," observed a sage.I am not into political prophecy, but this week last year - precisely November 6, 2017, the day then President Robert Mugabe s...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:17hrs | | by Conway Tutani
One year after Zimbabwe soft coup
When Zimbabwe's army took power in a bloodless coup exactly one year ago, it promised to bring happiness back by ending social and economic suffering.The military said the coup was needed to "...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 15:03hrs | | by Tendai Kamhungira
Empower youth, don't limit them
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF's campaign message was anchored on empowering the youth to ensure they blended well with party stalwarts in his Cabinet as a way to groom the young people for ...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:31hrs | | by Editorial - newsday
Mnangagwa and Zanu PF have shown that Mugabeism still exist in them
Political analyst Tobias Sibanda has said following the recent ended elections Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF have shown that they just removed Robert Mugabe the person but Mugabeism remained intact....Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 12:02hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa, Chamisa should unite Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is at present highly divided, fragile and calls for a leadership with the ability to unite people, social and political analysts have said.They said one sure way to solve the ongoing ...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 19:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
The emperor unmasked
THE bloody clashes that broke out in Harare yesterday, as soldiers and police used brute force to disperse unarmed disgruntled opposition activists protesting over alleged vote-rigging by the ruling Z...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
My Sunday thoughts ahead of the Zimbabwean historical elections
Prof Jonathan Moyo characterises the 30th July 2018 elections as a transition from what he calls the first republic to the second republic. In his thesis, Prof Moyo argues correctly that, the 1980 ele...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 12:10hrs | | by Ngqabutho Mabhena
An inherited crisis of imagination: A Long Essay concerning the understanding of Zimbabwe - Pt2
Continuing from here...Truth be said, this is a great opportunity for Mnangagwa. And truth be repeated, the...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 19:03hrs | | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
Zanu PF a league of hynas and jackals - Mujuru youths
Revolutionary greetings comrades. The general elections are 10 days away and we still haven't seen any electoral reforms, worse, the voters roll is still littered with ghost voters coupled with clumsy...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 20:14hrs | | by NPP National Youth Chairman
Mugabe system still in place with Mnangagwa at the helm - Bajila
MDC Alliance official Descent Bajila has said the systems of former President Robert Mugabe are still intact with President Emmerson Mnanggwa at the helm.He said those who are haunted by the t...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 09:00hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Mnangagwa still not safe'
Unless President Emmerson Mnangagwa deals with those who are out to destroy him his life will remain under constant threat, social and political analysts contend.The recent bomb attack in Bula...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 14:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's answer doesn't lie in the box
And so it is with my Grade 2 granddaughter. Only yesterday, she sought my help with what seemed to me a very simple multi-choice Math problem. My wife and I have always admired the rare professional a...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 14:32hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
Grace Mugabe not welcome at MDC Alliance?
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has reacted angrily to reports that former first lady Grace Mugabe will be his running mate for the July 30 elections, saying the assertions were meant to create the...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 14:23hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Zanu-PF chefs accused of jumping fuel queues
MOTORISTS in Chinhoyi have accused top Zanu-PF officials of jumping fuel queues to fill up their vehicles at the few service stations operating in the town.Clifford Mutopa, one of the affected...Published: 17 May 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
The advantages Nelson Chamisa has so far
I was just wondering about the upcoming election and pondering on whether there are people still to be won over, so-called floating voters.The electoral dynamics in Zimbabwe are very interesti...Published: 14 May 2018 at 16:26hrs | 1 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Mugabe Book offer for FREE
A Kwekwe based Human Rights Defender, Author and Democracy Activist Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo, Sr, has offered his latest book 'Dismantling The System of Mugabeism.'...Published: 11 May 2018 at 11:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
ZDI calls for people driven politics, respect for constitutionalism
Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) has called for a transition to people driven politics and respect for constitutionalism towards a democratic state at a dialogue meeting held in Mutare this morning....Published: 10 May 2018 at 18:47hrs | | by Agencies
Chamisa blasts the British government
MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa has warned the British government that overlooking crucial democratic reforms in favour of managing political stability in Zimbabwe could lead to po...Published: 10 May 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF manifesto clearest indicator nothing will change
For sometime it remained foggy in the minds of Zimbabweans whether or not the government that took over from former despot, Robert Mugabe, would deliver and make life better for the long-suffering gen...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:49hrs | | by Learnmore Zuze
Is Mnangagwa hostage to an invisible hand?
THE question keeps popping up: Is incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa a real lawyer? Does he have intimate knowledge on things legal?Could it be that he has mastery of the law, but is hosta...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 08:20hrs | | by Learnmore Zuze
Joice Mujuru youths are ready to join the nurses
Revolutionary greetings comrades. The struggle for change in Zimbabwe is for everyone, the young and the old, the employed and the unemployed. Therefore, an injury to one is an injury to all. The woun...Published: 21 Apr 2018 at 20:58hrs | | by Khulani David Ndhlovu
Mandiwanzira's 'Supa' corruption exposed
It is amazing how we get animated with factional fights and ignore relationships that are generally corrupt and affect us as a people.The biggest threat to the state and its survival is the co...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 14:46hrs | 2 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
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