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Mashonaland chief in legal trouble over abuse directed at woman
The national Council of Chiefs has been petitioned to act on an errant chief who was filmed verbally abusing a woman during a village court sitting.Chief Nyamaropa, of Shamva in Mashonaland Ce...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 16:56hrs | 1513 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has reclaimed Harare's 'Sunshine City' status, said mayor Mafume. Dumb and stupid singing for his supper
"Usa kangamwa chezuro nehope!" so goes the Shona adage, warning of the dangers of a selective memory. Zimbabweans have a very selective memory, they see only what they want to see and ignore the rest....Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 19:06hrs | 1339 | by Wilbert Mukori
Some leaders are supported because they're stupid and corrupt!
Leadership is a fascinating subject. Ideally, leaders are chosen because they stand out as exemplary individuals with admirable qualities. These are the people with the organizational ...Published: 29 Nov 2024 at 12:35hrs | 327 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The cancel culture is misogynistic. Mokoena must be silenced by Zanu PF!
The political culture of South Africa is not interchangeable with that of Zimbabwean political landscape. These two countries are different even in the processes of gaining their political independenc...Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 22:51hrs | 882 | by Nomazulu Thata
Will Namibia be next on 27 November 2024?
THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY: what for former US President Bill Clinton was "It's the Economy, Stupid" in his 1992 election campaign for the White House; is playing out for the Brenthurst Foundation - found...Published: 02 Nov 2024 at 15:01hrs | 1286 | by Jonathan Moyo
Gukurahundi perpetrators are exposed and cited to clarify the 2017 coup!
That the General Chiwenga was cited in the genocide atrocities that took place especially in Matabeleland South is not a coincidence but well calculated. The Zanu PF conference was in Bulawayo, curiou...Published: 28 Oct 2024 at 20:22hrs | 1290 | by Nomazulu Thata
The Proverbial Stupid Fly That Followed the Corpse Into the Grave
It's good to have smartphones for high school students, but are we not throwing out the baby with the bathwater? There is more to lose than to gain when learners carry these e-gadgets on their person ...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:28hrs | 432 | by Thomas Murisa
Barak Obama is out of touch about Kamala!
Brother Obama, president (2008-2016) is himself the cause for the decline of support among blacks for the Democratic Party.The entry of former president Barak Obama into the fray on behalf of ...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 14:03hrs | 173 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Britain's interference in the US presidential election will backfire badly
Foreign interventions in elections or referenda rarely end well for the interventionists. In 2016, then US President Barack Obama foolishly lectured the British people on how they should vote in the u...Published: 19 Oct 2024 at 20:22hrs | 984 | by Nile Gardiner
Of all the don'ts, send Mnangagwa begging UNGA for US$5.8b food aid for SADC; he's eyeing 'pound of flesh' cut for himself
Of all the SADC leaders to be begging for food aid on behalf of SADC, Emmerson Mnangagwa would be the last leader anyone would choose to do it!"President Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken the...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 12:38hrs | 721 | by Wilbert Mukori
Democrats are trying to fool Americans about Kamala!
The allegories and stories we were taught at school were supposed to teach us something about life and the real world.In one of the masterpieces of all time, Mark Antony addresses Brutus, a co...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 13:02hrs | 704 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Of all the don'ts, send Mnangagwa begging UNGA for US$5.8b food aid for SADC; he’s eyeing 'pound of flesh' cut for himself
Of all the SADC leaders to be begging for food aid on behalf of SADC, Emmerson Mnangagwa would be the last leader anyone would choose to do it!"President Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken the...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 23:01hrs | 765 | by Wilbert Mukori
William Ruto visits Germany: German press rebukes his claims about labour contracts.
It does not matter how one looks at this story; it is not only shameful to Kenya: it must shame all Africans equally. Recently, President Willian Ruto was on a state visit to Germany, and was proud to...Published: 17 Sep 2024 at 22:06hrs | 795 | by Nomazulu Thata
'US not a good host for UN General Assembly'
The Russian leader won't travel to the US because it is not fulfilling its obligations as host country, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has saidRussian President Vladimir Putin will not attend this ye...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 13:29hrs | 960 | by Staff reporter
Julius Sello Malema: a politician full of contradictions
Comments about Malema in the in South African social media confirmed my fears about him. Malema does not take critiques kindly; for this reason, he has fallen out with his right-hand-man, Shivambu: th...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 19:26hrs | 1099 | by Nomazulu Thata
Grobbelaar fumes at ZIFA's stupid decision
Local coaches in Zimbabwe are expressing frustration after the ZIFA Normalisation Committee appointed German coach Michael Nees to lead the Warriors, overlooking local candidates. Nees, who si...Published: 04 Aug 2024 at 14:02hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has the highest literacy rate in Africa, what stuff and Nonsense!
