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Jonathan Moyo opens up after David Coltart 'insult'
Zimbabwean former minister and MP Jonathan Moyo has written a long open letter to main opposition CCC senior leader David Coltart over his remarks about his late father Melusi Job Mlevu who was ...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 08:03hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
David Coltart operated in Matabeleland where he did dastardly things
Dear David Coltart,WHY I CANNOT SUPPORT QUINTUPLE C: COLTART, CHAMISA AND CCCMy attention has been drawn to your fraudulent and disgusting tweet you posted on my Twitter TL yesterday D...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 18:58hrs | 11 | by Jonathan Moyo
Mnangagwa's regime unmitigated failures, and yes, Smith was far much better!
I do not even understand what the whole debate is all about, because there are some matters that are undeniable and can not be contested!For starters, we never had to fetch our water for domes...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 07:09hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa boycotts, Nhlanhla Ndiweni calls for sanctions on Zimbabwe
On Wednesday this week, the Mike Campbell Foundation (MCF), held its 10th Anniversary Celebrations at the Royal Geographical Society in London, themed: "An exciting journey of hope: Stories from the p...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 06:57hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Sanctions: The unfair comparison between Zimbabwe and Rhodesia
MANY Zimbabweans often bring up the comparison between Rhodesian and Zimbabwean sanctions to drive the narrative that Rhodesia had more stringent sanctions that they managed better than Zimbabwe is ma...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:35hrs | | by Rutendo Bereza Matinyarare
'Independence Day' a continual reminder of how Zimbabweans are still in painful bondage
I have never had any hesitation asserting that the holidays that I regarded most appealing to my heart on the Zimbabwean calender, were "Independence Day", and "Heroes Day" - not for the skewed and ba...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 10:47hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe is our only home
Gogo Chapo moved up and down the whole night checking on her sons Enock and John who were recuperating at their respective homes after a thorough beating by the settler forces. The cat had com...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:18hrs | 1 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
How Col Tshinga Dube, Gen PV Sibanda were almost blown up by Rhodies
TODAY we conclude our series of interviews with Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube, the last Zipra chief of communications, former Cabinet Minister and chief executive officer of the Zimbabwe Industries (ZD...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:09hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
British Queen divides Matabeleland leaders
The decision by Her Majesty the Queen of England to invite United Kingdom based Matabeleland activist Dr Brilliant Sigabade Mhlanga to her 2019 Party at Buckingham Palace has created a war of words be...Published: 10 May 2019 at 14:50hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Rhodesia was 'successful' because essentially it was a province of SA
This week, I am going to start by doing something that we journalists don't normally do. Often we think our duty is to criticise or point out wrongdoing but never to praise even when praise is due. Bu...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 09:26hrs | | by Baffour Ankomah
Government blast DA leader over army killings
The government of Zimbabwe has labeled statements by South Africa's Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane over Zimbabwe as reckless and accused him of being funded by ex-Rhodies who have a grudge o...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 17:36hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu pf has only taught us to hate each other
If you do not agree at least do not kill each other, Zanu PF on other hand has mastered the legacy of hate. Black on black violence, against minority races violence has been unleashed by Zanu PF....Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 20:51hrs | | by AT Kadada
Grand National Unity?
