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Rethinking the narrative, embracing homegrown solutions, over USAID
The longstanding narrative that African countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, are heavily reliant on Western aid specifically USAID has become increasingly outdated and misleading. It i...Published: 12 Mar 2025 at 17:48hrs | 195 | by Hazel Chari
Zimbabwe's BRICS Membership: A giant step towards economic Independence
Zimbabwe's pursuit of membership in the BRICS economic bloc is a strategic move that aligns with the country's efforts to diversify its international partnerships, revitalize its economy, and reduce i...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 13:54hrs | 28 | by Tonderai Ndoro
Ban all Elections in Zimbabwe
Almost all political parties in Zimbabwe are organized on the condition for Western aid and the Western form of democracy. None of them are organized upon the Zimbabwe democratic tradition.Giv...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 22:08hrs | 1 | by Sam Wezhira
Uebert Angel finally returns to Britain
PRESIDENTIAL Envoy and Ambassador-at-Large Uebert Angel - who fears being thrown under the bus should he return to Zimbabwe, because of the starring role he played in Al Jazeera's investigative Gold M...Published: 15 May 2023 at 19:29hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Uebert Angel holed up in Dubai
PRESIDENTIAL Envoy and Ambassador-at-Large Uebert Angel is currently holed up in Dubai alongside several prominent members of rival gangs exposed in Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia investigative documentary a...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 17:44hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
White skin, black masks!
Two developments caught my attention this week. One is a Brenthurst Foundation scholarship invitation to young Africans intent on pursuing postgraduate studies.Brenthurst Foundation is owned a...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:08hrs | 2 | by Jamwanda
African NGOs: Conveyors of national subversion?
Did you know that over 75 percent of the world's poor today live in Africa compared to 10 percent in 1970?Did you know that despite receiving a total US$4,6 trillion in aid between 1960 and 20...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Afro-Sino economic relations in the 21st Century: Mixed Reactions and Misinterpretations
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National U...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 19:21hrs | 24 | by Livingstone Kazizi
We cannot blame Nelson Chamisa without blaming all of us
We are under sanctions from the United States, the European Union and other Western outposts like Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and the ruin of the sanctions is without doubt. Our industr...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
The real cause of Zimbabwe's economic collapse
Zimbabwe's problems are not exclusive to Zimbabwe, they are actually the same as in all Africa's other 53 nations. 9 out of 10 of all Africans live on less than US$5 a day, nearly half on under $1.90....Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 07:52hrs | | by David Barber & Tendai Ruben Mbofana
African academic economists are a dangerous threat to Africa's future
It is sad, indeed dispiriting to read Professor Ayittey's article "Africa's Reform Conundrum and Zimbabwe's Tragedy", published in "The Zimbabwean" of 21st September 2018.You may think that to...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 10:39hrs | | by David Barber & Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The inside story on Britain's shifting attitude towards Zimbabwe
The arrival of the Zimbabwean Finance Minister, Patrick Chinamasa, in London signals a new chapter for Zimbabwe's relations with its former colonial master.Britain's Foreign Minister, the some...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 15:53hrs | 6 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Command agriculture to abuse and saddle Zimbabwe with more debt
Zimbabwe's budget deficit will increase by nearly $120 million this year due to a maize subsidy, Reuters calculations show, in a scheme critics of President Robert Mugabe say will be open to abuse and...Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Reuters
Diagnosing Africa's medical brain drain
Higher wages and modern facilities are magnets for Africa's health workers Dressed in full medical gear and clutching a folder, Folu Songonuga, a physi...Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 21:59hrs | 3 | by Kingsley Ighobor
Is Zimbabwe a coconut Republic or a banana republic?
The Editor, A coconut Republic or a banana republic? After reading Dr. George Ayittey's attempt to distinguish the difference between a coconut republic and a banana republic below, I ...Published: 13 Nov 2016 at 07:41hrs | 4 | by Sam
Enough is enough - Zimvigil
Feelings ran high as Zimbabwean exiles demonstrated outside the Zimbabwe Embassy in London today in support of thetwo-day #ShutdownZimbabwe called by Pastor Evan Mawarire of the #ThisFlag protest move...Published: 13 Jul 2016 at 18:30hrs | 2 | by Zimvigil
'To hell with West,' says Mugabe
A bellicose President Robert Mugabe yesterday appeared determined to scuttle his broke government's tentative re-engagement efforts with Western powers, saying bizarrely that Zimbabweans would rather ...Published: 20 Jun 2016 at 15:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbos in London stage Mugabe misrule drama
Zimbabweans in the United Kingdom staged a President Robert Mugabe's misrule of Zimbabwe drama with one member of the vigil acting as the veteran leader who tried to defend his misuse of funds i...Published: 19 Apr 2016 at 06:46hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Mujuru displaying her ignorance to the world
FORMER Vice-President Joice Mujuru's Tuesday interview with South African radio station SAfm has all but confirmed that she learnt nothing from working closely with President Robert Mugabe in the 10 y...Published: 11 Mar 2016 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff writer
Beautiful ones not yet born
The launch in Harare earlier this week of a new-but-not-so-new party on Zimbabwe's political landscape left this pen, an avid student of liberation politics, with a feeling of déjà vu all the way....Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Stephen Mpofu
Hard-nosed but slow witted Zanu PF banking of MDC to save them need boot in backside!
