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Pravin Gordhan became factional in the ANC
The monologue in a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare and the poem, which was recited by Jaques entitled "As you like it" painted a broader picture about life when they stated that "All the world'...Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 13:30hrs | 321 | by Bheki Mngomezulu
Association with Chivayo warrants impeachment from Presidency
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, as I see it, the scriptural rhetorical question, "Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?" (Amos 3:3) underscores the impea...Published: 03 Jul 2024 at 15:18hrs | 15 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
ED2030 sloganeering lacks practicability
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, as I see it, the ED 2030 campaign sloganeering lacks practicality. It is corrosive, divisive and erosive. It contradicts the time-honoured lead...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 07:26hrs | 3 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Zimbabwe is in hands of callous ruling elite
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, methinks Zimbabwe is in the hands of a callous ruling elite. It is my conviction that the country is not governed according to rule of t...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 07:16hrs | 12 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
CCC in uncertain waters
WE are only a month into the new year, but it already feels like it has been long. The political year has started in earnest, lending credence to the counsel of political sages: A day is a very long t...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 10:02hrs | 2 | by Ntando Dumani
Chamisa in a catch-22 situation
I MUST begin by apologising, dear reader, for not informing you that I will no longer deliver my instalment weekly as had become the tradition.I received a few inquiries and some scolding from...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 19:16hrs | | by Ntando Dumani
Jitters over Al Jazeera exposé telling
GOOD day President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, rarely has Zanu-PF and the said new dispensation been in jitters as they are now. Contrary to their characteristic obstinacy, they are un...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 06:53hrs | 2 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Zimbabwe linked teen actor making waves in Australia
INDEED, some are born great, some aspire to be great, while others have greatness thrust upon them. Those were the words of one of the world's greatest writers, William Shakespeare on different destin...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
July Moyo's empire crumbles
Literature pundits, especially those who have read William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar would be familiar with the reason Brutus participated in the murder of his very close friend.Brutus justi...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:16hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Beware of the folly of Trojan rulers!
Government, folly of mankind?Barbara W Tuchman is a prolific writer on politics as read through history. I enjoy her take on her subject.But she is American, western, itself an importa...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 18:07hrs | 3 | by on Saturday
Mr Mnangagwa, Blair is in the past, and remains there
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, with all due respect, it was an abasement for you to be ecstatic on meeting former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. As I see it, your beati...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lightning rod
God's emissariesI have nothing against clerics or pastors; in fact my reverence for them is a euphemism for the abject fear I hold of being denied the side and place of comfort in the world yo...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:33hrs | | by Jamwanda
Mnangagwa's former schoolmates in their late 80s share memories
TO outsiders, perhaps Mapanzure in Zvishavane in the Midlands province is just a name of a random cluster of villages located along the mineral-rich Great Dyke. Chrome, diamonds, platinum and ...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 09:56hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
World War III might already be underway
IN life, it is absolutely critical to learn to pick your battles.While celebrated English playwright William Shakespeare once noted that "cowards die many times before their deaths", Nigerian ...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi
Chamisa's finest hour
THE 1990s were an interesting period in world politics. This was the period when the United States got its youngest President William Clinton at 43 and the United Kingdom (UK) also elected Tony Blair ...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:35hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Africa's acceptance of oppressive regimes fueling coups and terrorism
So, yet another African country has fallen to military rule! This time around - in apparent quick succession of one African government after another, particularly in the Western region - it wa...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 15:10hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Rebranding is a matter of life and death for MDC-Alliance
WILLIAM Shakespeare, the 16th century English playwright who once prominently featured on the Zimbabwean Ordinary Level and Advanced Level English literature school curriculum, once rhetorically asked...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:16hrs | 15 | by Taona T. Denhere
ANC speaks on Robert Mugabe's death
The African National Congress mourns the passing of our brother Comrade President Robert Gabriel Mugabe, who passes away having devoted his life to the service of his country and his people.In...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 09:09hrs | 13 | by ANC
Zanu-PF will 'solve corruption by making it fair' - 'No, it will work. Simple!'
