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What value systems, dignity and integrity does Mnangagwa know? Stuff and nonsense!
In Shona, I would have said: Ndiko kunonzi kujairira Vahnu uku! This man can just open his mouth wotanga kubukura, ogo bukura ogo bukura! A Portuguese adage says: even a small ass can do it if a stoma...Published: 29 May 2025 at 21:32hrs | 775 | by Nomazulu Thata
We celebrate the release of the iconic Blessed Mhlanga!
People who believe in the dignity of mankind are happy today: Blessed Mhlanga is out of a notorious prison. Seeing him coming out of prison reminded me of Comrade Mandela, when he left Robbin Island f...Published: 09 May 2025 at 10:44hrs | 269 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe need an urgent reset of parenthood and economic models
We are failing at the family level. When I was growing up, my mom always told me that if I ate vegetables, got good grades, stayed out of trouble, eat what we grew and be obedient to her, even...Published: 01 Apr 2025 at 17:09hrs | 233 | by Brian Sedze
The truth about US aid, digital imperialism and the Great Continent of Africa's future
On the fast lane to 2030 by Maxwell Haitengeswinyika Teedzai The US feeds on creation of chaos and chicanery in third world countries and they use illeg...Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 20:34hrs | 536 | by Maxwell Haitengeswinyika Teedzai
Zimbabwe mining company seeks intervention from Australian Ambassador
Shamva-based gold mining company Korzim Strategic Minerals (Pvt) Ltd has reached out to Vice-President Kembo Mohadi and Australian Ambassador to Zimbabwe Minoli Perera, alleging misconduct by an Austr...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:22hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF-induced pain not ending anytime soon
THE Zanu-PF government is very playful. The State of Nation Address (SONA) be President Emmerson Mnangagwa is a signal that the perpetual evil and pain induced on the people is not going to end any ti...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 07:43hrs | 173 | by Brian Sedze
Politics of sympathetic pregnancies
Politics of mimesis Opposition in Zimbabwe - not the Zimbabwean opposition - is in a deep mess. It is vainly looking for causes, models and examples. Our politics, it would appear, has entered a p...Published: 11 Aug 2024 at 18:27hrs | 93 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
New Zimbabwe central bank boss talks tough
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mushayavanhu on Friday declared that he will protect the central bank from external forces to maintain its independence.But analysts were quick to ...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Just how low has Zimbabwe sank?
A country's state media is always a window into the government's psyche and mindset. It is like a reflection of the particular nation's soul.So, in spite of the insufferable tort...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 14:30hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe to intensify lobby for UN Security Council seat
ZIMBABWE will take its lobby for a United Nations Security Council seat to the African Union (AU) when the continental bloc meets in February, President Mnangagwa has said.The Southern African...Published: 21 Jan 2024 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sadc observer report a run away 'gun'
THE choice of words by the Sadc observer mission bordered on incitement, propelling a legitimacy crisis with the potential to harm the country. The report was by any standard a threat to human and nat...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:53hrs | 2 | by Dr Matthew Mare
Zimbabwe dying slowly
It was a memorable journey back to Zimbabwe five years after I left the country in January 2018 just three months after the November 2017 coup.My friend and I arrived at the Musina border post...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 11:46hrs | | by Leonard Koni
OyOs announces official release of the OyOs Online Stores and the OyOs Chatbot
OyOs hereby announces the official release of two top of the range IT related products onto the Zimbabwean digital space, OyOs Online Store and the OyOsBOt. OyOs standing for Own Your Online Store is ...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 22:28hrs | 37 | by Agencies
What if US president is wrong on Ukraine?
Since the once great newspapers, the New York Times, the Washington Times and Los Angeles Times have been captured by the Democratic Party, they are all blowing President Joe Biden's narrative about t...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Kenneth Mufuka
GOAT Messi wins Best Fifa men's player award
Argentina and Paris St-Germain forward Lionel Messi has been named men's player of the year at the 2022 Best Fifa Awards.The seven-time Ballon d'Or winner beat French forwards Kylian Mbappe an...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 21:51hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth has appalling human rights record
This written article by Professor Jonathan Moyo, then an academic at the University of Zimbabwe, was published by the Financial Gazette on 10 October 1991, a few days...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | 51 | by Jonathan Moyo
Third World Underdevelopment - a forced condition
Underdevelopment in Africa, Latin American and much of Asia is not a condition of being several centuries behind the various kinds of transformations experienced in the capitalist centre but a conditi...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Does Zimbabwe need the Commonwealth?
