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The Zimbabwean nightmare and tragic optimism of Mutambara
To mention Zimbabwe and the idea of a "dream" in the same sentence, as Professor Arthur Mutambara has done, is to be provocative and challenging.The provocation and the challenge come from the...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:06hrs | 70 | by William Jethro Mpofu
8 mistakes in Zimbabwe's 2013 Constitution
ON May 22 2023, Zimbabwe's Constitution turned 10, having become effective on 22 May 2013. This year, we mark the 10-year anniversary. I choose to mark this day with a reflection, and my reflection is...Published: 27 May 2023 at 09:15hrs | 809 | by Musa Kika
Zimbabwe govt rapped over failure to respect the Constitution
LEGAL experts say Zimbabwe is one of the countries with a good Constitution, but suffering from constitutional disorder because of an authoritarian leadership which has no respect for the governance c...Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:37hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
Mutambara roasts Mnangagwa govt
FORMER deputy prime minister Arthur Mutambara has described President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government as incompetent, corrupt, authoritarian and directionless.Mutambara made the claims in his ...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:13hrs | 1001 | by Staff reporter
Mutambara finishes a third volume of his new enlightening autobiography series
Oxford-trained Zimbabwean academic Professor Arthur Mutambara has finished a third volume of his new enlightening autobiography series, Ideas and Solutions: Deputy Prime Minister and Beyond; In Search...Published: 13 May 2023 at 19:03hrs | 899 | by Staff reporter
Artificial intelligence and robotics: Great expectations and daunting existential risks
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is both exciting and challenging. There are opportunities and dangers. There are fascinating possibilities and existential risks.The starting point is to understan...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:34hrs | 71 | by Arthur Mutambara
USA wants South Africa to cancel all future military exercises with China and Russia
The House of Representatives in the United States of America is pushing for a review of relations with South Africa over its hosting of military exercises with China and Russia.The joint marit...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 18:19hrs | 2882 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa et al are hell bent on participating in flawed 2023 out of greed. What's in it for povo?
Zimbabwe's 2008 elections were a watershed elections in that Zanu PF's power to rig elections was exposed in its ugliest and graphic details. Ever since Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, the co...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 15:25hrs | 430 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mutambara wants Zimbabwe to dump, rework delimitation
FORMER Deputy Prime minister in the 2009-2013 Government of National Unity (GNU), Arthur Mutambara says the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) must redo the delimitation exercise as he dismissed the ...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:54hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's attempts to internationalise Sikhala case flops
CCC interim spokesperson, Gift "Ostallos" Siziba and a retinue of other opposition members and other detractors were in the United States for the 77th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that ran f...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:00hrs | 578 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Tsvangirai's epic speech on epic day
MEMORY is a site of the struggle. Only in the rubric of yester-year memories can we trace where we have come from so that we use the lessons of the past to forge and sharpen future struggles on the an...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:11hrs | 556 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa's supporters petition Mnangagwa?
SOME eminent Zimbabweans, including businesspeople, former ministers, sports personalities, academics and civil society leaders, have written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, seeking restoration of th...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:19hrs | 557 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean barlady stabs male customer after change dispute
A daring Chimanimani bar lady, Astaher Manyange, is facing murder charges for stabbing a man twice on his chest and arm after a heated exchange over change.Police said the incident occurred th...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:51hrs | 2038 | by Staff reporter
Court tosses Tsitsi Dangarembga freedom bid
Celebrated film maker and author Tsitsi Dangarembga will next week stand trial on public violence incitement charges after a Harare magistrate Thursday dismissed her application for discharge at the c...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 22:31hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Huge appetite for Zimbabwe gold coins
ZIMBABWE'S central bank has registered an overwhelming uptake of the Mosi-oa-Tunya gold coin after local financial institutions, pension funds, insurance companies and individuals bought the bulk of t...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 17:51hrs | 6117 | by Staff reporter
Arthur Mutambara trashes RBZ's gold coins initiative
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has trashed the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's (RBZ) gold coins initiative, supposedly meant to ease inflation, as nothing other than ‘a shameful opportunit...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 19:37hrs | 2183 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa talks tough on illegal mining
