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Gwede Mantashe slams 'deputy Jesus' Helen Zille
In a recent statement, ANC National Chair Gwede Mantashe has issued a stern warning to DA Federal Leader Helen Zille, accusing her of acting like a "parallel president" and posing the biggest threat t...Published: 21 Jul 2024 at 10:44hrs | 3758 | by Staff reporter
MKP express dismay at 'racist conduct' of the DA and NGOs
The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party has hit back at the DA and white monopoly capital funded non-governmental organisations that have opposed the election of MKP's parliamentary leader and former Western ...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 15:19hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
US$1,6bn Command Agriculture bombshell
A DAMNING parliamentary report on Command Agriculture has exposed how former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa (pictured) and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe superintended over a murky and illegal proce...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 17:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's new Ponzi scheme
FOLLOWING the MDC's dizzying electoral defeats at the hands of Zanu-PF in March 2013 and July 2018, the opposition outfit lost most of its traditional Western funding as donors turned off the funding ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:11hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Hit and run economics haunting Mthuli Ncube
The prices of basic commodities have gone up and the cost of living is sky rocketing because of this ridiculous Statutory Instrument 127 of 2021 recently introduced by Minister of Finance Dr Mth...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 07:58hrs | | by Leonard Koni
'Mnangagwa's secretary runs parallel government'
Chief Secretary to the Office of the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda is running a parallel government that has more Permanent Secretaries reporting to him that those reporting to Cabinet Mini...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 10:05hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa told to form Parallel Government
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has been challenged to form a parallel government that will lead development in the country. Addressing a gathering of young people of Thursday Businessma...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 14:13hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Which fundamentals require attention?
There is a real sense of despair in the country. Perhaps it is a left over from the heady days when we celebrated the final departure of former President Robert Mugabe from office and welcomed a 'new'...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 06:09hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Opinion: Perspective . . .
SEEING things in perspective has never been more important in Zimbabwe. If we fail to do so, our view of the current problems we are encountering will be distorted and we may all make decisions we lat...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 06:49hrs | | by Eddie Cross
So it was General Chiwenga, after all?
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is crouching under a downpour. And it seems he has little space to run into, so chances are high he may drown in the rain.First, he developed an unusual pig...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 13:03hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Time to remove military's presidential straitjacket
"The lack of imagination in South Africa's leadership is even more disturbing than its ignorance. The country has become a one dimensional universe held together by little more than the anxiety it gen...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:51hrs | 2 | by Tapiwa Nyandoro
Mnangagwa fooled Mugabe
In his desperation to get his story out, former president Robert Mugabe unwittingly revealed on Thursday how he had long lost control of the army, thus presenting a perfect opportunity for those disen...Published: 17 Mar 2018 at 19:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No fighting! No fighting!' twittered ED - 'You sure know how to pickle!' twittered #FL
Change is part of life, we are told but there are some things that are as constant and fixed as the Northern Star! Zanu PF's commitment to the idea that its alone is the party that must rule Zimbabwe ...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 17:59hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
ZPRA demands land for own heroes acre
THE Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) Veterans' Association has resolved to approach government and the Bulawayo City Council requesting land to set up a separate national heroes' acre for f...Published: 09 Nov 2017 at 05:46hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF reverts to old dirty tricks
For the past 17 years, since the formation of real opposition to Zanu-PF rule in the form of the MDC, President Robert Mugabe's government has consistently put in place structures and measures to inst...Published: 22 Oct 2017 at 13:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace openly tells Mnangagwa to quit
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe reportedly confronted under-fire Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa during a tense briefing ahead of a Zanu PF youth league national assembly meeting in Harare on Saturday and o...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 10:02hrs | | by NewsDay Editorial Comment
Electronic transfers in Zimbabwe just a big lie - Biti
The electronic money transfer system in Zimbabwe is just a big lie living on borrowed time, it will collapse against the pressure of cash demand, President Biti has said.Addressing a gathering...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 11:53hrs | | by PDP
Zimbabweans must immediately form a Parallel Government
The Editor, It has been 37 plus years since Zimbabwe attained its independence yet there is no independence to talk about today. ZANU (PF) has successfully sucked up all the power apparatus; u...Published: 20 Jul 2017 at 22:57hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
General Chiwenga guns for Jonathan Moyo
Constantino Chiwenga, the commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), has once again waded into the factional fights rattling the governing party, taking aim at Jonathan Moyo - the Zanu-PF politbu...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 14:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa allies call for Jonathan Moyo's dismissal from Govt, party
Zanu-PF structures, war veterans and Mnangagwa alligned political commentators yesterday rallied behind Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Constantino Guveya Chiwenga calling for the dismissal ...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF 'voodoo economics' have failed - just as MDC failed in all during GNU
Tendai Biti gave a sterling performance in his attack of the Zanu PF government on Violet Gonda's Hot Seat. He did not fool me!Tendai Biti and his MDC friends' primary task in the GNU was to i...Published: 08 Jun 2017 at 06:30hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa doesn't own command agriculture, says Zanu-PF
Policy Co-ordination minister, Simon Khaya Moyo yesterday said the context of command agriculture was part of the broad ZimAsset government policy and had not been extended to other sectors of the eco...Published: 21 May 2017 at 16:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Generals must heed the voice of citizens
Soldiers Don't shoot! We are just unarmed citizens! All we are trying to do is abide by Zimbabwe's democratic Constitution that binds us all (including yourselves). However, we are increasingl...Published: 27 Apr 2017 at 10:02hrs | | by David Mutori and Benjamin Paradza
Surest way to stop Zanu PF rigging 2018 elections is to force MDC to honour "No reform, no election!"
