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'Bulawayo councillors ditching residents for their political parties'
Bulawayo residents have expressed growing frustration with city councillors, accusing them of prioritizing their political party agendas over the needs of the people who voted them into office during ...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 07:09hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe students excel at African Leadership University
Recently in Kigali, Rwanda, President Paul Kagame celebrated the graduation of 431 students from 30 African countries at the African Leadership University (ALU), including sixteen students from Zimbab...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 17:38hrs | 775 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's ANC has not learnt from history
In 2018, ANC chose Cyril Ramaphosa as President because they believed that white capital liked him and thus he would attract western investment into the country. However, things did not quite go accor...Published: 14 Jun 2024 at 13:23hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi donates laptops, pushes for modern education
During his visit to Manama High School in Gwanda district, Matabeleland South, Acting President Kembo Mohadi, an alumnus, honored the school's significant role in Zimbabwe's liberation struggle. ...Published: 08 Jun 2024 at 12:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa should change strategy
Dear Mr [Nelson] Chamisa,I AM writing to you as a concerned citizen and a former supporter of yours. I voted for you in the presidential elections of 2018 and 2023, where the rigging of Zanu-P...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 17:31hrs | 12 | by Barnabas Musisinyani
Chamisa has made a lot of mistakes because he is trying
IN the aftermath of local political activist Sengezo Tshabangu's recalls tsunami and by-elections that have shaken the main opposition CCC to the core and disrupted it badly, party leader Nelson Chami...Published: 16 Dec 2023 at 18:58hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
Zimbabwe politics is no game for naive thinkers
They say hope is for people who cannot see the truth! There are those hopeful one day Zanu-PF will stop governing Zimbabwe, yet the truth is speaking against their hope.In a candid conversatio...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 05:17hrs | 2 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Chamisa's manifesto is stolen intellectual property, 56% plagiarised word for word
So, 56% of the CCC manifesto some of whose content has been credited to Nelson Chamisa himself, is stolen word for word. Shocking.In other words, the CCC manifesto is stolen intellectu...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 19:37hrs | 9 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe's future is debated in the city but decided in the village
THE electoral lines have been drawn as we face the impending reckoning of the August 23 general election. Intra-party squabbles have been settled regarding who will be the torch bearer in what ward or...Published: 25 Jun 2023 at 18:23hrs | 9 | by Ntando Dumani
Zimbabwe: Chekhov's middle age monks
From a writer, critic, traveller, doctorI am reading selected letters of Anton Chekhov, the Russian writer, critic, traveller and medical doctor.The letters span a big chunk of his lif...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:03hrs | 3 | by @Jamwanda2 On Saturday
Patriotic Bill 'helps Zanu-PF cling to power'
THE Patriotic Bill, which is currently going through requisite processes before enactment, will not serve Zimbabwe's interests, but help the ruling Zanu-PF consolidate its hold on power, political ana...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Anything called the Zimbabwean GEIST?
Zimbabwe's GEIST?NATIONS have what Antonio Gramsci terms "particularity of their mind", GEIST in German language, or ESPRIT in French.Here in Africa, thinkers called the same variously...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 07:32hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
When all friendship ceases!
