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Is Zimbabwe headed for another coup?

This season we are living in, it's not a time for a hairdo. People are perching on the edge of the cliff. There is a loud whisper drifting around, almost like a wish among many. These chaps will burst each other any time; but let them do i…

Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 10:25hrs | 2519 | by Tawanda Majoni

Has Chamisa been bought?

IN early 2008, Simba Makoni, with the covert but obvious backing of the late powerful ex-general, Solomon Mujuru, sprung up to the podium and made the brave announcement to stand against Robert Mugabe in that year's presidential run.He did…

Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:28hrs | 6 | by Tawanda Majoni

Mnangagwa government's game of darkness

NOW, if you put President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mthuli Ncube and Kuda David Mnangagwa-the Finance minister and deputy minister, respectivelyâ€”what will you get?Correct. Darkness. Lots of darkness. Not because naughty Zesa will switch the li…

Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:30hrs | 4 | by Tawanda Majoni

Why Mnangagwa could be seeking a third term

IN 1990 to 1991 when Fredrick Chiluba was hot on a campaign for multi-party democracy that finally ushered him in as Zambian president to replace founding nationalist Kenneth Kaunda, he was so emphatic on the need to respect the constituti…

Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 10:42hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni

Zimbabwe police systems are crumbling

I don't know about these days, but one of the most shaming things back in the days was when a learner was sent back home because he or she didn't have a uniform.It was shaming on the learner and shameful for the parents or guardians to hav…

Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:43hrs | 22 | by Tawanda Majoni

The pitfalls of Zimbabwe's 2023 elections

One thing that many people might not be seeing right now is that the 2023 general elections have already started.That's for the simple reason that elections are not just about a few days before, during and a few days after vote casting, wh…

Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:22hrs | 15 | by Tawanda Majoni

The pitfalls of the 2023 elections

One thing that many people might not be seeing right now is that the 2023 general elections have already started.That's for the simple reason that elections are not just about a few days before, during and a few days after vote casting, wh…

Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:45hrs | 14 | by Tawanda Majoni

Zimbabwe's August 23 elections are already rigged

Forever Associates of Zimbabwe (Faz) is, in deed, a new kid on the block, even though it's not that new.It's new in the sense that while it was established as a trust way back in 2012, it hasn't really done anything that attracts attention…

Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:36hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni

Mnangagwa's dark trail

CorruptionAs for the optics and visuals, you wouldn't say President Emmerson Mnangagwa - where corruption is concerned - has disappointed.During the hot days - months before the late Robert Mugabe was nudged off the power stool - when Mnan…

Published: 07 May 2023 at 19:33hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni

Uebert Angel's PR disaster

Uebert Angel is, easily, the man of the moment, for all the wrong reasons.He was recently outed by the Al Jazeera undercover investigative team for trying to aid gold and money laundering using his overestimated diplomatic immunity.Straigh…

Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 07:48hrs | 6 | by Tawanda Majoni

How the gold mafia scandal will affect Mnangagwa

The Al Jazeera investigative unit last week served the second episode of a four-part documentary, Gold Mafia, that makes interestingâ€” albeit unsurprising â€” watching.The exposÃ©s have spawned all sorts of reactions from all sorts of cor…

Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:04hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni

Job Sikhala's case is exposing the opposition

In three months' time, Job Sikhala would have clocked a full year in jail for allegedly inciting public violence and attempting to defeat the course of justice.They say, among other things, he caused to be posted a video in which he was ur…

Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni

Jail has cost Job Sikhala a fortune already

Just before the presidential elections of early 2002, two young MPs from the united MDC, Job Sikhala and Tafadzwa Musekiwa, arranged a meeting with the late Perrance Shiri, who was then commander of the Airforce of Zimbabwe, and met him at…

Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:15hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni

Nelson Chamisa is just not serious

Slightly into the second week of last month, CCC's Nelson Chamisa said something that, by the end of the same month, he was already contradicting, practically.In the first instance, he was in Chinhoyi to wow up his supporters. He said some…

Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 19:56hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni

Chamisa's CCC must not be a ghost organisation, it needs to be accountable

The question of whether or not CCC must frame a constitution, come up with structures and go to congress to select party leaders is, no doubt, such a hot and wearying one.But that's one question you would not want to wish away too soon, no…

Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 12:34hrs | 12 | by Tawanda Majoni

Chamisa, Mwonzora, Khupe fights are killing democracy

Just imagine that Zanu-PF had succeeded in establishing a one-party state as it had initially wanted, after drinking too much off the communist-socialist mug.Well, the scenario wouldn't be fit for those of a nervous disposition. With the w…

Published: 06 Feb 2022 at 06:56hrs | 4 | by Tawanda Majoni

Will the Zambian winds blow in Zimbabwe?

