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Zimbabwe: The tragedy of gumboot Shona hegemony and dictatorship
When the colonial masters settled in Africa in the late 1700s and early 1800s, they mainly had one goal to stretch their economic prospects. In their arrival, it was numerically impossible to gather i...Published: 7 hrs ago | 707 | by Ayanda Manala
'We had informers within the Rhodesian security services'
WE continue our interview with Tapson Ncube pseudonym Makhula Thebe who in the past instalments has spoken about how dissenting voices were treated within the Zipra ranks. Viewed as a rebel, N...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:24hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube pens explosive book
VETERAN freedom fighter and former Cabinet Minister Retired Colonel Tshinga Judge Dube has penned his autobiography which is set to be launched at the National Art Gallery in Bulawayo on Friday....Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:22hrs | 1986 | by Staff reporter
'Only a revolution can remove ZANU PF' Jonathan Moyo says
Professor Jonathan Moyo says the only way that can removed the oppressive system of ZANU PF is through a revolution and not through reforms. Posting on twitter on Wednesday Moyo said, "As a fo...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 16:36hrs | 5089 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Rhodies we know, where are Zimbos?
MONDAY, November 11, marked the 54th anniversary of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) by then Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith, a move that severed the white colony from the B...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:40hrs | 737 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
ZESA's corruption & incompetence an unwarranted burden on Zimbabweans - need for urgent accountability
As I write this article, we are just seated, or milling around, incapable of engaging in any meaningful productive work. Why? Because there is no electricity - which, we desperately need for our effec...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 17:58hrs | 1924 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Does SB Moyo live on earth?
For those who may not remember, Sibusiso B. Moyo, (PhD) is the man who became the face of the November 2017 coup. As I write, after his spate with the United States ambassador, Brian Nichols, I am beg...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:48hrs | 1133 | by Kenneth Mufuka
I'm not a rebel: Cde Chipoyera
In a riveting account never before made public, Parker Chipoyera (PC) opens up on events leading to the arrest of the ZIPA leadership and how he ended up in captivity with his fellow comrades. ...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:28hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: A very sad political tragedy
ONE of the greatest ancient Greek playwrights and poets, Euripides, famous for the many tragedies he wrote, including Medea and The Bacchae – which probed the darker side of human nature, once wrote...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 05:47hrs | 463 | by Staff reporter
Suffering and oppressed Zimbabweans need to emulate doctors' fearless trailblazing protracted struggle for a better life
There is one very pressing - not to mention, extremely embarrassing - question which Zimbabweans who travel throughout the world are always confronted with every time we encounter foreign nationals: "...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 12:54hrs | 1415 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Robert Mugabe meets Ian Smith in afterlife
Please Note: The credibility quotient for this article is this: If it deals with politics it's a fact; if it is dramatized it's fiction; if it is outrageously u...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 07:46hrs | 8513 | by Field Ruwe
Zimbabwe 'national interests' can't be defined by ZANU PF alone, but by national consensus
In recent days - especially, after the botched 25 October 2019 anti-sanctions march, in which very few people heeded government's calls for the nation to come out in full force to demonstrate against ...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 09:04hrs | 1070 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
New notes and coins cannot solve Zimbabwe's problems
The Zimbabwean situation has been worsened by a clueless central bank, finance minister minister who is myopic and a government that only serves the interests of a few.. This article will try to clari...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 08:19hrs | 1883 | by Henry Madiro
Sanctions are anti-peace in Zimbabwe
The issue of sanctions and how they have impacted the social and economic welfare of the generality of Zimbabweans is of great relevance to the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission. Fi...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 06:58hrs | 142 | by Geoffrey T. Chada
Zimbabwe sanctions conundrum
The USA first enacted ZIDERA in 2001 as a response to gross human rights abuses, economic mismanagement, violent grab of white owned farms, violent crackdown on opposition and dissent, costly deployme...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 21:52hrs | 1002 | by Terrence Wuragu
Anti-sanctions march a waste of resources, says Mliswa
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa (independent) has said last week's anti-sanctions march was a waste of resources that could have been used to buy medicines and other essentials in the country.His senti...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 07:22hrs | 2891 | by Staff reporter
SADC protest against UN cites unfair trade restrictions
Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe are going to submit protest documents that will allow them to legally trade in their elephants, rhino and giraffes. The three countries are declaring themselves independ...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 07:17hrs | 2232 | by Emmanuel Koro
Sanctions are a blunt instrument
On Friday the SADC region as a whole mounted a coordinated protest against the European and American targeted sanctions against Zimbabwe. I am a veteran of the UN Mandatory Sanctions program mounted a...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 19:40hrs | 1899 | by Eddie Cross
'Mgagao Declaration changed political dynamics'
The bid by nationalist leaders to negotiate with Ian Smith around 1976 did not go well with freedom fighters. As such, these efforts led to the emergence of power dynamics that saw Robert Mugabe posit...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:50hrs | 854 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo 'unmasks' CIOs
Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation uses false information in their operations and does not accept true information from credible sources.Sai...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 07:19hrs | 10593 | by Mandla Ndlovu
1893 MHRRM Declares Matebele History Month
In a week's time, on the 5th of November specifically, uMthwakazi will be regrouping as a people and as a united Nation to reflect, remember and commemorate one of the fiercest battles fought by Afric...Published: 24 Oct 2019 at 12:54hrs | 952 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
ZIDERA was never about democracy
As Zimbabwe, and its SADC counterparts, initiate the anti-sanctions lobby as a collective on October 25, 2019, it is trite that the real reason for the imposition of illegal sanctions on the country a...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 05:53hrs | 591 | by Philemon Mutedzi
'Mugabe's questionable exit plan to Moza'
Levi Mukarati, continues to explore Parker Chipoyera's political journey. This week, the liberation struggle fighter chronicles events during the détente period including former President Robert Muga...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:41hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
MDC MPs lose allowances
PARLIAMENT has docked the allowances of opposition MDC legislators as punishment for walking out on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's State of the Nation Address (Sona) last month, the Daily News reporte...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 18:30hrs | 5598 | by Staff reporter
US$400m NRZ deal divides ministers
CABINET's shock decision this week to cancel the US$400 million National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) recapitalisation deal won by the Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group (DIDG) and South African ...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 05:27hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and Mnangagwa must first tame vanity
FUNERALS in our culture are an opportunity to vent one's deep-seated opinions and emotions on topical issues, be they personal, family or national, while enjoying the same privileges and protection ak...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 18:41hrs | 1501 | by Walter Mzembi
'Mnangagwa give a young leader to lead'
I am a ZanuPF member through and through. Fought in the liberation of this country and lost my leg during a firefight with Rhodesian forces. I have something to share with my fellow veterans of the st...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 17:00hrs | 5860 | by Cde Mao
Mzembi says unity in Zimbabwe will fix the economy
As the Zimbabwe crisis worsens former long-serving Tourism Minister and candidate in the last UNWTO Secretary-General elections, Dr. Walter Mzembi breaks his silence to weigh in with a prescription on...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 16:36hrs | 1644 | by Staff reporter
'MDC better off with Biti, not Cobra'
My PeopleThe ever clueless opposition, which always behaves suspiciously like Zanu-PF employees would make a good case study of how a vibrant opposition political party can remain in opposition fo...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:17hrs | 5585 | by Dr Stop IT
Botswana to repatriate 620 Zimbabweans
ABOUT 620 victims of Gukurahundi and post-independence political violence who are sheltered at Dukwe Refugee Camp in Botswana will be repatriated back home at the end of the month, the Southern Eye on...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:16hrs | 2430 | by Staff reporter
How Nhari, Badza rebels were 'crushed'
Last week, freedom fighter Parker Chipoyera told Levi Mukarati of an uprising famously called the Nhari-Badza rebellion during the liberation struggle. The revolt, according to Parker, s...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 06:54hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe National Football Team (The Warriors)
National Zimbabwe's football team, The Warriors, represents their country in an international football game and is governed by the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA), also known as the Football Asso...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 14:16hrs | 1636 | by Staff Writer
MDC MPs give Mudenda 48-hr ultimatum
MDC legislators who walked out of Parliament during President Emmerson Mnangagwa's State of the Nation Address last week have given the Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda 48 hours to with...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 07:02hrs | 1043 | by Staff reporter
Busting the myth of an 'upper middle income' Utopia in Zimbabwe
Ever since the November 2017 military coup, in which then iron-fisted late Zimbabwe leader Robert Gabriel Mugabe was toppled, his predecessor Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has ridden on the mantra of ta...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 18:16hrs | 311 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Robert Mugabe was 90% correct and 10% wrong
