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Zimbabwe's narrative: A view from the outside!
In the case of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe's government was democratic, economically savvy and politically astute, until one day, overnight, it became oppressive and intolerable.The sudden change ...Published: 22 Dec 2024 at 12:04hrs | 717 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Upcoming Zimbabwe, DRC polls a bellwether for Sadc, African democracy
IN the era of democratic decline, signs of hope persist. One example in our region is the Electoral Support Network — Southern Africa (ESN-SA) which comprises domestic civic organisations of the 16 ...Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:23hrs | 5 | by John Stremlau
Mnangagwa claims that Zimbabwe upholds good governance
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa told delegates attending the Zimbabwe Second Structured Dialogue Platform Meeting that the country is upholding tenets of good governance and democracy as part of efforts ...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 15:50hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Class IN itself versus Class FOR itself
US goose versus NED ganderTHERE is always more to write about than there is space to publish. Last week I had to drop two key matters, to allow myself to address in extenso what I sought to ra...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC aversion to democracy - its death knell
A simple definition of democracy is a system of governance in which people choose their leaders by voting for them.That very definition, in its simplicity, was recently on display in the gover...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:31hrs | 1 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Mnangagwa tramples on constitution over Malaba
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba is back on track after a temporary derailment of a controversial extension of his tenure linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's 2023 re-election bid.This comes afte...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 07:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mozambican community's promising hunting revenue powered development
Wildlife hunting is increasingly becoming the main 'driver' for not only socio-economic development but also for wildlife and wildlife habitat conservation, in southern African communities that co...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 17:03hrs | 10 | by Emmanuel Koro
The inscrutable Mr Trump!
*This letter uses American jargonIt took me sometime to figure out why the inscrutable, rascally US President Donald J Trump drives so many elites into a lunatic frenzy until I read a post fro...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:09hrs | 1 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Morgan Tsvangirai must be turning in his grave
Morgan Tsvangirai, the late icon of Zimbabwe's tenuous democratic struggle, is a man I knew so well, having served as his spokesperson and trusted lieutenant for almost a decade until his untime...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 09:34hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Dialogue: the panacea to Zimbabwe's economic and political fortunes
When the US Democrat Presidential candidate, Hilary Clinton lost the election in 2016 to Donald Trump she did not lose heart, but she put the United States national interests first and moved on. As an...Published: 02 May 2019 at 11:44hrs | 11 | by Elijah Chihota
MDC-Alliance congress exposes log in party's eye
Time has an uncanny habit of exposing hypocrisy, and often times, vindicating formally perceived villains. It is a double-edged sword. In Zimbabwe, time has helped us unravel the duplicitous behaviour...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Philemon Mutedzi
It is numbers not insults which rules in democracy
It is important to consider the relations between numbers and democratic government. Past election experience has demonstrated that the relation between numbers and politics is mutually constitu...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 21:15hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
No coups in 2018: Will 2019 be so stable?