The one thing Robert Mugabe has instilled in his Zanu-PF cronies is the believe that they know what they are doing when in reality they have no clue. Who can ever forget Mugabe's long speeches "full o...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 19:03hrs | 11 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa's reform programme steams ahead
In an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), this writer was asked what reforms President Mnangagwa had undertaken.The journalist asking the question was reminded that her ...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:31hrs | 3 | by Nick Mangwana
2% tax is right, 'right is not always popular' quoting Einstein - Mthuli Ncube, you are NOT Albert Einstein
"They say you can only know the true state of a car when you lift its bonnet and look inside. And so it was back in September, when I was appointed Minister of Finance, and got to take a look at the t...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 09:41hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
US sanctions shatter Zim's economic revival roadmap
"Beware the ides of March," a soothsayer warned the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar in William Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar. The words came to fruition in Zimbabwe during the evening of 4 March 2019...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 10:14hrs | 3 | by Elijah Chihota
'Sanctions do not target povo' USA explained, again - link to free elections is not obvious to brainwashed
"The U.S. does not maintain comprehensive sanctions against Zimbabwe. Suggestions that the U.S. intends to harm the Zimbabwean people with sanctions are false and misleading," explained the US Embassy...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 11:06hrs | 5 | by Nomusa Garikai
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 MPs 'eating' on behalf of hungry constituents
As the electorate and citizens we have an obligation to question the way we are governed and/or represented. Yes, it is every citizen's right to seek representation either in the Executive or the Legi...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:23hrs | 2 | by Elliot Ziwira
Letter to Nelson 'Mischief' Chamisa
Dear Mr Chamisa First, greetings from the cotton tuft-haired elders in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve. Admittedly, this is the first time that the council of Karitundundu, the agel...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
To introduce or not to introduce domestic currency in the short run, that is the question!
By "To be or not to be" is the manner the literary genius William Shakespeare chose to employ as an opening of a soliloquy for Prince Hamlet in the play Hamlet. "To re-introduce or not to re-introduce...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 16:08hrs | 11 | by Prosper Munyedza
Ubuntuism and Mnangagwa's new trajectory
STANLAKE Samkange, a historiographer, educator, journalist, author and African nationalist, sought to outline an African theory of knowledge in Ubuntuism or Hunuism (1980). He is widely credited for p...Published: 20 May 2018 at 09:54hrs | 4 | by Limukani Ncube
Chamisa the person enriching Chamisa the moment
It all began two years ago when MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai appointed a then 38-year-old Nelson Chamisa as one of his two additional vice presidents following his diagnosis with cancer of the co...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 09:02hrs | 3 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
How Joshua Nkomo was spotted
NOW aged 90, Abraham "BroNnkie" Dumezweni Nkiwane still has that fire in his belly that saw him fighting for the independence of two African states, Zimbabwe and Zambia. Nkiwane was also the first man...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 09:02hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai was courage personified
"Some people are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them," wrote 16th Century English playwright William Shakespeare.Many people will agree that MDC-T lead...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 06:00hrs | 2 | by Conway Nkumbuzo Tutani
How Mnangagwa factions feted General Chiwenga
Clad in a black suit, white shirt and a stripped green necktie which matched his wife Marry's green attire, commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) General Constantino Chiwenga sat coolly in th...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland; Strike whilst the iron is still hot…
The events of the past few weeks in my motherland, have brought out of the woodwork all manner of analysts, commentators and agent provocateurs; and as usual my people, the people of Matabeleland, hav...Published: 09 Nov 2017 at 22:20hrs | 1 | by Thamsanqa N. Ncube
Mnangagwa: Entitlement doth come before a fall
Just like that, Emmerson Mnangagwa has been fired, something nobody could have imagined just seven days ago.That Mnangagwa was probably going to be axed was now a public secret, but no soothsa...Published: 09 Nov 2017 at 05:40hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Voting for APA is 'common-sense decision', says Dr Moyo - not that he has any himself
