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Thabo Mbeki still 'bitter' since the 2007 ANC Polokwane conference
Former ANC president Thabo Mbeki stunned the party's national executive committee (NEC) members when he questioned the existence of the trial that resulted in his successor Jacob Zuma being convicted ...Published: 16 Feb 2025 at 16:23hrs | 893 | by Staff reporter
From Ramaphoria to Ramageddon
Many political observers have reacted with both "shock and awe" to the astounding performance of the Umkhonto we Sizwe Party in one of South Africa's most contested elections.Indeed, to borrow...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 15:01hrs | 5 | by Sipho Seepe
Thabo Mbeki lied about causes of load-shedding
Former President Mbeki referred in his yesterday's speech to the coal stockholding at Eskom in 2007-2008. He got the facts wrong, and unless corrected, gullible South Africans will believe the...Published: 14 Mar 2024 at 16:23hrs | 7 | by Engineer Matšhela Koko
Thabo Mbeki has not died
The Thabo Mbeki Foundation has set the record straight: former South African President Thabo Mbeki is alive and well, contrary to online reports claiming he has died.In a statement issued Wedn...Published: 03 Jan 2024 at 21:00hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mbeki advised Mnangagwa to put 'best national interests above self'. Must reprimand Ramaphosa for interfering
After the SADC election observers virtually said the 23 August 2023 Zimbabwe elections are not representative of popular opinion and submitted their report. It was then for SADC to decide," commented ...Published: 22 Sep 2023 at 16:06hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Sham elections likely to spark uprisings - Analysts
THE failure by regional bodies to deal with disputed elections in Zimbabwe could lead to a possible revolution, a new report has warned.Zimbabwe will hold general elections on 23 August 2023 b...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:13hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's epic speech on epic day
MEMORY is a site of the struggle. Only in the rubric of yester-year memories can we trace where we have come from so that we use the lessons of the past to forge and sharpen future struggles on the an...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:11hrs | 12 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa's lightning rod
God's emissariesI have nothing against clerics or pastors; in fact my reverence for them is a euphemism for the abject fear I hold of being denied the side and place of comfort in the world yo...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:33hrs | | by Jamwanda
Trevor Manuel is 'hypersensitive and entitled'
Television host and businessman JJ Tabane has told the Johannesburg high court that Trevor Manuel's urgent defamation lawsuit against him smacks of a "hypersensitive and entitled" individual.T...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 09:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere shown middle finger by Zanu-PF
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa does not need the support of "moonlighting" and "failed" politicians to lead Zanu-PF to a thunderous victory in the upcoming by-elections and in the 2023 harmonised elections as he...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Go well my friend, Cde SK
COMRADE Simon Khaya Moyo is no more. He has joined the pantheon of Zimbabwe's finest patriots throughout the ages. Of recent note are fellow heroines and heroes of Chimurenga II who sacrificed to bury...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 09:12hrs | 32 | by Amb Chris Mutsvangwa
Mugabe: A nationalist hero and authoritarian dictator
A group of Robert Gabriel Mugabe admirers, linked to Zanu-PF, has published a profile of Robert Mugabe. They are trying to provide a profile of the late president, combining both the positive and nega...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | 2 | by Fay Chung
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 5 | by Samantha Power
How South Africa can nudge Zimbabwe toward stability
What's new? As Zimbabwe's political and economic crises worsen, South Africa is moving beyond its policy of "quiet diplomacy" with its northern neighbour and applying more pressure on Harare to open...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by crisisgroup
Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics
The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | 7 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
'MDC went into GNU with no plan, sat and ate' - amused and irritated SADC in equal measure
"Chamisa: We went into GNU with no plan, sat and ate!" screamed the headlines in New Zimbabwe.Every SADC leader involved in the Zimbabwe political crisis during the 2008 to 2013 GNU was amused...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:41hrs | 4 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
President Mbeki right on electoral fraud based triumphalism
Zanu PF's intention to spin remarks by President Mbeki are baseless and an act of desperation to find endorsement where none exists.In essence President Mbeki recognises that a win which Mnang...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 15:25hrs | | by MDC Communications
Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation Director's Life in grave danger: Q & A Interview
The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) has had contact with the Director of the Dr Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation who is now in hiding and fears for his life. We put to him a co...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 16:46hrs | 1 | by Thembani Dube
