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Choosing a Sofa? What NOT To Do
So, you're ready to buy a new sofa. Your old sofa has finally given up and you now have the chance to replace it with something truly special. You start to look for your ideal sofa and suddenly th...Published: 5 hrs ago | 345 | by Staff Writer
Defiance Campaign for Mthwakazi
The arrest and incarceration of Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Khayisa Ndiweni presents all the people of Mthwakazi with a moment for serious reflection and a resolution for a liberation way forward. ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1759 | by Thulani Nkala
Facilitate Gukurahundi apology, Mudenda urges NPRC
Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda has urged the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) to advocate a national apology for past conflicts, including Gukurahundi. He said...Published: 11 hrs ago | 905 | by Staff Reporter
Mudenda calls for Gukurahundi public apology
The speaker of National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda has called for the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) to vigorously push for a national apology for the past conflicts, especially the ...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 15:37hrs | 2252 | by Staff reporter
Why protests are important
LAST night as I was scrolling down latest postings - usually not very useful except for banter and comic relief - on our WhatsApp chat group feed with former journalism training classmates, I came acr...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:55hrs | 578 | by Dumisani Muleya
Wrong to blame Zimbabwe crisis on war veterans
I have always been a fan of Zimbabwe Independent. It has an excellent record of providing the nation with sound and truthful analyses of the economic situation in Zimbabwe.The last edition of ...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:54hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
MDC fights for Chief Ndiweni's release
THE Nelson Chamisa-led opposition MDC has vowed to fight for the release of outspoken Ntabazinduna traditional leader, Chief Nhlanhlayemangwe Ndiweni who was last week sentenced to 18 months in jail f...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:46hrs | 2150 | by Staff reporter
Will the system change if Chiwenga collapsed and died today?
Good morning my dear friends, I have been reflecting like everyone else and I have realized that we are making the same terrible mistakes that we made with Robert Mugabe.I say so because we ta...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 22:56hrs | 10500 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
South African buffalo is nakéd, media goes on mute
The silence of the South African leadership on the ongoing revelations of gross corruption and subversion of good governance is treasonous. Since the damning findings of the Public Protector, Busisiwe...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 20:47hrs | 2416 | by Zanele Lwana
Fellow Zimbabweans, could you please help me find my young children who were abducted in UK?
I live in Swansea, and have lived there since 2007. In March 2008, l met a woman who comes from Swaziland and we were blessed with our first girl in January 2009.In 2012, we were blessed with a ba...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 10:17hrs | 2920 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Zimbabwe and the crisis of one-sided democracy narrative
THE co-existence of political dissent is healthy for any political set-up. However, it is risky to reduce the density of political dissent to the narrowest of extremes of allowing certain political ac...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:36hrs | 88 | by Richard R Mahomva
Demonstrations disrupting flow of business
THE opposition MDC-Alliance has been busy plotting to destabilise the country through nationwide demonstrations.The organisers claim they are demonstrating against the country's economic condi...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:35hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
Ndiweni is an MDC-affiliated Chief and so can do no wrong
The discussion around the Chief Ndiweni case is so disappointing I am going to start my own here. In fact, I am slowly coming to the conclusion that I probably should start writing public think pieces...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 18:01hrs | 3158 | by Petina Gappa
Bosso player & manager fight: New details emerge
NEW details have emerged over the Denzel Khumalo and team manager Vezigama Dlodlo's fist fight this week after it was revealed yesterday that the fiasco was over $50 which was supposed to be given to ...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 13:23hrs | 1695 | by Staff reporter
'Solve socio-economic crisis' prescribe UN - rubbish, treat disease, bad governance, not the symptom
Zimbabwe is a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs. The ruling party, Zanu-PF, has captured all state institutions so that the Police, Army, Judiciary, etc. are...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 10:48hrs | 312 | by Wilbert Mukori
Bulawayo march to proceed, says Biti
Justice Joseph Musakwa on Friday threw out the MDC's urgent chamber application seeking to lift a police ban on demonstrations intended for Harare on the same day.Police used truncheons to bre...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 13:39hrs | 3619 | by ZimLive
Khupe youths vow to join Chamisa demo
