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Zimbabwe and the Founders Sydrome (Foundiritis)
Let me introduce this article as an opinion piece by a pedestrian activist. I write from personal experience not other peoples lenses.l have been in the political field for a while now and with Covid1...Published: 16 hrs ago | 685 | by Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
Zimbabwe security sector reforms debunked
US-funded studies on security sector reform in Zimbabwe have largely taken the radical view that more often than not, the military has acted undemocratically through uttering and overseeing an array o...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 09:15hrs | 7045 | by Staff reporter
Partnerships in lies, historical distortions and corruption now an ANC/ZanuPF game
I remember vividly in one of the last Zapu rallies held at White City Stadium in 1982 the ex Zipra choir singing, "Siyamkhalel`uMandela omunye wezinkhokeli zase Africa ezavalelwayo. Ngoba silobudlelwa...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 08:14hrs | 705 | by Mkhululi Zulu
Mnangagwa commits to improving ZDF conditions of service
GOVERNMENT is determined to improve the salaries and conditions of service for defence forces as a recognition of the roles and sacrifices they make in their duties.Addressing the nation on th...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 21:56hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa special message to Zimbabwe Defence Forces
Today, the MDC Alliance joins the nation in commemorating our Defence Forces. It is 40 years since the Zimbabwe Defence Forces came into being through the integration of the ZIPRA and ZANLA liberation...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 17:19hrs | 4678 | by MDC Alliance
ZDF a formidable, disciplined force for the people: Gen Sibanda
Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Philip Valerio Sibanda shares his views on the significance of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Day, below are excerpts of the interview. Q: What is the si...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1631 | by Staff reporter
Roll call and the destruction of the Salisbury fuel tanks 1978
There has been a lot of confusion on the role ZPRA played during the liberation struggle and a lot of twisting of facts related to certain operations that are perceived to have changed the course of t...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:53hrs | 5164 | by Barbatone Irvine Sibhona
Zimbabwe heroes' shrine sends clear message to the world - the country and people are not yet free!
Most people - both locally and globally - have always associated the National Heroes Acre in the Zimbabwe capital Harare, with largely being merely an impressive cemetery for those deemed outstanding ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 14:33hrs | 2065 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
White farmer compensation: A stunt that backfired
IF you have lived in the village, or had the chance to visit one, you will remember how an ass be-haves. Stubborn and carefree, but very poor of judgement. It spends the whole day hee-hawing, tossing ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:14hrs | 825 | by Tawanda Majoni
Chief Maduna and the liberation struggle
ONE of the country's longest serving traditional leaders, Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu, is recovering from a stroke he suffered in August last year, but when one mentions the Heroes Day, which the country w...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:48hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
'Air Force of Zimbabwe survived sanctions through research, development'
The Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) has managed to survive under illegal sanctions by reducing its import bill through research and development with local companies that are manufacturing essential equipm...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:46hrs | 1011 | by Staff reporter
Enough is enough, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday threw down the gauntlet and declared he had had "enough of the machinations" of opposition political parties and hostile countries plotting his downfall and frus...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:20hrs | 8820 | by Staff reporter
Curfew betrays govt anger towards citizens
HIS Excellency, the imposition of the sunset to sunrise curfew prompts me to write to you, yet again. Notwithstanding the spike inconfirmedCOVID-19cases, the country has long been languishing at a rec...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:15hrs | 999 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Masvingo dumps colonial streets names
Masvingo City Council has completed renaming key streets in the ancient city after the country's living and departed heroes of the struggle against colonial rule that culminated with the attainment of...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Rhodesian-style terror tactics condemned
The Zimbabwe Communist Party has condemned President Emmerson Mnangagwa way of dealing with activists and journalists in the country labeling it a Rhodesian terror tactic style. The General Se...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 15:35hrs | 2127 | by Mandla Ndlovu
What happened to Zimbabwe - how could a principled Chimurenga/Umvukela produce such an uncaring rogue and brutal regime?
Last night (2 August 2020), I did something I had ceased doing in quite a long time - watched something on the state broadcaster, ZBC (Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation), other than the news and some ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 14:47hrs | 1411 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe election system free and fair and adopted by the world.
