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Was Rhodesia safer for civilian activists than under a brutal blood-thirsty Zimbabwe regime?
When I was a little boy, we loved listening to "Chimurenga", or liberation struggle songs, that our gallant Zimbabwean musicians belted out, as a way of e...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1596 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
NGO sets up campaign platform for electoral candidates
KWEKWE-BASED civic society organisation, the Zimbabwe Organisation for Youths in Politics (ZOYP), has launched a platform for candidates in the March 26 by-elections to publicly debate their party man...Published: 16 hrs ago | 363 | by Staff reporter
US Embassy sweats to save Chamisa's sinking ship
The United States Embassy in Harare has reactivated its propaganda machinery ahead of the forthcoming by-elections slated for March 26.After a notable lull in propaganda tweets since the depar...Published: 16 hrs ago | 1234 | by Hosia Mviringi
Chamisa concedes defeat in the battle for MDC?
FORMER MDC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa conceded defeat in the battle for control of the heart and soul of the opposition party as he surrendered the name MDC-Alliance to adopt the name Citizen Coalition ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 598 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans' unquestioning belief in their leaders a retrogressive weakness that prevents accountability and development
One would be forgiven for believing that questioning one's leaders, and holding them accountable would be a given - a normal part of everyday life, whereby a country's citizens, or city's residents, a...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 20:27hrs | 258 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa drops MDC Alliance, adopts CCC
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has formed a new political party - Citizens Coalition for Change, a move he said will define a new course in Zimbabwean politics.Addressing a press conference ...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 20:08hrs | 1683 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on verge of becoming mbanje research hub for southern Africa
MBANJE, marijuana, cannabis or hemp, is one plant that has accounted for many people in Zimbabwe's prisons.Possession, let alone, cultivation or smoking it, has had serious consequences such a...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 05:22hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter
Tough questions for Mnangagwa, Chamisa ahead of 2023 polls
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's desperate quest to stop Nelson Chamisa from contesting elections under the MDC-Alliance banner betrays the Zanu-PF strongman's lack of confidence in his ability to win a...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 20:41hrs | 3029 | by Staff reporter
Tender scandal: Zacc scared of Mangwiro
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is politically hamstrung to arrest deputy Health minister John Mangwiro (pictured) after he allegedly coerced state-owned medical supplies entity NatPhar...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 20:39hrs | 1061 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere dares Mnangagwa
Exiled former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere last week declared himself a thorn in the flesh of Zanu-PF and dared President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government to arrest him.Kasukuwere ...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 08:05hrs | 4751 | by Staff reporter
A political accident waiting to happen
Communities are glued and bound together by more than blood.They share a common past, history, heritage, values, norms and aspirations.The commonality bred by sharing similar languages...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 07:58hrs | 285 | by Bishop Laz
Zimbabwe permit holders bank on SA ConCourt ruling
A SOUTH AFRICAN Constitutional Court ruling late last year could provide some reprieve for Zimbabweans battling possible deportation after the expiry of their special exemption permits last month....Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:24hrs | 2197 | by Staff reporter
Americans lecturing Zanu PF on 'criteria for free elections' – umpteenth lecture, how naïve/patronising
"March by-elections and the 2023 harmonized elections give the Government of Zimbabwe a chance to show that #ZimVotesMatter, especially if it honors its c...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 00:29hrs | 315 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mahomva appointed Director
The ruling party ZANU PF has appointed Richard Runyararo Mahomva as Director in the Office of the Secretary for Administration at the party headquarters....Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 21:45hrs | 1114 | by Shelton Muchena
South Africa's Judge Mogoeng Mogoeng found guilty
Former South Africa Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has been found guilty for defying Judge Mojapelo's Judicial Conduct Committee decision ordering him to unconditionally apologise and retract his...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 17:52hrs | 2648 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Zanu-PF bigwigs on firing line'
Zanu-PF Manicaland chairperson Mike Madiro yesterday warned that a number of party members were on the firing line as President Emmerson Mnangagwa desperately moves to assert his control of the party ...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 05:26hrs | 4096 | by Staff reporter
Green bombers throw weight behind Kasukuwere
Zimbabwe National Youth Service Graduates Association sternly warns Mutsvangwa against his childish sentiments torwards Cde Saviour Kasukuwere.Mutsvangwa was an opportunist of the liberation s...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 00:56hrs | 1936 | by Kudakwashe Ndavara
Azania Azania Azania! You are not an Island
