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Recalls immersed in Zanu-PF dark world of power
ACADEMIC and researcher Dr Phillan Zamchiya says recalls of CCC legislators by self-imposed secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu which resulted in Zanu-PF attaining a two-thirds majority in the Nationa...Published: 19 May 2024 at 11:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
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...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:28hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zimbabwe's ruling elite and the quest for one-party rule
Since 1980, the Zanublack government has replicated the colonial white minority government tactics of suppressing opposition and alternative views.This is a special note to assist friends in t...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 17:25hrs | 1 | by Tapiwa Shumba political analyst
Mnangagwa unwittingly creating a future president in Sikhala through his persecution!
This morning, my eyes could not move from the image of opposition activist Job Sikhala as he disembarked from a prison truck. This was on his arrival for his conviction hearing two days ago, w...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 19:32hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa's strategic ambiguity made CCC vulnerable to political autoimmunity
THE term "autoimmune disease" refers to a condition whereby the body attacks normal cells by mistake because its natural defence system is unable to distinguish between foreign and body cells....Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 12:45hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
Gukurahundi genocide brigade was deployed on this day 41 years ago
Today in history: On this day 41 years ago and three years after Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s Fifth Brigade was deployed in Matabeleland North on 2...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:40hrs | 56 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ruined Zanu-PF business empire
THE predictable appointment of FBC Holdings chief executive John Mushayavanhu as the incoming Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor has completed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's critical post-electio...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 18:00hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
CCC factions lost 3 council seats to Zanu-PF in Bulawayo
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lost three of the eight council seats it had won in August to Zanu-PF after five of its recalled councillors retained their seats from the eight contested wards...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 09:24hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
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 | 19 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
CCC: A political project, or just a weakling?
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has been plunged into chaos again following recent recalls that have culminated in by-elections this coming December. Most are wondering, with all the l...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 16:55hrs | 9 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Zanu-PF urges residents to shun chaotic opposition
Residents of Bulawayo have been encouraged to vote for development by supporting the ruling Zanu-PF in the upcoming December 9 by-elections and distancing themselves from the opposition, which has bee...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 04:52hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Controversy mars influencer awards
Several artists in Bulawayo have accused the organizers of the third edition of the African Influencer Awards of bias toward certain award recipients. The awards ceremony, held at Impala Car Rentals o...Published: 31 Oct 2023 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Politics of ethnicity: Jumping from the pan into the fire
BELOW is a book excerpt from In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas and Solutions) by Professor Arthur Mutambara.President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet shocked many b...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 08:31hrs | 8 | by Arthur Mutambara
Mutambara blasts Mnangagwa
Prominent Zimbabwean academic Professor Arthur Mutambara, who is also former deputy prime minister, has lambasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa for appointing a cabinet stuffed with ethnic cronies, fri...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 21:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
An account of Zimbabwe's elections of August 2023
I HAVE been present at Zimbabwean elections since 1980. The independence elections of that year followed intense negotiations first in Lusaka, Zambia, and then in London over the latter part of ...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 16:24hrs | | by Stephen Chan
ZBC, a national embarrassment and huge shame on journalism!
Who can still remember the late great Bornwell Chakaodza?I can still see the images of the fiery no-nonsense renowned journalist and media lecturer - as he bombarded government officials on pe...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 18:06hrs | 9 | by by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Zimbabwe's political landscape tilted in Zanu-PF's favour'
The constant subjugation of the opposition parties by Zanu-PF over the years has created an uneven political ground in the country, Dr Ibbo Mandaza has stated. The publisher and political anal...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 21:06hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Partisan institutions a danger to Zimbabwe democracy
ZIMBABWE'S elections since 1980 have been blighted by disputes and August 23 polls look no different.The culprits are the same - partial or politicised State institutions ranking from the Zimb...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:57hrs | 9 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
MDC's future hangs in balance
MDC founding member, Morgen Komichi, says the late party leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, may have contributed to the collapse of the opposition party by failing to have a clear succession plan."We ...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 08:20hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa's ZANU PF neutralizes Chamisa's CCC
The opposition movement in Zimbabwe needs to be reformed. The leadership of all political opposition in Zimbabwe, whether it be MDC, CCC, ZIP, etc. is wooden, sclerotic, senile, and out of touch with ...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 22:55hrs | 2 | by Sam Wezhira
Characteristics of good presidential candidates for Zimbabwe's 2023 elections
EVERY five years, Zimbabweans go to the polls in general elections - including the presidential race - to elect their representatives at various levels of government.However, the most high-pro...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 19:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
We have neglected Manicaland for too long Mr President Sir
On the 24th of June 2023, the President and First secretary of Zanu-PF, Cde ED Mnangagwa, will launch the Zanu PF campaign foundation upon which this year’s election bid will be built upon in Chipin...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 16:29hrs | 1 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
'Mucheche used his resources to sustain liberation struggle'
THE late national hero, Ben Mucheche, was a towering figure who defied segregatory colonial policies to establish a thriving business and went on to selflessly avail his resources to sustain the liber...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nyamuzihwa Mucheche declared a national hero
PROMINENT businessman Ben Mucheche has been declared a national hero in honour of his contribution to the country before and after independence.Mucheche succumbed to heart failure at his farm ...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa a crude tribalist'
Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) in the 2009-13 Government of National Unity (GNU), Arthur Mutambara, has sensationally claimed that the late former President Robert Mugabe was a sophisticated tribalist wh...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's security establishment bigwig dies
One of Zimbabwe's security establishment bigwigs, who defined an era in his field from Rhodesia to post-colonial Zimbabwe amid a record of brutality and terror, David Daniel "Dan" Stannard, later clos...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe politics: Lineaments of stock characters
What are stock characters?LET me be basic so I am accessible to many of my readers, whatever level of education, and from whichever discipline they hail.In literature we have what are ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 9 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Plumtree pilot defies racial attitudes to pursue dream
FORTY years and still counting years of flying different aircraft types, heads of States, the late Prince Philip; husband to the late Queen Elizabeth II, and roles spanning basic flying, advanced flyi...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Could Smith's plan for independence have led to a better Zimbabwe?
