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Zimbabwe is a failed state. So, who will care for the carers when they are old?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? "Who will guard the guards themselves?" or "Who will watch the watchmen?" Asked Roman poet Juvenal.Replace guard with political leader and you can see why democr...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 13:18hrs | 413 | by Wilbert Mukori
45 years of Zanu PF misrule have been 'season of darkness' and even darker years ahead if 2028 elections are postpone
Zimbabwe is one of the world's suppliers of cheap labour and our contribution is not always appreciated.I was talking to a Zimbabwean Doctor who has worked in SA. His pay and working condition...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 22:16hrs | 705 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa loyalists 'targeting' diaspora activists propping Chamisa?
Reports have emerged of a clandestine campaign by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's loyalists to crack down on diaspora activists allegedly funding opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's efforts to form a ne...Published: 18 Jan 2025 at 18:56hrs | 1474 | by Staff reportetr
Ncube budget proves, once again, 'nation can tax itself into prosperity' by taxing poor to spare the rich
"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle," said Si...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 08:44hrs | 12 | by Wilbert Mukori
Tajamuka's Mkwananzi now a political refugee in an undisclosed country
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson, Promise Mkwananzi has skipped the border and is now a political refugee in an undisclosed country after police issued a US$1 000 cash reward for info...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
SADC also fed up with Zanu-PF roguery
For decades, SADC countries have been playing their usual big brother role to successive Zanu-PF governments, shielding them from international condemnation for oppressive rule and corruption and alwa...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 19:33hrs | 23 | by Simbarashe Jingo
Malema providing 500 buses for Zimbos 'to home and vote. They are welcome back.' Juju will flip flop if Zanu PF rig and win
Julius Malema, the leader of SA's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party is a demagogue and, like all demagogues, one cannot reason with him. He does not have the intellectual incapable of compre...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:49hrs | 14 | by Wilbert Mukori
Underperforming ANC hell bent on stopping regime change in Zimbabwe; it's fiddler crab strategy
"South Africa has a Zimbabwe problem - and no one is willing to help it, said African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Fikile Mbalula as he called for an end to long-standing sanctions agains...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 07:33hrs | 12 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zanu PF launches 'Zimbabwe is open for business: Mark 2' Someone is making a killing from these dunderheads!
The Zanu PF spirit to revive the Zimbabwe economy is willing but the intellect is weak!When then Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his fellow conspirator staged the November 2017 military ...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 20:07hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'Zanu PF is rigging 2023, it's normal and CCC must be hard-hat equipped for it!' It's insane and must be stopped, now
In an interview with AFP Nelson Chamisa admitted that Zimbabwe's electoral process has "always attracted controversy" and is "littered with rigging, manipulation" and it is his reaction that we should...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 16:54hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Diaspora keeps Zimbabwe afloat but no vote
ALTHOUGH Zimbabweans in the diaspora are not allowed to vote from their host nations, their cash remittances back home are fast growing and helping to keep the country afloat.Last year, remitt...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:12hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'CCC will win the 2023 elections' Need a reality check here, especially after 42 years of rigged elections
"Our motive is clear, we want to win the 2023 Presidential Election. Let it be known that Chigumba cannot stop the wave of change, said CCC Task Force Com...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 21:27hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
SADC's foolish tous pour un, un pour tous over sanctions must NOT spill into 2023 Zanu PF rigged elections
Zanu PF is blatantly rigging the 2023 elections and the party knows that there is real danger of SADC and AU condemning the process and deny Zanu PF legitimacy as happened after the 2008 elections. Th...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 22:09hrs | 17 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zanu PF is blatantly rigging 2023 and EU gearing to grant it legitimacy under guess of 'constructive dialogue'!
