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Zimbabwe in 2023: There is great disorder, chaos under the heavens
GEORGE Orwell wrote so much and so well that one day it became cause for a whole essay to explain to himself and the world why he wrote as such.In the essay of 1946, Why I Write, Orwell recoun...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 1089 | by Dr William Jethro Mpofu
Chipinge celebrates Sithole's hero status
THE journey for the man regarded as militant by the settler regime began on July 21,1920 in Nyamandlovu in colonial Rhodesia, a product of a Ndau father and a Ndebele mother. His entry into poli...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa tasked with finding a Ndebele puppet that will replace Kembo Mohadi?
The position of 2nd vice president that is imposed on Matabele people in Zimbabwe is a symbol of capture, oppression, mockery and an insult to Matabele nation. The children of the stars and the sons a...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 07:15hrs | 9659 | by Israel Dube
Tribalist Chamisa flies into a storm in South Africa
Soon after launching his anti- Matabele party in Zimbabwe, President of the so called Citizens Coalition for Change, Nelson Chamisa ran to the South African media to put a threat, telling SABCTV in an...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 17:31hrs | 4055 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa condemns 'chicanery' in Zanu PF elections - hypocrite orchestrated wanton violence in national elections
"Irregularities and political chicanery across party structures must be decisively dealt with and expunged from the party," said President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 23:25hrs | 418 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mohadi: Tale of a brave man knocked down by ruinous sex
LIKE many of his contemporaries, Kembo Dugishi Campbell Mohadi - who hails from Mtetengwe area 40 kilometres west of Beitbridge border town along the Bulawayo highway - belongs to a generation which w...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:03hrs | 81 | by Staff reporter
Deployment of Shona teachers in Matabeleland schools is the main cause for low pass rates
"To weaken a Ndebele is to deprive him of an education", said the author of the 1979 Grand Plan, Nathan Shamuyarira. The document itself is the most evil conspiracy theory in Africa, to be produced by...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 11:51hrs | 19 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa mourns Shamuyarira's late widow
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa sent a message of condolence to the Shamuyarira family following the death of Amai Dorothy Shamuyarira yesterday morning.Amai Shamuyarira, who was a widow to former Cabinet...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 07:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo pleads with Mnangagwa to return to work urgently
Exiled Zimbabwe Cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo has pleaded with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to scrap his holiday and return to work urgently to save lives and livelihoods.Moyo's plea comes at...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 15:05hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter
Nathan Shamuyarira's widow dies
Dorothy Shamuyarira, the wife of the late national hero, Dr Nathan Shamuyarira, has died at Parirenyatwa Hospital.Dora, as her husband affectionately called her, was a nurse by profession at t...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 15:00hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga and the decolonisation of the field of political science
WHILE the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter Rodney, Archie Mafeje, Ali Mazrui, Thabo Mbeki, Asan...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 8 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Chiwenga triggers important political science debate
Black Epistemologies and the Non-Writing PoliticianWhile the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter R...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:41hrs | 14 | by Richard Mahomva
The Grand plan, gukurahundi, the Unity Accord 1987 - A program of invasion
This is a follow up of my Press Release released on 3rd July 2019. The focus today is Gukurahundi; its origins, meaning, and its role in the unprecedented influx of the Shona community in every part o...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:14hrs | 2404 | by King Mzilikazi II
'We don't eat Nationalism' says Mthwakazi President
So many people in Zimbabwe particularly shonas and some of our Ndebele speaking people do not really understand or comprehend with what is meant by the term "Nationalism". To Shonas, nationalism means...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1263 | by Mqondisi Moyo
Shona teacher terrorises pupils at Nejambezi Secondary school
A Shona speaking teacher by the name Huggins Makiwa based at Nejambezi Secondary school situated 28 km from Victoria Falls town is reportedly terrorising pupils that he teaches, by constantly remindin...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 12:52hrs | 4573 | by MRP
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF welcomes back prodigal son, Didymus Mutasa
Long-serving Zanu-PF member Didymus Mutasa, who was expelled from the party at the height of factionalism and readmitted in October last year after spending two years in the wilderness is retracing hi...Published: 18 May 2019 at 07:58hrs | 682 | by Staff reporter
VP's divorcee demand $13k a month 'to sustain accustomed lifestyle' - unsustainable addiction
"A divorce wrangle pitting Mohadi and his former wife Tambudzani has helped to lift the lid on the VPs' benefits with a payslip attached to a court application revealing the veteran politician from Be...Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:55hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Mugabe's 1980 Cabinet - ages
Here are some things to PONDER onRobert Mugabe (56 yrs) - Prime MinisterSimon Muzenda (58 yrs) - Deputy Prime MinisterJoshua Nkomo (63 yrs)- Home AffairsEnos Nkala (48 yrs) - Finance...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 13:50hrs | 20880 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, former lieutenants shift blame: Who really was behind Gukurahundi genocide?
