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Vote-buying for beginners: A Zvigananda guide to electoral philanthropy
Meet Taurai Kandishaya - philosopher of the gutter, hustler by vocation, and a loyal missionary of the Zvigananda gospel: "In Harare, money speaks; morals take a kombi." He recently took to Facebook t...Published: 09 Jul 2025 at 08:19hrs | 406 | by Reason Wafawarova
Mnangagwa, Chivayo raise eyebrows again
Corruption-accused businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who has long been a subject of public scrutiny, was a conspicuous presence during President Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent visit to Bulawayo for the Zimba...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:47hrs | 6983 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa receives support after public vilification
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa, has received an outpouring of support from his political allies and analysts following a scathing attack on his character by public commentator Reaso...Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 07:30hrs | 987 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in the shadows of political darkness
Justice Alfred Mavedzenge has done a very informative analysis on the behavior of Nelson Chamisa, and the radical change in his political personality since his ZINASU days of a firebrand student polit...Published: 06 Mar 2025 at 15:08hrs | 662 | by Reason Wafawarova
Why unity is unachievable for Chamisa's MDC
Leading to election 2018, we saw the formation of what is now called the MDC - Alliance on the backdrop of massive campaigning for a united front against Zanu-PF, not around a common cause or unity of...Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:47hrs | 3 | by Reason Wafawarova
Zimbabwe opposition and lost opportunities
Election 2018 was largely considered a landmark event for the different meanings and opportunities that were attached to it, particularly for the new faces in the presidential race, Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Revolution is the great teacher
Those living in luxury from the exploitation and suffering of others have traditionally always been opposed to emancipation struggles; they continue to be opposed to such struggles by the people today...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:33hrs | 9 | by Reason Wafawarova
Value the national interest
Since the days of the French thinker, Niccolo Machiavelli, the primacy of the national interest has always formed the basis of foreign policy, and has been the foundation of every country's strength o...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 06:39hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
'The West is the one demanding regime change' - actually it is povo and change is ripe
"Over the years, the US-backed and Western-sponsored opposition politics in our country has been in many ways a replay of Washington's mindless games that started soon after the declaration of the Ame...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 08:57hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Undemocratic 'democrats'
Over the years, the US-backed and Western-sponsored opposition politics in our country has been in many ways a replay of Washington's mindless games that started soon after the declaration of the Amer...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 23:48hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafwarova
We cannot blame Nelson Chamisa without blaming all of us
We are under sanctions from the United States, the European Union and other Western outposts like Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and the ruin of the sanctions is without doubt. Our industr...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
The disconnect in electoral democracy
Every four years the world is drawn to watch in awe as the United States chooses their next president, even to the point of fanatically following the bi-partisan primary election races, prominent of w...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Let us work for and defend Zimbabwe
We are in the second Republic, the christened new dispensation, and we are in the process of economically re-engaging the Western world, and I do not in anyway wish to undermine the decent efforts of ...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:24hrs | 3 | by Reason Wafawarova
Rule of law cannot be matter of opinion
We live in this modern world that the United States purports to lead with God-ordained civility; yet in it the rule of law has been reduced to a matter of opinion, as has become the concept of democra...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 22:31hrs | 3 | by Reason Wafawarova
Only Chamisa has the economic keys to revive the Zimbabwean economy?
When Nelson Chamisa opines alongside foreign interests that nothing has changed since November 2017, the idea is to defeat today's ZANU-PF by psychological association to the leadership of former pres...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Why Africa finds it hard to support Chamisa's MDC
On the 11th of March 2007 the world woke up to shocking images of the bashed faces of Morgan Tsvangirai, Lovemore Madhuku and others after the police had forcibly dispersed an opposition organised gat...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Jonathan Moyo organised Grace Mugabe's fake degree?
Exiled former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo risks having his University of Zimbabwe acquired degrees withdrawn if ousted UZ Vice Chancellor Levi Nyagura is found guilty of awarding former First ...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 21:16hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo to be stripped of UZ degrees?