"EU abandons confrontation with Zimbabwe!" screamed The Herald headline! "CHARMED by President Mnangagwa's open door policy and far-reaching economic reforms, more investors will be coming fro...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 23:13hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
SA will slam door shut to Zimbabwean refugees - all we ask, please stop endorsing rigged elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy
Zimbabwe is a textbook case failed state – a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and lawless thugs who have rigged elections to cement their iron grip on power. 42 years of criminal waste of ...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 21:53hrs | 11 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Afrikaner nationalists to patrol Musina border in with sniffer dogs
The ultra-right-wing Afrikaner organisation, AfriForum, has announced it has launched a new initiative to patrol with sniffer dogs at the porous South Africa-Zimbabwe border in Limpopo's Musina area....Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 16:23hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Bulawayo province rejects Khupe
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Bulawayo structures have refused to work with MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe after she offered to rally behind Nelson Chamisa's candidates in the weekend b...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
3 Ethiopians die in Beitbridge minibus accident
THREE Ethiopian nationals reportedly died on the spot while several others were injured when a minibus they were travelling in rammed into the railings of a bridge and burst into flames just 10km alon...Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa under pressure to decant indifference to Zanu PF rigging 2023 elections
The worsening economic situation in SA is forcing ANC to revisit its indifference to Zimbabwe's curse of rigged elections and bad governance. SA cannot afford a new wave of economic and/or political r...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 13:09hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Ndiweni petitions UK over Zimbabwe diaspora voting rights
DETHRONED Ntabazinduna chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has petitioned United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson to prod him to push President Emmerson Mnangagwa to grant Zimbabwean citizens in the di...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Botswana court shuts out Zimbabwean refugees
A COURT in Botswana has turned down an application by Zimbabwean refugees seeking to avoid deportation after the neighbouring country cancelled their refugee status.Media reports from that cou...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 23:27hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe documents citizens in foreign lands
ZIMBABWE's Foreign Affairs ministry claims it has begun a process of documenting the number of fellow citizens residing in foreign lands.There is no exact number of Zimbabweans in foreign land...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 07:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs on SA crisis intervention
LEGISLATORS have called on Zimbabwe and its regional counterparts to urgently take action on the raging South African crisis to rescue locals who could have been caught in the crossfire following rece...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army deserters fight deportation from Botswana
AT LEAST 300 Zimbabwean political refugees, some of them army deserters, are fighting imminent deportation from Botswana.They fled to Botswana in 2008 during a violent election season that for...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 16:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'2023 elections must be transparent, free, fair and credible or will be declared null and void!' ZSD draw battle lines nice and
Zimbabwe Social Democrats Press release 29 January 2021 We in the Zimbabwe Social Democrats demand the implementation of democratic reforms necessary for transparent, free, fair and credible e...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 20:40hrs | 2 | by Zimbabwe Social Democrats
If ZANU PF were the opposition, wouldn't they see a crisis in Zimbabwe?
My most trusted dictionary defines 'crisis' as, "An unstable situation, in political, social, economic, or military affairs".Over the past three months, Zimbabwe - as well as regional and glob...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 10:16hrs | 15 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF must swallow its pride, accede to dialogue
Presidential spokesperson George Charamba's hardline stance against South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's decision to deploy envoys to Harare to meet all stakeholders over the country's multifacet...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must condemn the violent protest by MDC in the UK
The peace loving Zimbabweans must condemn the violence and destruction that has accompanied the visit of the minister of Foreign Affairs by the misguided elements of the opposition in the UK.V...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
9 Zimbabweans burnt alive, in Ramaphosa incited xenophobia - only one to approve ED vote rigging
"Everybody just arrives in our townships and rural areas and set up business without licences and permits. We are going to bring this to an end! And those who are operating illegally must now know," w...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 16:02hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
SA cranks up heat on Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe has once again attracted unwanted global interest in the wake of the trail of terror left by the country's security forces.In an unusually candid rebuke of Zimbabwe, President Cyril R...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 11:19hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa cranks up heat on Mnangagwa?
Zimbabwe has once again attracted unwanted global interest in the wake of the trail of terror left by the country's security forces.In an unusually candid rebuke of Zimbabwe, President Cyril R...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 17:15hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
ANC raises concerns over Zimbabwe instability
The ANC has said that it has noted with concern the political situations in both Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).In a statement on Thursday, the ANC said it understood that...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 16:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Eddie Cross mourns George Bush
George Bush senior died this morning. I met him once, when as Vice President he visited Harare and I was invited to a reception for him. My other indelible memory of the man was watching the GOP Conve...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 11:31hrs | 2 | by Eddie Cross
Political refugee Machaya claims ZANU PF wants to kill him
Shepherd Machaya - a second year Management of Information Technology and Information Systems student - at the Dublin City University (DCU) in Ireland fears for his life should he have to return to Zi...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 16:15hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Zimbabwe will rise!' says Musewe, the dreamer - pipe dreamer ignoring reality of rigged elections
My brother Vince Musewe, the dreamer, is back with a bang! Ever since he parted company with Tendai Biti and his People's Democratic Party (PDP) a year or so ago, Vince has been very quiet. If he was ...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 18:17hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Zero tolerance to corruption,' Dr Moyo advised ED - what, fire everyone including VP and ED himself!
