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Mnangagwa stole X-Mas
THE year 2023 is ending in the same manner it began: inflicting more hardships on the people of Zimbabwe and with no solution in sight.It has been an annus horribilis of epic proportions. The ...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 17:32hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son in-law is a major shareholder at Trevor Ncube's AMH
The attached video clip below is interesting with important revelations from Trevor Ncube about himself, AMH and Gerald Mlotshwa. Three such revelations stand out:First, while Ncube and AMH ha...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 18:48hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Nothing new from tired Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF's annual conference is underway in Bindura and, predictably, the former liberation party is not proffering any fresh ideas to extricate Zimbabwe from the quicksand of corruption-induced povert...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:44hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa will fall with a thud
As I prepared to leave Sydney and its congestion and retreat to a quieter place this past Sunday morning, my curiously inquisitive eye caught a disturbing news report in one of the weekend newspapers ...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Mutsa Murenje in Alice Springs, Australia
The problem was not Mugabe, but Zanu-PF
THE chaos and uncertainty that is rocking Zanu-PF after its chaotic district development coordinating committee elections held last December has left the party weak, fractured, divided and easy to be ...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:16hrs | | by Chief Chiduku
MDC Alliance youths defiant
MDC Alliance youths say they will respond to a clampdown by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government by mobilising supporters to vote in large numbers in forthcoming elections.Lately, there h...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
International organizations urge Africa to oppose EU ivory trade ban bid
"The European Commission's proposed ban on international trade in ivory will be a disaster for those African communities who rely on wildlife for food and job security" according to a joint statement ...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 17:33hrs | 12 | by Emmanuel Koro
Covid-19 lockdown: How times have changed
It was after four aborted attempts at assembling that customary team of amadombo, an attempt at receiving and meeting our prospective in-laws as a non-negotiable precondition to observe the cultural r...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye
Mvurwi's six Nyaus, a place shrouded with mystery.
Mysterious fire erupted at six nyauz of Mvurwi (Umvukwes) with an ear splitting sound. This happened not long ago. Nobody could explain the origin of the fire. The vegetation was reduced to nothing. P...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 13:29hrs | 2 | by Givestar Kamuzonde
'Let us move forward!' called ED - doesn't know, by rigging election confirmed we are stuck
"It is now time to put behind the elections and be united in working to achieve the Zimbabwe we all want. We are indeed building the Zimbabwe we want, growing the economy together, and creating employ...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 18:39hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa presidency built on quicksand
THAT is what it is, an opportunistic political dispensation brought about by Constantino Chiwenga's illegal, undemocratic and unconstitutional military takeover of political power in Zimbabwe....Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 05:22hrs | | by Mutsa Murenje
Desperate Tsvangirai denies Mnangagwa approach
MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday refuted claims by presidential adviser, Christopher Mutsvangwa that President Emmerson Mnangagwa had engaged the opposition, inviting them to take up Cabinet ...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mutsvangwa is a liar, Mnangagwa never engaged Tsvangirai'
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai's spokerperson Luke Tamborinyoka has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa never approached his boss meaning that the specail adviser to the president was lying that the opp...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 18:31hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe opposition's monomania renders it redundant as outwitted by ZANU PF
Zimbabwean opposition's witless one-track obsession with the 'Mugabe must go!' mantra, as their only strategy to unseat the ZANU PF government, has backfired after the resignation of the aging leader ...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 17:48hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
It's a Bob potato: The tale of the nephews
A hot potato is a sensitive situation or controversial issue that is difficult to handle and thus gets passed from one person to the next (like a potato that is too hot to hold). When the hot potato i...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 11:34hrs | 1 | by Hubert Sithole
New confusion to wreck Mujuru's sympathisers
Recalling my elementary teacher, Mrs Choto in front of the blackboard in Grade One explaining how zero plus zero will always sum up to zero, her imagery is more vivid than ever if one takes a glimpse ...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 20:29hrs | | by Patience Rashai
Quicksand sinking & mirages: Inside Zanu PFs long history of infighting
A long read on Zanu Pfs 54 years of bitter infighting, betrayal and power games. There is no iota of doubt that...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 15:40hrs | | by Maynard Manyowa
ZimPF a rainless cloud?
WAR veteran, author and long-serving diplomat, Agrippa Mutambara, bared his soul early last year when he announced his decision to resign from his comfy government post to join the then newly form...Published: 16 Feb 2017 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why I left Mujuru: Mutambara
Daily News writer, Farayi Machamire, chats to former ambassador and Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) member, Retired Brigadier-General Agrippa Mutambara, in the wake of the implosion of the Joice Mujur...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 12:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mass resignations follow Mujuru party fiasco
The unfolding drama in the Zimbabwe People First which officially split on Tuesday, continued yesterday with several senior members resigning from the party protesting the expulsion of founding me...Published: 10 Feb 2017 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kaukonde resigns from Mujuru's ZimPF
THE unfolding drama in the troubled Zimbabwe People First, which officially split on Wednesday, continued yesterday with several senior party members quitting the embattled party in protest over the e...Published: 10 Feb 2017 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC abandons 'No reform No election!' for voting, rigging, busting 'opposition cow-horn formation!
There are many reasons why Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess one of them is the lack of quality and honest debate on any issue. Ever since the mid 1990s we have talked of the need to car...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 07:40hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
How the state became the new face of capitalism: Reflections of a Trade Unionist.
I am an African.HistoryI was born during the evolution of African independent states which came as a result of imperialism. The post-independence de...Published: 17 Oct 2016 at 21:21hrs | | by Tapiwa Diamond Chadya
Mujuru divides Tsvangirai, Khupe
Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) leader Joice Mujuru has divided MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai and his deputy Thokozani Khupe on forming a coalition.NewsDay reports that Khupe "finds Mujur...Published: 21 May 2016 at 11:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mujuru's non-existent party
The beauty about an argument that has an encompassing, hard-to-fault, premise is that its detractors end up validating it, fortifying it. Responses to my instalment on the People First project last we...Published: 26 Sep 2015 at 16:38hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
When Mutasa falls in love with justice
It will be a good day when Didymus Mutasa finally finds love for the rule of law and starts believing in justice. Sadly, like always, this usually happens when the concerned politician is running out ...Published: 08 Feb 2015 at 10:05hrs | | by Prosper Maguchu
Grace Mugabe likely to triumph succession race as she gives husband bold ultimatum
Grace Mugabe has given strong indications that she is the one in charge in Zimbabwe, she even dared give her husband, the president of Zimbabwe an ultimatum. No one in Zimbabwe has managed to do that ...Published: 21 Nov 2014 at 13:27hrs | | by Nomalizwe Mbulu
'Mnangagwa's wings must be clipped'
A NEW shadowy Zanu-PF lobby group, Vana VaChaminuka, has called on President Robert Mugabe to urgently intervene in the ongoing internal party fights and clip Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa's win...Published: 21 Nov 2014 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa:- A foreign policy quicksand in the heart of Africa
How do you measure South Africa in foreign policy terms? I do not offer here an analysis but a common sense view. And it is commonsensical not because I have no access to South African foreign...Published: 11 Apr 2013 at 12:34hrs | | by Martin Mlevu
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