Even if he (Mnangagwa) were to die, Cabinet meetings would still be held at his grave at National Heroes Acre: the nation was told this today 17.07.2024. Such visceral statements are uttered unchallen...Published: 18 Jul 2024 at 14:56hrs | 730 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa must stop abusing Matabele genocide victims and pay US$ 100 billion compansation
It is very unfortunate that Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa pretends as if he did not see the Notice of Demand For The Restoration Of Matabeleland State delivered to the President's office by MLO President Cde ...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 06:44hrs | 1213 | by Israel Dube
Drawing parallels between Kenya and Zimbabwe's social, economic, and political disturbances
We want to believe that the demonstrations in Kenya just happened overnight. The Gene Zs went on a rampage assisted by criminals. To framing them so thin, is to trivialize a genuine revolution that wa...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 23:08hrs | 37 | by Nomazulu Thata
Joe Biden has entered the twilight zone!
The debate between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump has revealed a terrible secret Democrats have been hiding from American citizens for the last three years. London'...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 10:42hrs | 4 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zanu-PF MP calls for ban on reporters
Zanu PF Buhera West MP Tafadzwa Mugwadi has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman George Charamba to ban journalists from covering events and functions at State House.In a fascist inp...Published: 27 Jun 2024 at 09:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Prof Ncube, another Mnangagwa's creation
A mystery takes time to unfold. A lot of people in the opposition sect, especially those who were in the CCC led by Nelson Chamisa, wondered what had really hit their political party when Sengezo Tsua...Published: 26 Jun 2024 at 21:18hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Now that Mnangagwa has attacked King Lobengula, he must brace for Matabeleland breakaway
"If you come for the king, you best not miss. This was a brilliant observation by "Ralph Waldo Emerson. Now that the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa who enjoys belittling, dehuminising, demo...Published: 17 Jun 2024 at 20:38hrs | 3 | by Israel Dube
Chivayo just name droping, says Charamba
WHAT INSANITY: You have business partners who dribble one another. In the ensuing fallout, one of them allegedly name-drops in order to scare away the rest. I am supposed to be exercised by su...Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 12:01hrs | 1 | by George Charamba
Transcript of 'Russia-Zimbabwe talks' between Putin and Mnangagwa
The penchant for frivolous bluster in Zimbabwe's public discourse has once again reared its ugly trappings after the widespread circulation on social media platforms of a 2.42-minutes video clip poste...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 08:37hrs | 18 | by Jonathan Moyo
RBZ is the problem not ZiG!
Before going to press on the Zimbabwe currency crisis, I had seven questions I wanted authoritatively answered. Professor Gift Mugano was the answer."Isn't he the one who is supposed to disapp...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 17:58hrs | 2 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Smith & apartheid regimes were angels compared to 44-Year-Old 'independent' Zimbabwe
Talking in terms of segregation, oppression and savagery towards those considered as foreigners or political undesirables, no present or past government in Southern Africa matches the black Shona supr...Published: 15 Apr 2024 at 15:56hrs | 19 | by Israel Dube
African countries assisted South African independence; payback is Xenophobic actions: blacks on blacks' violence
I quote from Byo24: Former ANC MP and Abantu Batho Congress Councilor in eThekwini, Makhosi Khoza, says South African natives have been shortchanged. Close quote. This is a statement that could cause ...Published: 14 Apr 2024 at 18:55hrs | 18 | by Nomazulu Thata
PSL referees under attack
WITH five rounds of matches having been played in the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League so far this season, referees have hogged the limelight facing brick bats from coaches on a weekly basis....Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's structured currency: Here's the abracadabra
Against the backdrop of the inception of the supposedly gold-backed currency called the ZiG this week, there has been considerable confusion as to whether or not the Zig is a gold currency.For...Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 12:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Farai Jere's Caps united fans invade the pitch, match abandoned
Match abandoned after 86 minutes.FC Platinum 1-0 Caps UnitedTHE Castle Lager Premier league match between FC Platinum and Caps United was aband...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Are there quality leaders - no paying lip service to free elections?' Need discerning and lip-reading voters to find them
"In our midst, can we not find today leaders who do not pay lip services to freedom, justice and liberty to gain the people's trust?" asked one whatsApp group member.This is not a simple quest...Published: 28 Mar 2024 at 22:57hrs | 4 | by Wilbert Mukori
The rise of General Chiwenga: My reply to this article
My article today is to reply an article written by Samkeliso Ncube on Bulawayo 24: it was written in large; The rise of General Chiwenga, Zimbabwe's vanguard to a prosperous future. This article is no...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 20:30hrs | 15 | by Nomazulu Thata
'2018 elections were free and Mnangagwa won; Americans know it.' claimed Cross. A lie, dismissed with contempt it deserve
