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Celebrating 10 years of selective activism and ticking boxes!
It pains me when I find myself critiquing Zimbabwean women, especially organisations that want bring change in our broken-down system of fighting gender violence. Sometimes I find it inappropriate to ...Published: 26 May 2025 at 22:15hrs | 656 | by Nomazulu Thata
Ncube and Chamisa are one coin with two sides: Gugugu Magorira
Please do not play with our intelligence. Welshman Ncube is the worst politician we can think of today. Ncube is part of the problem too, just like Chamisa. Professor Mandaza told Chamisa to come clea...Published: 19 Jan 2025 at 19:50hrs | 714 | by Nomazulu Thata
Julius Sello Malema: a politician full of contradictions
Comments about Malema in the in South African social media confirmed my fears about him. Malema does not take critiques kindly; for this reason, he has fallen out with his right-hand-man, Shivambu: th...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 19:26hrs | 1124 | by Nomazulu Thata
Did we confuse generation Z?
ONE of our former lecturers reminded us that change is the only constant factor in our lives, whether we like it or not and whether it is good or not.It was not so much breaking news because e...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 08:16hrs | 135 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Zanu-PF threat to politicise food aid slammed
LOCAL Government minister, July Moyo, has been criticised for threatening to have food aid agencies expelled if they are suspected not to be politically correct by its supporters.Aid agencies ...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's dictatorial leadership style spotlighted
ANALYSTS have expressed misgivings about former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa's leadership style as his former allies open up accusing him of dictatorial tendencies, refusi...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 05:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa now building a popular one-man dictatorship
One of Zimbabwe's seasoned political activists Lovemore Chinoputsa has painted a gloomy picture of the state of the opposition, saying its leaders have fundamentally departed from the late Morgan Tsva...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 20:14hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa's worst nightmare
ON November 4 2023, the High Court of Zimbabwe issued a judgment in favour of Sengezo Tshabangu in the case of Prince Dubeko Sibanda and others.The case was filed by former legislators, who we...Published: 18 Nov 2023 at 19:44hrs | 11 | by Liam Kanhenga & Youngerson Matete
Tshabangu followed due process
THE CBZ Bank said the financial institution followed due process when Sengezo Tshabangu, the self-proclaimed interim secretary-general of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), opened a corporate accoun...Published: 18 Nov 2023 at 19:43hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Feminists have lost track of what they stand for
Disclaimer: This article is written from a male perspective with a light-hearted tone. It is not meant to trivialize or dismiss the important issues surrounding femin...Published: 19 May 2023 at 13:53hrs | 1 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Is Zimbabwe a nation of liars and thieves?
When I was attentively watching the last episode of the Al Jazeera 'Gold Mafia' exposé yesterday - there were expectedly some more troubling revelations made pertaining to the acts of corruption root...Published: 16 Apr 2023 at 18:45hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Diaspora a death trap for cheating partners
As the British Home office plans to deport another plane-load to Zimbabwe again, it has become imperative to find out why many women and some men lost their lives to their spouses over the issue of in...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 18:19hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Pink Pigs' feed millions of hungry 'independent' Zimbabwean citizens; they demand human rights & the rule of law on our behalf
They bite the hand that feeds them in the sense of the word. European countries from the west collect resources from their hard-won taxpayers and afford food aid to countries facing starvation and hun...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 19:55hrs | 17 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Khaya Moyo was politically correct'
MATEBELELAND-BASED political analysts have described the late Zanu-PF spokesperson and former minister Simon Khaya Moyo as a "politically correct" person who avoided aligning himself with factions in ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
COP26: Mnangagwa tried too hard
THE Glasgow COP26 meeting in Scotland, United Kingdom, painted a grim picture about the environment and imminent dangers of climate change. However, besides Africa and the third world carrying the can...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:35hrs | 9 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Khaliphani Phugheni pounces on the smaller fish but exonerates the mighty crocodile
It is not different: the modus operandi is the same: Phugheni sees no evil in Mnangagwa but sees loads of evil in Obert Gutu. This is the same with Jonathan who blamed Gukurahundi to Mnangagwa and les...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 14:16hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Harrowing murders by Zimbabweans in Diaspora
ENGLAND does not change people but it brings out what people were hiding all along. In five years I've been here, 30 Zimbabweans have become uxoricides. Uxoricide (from Latin uxor meaning "wife" and -...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:13hrs | 9 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Zanu-PF seeks to reclaim all MDC Alliance seats'
Zanu-PF is planning to make inroads and reclaim all parliamentary and local council seats in the MDC Alliance-dominated Hwange district.For years, Hwange and Binga districts in Matabeleland No...Published: 10 May 2021 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Catch and release has the prosecutor general failed the fairness test in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe legal system bleeds and limps and trudge on as it staggers towards shame and doom. The people of Zimbabwe have always pointed blood-dripping fingers in the direction of the legal system. The ...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 15:29hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Tracy Mutinhiri: To use a race card in 2021 is unacceptable. My response!
