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'Common sense must prevail, need GNU' argue Mzembi - 'less of him we'd have a better land'
Albert Einstein, one of the greatest physicist and innovative thinker to ever walk the earth, explained that psychologically, our beliefs and axioms rest upon our experiences. There exists, however, n...Published: 6 hrs ago | 1262 | by Wilbert Mukori
'You are a sell-outs!' - discredited opposition undermine ED's legitimacy
Up to now, many Zimbabweans have not fully appreciated the negative role the country's opposition politicians have played in our struggle to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. It is pleasing to note that m...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 17:33hrs | 350 | by Wilbert Mukori
Violence at Zanu-PF DCC elections
The Zanu-PF internal elections to select members of the district co-ordinating committees (DCCs) held in Harare at the weekend were marred by violence, intimidation and allegations of vote-rigging....Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:45hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere divides ZANU PF?
Exiled former ZANU PF Political Commissar Saviour Kasukuwere's name has been fingered in a chaotic ZANU PF DCC election held over the weekend in Harare South. Sources that spoke to this report...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 12:01hrs | 9658 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa is desperate to emulate Kagame, hires same PR - silk purse out sow's ear
There is one thing we can say with absolute certainty; President Mnangagwa and his fellow Joint Operation Command (JOC) junta members, comprising the top brass in the country's security services and a...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 17:08hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'ED has proffered no solution and are stopping Zanu-PF collapse' boasted Madhuku - why, how nauseating
Professor Lovemore Madhuku, one of Zimbabwe's opposition party leaders, said President Mnangagwa's speech to mark the opening of parliament proffered no solutions to the country's myriad of economic, ...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:28hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'People vote Zanu PF notwithstanding hardship and repression' - repressed, per se, don't have free vote
Professor Lovemore Madhuku, leader of the opposition party the National Constitution Assembly, should wash his mouth with bleach; the foul insults coming from him are intolerable. "Go to a by-...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:09hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'Cannot change the past but future is ours' - nonsense, bright future secured by learning from the past
"Before I begin my address, I kindly request the August House to observe a minute of silence in honour of the late Founding Father of our country and Former President His Excellency, Comrade R. G. Mug...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'ED Mnangagwa must learn to listen' - forget him, he is beyond the pale and so is Chamisa
"ED Mnangagwa, You must learn to listen first so that you are listened to," wrote Luke Tamborinyoka MDC party deputy spokesperson."Listen to the suffering cries of those abductees, the 2,6 mil...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 19:25hrs | 1448 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'My government is implementing reforms' - rigged elections are illegitimate and must step down, now
Every economic performance indicator shows that the Zimbabwe economic is in total economic meltdown and yet Mnangagwa continue to claim otherwise."My government continues to take bold and deci...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 09:02hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'I need time to get dead economy working again' - you killing it, just step down
"I'm aware of the pain being experienced by the poor and the marginalised," said Mnangagwa in his speech, to mark the official opening of parliament."Getting the economy working again from bei...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 09:02hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa's MPs humiliate Mnangagwa during SONA
MDC MPs walked out of Parliament as President Emmerson Mnangagwa began his state of the nation address, a sign of the political tensions still gripping the country.The MDC says it does not rec...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 16:53hrs | 1778 | by AP
'Mnangagwa honours promise to give Grace Blue Roof' - didn't even honour povo's right to life
The shameless arrogance, hypocrisy and indifference of President Mnangagwa and the Zanu PF ruling elite is breath taking."President Emmerson Mnangagwa will honour his promise and transfer the ...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 08:55hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Economic meltdown force Zanu-PF "to fast-track reform bill" - gimmick to dodge stepping down
Zanu-PF rigged last year's elections confident the party will "rig" economic recovery; that has proved a bridge too far. There is no doubt that the regime is now feeling the political pressure brought...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 23:27hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Special message to MDC - Alliance as they celebrate their 20th anniversary
The only difference between ZANU PF and MDC - Alliance is on their political ideology. There is enough evidence to support the view that the original MDC - Alliance's political ideology may suffer a b...Published: 28 Sep 2019 at 09:07hrs | | by Don Chigumba
Let's push for reason and restraint
IT'S not only safe, but wise and astute to comment on an accomplished fact - such as last week's Zaka East parliamentary by-election result - than to prematurely and vehemently accept or reject that D...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 18:56hrs | | by Conway Tutani
MDC @20: The journey continues
TWENTY years after it was formed amid high hopes, the opposition MDC's pathway to power remains hazy amid concerns it lacks the gravitas to mount a formidable challenge to dislodge Zanu-PF from power....Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Punish Mnangagwa for his barbarism vis-a-vis Dr Magombiye,' called Coltart - why is MDC propping up regime
