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MDC, CCC fight over Bulawayo party office
The MDC led by Douglas Mwonzora has issued a statement claiming ownership of the opposition party offices in Bulawayo now occupied by the Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) party, CITE revealed....Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 18:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF red-flagged for child abuse
Zanu-PF has been asked to stop involving children in its political campaigns after some learners were paraded at a rally in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park high-density suburb chanting slogans against the opp...Published: 05 Aug 2023 at 19:36hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
CCC: A Triple Legacy for Zimbabwe
Dying for European perspectiveAMUSING if it was not tragic. The European Union, EU, has granted Ukraine candidate status. It's a remote stage along a very long continuum to eventual EU&n...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:22hrs | | by Jamwanda
Nothing new about CCC's same old characters
When CCC won in the majority of constituencies in by-elections held in March, its leaders ran with a line that they had done well, yet they were a new party on the scene.Yet the claim that CCC...Published: 28 May 2022 at 08:50hrs | 1 | by Lovemore Chikova
'Britain must compensate Zimbabwe for colonial rule losses'
GUTU South MP Pupurai Togarepi (Zanu-PF) has suggested that Zimbabwe must demand compensation for losses incurred while the country was under British rule.Togarepi said this last Thursday whil...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court reserves judgment in Chilonga villagers case
HIGH Court judges yesterday reserved judgment on an application by Chilonga villagers who were challenging provisions of the Communal Lands Act arguing that it did not respect African traditional valu...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rhodesia better than Zimbabwe?
I RECENTLY penned the most painful and heart-rending article, titled, Our elderly experienced life under both Rhodesia and Zimbabwe, so why arrest them when they say Ian Smith was better? I fo...Published: 20 May 2021 at 06:38hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Tendai Biti insults Chipinge people calls them witches
The tweet by honourable Tendai Biti of the MDC A to Professor Madhuku has shown that Tendai Biti is a tribalist who cannot be called a nationalist. Tendai Biti has exhibited his intoxication wit...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 17:04hrs | 10 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Africa is not a dumping ground
During the just-ended Thirty-Fourth Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly, which was held virtually, President ED Mnangagwa prompted African leaders to think seriously about establishing an A...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 07:56hrs | | by Prosperity Mzila
Chamisa to fire Kambarami?
THE MDC Alliance has summoned Bulawayo councillors to its headquarters in Harare where party president Mr Nelson Chamisa is expected to deal with the chaos and alleged corruption dogging the local aut...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kambarami: A pig in royal robes still finds amusement in mud
The Tinashe Kambarami cabal's crass exhibition of foolishness unmasks the failure of the MDC to run urban councils. The exalted office of councillorship has been defiled by the repugnant behaviour of ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:37hrs | | by Ndabazabantu Sondokhulu
MDC blasts war veterans
Following a recent statement by Mashonaland Central province war veterans leader Sam Parirenyatwa that the province is a "no-go area" for the opposition and they are ready to crash the alleged plot by...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 09:10hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Elite school Peterhouse in Twitter storm over 'racist' picture
An elite Zimbabwean school was forced to take down a tweet on Tuesday after it created an internet uproar amid racism allegations.A second tweet put up to calm the anger was criticised for per...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:49hrs | 2 | by ZimLive
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 | | by Philemon Mutedzi
Her privates are too big for Chamisa: My reply
Her privates are too big for Chamisa; Herbert Garikai commented on an international world's favourite newspaper: "The Angolan Times." To think that this man is a diplomat representing Zimbabwe...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 15:21hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Behold, Chamisa's circus comes to town
The pen, when wielded by the most potent hand, can indeed become mightier than the sword.As Bishop Lazi told you last week, there are a few men and women who belong to a pantheon of gods who c...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:31hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazarus
Zimbabwe not yet ready for national dialogue
This Tuesday I wrote an analytic piece on how our main political leaders Pres Chamisa and Pres Mnangagwa have all used their political posturing skills at the expense of the nation's economic, politic...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 11:53hrs | 1 | by Terence Simbi
Chamisa's life now in danger?
