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Why is Zimbabwe's President Mnangagwa facing pressure to resign?
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing what experts say is the biggest threat to his rule yet as a succession battle erupts ahead of general elections scheduled for 2028.Recent mano...Published: 04 Apr 2025 at 08:28hrs | 1387 | by Staff reporter
Bombshell fires up Zimbabwe's succession battle
It was a war veteran and senior Zanu-PF member named Blessed Geza, also known as "Bombshell", who launched a verbal offensive against Mnangagwa.A long convoy of armoured personnel tanks rollin...Published: 13 Mar 2025 at 07:16hrs | 3843 | by Staff reporter
China vs USA: In the battles over lowly Zimbabwe, it is what Zimbabweans want that is important
There are a number of new stories that are emerging about the role of China in Zimbabwe. In the past, the Chinese Embassy would have been less robust in defense of its bilateral aid to Zimbabw...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 07:23hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Mutsvangwa fights to open Zimbabwe airwaves more
THE government said yesterday that it planned to open up the country's airwaves further by issuing more television and radio licences to independent players.Speaking during a well-supported Da...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Economy as the superstructure in Zimbabwe
There were a number of by-elections in Zimbabwe over the last month.One was for the local government in my rural home district of Bikita East in Masvingo province. The others were for the parl...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:57hrs | 7 | by Takura Zhangazha
Electricity cuts, lifestyles and modified behaviour in Zimbabwe
Electricity and access to it is a big issue in Zimbabwe at the moment. Not least by admission of our own government, but more importantly by the lived realities of many urban-based Zimbabweans, civil ...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha
ZCTU can do better than demonstrate for redollarisation
No good deed goes unpunished.Normally, the doer of a good deed expects just a "thank you", but usually someone is adversely affected by the good deed. For example, saving someone's life from a...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Conway Tutani
Africa in global cold war: A return to consciousness struggle
THE British daily, the Guardian recently published a story on how Russia has new plans to exert its influence across the African content. All in return for the usual imperial desires such as natural r...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:25hrs | 2 | by Takura Zhangazha
Zupco jokes, economic class and hedonistic individualism in Zimbabwe
There can be a bit of a laugh, if you are on social media, concerning the political-economic goings-on in Zimbabwe.There should not (strictly speaking) be. But on social media, there is and hu...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 06:56hrs | 3 | by Takura Zhangazha
Africa in the age of surveillance capitalism, neo-imperialism
One of my first lectures in graduate school was on how "enlightenment era" Europe imagined and mapped Africa. And some of the first maps were silent about the interior save for pyramids to the north, ...Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha
Zimbabwe @39: A return to the source
The number of years since our national Independence may increase, but its historic meaning is never lost, and that is as it should be.No matter one's political or religious views, our national...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:21hrs | 2 | by Takura Zhangazha
Zimbabwe's version of disaster capitalism, couched as resilience
A LOCAL Zimbabwean artist, Dereck Mpofu, recently released a song titled Mweya wechiZimba. Even though the title of the song may suggest it is religious, it is upon listening to it, that you discover ...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:10hrs | 2 | by Takura Zhangazha
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 | 3 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe's true legacy
There have been a number of books written on former President Robert Mugabe in his many leadership roles. As a leader of a guerrilla movement/army, as a Prime Minister (1980-87), as President (1987-20...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:43hrs | 3 | by Takura Zhangazha
A dying (public) intellectualism in Zimbabwe
THE late Masipula Sithole taught me (and many others) how to perceive and think about our country, Zimbabwe's politics.Not only formally via the university lecture room, but also more signific...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:54hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Sadc, EU positions on Zimbabwe: Attempting an end of history
Last week, there were two very important statements issued on Zimbabwe by two very important inter-State political bodies. The first of these statements and closer to home was issued by the Southern A...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 07:22hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
One year after Mugabe: A revolution still not televised
On November 15, 2017, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's longest serving ruler was confined to his private residence in the affluent suburb of Borrowdale in Harare, Zimbabwe. This came as armed soldiers took c...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 05:48hrs | 2 | by Takura Zhangazha
Zimbabwe's 'Black Gold', no rush plus capital wagging State's tail