The need for Zimbabwe to hold free, fair and credible elections next year is now the single most important issue on the nation's agenda because it is the pre-requisite to economic recovery. Zimbabwe's...Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 16:33hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
G40, a faction at the deep end
A day is a very long time in politics. Yesterday (01 November, 2016), Zimbabwe's Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education threw the mother of all tantrums. A long scathing plethora of accumulated thr...Published: 03 Nov 2016 at 06:04hrs | | by Prof Changamire
Zimbabwe headed for deeper crisis
GOVERNMENT moved to curb social upheavals this week by reversing a policy announcement that sought to slash salaries and stop bonus payments to civil servants, at the risk of plunging the country ...Published: 15 Sep 2016 at 08:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe currently undergoing serious socio-economic and political challenges
Heal Zimbabwe Trust has reported in its July -August report that Zimbabwe is currently undergoing serious socio-economic and political challenges which are likely to continue if their root causes ...Published: 14 Sep 2016 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Chiwenga warns street protest to 'desist' - he must desist propping a dictatorship
You cannot have your cake and eat it too! This is just plain common sense but tyrants like Mugabe think otherwise.When it comes to holding free, fair and credible elections, Mugabe has been de...Published: 09 Aug 2016 at 19:57hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa disowns dubious Team Lacoste
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has distanced himself from Team Lacoste, a Zanu PF faction.He described Team Lacoste, a faction widely believed to be heading as a dubious and reb...Published: 31 Jul 2016 at 07:27hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Allegations of toppling Mugabe strength me - Mnangagwa
Under fire Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said he is not moved by growing accusations that he is leading Team Lacoste and dividing Zanu PF.He told reporters that the accusations give hi...Published: 28 Jul 2016 at 21:05hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Mnangagwa left hanging
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's political life was left hanging by a thread after he was publicly attacked and labelled a troublesome animal by Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Mandi Chi...Published: 28 Jul 2016 at 09:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa leading parallel government- War vets tell Mugabe
Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Mandiitawepi Chimene has told President Mugabe that his deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa is leading a pararell government.She suggested that Mnangagwa shoul...Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 13:43hrs | 2 | by Thobekile Zhou
When Dongo warned of 'vakadzi vaMugabe' Ministers we should have acted there and then
When Mai Dongo talked of Zanu PF leaders being "vakadzi vaMugabe" (Mugabe's wives) because the tyrant terrorized them all turning them into nervous, unsure, subservient and downright frighten old wome...Published: 09 Jul 2016 at 19:57hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Keeping vote rigging shenanigans is Mugabe's soft political underbelly
Zimbabwe's next elections, set for 2018, will be won and lost on the four main fronts: 1) Who can amass the most funds As the incumbent government, Zanu PF will commandeers ...Published: 21 Apr 2016 at 21:13hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Secret to Mugabe's 35 years plus in power - both party and government are full of his subservient 'wives'!
Mugabe has turned a "jewel of Africa", as President Julius Nyerere called Zimbabwe back in 1980, into the basket case of failed state. Life expectancy, the universally accepted qualitative and quantit...Published: 17 Dec 2015 at 21:14hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
To defeat Mugabe we must implement the reforms and be fooled by Mutasa, a dumped passenger!