Bulawayo - The first time I entered my primary school, 1988 at the assembly point after singing the national anthem, it was a mandatory to sing a song called Azania sympathising with our fellow contin...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 19:48hrs | 961 | by Enos Denhere
Electoral reforms must dominate political discourse in 2022
AS we bask on the cusp of a new year, Zimbabweans appear to have gone agog about the pending by-elections and what many deem to be the watershed plebiscite of 2023.And yet for some of us, high...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | 169 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Kasukuwere, ex-Zanu-PF MPs' meeting jolts party
Zanu-PF is reportedly fretting over a meeting involving exiled former party commissar Savior Kasukuwere, vocal former Chivi West MP Killer Zivhu and Norton MP Temba Mliswa (Independent) in South Afric...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:42hrs | 5505 | by Staff reporter
'Electoral reforms before elections'
REGIONAL grouping of civil society organisations, Citizens in Action Southern Africa (CIASA), has urged opposition parties and stakeholders in the country to lobby for electoral reforms before electio...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:39hrs | 977 | by Staff reporter
Lindiwe Sisulu to apply her mind on ANC presidency
Minister of Tourism Lindiwe Sisulu is playing her cards close to her chest about her presidential ambitions as slates for the ANC's 55th elective conference have started doing rounds.Sisulu, 6...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:35hrs | 810 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa a cunning megalomaniac
THERE is a problem that the Zimbabwean electorate is not seeing in the opposition politics of our country.The situation cannot even be explained using the words disaster and catastrophe. Many ...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1118 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Chamisa's party urgently needs new name
POLITICAL scientists say the main opposition MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa has no choice but to rebrand and change its name ahead of the 26 March by-elections and the crucial general elections ne...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:18hrs | 3613 | by Staff reporter
Rebranding is a matter of life and death for MDC-Alliance
WILLIAM Shakespeare, the 16th century English playwright who once prominently featured on the Zimbabwean Ordinary Level and Advanced Level English literature school curriculum, once rhetorically asked...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:16hrs | 908 | by Taona T. Denhere
Chamisa's difficult political calculus
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa — who is hugely popular and got over two million votes in the 2018 presidential election — is caught between a rock and a hard place a...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:14hrs | 1164 | by Dumisani Muleya
Mnangagwa democratic credentials face litmus test in election season
THE year 2022 is a litmus test for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime which promised to open up political space and uphold civil liberties as temperatures hot up ahead of next year's general electi...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:13hrs | 565 | by Staff reporter
Blacks representation should be more than just wokeism and hypersensitivity - our values need representation too
In one of the popular interviews of our generation, Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, told Oprah Winfrey about the importance of representation. I agree. But, by the same token, black people have ...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 10:29hrs | 327 | by Mandlenkosi Siziba
Gukurahundi genocide apology without truth-telling won't work
Mliswa tells Mnangagwa to fire Kirsty CoventryINDEPENDENT Norton MP and former Dynamos fitness trainer Themba Mliswa has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to fire the Minister of Youth, Sport...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 09:22hrs | 980 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa caught in between a rock and a hard place
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is caught between a rock and a hard place ahead of crucial by-elections on 26 March.Nomination is on 26 January.Chamisa fa...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:04hrs | 4338 | by Staff reporter
Owen 'Mudha' Ncube overplayed his hand
BY the time fired State Security minister Owen "Mudha" Ncube was removed from office, he had become a Frankenstein monster for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, as he was now causing havoc in his home pro...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:01hrs | 1141 | by Staff reporter
Muchena launches political manual
FORMER Higher and Tertiary Education minister Olivia Muchena will today launch a book for aspiring politicians titled: Next Generation African Political Leaders: The Power of Preparation, at a Harare ...Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 05:21hrs | 574 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga says Zimbabwe won't let a brotherly nation down
The just-ended SADC Extraordinary Heads of State and Government summit in Lilongwe, Malawi managed to galvanise the region's leadership to realise the importance of unity in dealing with issues of pea...Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 05:18hrs | 795 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora not Chamisa's keeper
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora yesterday ruled out mending relations with MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, arguing that politics was about competition.Mwonzora made the remarks a day after i...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:17hrs | 3011 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has no chance in 2023?