Biti challenges Ramaphosa
MDC Deputy National Chair Tendai Biti says President Ramaphosa has a key role to play in resolving the crisis in Zimbabwe. And he warned: 'If Zimbabwe implodes South Africa will suffer'.Biti w...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 19:44hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Thabo Mbeki to grace Dabengwa Foundation awards
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki will be the guest of honour at the Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation inaugural awards meant to celebrate the country's unsung liberation war heroes and heroines....Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 10:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa plays the ball close to his chest
Being in one of the highest offices in a country is not all that funny and easy, especially if you are a young one, because there is a lot that needs to be done and learnt. The president will show mor...Published: 26 Dec 2017 at 16:49hrs | 2 | by Luke Mbune Chakaza - Correspondent
White SA party calls for fresh elections in Zimbabwe
A Whites controlled party in South Africa, the Democratic Alliance, has called for Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe to resign and the country to hold fresh elections, as the security situation in th...Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 10:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe must step down and free and fair elections held immediately
The current instability in Zimbabwe must be a cause for concern for all African countries who stand for democracy on the continent.According to reports, the Zimbabwean Defence Force has moved ...Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 09:32hrs | | by Mmusi Maimane
REWIND: Tsvangirai pleads for sanctions to be imposed on his country
This article was originally published by the UK T...Published: 26 Sep 2017 at 11:44hrs | 1 | by Tim Butcher in Johannesburg
Military violence in Harare a sign of bigger problems
Citizens in Harare yesterday witnessed another episode of lawlessness involving members of the uniformed forces.Soldiers were indiscriminately beating up police officers and sometimes clashing...Published: 02 Aug 2017 at 09:17hrs | | by Jacob Mafume
Mugabe, Mbeki in private talks
FORMER South African leader Thabo Mbeki flew into Harare early on Monday for "consultations" with President Robert Mugabe, as Zimbabwe teeters on the brink of implosion over the 93-year-old Zanu-PF le...Published: 02 Aug 2017 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mbeki failed to correct Mugabe,' accused Chamisa - did MDC do any better in 5 years of GNU
Many Zimbabweans continue to blame SADC and SA's former President Tambo Mbeki for Zimbabwe's worsening political crisis since 2008. What these people have failed to understand is that we are an indepe...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 17:01hrs | 5 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mbeki provokes the ire of Zimbabwean opposition
Former president Thabo Mbeki has provoked the ire of Zimbabwean opposition parties after he claimed that the British regime change policy on Zimbabwe was not for the benefit of the local majority but ...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
SADC must do to Mugabe what ECOWAS did to Yahya Jammeh
In a haze of nostalgia, social media was awash with people saying that it was a grave mistake that the electorate let go of a thorough politician like Thabo Mbeki only to be governed by the incumbent ...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 14:47hrs | | by Rita T.M. Kufandarerwa
Politics of our lives
This is cool. In South Africa President De Klerk has found his voice yet during his time as National Education Minister he continued the principle of segregation at universities and in 1993 his govern...Published: 05 May 2017 at 17:56hrs | 1 | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
Beneficiaries of Codesa linked BEE transactions feeling the heat
President Jacob Zuma's plan to take white capital monopoly head-on is starting to bear fruits and more casualties line up for trauma treatment.Although Zuma appears as a victim but the truth i...Published: 10 Apr 2017 at 08:18hrs | 3 | by Social media
Thabo Mbeki appointed as Unisa's new chancellor
Unisa has named former president Thabo Mbeki as its new chancellor, in a bid to reposition itself as an African university, it said on Thursday."As we welcome [former] president Mbeki as o...Published: 09 Dec 2016 at 08:41hrs | | by News24.com
Open letter to President Jacob Zuma concerning Zimbabwe
Sir:Parliamentary Panel on Zimbabwean Situation NecessaryI write this letter with a heavy heart as I contemplate how best to address you ...Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 13:54hrs | 37 | by Ken Sibanda
Matebele nation too rich to beg money from financially broke Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe as we know it, is a failed state that has lost its financial sovereignty and international reputation due to hyper inflation, economic mismanagement and institutionalised corruption....Published: 09 Jun 2016 at 07:09hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
President Mbeki 'blocked' the holding of free elections in Zimbabwe in 2002, say senior US Official
A senior US government official, Ambassador Bellamy, admits that Mugabe reign of terror could have been ended as far back as 2002 is SA had not undermined the international community's efforts to do s...Published: 03 May 2016 at 06:46hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Tell no lies, claim no easy victories!