From the everyday Mugabe signed the Global Political Agreement (GPA) in 2008 committing him and Zanu PF to accepting democratic reform the next national elections were as good as won for Tsvangirai an...Published: 03 Dec 2015 at 06:24hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Sibanda wants to meet Mugabe to appease the tyrant - a fundamental MDC weakness
Jabulani Sibanda revealed the fundamental flaw in his thinking which goes a long way to explain why we are in this political and economic mess."If he (Mugabe) calls me I will go and meet him, ...Published: 11 Sep 2015 at 13:39hrs | 3 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa will howl if Mugabe appoints someone else as he did with Mphoko!
I have known Emmerson Mnangagwa for many years, he is a crafty operator and President Mugabe has employed people like him only to discard them when the dirty work is done without even bothering to say...Published: 30 Aug 2015 at 16:22hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zim 'suspended' tax on diamond Chinamasa lied to IMF - they posted the lie on the website!
Our Finance Minister, Patrick Kiya-kiya" Chinamasa, is still grappling with how to deny the wholesale looting and plunder going on in Marange. Every month the Minister has had to struggle to fi...Published: 01 May 2015 at 16:14hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Tsvangirai must only call for sanctions-removal conference
For some reasons, I found it quite unsettling for the MDC-T to announce that it is planning to convene a 'National Convergence Conference' that will supposedly deal with the alleged "leadership failu...Published: 12 Jan 2015 at 15:47hrs | | by Benny Tsododo
'Zanu-PF should give Mugabe unwavering support,' says Khaya Moyo
ZANU-PF national chairman Simon Khaya Moyo has reiterated that there should be one centre of power in the ruling party for it to remain strong and united.Khaya Moyo said party members should g...Published: 06 Dec 2014 at 17:04hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Why Grace Mugabe entered Zimbabwe's mainstream politics?
President Robert Gabriel Mugabe's second wife, Grace, who is loathed by the economically depressed Southern African nation, for her expensive shopping sprees, of luxury European goods and brands, at t...Published: 21 Nov 2014 at 06:07hrs | 2 | by Itai Mushekwe
Decoding Grace's messages
Let me begin by stating that I have no dog in this fight and hold no brief for the protagonists as I blame them for the economic, social, displacement of the citizens and political problems visiti...Published: 26 Oct 2014 at 05:59hrs | | by Hlaleleni Karanda
The End of Mugabe and Mujuru, rise of Mnangagwa
Cologne - Zimbabwe is now at a very critical juncture of her nationhood, two months before President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF party meets for what is expected to be an explosive Congress, to sel...Published: 23 Oct 2014 at 01:14hrs | 1 | by Itai Mushekwe
Analysis: Why Emmerson Mnangagwa will be the next President of Zimbabwe
COLOGNE- "When the crocodile smiles, be extra careful," so warns a Swahili proverb. Why should one be extra careful when this happens? Some say it's because the reptile is seeing a juicy meat....Published: 24 Sep 2014 at 04:44hrs | 1 | by Itai Mushekwe
'Mugabe to announce resignation?'
COLOGNE - Zimbabwe strongman, President Robert Mugabe, is not going to die in office nor opt for a life presidency, but will instead announce his exit from power before the 2018 Presidential and Parl...Published: 25 Aug 2014 at 10:12hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
General Chiwenga staying put as ZDF Commander after Mugabe
COLOGNE/ VANCOUVER/ HARARE - Zimbabwe's most powerful military general and man, General Constantine Chiwenga, the Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF...Published: 04 Aug 2014 at 06:52hrs | 23 | by Itai Gwatidzo Mushekwe/ Nancy Mabaya/ Mary-Kate Kahari
Mnangagwa behind Grace Mugabe's Zanu-PF Politburo rise?
Ever-scheming Justice minister, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is reportedly the brains behind Grace Mugabe's shock rise to the powerful position of Zanu-PF Women's League leader designate, as he moves to final...Published: 30 Jul 2014 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Itai Gwatidzo Mushekwe/ Mary-Kate Kahari
Baba Jukwa warns of Chinotimba assassination plot
Shadowy Facebook character Baba Jukwa has made sensational claims that there is a plot to assassinate controversial Zanu PF MP Joseph Chinotimba.Below is...Published: 18 Jul 2014 at 21:03hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Army detonates Gono's presidential ambition
COLOGNE - Zimbabwe's no nonsense hardline military generals, have allegedly paralysed former central bank governor, Gideon Gono's ambition to become president as a compromise Zanu PF candidate, after ...Published: 27 Jun 2014 at 07:21hrs | | by Itai Gwatidzo Mushekwe
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