THE Government will not tolerate timber poaching, illegal mining, settlements in plantations, and deforestation as that will impede the rural industrialisation agenda being driven by the Second Republ...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:25hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe independence, freedom not for sale'
ZIMBABWE'S independence, freedom, democracy, sovereignty, patriotism, dignity and heritage are not for sale, President Mnangagwa has said.Addressing thousands of ruling Zanu-PF party supporter...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:25hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
Boris is still PM, he never 'mentioned resign' - fake news to sooth jarred regime change sensitive nerves
"We must all remember that until a British Prime minister talks to the Queen he will not resign without her majesty's consent. So, until then Johnson is very much the Prime minister. Not once in his s...Published: 11 Jul 2022 at 09:12hrs | 1056 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa says there is no need to fight with Mnangagwa
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has commended Zanu-PF for introducing a good education system post-independence.Speaking at a memorial service for the late...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:28hrs | 6980 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says Zanu-PF deserves some credit
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has said despite ruining the country since taking over power at Independence in 1980, the ruling Zanu-PF party deserves credit on e...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:20hrs | 6277 | by Staff reporter
Mutambara owned bus crash victims rise to 7
The number of people who died in a road accident in South Africa when a Harare-bound bus overturned near Makhado in Limpopo Province last week has risen from five to seven after two more people succum...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 17:44hrs | 2970 | by Staff reporter
'The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is not creating money'
The Sunday Mail Editor Victoria Ruzvidzo (VR) had a no-holds-barred interview with RBZ Governor Dr John Mangudya (JM) on the latest developments in the economy, among them suspension of bank lending, ...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:00hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
Nothing new about CCC's same old characters
When CCC won in the majority of constituencies in by-elections held in March, its leaders ran with a line that they had done well, yet they were a new party on the scene.Yet the claim that CCC...Published: 28 May 2022 at 08:50hrs | 499 | by Lovemore Chikova
'Zimbabwe Reserve Bank is not creating money'
The Sunday Mail Editor Victoria Ruzvidzo (VR) had a no-holds-barred interview with RBZ Governor Dr John Mangudya (JM) on the latest developments in the economy, among them suspension of bank lending, ...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:26hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe healthcare bleeds amid mass nurse exodus
Virginia Mutsamwira says she treats four times the number of patients she should ideally handle at a township clinic in Harare."It's tiring - the nurse-patient ratio is really bad," she says, ...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:52hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
'The Reserve Bank is not creating money'
The Sunday Mail Editor Victoria Ruzvidzo (VR) had a no-holds-barred interview with RBZ Governor Dr John Mangudya (JM) on the latest developments in the economy, among them suspension of bank lending, ...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:12hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa warned about Thokozani Khupe
Shadowy pressure group Team Pachedu has warned the Nelson Chamisa led CCC has been of its association with former MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe. Pachedu accused Khupe of causing the death of th...Published: 05 May 2022 at 11:37hrs | 5519 | by Mandla Ndlovu
PHOTOS: Thokozani Khupe; Welshman Ncube tour Bulawayo
CCC Deputy President, Professor Welshman Ncube teamed up with former MDC-T President Thokozani Khupe on Tuesday to encourage residents of Bulawayo to register to vote. ...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 17:12hrs | 8950 | by Mandla Ndlovu
End of the road for Tsvangirai's MDC
D-DAY has arrived for the MDC brand, with the electorate expected to decide its fate, as analysts say the iconic party associated with the firebrand Morgan Tsvangirai may disappear into oblivion if it...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:38hrs | 5273 | by Staff reporter
The paradigm of war and interests
The unbalanced informational diet from western media outlets makes it seem so ordinary, normal, and even natural that President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, is the real devil in all this.West...Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | 1374 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Invasion of Ukraine was inevitable
DEVELOPING the future of knowledge involves understanding the "relationship between what we know and what will happen, for the purpose of improving both, for everyone".This endeavour demands a...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:29hrs | 181 | by Arthur G.O. Mutambara
The Invasion of Ukraine was Inevitable: Understanding Russian Concerns and the Folly of Western Diplomacy
Developing the future of knowledge involves understanding the ‘relationship between what we know and what will happen, for the purpose of improving both, for everyone'.This endeavour demands...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:33hrs | 1013 | by Arthur G.O Mutambara
The magic innovation CCC needs to kick out Zanu