YOUTHS from the Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T have vowed to defy a party directive not to participate in a demonstration organised by the rival MDC, insisting the protest was necessary because people are ...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:27hrs | 840 | by newzimbabwe
This Zimbabwe situation simply cannot go on
THIS is a message to those who currently hold power in Zimbabwe. I do not really care about how you got into this position, but now that you are there, we need to ask you what you are going to use tha...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:25hrs | 1506 | by Eddie Cross
Serbian political activist Popovic denies claims he is in Zimbabwe
Srdja Popovic, the Serbian rights activist credited with helping bring down the regime of Slobodan Milosevic and inspiring the Arab Spring has denied claims by the Zimbabwe government that he is in th...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:08hrs | 302 | by ZimLive
#ShutDownZimbabwe demos: Political warfare morphing into insurgency
The pending demonstrations ought to be viewed within the realms of a sophisticated effort at blackmail, whose sole agenda is to have the international community turning screws against the Government....Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:11hrs | 361 | by Andrew Maimba
Choosing a Sofa? What NOT To Do
So, you're ready to buy a new sofa. Your old sofa has finally given up and you now have the chance to replace it with something truly special. You start to look for your ideal sofa and suddenly the tr...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 18:39hrs | 69 | by Staff Writer
We have more heroes in 40 years than UK in 400 years - but not one stopped Zim going to the dogs, why
"President Emmerson Mnangagwa is the biggest thief," said Thomas Mapfumo in a facebook video circulating in the social media.Thomas Mapfumo, is a very talented Zimbabwean musician who has cons...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 20:38hrs | 1887 | by Wilbert Mukori
Heroes' Day eclipsed by new lows
It is sad that the relevance of Heroes' Day has been obliterated by the new levels of suffering going on in Zimbabwe.It seems incomprehensible that any other matter can overshadow the levels o...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | 633 | by Learnmore Zuze
WATCH: Mnangagwa is the biggest thief, says Thomas Mapfumo
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is the biggest thief, says Thomas Mapfumo.Mapfumo, whose hard-hitting songs have become legendary for speaking truth to power, accuses polit...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 21:23hrs | 15637 | by Staff reporter
The invisible professionals
Highly educated blacks working in South Africa struggle against a system that aims to exclude and sideline them. There is the open struggle that is fought with bullets and bombs out on the plains. War...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 19:44hrs | 1458 | by Wiseman Magasela
Patrick Zhuwao talks tough
Zimbabwe sadly remembers its heroes and heroines whilst the World commemorates the United Nations International Youth Day. The liberation struggle that dismantled the yoke of colonialism was executed ...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 18:18hrs | 5913 | by Patrick Zhuwao
Zacc boss faces integrity test
NEW Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chair Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo faces her first big test over allegations of wrongdoing involving her husband, Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo....Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 08:08hrs | 1342 | by Staff reporter
Musona reaffirms TB Joshua healing, slams false surgery rumours
Zimbabwe Warriors' captain, Knowledge Musona, has lashed out on Twitter slamming a report which claims he is to undergo surgery in Munich, Germany for an injury he once declared to be healed from afte...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 16:13hrs | 10952 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe wise to refuse hero funeral
Former President of Zimbabwe, Robert Gabriel Mugabe was recently reported to have told his family that he did not want to be buried at the national heroes shrine but instead wanted to be buried next t...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 16:11hrs | 1031 | by Nicholas Mlamuli Ndebel
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.Go...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 11:26hrs | 312 | by Tawanda Majoni
Lupane East By-election: A deceptive delineation of the narrow, gorged and mountainous pathway to democracy in Zimbabwe
The recently held parliamentary and council by-elections in Lupane East, Ward 23 Nkayi South and Ward 22 Bubi constituencies respectively, on the 3rd of August 2019, and many others before, are a dece...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 10:19hrs | 283 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Mugabe wise to refuse hero funeral
Former President of Zimbabwe, Robert Gabriel Mugabe was recently reported to have told his family that he did not want to be buried at the national heroes shrine but instead wanted to be buried next t...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 10:14hrs | 3666 | by Nicholas Mlamuli Ndebele
Inside the 'secret' world of Gule Wamkulu
THE Nyau or Gule, popularly known in Zimbabwe as zvigure, are an enigma. Mystic, misunderstood and feared — their secrets have been hidden for centuries behind gory masks, cryptic dances and bizarre...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:24hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