I have heard Eddie Cross say a lot of rubbish over the years but his latest claim that the 2018 elections were free, fair and credible, Mnangagwa won and the Americans knew it; takes the biscuit. He m...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 20:18hrs | 12 | by Wilbert Mukori
Africa's biggest challenge is getting an honest workforce
I used to criticise African companies like Dangote Group who hire so many Indians while there are many unemployed Africans, but now I understand their painful decision.The biggest challenge in...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 20:14hrs | 1 | by Karim KONE
'Tendai Biti should take a break from politics'
Renowned journalist and government critic, Hopewell Chin’ono, has suggested that Tendai Biti take a hiatus from active political involvement and redirect his focus towards his roles as a lawyer, aut...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 07:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti given a wholly suspended prison sentence and fined US$300
A Harare magistrate has handed ex-finance minister Tendai Biti a wholly suspended prison sentence of 6 months and also ordered him to pay a US$300 fine for calling Tatiana Aleshina "stupid" in 2020. ...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 14:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti apologises for assaulting foreign investor
Former Finance Minister Tendai Biti, who was convicted on Monday for verbally assaulting Russian investor Tatiana Aleshina, has issued an apology.In his plea for leniency, Biti informed Harare...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 11:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti to be sentenced today
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti was yesterday found guilty of verbally assaulting a local investor Tatiana Aleshina after a full trial.Biti, who was being represented by Alec Muchadehama, ...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 04:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Something stinks at the Highlanders clubhouse'
THE car wash business at the Highlanders clubhouse that paid the Bulawayo giants US$50 in revenue for the whole of 2023 as revealed by financial statements read out by club interim treasurer Israel Mo...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
A generation of EDiots
THE politicians keep fiddling while Zimbabwe is burning. The opposition is at sixes and sevens, while Zanu-PF is at sea when the education system is now in comatose and the peril of having a generatio...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mnangagwa spokesperson warns Chamisa's CCC against Sikhala solidarity demos
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba has delivered a stark caution to the opposition regarding an upcoming protest against the ongoing detention of former Member of Parliament (...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 06:07hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Hands off King Lobengula, he was not a Zimbabwean!
Unformed, ignorant and reckless Zimbabwe satirists, journalists, whatever they call themselves, should be advised that His Majesty, King Lobengula of Matabeleland was not a Zimbabwean. Ingqungqulu Ema...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 09:46hrs | 15 | by Israel Dube
Failure to comprehend CCC's sell-out on reforms is symptomatic of incurable stupidity and worse
"Chounorasiswa ndochiri muruoko. Chirimudumbu unorotwiswa. Hupenzi chifo, unofa nahwo!" (What you are holding, you can throw away. What is on your stomach, you can vomit. Stupidity is a curse you take...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 22:30hrs | 13 | by Wilbert Mukori
Umkhonto weSizwe fighter will never forget what a white man told him in Zimbabwe in 1980
I have no idea whether the white man I am writing about is still alive or not. He gave me an understanding of what actually happened to us Africans, and how sinister it was, when we were colonized. Hi...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 13:11hrs | 15 | by Thula Bopela
Tendai Biti's assault trial deferred
THE trial of opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) top official Tendai Biti, who is accused of verbally assaulting a local businesswoman, Tatiana Aleshina, has been deferred to January 11 and...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 04:55hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti's assault trial deferred to 2024
Harare magistrate Mrs Vongai Guwuriro has deferred the trial of Tendai Biti to January 11 and 12 next year for continuation. Biti is facing charges of assaulting businesswoman and investor Mrs...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 15:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tribal rifts widen in Zimbabwe after stupid cartoon
In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city, the perpetual tribal conflicts are becoming more intense. Most tensions exist between the Shona people, the country's largest tribe, and the Ndebeles, who ...Published: 13 Dec 2023 at 21:08hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
CCC undoing is a strategy of innovating around the familiar
To put it bluntly, Zimbabwe's main political opposition party, the CCC, in its present construct, is wasting the people's time, resources and mostly emotions as they continue to prove through unbeliev...Published: 09 Dec 2023 at 18:56hrs | 13 | by Brian Sedze
STUPID MOVE: Zimbabwe speeds up decommissioning of power stations
Plans to decommission small thermal power stations in Harare, Munyati and Bulawayo are being expedited, with efforts now aimed at driving more investment towards renewable energy sources in line with ...Published: 06 Dec 2023 at 05:04hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
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