The legacy of former Zimbabwe President Robert Gabriel Mugabe remains a contested terrain and it ought to be understood within the context of colonialism and neo-colonialism. The deconstruction of the...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 09:48hrs | 1059 | by Jerry Matebesi
China - Zimbabwe's 40-year relations
ON May 15 1981, former president Robert Mugabe - then Zimbabwe's prime minister - held a meeting with legendary Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in Beijing, China, which could have changed Zimbabwe's cour...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:54hrs | 139 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe: A champagne Pan-Africanist
Since the death of Robert Mugabe on September 6, both the local and international media has been saturated with competing, complementary and contradictory obituaries, opinion pieces and narratives abo...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:53hrs | 18 | by Blessings Denhere
'Change is coming,' says Chamisa
Nelson Chamisa hailed the MDC as "the bravest, strongest and most consistent" party as the opposition movement marked its 20-year anniversary at Rufaro Stadium on Saturday.Chamisa said the MDC...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 16:56hrs | 1798 | by ZimLive
Matebeleland Chiefs turn heat on govt
Chiefs in Matebeleland have vowed to defy a government ban on the coronation of a South African Bulelani Collins Khumalo as Ndebele king revealing that plans are afoot to hold the ceremony in October....Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 07:33hrs | 2579 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's body parts on demand, buried in a steel coffin
The bizarre burial of Robert Mugabe saw the former Zimbabwean leader interred in a steel-lined coffin under a layer of concrete on Saturday, following a bitter dispute over his resting place between g...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 07:32hrs | 5800 | by Peta Thornycroft
Mnangagwa calls on churches to lead in unifying nation
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has urged the church to take a leading role in unifying the country to ensure the achievement of development goals set out by his administration. In an address at the Gospe...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 06:39hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Taxmen, police, and army take bribes from smugglers
The Victoria Falls, on the mighty Zambezi River between Zimbabwe and Zambia, is one of the world's seven wonders and arguably the largest waterfall by width and depth.It is alternatively known...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:34hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
The recruits who challenged the Zipra leadership
SEVENTY-THREE-year-old Tapson Ncube passes for just another villager in the Inyankuni area in Umzingwane District, but when one goes down memory lane, the man whose pseudo name was Makhula Thebe durin...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:25hrs | 614 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's burial a cause for concern as Gucci 'won' Zimbabwe's game of thrones
Grace Mugabe got one more chance to spite the men who betrayed her husband and won this round in Zimbabwe's game of thrones. Gucci's decision lately to refuse the burial of her husband at the national...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 10:54hrs | 3474 | by Georgia Marlins
Good start, bad and sad end: The story of Robert Gabriel Mugabe
It did not have to end this way. It is a story that started well but ended badly. Mugabe was poised to be greater than Mandela or Gandhi. Outside and inside Zimbabwe, Mugabe was revered and considered...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 2849 | by Lovemore Gurajena Sibanda PhD
Harare mayor speaks on intensifying water crisis
Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, has been plunged into a crisis by an acute shortage of potable water after two out of three supply dams ran dry due to drought, while the city council failed to buy water p...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 07:39hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe finally moves out from Mugabe's shadow
With the passing of Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe is finally moving away from the shadow of his 37-year reign. His successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made reforms his priority since he took ...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 14:07hrs | 1351 | by Agencies
The making of Mugabe's intolerance
HOW an autocratic strain of pan-Africanism of the early 1960s sheds light on the late former President Robert Mugabe's seemingly contradictory roles as freedom fighting anti-colonial nationalist, foll...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 14:03hrs | 195 | by Brooks Marmon
A gentle response to Mr Hanana and Mr Ryton Dzimiri
This article saves to respond and repel the myths raised by the two writers, namely Mr Hanana of Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation and the angry yet incisive firebrand in the form of Mr Ryton Dzimiri. I need...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 09:53hrs | 688 | by Thulani Nkala
Demystifying Robert Mugabe's Pan-African bubble
When the dust settles, it's time to write. I have just watched Ian Bedowes' engagement of Robert Mugabe's legacy, which got me thinking. I was reminded of my very robust, 'no walls barred' WhatsApp re...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 16:18hrs | 1454 | by Dr Brilliant Sigabade Mhlanga
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