THE government of Zimbabwe held a Press conference at which President Emmerson Mnangagwa initially announced that a private company, Invictus, had made oil and gas discoveries in Muzarabani district. ...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:10hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha
Mnangagwa's business dance, Masiyiwa's compliance
President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently held a consultative meeting with Zimbabwe's business sector. This came against the backdrop of a national economic crisis largely caused by a new monetary policy ...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 06:21hrs | 2 | by Takura Zhangazha
Strategy changes needed to push Zimbabwe media forward
IN this instalment, I will try to discuss, albeit briefly, strategic issues of the media in Zimbabwe, going forward. I am not sure how far forward we should look, but I would assume that so long we lo...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 08:55hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Zinasu victory a reflection of the turning political landscape
One primary reason why young people are cynical or even repulsed at the thought of politics is because of its mental turn off.Watching your entire future being plundered by some old out-of-tou...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 13:27hrs | 2 | by Roy Muroyi
Economic dystopia in Zimbabwe
The key word to describe Zimbabwe's current national attitude or mood is "dystopian". That is a predisposition to expecting the worst possible scenarios for society because of recent government moneta...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 06:53hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
RBZ's Monetary Policy for the haves, not the poor
IN Zimbabwean writer Shimmer Chinodya's Harvest of Thorns novel, there is a description of the main character's father, Mr Tichafa, as probably having been the best minister of Finance that Rhodesia p...Published: 04 Oct 2018 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha
Corporates and cholera philanthropy
IT was recently reported that Econet Zimbabwe founding chief executive officer and now majority shareholder, Strive Masiyiwa issued a social media statement that questioned the transparency of the use...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Independent media aids plurality of voices, says Mutodi
MEDIA, Information and Broadcasting Services deputy minister Energy Mutodi has said the government appreciates the role played by independent media and called for multiplicity of voices if the country...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Belling Zimbabwe's electoral-ideological cat
IT will take a while yet for the national after-effect of the 2018 harmonised election to wear off. Praise singers of President Emmerson Mnangagwa will continue justifying his eventual victory, while ...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha
Zimbabwe: A future finely balanced between democracy and militarisation
Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's inauguration as Zimbabwe's second president and commander-in-chief consummated power for the main beneficiary of the November 2017 coup that forced Robert Mugabe's long d...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 08:44hrs | 1 | by David B. Moore, University of Johannesburg
Nyagura suspension: Reviving calls for academic freedom, prudence
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe vice-chancellor, Levi Nyagura was recently suspended from office by President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa.According to a Press statement by the Minister of Higher and Terti...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:11hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Polls aftermath: Highly personal but collective political catharsis
THERE was always going to be a disputed winner of Zimbabwe's 2018 elections, especially after Robert Mugabe was no longer on the presidential ballot paper.And it was always going to be very pe...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha
In defence of Zimbabwe's rural voter
WHEN the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) started announcing the 2018 election results, there was a lot of urban/social media anger at rural voters. The numbers that were being announced were indic...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:39hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
ZBC's problem is editorial, not advertorial
THE Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) recently issued a statement on its coverage of political parties during the current campaign period of Zimbabwe's 2018 harmonised election. This was after o...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha
United in ambition, no high stakes: Zimbabwe's election candidates
I HAVE a number of friends and acquaintances that are running for political office in Zimbabwe's scheduled harmonised election.The greater majority of them intend to be local government counci...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 08:50hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha
Zimbabwe elections: A complicit attempt at ending opposition politics
ZIMBABWE'S ruling establishment or military political complex are consistently referring to how they intend to stop focusing on "politics". Instead, as claimed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, they wa...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 07:19hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Capital's interest, influence in Zimbabwe's 2018 polls
