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Mugabe's business empire, The death of a dynasty
BARELY five years after the demise of Zimbabwe's former ruler Robert Mugabe, the vast wealth he owned and accumulated throughout the 37 years of his reign is disappearing.A great dynasty appea...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:39hrs | 1283 | by Africa Report
Magaisa was secretly dining with a Zanu-PF faction
Having gone through a lot of Alex Magaisa's recent articles, it is fair that a response by a Zimbabwean youth is given. After the disastrous 2013 election, the MDC-T family and its president Morgan Ts...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:38hrs | 2188 | by Honourable Vincent Tsvangirai MP
New UK sanction confirm 'Zanu PF has lost international goodwill' - must be smarter sanctions
There is a growing international consensus that the West, starting with the UK, has lost patience with the Zanu PF's contemptuous arrogance and disregard for human rights and common decency and is tur...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 09:58hrs | 1281 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Zimbabwe opposition wars comic and tragic'
The usual band of political analysts say the deepening rifts in the country's opposition will once again gift the ruling Zanu-PF an easy victory in the 2023 national elections. The analysts al...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:47hrs | 903 | by Staff reporter
UK imposing sanctions on Zanu PF pressuring SADC to do same - is it too little too late
One of the biggest Zimbabwe foreign policy blunders the British government has ever made in the last decade was to believe Mnangagwa's foolish rhetoric that Zimbabwe had changed for the better followi...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 07:46hrs | 4959 | by Wilbert Mukori
Tribalism at its best: Khuphe a leader sent from hell! My reply!
They see everything is wrong and going wrong because of Thokozani Khuphe. But who ignited the whole shenanigans going on in the MDC opposition parties? Indeed tribalism is embedded, it is entranced in...Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 15:10hrs | 5818 | by Nomazulu Thata
Unpacking Professor Stephen Chan's interview with Bernard
There are no imaginative skills on how to move the country forward internally and externally, be it economic and political in both the ruling party and the opposition of Nelson Chamisa. In 2018,...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 11:58hrs | 1778 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa seems to have run out of strategic ideas, says Dr Chan
Academic and former International Civil Servant with the Commonwealth Professor Stephen Chan speaks on the impact of the Mozambican conflict on Zimbabwe; opposition politics and the socio-economic sit...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 21:08hrs | 3075 | by Staff reporter
'Everyone is taking potshot at Zimbabwe' tweeted Mnangagwa in exasperation, knows the game is up
"In sending back the first delegation led by gentleman Sydney Mufamadi with tails between legs, Mnangagwa simply racked up pressure on himself. Now the ANC sends in the hard man (Magashule)," said Pro...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 17:28hrs | 6836 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
African leaders abandon Mnangagwa
None of the 21 African leaders invited to the ongoing UK-Africa Investment Summit raised a finger over the snubbing of Zimbabwean leader Emmerson Mnangagwa to the event. This was said by respe...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 16:58hrs | 16943 | by Staff Reporter
'Sanctions enable Zanu-PF to mishandle the economy'
As the United Kingdom is considering putting fresh names of Zimbabwean authorities under the European Union sanctions list for human rights violations following recent alleged killings by members of t...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 14:58hrs | 1232 | by Staff reporter
'USA sanctions will harm the poor,' argue analysts - garbage in garbage out
"In computer science, garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) is where flawed, or nonsense input data produces nonsense output or "garbage"!" explained Wikipedia."The principle also applies more genera...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 07:51hrs | 932 | by Wilbert Mukori
Majority wants status quo: Survey
THE majority of Zimbabweans are expressing confidence in President Mnangagwa's administration and are becoming more sympathetic to the ruling Zanu-PF, just two weeks before general elections, a survey...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 06:13hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mnangagwa looks set to win without cheating
Professor Stephen Chan, OBE, who teaches on African Political Thought at SOAS University of London, believes the ruling party will continue Mugabe's winning legacy.Speaking to ...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 13:54hrs | 5000 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's barking puppies'
