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Jonathan Moyo loses Mazowe farm
FORMER Cabinet Minister, Jonathan Moyo is breathing fire after Lands Minister, Perrance Shiri grabbed his Mazowe farm in Mashonaland Central under unclear circumstances.In High Court papers, M...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1455 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa needs to reach out
The year 2010 was a good one. The economy was on the up, the general mood in the country was bright, the politics were uncertain because of the power struggles in the Government of National Unity, but...Published: 8 hrs ago | 179 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Zimbabwean economy simplified
Issues concerning the economy are vital for any given country's revolutionary and evolutionary path since they are at the core of all movements. Most importantly an economic policy justifies the trans...Published: 08 Jan 2020 at 13:10hrs | 1272 | by Terence Simbi
We cannot allow Chartered Accountants (CA)s to continue killing our companies
As a shareholder with equity in every listed company on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) with the majority of them battling to survive. The time has come to ask how the Zimbabwean companies and the S...Published: 07 Jan 2020 at 06:12hrs | 9538 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Josiah Magama Tongogara 39 years On
A day after celebrating christmas swimming through the stiffed hard but good festive seasons on the 26th December 1979 duty called. In the call of duty the son of the soil breathed his last breath....Published: 27 Dec 2019 at 08:28hrs | 3070 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
My fellow Zimbabweans…
The morning sea breeze from the ocean soon brought me back to life, realising how tens of seconds had passed while I was lost in my own wild day-dream moment going to the office. The firm green grass,...Published: 26 Dec 2019 at 16:09hrs | 2921 | by Robert Sigauke
'Do POLAD because we love Zimbabwe' says Gutu - then why selling-out on free elections
Some of us still remember Bishop Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa, the 1979 (one year wonder) Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia following the Internal Settlement with Ian Smith...Published: 25 Dec 2019 at 10:52hrs | 3658 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa's govt takes plunge to compensate white farmers
ONE of the most interesting developments in the recent budget statement is government's decision to compensate former white farmers after nearly 20 years following the 2000 land reform programme. The ...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 15:39hrs | 168 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
'Ndebele commanders led Shona soldiers to fight whites in 1896' says Charamba
Ndebele soldiers were in charge of commanding Shona armies to fights the white in Mashonaland during the 1896/97 war of resistance that took place in Zimbabwe. Presidential Spokesperson George...Published: 21 Dec 2019 at 10:28hrs | 2968 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa, Cronies cannot lecture Ndiweni Clans on traditions and cultural systems
Honestly, one can confirm it is hard to know where to begin on what is meant to be a simple matter that has seemingly been made unnecessarily sophisticated. The government of the day indeed survives b...Published: 16 Dec 2019 at 09:15hrs | 1333 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Expelled Chief Ndiweni gets rare support
Dethroned Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has attracted solidarity messages from politician, diplomats and the rank and file of Zimbabweans after President Emmerson Mnangagwa impleme...Published: 14 Dec 2019 at 08:58hrs | 7891 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa brought soldiers to cabinet to intimidate G40
President Emmerson Mnangagwa brought in members of the Joint Operations Command to Cabinet to intimidate members of the G40 into endorsing the Command Agriculture program when he was still Vice Presid...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 10:47hrs | 6428 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Matemadanda threatens to dissolve Zanu-PF Midlands
MERCURIAL Zanu-PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda has threatened to dissolve the party's Midlands provincial leadership led by chairperson Daniel Mackenzie Ncube on allegations of slee...Published: 11 Dec 2019 at 06:44hrs | 2912 | by Staff reporter
A Christmas book gift from a Villager
In my village, villagers don't write books. They queue for food aid from the State and NGOs to stay alive so that they can go and vote for Zanu PF in the next election. Writing books in my country is ...Published: 10 Dec 2019 at 06:52hrs | 578 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo gains flights momentum
BULAWAYO is strategically positioned to attract more international flights, which is good for luring increased investment into the city and the surrounding regions. Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Intern...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 06:54hrs | 983 | by Staff reporter
No one has monopoly of civilization
What the West can do for Zimbabwe is pay reparations for colonialism and human rights violations visited upon blacks during that dark era. Germany is paying for its excesses and injustice duri...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 14:23hrs | 376 | by Thomas Tondo
Life can never be weighted, even with gold
"A united family eats from the same plate."So says a proverb from the Baganda, a Bantu ethnic group native to Buganda (Uganda).It might as well encapsulate values held by most, if not ...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:42hrs | 81 | by Bishop Lazi
Mnangagwa scores Midlands backing for 2023 elections
The Zanu-PF Midlands Provincial Inter-district Conference has endorsed the candidature of President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the party's sole candidate for the 2023 presidential elections.The res...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 18:54hrs | 2081 | by Staff reporter
David Coltart blasts George Charamba
MDC Treasurer General David Coltart has called Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba a brazen liar over his tweet that human rights lawyer Douglas Coltart funded the doctors to continue engaging i...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 07:05hrs | 7743 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Canaan Ncube: Farewell to a gallant liberator (1939-2019)
