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Zimbabwe on the brink
As Zimbabwe's socioeconomic crisis deepens, analysts warned this week that the country may be heading for an implosion.According to Harare-based human rights lawyer Thulani Mzala, the mineral ...Published: 25 Apr 2025 at 07:01hrs | 1177 | by Staff reporter
Joining the George Ayittey Society is a step towards fighting for real change in Zimbabwe
My recent acceptance into the George Ayittey Society is an honour that fills me with immense humility and gratitude. To be part of a distinguished group of scholars, intellectuals, and researc...Published: 20 Mar 2025 at 17:12hrs | 283 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe at a crossroads: a statement by Tendai Biti
Former finance minister and Harare East MP Tendai Biti has issued the following statement responding to claims that he is colluding with self-styled CCC interim secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu to ...Published: 11 Nov 2023 at 15:56hrs | 16 | by Tendai Biti
Mangudya finds the $15 billion booty
On 18 June 2022, Zimbabwe woke up to the Reserve Bank Governor, Mangudya's admission that, "Fifteen major companies have been creating huge extra profits by borrowing billions of dollars, often from s...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 21:07hrs | 11 | by Sam Wezhira
The mother of all vampire states
On 18 June 2022, Zimbabwe woke up to the the Reserve Bank Governor, Mangudya's admission that, "Fifteen major companies have been creating huge extra profits by borrowing billions of dollars, of...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 21:01hrs | 17 | by Sam Wezhira
Zimbabwe now a Vampire State
A Vampire State is a country where anyone who gets to be the president ends up with much more wealth than before s/he became president. On the other hand the poor and working class are always left beh...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 18:54hrs | 3 | by Sam Wezhira
Tendai Biti speaks on ZESA blackout
MDC Vice President Tendai Biti says the Emmerson Mnangagwa led government will not be able to fix the current socio-economic challenges bedevilling the country. Zimbabwe is currently facing ca...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 10:09hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC's 'Black Monday Shock'
On behalf of myself, the National Reclamation Assembly and the 5 Million Vote Effect Campaign Worldwide, It is grievous and greasly that i learnt of the passing on of Leader Paul Rukanda the Glenview&...Published: 14 May 2019 at 08:54hrs | 3 | by Taurai Leonard Gwesu
On Decolonising Governmentality
It is a truly careless but also stubborn truism that if we had no nation-states in the world we would not have nationless and stateless people. Nations and states are the source of nationlessness and ...Published: 05 May 2019 at 09:57hrs | 1 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Mines ministry vehicle scandal telling
The MDC has been arguing that the country needed saving from the hands of a very dangerous cartel which fits the description of George B.N. Ayittey that states that a Vampire state, is one in which th...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Jacob Mafume
Mines ministry vehicle scandal telling
The vehicles scandal involving senior employees at the Ministry of Mines is an insult to the tax payer and an indictment to the military government's rhetorical intention to fight corruption.T...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 18:34hrs | 3 | by Jacob Mafume
Millions spent on Mnangagwa's trips
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's penchant for travelling in state-of-the-art airplanes has come at a huge cost to the taxpayer, thus undermining his government's 'austerity for prosperity' mantra....Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 14:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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
'Luxury-gate exposes Mnangagwa's government'
The opposition MDC has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government for reckless spending and lack of prioritisation through purchasing of luxury cars for Ministers.In a statement release...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 17:55hrs | 12 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nothing for the poor in the anti-people budget
After the events of November 2017, then Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa announced a budget filled with sound bites in what he termed the "New Economic Order".The gullible gave him a standin...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 12:05hrs | | by Clr Jacob Mafume National Spokesperson
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
Africa: Beyond the captive state
The phrase "state capture" comes very easily into our formal and informal communication these days.What is not easy, however, is true understanding of what the phrase fundamentally means. In S...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:36hrs | 2 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai - The Peak of the Struggle's Hall of Fame
Ash Wednesday is the day that the traditional churches remember that the human being is mortal; the Priest physically draws a cross of ash on each of the foreheads of every congregant accompanied by t...Published: 15 Feb 2018 at 10:26hrs | 1 | by Jacob Mafume, PDP
Grace Mugabe created the biggest Vampire State in Africa
The most remarkable aspect of Mugabe's rule was the rapid deterioration of the institution of government. "Government," as we know it, does not exist in Zimbabwe anymore based on our common understand...Published: 22 Nov 2017 at 13:27hrs | 1 | by Sam Wezhira
Ninety percent of all the qualified teachers in Zimbabwe cannot pass SAT
The Editor, My pronunciation might seem a bit over the top, but it's the only accurate description of what has happened and is happening in Zimbabwe today. The vampire elites that now controls...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 22:10hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Zimbabweans Unite!
Since 1980, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU PF "B Team" have demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that they are grossly incompetent to deal with public affairs. History will ju...Published: 12 Jan 2017 at 23:08hrs | 16 | by Charles Moyo
'Mugabe turns Zimbabwe into a vampire state'
In his book, Defeating Dictators, George B.N Ayittey makes the point that much of Africa is a vampire state that metastasizes into a coconut republic and finally implodes into a collapsed or failed st...Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 17:30hrs | | by PDP
Chinamasa must resign over failure to pay civil servants
The failure by the Zanu-PF government to pay civil servants' salaries for two consecutive months of June and July 2016 is unacceptable and gross violations of the rights of the civil servants....Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 16:37hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Zimbabwe is on the eve of a revolution, the giant has awoken
Zimbabwe is ready for a complete revolution. Lenin foretold that a part of the society or 'class emancipates the whole of society, but only provided the whole of society is in the same situation as th...Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 07:17hrs | | by Toendepi Shonhe
Probe companies owned by Judges - Mafume
MDC Renewal spokesperson Jacob Mafume has said it is necessary to probe the companies owned by Judges following their Supreme Court Ruling which granted companies permission to dismiss workers aft...Published: 26 Jul 2015 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
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