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Stay aways won't work in Zimbabwe
At the end of March 2025, Zimbabwe's urban areas were eerily quiet as citizens stayed away from their workplaces, businesses, and other activities in what was expected to be a nationwide protest. Howe...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:43hrs | 6293 | by Staff reporter
Where is Nyokayemabhunu: the silence about him is Loud?
It is not only Nyokayemabhunu who has been used and quickly cast aside as a disposable. I listened carefully to Geza updating us about the demonstrations yesterday. Sadly, there was no mention of Nyok...Published: 25 Apr 2025 at 20:55hrs | 1583 | by Nomazulu Thata
Civil war: Not Matabele-Shona but Zezuru-Karanga infightings!
Now that the impeachment is dead on arrival, Geza has changed his modus operandi multiple times, he wants people to make stay-away protests. His statement has again changed, and it now says: stay away...Published: 23 Apr 2025 at 13:55hrs | 1633 | by Nomazulu Thata
Cowering to a dictator only makes him more brazen!
I was bullied when I was a little child - from my crèche days to early primary school.That was the period my life changed forever - becoming the person I am today. There were two thin...Published: 16 Sep 2023 at 19:27hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans will wake up after elections…well, hopefully!
Yesterday, during a relative's burial, I had a wonderful opportunity to mix and mingle with friends, family, neighbors and people from all walks of life. In these interactions - especially wit...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 07:00hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What's there to say about 'Gold Mafia' if Zimbabweans can't stand up for themselves?
As I was walking in the Kwekwe CBD, this past Friday, I came across a loyal reader of my articles, whom I know very well. He was so excited about the Al Jazeera documentary exposing corruption...Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 11:06hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Did the emergence of a strong opposition extinguish the revolutionary spirit in Zimbabweans?
To me, those where the good old days - when Zimbabweans were a people of valor, who did not brook any nonsense from their government and never wasted any time in courageously standing up for themselve...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:27hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
If Zimbabweans are serious about change then 2023 should be a year of action!
In this world, only a fool expects their aspirations and goals to just fall onto his laps - as if manna from the heavens. Anyone who genuinely supposes that their dreams and objectives will be...Published: 01 Jan 2023 at 09:38hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans' inaction against Sikhala's unjust continued incarceration is greatest threat to activism!
A tyrant will always be a tyrant - and, like the proverbial leopard, foolhardy for anyone to expect him to change his spots.It is, therefore, incumbent upon the people being oppressed to stand...Published: 26 Dec 2022 at 09:38hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF quakes over shutdown
Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial leadership has been shaken by recent calls for a national shutdown by pressure group Pachedu and number of student organisations.The calls for a shutdown arose from...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A protest without direction
IT is within the constitutional rights of every Zimbabwean or organisation in the country to protest as a way of registering their disquiet over any matter.Social-citizen group Tajamuka has ca...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:28hrs | 2 | by Newsday - Editorial
Mnangagwa thanks Zimbabweans for ignoring stay away calls
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday thanked Zimbabweans for ignoring calls by the opposition to stay away from work saying demonstrations were not in the best interest of the country and urged unity, as it ...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
No to demonstrations and stay aways called by faceless politicians
The reasons advanced by Promise Mkwananzi for protracted stay-aways and demonstrations are flimsy and a deliberate cover to advance his long standing regime change agenda. In his recorded video, in wh...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 07:52hrs | 13 | by K. M. Mandaza Zanu PF SA Information and Publicity
A coup in Zimbabwe again
In the past weeks Zimbabwe has received rumours of coup and a pending coup. Zimbabwe has received rumours of strikes stay aways and many things followed as a form of reaction. We have comrades who hav...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 18:04hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa signs new law to ban strikes
LABOUR minister Sekai Nzenza has told Senate that the Tripartite Negotiating Forum Bill, which she says will be signed into law tomorrow by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, will outlaw stayaways or strik...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants distance selves from stay aways goons
CIVIL servants have said they are not part of criminal elements and opposition forces who went around a few cities, mainly Harare and Bulawayo, intimidating people to stay away from work yesterday. ...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bloodless coup against ZANU PF government just started
In October 2018, I wrote a piece claiming that the ZANU PF government will collapse within six months if the controversial President ED Mnangagwa is not going to form an inclusive government with Nels...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 07:50hrs | 4 | by Don Chigumba
'Mugabe faces turmoil,' Prophet Makandiwa prophecy coming to pass?
