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Is 2030 really a done deal, remember 2017

When President Emmerson Mnangagwa fled Zimbabwe in November 2017, few could have predicted that within weeks he would be sworn in as the country's leader. At that time, the G40 faction within ZANU-PF, then dominating the political landscap…

Published: 18 Sep 2025 at 05:23hrs | 828 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi

Voice of America dismantled over propaganda claims

US President Donald Trump has signed an order to strip back federally funded news organisation Voice of America, accusing it of being "anti-Trump" and "radical".A White House statement said the order would "ensure taxpayers are no longer o…

Published: 17 Mar 2025 at 10:15hrs | 877 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF has transformed public media into propaganda outlets

Prince Dubeko Sibanda, the CCC Member of Parliament representing Binga North, has asserted that the ruling Zanu-PF party has transformed public media into propaganda outlets for the party, suggesting that Zanu-PF should be responsible for …

Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 18:56hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Does propaganda work in a nation of enlightened citizens?

Of late, there has been a lot of noise, most notably from the ruling ZANU PF camp, to the effect that opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa threatened to displace those who benefited under Zimbabwe's land reform program.He is alleged to hav…

Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 20:53hrs | 16 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Mutsvangwa grilled over propaganda

FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube and the Reserve Bank have run out of ideas and are introducing complicated policies that continue to confuse and disadvantage the ordinary people while failing to address the economic crisis, senators said thi…

Published: 12 Jul 2022 at 18:15hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

ZANU PF regime a pathetic victim of its own delusional thinking and propaganda

In aviation, there are numerous causes of airplane accidents - but, they are usually grouped in three categories - technical faults, external factors, or human errors.Technical faults can be any number of things - from a shoddy repair job,…

Published: 21 Feb 2022 at 17:19hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Viewers must desert propaganda broadcasters

I CALL upon all fair-minded citizens to continue with the boycott of the State broadcaster, ZBC and State-controlled print media, until something sensible is done to at least show a bit of respect to the long-suffering taxpayers.It is this…

Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:22hrs | 4 | by Refanos Rute

Ramaphosa's grip on state security machinery targets 2022 re-election

PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa's announcement of sweeping changes to the Cabinet last week may have appeared radical but did little to dispel the notion that he is paralysed by a commitment to protracted consensus-seeking, to the point of indec…

Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 16:08hrs | 4 | by Cyril Madlala

Zanu-PF has an undying love for lies, propaganda

LIES and threats have now become the order of the day for the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government.Since his inauguration, people have been subjected to gross human rights violations, torture, abductions, lies and propaganda.Not eve…

Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:50hrs | 13 | by Toedza Fungai

An economy cannot be managed by propaganda

AN economy cannot be managed through propaganda. Back in high school, the term "propaganda"used to tickle us as students of history.The famed Oxford Dictionary defines propaganda as information, especially of a biased or misleading nature,…

Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 07:13hrs | 5 | by Learnmore Zuze

Chamisa and the cost of election propaganda

An opinion poll conducted just a month before the election by Afro Barometer gave Mnangagwa a slim lead. This evidence was brushed aside. The response of Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)-Alliance, …

Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:37hrs | | by Derek Matyszak

Chamisa's failure in 'de propaganda fide'

Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has once again been caught offside after claiming at a rally in Beitbridge that he had helped grow the economy of Rwanda."I helped President Kagame Turn Rwanda into Economic Success", was the headline on on…

Published: 31 May 2018 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Tichaona Zindoga

Election 2018, the propaganda model

French author Jean-Marie Domenach defines propaganda as "an attempt to influence the opinion and the conduct of a society in such a way that the people adopt a predetermined opinion and conduct." John H. Burma defines it as "a systematic, …

Published: 21 May 2018 at 07:22hrs | 227 | by Reason Wafawarova

Chamisa survives frenzied London propaganda storm

MDC-T leader Nelson Chamisa must be celebrating. For months now, Zanu-PF and its attack dogs have virtually ignored Chamisa until he gained the irresistible political momentum. It was so bad that the MDC came out in public complaining that…

Published: 18 May 2018 at 08:20hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

The death of a real hero

Barnabas Muvhuti mourns the life of a man he idolised, his uncle who, to him, was a real hero.Yesterday, I received the sad news that Babamukuru, my father's older brother has passed away. The message got me reflecting on the life of a gre…

Published: 18 Jan 2018 at 18:52hrs | 7 | by Barnabas Muvhuti

Jonathan Moyo blasts Mnangagwa for visiting ailing Tsvangirai

Self exiled former Zanu-PF spin doctor Professor Jonathan Moyo has criticised president Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit to MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai's residency on Friday saying it was intrusive.Prof Moyo said via Twitter: "This is no PR Cou…

Published: 06 Jan 2018 at 12:58hrs | 9 | by Ndou Paul

Mnangagwa's modern day Sadduces and Pharisees

Revolutionary greetings dear comrades.There is no opponents of progress in the bible than the Sadduces and Pharisees. They criticised everything good done by Jesus Christ. Furthermore, they prayed at crossroads and opened places for people…

Published: 26 Dec 2017 at 12:06hrs | 5600 | by Khulani David Ndhlovu

Open letter to Mnangagwa - publicly apologise for Gukurahundi

Dear Mr. President First allow me to say congratulations on your ascendancy to the presidency. I must say I was impressed by the smooth plan which led to your rise to the presidency, you really showed true maturity and political shrewdness…

Published: 23 Nov 2017 at 14:15hrs | 4 | by Dinika, Adio-Adet T

Zanu-PF on propaganda overdrive

For the past months Zanu-pf has been on the overdrive, upping the ante, roping in a motley of academics and political writers in a desperate bid to propagate the narrative that change in Zimbabwe will only be realised within Zanu-pf. Poign…

Published: 03 Aug 2017 at 07:27hrs | 5 | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira

Chinamasa's propaganda can't resuscitate the Zimbabwean economy

Back in the days when the Soviet Union was still a communist empire, its flagship broadsheet newspaper was called Pravda, or "Truth".But all and sundry knew it was a supplier of lies.The credibility of Pravda was so small that those who bo…

Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 12:35hrs | 4 | by Gift Phiri

Propaganda and the pursuit of hegemonic goals - The Myanmar & Zimbabwe experience

February 29, 2016Much has been written about how much the so-called international community expected the new South Africa born in 1994 to lead the campaign for respect of human rights especially in Africa. The first major test which faced …

Published: 29 Feb 2016 at 13:36hrs | 3 | by Thabo Mbeki

SADC report is an amplification of Zanu-PF's propaganda, says Tsvangirai

MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, today said his party would be approaching the Southern African Development Community to register their displeasure over the recent endorsement of the July 31 elections by the regional body.Tsvangirai is on …

Published: 03 Sep 2013 at 17:02hrs | | by Staff reporter

Don't be fooled, its election time

The state media today released the third part of a paper on development in Matabeleland by Bulawayo Metropolitan Province Governor Cain Mathema.In a statement Mathema claims that: "Tsholotsho Town only received ZESA electricity supply line…

Published: 11 Jul 2013 at 04:08hrs | 4398 | by Bhebhe Mandla

Propaganda, media, regime change, - a reality check

ADOLF Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels declared: "If you have to use a lie to propagate your cause, you would have to repeat it more often than possible and use the established mainstream media to turn it into a publicly accept…

Published: 21 Aug 2011 at 06:54hrs | 2 | by Udo W. Froese

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