Zimbabwe has lost yet another illustrious fighter for the country's independence and freedom. This is Canaan Ncube, born in Nkayi District of Matebeleland North in Zimbabwe on 19 October 1939 in Dolah...Published: 02 Dec 2019 at 12:17hrs | 1651 | by Dr. Strike Mkandla
Tshinga Dube's book reveals plot against ZPRA
Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube says he averted a potential civil war in the formative years of independent Zimbabwe after an order was issued to dismiss all the ex-Zpra soldiers in the newly formed Zimb...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:17hrs | 2457 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube averted a potential civil war in Zimbabwe
Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube says he averted a potential civil war in the formative years of Independent Zimbabwe after an order had been issued to dismiss all the Ex-ZPRA soldiers in the newly formed...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:07hrs | 1482 | by Staff reporter
'The C'wealth officer jumped from his seat when I threw my AK-47 at him'
Today we conclude the series of interviews that we have been doing with former Zipra guerilla, Tapson Ncube aka Makhula. Ncube was a maverick guerilla who at one point was detained on the orde...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:58hrs | 3691 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube: The Anti-colonial Transfiguration of the Self: Part 2
Last week's introductory instalment attempted to locate Retired Col Tshinga's profile within the shifting currencies and contexts of our struggle for independence. His radical political tutela...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:56hrs | 167 | by Richard Mahomva
Obert Gutu takes David Coltart and family head on
MDC-T Vice President Obert Gutu has attacked the MDC Treasurer General David Coltart and his son Doug Coltart calling them hypocritical racists. Said Gutu,"The son of a Rhodesian-era Sel...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 12:21hrs | 2931 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa warns Mnangagwa again
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa has warned that the country risks being plunged into civil war if citizens are pushed to retaliate against the escalating brutality by security forces, the Daily News ...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 08:00hrs | 7093 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube unites ex-ZPRA cadres
Former War Veterans minister, Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube's official book launch in Bulawayo on Friday turned into a mini-reunion of some the leading ZPRA cadres, who reminisced on their experiences ...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:58hrs | 3036 | by Staff reporter
EU not happy with pace of Zimbabwe reforms
European Union (EU) ambassador to Zimbabwe Timo Olkkkonen says Brussels is not happy with the pace of reforms in the country, especially the realignment of laws to the constitution.Olkkonen (T...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:36hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
'We had semi-liberated zones in Lupane, Nkayi'
We continue our interview with Tapson Ncube aka Makhula Thebe who during the armed struggle operated in Lupane and Nkayi districts. Below are excerpts of the interview with our Assistant Edito...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:14hrs | 331 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube: The Anti-colonial transfiguration of the self
On Friday, 22 November, 2019, a decorated cadre of Zimbabwe's long-drawn-out armed liberation struggle and long-serving former Cabinet Minister, Othiniel Siduduzo "Tshinga" Dube launched his biography...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:13hrs | 126 | by Richard Mahomva
Uproar over Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa roads
Zimbabweans have reacted with disbelief to news that the government has approved plans to rename major roads and buildings after "national heroes" - including 10 streets named after President Emmerson...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 18:00hrs | 246 | by BBC
1893 MHRRM message of Hope, Will-Power and Vision
Since the fall of the Matebeleland Kingdom at Gadade in November 1893, our Kingdom has been in a journey of fighting for its freedom and the Restoration of the Rights of its people and Africans in gen...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 07:14hrs | 805 | by Ayanda Manala
MDC never staged an 'illegal regime change' (coup) in Zimbabwe, but it was ZANU PF itself - so why repress the opposition?
The gruesome events of yesterday (21 November 2019) in the Zimbabwe capital of Harare, whereby scores of innocent people - mainly bystanders - were reportedly brutally beaten up by police officers, ou...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 09:55hrs | 2238 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Tshinga Dube ready to launch book
ALL is set for former Cabinet Minister, Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube's much-anticipated 'Quiet Flows The Zambezi book launch. The autobiography will be launched at the National Art Gallery of ...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 04:06hrs | 864 | by Staff reporter
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: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:15hrs | 1226 | 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 | 775 | 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 | 2340 | 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 | 5139 | 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 | 752 | 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 | 2034 | 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 | 1158 | 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 | 208 | 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 | 478 | 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 | 1435 | 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 | 8690 | 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 | 1077 | 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 | 1938 | 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 | 153 | 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 | 1060 | 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 | 2930 | by Staff reporter
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