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa says his life is now in danger following his harassment by State security agents over the weekend, the Daily News reported.The opposition leader, who disputes Preside...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 22:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai family’s pre-emptive masterstroke the way to go
The funeral service in December 2018 for the late 41st President of the United States, George H Bush, who was in office from 1989 to 1993 (not to be confused with his son, George W Bush, the 43rd Pres...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:23hrs | | by Conway Tutani
'Zimbabwe is doomed because of failure of speech' schizophrenic Jonathan Moyo now concede.
For someone who had become hooked on absolute power and the attendant influence and wealth it brought; sudden loss of all that was a hammer blow to anyone. A few months after the November 2017 coup, M...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 19:19hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa left paralysed by a crisis of legitimacy
Last week on November 24 Emmerson Mnangagwa was in Murombedzi - former president Robert Mugabe's village backyard in Mashonaland West - to commemorate his chequered one year in office following his co...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:17hrs | | by Jonathan N Moyo
'Mugabe ignored coup warnings,' says Jonathan Moyo
FORMER President Robert Mugabe was forewarned about the coup that would topple him from power, but distrusted those who warned him and believed his then deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa and former Defence Fo...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
It's not all doom for Zimbabwe; We just need to be honest with ourselves
AS a new chapter of our country's political landscape is slowly unfolding; it is also a time for self-introspection.There comes a time as a people where we need to be honest with ourselves, be...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Terrence Muvoti
Chamisa told to accept defeat
A desperate decision by the embattled MDC-Alliance to impose its leader Mr Nelson Chamisa as national "president" after his defeat by President Mnangagwa is not only illegal and contemptuous of the co...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
African leaders are a weak cowardly treacherous bunch!
I have been following closely events in South Africa, as they mark Women's Week - with special focus on gender-based violence - and this led me to make comparisons between abusers and leaders we have ...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 15:57hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Open air worshippers protest over ban
APOSTOLIC churches in Victoria Falls are up in arms with the local authority following a ban on open air worship services.The furore came after town clerk Ronnie Dube wrote to apostolic sects ...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF pastes Killer T gig posters over opposition campaign posters
ZANU PF supporters aligned to Mazowe North Member of Parliament aspiring candidate Campion Mugweni have been accused of pasting their Killer T free gig posters on top of opposition candidates' posters...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 12:39hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Is Militant Separatism the Right Strategy for the Mthwakazi Question? - Mthwakazi Forum with Mzelikahle
Over the years, we have seen an up-surge of activities that pronounce the Mthwakazi question in a number of ways. There is an angle that presupposes the importance of culture (Amasiko) and attempts to...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 23:26hrs | | by Kernan Mzelikahle
Zanu-PF must desist from violence
THE alleged abduction and murder of a two-year-old child by suspected Zanu-PF activists following his father Rambai Lumbe's defection to the opposition National People's Party (NPP) where he is the Ma...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Inside Biti's self-hate and snobbery
This week, Tendai Biti, one of the principals of the opposition MDC-Alliance, touched off a storm when he described the people of Marange in eastern Zimbabwe as uncivilised and backward.The la...Published: 18 May 2018 at 07:12hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Chamisa is seriously fake and dishonest
Comrade Douglas Coltart said in his twitter "This kind of sexist joke might get the crowd laughing but it detracts overall message: worst of all it is the patriarchal norms that women are property," h...Published: 08 May 2018 at 19:35hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
'Zimbabwe 'coup' sets dangerous precedence for Sadc'
The SABC's Foreign Editor Sophie Mokoena speaks to Jonathan Moyo, the former Higher Education minister under former president Robert Mugabe. Moyo fled the country during the military-backed takeover b...Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 08:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland and Midlands Genocide: 1980-1987 and beyond - Zanupf's Agenda in the region
We the people of the region affected by the Gukurahundi Genocide must come to a common understanding of why Zanupf did the crime whose impact on our political, economic, cultural and emotional lives h...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 10:02hrs | | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Family mired in witchcraft storm
