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Zimbabwe takes sanctions fight to US Congress
The Government of Zimbabwe is contemplating sending a high-level parliamentary delegation to the United States Congress to advocate for the repeal of the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Amend...Published: 27 Oct 2024 at 12:19hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
Has Chamisa learnt from his mistakes?
MY chance encounter with Nelson Chamisa at the British ambassador's residence last week triggered some reflection.At this beautiful garden party to celebrate King Charles III's birthday, I not...Published: 20 Jun 2024 at 07:27hrs | 25 | by Trevor Ncube
Mthulisi Mathuthu completes his PhD studies
Zimbabwean media journalist Mthulisi Mathuthu who worked for the Zimbabwe Independent and the now defunct Mirror Group of newspapers, among other key local publications, has completed his PhD studies,...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 18:55hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
The Godfather experiment, politics of attrition in Zimbabwe
GODFATHER experiments are made in instances of confrontation and attrition, mostly, if not always. Godfathers consider themselves to be powerful figures who wield significant influence, especially und...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:47hrs | 11 | by Sharon Hofisi
Mnangagwa miserably failed to utilise the coup d'état dividend
Robert Mugabe on Herbert Chitepo (and a Rejoinder on the Missed Opportunity of the 2017 Coup)Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 16:49hrs | 19 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
Zanu-PF denies sponsoring CCC recalls from parliament, councils
Zanu-PF has dismissed claims by CCC leader Nelson Chamisa that the ruling party was sponsoring recalls on opposition legislators and councillors in attempts to both fan division and destroy his party....Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 08:26hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
CiZC claims not regime change agents
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) says labelling the organisation regime change agents is a usual tactic used by dictatorships worldwide to muzzle all voices which attempt to hold them to account....Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:49hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe crying out for political remaking
GOOD day President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, the refrain of the song Remake the World by Jimmy Cliff aptly portrays the magnitude of destitution that is prevalent among citizenry....Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:06hrs | 1 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
CIO spooks on the prowl
A LEAKED Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) report on the dire situation at privately-owned publishing house Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) exposes the rot at the company, accentuated by spooky manoe...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:19hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
CIO spooks on the prowl at Trevor Ncube's AMH?
A LEAKED Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) report on the dire situation at privately-owned publishing house Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) exposes the rot at the company, accentuated by spooky manoe...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 09:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2023 elections crucial test of Mnangagwa's Statesmanship
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as I see it, by now, most of the determined would-be contestants for public office are already geared for the imminent race. Although t...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:53hrs | 9 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Energy Mutodi enrols at top UK University for a Diplomatic Course
Former Deputy Information Minister Dr Energy Mutodi is in the United Kingdom for a short diplomatic course at the University of Birmingham, sources have revealed. After attending Her Majesty Queen Eli...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 10:14hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe govt officials in Dubai to study modern systems of Statecraft
THE Chief Secretary in the Office of President and Cabinet, Misheck Sibanda is leading a delegation of top government officials to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where they are understudying modern g...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
July Moyo linked to inflated Belarus fire tenders scandal
LOCAL government minister July Moyo was this Monday the subject of another corruption allegation storm over the procurement of fire-fighting vehicles from Belarus.Moyo is reportedly under inve...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Nothing new about CCC's same old characters
When CCC won in the majority of constituencies in by-elections held in March, its leaders ran with a line that they had done well, yet they were a new party on the scene.Yet the claim that CCC...Published: 28 May 2022 at 08:50hrs | 1 | by Lovemore Chikova
Chamisa: Illusions of democracy, statesmanship
LAST week CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa was pontificating about the sovereignty of Ukraine, railing against the Russian special mission into its neighbour as a travesty that trampled on international s...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Morgan Tsvangirai, the flawed political giant who dismantled Zanu-PF's one-party state project
MORGAN Tsvangirai succumbed to cancer on Valentine's Day in 2018. Some remember him as a charismatic trade unionist turned politician who led the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) since its incepti...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 17:25hrs | | by Itai Michael Preston Choto
Thandiwe Newton: When little knowledge is dangerous
This week, social media got a dose of some revolting diatribes from one Thandiwe Newton, a bygone era British actress whose desperation for relevance is forcing her to utter the most outrageous things...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:33hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
'Army plays decisive role in politics' - Zanu PF fuelled conjecture, without one iota of evidence
"It is beyond any iota of doubt in Zimbabwe that the institution of the military plays a decisive factor in the politics of the country," reported The Independent. "Numerous "clever" politicians ...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 09:50hrs | 6 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe military remains single decisive factor in politics
The opprobrium that characterised the rebuke of remarks made by Chief Murinye by the Vice President of Zimbabwe, Dr Constantino Chiwenga exemplifies the reality around the power matrix in Zimbabwe....Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 16:40hrs | 10 | by Sapien Sapien
President E D Mnangagwa @ 79 and overcoming the struggle in transition
The surfeit of one's proximity to a hero has a tendency of dissuading them from appreciating their rarely accorded access to greatness — such is the descriptive parable of the privilege I have to se...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:16hrs | | by Dr Obert Moses Mpofu
Book on Mugabe set for launch
LEADERS for Africa Network (LAN) in partnership with renowned academic Ibbo Mandaza's regional think-tank, the Southern African Political-Economy Series (Sapes) Trust, will today launch a book tracing...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Book on Mugabe's political career set for launch next week
Leaders for Africa Network (LAN) in partnership with the Southern African Political-Economy Series (SAPES) Trust, is set to launch a book on the late former president Robert Gabriel Mugabe's political...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 19:51hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Too early to use Zambia as an indicator of Zimbabwe's future
I wIll choose to be controversial a bit and analyse critical issues around the Zambian election, its outcome and implications to the region this time around. I will seek to zero in on the incoming Pre...Published: 27 Aug 2021 at 06:36hrs | | by Sapien Sapien
Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe's liberation pilgrimage
In my previous instalment in this publication, I indicated that Zimbabwe's independence history is connected to that of all post-colonial African nations. Likewise, Africa's liberation is also grounde...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 08:58hrs | 1 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
The Liberation War in Nkayi, Matebeleland: The Agenda by Rhodesian Army & State to starve 'terrorists', a personal experience!