ZIMBABWE joined the Commonwealth in 1980 after gaining independence from Britain - in what appeared to be a major victory for the Commonwealth. Twenty-three years down the road, Zimbabwe quit the Comm...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 2 | by Vusi Nyamazana
Yes, Mnangagwa is at UN COP 27 in Egypt to mourn about sanctions, photo opportunity and nothing else
Yes, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is in Egypt for UN COP27 Climate Summit. He will, no doubt, be accompanied by the usual high-powered delegation of hangers-on. He will complain of how sanctions are ...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 13:11hrs | 2 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe commemorates Africa Day
As Zimbabwe joins the rest of the continent today in commemorating Africa Day, Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) chairman Christopher Mutsvangwa has reprimanded regime cha...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
State of a Zimbabwean worker lamentable
AS the world celebrated Workers Day yesterday, my heart bled with sorrow about the current conditions of the majority of workers in Zimbabwe.One of the reasons that led to the liberation strug...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:01hrs | | by Linda T Masarira
We are on the brink of World War III
A Third World War is looming after Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The military action which Russian President Vladimir Putin described as a special military operation to disarm a neo-Nazi...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 11:02hrs | 1 | by Energy Mutodi
The paradigm of war and interests
The unbalanced informational diet from western media outlets makes it seem so ordinary, normal, and even natural that President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, is the real devil in all this.West...Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | 1 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
'Govt has no funds for additional ICU beds'
THE Health and Child Care ministry has revealed that it has no funds to purchase equipment such as intensive care unit (ICU) beds for public hospitals designated as COVID-19 centres.Bulawayo p...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:59hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Stalinist approach to COVID-19 vaccines only fuels more hesitancy and skepticism!
The easiest way to make someone mistrust and distrust you (arousing suspicions about you), is to act as if you are hiding something from him....Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 08:41hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Munatsi: A smart distinguished banker
Zimbabwe is witnessing one of the largest outpourings of grief following the tragic loss of Douglas Tawanda Munatsi (‘DTM') on Monday November 29, 2021.It is definitely a tragedy of unspeaka...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:17hrs | 13 | by Muchadeyi Ashton Masunda
Factoring 'animal spirits' into Zimbabwe's economic discourse
John Maynard Keynes is considered by many to be the most consequential economist of the past century. Perhaps one of his boldest contributions to economics was postulating, perhaps correctly, that the...Published: 18 Nov 2021 at 19:02hrs | 20 | by Simbarashe Bepete
COP26: Mnangagwa tried too hard
THE Glasgow COP26 meeting in Scotland, United Kingdom, painted a grim picture about the environment and imminent dangers of climate change. However, besides Africa and the third world carrying the can...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:35hrs | 9 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Govt snubs cheaper donor-funded jabs
IN an eyebrow-raising development, the Zimbabwean government, battling the Covid-19 pandemic, has been purchasing expensive Chinese vaccines while overlooking doses supplied at cheaper prices under th...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:32hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
'ECD struggling under COVID-19'
EARLY childhood development (ECD) is key for development and deserves funding from government and stakeholders to ensure children are well groomed. In Zimbabwe and other third world countries, governm...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:28hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ruling elite better suited to running backward rural country, not a modern-day advanced nation
As we wake up to another bleak, gloomy and dark morning (literally) - again, without electricity in our part of town - in the midst of obvious outrage and disappointed at the nation's authorities, who...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 08:07hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Is Nepotism a Good Thing, or Bad?