IN a macabre real life drama, an 80-year-old man is in the eye of a witchcraft storm after family members ganged up, abducted him and held him hostage for four days, threatening to release him only if...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'The British sponsored coup in Zimbabwe' - MLO
MLO would like to make it crystal clear that the military coup staged by Zimbabwe Defence Forces will not solve Matabeleland grievances as it seeks to replace one dictator and genocidist with another....Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 11:45hrs | | by Israel Dube
'Stop using Gukurahundi for personal gain'
Former Magwegwe legislator Felix Mafa, who is on a solo crusade to have closure on the Gukurahundi atrocities, has challenged Zanu-PF to stop an indirect election campaign using the atrocities....Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 17:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chombo okays use of spikes and guns by police
The Government has written to the police giving the force the green light to use spikes and guns to stop vehicles only in extreme cases of criminality, but ordered the implementation of an earlier ins...Published: 06 May 2017 at 12:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Xenophobic attacks: where South Africans are getting it all wrong
Martin Luther King Jnr, was once quoted as saying; morality cannot be legislated, but behaviour can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. It is ...Published: 20 Mar 2017 at 12:15hrs | | by Garikai Mafirakureva
Power - hungry Tsvangirai promises to save genocidists from prosecution in exchange for power
So strong is his desire to get to the state house of Zimbabwe that he has taken it upon himself to unilaterally announce an amnesty for Matabeleland genocide perpetrators. Who is Morgan Tsvangirai to ...Published: 09 Dec 2016 at 05:46hrs | | by Israel Dube
Letter to the Most Holy Father: His Holiness Pope Francis
Your Holiness and Most Holy Father,Please lend me Your ears, Most Holy Father, I have a burning problem that needs your attention. I kindly ask you to assist my friend Ms. Linda Masarira's rel...Published: 03 Aug 2016 at 11:25hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Which stupid Europeans will open lines of credit to 'clever black Zimbabwean politicians?'
Their language use is tantamount to hate-speeches. How many times have the West been told to "go hang?" It's some African-Zimbabweans who allow themselves to dwell on insults, sometimes unprovoked, in...Published: 31 Jul 2016 at 19:30hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
How the Shona eat themselves to death
A self consuming process is difficult to imagine or can easily be described as impossible by an average thinker. An average thinker will imagine a snake swallowing its tail, progressing slowly towards...Published: 13 Jun 2016 at 23:21hrs | | by Rakanga Danble
High Court presides over lawyer's law suit against police
HIGH Court Judge Justice Happias Zhou is today presiding over the pre-trial-conference in a case in which human rights lawyer Kennedy Masiye is suing Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers and Police...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 06:27hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwean government has brought shame onto the African people
When a government owes international lenders US$7.1 billion - and internal lenders about US$2 billion - does not have US$1.5 billion to feed its own starving people, and yet can not account for US$15 ...Published: 10 Mar 2016 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF hails Mugabe's 'fearless' speech at UN
ZANU-PF yesterday described President Robert Mugabe's speech at the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States of America on Monday as a fearless and precise master...Published: 01 Oct 2015 at 06:24hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Zanu PF militants attack MDC-T members in Capetown
Scores of MDC T supporters were injured today when marauding Zanu PF members exported their violent nature to South Africa.MDC T members had gathered for a weekend braai in Summergreens, Capet...Published: 23 Aug 2015 at 09:21hrs | | by richard@glencoreconsulting.co.za
Row over modern circumcision and culture
TRADITIONAL leaders in Chiredzi and Mwenezi districts in Masvingo Province have expressed concern over the recent involvement of strangers, among them women, in their circumcision rites saying it ha...Published: 19 Jul 2015 at 12:10hrs | | by Vincent Gono
Gutu, Maziwisa tiff escalates
The tiff between MDC spokesperson Obert Gutu and Zanu-PF junior spokesperson Psychology Maziwisa escalated yesterday, with the latter branding the former a "fool" who is "intellectually bankrupt...Published: 22 Mar 2015 at 09:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Maziwisa is a misguided missile
Many Zimbabweans do not even know the attention - seeking Psychology Maziwisa from a bar of soap. To millions of peace-loving and well-groomed patriots, this misguided and uncouth you...Published: 19 Mar 2015 at 10:26hrs | | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
Criminal defamation is untenable and unsustainable
THE Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services, Professor Jonathan Moyo, has said the view that criminal defamation remains valid as a result of last Thursday's Constitutional Court decl...Published: 24 Feb 2015 at 06:37hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
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