"Confidential talks around the issue have already been made," said a Zanu PF legislator from Mashonaland West, according to The Telescope report. "The military brass is in favour of another coalition ...Published: 05 Aug 2015 at 21:58hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Moyo attacks Bill Gates' critique
American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor Bill Gates is not a fan of Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo. Responding to a question about Moyo's book Dead Aid, w...Published: 10 Mar 2015 at 08:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Africa must be proud of its own institutions
President Mugabe, as the AU Chairman, implored all Africans to utilize African resources in financing African operations. His call for Africa to be for Africans meant that Africans should be proud to ...Published: 20 Feb 2015 at 08:01hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Chinamasa's budget is hopeless
When the GNU Government was sworn in 2009, the new Minister of Finance had a daunting task - total revenues to the State from all sources in 2008 had been just US$280 million. All schools were closed...Published: 03 Dec 2014 at 23:30hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Dr Grace calls Robert Mugabe's critics cowards
Zimbabwe's first lady stepped up her entry into politics by speaking at a rally where she criticized members of the ruling party who want President Robert Mugabe to step down from power but are "cowar...Published: 05 Oct 2014 at 08:19hrs | | by Sapa-AP
'Dirty dozen' rant: Zanu-PF's hypocrisy exposed
ZANU-PF's pre-congress electioneering, double-standards and hypocrisy were once again exposed after the party said it would probe 12 Zanu-PF MPs - dubbed "the dirty dozen" - for being used by the Unit...Published: 26 Sep 2014 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Western aid depends on acceptance of homosexuality'
President Robert Mugabe says Western aid depends on acceptance of homosexuality.Mugabe, 90, said China allowed the African personality to thrive while the West wanted him to endorse Western cu...Published: 03 Sep 2014 at 11:59hrs | | by Peta Thornycroft
Mugabe returns from China with a bag of secretive agreements
President Robert Mugabe jets into Harare today from a begging trip in China only holding a bag of secretive agreements and signatures but with no cash to revive an economy which is virtually on its k...Published: 01 Sep 2014 at 08:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Africa should strongly support Uganda's stance on homosexuality
When God created a man, he later realised that he also needed to create a woman so that she becomes a man`s comforter, hence, the two would become a husband and a wife. God did not create a man t...Published: 06 Mar 2014 at 09:27hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Ukraine president wanted for mass murder
Ukraine's fugitive president was indicted for "mass murder" on Monday over the shooting of demonstrators as new leaders in Kiev sought urgent Western aid to make up for a loss of funding from Russia, ...Published: 25 Feb 2014 at 01:12hrs | | by Reuters
African philanthropists push for prosperity
Last July, US President Barack Obama set the spark for his Power Africa programme that will help sub-Saharan African countries build power production and transmission projects and double their el...Published: 14 Dec 2013 at 02:34hrs | 5 | by Kingsley Ighobor
Ethiopian police torturing political prisoners - Rights group
Johannesburg - Ethiopian police are torturing political prisoners at a facility in Addis Ababa, according to a new report released on Friday by the rights group Human Rights Watch.Entitled "Th...Published: 18 Oct 2013 at 04:21hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe is a new economic model for Africa
A BLOODLESS revolution is silently taking place in Zimbabwe. President Mugabe's Indigenisation of the land and the economy will set a precedent for the creation of a forerunning, economic model for Af...Published: 05 Aug 2013 at 20:12hrs | 3 | by Garikai Chengu
Mugabe, Tsvangirai squander resources on luxuries
HARARE - While President Robert Mugabe and his allies rubbish the West as responsible for Zimbabwe's economic decline, the same "enemies" have kept critical services such as health and education runn...Published: 05 Mar 2012 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dollariastion was a Zanu- PF idea, Biti wants to give it an MDC-T patent
Restoring the Zimdollar at this stage is like swerving a combat body forward, baring the chest, stomach, groin and all.I am ...Published: 28 Jan 2012 at 03:59hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Keep your gay England, we keep our Godly Zimbabwe
Africa in the 21st century is still viewed by some myopic Western leaders as a continent that cannot survive without breadcrumbs from northern donors. It is pathetic and an insult to every African on ...Published: 18 Nov 2011 at 04:23hrs | 1 | by Bowden BC Mbanje and Darlington N Mahuku
US, Britain press Zimbabwe on vote reforms
Zimbabwe's future depends on credible elections and President Robert Mugabe's government must make major reforms to allow for a fair vote, major Western nations said on Wednesday."The coming m...Published: 23 Dec 2010 at 03:13hrs | 6 | by Byo24
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