WHEN former president Robert Mugabe was swept away through a popular coup, the world celebrated the departure of an "evil dictator". Many hoped for a fresh start but that dream remains elusive...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:13hrs | 10057 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Strive Masiyiwa is not a Zimbabwean Intellectual Prostitutes: Jonathan Moyo is!
I am sharing this for the benefit of those who do not have a complete background of where Jonathan Moyo is coming from. Zimbabwe's ZANU-PF brothel is brimming with intellectual prostitute...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 17:38hrs | 6717 | by Dr. George B. Ayyittey
Our journalists must up their game
Many have asked me why our media is as bad as it is today. It is not a question that can be answered with one magic sentence. It is true that we have a crisis in journalism; today's reporters ...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 17:00hrs | 220 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Mnangagwa fears Matabeleland restoration: no one will baby sit him in Matabeleland
"If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand". These words of wisdom are attributed to Jesus Christ himself.Zimbabwe is one such Kingdom trying to find balance on shaky t...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 08:02hrs | 3717 | by Israel Dube
'West must support ED and no regime change for 20 years' argued Mutsvairo - so why bother
"IF Western governments are sincere about political reforms in Zimbabwe, then they have to support President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new government," wrote Bruce Mutsvairo."There are no two ways ...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:19hrs | 2397 | by Nomusa Garikai
How one could be ZIPRA, without being ZAPU
Last week, Comrade Agrippah Gava (born 1956) narrated how ZIPRA gunned down Rhodesian Viscounts in 1978 and 1979 and went on to give details about ZIPRA's plan after this attack.In this interv...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:44hrs | 754 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe is stable and prosperous!' is ED's interminable gabble as reality emerge from web of lies
"A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth," said Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's minister of propaganda.Goebbels has had many disciples who have subscri...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 15:52hrs | 350 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe minister of foreign affairs 'daft, inarticulate', says Jonathan Moyo
EXILED former Higher Education minister Prof Jonathan Moyo has said it is a disgrace that Zimbabwe has a foreign affairs minister who is "as daft and as inarticulate" as Dr Sibusiso Moyo.P...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 22:35hrs | 6419 | by Staff Reporter
Robert Mugabe's generation almost gone
THE generation with which President Robert Mugabe lived and worked during the liberation struggle leading to Independence is almost gone with the death of Zanu-PF politburo member Nathan Shamuyarira o...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 13:33hrs | 1381 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo letter to Robert Mugabe from exile in the UK
JOSHUA M. NKOMO2 Stevenage RoadEast Ham E6 2WLLondon E6 2WLUnited Kingdom7th June, 1983INFORMATIVE LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER MUGABEDear Robert,1. I write...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 11:00hrs | 15759 | by Joshua M. Nkomo
Time we tell Mugabe some home truths
Having worked with ex-President Robert Mugabe as editor of the Zanu-PF's publication, The People's Voice, for close to three years, I must admit that there was a time when I sincerely believed the man...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 06:01hrs | 745 | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
Zanu-PF must not fall into the criminal cabal's trap
THE holding of the harmonised elections sometime this year will be the highpoint for judging Operation Restore Legacy and the subsequent events that saw former President Robert Mugabe stepping down fr...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 05:55hrs | | by Hildegarde
Mugabe's Zezuru tribalism
THE irresponsible ethnic characterization of the political battles ahead of the next general election should be rejected by all right-thinking Zimbabweans. The idea that Robert Mugabe's NPF will get a...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 09:44hrs | 5445 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Mugabe must focus on writing memoirs
There are reports concerning a development in our polity where our former leader Robert Mugabe is said to be attempting to play the joker. He is not so subtly trying to use whatever clout he believes ...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 05:38hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Zuma in court over Zimbabwe land grabs
South Africa President Jacob Zuma will tomorrow appear in the High Court in Pretoria for his role in the closure of Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Tribunal after it ruled in favour of 7...Published: 04 Feb 2018 at 16:36hrs | 1666 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa will never implement devolution'
