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Tshinga Dube rejects National Heroes Acre burial?
Former Minister and liberation struggle Zipra commander Tshinga Dube, who passed away on Thursday night, has expressed his wish not to be buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare, according to his...Published: 05 Oct 2024 at 16:12hrs | 2750 | by Staff reporter
I am suffocating and sick of crying
I am suffocating and sick of crying and dying for fresher air. I died in May, June and July, last year, and died forever in a shallow swamp on April 18, 1983. Later on, I died in a river full of class...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 09:17hrs | 28 | by Tafi Mhaka
Stalinist approach to COVID-19 vaccines only fuels more hesitancy and skepticism!
The easiest way to make someone mistrust and distrust you (arousing suspicions about you), is to act as if you are hiding something from him....Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 08:41hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Whose rights are infringed upon by peaceful protest?
It is interesting listening to official mouthpieces or reading from the State-controlled press. But there is always a better or subtle way of spinning.According to the official line, peddled b...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:32hrs | | by Editorial - Newsday
Charamba's utterances misplaced, misdirected, inciting and in breach of constitution
Our attention has been drawn to media remarks by Mnangagwa's administration through George Charamba, Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet (Presidential Communications), who also doubles...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 09:39hrs | | by Jacob Mafume MDC Nationa Spokesperson
Mnangagwa's command policies spark off market turmoil
GOVERNMENT'S commandist strategy to contain currency volatility and the rising tide of price increases ravaging Zimbabwe are likely to worsen an economic crisis that has persisted for decades while da...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
One revolutionary bullet and a tank full of commandos for my mother
I am suffocating and sick of crying and dying for fresher air. I died in May, June and July, last year, and died forever in a shallow swamp on April 18, 1983. Later on, I died in a river full of class...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 07:01hrs | 3 | by Tafi Mhaka
EU hands Spain blank cheque for stepped-up police repression
The day after images of the savage repression of the Catalan independence referendum by Spanish police shocked people around the world, Spain's Congress announced that it did not have time to invite P...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 06:55hrs | | by Alex Lantier and Alejandro López
Mugabe accused of tampering with Constitution
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is in the eye of a storm after he allegedly usurped Parliament's powers and amended electoral laws ahead of the 2018 general elections.Using the Presidential Powers (Te...Published: 19 Sep 2017 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe day an insult to Zimbabweans
THE Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, led by Morgan Tsvangirai, has expressed "shock and complete disappointment" over a recent decision by government to declare President Robert Mugabe's bi...Published: 24 Aug 2017 at 14:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt deploys soldiers to supervise harvesting of maize
HARARE - Government has deployed soldiers to supervise the harvesting of maize produced under the Command Agriculture programme in a bid to prevent side-marketing of the crop.The move is also ...Published: 22 Aug 2017 at 12:59hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Robert Mugabe National Youth Day : an insult to Zimbabwe's heroes
When a vapid and rabid dictatorship enters the end of its days, some very strange and bizarre things begin to manifest themselves. The nation learnt with shock and consternation when the crumbling and...Published: 19 Aug 2017 at 12:27hrs | | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
Mnangagwa is not the Messiah, he's Mugabe's enforcer in the belly of the beast
Life can be ugly. I have seen the unspeakable rot of unchecked malfeasance light up a dinghy hotel bar with womanly seduction like a fireworks display at the Harare Agricultural Show. Laced up in tigh...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 08:26hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Mnangagwa, Mphoko in fierce cabinet row
ZIMBABWE'S co-Vice-Presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko - the two remaining liberation struggle stalwarts in government besides President Robert Mugabe and a few others - fiercely clas...Published: 19 May 2017 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
VP Mnangagwa to militarise Zimbabwe minerals
Vice President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is reportedly mooting to have the country's fabulous mineral wealth militarised, under the guise of so called command mining, high level government sources and offi...Published: 12 May 2017 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya/Mary-Kate Kahari/Malvin Motsi
MDC-T roasts Kasukuwere
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC yesterday waded into Zanu-PF's ugly factional and succession wars, accusing embattled Local Government minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, of vindictively suspendin...Published: 29 Apr 2017 at 18:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere must be brought to order