At the risk of stating the obvious, the "ease of doing business" is an inherently political term. Not merely because President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is using the term in each and every one of his major ...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 07:54hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Emmerson Mnangagwa - Mugabe's heir apparent
Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, known in Zimbabwe as "ngwena" or "crocodile" because of his political cunning, is now President Robert Mugabe's heir apparent.The 68-year-old may be more than 20 y...Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 16:41hrs | | by Brian Hungwe
Mnangagwa had the correct political credentials
Sacked vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa was widely viewed as the heir apparent to Zimbabwe's ailing 93-year-old president, Robert Mugabe.Mnangagwa had the correct political credentials: he fo...Published: 12 Nov 2017 at 17:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
#PocketsOut; the motive
Over the past days I have received enquiries on the motive of the popular #PocketsOut campaign.Questions from inquisitive citizens have sought to understand and measure the impact of what Zimb...Published: 26 Oct 2017 at 11:09hrs | | by Obert Masaraure
Zimbabwe media capture
Two weeks ago, the Zimbabwean media industry celebrated as two of the country's biggest media players, Zimpapers and AB Communications, launched new media products amidst a harsh economic environment,...Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Faith Ndlovu
Generation 40 young but old Zanu-PF
Even after purging Mujuru and her colleagues, factionalism remains rife within Zanu PF. Mugabe knows that his leadership can only be secure when there is division and infighting in Zanu PF. In 2013, t...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 15:55hrs | | by Whitlaw Mugwiji
Chiwenga, reaching for history, missing the future
The recently-published interview given by the Commander of Zimbabwe's Defence Forces (ZDF) General Constantino Chiwenga to state-controlled media was a politically significant one. Not only for the ru...Published: 07 May 2017 at 08:22hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Self-righteousness does not make SA exceptional, Cde Mbalula
South Africa's new minister of police Fikile Mbalula appears to have approached his new assignment with reckless enthusiasm. He was very recently quoted as having said that his country's immediate nei...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 14:18hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha
Mugabe now pre-occupied with foreign trips instead of domestic issues
Political analyst Takura Zhangazha has indicated that it appeared as if Mugabe was now primarily pre-occupied with foreign affairs instead of addressing domestic issues."It is clear that his p...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 13:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
REWIND: 'I'm tired,' says Mugabe
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday admitted that his busy travelling schedule was now taking its toll on him because he only slept for two hours after arriving from Namibia before heading for Kutama Mi...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 13:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Trump snubs Mugabe'
US President Donald Trump's phone call to South Africa President Jacob Zuma highlights neighbouring Zimbabwe's high political risk and that Washington does not consider President Robert Mugabe a s...Published: 19 Feb 2017 at 10:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe engages France over UN Security Council seat
President Robert Mugabe has engaged France's leader, Francois Hollande, to intervene in calls to include one of Africa's 54 States in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).Mugabe ' cu...Published: 19 Jan 2017 at 12:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's complex dominance without persuasion
A COMRADE in the academic world recently sent me a copy of a New Left Review article entitled "The Heirs of Gramsci". Largely focusing on intellectuals who furthered the Italian philosopher's ...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 07:43hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Donald J Trump unlikely to change US policy on Zimbabwe
DESPITE a change of guard at the helm of the United States government following the shock election win by rank outsider Donald Trump this week, the world's most powerful nation is unlikely to chan...Published: 11 Nov 2016 at 05:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Dictators panic as Donald Trump wins US election
HARARE - Donald Trump's stunning victory in the American presidential election, despite losing the popular vote, has sent shock waves around the world, with African leaders cautiously welcoming his un...Published: 10 Nov 2016 at 14:40hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Augmented political realities in Zimbabwe
There is always interest in assessing how the interaction of new technologies affects everyday human realities. In the age of the internet, this is referred to as "augmented reality". It refers in par...Published: 07 Sep 2016 at 06:25hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Mujuru rattles Mugabe's cage
Former vice-president Joice Mujuru's new party now faces the full might of Zanu-PF after it was unveiled last week, a State media columnist believed to be President Robert Mugabe's spokesperson George...Published: 06 Mar 2016 at 07:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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