Nelson Chamisa has threatened that his MDC party will 'not allow' the elections on 30th July unless electoral reforms are made. The party has called for a demonstration in Harare on Tuesday to insist ...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 13:01hrs | 1855 | by ZimVigil
Mugabe's cash demand exposes his duplicity
It has become clear now that Mugabe has been indicating right while turning left. In him, Zimbabwe had a first degree whited sepulchre, a cash and land baron. Most of the banks are giving out less tha...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 06:11hrs | 177 | by Tafara Shumba
60 000 for Mugabe's homecoming rally
The Zanu-PF aligned Herald reports that ngoing Presidential Youth Interface rallies have confirmed Zanu-PF's immense popularity in addition to strengthening intra-party unity, the ruling party's secre...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 06:45hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
Professor Ncube on the softest ever BBC HardTalk - rename it SoftTalk and be done with it
I have watched many BBC HardTalk programmes over the years and last night's programme with Welshman Ncube as the invited guest is, in my humble opinion one of the "softest" ever! The British g...Published: 12 Jul 2017 at 16:41hrs | 1088 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Coalition of zeros' in panic mode at Mugabe's popularity
The ruling Zanu-PF has launched Presidential Youth Interface Rallies that will see President Mugabe going around the country meeting youths and hearing their concerns for later addressing.At t...Published: 15 Jun 2017 at 06:43hrs | 299 | by Nicole Hondo
Afrobarometer report timely warning
ZIMBABWE'S opposition parties, which are in the process of forming a grand coalition to mount a united challenge against President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party in the 2018 elections, cannot aff...Published: 19 May 2017 at 15:50hrs | 301 | by Cyril Zenda
Opposition coalition will not win: Biti
In yet another vote of no confidence in the mooted grand opposition coalition, People's Democratic Party, (PDP), leader, Tendai Biti has admitted that an opposition coalition would not dislodge Zanu P...Published: 19 May 2017 at 07:05hrs | 1837 | by Tinotenda Mutasa
'A better Zimbabwe tomorrow'
Mugabe is said to have thwarted a coup attempt by supporters of Vice-President Mnangagwa. This comment came from the political analyst Ibbo Mandaza in an interview by the journalist Violet Gonda....Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 18:47hrs | 980 | by ZimVigil
Chinamasa trapped by less than 10 ZimVigil protestors in London
Zimbabwean demonstrators lay down in the road outside the conference in London addressed by Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa preventing him from leaving for more than an hour.The ...Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 23:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Tragedy of Zim is no one has plan for the future,' says UK Professor - sadly, he is right
Professor Stephen Chan, of world politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London says VP Mnangagwa will have to make his bid for power this year because he too, like...Published: 07 Jun 2016 at 06:51hrs | 2482 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Tsvangirai's time is over as a meaningful Zimbabwean political force'
MORGAN Tsvangirai's time as “a meaningful political force" is over and Zanu PF will win with ease the 2018 general election, UK academic and Zimbabwe watcher Professor Stephen Chan has said. He is p...Published: 25 Sep 2014 at 16:44hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Mujuru to take over from Mugabe'
RENONWED University of London academic and expert on Zimbabwean politics Professor Stephen Chan has revealed that in the Zanu-PF succession battles he preferred Vice-President Joice Mujuru to tak...Published: 07 Sep 2014 at 15:57hrs | 4530 | by Staff reporter
Britain committed to mending relations with Zim
British envoy to Zimbabwe Deborah Bronnert said Zimbabwe's former colonial master - Britain - remains committed to mending relations with Zimbabwe despite the tension that currently exists between the...Published: 27 Jun 2012 at 13:01hrs | 1612 | by Staff Reporter
Whether you like or hate Tsvangirai, this time he got it right
It was Professor Stephen Chan who not so very long ago wrote something to the effect that even though Morgan Tsvangirai is prone to gaffes, he is still capable of some strokes of "genius". Perhaps n...Published: 16 Nov 2011 at 08:06hrs | | by Muthulisi Mathuthu
Tsvangirai is a stooge of the West: Gwisai
Incarcerated former MDC Member of Parliament for Highfield, Munyaradzi Gwisai has described the MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, as a stooge of the West and a capitalist.The unsavoury rem...Published: 03 Mar 2011 at 20:09hrs | 730 | by Byo24NEWS
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