The articles we have been publishing on the Facebook page, 15 years later have sought to live up to this commitment – to be "a combatant for the truth, for the liberation of the minds of the people ...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 06:33hrs | | by Thabo Mbeki
Mbeki cannot blame GNU failure on opposing West 'pernicious global diktat'
Former SA President Thabo Mbeki has used his latest article to justify why his administration had opposed the UN Security Council's attempts to imposed UN sanction on Zimbabwe after the 2008 rigged el...Published: 01 Mar 2016 at 07:34hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
It is Biti, not Thabo Mbeki, who is lying: MDC sold-out on implementing reforms
In a follow-up radio interview to President Thabo Mbeki letter "SA policy on Zimbabwe" with Redi Thlabi on 702 Cape Talk Tendai Biti said a lot of things, I would like to take him up one the one issue...Published: 24 Feb 2016 at 06:38hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
LISTEN: 'Mbeki must shut up,' says Tendai Biti
Former Zimbabwean finance minister Tendai Biti on Tuesday accused former president Thabo Mbeki of failing to negotiate fairly between Zanu-PF and MDC by advocating for a coalition government after the...Published: 23 Feb 2016 at 11:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mbeki, as GPA guarantor, is 5% responsible for its failure to deliver free and fair elections
I totally agree with Former President Thabo Mbeki's position to oppose the British proposal to invade Zimbabwe and forceful remove Mugabe from office. "In the period preceding the 2002 Zimbabw...Published: 22 Feb 2016 at 22:30hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mangoma's acceptance speech
SALUTATIONS Madam Vice President and members of the Management Committee, Guardian Council Members, NEC Members, Provinces and District members ...Published: 24 Oct 2015 at 14:13hrs | 12 | by Elton Steers Mangoma RDZ President
Mugabe's Zanu-PF must thank Morgan Tsvangirai
Zanu-PF smiles from ear to ear whenever the opposition opens its mouth to speak, for that it must thank Tsvangirai.IT'S unlikely we'll ever get a public admission, but I suspect Zanu-PF is del...Published: 06 Jul 2015 at 12:06hrs | 2 | by Edmund Kudzayi
The Mugabe's vs Zanu-PF vs Zimbabwe
There is a lie that has been told over and over again, to the extent that the world over now considers it to be true.The lie goes like this "God helps those that help themselves" there could b...Published: 01 Dec 2014 at 22:32hrs | | by Dlayila Om'hle
Governance Crisis in Zimbabwe - The Need for International Action
Press Statement from MDC UK and IrelandThe MDC UK and Ireland joins the rest of the democratic world in demanding that the South African Presidency explain to Zimbabwean people why it hid from...Published: 24 Nov 2014 at 11:03hrs | 2 | by Makusha Mugabe
'We will not take up arms,' says Tsvangirai
The opposition MDC-T party will not resort to "taking up arms" against President Robert Mugabe's government in order to wrestle power, opposition MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai said yesterday....Published: 20 Nov 2014 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Canada almost deposed Mugabe'
President Robert Mugabe survived mounting international pressure to depart from office seven years ago, after former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, reportedly resisted efforts to elbow out Mug...Published: 10 Sep 2014 at 08:38hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
Tsvangirai, Khupe the only solution to Zimbabwe's woes
In our article published on the 19th, entitled, "Tsvangirai, the best since sliced bread," we argued that Zimbabwe...Published: 22 Aug 2014 at 13:39hrs | | by Dlayila Omuhle
'Vote ANC,' says Mugabe
PRESIDENT Mugabe on Friday threw his weight behind South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), saying the revolutionary party should win this year's elections as it had the ...Published: 27 Apr 2014 at 15:39hrs | 9 | by Vusumuzi Dube
Tsvangirai endorsed Mugabe
Mugabe the only one who can control securocrats... MDC-T President Morgan Tsvangirai nominated Robert Mugabe to be to be the Head of State and Gover...Published: 05 Mar 2014 at 22:57hrs | | by Lizwe Msebele
Mugabe in South Africa for Mandela memorial
PRESIDENT Mugabe will Tuesday join over 90 current and former heads of state and government from around the world for the memorial service of former South African president Nelson Rohihlahla Mandela ...Published: 09 Dec 2013 at 17:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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