"This is a regime which is increasingly paranoid and unhinged. It has dug itself into a deep hole. In seeking to exculpate itself from the crimes against humanity it is alleged to have committed in re...Published: 26 Sep 2019 at 07:44hrs | 1204 | by Wilbert Mukori
'2018 elections failed to meet standards' - illegitimate Zanu-PF must step down to stop repeat
"Amid Zimbabwe's deteriorating political situation and worsening economic rot, opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has held a meeting with former Nigerian Olusegun Obasanjo - in a bid to trigger dialogue...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 22:07hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Voters are under siege from Zanu PF, MDC will educate them come 2023' - new excuse for participating again
The root cause of Zimbabwe's devastating economic meltdown is the country's failure to remove this corrupt and incompetent Zanu PF dictatorship from office. Ever since our independence in 1980, Zanu P...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 09:32hrs | 862 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mujuru facing liquidation as business empire collapse - one in Blue Roof is worried sick, she is up next
"Former Vice President Joice Mujuru and her company, Ruzirun Investments, have approached the High Court seeking an order stopping a couple she owes money from attaching her property as she fears goin...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 20:35hrs | 5276 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'We are smarter, Z$ now 14:1' boasted ED - still claiming what he is not
"On the monetary side, yes, we have introduced one currency. For the first six weeks it remained stable, but then our people are intelligent. We have people who found ways to fight that (stability of ...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 07:22hrs | 1562 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mbeki's praise for Mugabe deeper than what meets the eye
The research by Mthwakazi Institute of Research (MIOR) has shown that people of the same philosophy tend to support each other. This becomes more pronounced if the people under scrutiny once have a ch...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 16:03hrs | | by Mthwakazi Research Institute
'Bhora Mugedhi Versus Bhora Musango' : The interface between football discourse and Zimbabwean politics
Football is the most popular sport in Zimbabwe and across the globe. It has been asserted elsewhere that the game is not limited to scoring goals on the pitch but that this also occurs in politics and...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 16:02hrs | | by Lyton Ncube Siya
African Religion and Governance in a changing world. Where thou goest native Africa!
It is my humble intention to speak to this paper in response to my learned brother Kenyan Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba's presentation to The All-Africa Religious Liberty 3rd Congress in...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 16:00hrs | 426 | by Reginald Nyathi
What good is 95% literacy without common sense to stop Mugabe madness
"The record is mixed, at best. No doubt he (Mugabe) gave black Zimbabweans dignity, pride and opportunity. In the early days of independence, we built a new school every day, every district got a hosp...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 09:09hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mugabe's legacy is palatial Blue Roof for himself and condemn povo to mud hovel - Sodom and Gomorrah of greed
-A lot has been said about Robert Gabriel Mugabe's legacy; some declared him a Pan-Africanist liberation hero per excellence, the founding father of Zimbabwe, etc. A picture speaks a thousand words an...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 18:42hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Zanu PF has no reason to destabilise Zimbabwe' - has, insatiable greed for power and loot
Zimbabwe is a failed state. The last two weeks following the late Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe's death have provided the international community with some gruesome details of the coun...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 17:42hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Robert Mugabe: Rule by the whip
Books he trusted. One was usually in his hand in those first, mostly happy, years as Zimbabwe's leader. He would be home at State House by 5:30pm, slamming doors so that his beloved wife Sally would k...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 08:04hrs | | by The Economist
Zimbabwe to build mausoleum to honour dictator Mugabe - even in death his selfish greed is insatiable
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the Zimbabwean government is building a mausoleum at the National Heroes Acre as a way of paying homage and honour to the country's late founding father Robert Mugabe...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 12:49hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Open Letter to the soul of R.G. Mugabe (currently in the purgatory)
Dear Comrade RG, I know that you are currently in the purgatory while waiting for your verdict from the almighty. There is no doubt that you are in great fear and shivering. Your chances of go...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 11:58hrs | | by Don Chigumba
Mugabe leaves a bitter legacy
ROBERT MUGABE'S career can be divided into three main parts.First, as an extraordinarily skilful leader who managed to dominate a fractious nationalist movement opposed to the white-supremacis...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:35hrs | | by The Economist
'Mugabe died in exile!' - Rubbish, Singapore was dictator's haunt and very costly one to the nation
The sheer arrogance, contemptuous disregard for the truth and heartless indifference to the suffering of the masses by the Zanu-PF thugs has never seize to amaze me. Never!Zimbabwe's former dictat...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 22:10hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
It is impossible to portray dictator Mugabe as a hero, impossible, 'Rinemanyanga hariputirwi!'
