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Mugabe never accounted billions to build Blue Roof, talents he received and wasted; instead blamed British for everything
Let me say from the on-set that white colonial exploitation of Africa has a lot to answer for why the continent is in the economic and political mess it is today. But this is not say the whites are so...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 14:11hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Zimbabwe is indeed open for business!' Yeah right! 1 - 5 = -ve 4 not +ve 4!
"Zimbabwe is indeed open for business including our air space where Ethiopian Airways had its maiden trip to Bulawayo today. There was water canon salute for the inaugural Ethiopian airlines flight co...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 20:30hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Zimbabwe elections are game of thuggery and violence' - Our fault, 'kurumwa nechokuchera!'
"Our peace activists say each time an election date is announced, fear grips the communities. This is not how things must be. Elections must bring joy to citizens that they now have an opportunity aga...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 11:27hrs | 7 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Gold to Zimbabwe what oil is to Nigeria, can turn around our fortunes' - not whilst US$1.2b p.a. lost to smugglers
On 3 March 2016 President Mugabe admitted that the nation had lost $15 billion worth of diamonds because of the looting and plunder in Marange and Chiadzwa."This kind of plunder must immediate...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 09:42hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Joshua Nkomo predicted the split of Zimbabwe in 1986
Just 6 years into the so called independence of Zimbabwe, Dr Joshua Nkomo mentioned among other things, genocide, tribal hate and unfettered corruption as ticking bombs that would cause Zimbabwe implo...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 09:11hrs | | by Israel Dube
What is going on?
Are we being governed by a mafia? We are kept in the dark as Zanu pf and its leadership do what ever they want and whenever with our resources since they are answerable to no one. They don't lis...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 13:23hrs | | by Clement Moyo
Bond notes and Zimbabwe's currency debate
WHEN Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya announced in 2016 plans to issue bond notes, a currency he claimed had the same value as the US dollar, many were apprehensive.It was backe...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporte
How Mugabe pillaged the DRC and destroyed Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE'S former President, Robert Mugabe, in the August of 1998 sent about 11,000 troops, armoured vehicles and combat aircraft to the Democratic Republic of Congo.There was much discontent ...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
US seeking a 'soft-landing' in Zimbabwe?
Many independent observers were shocked when the United States recently renewed economic sanctions on Zimbabwe at a time when it appeared Harare and Washington were warming up to each other following ...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Ranga Mataire
Zimbabwe needs own currency, says US
ZIMBABWE will need to develop its industrial and export base to a level where it can support its own currency, a senior US senior official has said.The country has used the US dollar since the...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Implement reforms first: US tells Mnangagwa
United States of America has told the new Zimbabwean government to implement a raft of reforms if they are to work America. In a telephonic press briefing from Washington DC, Acting Assistant ...Published: 06 Mar 2018 at 16:48hrs | | by Byo24News Reporter
Why the British had no other choice but to work with Mnangagwa
As I reflected on the tons of emails of feedback I got yesterday including from local embassies responding to the article published by nehandaradio, in which I wrote about the Zimbabwe-British relatio...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 11:31hrs | 2 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Get own currency, US tells Zimbabwe
THE United States government says it is ready to work with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, but has encouraged Zimbabwe to stop relying on the US dollar and instead introduce its own cur...Published: 22 Dec 2017 at 11:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa Takeover: Matebeles must prepare for an important announcement
The political crisis in Zimbabwe is far from over without the two state solution demanded by the people of Matabeleland. Its time Matebeleland must break away from Zimbabwe. We long served the governm...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 07:09hrs | | by Israel Dube
Plans to impeach #Mugabe on Tuesday gain momentum
Leaders of Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party are meeting on Friday to draft a resolution to dismiss President Robert Mugabe at the weekend and lay the ground for his impeachment next week if he refuses ...Published: 18 Nov 2017 at 04:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
EXCLUSIVE: Mugabe to step down before 2018 elections
President Robert Mugabe, is reportedly planning to announce his shock departure from power before the watershed 2018 presidential and parliamentary elections, as the ruling Zanu PF strongman is now be...Published: 27 Oct 2017 at 06:22hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe, Nancy Mabaya, Mary-Kate Kahari and Malvin Motsi