THE past year may have felt politically tumultuous, between Saudi Arabia's brazen killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, the resurgence of authoritarianism in Eastern Europe and Donald Trump...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:31hrs | | by Clayton Besaw
UK want 'serious dialogue' with ED on debt but not vote rigging - history repeating itself
The British are not helping Zimbabwe get out of the economic and political mess the country is in. Not at all!"Ambassador Catriona Laing said an International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme wou...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 16:36hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa's troubled and dumbfounded by Mnangagwa's soft dictatorship
I am afraid the MDC Alliance appears oblivious to the mammoth political fraud in the electoral making. As things stand, the opposition grouping not only runs the horrifying risk of losing a massive ch...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
Zanuism, 'barrack democracy' threat to Zim's progress
Zanu-PF provides the most shocking example of the culture of exceptionalism which has characterised many a liberation party in power. These include:-the belief that it is entitled to rule fore...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 06:57hrs | | by Gus Manatsa
What is impeding meaningful progress in Zimbabwe-Zanuism, Mnangagwa and the military
Zanu-PF provides the most shocking example of the culture of exceptionalism which has characterised many a liberation party in power. These include: - the belief that it is entitled to rule f...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 19:41hrs | | by Gus Manatsa
2018 must, first and foremost, deliver free elections - forget ED's dogma saying otherwise
"Mhembwe rudzi inozvara mwana eneruzhumu!" (Each individual buck species has its own distinct marking!) so goes the Shona adage. Ever since President Mnangagwa took over from Robert Mugabe he has cert...Published: 19 May 2018 at 18:22hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Lack of Zimbabwe reforms annoys US
The United States' offer to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe could be on the verge of collapsing after Washington expressed irritation at the slow progress by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to draw up the ref...Published: 04 May 2018 at 13:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, Mnangagwa and the military blocking Zimbabwe's progress
Zimbabwe's new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been cautiously welcomed with the hope that he will place Zimbabwe on a more democratic trajectory. He has spoken of a new democracy "unfolding" in Zimb...Published: 11 Jan 2018 at 11:17hrs | 1 | by James Hamill
Kim Jong-un's New Year Address
Dear fellow countrymen and brave service personnel of the People's Army,Dear compatriots,Today, recollecting with great pleasure and pride and deep emotion the proud achievements we pe...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 15:26hrs | | by Kim Jong-un
The folly of MDC's mission of shame
The latest excursion to the West by the MDC, donning the new coat of "Alliance", is nothing more than the opposition returning to its treacherous roots. The MDC, with the help of the United States (US...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Khupe wants the best for MDC-T'
A political commentator Pedzisai Ruhanya has said MDC- T Vice President Thokozani Khupe wants the best for her party and must not be vilified for what she is doing.He said a political alliance...Published: 09 Sep 2017 at 08:27hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mujuru's impending trip to Chatham House where she hopes to impress her British benefactors
THE Tongas have a good saying: Hearts are not far from concord when noses have already fraternised. Let me open my gonamombe, pull out the lid of the cow-horn canister, so you the reader and me, c...Published: 17 Sep 2016 at 12:29hrs | 8 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Obama's brother endorses Trump
United States President Barack Obama's half-brother Malik says he endorsed the election of Republican Party candidate Donald Trump because he is a "down-to-earth" person.An excited Trump yeste...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru is spoilt for choice of suitors but has the leopardess lost her tyrannical spots
Mai Mujuru is the most eligible political partner in Zimbabwe politics both Morgan Tsvangirai and Tendai Biti have been very attentive courting her with flowers and chocolates galore. Now there are r...Published: 16 Nov 2015 at 20:15hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zanu PF split best thing for Zimbabweans yearning for change
A journalist Elias Mambo has posted on Facebook that Zanu PF split has been the best thing that has ever happened especially for people yearning for change in government."The ZANU PF 2015 spli...Published: 10 Oct 2015 at 09:12hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mujuru won't sleep alone
I LIKE what is happening in Europe, namely the trekking to its shores of thousands and thousands of refugees from North Africa and Middle East, foremost refugees from war-torn Syria. It's a pity Ameri...Published: 12 Sep 2015 at 09:09hrs | 3 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mugabe's ten sad legacies bestowed on his nation and people
A version of this post appeared on the Africa and Asia site. The views expressed are the author's own. President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, an audacio...Published: 13 Mar 2014 at 06:24hrs | | by Robert Rotberg,
Why Ncube should palm off a grand coalition
For time immemorial to myself I have been one of the staunch advocates of the proposed so called Grand coalition between Morgan Tsvangirai of the MDC-T and Welshman Ncube of MDC until I heard Tsv...Published: 23 Jul 2013 at 17:07hrs | 3 | by Titshabona Malaba Ncube
An open letter to all SADC member states
I write to you with a heavy heart which is bleeding with passion and love for a democratic Zimbabwe. With all due respect Your Excellencies let me open up what is eating up my heart on behalf of m...Published: 12 Jun 2013 at 06:42hrs | | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo
Tea with Mugabe
Johannesburg - Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe regards Thabo Mbeki as a √¢‚Ǩ≈ìgreat man√¢‚Ǩ¬ù and Jacob Zuma as a √¢‚Ǩ≈...Published: 22 Dec 2010 at 13:23hrs | 2 | by Julian Rademeyer
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