Every year, at my High School, we had a college ball. We invited girls from the neighbouring school to the ball and, before the end of the afternoon's dancing, it was the tradition to have a lucky dra...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 20:12hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Giving Mugabe a hero's send-off proves we love our dictators and don't want change - not yet
Zimbabweans are not yet ready to end the de facto Zanu PF one-party dictatorship and with it the economic meltdown and political paralysis.Last year Mnangagwa and Zanu PF blatantly rigged the ...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 11:56hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
How UK failed to dislodge Robert Mugabe
BRITAIN'S 40-year effort to find a way to either influence or dislodge Robert Mugabe is one of the country's great post-war foreign policy failures. It is a story spanning six UK prime ministe...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 13:10hrs | | by Patrick Wintour
Adios, the perfidious one!
FORMER President Robert Mugabe finally bade farewell at 95. The Mugabe story had lost currency, albeit temporarily, since his unceremonious departure from office in November 2017. Zimbabweans are just...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 12:44hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
Zimbabwe crisis: Time for second govt of national unity?
ZIMBABWE is going through its worst socio-economic and political crisis in two decades. Crippling daily power outages of up to 18 hours and erratic supply of clean water are just some of the most obvi...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 12:41hrs | | by Tapiwa Chagonda
Dictator Mugabe denied million a vote - now they can finally 'vote', by boycott his funeral
David Coltart has proven to be a confused, corrupt and incompetent opposition politician; the kind very nation dreads. Coltart was a senior member of the MDC during the 2008 to 2013 GNU and they faile...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 22:21hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Mugabe's nephew pained by the loss
Robert Mugabe, the former guerrilla hero turned despot who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years until the military forced him out, has died aged 95.First heralded as a liberator who rid the former Brit...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 21:10hrs | | by AFP
Bob: As divisive in death as he was in life
ROBERT Mugabe, the former President of Zimbabwe, has died.Mugabe was 95, and had been struggling with ill health for some time. The country's current President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced Mug...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 10:11hrs | | by Roger Southall
R G Mugabe was a corrupt and murderous dictator, not a hero - to all dictators 'Pidigori waenda!' (Memento mori!)
The late Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a corrupt, incompetent and murderous dictator whose love of power and wealth was insatiable. Zimbabwe, the country and nation have paid dearly for his greed. Anyone ...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 21:36hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics
The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | | by Reginald Thabani Gola
'Zim to start talks to clear foreign debt in 2020' - Banks want money not more talks, this is catch 22
"Zimbabwe plans to start talks in early 2020 on clearing arrears on its international debt, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said, as it seeks to rebuild confidence in an economy ravaged by high inflatio...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 13:38hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Zimbabwe is a failed state, SA must intervene' - yes do; admit Zanu PF rigged 2018 elections
"Fellow South Africans, we cannot adopt quiet diplomacy when it comes to Zimbabwe. Reports are such that over 2 million Zim citizens went to bed hungry last night and every other. The country is fast ...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 19:12hrs | 1683 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Zanu PF media ad hominem attacks on ambassadors is insulting' - remain focused and tighten screw
"President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government appeared determined to commit diplomatic hara-kiri - ritual suicide by disembowelment with a sword, which used to be practised in Japan - with its officials ...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 15:54hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
The irony of re-engagement, dying democracy
IMMEDIATELY after the ouster of Robert Mugabe from power as President in November 2017, Zimbabwe was gripped by euphoria and a flood of positive expectations.The nation had endured the worst u...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 08:07hrs | | by Learnmore Zuze
'Sham 2018 poll resulted in illegitimacy' CIZC finally admit - yet still can't resist urge to appease Zanu PF
It is heartening to see that organisation like Crisis In Zimbabwe Coalition (CIZC) are finally calling a spade a spade! "The sham 2018 polls resulted in a serious legitimacy crisis that c...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 06:36hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'China attaches no condition to assistance' - so; cannot demand good governance, we do
No amount of Chinese propaganda can ever hide the reality of the tick and the cow China and Zimbabwe relationship. "The China-Africa relationship is deeply rooted in our common que...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 21:21hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Can still have successful economy regardless' ED advised - excuse for the illegitimate to hang on
"PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is surrounded by good people. Among them, he has great formal and informal advisers; talented and eminent people from different backgrounds, who really can make a differe...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 09:13hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
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