Minister of Local Government, Saviour Kasukuwere, must immediately stop behaving like a bull in a china shop. On Wednesday, April 27, 2017, Kasukuwere unlawfully suspended all the 25 councilors of Chi...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 09:58hrs | | by Obert Gutu
Tsvangirai to go for broke in 2018 elections
As the ruling party has bagged a victory in the by-election in Mwenezi, the main opposition party MDC-T Spokesperson Obert Gutu took to social media to give his assessment of why and how that vi...Published: 15 Apr 2017 at 15:39hrs | | by openparly
Rural constituencies will determine who wins Election 2018- Gutu
MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu has warned the rural votes will determine who will be the winner of the 2018 elections."The rural constituencies will determine who wins Election 2018.There is a ...Published: 10 Apr 2017 at 07:25hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe is a Chicken that is eating it's own eggs
Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri once said "A political system based on force, oppression, changing people's votes, killing, closure, arresting and using Stalinist and medieval torture, creating ...Published: 22 Feb 2017 at 21:08hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Mugabe flies into factional storm
LOCAL artiste Jah Prayzah may have composed his popular ballad, Mudhara vachauya, to simply highlight challenges associated with long-distance relationships between many Zimbabweans and their love...Published: 26 Jan 2017 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe not bothered by Mnangagwa’s controversial New Year Eve gathering
One of President Robert Mugabe’s top aides yesterday suggested the veteran ruler was not bothered by Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s controversial New Year Eve gathering in Zvishavane and ...Published: 21 Jan 2017 at 17:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe succession shocker
One of President Robert Mugabe's top aides yesterday suggested the veteran ruler was not bothered by Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's controversial New Year Eve gathering in Zvishavane and that...Published: 16 Jan 2017 at 11:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Zimbabwe's dictatorship has played out
While 2016 ominously came to a close with long bank queues nationwide owing to egregious economic mismanagement by the Robert Mugabe regime, 2017 is set to be another annus horribilis for Zimbabwe, pr...Published: 15 Jan 2017 at 08:52hrs | 1 | by Paul Simon
Jonathan Moyo hits back at sick Charamba
Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo has hit back at the 'sick' presidential spokesperson George Charamba following his rebuke in the state media.Writing in his weekly Herald column, ...Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 13:36hrs | | by Alice Dube
Mugabe must listen to people's calls
As calls from Zimbabweans, including opposition supporters, war veterans and even some in Zanu-PF for President Robert Mugabe to step down get almost deafening, it is becoming increasingly desirab...Published: 11 Jan 2017 at 14:03hrs | | by Staff writer
ZANU PF Satan's organisation on earth - PDP
People's Democratic Party (PDP) Harare Province Secretary For Information and Publicity Nqobizitha Dumakude Khumalo has described the ruling Zanu PF as Satan's organisation operating physical on this ...Published: 05 Dec 2016 at 04:11hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
MDC-T calls on Zimbabwe army to stop new recruitment
The MDC is deeply dismayed and appalled by reports confirming that the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) is currently recruiting thousands of new recruits to join the national army.At a time when the n...Published: 14 Nov 2016 at 18:38hrs | | by Obert Gutu
Let's all protect brand Zanu-PF, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I am unable to fully address you this week, as you are all aware that I am away for yet another important engagement.I should make it very c...Published: 26 Oct 2016 at 21:16hrs | | by CZ
How the state became the new face of capitalism: Reflections of a Trade Unionist.
I am an African.HistoryI was born during the evolution of African independent states which came as a result of imperialism. The post-independence de...Published: 17 Oct 2016 at 21:21hrs | | by Tapiwa Diamond Chadya
'Mugabe turns Zimbabwe into a vampire state'
In his book, Defeating Dictators, George B.N Ayittey makes the point that much of Africa is a vampire state that metastasizes into a coconut republic and finally implodes into a collapsed or failed st...Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 17:30hrs | | by PDP
Mugabe in deadly military backlash
GOVERNMENT has covertly deployed the military and other security forces to surround the protests-wrecked capital Harare, while unleashing a crack unit to operate under cover to crackdown on the opposi...Published: 02 Sep 2016 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T targets Mugabe ouster in 'few weeks'
The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC has vowed to force President Robert Mugabe to resign through a national "grand" demonstration which it says will be rolled out within a "few" weeks.The planne...Published: 11 Aug 2016 at 15:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - a socio-political soap opera!