Today is 11 November - a day marked in this country’s history as when then Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith, in a daring move, stubbornly cut off ties with the colonial British Crown - by unilateral...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 14:46hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa mourns Brig-Gen Mabenge
President Mnangagwa has described national hero Brigadier-General Benjamin Mabenge (Retired) as an intelligent and principled cadre who never deviated from the cause of the revolution from the time of...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Report Mphoko never deserted Zapu to join Zanu
The former members of the Rhodesian special branch are the ones who claimed that I deserted the struggle in 1976, to join ZANU.They forget that ZANU was banned in Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambi...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 19:54hrs | 9 | by Phelekezela Mphoko
Mnanaggwa haunted by 2017 coup skeletons
NEW information emerging from Zanu-PF corridors indicates that the current factional fights in the ruling party are emanating from a 2017 power-sharing deal gone sour, NewsDay has gathered.Pre...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 19:27hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean and SA professor clash over hard-hitting reviews of each other's books
A battle of professors has erupted between Zimbabwe's University of Oxford-based Associate Professor Blessing Miles-Tendi and Professor David B. Moore of the University of Johannesburg, who has some Z...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 21:26hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe 40 yrs backward'
ZIMBABWE is now 40 years backward compared to several African countries as a result of misrule and failure to tap into professional skills that have found home outside the country due to the country's...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 21:26hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Even ZANU PF 'denigrated' the country and called for 'crippling sanctions' that hurt ordinary citizens!
Whenever I mention my watching of the state-controlled broadcaster ZBC (Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation) - albeit, grudgingly and under insufferable str...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 19:18hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Anyone can rule Zimbabwe
I HAVE participated in the Zimbabwean elections as a voter from the year 2000. I was not eligible to vote earlier because of my age, but I witnessed elections in the 1990s as a student. Voter apathy w...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:49hrs | | by Margaret Chinowaita
New crop of opposition political parties in the region
It is believed that opposition political parties are a watchdog of central Government, ensuring that the people's lives and livelihoods are supported, that the country's economy is buttressed by susta...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Prosperity Mzila
When it gets cold outside Zanu-PF
Last week various social media platforms and some online publications were awash with the news of a meeting in South Africa between former Zanu-PF members namely G40 kingpin, Saviour Kasukuwere, expel...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:37hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zanu-PF cults, national myths, hegemony
THE British are renowned for their liking of leaders, particularly those who took them through tough periods like the Second World War and the Cold War-era. Most notable are army commander Winston Chu...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:23hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mnangagwa democratic credentials face litmus test in election season
THE year 2022 is a litmus test for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime which promised to open up political space and uphold civil liberties as temperatures hot up ahead of next year's general electi...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga were not present at the formation of the Patriotic Front in 1976
The People of Zimbabwe were united under the Zimbabwe African People's Union (Z.A.P.U).When Z.A.P.U. was banned, the party leadership decided that it will not form another political party, aga...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 16:41hrs | 8 | by Report Phelekezela Mphoko
Zanu-PF imploding now?
IN 2016, the late President Robert Mugabe reacted angrily to details contained in a document titled, Blue Ocean — Taking Back Zanu-PF, and labelled war veterans backing his successor Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 23:31hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Saints hold two-day trials
ZIMBABWE Saints FC are set to hold two-day trials from tomorrow at Induba grounds in Pelandaba as they continue with preparations for the Southern Region Division One League in the new season....Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New Zapu SG, a real Political Testosterone
Innovation is a word only relative to the young, and this is what Zapu produced yesterday. Just to start from the right place, Zapu elected a Deliberate Black Log, Ugodo Olumyama Ngenkani,...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 00:17hrs | 7 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Zanla fighter's daughter now top medical officer in US
While a good number of gallant veterans of Zimbabwe's war of liberation brawled this week in Harare with the police, who charged them with seeking to incite public violence, a city in a distant land t...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:14hrs | 12 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Panic-stricken Zanu-PF unleashes terror
POLITICAL violence that reared its ugly head again on Monday in Masvingo against main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa (pictured) and his entourage could be a precursor to what Zanu-PF is...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bona does not know secrete relationship between Mugabe and Mnangagwa: Nor has she Zezuru powers to recite Nyakasikana rituals
Bloggers go overdrive in wanting to make much awaited narratives become facts overnight. Bona cannot make holly cries of Zezuru-Nyakasikana to prevent her father from exhumation and be interred in the...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:26hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Robert Gabriel Mugabe: The killer of our dreams
THIS week marks the second anniversary of the death of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the first prime minister of an independent Zimbabwe, on April 18, 1980.While we acknowledge the fact that there ar...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:59hrs | 8 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Chamisa says, 'We need a new direction: Every vote matters'
TWO decades ago, a diverse range of people and groups came together to build a glorious movement that would play a significant role in shaping the governance of our country.At the time, Zimbab...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:23hrs | 9 | by Nelson Chamisa
Zimbabwe's Heroes, Defence Forces Days have lost sparkle
AS Zimbabwe commemorated the Heroes and Defence Forces holidays this week, sharp scrutiny was cast on whether the country has regressed or enhanced the founding ideals of the liberation struggle for w...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
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