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ZANU PF's Push to Scrap Term Limits Echoes 1987 Power Grab
ZANU PF is laying the groundwork for a new constitutional amendment aimed at removing presidential term limits, in a move that closely mirrors the 1987 changes that allowed Robert Mugabe to become Zim...Published: 23 Jun 2025 at 19:40hrs | 766 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Tendai Biti slams Mnangagwa's 2030 agenda as a corrupt power grab
Former Finance Minister Tendai Biti has come out guns blazing against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's so-called "2030 agenda," describing it as a corrupt and self-serving scheme designed to protect sto...Published: 05 Apr 2025 at 08:36hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa says Zimbabwe military is not a tool for personal power grabs
Zanu-PF spokesperson Chris Mutsvangwa has asserted that the military is not a tool for personal power grabs, as internal tensions continue to escalate within the ruling party.His remarks come ...Published: 02 Apr 2025 at 10:53hrs | 1540 | by Staff reporter
ED 2030 Agenda: The one seeking selfish ambition, dividing the nation and threatening national stability
Zimbabwe faces its greatest test since the ouster of Robert Gabriel Mugabe.Of late, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has become increasingly unyielding in his rhetoric, especially in warning those...Published: 28 Mar 2025 at 11:37hrs | 628 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The Unholy Pursuit of Power: A Rebuttal to the Proposal for Extending President Mnangagwa's Term
An article by Tinotenda recently espoused the notion that the proposal for extending President Mnangagwa's term is centered around ensuring continuity and stability in Zimbabwe's economic recovery and...Published: 15 Feb 2025 at 22:45hrs | 433 | by Etiwel Mutero
The Folly of Extending Presidential Terms: A Recipe for Disaster
The notion of extending President Mnangagwa's term has sparked a maelstrom of debate, with proponents arguing that it is essential for continuity and achieving the country's vision for the future. How...Published: 14 Feb 2025 at 16:23hrs | 450 | by Etiwel Mutero
Dr. Tungwarara's call for repression is a betrayal of Zimbabwe's struggle
I was left utterly speechless when I stumbled upon a news report in The Herald, the state-controlled daily newspaper.In it, Dr. Paul Tungwarara, the Special Presidential Investment Advisor to ...Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 22:29hrs | 684 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Would Mnangagwa have entertained calls for him to step down?
The Zimbabwe government never ceases to amaze. In a press statement yesterday, Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba once again attempted to create the impression that President Emmerson M...Published: 23 Jan 2025 at 11:03hrs | 845 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What's so special about two more years, Mr. Mnangagwa?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's maneuvers to amend Zimbabwe's constitution and extend his stay in office beyond the constitutionally mandated two five-year terms have left many Zimbabweans perplexed. ...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 21:44hrs | 1406 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Constitutional coup looms in Zimbabwe
A controversial proposal to amend Zimbabwe's Constitution and extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's term of office by up to five years beyond the 2028 constitutional limit has sparked heated debate. T...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 12:09hrs | 2695 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa supporters in a political fix?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently convened a gathering of Zanu PF and main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators at his farm over the weekend, in a move to mobilise support an...Published: 14 Jan 2025 at 14:27hrs | 2177 | by Staff reporter
What did the ZANU-PF conference achieve besides trying to do something unconstitutional?
The recent ZANU-PF National People's Conference in Bulawayo was expected to chart a course for Zimbabwe's pressing challenges. Yet, rather than addressing the nation's economic woes, poverty l...Published: 28 Oct 2024 at 13:12hrs | 1012 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Association with Chivayo warrants impeachment from Presidency
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, as I see it, the scriptural rhetorical question, "Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?" (Amos 3:3) underscores the impea...Published: 03 Jul 2024 at 15:18hrs | 15 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
What Of The Logo?