I read with amusement the article written by Luke Tambolinyoka titled "Emerson Mnangagwa : the primitive clansman and the villagisati...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe to get 984 000 Covax vaccines
ZIMBABWE will soon receive 984 000 doses of the AstraZeneca and Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines through the World Health Organisation (WHO)-led Covax initiative.The country will receive the vaccines ...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 16:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
British government tried to coerce Chiwenga to signing up for Covax
Zimbabwe, which has extended a begging bowl to locals to finance the acquisition of Covid-19 vaccines, is dragging its feet in signing for a United Nations (UN) facility for poor countries to access d...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF angry over US's local envoy failure to denounce America's demos
THE ruling party Zanu-PF has been angered by the failure of the United States of America's envoy to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols to denounce the recent violent protests at the Capitol Hill in Washington DC,...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 09:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF takes a jibe at Brian Nichols over Capitol Hill incident
Zanu-PF has taken a jibe at the US Ambassador to Zimbabwe Ambassador Brian A Nichols and other "local and international" critics for what they called their "deafening" silence at the protest that occu...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 19:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF slates US envoy
United States of America's envoy to Zimbabwe Ambassador Brian Nichols' failure to denounce the violent insurrection that happened at Capitol Hill in Washington DC on January 6 - killing five people an...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cyberocracy: from prospects to reality?
Implications for Political Communication and Digital Diplomacy for Zimbabwe and the Developing WorldIn 1992, David Ronfieldt writing for the RAND Corpo...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 15:32hrs | 20 | by Taurai Mutoti
Mnangagwa congratulates Biden
President Mnangagwa has condemned the storming of the US Capitol by pro-Trump protesters on Wednesday, adding that Washington was failing to uphold the democracy it demands of other nations and that i...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Afro-Sino economic relations in the 21st Century: Mixed Reactions and Misinterpretations
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National U...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 19:21hrs | 21 | by Livingstone Kazizi
'Zim hospitals overwhelmed by covid 19' - overwhelmed by 225 patients or official figures are fake
Let me say this for the umpteenth time: Zimbabwe's official corona virus cases and deaths is but a fraction of the real and true figures. Officially Zimbabwe has 13 867 cumulated cases of whic...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 10:25hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Drawing parallels between bitter election losers Khupe and Trump
Is it even possible to make such comparisons between Madam Thokozani Khupe and Donald Trump regarding the shenanigans of the two politicians' elections defeat? Yes, it is possible; this is a global vi...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 08:30hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Maladministration worsened Zimbabwe Covid-19 situation'
ZAPU acting president, Isaac Mabuka has accused government of abusing the Covid-19 prevention measures through stifling citizen's liberties.In his Christmas message to the nation, Mabuka descr...Published: 25 Dec 2020 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga and the decolonisation of the field of political science
WHILE the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter Rodney, Archie Mafeje, Ali Mazrui, Thabo Mbeki, Asan...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 4 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Chiwenga triggers important political science debate
Black Epistemologies and the Non-Writing PoliticianWhile the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter R...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Richard Mahomva
The World Will Never Be The Same After January 2021
After President Donald J. Trump has been declared the winner of US Presidential elections and sworn in on 20 January 2021 as the new President, I foresee total chaos and massive trail of destruction f...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 11:30hrs | | by Israel Dube
Trump called Chamisa for advice
The American elections have shown us a number of interesting things and indeed it has given us shocking similarities between Trump and Nelson Chamisa. There is a striking similar behaviour between the...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 22:47hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavza
Chamisa's MPs shred Cyber Security Bill
OPPOSITION Members of Parliaments on Tuesday poked holes into the Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill, saying that it takes away some freedoms enshrined in the national Constitution.The Bi...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Don't start us Zimbabwe Cricket!!
The game of Cricket matters the most in Zimbabwe, infact Zimbabwe matters most to the game of Cricket, because Zimbabweans just uniquely love cricket.We love cricket that it exists in the figm...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 07:43hrs | 3 | by Energy Mavaza
Zimbabwe needs complete transformation, not patchworks.
"In a world of conspicuous institutional failure, one entity that still offers some important lessons for the practice of governance is Singapore." Kent CalderZimbabwe is experiencing a struct...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 19:13hrs | | by Dr Gus Manatsa
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