Alliance for National Salvation (ANSA) president, Moses Mzila Ndlovu says President Emmerson Mnangagwa cannot afford to implement devolution of power, claiming that doing so will be a betrayal of the ...Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 08:37hrs | 1091 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is the honourable leader that Zimbabwe needs
Emmerson Mnangagwa, the new President of Zimbabwe, is not an ogre with evil intent as his detractors make him out to be. He is a courteous, amiable, honest to goodness person, who is now on a ...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 11:13hrs | | by Jacky Seroke
Jonathan Moyo accuses Charamba of 'bootlicking idiocy'
Former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo - who is in self-imposed exile - has hit back at Media, Information and Broadcasting Services ministry permanent secretary George Charamba a...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe, Mnangagwa tiff exposed
Presidential spokesman George Charamba has for the first time given insights into some of the factors that contributed to the frosty relationship between former president Robert Mugabe and his war tim...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 06:21hrs | 27224 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo can pee all he wants - from outside
FORMER United States president Lyndon Johnson, who reportedly had a difficult relationship with the head of the Federal agency that preceded what is nowadays known as the Federal Bureau of Investigati...Published: 02 Dec 2017 at 06:24hrs | 2701 | by Staff write
Zanu PF factional fight was savage - it was fuelled by fear of growing poverty
"Mapere rakusha ropa rembudzi rinorwira kuuraya!" (Hyenas smeared with goat's blood fight to kill!) Each sees the other as a hyena but their nose tells them if it smells like goat, it is meat. And the...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 07:05hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Jonathan Moyo the kingmaker that never was
ON September 15, 2006, Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo, then in "political Siberia" after being shunted out of Zanu-PF, wrote: "Perennial wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dic...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 06:11hrs | 5527 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa was part of Mugabe's gang of 26?
Full text of Enos Nkala statement on Mugabe running ‘ruthless dictatorship'In 2006 the late national hero Enos Nkala blasted President Robert Mugabe for running a ‘ruthless dictatorshi...Published: 21 Nov 2017 at 11:30hrs | 3174 | by Enos Nkala
'Mugabe believes he alone brought about freedom of Zimbabwe' - late Nkala once said
In 2006 the late national hero Enos Nkala blasted President Robert Mugabe for running a ‘ruthless dictatorship'. He said "Mugabe talks, imagines and believes that he and he alone brought about the f...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 21:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
ULoyiko takes the Shona Grand Plan to the Public Protector
ULoyiko has written a letter to the South African Public Protector requesting protection of the South African citizens from the impact of the Shona Grand Plan. For those new to the Grand Plan ...Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 09:31hrs | 4048 | by Thulani Nkala
Will Mnangagwa sink forever or resurface?
Thank you very much Professor Ken Mufuka for 'responding' to my article: The Demise of Mnangagwa. Please see: ...Published: 10 Nov 2017 at 10:20hrs | 2081 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Who is the bogeyman - Mnangagwa or Mugabe?
It was not his real name but the entire community knew him as Jangwa. If a child misbehaved during those days, elders would threaten that they would call Jangwa "to deal with you". That name would sen...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 10:14hrs | 5241 | by Moses Chamboko
Tsholotsho Declaration of November 2004: the untold story
THIS is a continuation of an article we published last week in which the former Information minister reveals details of Zanu-PF's power struggle which culminated in the so-called Tsholotsho Declaratio...Published: 16 Oct 2017 at 09:36hrs | 6179 | by Jonathan Moyo
Mnangagwa raises Zanu-PF stakes
Two days after missing a high-profile state funeral, Vice-President Emmerson Mnanagwa yesterday attended a memorial service for the late Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Shuvai Mahofa in Gutu acco...Published: 01 Oct 2017 at 15:15hrs | 7609 | by Staff reporter
Rugare Gumbo faces fraud charges
Former Cabinet minister Rugare Gumbo made a surprise appearance at the Harare Magistrates' Courts yesterday, amid accusations that he swindled an agricultural equipment dealer $27 000 through a botche...Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 15:16hrs | 960 | by Staff reporter
When Mugabe or Mnangagwa go: Are Zimbabweans fixing their eyes on wrong goal posts?
Genesis 21:19 "And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water, and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink."History has shown that when dictators die order is ...Published: 21 Aug 2017 at 21:22hrs | 4590 | by Andrew Manyevere
Robert Mugabe the physical man naturally retreats
PERHAPS we must do that; abandon the "Him" and deal with the "It". We must leave the man and engage with the phenomenon. There are many profits in the present for reading and understanding Robert Muga...Published: 04 Aug 2017 at 13:00hrs | 1322 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
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