MSU ordered to pay over US$3,2m for engineering services
The Midlands State University (MSU) has been ordered by the High Court to pay Galaxy Engineering Designs Consultants (Pvt) Ltd over US$3 207 450,68 for the civil engineering services provided to the t...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF is denying us the right to demos' - true, but thick jail wall is not why we are stuck
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess for one over-riding reason – ignorance. What makes ignorance such a difficult, a near impossible, failing to cure is that the ignorant are rarely awar...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 22:11hrs | 1901 | by Nomusa Garikai
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 | 683 | by Takura Zhangazha
Chamisa's grandstanding much ado about nothing
Chamisa's grandstanding much ado about nothingThe MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa seems to have perfected the art of making so much noise like a cricket when there is nothing proportional in terms ...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 14:40hrs | 5160 | by Elijah Chihota
It's not that Mugabe was a better leader
It's an illusion that former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was a better leader than his successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa.The ex-President was not as competent a leader as the world would wan...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | 4416 | by Learnmore Zuze
By-elections defeats divide Chamisa's Alliance
The MDC-ALLIANCE leadership is under scrutiny from members and supporters following a string of recent defeats to the ruling party, Zanu-PF. Disgruntlement in the party, led by Mr Nelson Chami...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | 835 | by Staff reporter
Alcohol and drugs are ruining the youths
For many a youth today alcohol is their strongest weakness. Some think the wise waters can provide refuge and comfort from the prevailing hardships yet the opposite is the gospel truth. Many p...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 14:30hrs | 715 | by Thomas Murisa
Housing Corporation Zimbabwe rejects flawed NSSA report
The Housing Corporation Zimbabwe (HCZ) says the final Report on the Forensic Investigation into the Affairs of the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) conducted by BDO Zimbabwe Chartered Account...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | 2363 | by FinX
Overfed, unconcerned and arrogant - Zimbabwe's politicians have broken away from the people
Saying all kinds of niceties and delivering nothing. These seem to be the most notable, if not the best traits of a politician. Particularly the Zimbabwean politician. It is not because they lack the ...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 21:03hrs | 1460 | by Mandla Tshuma
MDC Alliance blames Gukurahundi for Lupane loss
MDC Alliance treasure general David Coltart has blamed Gukurahundi for his party’s loss to Zanu-PF in the Lupane East by elections on Saturday....Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 18:42hrs | 2810 | by Staff Reporter
Change: Wither Zimbabwe?
I had to go cross to check the theory. What is the change we have been sold? Or is this another war-time dummy!Particularly when the quality and magnitude of change is huge and transformationa...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 14:22hrs | 523 | by Zifiso Masiye
Gukurahundi victims narrate harrowing tales
Female victims of an army clampdown in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces in the early years of Zimbabwe's independence have been recounting harrowing tales of how they were sexually abused by Fifth ...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 14:16hrs | 463 | by Staff reporter
Lupane election results call for 'MRP' self-introspection
I am seriously disappointed by the election results of the Lupane-East parliamentary by-elections. We didn't perform well.While I understand the many factors that influences our poor performan...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 13:44hrs | 1289 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Gems get $20 000 each
THE national netball team, the Gems, was yesterday feted with hampers by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, while Government also chipped in with a $20 000 bonus for each player to celebrate their e...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:16hrs | 482 | by Staff reporter
Power tariff hike gives Zesa headstart
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube last week announced an interim tariff framework meant to support Zesa's operations.But will the new tariff(s) address the cripp...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:06hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
Mrs Mnangagwa honours national netball team
The national netball team, the Gems, was yesterday feted with hampers by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, while Government also chipped in with a $20 000 bonus for each player to celebrate their exploit...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:05hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa calls for investigations on Ignatius Chombo
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has called for an investigation into allegations that former Finance Minister Ignatius Morgen Chiminya Chombo owns shares at Metbank.Mliswa was respond...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 09:58hrs | 926 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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