"The turbulence in India this time hasn't come from foreign invasion or conquest; it has been generated from within. India cannot respond in her old way, by a further retreat into archaism. Her borrow...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 15:38hrs | 2 | by Igomombe
Zim Communist Party laments lack of progress after 38 years of independence
The Zimbabwe Communist Party has lamented lack of progress and development in the country despite the independence that was attained by the country in 1980,."It is to our shame that there has ...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Time to end Zanu-PF election rigging, Cdes
MY Comrades, I am pleased to finally announce to you that something is happening on the ground. As you are now all aware, a lot of work is underway to ensure that the New Patriotic Front (NPF), a gran...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 10:55hrs | | by CZ
REWIND: Jonathan Moyo savages General Chiwenga
On July 2, 2017, five months before the coup that dethroned Robert Mugabe, The Standard published the interview below.Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo was last week described as an "enem...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 17:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa: The bloody end of crocodile politics
Concealed to many of us is that the real misfortunes of a true crocodile pursue Emmerson Mnangagwa and the politics that he represents. The crocodile tears over corruption and crime in Zimbabwe that h...Published: 19 Dec 2017 at 15:16hrs | 4 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Mnangagwa called people from Matabeleland cochroaches and threatened to shorten their lives
Former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has revealed that during gukurahundi, President Emmerson Mnangagwa called the people of Matabeleland cockroaches he also alleges that Mnanga...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 19:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
RG Mugabe International Airport: Zimbabweans have made a statement
While a few rouge protestors, not exceeding 20 to be precise, are demonstrating against President Mugabe at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, US, the generality of Zimbabweans ha...Published: 20 Sep 2017 at 12:10hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Rhodies learnt nothing, forgot nothing
First, an anecdote. Many black Zimbabweans, who have travelled across the world and come across white people formerly resident in Zimbabwe before and after Independence, will relate how a typical conv...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo savages General Chiwenga, takes aim at Mnangagwa - full interview
Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo was last week described as an "enemy of the state" by Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General Constantino Chiwenga for criticising the implementation of the co...Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 10:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
BBC, CNN et al fear me, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, have you ever noticed that our Anglo-Saxon detractors through their propaganda outlets such as the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and ...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 10:08hrs | | by CZ
As the Twitter Professora would say, handei tione!
IT has been a week of laughter and good political humour, not least because my party triumphed in Bikita West, but also because of the clotted reasoning and prose which this defeat wrought in lose...Published: 28 Jan 2017 at 08:31hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zimbabwe: 2017 the Year of the Monster
It was a stern Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Minister of State Security, who looked at Ken Flower in the eye told him that Robert Mugabe, "the Prime Minister wishes you to know that the Commissioner of Poli...Published: 30 Dec 2016 at 16:08hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Jonathan Moyo takes aim at MiCasa
Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has taken a dig at house music band MiCasa over the use of the Zimbabwean flag at their Bulawayo show last weekend.MiCasa had the crowd...Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 17:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
To label persons as cockroaches is hate speech VP Mnangagwa, criminally punished in civilized countries!
In decent and civilized countries, VP Mnangagwa would have left his office of the Presidency long back. This labelling of "other" as cockroaches is an act of verbal diarreah, unfortunately a wording t...Published: 26 Jun 2016 at 17:02hrs | 14 | by Nomazulu Thata
Coltart: (Hi)story and our story as Africans
As I sit down to write this piece, it is February 18, 1978, and David Coltart has just taken off for South Africa, to start his university studies at UCT, the University of Cape Town. He leaves behind...Published: 07 May 2016 at 20:11hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
'Rhodies part of Badza, Nhari rebellion'
ON Independence day, the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Constantine Guveya Chiwenga was tough talking, and in his interview with The Herald, he collapsed the country's historical, military ...Published: 28 Apr 2016 at 06:48hrs | | by Hildegarde The Arena
Ian Smith's mean machine exposed
JUST been reading the book, "The Empire Writes Back" by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin and the book tickled me to critically think about the on-going and well-funded project by ex-Rh...Published: 24 Apr 2016 at 16:57hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Eddie Cross mind your own business
The claim by Bulawayo South legislator, Eddie Cross that ZANU-PF is now carcass is a wild accusation which shows the level of idiocy possessed by this opposition Member of Parliament.Consideri...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 19:30hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano
Ethnicity or tribalism in Zimbabwe: let's dare it to speak about it and find solutions!