ALL odds are stacked against opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and the divided opposition as the country marches towards the 2023 elections, with analysts predicting that Zanu-PF leader, P...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:34hrs | 4242 | by Staff reporter
Hi Mzansi, have we seen justice?
Apartheid was "legal". Jim Crow laws in the United States were "legal". Colonialism was "legal". Even the Nazis were "legal". So, what does it mean to have the rule of law? And whose law is it anyway?...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 19:44hrs | 2915 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
Chamisa's options in the context of despotic capture of MDC Alliance?
In 1998, in Russia's St Petersburg, Oleg Sergeyev ran for the Governor's position. When he officially launched his campaign, to his chagrin there were two other opponents. Opponent one was Oleg Sergey...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:08hrs | 4635 | by Staff reporter
It's Chamisa time!
The long awaited by-elections which were recently proclaimed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa are going to put to test Zimbabwe's main opposition parties, with the Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance havin...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:11hrs | 4617 | by Brighton Chiseva
Zec credibility questioned
THE recent announcement by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) that only 2000 new voters were registered in 2021 has once again raised credibility issues against the electoral body.Zimbabw...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 19:39hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
Adv Sibanda declared national hero
THE Zanu-PF Politburo has posthumously declared the late former High Court Judge Advocate Siwanda Kennedy Mbuso Sibanda a national hero.Adv Sibanda, a legal icon of the liberation struggle, di...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 18:58hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, who has bewitched you?
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, as I see it, the spirit of the Lord is not upon the clerics who surround you. They were not anointed to preach the good news to the poor. The...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:58hrs | 1114 | by Cyprian Muketiwa
'Zanu-PF gatherings a threat to COVID-19 control'
THE Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) has called on the government to lead by example by limiting crowds at its events in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.In its latest monthly report,...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 06:00hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
'Politicians are killing Zimbabwe football'
FORMER Zifa president Vincent Pamire has said political interference is negatively affecting football in the country.Pamire was speaking at a church service for former vice-president Ndumiso G...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 05:58hrs | 895 | by Staff reporter
'Divisions stifling Bosso's growth'
BULAWAYO Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Judith Ncube yesterday challenged Highlanders to unite and work for the good of the club to save the institution from collapsing.Speaking at...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 05:57hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
2022 should be the year of the people's power in Zimbabwe!
Knowledge is power - so the adage goes! Indeed, he who holds knowledge wields tremendous power.It is good to accumulate knowledge on such things as mathematics, engineering, medicine, ...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 11:49hrs | 694 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe peddles a world-class Constitution that guarantees
The truth however, is this is just for show and is rarely enforced. How then can we use the beautiful...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 16:49hrs | 872 | by Sam Wezhira
Low voter registration signals distrust in electoral system and lack of faith in main political parties
As the year 2023 beckons - with an anticipation of fierce and potentially bruising electoral contestation between Zimbabwe's two main political rivals, ZANU PF and MDC Alliance - one would have though...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 11:22hrs | 690 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Gweru MP berates food politicisation
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance Gweru urban legislator Brian Dube has spoken out against food politicisation in the province amid economic hardships facing many regardless of political affiliation.Dub...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:54hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Internal polls expose Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF faithful have unwittingly disclosed that they were given fake national identity (ID) cards to cheat in the party's internal elections, a revelation that renders credence to opposition claims o...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:19hrs | 702 | by Staff reporter
Inter Africa boss contests in Zanu-PF internal polls
TRANSPORT mogul Leonard Mukumba has become the latest candidate to throw his hat in the ring to contest in Zanu-PF Manicaland provincial elections set for today.Mukumba, who owns Inter Africa ...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:18hrs | 902 | by Staff reporter
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