Every African or Zimbabwean citizen is quickly reminded of a vivid satire by George Orwell the Animal Farm, Things Fall Apart by the Great Chinua Achebe, In the Dust by one South African Author Malope...Published: 08 Jul 2016 at 06:15hrs | | by Mbizo Chirasha
MDC-T condemns jamming of social media platforms
Reports that the Zanu PF regime has jammed some social media platforms such as WhatsApp are very regrettable and quite depressing.Only fascist and Stalinist regimes are capable of doing this kind ...Published: 06 Jul 2016 at 10:10hrs | | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
MDC-T condemns the unlawful arrest and detention on Harare mayor
The MDC would like to strenuously condemn the unlawful arrest and detention of the Mayor of Harare, Cllr. Ben Manyenyeni by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday, June 29, 2016. Immedia...Published: 29 Jun 2016 at 15:57hrs | | by Obert Gutu
Mugabe's bash vulgar- PDP
HARARE spokesperson for the People's Democratic Party Nqobizitha Khumalo has described the lavish celebration of President Robert Mugabe's birthday at a time when people are suffering from serio...Published: 21 Feb 2016 at 12:26hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe not Mugabe's private company
President Robert Mugabe's utterances at the just ended African Union (AU) Ordinary Summit in Addis Ababa Ethiopia that he will "rule until God says come" are irresponsible and an insult on the sufferi...Published: 01 Feb 2016 at 12:28hrs | | by Moses Manyengavana - PDP Youth Assembly Chairperson
Mugabe's Zanu-PF regime is now a de facto terrorist organisation
Section 59 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe states that every person has the right to demonstrate and to present petitions, but these rights must be exercised peacefully. Of late, the Zimbabwe Republic...Published: 05 Jan 2016 at 16:56hrs | | by Obert Gutu, MDC-T National Spokesperson
Mugabe's Zimbabwe slides into famine
Zimbabwe's schizophrenia is in vivid evidence on Friday afternoons in the capital Harare's leafy northern suburbs.At the Tin Cup restaurant round the back of the Chisipite Shopping Centre, whi...Published: 17 Jul 2015 at 18:54hrs | | by Newsweek
Chombo's revelations expose Zanu-PF rigging plan
Recent revelations by one Ignatious Chombo clearly exposed the illegitimate Zanu-PF regime's rigging tactics in Hurungwe West constituency. This is vintage Zanu-PF; always threatening, manipulati...Published: 11 May 2015 at 16:06hrs | | by Obert Gutu
Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe should immediately be disbanded
Section 61 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe provides for freedom of expression and freedom of the media. Indeed, these two forms of freedom are an integral component of fundamental human rights as clea...Published: 05 Mar 2015 at 16:19hrs | | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
All Zimbabweans are equal regardless of race, colour or creed
Zimbabwe is a unitary, democratic and sovereign republic. In terms of Section 3 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe that captures the founding values and principles of our beloved country, Zimbabwe is...Published: 02 Mar 2015 at 17:46hrs | | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
Why Africans love Mugabe
CAPE TOWN - Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe who is demonised by the West and described by some as a political thug still enjoys unwavering support among many Africans on the continent for sta...Published: 13 Nov 2014 at 09:45hrs | | by Thabo Kunene
Police crush MDC-T demo, Maridadi arrested
Harare police came out in full force on Wednesday and crushed a planned ‘jobs demonstration and handing over of a petition to parliament' by opposition MDC-T youths on Wednesday.Police in fu...Published: 28 Aug 2014 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police violently crush MDC-T demo, 18 people injured
Police in Harare violently dispersed a peaceful MDC-T demonstration leading to the injury of 18 members.MDC-T Harare provincial spokesperson Obert Gutu said, "In typical Stalinist fashion, on...Published: 27 Aug 2014 at 18:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Biti snubs 'godfather' Tsvangirai as MDC-T cracks widen
Cracks within the MDC-T widened yesterday as secretary-general, Tendai Biti snubbed a rally addressed by party president, Morgan Tsvangirai in Chitungwiza.Biti's rebuff came a day after he ca...Published: 09 Mar 2014 at 15:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
US worried that North Korea's leader could really start war
Obama administration officials who once hoped that North Korea's young leader could prove to be a reformer are increasingly worried that he might blunder his way into a war.Even as they public...Published: 29 Mar 2013 at 22:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
So you thought this (2010) year was tough …
Politically speaking, not a lot changed and not a lot was solved in 2010. Economic hard times, disappointment with an underachieving Barack Obama, the familiar bloody slog in Afghanista...Published: 31 Dec 2010 at 12:03hrs | 4 | by Simon Tisdall
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