Five months ago, I wrote an article criticizing the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) for using ...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 19:29hrs | 1 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Zimbabwe's promises of mega deals are yet to materialise
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, there could be no vainly venture than perversion. It cannot withstand scrutiny. It melts on the onset of cross-examination.As I ...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 14:52hrs | 20 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
France and Ecowas in a fix as Burkina Faso, Mali warn against military intervention in Niger
Coup-hit Niger's neighbours, Burkina Faso and Mali, have warned that any military intervention against Niamey would be considered a "declaration of war" against their nations.The two countries...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 07:55hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF brand at risk
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, my observations confirm that Zanu-PF has no culture of debate. Cadres are muffled, fearful of ruthless consequences as per threats you uttered ...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 06:38hrs | | by Cyprian Ndawana
Mnangagwa losing grip on Zanu-PF
DEFEATS of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's close allies in Zanu-PF primary elections is an indication the embattled Zimbabwean leader is losing grip on the ruling party and power struggles could erupt ...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 20:07hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is 'immature, ideologically bankrupt,' says Jonathan Moyo
PROFESSOR Jonathan Moyo has hit out at Nelson Chamisa's "duplicitous" nature, revealing he worked with the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader for three years, interacting on a daily basis and ...Published: 23 Nov 2022 at 05:05hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally vows 'worse than 2008' violence against opposition
Former state security minister and Zanu-PF top official, Owen Mudha Ncube has threatened opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and his party with violence he vowed shall be worse than the bloodbath experie...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 21:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa wants to appoint Mthuli Ncube as Vice President'
Former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has sensationally claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa wants to appoint Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to be the next Vice President of Zimbvbwe. ...Published: 31 May 2022 at 10:49hrs | 10 | by Mandla Ndlovu
International funders behind eSwatini 'winter revolution'
There are claims that at the centre of the pro-democracy movement riots in eSwatini is a sponsored move for a power grab of resources funded by prominent international organisations with vested intere...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Boardroom coup to topple Matabele leader backfires on Chamisa
When it comes to tribalism in Zimbabwe, CCC aka MDC and ZANU-PF lead. To put it in other words, ZANU-PF is the first anti- Matabele Shona project and first home for Shona supremacists in Zimbabwe and ...Published: 21 May 2022 at 16:12hrs | | by Israel Dube
Nothing wrong with Mpofu's declaration that Zanu-PF will rule forever
It is not surprising that political parties and pressure groups who are funded by the West have angrily reacted to Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu's declaration that the ruling party ...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:42hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Zimbabwe among world's 56 authoritarian States'
ZIMBABWE has been adjudged as one of the 56 countries across the globe whose citizens are increasingly living under authoritarian leadership, the latest 2022 Freedom House report has revealed....Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 15:01hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa back home from AU summit
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has returned home from Ethiopia where he attended the 35th African Union summit.He was welcomed at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport by Vice Presiden...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 14:32hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Spare a thought for Chiwenga's estranged wife
My Dear People,Pictures of the former second lady Marry Mubaiwa struggling to walk while being led to court to face charges of allegedly plotting to kill her powerful ex-husband got everyone t...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's naked power grab
THE Crocodile is his moniker. He came to power in a dramatic two weeks in November 2017. His rise was heralded as a new dispensation for the southern African country, but since then all his actions ar...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Unpacking Nelson Chamisa; MDC Alliance turns into a coven under Chamisa
The word Coven is defined as "a meeting of witches". Witches are associated with the highest level of cruelty mass destruction and inhuman actions covered in catastrophic end. So in a meeting of w...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 23:55hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Why it is wrong to draw parallels between Trump and Mugabe
On November 6, after a speech by Donald Trump in which he baselessly claimed the 2020US presidential election was fraudulent, ABC journalist Leigh Sales criticised what she saw as an outgoing ...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khupe takes over as leader of the opposition in Parliament
Thokozani Khupe's opposition power grab was complete on Wednesday after she was sworn-in as an MP, along with a coterie of her supporters who were defeated in elections in 2018.The MDC-T leade...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 18:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Criminals around President: How Zimbabwe revolution was hijacked (II)
THE first part of this series, which was published last week articulated the unconstitutionality of the military intervention in November 2017, which was a coup d'etat.This week, Part II of th...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:21hrs | 3 | by Jonathan Chando