Innovation is a preserve for the young as the old do not know anything different from what they grew up doing. Chamisa's CCC should understand that the other word for Innovation is "Brainchild"....Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 12:44hrs | 1370 | by Ryton Dzimiri
The rise and fall of the MDC: Winners, losers and neutrals
AS Zimbabwe approaches crucial by-elections in March, which will test the strength of main contestants while determining the authentic opposition, there is no denying that the MDC, which has posed the...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:21hrs | 1603 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has put the final nail into the MDC brand
THE move by opposition leader Nelson Chamisa to change his party's name to Citizens' Convergence for Change (CCC) has put the final nail into the MDC brand, which has since 1999 emerged as one of the ...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:33hrs | 867 | by Staff reporter
SA Constitution is not sacred, judges not demigods
SOUTH Africa's Tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu penned an opinion piece on January 7 2022 titled: Hi Mzansi, have we seen justice?It was quite a refreshing critique of the challenges confrontin...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:18hrs | 291 | by Arthur GO Mutambara
ANC calls for 'lifting of sanctions' against Cuba, etc but not Zimbabwe - new awakening condemn rigged elections too
"The #January8statement at @MYANC's 110th anniversary by @CyrilRamaphosa called for the unconditional lifting of sanctions against Cuba, solidarity with Palestine and Western Sahara, but was silent on...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 17:29hrs | 1386 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mutambara lands top post in SA
FORMER deputy prime minister Arthur Mutambara has been appointed executive director and full professor of the Institute for the Future of Knowledge (IFK) at the University of Johannesburg.The ...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:54hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
Mutambara appointed executive director and full professor
Robotics and mechatronics professor and pan-African visionary Arthur Mutambara has been appointed the executive director and full professor of the Institute for the Future of Knowledge (IFK) at the Un...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 17:02hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo doctor makes historic return home
AN opportunity to study and work abroad, is one that is never missed or compromised as "pastures" are considered greener out there, but for an ex-Milton High School pupil, returning home was on top of...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 06:57hrs | 38 | by Staff reporter
What good is Mutambara prosperity pentagon if buffoon can, once again, rig elections and impose voodoo policies
Dear Nomazulu Thata, Thank you for your thought provoking article "Professor Arthur Mutambara, Dr Nkosana Moyo and Advocate Nelson Chamisa are speaking" in Bulawayo24.com. I agree that...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 07:38hrs | 32 | by Wilbert Mukori
Professor Arthur Mutambara, Dr Nkosana Moyo and Advocate Nelson Chamisa are speaking
I have dwelt a lot regarding Chamisa's infantile approach to politics and his policies that do not make too much sense. However, I wish to commend Chamisa's visit to Matabeleland South two days ago. T...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 17:20hrs | 19 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zanu-PF caught in bribery storm
A COLLABORATIVE probe by a British media house, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the University of Bath, has exposed how the ruling Zanu-PF party received mouth-watering bribes from the Brit...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Winning elections, fighting corruption not enough
YES, we must expose and fight corruption. Yes, we must win elections by:- registering to vote en masse- voting in large (unriggable)numbers- protecting the vote.However, all th...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 06:05hrs | 11 | by Arthur Mutambara
Mwonzora earns Chamisa
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa has been sternly warned by former colleagues to respect other political parties who are part of the MDC Alliance formation and stop masquerading as the president of th...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 07:02hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Public confidence in Zimdollar keeps waning, no end in sight
THE revelation by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya that the widening gap between the official and parallel foreign currency exchange rates is due to locals preferring the greenbac...Published: 27 Aug 2021 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa linked MDC Alliance members fire Mwonzora
MDC Alliance principals have removed the MDC-T from the grouping, accusing it of acting unilaterally without consulting them, a move that will likely throw off the rails the decision by the Douglas Mw...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean business tycoon says Ivermectin saved his life
West Properties chairman Ken Sharpe on Friday donated US$50,000 to government for the purchase of Ivermectin, saying he and his wife only escaped death thanks to the drug after they contracted the Cov...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 09:43hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
Displaced Chipinge families flee to Mozambique
SCORES of displaced Chisumbanje and Chinyamukwakwa villagers in Chipinge, are reported to have resettled in neighbouring Mozambique, after losing their ancestral land to Green Fuel Pvt Ltd.Bus...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:08hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
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