Exiled former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo risks having his University of Zimbabwe acquired degrees withdrawn if ousted UZ Vice Chancellor Levi Nyagura is found guilty of awarding former First ...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 17:06hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tongogara raped Oppah Muchinguri?
The late ZANLA General may have raped Defense minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, journalist Reason Wafawarova has sensationally alleged.Writing on Social networking site Facebook Wafawarova sa...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 10:21hrs | 72 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Wicknell Chivayo bribed his way out of jail?
Seasoned journalist and ZANU PF apologist Reason Wafawarova has sensationally claimed that businessman Wicknell Chivayo bribed himself out of jail to be given a shorter sentence for a fraud case...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 08:25hrs | 85 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa badly wants a deal with Mnangagwa
FROM the time Nelson Chamisa entered mainstream politics as the youth chairman for the then newly formed MDC in 1999, his ambitions were quite evident. At the time all he was armed with was political ...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:19hrs | 4 | by Reason Wafawarova
Abuse of media privilege
WHENEVER people talk about the media and journalism, phrases such as "media responsibility," "media ethics," "objective reporting," "public interest," "national interest", or "balanced coverage" are o...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
ZIDERA extension is unacceptable
The ushering in of the new dispensation on 24 November 2017, gave hope to the people of Zimbabwe as they hoped to see a paradigm shift from the old dispensation of Robert Mugabe. President Emmerson Mn...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 12:15hrs | | by Elijah Chihota
Democracy, elections bad for collective cause
SOMETHING is going wrong with democracy. Something has gone wrong with democracy. It was the most successful political idea of the 21st century, but increasingly democracy is running into trouble, not...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Why elections are bad for democracy
Brexit was a turning point in the history of Western democracy in general, and that of Britain in particular. A drastic decision was taken through a one round referendum based on a simple majority, an...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Reason Wafawarova
New dispensation and the rotten apple theory
Election 2018 is over, and it ended with telling lessons for the two main parties in the race. Zanu-PF nearly paid the ultimate price for years of infighting; something that clearly affected the outco...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Delusions of Zimbabwe intellectuals
JUST like the media, intellectualism is often overrated as both a source of truth and of accurate information - more so in the field of socio-political commentary.Blatantly partial academic po...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Mnangagwa's anti-graft blitz loses steam
The anti-corruption crusade rolled out by President Emmerson Mnangagwa when he assumed the top office late last year is losing steam as the mighty and powerful are finding ways of escaping the long ar...Published: 30 May 2018 at 08:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
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...Published: 21 May 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Chamisa: All confidence & no substance: Exciting road to defeat
Nelson Chamisa is a great gentleman with admirable determination and an exceptional drive of ambition. He inherited a political outfit that was at the crossroads because the then leader was simply exh...Published: 14 May 2018 at 06:45hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Politicians must deliver on promises
Every politician knows that the key to winning elections is to make great promises. Nelson Chamisa in apparent novice excitement of taking over the MDC-T leadership after the death of Morgan Tsvangira...Published: 07 May 2018 at 07:11hrs | 2 | by Reason Wafawarova
MDC-T's history of failure
In October 2012, Nelson Chamisa wrote a piece titled "MDC-T: Last mile towards real change," where he stated Zimbabwe "saunters towards the demise of the ultimate phase of a hard transition."H...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 07:26hrs | 3 | by Reason Wafawarova
Mnangagwa's travel divides opinion
OPINION was starkly divided yesterday over President Emmerson Mnangagwa's jet-setting, which has made him a visitor in his own country. Mnangagwa has been aggressive in his external engagements, both ...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 14:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's name-and-shame gimmick falls short of expectations
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government yesterday released the long-awaited list of companies and individuals alleged to have failed to return $827 million stashed abroad following the expiry of a 1...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 12:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa slammed for 'disregard of truth' over 2008 poll killings