Von Hornick's nine principles on National EconomyIn 1684, an Austrian lawyer-turned-civil servant, Philipp Wilhelm von Hornick, published nine principal rules of a National Economy.The...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 07:57hrs | | by Jamwanda
Zimbabwe in 2023: There is great disorder, chaos under the heavens
GEORGE Orwell wrote so much and so well that one day it became cause for a whole essay to explain to himself and the world why he wrote as such.In the essay of 1946, Why I Write, Orwell recoun...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 70 | by Dr William Jethro Mpofu
'CCC will win big 2023!' bombardment is relentless. Real challenge, educate povo to know it's all wishful thinking
"2023 IS A YEAR FOR CHANGE. 2023 brings hope, dignity and prosperity.May this year be the year Zimbabwe becomes free, happy and prosperous. This time Citizens will WIN BIG & celebrate BIG....Published: 04 Jan 2023 at 01:11hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa to headline CEO Africa Annual Roundtable
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is set to headline the CEO Africa Annual Roundtable 2022 to be held in Victoria Falls from 2 to 5 November. The event is being hosted by the CEO Africa Roundtable, a high-l...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex Zanu-PF youth boss Lewis Matutu bounces back
FORMER Zanu-PF deputy youth secretary, Lewis Matutu, who was stopped in his daring anti-corruption fight against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's benefactor Kudakwashe Tagwirei, has resurfaced, this tim...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe will win economic war
ZIMBABWE will attain a prosperous future and overcome the economic challenges being engineered by its detractors bent on making the economy "scream" through asymmetrical warfare targeting ordinary cit...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe now needs new economic thinkers
LATEST statistics from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) indicate that the country's year-on-year inflation is inches away from breaching the 200% mark. The agency's June figures show ...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:22hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
The departure of Stan Chartered: A case of Economic commitment
Few days ago, the Standard Chartered bank closed all it's branches in Zimbabwe, except a few remaining as they wind up their 120 year journey in the southern African nation. This came as a surprise, a...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 19:56hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
End of the road for Tsvangirai's MDC
D-DAY has arrived for the MDC brand, with the electorate expected to decide its fate, as analysts say the iconic party associated with the firebrand Morgan Tsvangirai may disappear into oblivion if it...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The rise and fall of the MDC: Winners, losers and neutrals
AS Zimbabwe approaches crucial by-elections in March, which will test the strength of main contestants while determining the authentic opposition, there is no denying that the MDC, which has posed the...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:21hrs | 7 | 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 | 8 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Political elites' vacuous populism not serving Zimbabwean people's interest
IN a recent eloquent but rather dense article titled "Dynamics of the Zimbabwe crisis in the 21st century" adopted from a 2003 academic paper of a similar title, Professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni ma...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:45hrs | 10 | by Dr Mike Chipere
Africa's future is being sold out even as we speak
Even if one disagrees with their policies, one must recognise that European policies towards Africa and Asia were guided and designed by deep thinkers in their societies.African leaders today ...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Why elections matter in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has its next elections in 2023. That is less than two years ahead. It is imperative that every Zimbabwean should examine why we have elections. What are elections for?What will we ach...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:15hrs | | by Fay Chung
Tsvangirai was convinced: Only a united opposition will defeat ZANU PF at the polls
Since its inception in 2013, ZUNDE has been unfailingly committed to building a free, democratic, peaceful and prosperous Zimbabwe characterised by good governance and the rule of law. Fundamental to ...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 12:13hrs | | by Denis Moyo Hunt
Good Advisors must be around the 'PRESIDENT'
The office of the President and Cabinet, is a highly regarded, commended, and respected office, it deserves honour, dignity and respect. Those who are responsible for preparing meetings around the " P...Published: 11 May 2021 at 22:42hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
We need a proper Business Model to run this country
Government has a duty and obligation to attend to national issues raised by citizen's perspective, if they really want to retire with dignity. We have issues at hand which must be attended to, and mor...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 12:24hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Caps boss blasts PSL, Zifa
CAPS United vice-president Nhamo Tutisani has savaged Zifa and the Premier Soccer League (PSL) leadership as mere event managers who lack strategies to turn around domestic football and make it compet...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe continues to shame doomsayers, as opposition pins its hopes in PATHOGENS
During my schooling days when I chewed works of Karl Marx, Frederich Engels and Vladimir Lenin, one term one repeatedly met in one's study of the three sources and three origins of Marxist thought was...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 08:17hrs | | by Jamwanda
Mr President, review your team & apply Strategy
Not much has been done, since the inception of the so-called new dispensation. Now that you have lost key pillars, the likes of Biggie Matiza, Ellen Gwaradzimba and the coup announcer, S.B Moyo, who w...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
President Mnangagwa 'Develop a Strategic Thinking Approach'
During Mugabe's era, you would easily recite cabinet Ministers without reading from any script, alas today, I can only remember maybe less than five Ministers unless you visit their offices. What is t...Published: 26 Dec 2020 at 15:43hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Should Christians be politicians, is it godly to be in politics?