Catholic Bishops call for 'peaceful' elections - wilfully inadequate to stop Mugabe rigging
Zimbabweans are the poorest in Africa said a recent AfrAsia Bank report.When the country gained her independence 37 years ago, Zimbabweans were amongst the richest in the world with potential ...Published: 06 Jun 2017 at 06:58hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa to be Zimbabwe President until 21 August 2018
COLOGNE - Vice President, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, is set to be in office as the second republic President of Zimbabwe, officially until 21 August 2018, should he takeover from President Robert Mu...Published: 19 May 2017 at 07:27hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
Mugabe drops out of 2018 Presidential Elections
COLOGNE - In a development opening the floodgates for candidates both in the ruling Zanu PF party and opposition to contest the watershed 2018 presidential and parliamentary elections, President Rober...Published: 18 Nov 2016 at 00:27hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
Why Zimbabwe Is a Failed State
Given the deafening noise from Mashonaland in the Zimbabwe media about Jonathan Moyo's corruption case, one can be forgiven for thinking that it is the first corruption case in Zimbabwe. H...Published: 14 Oct 2016 at 06:59hrs | | by Israel Dube
How Mugabe double-crossed Joseph Kabila
"Way before Marange, Mugabe and his military men had already started rampant racketeering, illegal mafia-style smuggling, double-crossing, double dealing, as well as illegal arms peddling with Congole...Published: 04 Oct 2016 at 16:10hrs | | by Ken Yamamoto
Who’s the tortoise now? - Zim Vigil
On Friday Botswana celebrated 50 years of independence. There has been a transformation. In 1966 it was the poor relation in the region. Some of us at the Vigil recall travelling through Botswana by t...Published: 03 Oct 2016 at 10:19hrs | | by Zim Vigil
Careless rants earn Mugabe 'Mad man from the tropics' nickname at UN
An international researcher and well traveled Ken Yamamoto has said in his findings from a Chinese fellow who partakes in the United Nations summits, members no longer take Zimbabwean President Robert...Published: 27 Sep 2016 at 21:34hrs | | by Stephen Jake
Musewe, it will take a lot more than Street protests to deliver 'Zimbabwe we want'
Musewe, unless we stop and think through what we have done wrong in the past we will never "create the Zimbabwe we want" you keep talking about. You keep say one thing and doing the exact opposite, fo...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 18:41hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe cancels trip to Ghana, reasons remain unclear
It has emerged that President Robert Mugabe is no longer travelling to Ghana this week, but reasons for the cancellation remain unclear with Harare's envoy to the West African country tight-lipped...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ministers 'ashamed' of diamond looting says Min Chimene - yet looting continues!
"Wherever we are invited, together with Information minister Christopher Mushohwe, we don't want to be recognised, as we are ashamed because the diamond looting was done under our watch," said Manical...Published: 18 May 2016 at 20:36hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Bond notes are Z$ 'skunk' and RBZ Mangudya is a 'fence post tortoise' says Yamamoto
"So what exactly is this bond note?" asked Ken Yamamoto, the Japanese researcher and commentator on Zimbabwe. "Make no mistake about it, through these notes Zimbabwe is bringing the Zimbabwe Dollar b...Published: 10 May 2016 at 18:12hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Queen Elizabeth's mother visited disputed top Mugabe's aide farm
COLOGNE- Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, visited the disputed lucrative Centenary Farm in Figtree, owned by white Zimbabwean commercial farmer, Dave Connolly, which has now been seized and officiall...Published: 04 May 2016 at 07:43hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
Panama papers: Zimbabweans in exile demand a commission of inquiry
Zimbabweans in exile join in demanding a commission of inquiry into the involvement of Zimbabweans in offshore tax havens and believe it will open a can of maggots that have been sucking dry the carca...Published: 12 Apr 2016 at 12:22hrs | | by ZimVigil
Zim must 'demand' Mugabe resign over $15 b theft, argues Yamamoto - hardly noticed the theft!
On 3 March 2016 President Mugabe admitted that the nation had lost $15 billion worth of Marange diamonds because of the looting and plunder in Marange and Chiadzwa. "This kind of plun...Published: 15 Mar 2016 at 13:05hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Probe Mugabe for money laundering'
President Robert Mugabe must be investigated for failing to take action over a list of possible tax cheats while in office, and accusations of stashing cash in foreign countries, a Japanese resear...Published: 15 Mar 2016 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe conceded key indigenisation demands but still no takers - it is now the mile stone round his neck
A few weeks ago this Zanu PF government carried out a major concession to its indigenisation law; instead of selling the 51% shares the foreign investors will be allowed to apply for exemption in whic...Published: 14 Jan 2016 at 09:46hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
In devising democracy Greeks took a giant leap for mankind - we still failing to emulate 2 500 years on!