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused of "disregard of truth" and refusing to take responsibility for political killings, torture, and abductions by government security forces and the ruling Z...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 11:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's trick rattles Zanu-PF
The move by toppled despot Robert Mugabe to join hands with his former deputy Joice Mujuru to mount a presidential electoral challenge against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF has stirred ...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 10:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
From Generation 40 to Bitterness 40
ZANU-PF has a life beyond any of its members, as indeed is supposed to happen with all well-established organisations — they outlive their members and they perpetuate themselves.This is what...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 05:22hrs | 2 | by Reason Wafawarova
Mugabe will go down in history an iconic figure of principle
OUR past is rich in history; the sacred sacrifices made by the founding fathers of this nation alongside many sons and daughters who perished for our freedom can never be overlooked.From the e...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 04:11hrs | 2 | by Reason Wafawarova
The demise of Mnangagwa
What Grace Mugabe said on Sunday about how her husband, Robert Mugabe, mistrusted his then Deputy President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is not a new story.Many years ago, one of Mugabe's old friends ...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 15:51hrs | 1 | by Hopewell Rugoho-Chin'ono
Mugabe aligned columnist urges genocide
A controversial state media columnist has caused a social media storm after describing Ndebeles as a "stupid breed of useless people" on Facebook.Reason Wafawarova, who writes a weekly column ...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Election 2018: The prospects
Zimbabwe is once again heading into another election, as has become the norm, every five years since 1980.We are one of the few countries that did not start off as a one party state after we a...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 16:00hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Kasukuwere fighting for his political life
President Robert Mugabe's "foot soldier" is slowly but surely turning from being a poster boy for Zanu-PF's politics to being a villain, as the 93-year-old strongman grapples with fresh fissures in hi...Published: 03 May 2017 at 12:21hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mupostori Mugabe's new hairdo sets social media ablaze
Just like he did when he recently received a "special massage chair" from his Cabinet lieutenants, President Robert Mugabe has sent social media into a frenzy over his shaven head.This...Published: 14 Apr 2017 at 16:19hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF's electoral success is not due to ideology but its freedom to rig elections
"Zanu-PF is a party that can somehow match its ideology to an ailing economy and be popular about it. Its land reclamation policy, its indigenisation policy, and lately ZimAsset are all examples of ho...Published: 15 Feb 2017 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe's govt broke, fails to implement its 2013 election promises
A political analyst Rejoice Ngwenya has said that President Robert Mugabe's government is too broke and has failed to implement its election promises of 2013."One of Zanu.PF’s most ridiculou...Published: 18 Jan 2017 at 04:01hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Norton: Kasukuwere's devilish gift against Zanu PF
Zanu PF lost the Norton parliamentary seat to independent candidate Temba Mliswa. It is momentous and symbolic in many ways than one. Under the leadership of political commissar, Saviour Kasuk...Published: 23 Oct 2016 at 13:04hrs | | by Christopher Mutsvangwa
Legacy is about ideas, not power
Our political culture in Africa can be dangerous for democracy in its Aristotelian sense. We somehow believe politics to be an art based on the invincibility of political leaders, and this expectation...Published: 22 Aug 2016 at 06:20hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
National flag not a weapon of war
In our flag the youth must find new inspiration for loyalty to Zimbabwe, not the incitement to rebel against our own core values. In our flag the youth must find the inspiration for patriotism based n...Published: 18 Jul 2016 at 06:33hrs | 2 | by Reason Wafawarova
Mphoko in catch-22
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe literally put the cat among the pigeons after he appointed Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko as head of Zanu-PF's appeals committee, set to hear appeals against suspensions and...Published: 01 May 2016 at 16:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko in fresh Zanu-PF storm
VICE-PRESIDENT Phelekezela Mphoko has been sucked into a fresh storm following his appointment as head of Zanu-PF's appeals committee, set to hear grievances by suspended and expelled members in the p...Published: 26 Apr 2016 at 08:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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