UNITED Family International Church (UFIC) leader Emmanuel Makandiwa on Sunday 10 July 2016 predicted more political turmoil which could degenerate into anarchy that requires foreign intervention....Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 11:50hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Youthful Lumumba a sleeping giant!
As a teacher I watched Acie Lumumba's video on YouTube with great interest. That video was kind of multi-dimensional in its narrative. It is his youthfulness in relaying several messages that impresse...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 14:02hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Western sanctions weakened labour which were key in MDC formation
Zimbabwe Commiunist Party Secretary General Ngqabutho Mabhena has said so the American sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe, which sought to weaken and collapse the Mugabe regime, instead, have weakened and ...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 09:58hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Heal Zimbabwe condemns the unlawful arrest of Pastor Evan Mawarire
Heal Zimbabwe strongly has condemned the unlawful arrest of #ThisFlag Movement Founder, Pastor Evan Mawarire. Mawarire was arrested today, 2 February 2017 at Harare International Airport upon arriving...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 15:11hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Pastor Mawarire is ill advised
The media was recently awash with articles glorifying the little known Pastor Evan Mawarire for his campaign against the incumbent government. The Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe President Shingi M...Published: 27 Sep 2016 at 09:51hrs | | by Stewart Murewa
US blacks taught Evan Mawarire about #thiscountry
THE campaign by #ThisFlag front man Pastor Evan Mawarire and a handful of shadowy characters at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States, not only spectacularly failed but was la...Published: 24 Sep 2016 at 17:15hrs | 2 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
CZI speaks on demos
Business has called for peace and stability in the country, describing these as a prerequisite for economic growth.The call by business comes in the wake of MDC-T and ZimPF-instigated violent ...Published: 06 Sep 2016 at 06:46hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Violence begets violence
The people in Zimbabwe have learned that violence begets violence and it never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem; it merely creates new and more complicated ones. Thumbs up to Zimbab...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 10:27hrs | 1 | by Stewart Murewa
Hyped #ShutdownZim a monumental flop
A Shutdown called by shadowy opposition groups seeking to make Zimbabwe ungovernable pursuant to the illegal regime change agenda flopped dismally yesterday after Zimbabweans ignored it and went about...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 06:28hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe and Elita Chikwati
'Prophets' that see 'vain, foolish things'
recent sporadic protests in Harare brought to the fore a new breed of individuals who have all along been thought of as men of God, but are acting more like men of gold.While the Church has tr...Published: 16 Aug 2016 at 06:46hrs | | by Nicole Hondo
People 'hoodwinked' into taking part in Anti-Mawarire march
Dear Editor, I read with dismay the nak*d lie that ZANU (PF) marched against stay aways. That was a lie! On Wednesday the 20th of July people were told to go to the ZANU (PF) Harare Pr...Published: 23 Jul 2016 at 12:21hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
I want change - Zanu PF loyalist in the diaspora
A disgruntled diaspora based Zanu PF loyalist Rutendo Benson Matinyarare has revealed that despite being a supporter of the ruling party he eagerly wants change and was tired of trying to survive in t...Published: 23 Jul 2016 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Pastor Mawarire, Trojan Horse for regime change
AGENTS of regime change in Zimbabwe have always earned their meal ticket by pandering to the whims and caprices of their Western masters and in the process have had a few trinkets thrown their way...Published: 21 Jul 2016 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff writer
How to predict which month Mugabe's government will fall
Thus far, #shutdownzim has called for two stay aways. The one was very successful and the other not so successful. This would have made the total score 1 - 1 between the movement and the Mugabe. The g...Published: 18 Jul 2016 at 17:29hrs | | by Mlungisi Moyo
'Zanu-PF members must stop using social media'
MEMBERS of the ruling Zanu-PF must stop using social media as it is a platform for regime change purveyors out to fight the Government and destabilise the country, a senior party official has said. ...Published: 17 Jul 2016 at 12:07hrs | 1 | by Peter Matika and Lynnia Ndlovu
Mudslinging against ThisFlag Pastor continues in Zimbabwe's state media
