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Chiwenga, Tagwirei tiff is not a fragmentation of Zanu-PF
It's unfortunate that whenever we speak, we're quickly dismissed as immature, but you all ain't reading this one right. What is unfolding between Chiwenga and Tagwirei is not a fragmentation of ZANU-P...Published: 31 Jul 2025 at 16:57hrs | 1163 | by Charline P Chikomo
My take on Tendai Biti and the scarcity of visionaries
Biti, by all means, embodies the archetype of the political activist: vocally critical of power, sharply articulate, and willing to agitate against institutional decay. He thrives on confrontation wit...Published: 30 Jul 2025 at 10:55hrs | 482 | by Charline P Chikomo
Tagwirei, Mnangagwa golf video sparks outrage
A video showing controversial businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei casually interacting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa during a golf outing has ignited public outcry and intensified speculation over the...Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 18:37hrs | 1719 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cannot fund large-scale projects without monetary autonomy
Zimbabwe's economic debate is often framed through the lens of inflation control, exchange rate stability, and the day-to-day functionality of the US dollar in domestic transactions.Yet, benea...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 12:05hrs | 194 | by Brighton Musonza
Umdala Wethu: The Statesman who united a nation
In the story of Zimbabwe, there are names that echo. And then there is Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo - a man whose name is etched not merely in memory, but in the bedrock of the nation itself. As Zimb...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 10:30hrs | 355 | by Dereck Goto
Chiwenga urges Zimbabweans to tell their own stories
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has called on Zimbabweans to embrace the power of storytelling and intellectual authorship as a way to shape the nation's future and preserve its ideological legacy...Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 18:37hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 45-year fall
The country is emerging from the celebrations of the statehood of the Republic of Zimbabwe on 18 April 2025, just under five years to celebrate half a century of its existence.Are there any ta...Published: 10 May 2025 at 14:21hrs | 395 | by Vivian V. Siziba
Albert Nguluvhe: Loyalty, courage and dedication in the shadows of power
In a political landscape often defined by betrayal, opportunism and shifting loyalties, Albert Nguluvhe stands out as a rare embodiment of courage, principle and unwavering dedication to duty. His sto...Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 13:17hrs | 750 | by Staff reporter
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 | 239 | 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 | 39 | 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 | 27 | 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 | 19 | 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 | 36 | 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 | 14 | 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 | 29 | 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 | 8 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 13 | 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 | 8 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 10 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 11 | 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 | 16 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 12 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 33 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 4 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 5 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 4 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 3 | by Brian Maregedze
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