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The death of coalitions
To drag out or not to drag Biden!What a disaster for the Democrats in United States elections!With little foresight or care, Democrats pitted a dead-man-come-to-life by the name of Joe...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:16hrs | 2 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
The last great war might have begun
The tongue can be a powerful weapon.It can build and destroy. It also can excite, spite and incite.And when a sharp tongue is mixed with potent ideas, it is easy to concoct a nuclear w...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:50hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Why Zanu-PF is under siege
If Africans knew even half their history, they would understand the reason why they continue to stew in poverty, misery and disillusion while other parts of the world are swimming in prosperity, happi...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:59hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
When Magufuli spoke from the grave
There once lived a woman in Masvingo who was called Shuvai Ben Mahofa.Known for her unapologetic straight-talk and indefatigable industry, she had long morphed into an Iron Lady before activism on...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:30hrs | | by Bishop L
No one will whip anyone's behind
AS a matter of principle and decency, the Bishop, as a man of the cloth, usually doesn't obsess about individuals as much as he fetishes discussing issues of substance affecting our community and civi...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Bishop L
Wananchi - never awaken a sleep-walking foe
Ignorance can be pure bliss.It makes life unburdensome through avoiding the inconvenience of putting up with inconvenient truths, facts and realities.What better way of preventing the ...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:38hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
PHOTOS: Mnangagwa to throw lavish dinner for Tanzania's Magufuli
Tanzania's fifth President John Pombe Magufuli touched down at the Harare International airport on Tuesday afternoon and was met at the airport by his Zimbabwean counterpart President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 28 May 2019 at 19:07hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Throwback Monday:- The rise and fall and rise of Tendai 'Wananchi' Biti
THE political circus unravelling in the country's opposition politics needs no introduction. The tag of war between the Morgan Tsvangirai and Tendai Biti camps over control of the opposition MDCT has ...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 12:43hrs | | by Wezhira Marihwepi
Tendai Biti speaks on fuel crisis
MDC Deputy National Chairperson Tendai Biti says the fuel queues in Zimbabwe are the most bizarre ever seen and must be captured on camera and kept as a documentary as a reminder of the difficult phas...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 08:40hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
A year after Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean politics appear to have changed due to the media reportage of the past twelve months since Robert Mugabe's ouster in the political scene. The question of a new Zimbabwe in the name of the n...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 12:29hrs | | by Brian Maregedze
Life after the Presidency
Life after Presidency has to be time to relax and enjoy the fruits of hard work, to regurgitate and reflect on the past, to be a role model to the society and not to be an unrepentant nuisance. Intere...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 14:58hrs | | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
MDC Alliance an unstoppable tsunami - Biti
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Tendai Biti has praised thousands of people who braved the rains in Chinhoyi to attend MDC Alliance rally calling it an unstoppable tsunami."In Chinh...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 11:43hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
This is what Jonathan Moyo does best
You have to give it to Professor Jonathan Moyo. He has a knack for stealing the limelight. He has a way of sowing seeds of confusion.The manner in which he grabbed headlines last Friday proves...Published: 04 Jun 2017 at 20:25hrs | | by Vukani Madoda
The case of a National Transitional Authority
Waiting for GodotWananchi, the motherland continues to heave and suffocate under the weight of a sterile oligarchy, exhausted and indeed frail nationalism, downright statism, indifference and ...Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 16:37hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Jonathan Moyo disowns ZimAsset
Zanu PF trusted propagandist Professor Jonathan Moyo this morning made a stunning climbdown as he disowned Zanu PF election blueprint - ZimAsset.Moyo crafted the wish list 2013 election pamphl...Published: 10 May 2016 at 07:20hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Meet the MDC-T's best brains!