It took some time to respond to Dr. Tracy Mutinhiri's reasons for leaving Chamisa and going back to Zanu PF. Much as it is your right to associate with whatever party of your choice, to label MDC-Alli...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 19:58hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Of power and our intrinsic failings
Like so many of you, I too could never quite wrap it around my head. Just how does arguably the world's most developed nation connive to vote into the most important leadership position an unabashed b...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:56hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
Fair or Unfair 2023 Election - Opposition is going to Win - Teedzai
Maxwell Teedzai, the leader of Zimbabwe's newest opposition part Emej Zimbabwe (Economic Movement for Equality and Justice) has advised the opposition camp in Zimbabwe to stop wasting precious time on...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 18:11hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Chamisa impoverishing MDC members on the altar of political correctness
A "RATIONAL economic" Zanu-PF has been masterminding massive wealth transfers to their enlightened members since 2000. The ruling party members are winning on the economic front by creating wealth whi...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 19:58hrs | | by Brian Sedze
Zimbabwean women in Diaspora financial bullies
Many married couples, the world over, develop a shared understanding of who does what in their relationship. It is sometimes an unspoken recognition of an inevitable division of labour and responsibil...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:25hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chief Justice threatened
There was a report in the media in particular the Newsday Zimbabwe alleging that the suspended judge Ndewere had told off the Chief Justice. The reporter went on to say she refused instructions and th...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 12:00hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa's weird fight against corruption
THERE are some weird winds winds sweeping corruption in high places blowing across Zimbabwe since November 2017. No one can tell which direction the tornado will blow, but a pattern is emerging some p...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:25hrs | 6 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
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 | 52 | by King Mzilikazi II
Mnangagwa in silent judicial revolution
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is a man on a mission — changing the judicial landscape as much and as quickly as he can. The changes are coming at an alarming pace, but Zimbabweans are too preoccupied...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zimbabwe needs a new team to work with Mnangagwa
Cabinet shake-up is the only practical way to strengthen economy:President ED should aim to strengthen Zimbabwe's economy with a thorough reshuffle, highlighting changes in economics-related m...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 18:53hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chiwenga faces culpable homicide charges
CONTROVERSIAL Harare preacher Talent Chiwenga is likely to face culpable homicide charges after the car he was driving from South Africa was involved in an accident killing three people including his ...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 21:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF rescues apostle Chiwenga from the jaws of death
Zimbabwe and social media has been awash with the sad news of the accident of apostle Talent Chiwenga of the TF Chiwenga ministries. Apostle Chiwenga lost his wife and another church member. I...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 13:13hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mawarire attacks Chiwenga
National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has blasted controversial preacher Apostle Chiwenga over his claims that the accident that befell him was an assassination attempt.Chiwe...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 17:27hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa and his love for expensive jets
At a time when Finance minister Mthuli Ncube is implementing austerity measures that have only brought more suffering to ordinary Zimbabweans, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is behaving as if he is from...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 13:45hrs | 1 | by Benjamin Manzini
Mnangagwa to disband Zacc
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has initiated a process to restructure the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) which will see commissioners being forced out.The development comes amid alle...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 09:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's muscle-conomics: The Case of Delta and Civil Servants
In a joint press release on January 3 by the central bank and Delta Corporation, whose arm is the country's biggest beverages maker, backtracked on its decision to sell its products in hard currency. ...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 13:40hrs | | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Cape Town
Kasukuwere and Chombo will not be convicted, this is why?