Despite the negative publicity Zimbabwe receives from only the west its electoral system has actually been adopted by so many countries and this model is now used worldwide. The concept of election ob...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 21:23hrs | 3240 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Go well Gudo Guru
ON Wednesday morning, the nation suffered a great and painful blow. Zimbabwe lost Honourable Perrance Shiri, the Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement minister. He was also a long-serving Air Mars...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:36hrs | 668 | by Monica Mutsvangwa
Perrance Shiri untimely death - evoking my traumatic childhood memories of witnessing Gukurahundi genocide
When I woke up this morning, there were two main things on my mind: to check if there was still Internet connectivity, as there had been widespread rumours last evening of an impending plan by the Zim...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 15:09hrs | 1343 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mozambique extends Zimbabwean mercenary's contract to December
Former Zimbabwean Army Commander Colonel Lionel Dyck's contract killers, the Dyck Advisory Group (DAG), are in celebratory mode after the Mozambican government extended their three months ...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 19:57hrs | 4540 | by Mandla Ndlovu
To hell with selfish behaviour: Freedom for all is a calling
MDC Alliance deputy chairman Job Wiwa Sikhala has said he will never venture into selfish actions by allowing money he earns through law practice to silence his calling for freedom for all."TO...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 10:00hrs | 4340 | by Stephen Jakes
A selfish proliteriate, a voracious educated elite and a rapacious ruling class - The opiate numbing Zimbabwe
Wrote in 1943, Karl Marx's celebrated dictum, "religion is the opium of the people," entered popular lexicon and according to Rosie Blau ,still resonates with 4,5 billion people the world over who ide...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 23:10hrs | 1769 | by Evangelist Sendekai W.T
James Makamba eyes huge comeback
NATHAN Shamuyarira, Webster Shamu, James Makamba and Supa Mandiwanzira are some of the names that easily come to mind as having made the successful transition from journalism into the murky world of b...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:55hrs | 1648 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is a failed State, says ZCTU
ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions president Peter Mutasa yesterday described the country as a "failed State" given the high poverty levels, decaying infrastructure, the odious debt situation caused mo...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:35hrs | 5059 | by Staff reporter
Mobocracy, 'dofocracy' and the myth of new dispensation
"WE spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny is rampant." Mwalimu Julius Nyerere.Dofocracy/DomocracyIn Shona a dofo is...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1402 | by Brian T Kagoro
Typical Zanu-PF arrogance cannot mask its failings
NOTHING can be more arrogant than Zanu-PF's unequivocal declaration that they will not apologise or pay back loans that party officials, including President Emmerson Mnangagwa himself, took under the ...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:04hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa curfew a reminder of Rhodesia, Gukurahundi periods'
POLITICAL parties and activists in Bulawayo say the dusk to dawn national curfew imposed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa Tuesday brought back sad memories of Gukurahundi atrocities carried out by the ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:19hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF slams Magaisa's hypocrisy
ZIMBABWE survived under the yoke of illegal sanctions that were imposed by the West following the land reform programme because of regular interventions by the Zanu-PF Government that include the Farm...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:18hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Debate rages over parties registration
THE registration of political parties has become a sticking point ahead of the 2023 general elections with the MDC Alliance raising concern that adopting laws that would require registration of politi...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:27hrs | 1989 | by Staff reporter
Why hated Zimdollar is headed in one direction
On July 9, 2020, my young liberal team and I sampled a few of our country's top economic analysts on a Zoom conference on Zimbabwe's precarious currency conundrum.Likely though it seems, one c...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 18:53hrs | 3648 | by Rejoice Ngwenya
'Mnangagwa in control over financial sector'
The Government will win the economic war with President Mnangagwa determined to overcome economic challenges arising in the nation, Zanu-PF secretary for science and technology Ambassador Christopher ...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:15hrs | 7652 | by Staff reporter
Does Lobengula deserve a monument?
I read with great interest the report that a monument is to be built in honour of Mbuya Nehanda at long last. But then i said to myself: Why not do the same for King Lobengula or even Mukwati (Makwati...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:41hrs | 711 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
The Chinamasa versus Matematanda race of ZanuPF Political Violence and Intolerance: Deplorable.