A lot of ink has already been wasted on the opposition MDCs' decision not to participate in the by- elections that MDC-T precipitated by getting Tendai Biti's group removed from Parliament.It ...Published: 20 May 2015 at 10:22hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Tendai Biti overestimated his influence
The political circus unravelling in the country's opposition politics needs no introduction.The tag of war between the Morgan Tsvangirai and Tendai Biti camps over control of the opposition M...Published: 08 May 2014 at 11:41hrs | | by Wezhira Marihwepi
Liverpool fan killed after Arsenal loss
NAIROBI - A fan of English premier league team Liverpool was stabbed to death, allegedly by an Arsenal supporter, as they watched their weekend match on television at a bar in Meru County, eastern Ken...Published: 11 Feb 2014 at 06:48hrs | | by Africa Review
'What is wrong with Zimbabweans,' asks Tendai Biti
Wananchi, pessimism is a chronic disease which corrodes internal confidence and self belief.Our people sadly are caught up with this terrible predatory ailment that is consuming the internal...Published: 12 Jan 2014 at 09:16hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Our spirit of resilience, says Tendai Biti
Wananchi, the goat month draws to an end and not many will shed tears to see the echoes of its ironic laughter.It has been a long month, with even longer scars and shadows of pain planted acro...Published: 03 Dec 2013 at 08:52hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Tendai Biti returns to law practice with new firm
It hit me the other day that life is about keys and locks. More appropriately changing keys.The story of life is measured in keys, those that are changed or not changed. Those that are lost a...Published: 18 Nov 2013 at 09:04hrs | 1 | by Tendai Biti
Tanzania: Govt bans two newspapers
The government of Tanzania has banned two widely-read newspapers, Mwananchi and Mtanzania, for allegedly publishing seditious articles. The ban came into effect on Friday, 27 September 2013....Published: 30 Sep 2013 at 07:04hrs | | by Levi Kabwato
Tendai Biti's take on Mugabe's Cabinet
Wananchi, the new Cabinet was finally announced on Tuesday 10 September 2013, and many Zimbabweans are still grasping with shock and disbelief.The whole essence of an executive is to be ...Published: 11 Sep 2013 at 19:56hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Tendai Biti's take on Mugabe's Cabinet
Wananchi, the delay in the announcement of a new Cabinet is clearly exacerbating the state of fear and anxiety in the country.I have made the point before that for the whole of 2013 ,the econ...Published: 10 Sep 2013 at 06:03hrs | | by Tendai Biti
'Mutambara has joined the bandwagon,' says Biti
Wananchi, if the election of Jacob Mudenda as Speaker of Parliament is anything to go by then this country is heading for reversal, regression and more sterility.This man has been a round for...Published: 04 Sep 2013 at 18:48hrs | | by Tendai Biti
How Sadc slammed the door on democracy - Biti
So it thus came as a surprise a few weeks ago when Sadc leaders chose Zimbabwe as the next chair of Sadc. How do you appoint amongst you, the most contested.Zimbabwe had been in the agenda of ...Published: 02 Sep 2013 at 17:00hrs | | by Tendai Biti
'Zim inflation was 500,000,000,000% when I became FM,' says Biti
Wananchi, I said my farewells to the staff at the Ministry of Finance.Zimbabwe's greatest asset is its people, when they work together as a team for the national good. In that regard they do n...Published: 21 Aug 2013 at 13:37hrs | | by Tendai Biti
'Even those that they killed shamelessly during Gukurahundi have embraced them' - Biti
WE LIVE in horrible times surrounded by horrible man. Man we have always assumed human, rational and real. They are not.Since late Wednesday, July 31, we have been walking like zombies, d...Published: 03 Aug 2013 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Tendai Biti
My take on Zanu-PF's Manifesto by Tendai Biti
I trust you are holding out in these difficult times. As the great one wrote, it is a long walk to freedom.They are still executing their sick and ill thought plan of stealing this election t...Published: 16 Jul 2013 at 13:48hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Zim dollar backed by gold is 'undiluted rubbish'
Wananchi, as I stated in my last post, it is that season where every second is history and each hour brings its own unlimited bandwidth of fresh data and information. I warned in yet another post of t...Published: 07 Jul 2013 at 15:51hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Police assault three journalists in Kenya
New York - Kenyan authorities should hold responsible police officers who assaulted three reporters last week and drop a baseless legal case against one of them, the Committee to Protect Journalists s...Published: 21 Mar 2012 at 21:15hrs | | by CPJ
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