You often hear about politicians facing public corruption charges in the news. Public corruption refers to any time of instance in which a government official abuses their position of power or public ...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 20:12hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa must take a chance on Mthuli Ncube's ideas
It is clear that Zimbabwe's new Finance minister Mthuli Ncube is not a shy man and neither is he a coward. He would have been aware, weeks in advance, that he would be appointed Zimbabwe's Treasury ch...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 08:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
PJ Powers in Victoria Falls for albinism awareness
POPULAR South African musician Penelope Jane Dunlop - popularly known as PJ Powers or Thandeka - is in Victoria Falls for an awareness show for people living with albinism.PJ PowersPJ Powers t...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:39hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Delusions of Zimbabwe intellectuals
JUST like the media, intellectualism is often overrated as both a source of truth and of accurate information - more so in the field of socio-political commentary.Blatantly partial academic po...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Jessie Majome: The ‘dark art' of manufactured outrage
Election season is in full swing in Zimbabwe. The country's first election without its "political godfather", former President Robert Mugabe, is due in a few months' time.What makes this elect...Published: 15 May 2018 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Enocent Nemuramba
Is Mnangagwa's censure of ZRP genuine?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rebuke of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) over its involvement in the running of Zanu-PF primary elections has received mixed reactions, with some analysts saying he ...Published: 09 May 2018 at 13:31hrs | | by Maxwell Sibanda
The concept of an election
An election is a formal and organized choice by vote of a person for a political office. Election is not a one day process rather but it is a process, and the process is gradual. People make political...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 16:50hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Gukurahundi: What Apology?
Whilst the issue of Gukurahundi remains emotive and certainly one that has built political careers either by design or default for some, the approach according to which a lid will finally shut it once...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 10:50hrs | 2 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Analyst, Johannesburg
Trecherous road, tensions and eulogies:
The road to former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Buhera homestead is symbolic of his life - it meanders and is littered with potholes that have claimed many victims since time immemorial....Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 09:59hrs | 4 | by John Mokwetsi
President, VP, must 'Live and Leave' together
Mbeki-Zuma, Zuma-Motlanthe, Zuma-Ramaphosa, Mugabe-Mujuru, Mugabe-Mnangagwa, Chiluba-Mwanawasa. History is littered with episodes of back-biting, catfights and political Russian-roulettes between the ...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 08:42hrs | | by Robert Sigauke - Political Analyst, Johannesburg
A fair reconciliation panel must be made up of individuals independent of the government - NPP
Revolutionary greetings comrade. Gukurahundi is a sensitive issue because it involved the butchering of thousands of innocent people. Since then, the regime has tried to conceal it and silence the his...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 19:40hrs | 1 | by Khulani David Ndhlovu
Zimbabwe crisis is mainly centred on political will, legitimacy and productivity
For Zimbabwe to meet global standards there are fundamental issues that certainly should be addressed if we are to have a quick economic recovery. We definitely have to listen to this voice that is wr...Published: 04 Jan 2018 at 19:50hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Grace Mugabe sucked into a Zesa dispute
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe has been sucked into a raging dispute between workers and management at Zesa Holdings with a demonstration set for December 20 over the issue, NewsDay reported.I...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 05:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Is Mnangagwa Zimbabwe's Kagame?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's inauguration speech was full of promises on the economy, good governance, international relations and a promise to smoothen relations with multi-lateral financi...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 10:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's time to feast with his friends
I think when Mugabe received a copy of these appointments he could be having the last laugh. Is this the change Zimbabweans were waiting for? Fishing out criminals around the President and fishing out...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 12:55hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
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