It is not worth the effort to find definitions about tribalism or ethnic tensions as this word tribalism in Zimbabwe is embedded in the psyche of all citizens, its meaning and what it means to be diff...Published: 09 Apr 2016 at 08:52hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
ZANU PF's perpetual excuses are a clear sign of failure
In any given environment, success is measured by one's ability to deliver, in spite of any challenges faced along the way; as the inability to deliver by proffering excuses - no matter how understanda...Published: 08 Feb 2016 at 09:19hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Cain Mathema attacks notorious Rhodies
Matabeleland North Minister of State for Provincial Affair Cain Mathema has claimed that the whites brutalised Rhodesia out of envy.Mathema said this in his brief a...Published: 11 Dec 2015 at 12:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets demand answers from Mugabe
War veterans want President Robert Mugabe to establish a commission of enquiry to flush out senior Zanu-PF officials with Rhodesian connections holding onto land in the country's urban centres on ...Published: 17 Nov 2015 at 16:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Die hard Rhodies unrepentant
It dies hard among the Rhodesian incorrigible vagrants that Zimbabwe is no longer a colony and it can never be again. This week and in some few days to come a number of white Zimbabweans here and in t...Published: 12 Nov 2015 at 09:51hrs | | by Stewart Murewa
Hope the British won't divert Dangote, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, you can now see that we are about to put those of our detractors, who have been suggesting that we are stranded when it comes to honouring our...Published: 10 Sep 2015 at 14:00hrs | 1 | by CZ
Labour law changes make party popular, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, like I am always telling you, we should always make sure we get the best out of any situation. The labour crisis that was triggered by that Su...Published: 27 Aug 2015 at 10:59hrs | | by CZ
UK demands £25 million ex-Rhodies pension from Zimbabwe
British lawmakers are pressuring Zimbabwe to pay £25 million in pensions to its citizens who served as civil servants under Ian Smith's colonial regime.The money is said to be owed to about ...Published: 23 Aug 2015 at 11:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rhodesians never die, for sure
IF that kid who shot black people in a church in the US did not have a connection to this land of ours, we would be forgiven for paying a cursory attention to it.White America has been killing...Published: 20 Jun 2015 at 17:39hrs | 2 | by Staff writer
Let's not put all Eggs into one basket on Itai Dzamara!
The untimely disappearance of Itai Dzamara, a journalist and political activist, is a regrettable development. We pray for his soul wherever he is but should never to put all eggs into one basket...Published: 13 Mar 2015 at 16:59hrs | | by Suitable Kajau
US extends sanctions on Zimbabwe
The United States of America has extended its illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe by another year, a move described by Africa as "senseless and meaningless." In extending the heinous embargoes, Washington m...Published: 05 Mar 2015 at 06:30hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe
The inevitable demise of opposition politics in Zimbabwe
The post 2013 election period has set the birth of a new era and new order in Zimbabwean politics; that of the genesis of the demise of the Western sponsored opposition politics in Zimbabwe.Th...Published: 02 Mar 2015 at 09:04hrs | | by Prince Khumbulani Malinga
Zimbabwe a nation of educated 'idiots'
EDITOR,In July young 44 visitors coming for a cultural exchange programme of 'UMOJA- The Flying Carpet' from three countries two of which are members of...Published: 25 Aug 2014 at 19:46hrs | | by Cont Mhlanga
Eddie Cross got it wrong
Rhodies are an unrepentant lot. It is amazing and surprising that the olive hand that President Robert Mugabe extended to the ex-Rhodies through reconciliation, just after independence, has not be...Published: 13 Aug 2014 at 14:03hrs | | by John Mukumbo
What does GGVJ seek to achieve?
Following a shameful political knockout in the July 2013 plebiscites, some people such as MDC-N deputy secretary general, Moses Mzila Ndlovu are doing anything in a desperate attempt to resurrect ...Published: 09 Jul 2014 at 17:52hrs | 8 | by John Sigauke
MDC-T blames everyone but itself
Facing imminent disintegration, MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai and his remaining loyalists have decided to "introspect" and see what has gone wrong with their party. The result has been a 2...Published: 29 Jun 2014 at 10:05hrs | | by Brian Chitemba
'Biti a small time patently ill lawyer' - Gutu
MDC-T Harare spokesperson Obert Gutu has taken a dig at secretary general Tendai Biti who led a weekend coup against party leader Morgan Tsvangirai at the weekend.Gutu referred to Biti as...Published: 28 Apr 2014 at 14:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tendai Biti comes out in the open
After months of frenzied speculation and strenuous denials, MDC secretary-general Tendai Biti came out in the open yesterday on his long reportedopposition to party president Morgan Ts...Published: 27 Apr 2014 at 15:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA snubs Tendai Biti's GNU-like proposal
Efforts by the MDC-T to push for new facilitation by South Africa through a letter written by the party's secretary-general, Mr Tendai Biti, have failed while clandestine moves by the party to form an...Published: 06 Oct 2013 at 04:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Liz's open legs approach adds to Tsvangirai's woes
Fate has not completed its work with Morgan Tsvangirai Tsvangirai. The loss of the election does not seem to be the end of his misfortune. It seems his open-zip approach has met its match with his you...Published: 19 Aug 2013 at 11:18hrs | | by Amai Jukwa
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