Zimbabweans are stunned by the venomous threats of violence vomited through the press by the two high ranking ZanuPF leaders Chinamasa and Matematanda against organisers of a yet to happen demonstrati...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:08hrs | 1279 | by Mkhululi Zulu Zapu Presidential Spokesperson
Old and homeless abroad
HUNCHED back pensioners hobble between laden supermarket trollies clutching baskets with a few meagre provisions three or four tomatoes, an onion or two for the usual potato broth for three nights' su...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1481 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Matemadanda savages Chamisa, son of a 'Rhodesian African riffler'
ZANU-PF national commissar and minister Victor Matemadanda has declared MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa will not rule Zimbabwe because of his perceived disdain for First Chimurenga icon Mbuya Nehan...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 16:05hrs | 6353 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has always had a democracy deficit
DEMOCRACY is an embodiment of governance in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodic free ...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:16hrs | 594 | by Jonathan Chando
Chamisa's father was a Rhodesian soldier?
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa's father is a Rhodesian African Rifles soldier who does not know the definition of a war veteran, according to Zanu-PF secretary for War Veterans and Deputy Minis...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 21:32hrs | 12605 | by Staff reporter
Interview with ZPRA Instructor Thoriso Moyo
This week on the Big Interview, we have Toriso Moyo, a freedom fighter and military instructor with the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), a Mgagao attack survivor, and one of the fir...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:20hrs | 2655 | by The Big Interview
Nehanda's bones not yet risen - as she didn't die for White Rhodesia to be replaced by Black Rhodesia!
Yesterday, the 7th July 2020, I took time to watch the usual post-Cabinet media briefing, beamed live on state television - whereby, several government ministers update the nation on their deliberatio...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 15:51hrs | 809 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Kasukuwe mourns Stella Madzimbamuto
Saviour Kasukuwere has issued a condolence message to Zimbabweans on the passing away of Stella Madzimbamuto a struggle stalwart who is known for leading a legal challenge against the racist minority ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 10:20hrs | 6153 | by Mandla Ndlovu
So much lies and distortions in Zimbabwean history - the true story needs to finally be told
When renowned pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey famously said, "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots", he had a very valid point, as indeed,...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 14:27hrs | 1844 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
A very good lesson from Malawi
It is possible in theory to distinguish revolutionary parties, from those parties working within the mandate of temporal popularity. But the distinction is not always easy to make, because the same pa...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 09:51hrs | 3193 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
ZAPU leader throws veiled attack on The Patriotic Front
ZAPU Spokesperson Iphithule Maphosa has thrown a veiled attack on the newly formed opposition party The Patriotic Front accusing it trying to bring back Rhodesian colonisers. party is led by t...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 05:35hrs | 1793 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa courts unrest
Zimbabweans celebrated in their tens of thousands when the military ousted Robert Mugabe and installed Emmerson Mnangagwa as president. Two-and-a-half years later, the party is over.Mnanga...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:13hrs | 785 | by Bloomberg
What's in a name and history?
SOMEWHERE in Buhera East, near Dorowa Mine before you cross Save River into Ziyambi Purchase Area, there is a school named after King Mzilikazi kaMatshobana. I would give everything to know if posteri...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:29hrs | 261 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Dr Nkomo: The triumph and paradox of the liberation agenda
Early career timing and ideological wiringTHE nationalist anti-colonial movement in modern Zimbabwe directly intertwines the ideological efforts and political charisma of the late Vice-Preside...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:28hrs | 174 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Rhodies wanted Gagisa for a war trophy
I first met Stanley Nleya (Elish Gagisa), who died in Bulawayo on 16 June and was buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare on Wednesday last week, at Morogoro in Tanzania in 1969.I had tra...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:27hrs | 326 | by Retired Brig-Gen Mazinyane
Joshua Nkomo: A globalist, political negotiator and institution builder
FORMER Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's legacy is prominently embedded in the military and radical polemic side of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle.This historiography bias towards Nkomo's contribu...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:21hrs | 170 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Bread does not grow in supermarkets
IF there is an immutable truism that has stubbornly stood the test of time, it is the fact that common sense is not at all common.It is fair to say while common sense is rare, nonsense is ubiq...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:14hrs | 180 | by Bishop Lazarus
Of ugly vultures and bad wolves in good sheep's clothing
I shall begin with our own fathers and ancestors, it is both just and proper that they should have the honor of mention, for handing free to us this country, augmented by valiant valor, their blood an...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 00:25hrs | 1551 | by Evangelist Sendekai W.T
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