I received a message on my LinkedIn page which made me get thinking. The message was from a long forgotten church mate who was actually one of my pathfinders or a junior youth I used to teach ch...Published: 26 Dec 2020 at 08:49hrs | 6 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chief Mtshana hero status: A veiled insult on Matabeleland
Although the all-conquering Chief Mtshana, was a bona fide and outstanding freedom fighter of all-time requiring recognition, the recent villainous conferment of hero status on him by the relevance-se...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 09:20hrs | | by Nhlanhla Moses
MDC-A divisions have crippled its diplomatic offensive against Zanu-PF
Divisions on how to handle perceived deficiencies of democracy in the SADC region have crippled the MDC-Alliance's diplomatic charm offensive. For example, opposition parties in Tanzania had expected ...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 15:55hrs | | by Rungano Dzikira
President E.D, you need Strategic Thinkers around you!
I vividly recall Mugabe's last two gigantic rallies in 2017 where politicians fell over each other to bootlick the despot. The former ZANU PF youth leader Kudzai Chipanga openly told the gathering tha...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:40hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
President Mnangagwa what is our problem?
We are the second largest platinum producer in the world, we have gold reserves around the country, we have chrome, we have alluvial diamonds, we have best human resources skills, we have land and nat...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 08:10hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
When the undertaker wishes you long life
This time Africans have abjectly disappointed the world.For Pete's sake, why can they not simply die?At least that is what the world expected after the outbreak of the coronavirus....Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 09:57hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Why I am teaching Shona philosophy in the UK
Philosophy deals with the "big questions" that concern us all, such as: what can I know, how should we live, and how should society be organized? But arguably the greatest of the big questions are to ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 14:16hrs | 15 | by Professor Lloyd Strickland
Cry our beloved 'Sunshine City'
In the mid-1990s, I left my village in Guruve to work in Harare and it was a city of bliss and flamboyance. My uncle Obedience Masakara, who was streetwise aat the time, took me around the city centre...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:56hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
How to think in Dark Times
"DO nothing but think" is a philosophical proverb that is much mistakenly attributed to the Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Zizek. Slavoj Zizek only stole and made famous the pithy statement. The genera...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:48hrs | | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Of the Kambarami fiasco and Ndebele-Shona issues
It's just been a few weeks since the Deputy Mayor of the City of Bulawayo Mr. Tinashe Kambarami decided to fire the town clerk, Mr. Christopher Dube, in a move that would make Kambarami an internet se...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 08:16hrs | | by Mandla Tshuma
State Capture: The imperfect metaphor
Language and its expressions and metaphors does not only deliver messages and meaning but it can also do a lot to hide the truth. In that way language can be used, sometimes innocently and at ...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:20hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Protests: MDC caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
Conversations with insiders suggest that the MDC has been agonising over whether or not to call for protests since the beginning of the year. That no decision has been reached on the matter speaks to ...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 12:29hrs | | by Tendai Chimunda
'Youth will rescue Zimbabwe' - no, only strong minds will; age, war hero irrelevant and failed
It was the great Greek philosopher Socrates, 2 500 years ago, who said "STRONG MINDS DISCUSS IDEAS, AVERAGE MINDS DISCUSS EVENTS AND WEAK MINDS DISCUSS PEOPLE."Socrates lived during the golden...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:16hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'No immediate end to load-shedding'
ENERGY minister Fortune Chasi (FC) took his oath of office this week, promising to tackle the electricity crisis head-on. His appointment comes at a time power utility Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Auth...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's multiple VPs, tribalism and elusive democracy
The generality of Zimbabwe's political parties are strangely filled with multiple posts for vice presidents. At face value this could allude to deep-seated democratic orientation. Conversely, the conc...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 09:41hrs | | by Nhlanhla Moses
How to sell Mthwakazi agenda
Having been an active participant in the Mthwakazi Restoration Agenda for the past 7 years excluding ofcourse the four years spent at ZAPU. I have understood that the enemy has almost managed to set u...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 09:09hrs | 1 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Mnangagwa, Chamisa cannot lead dialogue
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his opposition counterpart Nelson Chamisa can never be the best candidates to conduct dialogue as they cannot represent the ordinary people's wishes on the ground, the...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 15:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
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