Ever since Dr Nkosana Moyo decided to take part in the elections he knew and was repeatedly warn would be rigged, he lost my respect. He compromised himself and sold his very soul to the devil; there ...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Kasukuwere narrates 'execution' plot
Former Zanu PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere said that he skipped the country's border and sought refugee in Mozambique after learning that the junta wanted to execute him during the...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Arrest all border jumpers, Kasukuwere tells court
FORMER Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has challenged the State to open criminal dockets against all war veterans who skipped the country through illegal crossing points during the libera...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Distraught refugees pouring into Zimbabwe - austere reminder of our own bad governance problem
Distraught! Here was this woman, probably in her early twenties but she already three times as old, whose hut had just burnt down with all she had in this world. She and her son were lucky to escape t...Published: 03 May 2018 at 18:10hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
USA sanction demands are our own 1990s democratic change demands - if ED cannot deliver free elections, he too must go
There are many Zimbabweans out there who have heard a lot said by Zanu PF members and apologist about the economic sanctions imposed by the West and the economic hardships they have caused to the ordi...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 18:50hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Charamba fails to explain why China mega deals came to naught - no business with thugs
When President Mnangagwa and his junta seized power in the military coup last November they those it was all going to be plain sailing from there on. It all looked deceptively easy, at least the first...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 20:36hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
'How can nothing come out of China's mega deals!' argue Knight - let the evidence speak!
Zimbabwe is in a serious economic mess, let us all agree on that! Unemployment has soared to 90%, ¾ of our people are living on US$1.00 or less a day, millions of our people are in the diaspora as ec...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 22:16hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
UK push for Zimbabwe debt write-off in exchange for reform commitment not delivery - not altruism
The British government's approach on Zimbabwe continues to be out of synch with the rest of the international community and, most worryingly, contrary to what is in the best interest of the people of ...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:22hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
The NPF-Mugabe factor in 2018 polls
The emergence of the National Patriotic Front (NPF) led by the former minister of state for Mashonaland East provincial affairs, Retired Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri, has created possibilities ...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 14:00hrs | | by ZDI RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Mystery over Jonathan Moyo's whereabouts
MYSTERY over the whereabouts of former Higher Education minister and Zanu-PF politburo member, Jonathan Moyo deepened yesterday, with the Kenyan government denying claims that the Zimbabwean politicia...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 06:33hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Kenyan govt not sheltering Jonathan Moyo
Despite claims to the contrary, President Uhuru Kenyatta's government says it has not given political asylum to former Cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo, who is wanted back home to answer a slew of alleg...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kenyan govt denies giving Jonathan Moyo asylum
Kenyan government has denied giving former Zimbabwean Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo political asylum.Government Spokesman Eric Kiraithe denied claims that Moyo, who was the Higher Ed...Published: 07 Jan 2018 at 11:49hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
PHOTOS: Jonathan Moyo a political refugee in Kenya?
Former ZBC presenter Ezra 'Tshisa' Sibanda has said it is now clear that the former Zanu-PF spin doctor Professor Jonathan Moyo is being hosted by the Kenyan government as a political refugee....Published: 18 Dec 2017 at 07:58hrs | 17 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe defiant
There are upheavals twists and turns in the unfolding events of the Zimbabwe's political situation as the army took over the country led by the oldest leader in the world Cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe....Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 08:51hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabweans in SA appeal to slain colleague's relatives
ZIMBABWEANS based in South Africa have made an appeal to relatives of slain fellow countryman, Derick Muchapondwa believed to be from Musana area in Bindura, to come forward and collect his body from ...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
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