IF the opposition in Zambia wins the elections this year, then the Zimbabwean opposition will win the elections in 2023. The Zambian opposition won the elections. Therefore, the Zimbabwean opposition will win in 2023 when the country holds…

Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:10hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni

Politics behind Mnangagwa's 'buying spree'

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is such a political fox. His charm is without comparison. Or, is that so?Well, there are different ways of looking at this "charm".If you like him so much, you can say he is a good schemer.To you, he is the goo…

Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:35hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni

Mnangagwa-Tagwirei links getting clearer

THE other day I was talking to a respected colleague who said something that got me thinking hard and long.The colleague â€” who, sure, has access to President Emmerson Mnangagwa now and then - told me that the head of state was a very muc…

Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:49hrs | 5 | by Tawanda Majoni

Patrick Chinamasa's troubling return

IN Zanu-PF, they are changing political commissars at the rate of a diaper.You may want to say this is a purely internal matter, but not exactly so, as it has direct and indirect implications on the ordinary citizen.Late last week, the rul…

Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 10:02hrs | 10 | by Tawanda Majoni

Cut the crap, Cde Kazembe Kazembe

HOME Affairs minister, Kazembe Kazembe, must be watching quite a load of blurred James Bond comic strips under this partial lockdown.This dude drew out a limping stunt last week. In the wee hours of the morning on Thursday, Kazembe - to re…

Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:41hrs | 14 | by Tawanda Majoni

Soul Jah Love debacle exposes rot

A popular dancehall artiste, Soul Musaka, known to many as Soul Jah Love, passed on just under two weeks ago.What happened subsequently sparked the now fickle and feeble debate on the conferment of hero status in Zimbabwe.You will remember…

Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:57hrs | 4 | by Tawanda Majoni

Covid-19 vaccination must be compulsory

THE ministry of Health and Child Care says Zimbabwe will start receiving Covid-19 vaccines from the Ides of February.China and Russia - you guessed right - and maybe India also, will give us the stuff.There is both good and bad news in the…

Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 12:33hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni

Reasons why by-elections spook Zanu-PF

ZIMBABWE is in perpetual election mode, so there is no harm yapping on this subject even as the year is just starting and we are more than two years away from the next national polls.The west taught us - a long time ago - that elections ar…

Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:53hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni

The mystery of the Mnangagwa gold mill

NOTHING is wrong when a president deals in gold, ordinarily. But, when you hear that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his family run a gold mill, you struggle to convince yourself that everything is right about it.By now you must be knowin…

Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:35hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni

Mnangagwa's bad friends

In its short years as the Zimbabwean first family, the Mnangagwas have fared quite sorely in one area: Choosing good friends.You will naturally remember Draxgate, the scandal that rocked the royal family to its toes.Collins Mnangagwa was/i…

Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:03hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni

The futility of Mthuliconomics

We used to have that chap called Gideon Gono at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. He was always full of energy, busy doing things that never solved any problem. The cynics called that egonomics.Gono was the de facto prime minister of Zimbabwe.…

Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 11:26hrs | 4 | by Tawanda Majoni

Mupfumira arrest: Good visuals, poor on sound

The biggest problem with the post-Mugabe administration is that it has this weird fantasy of itself as an award-winning film producer. But that's a no-no because the ruling band is only good with the pictures yet very, very bad at sound.Th…

Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 18:23hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni

Nothing new about the 'new dispensation'

Grace Mugabe is like a civet cat's stench. It's so strong it will burn your nostrils. And it doesn't go away in a hurry. Now, that disgraceful smell is hanging around President Emmerson Mnangagwa's self-christened "new dispensation" and te…

Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni

Robbing the poor in the name of patriotism

The post-Robert Mugabe administration led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa fancies itself a new dispensation. That is a useless fantasy, of course. Things are as old in the "new" administration as they ever were, sometimes worse.Under Mugab…

Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 14:10hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni

Mnangagwa's anti-graft body in turmoil

Back in the days, we had a teacher we nicknamed "Rubbish". That was a bit unflattering and unfair, of course, but he earned that moniker because, at the drop of the hat, he would always exclaim, "Good riddance of bad rubbish!"He certainly …

Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 22:27hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni

Mnangagwa endorsements dangerous for Zimbabwe

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has repeatedly told us that his post-Robert Mugabe administration won't bother about politics, but the economy. That's a measured lie that was never going to make sense anyway. Politics, by definition, is the b…

Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:51hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni

Moyo is Mnangagwa's new acid test

Back in the days, every old, frail and ugly country woman was believed to be a witch. It didn't matter if, indeed, she was. Her looks and age naturally turned her into that ogre that drank our blood and turned graveyards into playgrounds a…

Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 10:02hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni

Chigumba's sex life and the pitfalls of social media

I am not sure if Priscilla Chigumba, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chair, bleached to be such a yellow-bone. But I am not rushing to make her pigmentation any of my business because it's not and musn't be. And, by and large, I do…

Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 10:32hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni

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'Mnangagwa is panicking'

Chiwenga's wife catching strays

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'Eat my wife, I kill myself'

RBZ policies, not banks, driving high lending rates

Zimbabwe to host major Africa trade fair from 2029

Govt urged to tighten screws on human trafficking

Zimbabwe night vending ban falters

Hughton, Redknapp among 200 applicants for Warriors job

Levy scandal as Harare buys only 2 ambulances

Chiwenga missed Mnangagwa's SONA

Mega Pak Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd manager up for fraud

Fugitive car dealer arrested after 5 years on the run

Harare Councillors and directors snub 2026 budget announcement

Bulawayo Polytechnic gutted by fire

Six Dead, 40 Injured in Harare–Mukumbura Road Bus Crash

No to 2030 extension

Police confirm Bulawayo-Beitbridge road accident

Zimbabwe loans ARVs to Botswana, donates portion in regional health solidarity

Govt to launch Responsible Mining Initiative amid worsening land degradation

MP Mhangwa urges govt to cut LPG Import Bill through local gas substitution

Man dies in bicycle accident

Relegation-threatened Bosso players boycott training

Pavillon bus involved in a serious accident

Tragedy in Mt Darwin as cow falls into well, killing young woman

Zimbabwe announces strict enforcement of axle load limits

Zanu-Pf, Eureka Mine unleash violence on artisinal miners

Church Leaders Unite to Tackle Africa's Social Crises at Landmark Summit

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