Once upon a time, I admired Dr Nkosama Moyo and considered him a man with a wisdom and a vision. Now I have got to know him better, to say I am disappointed is an understatement. He has turned out to ...Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 16:17hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
The man who fired live bullets above trainees
I first met Eddie Sigoge Mlotshwa at Morogoro, which was a ZPRA training Camp in Tanzania. His pseudonym was Cassius Moya. Our group was composed of young men who had volunteered to join the armed str...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 14:30hrs | 11 | by Retired Brigadier-General Abel Mazinyane
CODE briefcase political parties
"Life's, but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying nothing". (Macbet...Published: 17 Feb 2017 at 12:54hrs | 4 | by Herbert Marufu
'Radio brings immense benefits'
Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Dr Christopher Mushohwe addresses guests during commemorations to mark World Radio Day at Takashinga Cricket Club in Highfield yesterdaySp...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Dr Christopher Mushohwe
Jonathan Moyo stop dabbling in Zanu-PF succession politics
In history and to the outsider, Zimbabwe has always been a fabulous illusion. An Ophir. An El Dorado, a home to the Queen of Sheba. If the wishes of early European "pathfinders" were horses, Zimbabwe ...Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 08:38hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mugabe surrounds himself with clowns
SINCE December 1987 when President Robert Mugabe masterminded constitutional amendments to create the imperial executive presidency, he has reduced the country to some form of theatre by appointin...Published: 05 Aug 2016 at 14:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
International musicians perform at Bulawayo Music Festival
American violinist Nokuthula Ngwenyama, German cello player Theo Bross and the Odeion String Quartet from South Africa are among the musicians participating in the five day Bulawayo Music Festival whi...Published: 06 Jun 2016 at 12:28hrs | 1 | by Chengetai Chinembiri
International musicians perform at Bulawayo Music Festival
American violinist Nokuthula Ngwenyama, German cello player Theo Bross and the Odeion String Quartet from South Africa are among the musicians participating in the Bulawayo Music Festival from June 15...Published: 23 May 2016 at 18:09hrs | 5 | by Agencies
When extreme danger leads to denial
Many a writer has told of the Zimbabwean situation. While some would lament the journey we have travelled from 'bread basket' at Independence to 'basket case' thirty seven odd years later and give us ...Published: 31 Mar 2016 at 16:01hrs | 1 | by Sakhile Dewa
Mabeza wants Mugabe to write his memoirs 'why not' - give over and confess the murders, etc
In the article Cephas Msipa's memoirs highlight gaps in Zimbabwe's history, Bulawayo24; Farai Mabeza laments the lack of written records, memoirs and stories about Zimbabwe, especial the pre-independe...Published: 28 Jan 2016 at 18:50hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Death should be a unifier
LEGENDARY English playwright William Shakespeare in the tragic play Macbeth says, "Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break," or, "Put your so...Published: 22 Oct 2015 at 09:23hrs | | by Hildegade Manzvanzvike
'Zimbabwe liberation war history will be rewritten,' says Dokora
Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Dr Lazarus Dokora, has intimated that the country's disputed liberation history would be rewritten accordingly while people and institutions would be consu...Published: 15 Dec 2014 at 16:07hrs | | by Lulu Brenda Harris
Mugabe pulls the strings in Zimbabwe's succession battle
LONDON - In August, he stood shoulder to shoulder in Beijing with President Xi Jinping of China. Then, in September, he addressed the United Nations to condemn "the evil machinations of Western countr...Published: 22 Nov 2014 at 13:40hrs | | by Alan Cowell
No sacred cows in Mugabe's kraal
For starters this is not 1982 when President Robert Mugabe was sleeker and nimbler and besides Joice Mujuru is not July Moyo.Her liberation war record is impeccable and the fact that she holds...Published: 22 Nov 2014 at 13:32hrs | | by James Maridadi
Prof Jonathan Moyo was right, Zanu-PF can only be destroyed from within
UNDOUBTEDLY, post-independence fissures in Zanu PF have never been as wide or at least as visible as they are today. A replay of the 1963 split from ZAPU seems imminent.Grace Mugabe's entry in...Published: 20 Nov 2014 at 12:30hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Zanu-PF chaos - early Xmas present?
Undoubtedly, post-independence fissures in Zanu-PF have never been as wide or at least as visible as they are today.A replay of the 1963 split from ZAPU seems imminent. Grace Mugabe's ent...Published: 18 Nov 2014 at 16:34hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
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