In today's Africa, we often ascribe the violation of African rights to only African governments and easily forget a long-standing history of wanton violation of African rights by gun-ho racialist geno...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 22:38hrs | 14 | by Thembani Dube
Mnangagwa moves to muzzle critics
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government yesterday announced plans to tighten screws on critics, including banning civil society from staging anti-government protests at international fora and "unaut...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mzembi accuses state media of too much fixation with G40
EXILED former cabinet minister Walter Mzembi has accused state media of too much fixation with the G40 narrative in a desperate attempts to hype up its readership and increase sales.He was com...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sustaining the Zimdollar
I AM naturally enchanted by the logic, sequence and clarity of a thought process. But l have grown to learn that, quite often, economic plans are elaborately ornamented.The number of economies...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:02hrs | | by Persistence Gwanyanya
Mnangagwa dumps diplomacy, scolds US
Exactly a year after the tragic August 1 killings, consequences of the catastrophe have gotten out of hand with government expressing no remorse and demanding that the USA should not undermine Zimbabw...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:52hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe takes offence at US posturing
GOVERNMENT has criticised the placement on sanctions of Zimbabwe's Ambassador-designate to Tanzania, Anselem Sanyatwe, and his wife Ms Chido Machona, by the United States on allegations that the forme...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No unresolved political questions in Zimbabwe'
Government says national political dialogue recently launched by President Mnangagwa was not a power sharing negotiation or an initiative towards the creation of Government of National Unity (GNU), bu...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Write to unite Zimbabweans'
Deputy Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Honourable Energy Mutodi; Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Br...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:08hrs | | by Monica Mutsvangwa
'Mnangagwa dialogue not power sharing negotiation'
Government says national political dialogue recently launched by President Mnangagwa was not a power sharing negotiation or an initiative towards the creation of Government of National Unity (GNU) but...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 18:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Polad needs gravitas
Polad (an acronym for Political Actors Dialogue) is a voluntary platform for national dialogue launched by President Emmerson Mnangagwa just a few days after the Ides of May 2019.Polad was fla...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Willard Chinhara
Magufuli extends Zimbabwe visit
Tanzanian President John Magufuli yesterday extended his working visit in Zimbabwe as he held bilateral talks aimed at deepening, promoting and consolidating co-operation with his opposite number, Pre...Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
How long shall we suffer fools, loons?
Despite their supposed genius and intellectual heft, Western scientists are still grappling with establishing the causal link between lunar cycles and madness.While there is innumerable anecdo...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Chiwenga becomes de facto Zimbabwe President
New York - Militaristic vice president, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is now the country's de facto head of state, amid reports that President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has reportedly been stripped off ...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 06:30hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya
A potent enemy always lives within
Hallelujah. . . But wait . . . why was he killed in the first place?You see, over time, societies evolve into hierarchical and stratified communities that pit the powerful against the powerles...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:50hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Mnangagwa co-option civil society to silence growing dissent
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is seeking to co-opt sections of civil society organisations, the church, business and some political parties in a mollifying move meant to silence growing dissent....Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 13:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabeism must be dismantled
YESTERDAY Zimbabweans commemorated, or simply just observed, former president Robert Mugabe's birthday which has now been institutionalised into a national holiday, even though the majority might have...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:16hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
Damnatio memoriae and Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day?
In the recent past few years, it had become a norm in February to see pomp and extravagance in Zimbabwe's state and independent media with preparations towards and celebrations on the birthday of "com...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 21:18hrs | | by Brian Maregedze
'Information as a threat to national security'
We publish the full presentation by the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Senator Monica Mutsvangwa at the Zimbabwe National Defence University in Harare last week....Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:13hrs | | by Senator Monica Mutsvangwa
Chamisa will start rolling out the demonstrations next week
A showdown is looming between the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) after the youth wing of the country's biggest opposition political party resolved to conduct massive pro...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 21:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangangwa panics
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been forced to cut short his vacation to deal with the crisis in the health sector where junior doctors have been on a month-long industrial action, which is costing l...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 12:46hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Eddie Cross mourns George Bush
George Bush senior died this morning. I met him once, when as Vice President he visited Harare and I was invited to a reception for him. My other indelible memory of the man was watching the GOP Conve...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 11:31hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Mnangagwa politically insecure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has on at least two occasions publicly accused Zanu-PF of working against him.At a healing and reconciliation workshop for winning and losing Zanu-PF primary elect...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 06:15hrs | 2 | by Edmund Kudzayi
'Queen Bee' captured war vet planning to oust Mutsvangwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's staunchest backers - the war veterans - are now divided over State capture allegations that have sucked in oil tycoon, Kudakwashe Tagwirei.While the chairperson ...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 15:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe state capture threatening to paralyse both the State and Zanu-PF
The nasty brawl over the control of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government - driven by narrow economic interests - is threatening to paralyse both the State and the ruling Zanu-PF, the Daily ...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 15:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mthuli Ncube will keep tripping over himself'
As long as Finance minister Mthuli Ncube doesn't play the politics of his appointing authority as well as of the ruling Zanu-PF party he will keep on tripping over himself, analysts contend.Th...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 13:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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