The state media on Sunday launched a stinging attack on ThisFlag Pastor Evan Mawarire claiming that Mawarire left the country for USA to "to debrief his handlers on his activities in trying to destabl...Published: 17 Jul 2016 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's problems do not warrant foreign intervention
Some opposition political parties in the country are always eager to see this country put in the international community spotlight even in situations where there is nothing to talk about. For the past...Published: 13 Jul 2016 at 14:16hrs | | by Kazamula Matilaya
Jitters as shutdown leader locked up
Zimbabwe is expected to shut down again today and tomorrow in protest against President Robert Mugabe's ruinous policies, but the police have descended heavily on the strike's supposed leader, cle...Published: 13 Jul 2016 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Staf reporter
Mugabe's govt warns protestors
The government has issued a warning to individuals and politically affiliated groups that are planning a stay away and to destabilise the country that they will face the full wrath of the law....Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 18:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Only fools can heed Mawarire this time around
While addressing a rally in Chiredzi, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa mockingly said Zanu PF would rule this country while the opposition continues barking like a toothless dog. "Zanu PF ich...Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 15:32hrs | | by Rufaro Mufundirwa
Stay away proponents are saboteurs
I find unending calls by opposition activists for workers and business to stay away from work to be rather ill-informed and a self-inflicted imposition of further sanctions on an already limping econo...Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 15:26hrs | | by Charity Maodza
Stay aways: Civil servants should guard against being used
Some few days ago Zimbabwe witnessed some demonstrations in Beitbridge and the surrounding areas which were carried out by some alleged cross border traders after the government through the Ministry o...Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 15:19hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
What is my personal benefit to stay away from my job?
I am wondering what gonna be my personal benefit to stay away from my job when I am a self-employed worker like myself. If I stay home no cash comes my way as is the case with proponents of such stay ...Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 11:16hrs | | by Sparkleford Masiyambiri
Mugabe faces turmoil, says Prophet Makandiwa
UNITED Family International Church (UFIC) leader Emmanuel Makandiwa has predicted more political turmoil which could degenerate into anarchy that requires foreign intervention.Makandiwa to...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 09:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Zanu-PF cracks down on 'rebels'
A panicking Zanu-PF government - reeling from growing citizen unrest around the country - is flexing its muscles and cracking down heavily on dissenters, with suspended prosecutor general Johannes Tom...Published: 09 Jul 2016 at 12:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
'You can not suffocate an idea with water cannons, sjambokes and propaganda'
You can not defeat an idea whose time has arrived. You can not suffocate an idea with water cannons, sjambokes and propaganda. I used to under-estimate the old - fashioned phrase that action speaks lo...Published: 08 Jul 2016 at 13:06hrs | 2 | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
MDC-T's mother of all violence to fail
In its desperation to get into power, the MDC-T has since its inception shown an unbridled penchant to use non-electoral avenues to push government out of power.This desire was clearly spelt o...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 10:11hrs | | by Tendai Moyo
Zimbabwe Simply Needs Serious Opposition
As things are running haywire, with the economy at the tip edge as poverty and lawlessness are sinking in, Zimbabweans remain anxious. There is no hope for the way forward. The once supposed formi...Published: 04 Apr 2015 at 23:48hrs | 2 | by Chris Tongogara
Demos are non productive Mr. Tsvangirai!
History should teach the MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai that the route of demonstrations which he is inciting his supporters to take in order to catapult him into the presidential throne is not pr...Published: 17 Sep 2014 at 10:34hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Economy chokes Mugabe's Zanu-PF
In a bid to avert a looming economic crisis the ruling Zanu-PF government is launching a new economic offensive.Officials say in this fresh strategy, the ruling party will no longer be focused...Published: 13 May 2014 at 12:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
French medal, worthless Morgan
It is interesting that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was conferred with a French Commander of the Legion of Honour right on the heels of a similar conferment of honour to outstanding military offic...Published: 24 Aug 2012 at 10:15hrs | | by Tendai Moyo
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