Chamisa so obsessed with power
As Tsvangirai lay dying in a posh hospital in South Africa on a fully government funded health trip, against all African ways Nelson Chamisa was in the arms of the soon to be widow scheming on ways of...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | 4 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Unpacking the MDC RELOAD document
Many people had high hopes that since Mugabe no longer there, probably Mnangagwa will change the economy of Zimbabwe, people will get jobs, industries will open, a strong Zimbabwe dollar will return, ...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 14:27hrs | 3 | by Etiwel Mutero
Kambarami: A pig in royal robes still finds amusement in mud
The Tinashe Kambarami cabal's crass exhibition of foolishness unmasks the failure of the MDC to run urban councils. The exalted office of councillorship has been defiled by the repugnant behaviour of ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:37hrs | 4 | by Ndabazabantu Sondokhulu
Jonathan Moyo spills more beans on Mnangagwa
Exiled former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has written a Twitter thread exposing how President Emmerson Mnangagwa led his allies in stealing Treasury Bonds through various bogus projects i...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 13:18hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
An abiding tortoise of White House goons
Politics, as an existential science, can be characteristically hot, heavy and heady.In its very extreme form, politics can be similar to religious fundamentalism, where it becomes a matter of ...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:18hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Chamisa abandons Tsvangirai's three VPS
MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa who assumed his first full mandate Sunday, at the end of the opposition party's first congress since the death of founding father Morgan Tsvangirai who died last February, h...Published: 28 May 2019 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
Khupe receives death threats
The official MDC-T leader, Thokozani Khupe has come under attack and now fears for her life in the wake of a recent High Court judgment that restored her as the legitimate leader of a united MDC, NewZ...Published: 12 May 2019 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rituals and spiritualism, the curse of the MDC
In everyday life when the going gets tough or unbearable and when everything seems to have ground to a halt, people tend to turn to social scientists in the form of witchdoctors, spirit mediums, proph...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 09:00hrs | 5 | by Elijah Chihota
Zanu PF blames UK MP for failing to re-engage IMF - by rigging elections, Mnangagwa delivered the coup de grace
"GOVERNMENT will continue to double down on its re-engagement policy notwithstanding the negative attempts by some British legislators to continue isolating Zimbabwe, a senior Government official has ...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 14:53hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa squandered global goodwill over Mugabe ouster
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has squandered the international and local goodwill which followed the November 2017 ouster of predecessor Robert Mugabe.This was said by MDC vice pre...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 09:14hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa so obsessed with power
As Tsvangirai lay dying in a posh hospital in South Africa on a fully government funded health trip, against all African ways Nelson Chamisa was in the arms of the soon to be widow scheming ...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 18:18hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa hypocrisy exposes lack of political, ideological depth
A video circulating on social media of MDC officials, Murisi Zwizwai and Charlton Hwende publicly confronting, accusing and humiliating MDC co-vice-president, Engineer Elias Mudzuri for attending a me...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:12hrs | 5 | by Khumbulani Vodloza Sibanda
Old crocodile fails to change its spots
It's been exactly a year since former President Robert Mugabe resigned, but Zimbabwe is still the house that Bob built — and the new President (Emmerson Mnangagwa) has done little more than paper ov...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 06:06hrs | | by Simon Allison
Debate on Mnangagwa's 'billion-dollar mansion' blocked
THE Speaker of Parliament last week blocked debate on the construction of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's claimed multi-billion-dollar private Harare mansion.The Zanu-PF leader also has a prope...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 11:03hrs | 2 | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa's bravado and inauguration ceremony
THE farcical "inauguration" of MDC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa as president of the country during the party's 19th anniversary celebrations in Harare at the weekend did more harm to the troubled oppositi...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 05:21hrs | 3 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Chigumba, I disagree with you fully! Men are equal political turn-coats
Mukoma Chigumba, I read your articles online with great eagerness. I agree with most of your opinions, sometimes I don't, but this is what democracy is all about, to learn to agree and disagree. This ...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
MDC-Alliance rejects captured Constitutional Court ruling
The MDC notes with grave concern and rejects today's evidently captured decision of the Constitutional Court to endorse a patently sham election and to entrench an illegitimate regime that used brazen...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 19:59hrs | | by MDC Communications
War veteran Matemadanda off side
War veterans are the vanguard of the liberation struggle and must be tolerate of divergent views in a democratic country.Secretary General of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Asso...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 10:34hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
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