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." These are the famous words of Neil Alden Armstrong, an American astronaut on July 21 1969 as he became the first man to set foot on the moo...Published: 13 Jan 2016 at 12:33hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
It is the economy stupid that will force regime change in Zimbabwe
"Zimbabwe owes Japan about $400 million - overdue debt. It owes the top five Paris Club creditor nations (Germany, France, Japan, UK and the US) $2,6 billion. Zimbabwe's debt is nearly $10 billion. Th...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 12:14hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe: A country running on an empty purse
Economies don't die; they fade away like old soldiers.Last August, I put forward a gloomy 2016 prognostication of the economic situation in Zimbabwe. I predicted then that the economy of Zimba...Published: 10 Jan 2016 at 06:21hrs | | by Ken Yamamoto
To defeat Mugabe we must implement the reforms and be fooled by Mutasa, a dumped passenger!
From the everyday Mugabe signed the Global Political Agreement (GPA) in 2008 committing him and Zanu PF to accepting democratic reform the next national elections were as good as won for Tsvangirai an...Published: 03 Dec 2015 at 06:24hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Psychology Maziwisa praises Mugabe over State of the Nation address
Zanu PF MP for High field West Psychology Maziwisa has praised President Robert Mugabe on his State of the Nation address which he said was formidable despite the wide condemnation by political analys...Published: 27 Aug 2015 at 08:21hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Dzamara worth more than the others who have disappeared or killed
CHIKUKUVATAVATA. It used to be a game we played in our youthful, colonial days. Mother asks you and your siblings to catch a cock or hen for dinner, most probably because sekuru in the sense of your m...Published: 18 Jul 2015 at 13:24hrs | 26 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Grace Mugabe appoints Mahofa for selfish reasons
The First Lady Grace Mugabe has sent a congratulatory message to newly-appointed Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs Shuvai Mahofa, saying her rise was good for the advancement of women....Published: 16 Mar 2015 at 20:05hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Against Biti, Mugabe carpet has my vote!
'You (citizens) spend most of your time this week looking for pictures of Mugabe falling at the airport. We have become so hopeless that a piece of carpet is our salvation," said MDC-Renewal Leader, T...Published: 09 Feb 2015 at 16:41hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Africans cannot treat themselves better than colonialists did,' said Yamamoto - tragically, that is true!
"In spite of years of despicable oppression and ill-treatment under white colonial rule, I can't help, but observe that when given the chance, Africans in general cannot treat themselves...Published: 23 Jan 2015 at 14:19hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'This is not why Mugabe died for the country'
That great poet, Leonard Zhakata (for what is a musician if not a poet?) had it right when he said ‘kana ndichishaura batai mazwi, kuitira mangwana. Vamwe vanozodudzira nepasipo, vamwe ndevanof...Published: 23 Jan 2015 at 12:11hrs | | by Tinomudaishe Chinyoka
'Mugabe has developed incompetence into an art'
"It is a sign of a sick economy when the top two companies in it are a mobile operator and a brewery. The fact that Econet Wireless and Delta Beverages are the largest companies in Zimbabwe simply me...Published: 25 Nov 2014 at 09:09hrs | | by Ken Yamamoto
Why Mujuru deserves no sympathy
ZIMBABWE'S Vice President, or VeePee (VP), as she is often called, Mrs Joice Mujuru, is in an extremely unenviable position at the moment. I doubt she has slept well at night for the last three ...Published: 21 Nov 2014 at 07:17hrs | | by Ken Yamamoto
Amnesty International call on Mugabe to hold talks to end economic crisis
If Mugabe thought the SADC Heads of State meeting was going to be a relaxing time, time to hobnob with his fellow regional leaders he must be disheartened and deflated. The theme of the me...Published: 16 Aug 2014 at 07:29hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
US 'deeply concerned' by preparations for Zimbabwe polls
The United States said on Tuesday it was "deeply concerned" by lack of transparency in preparations for Zimbabwe's July 31 general election and called on the government to ensure the vote was peaceful...Published: 18 Jul 2013 at 05:19hrs | | by Reuters
U.S. Policy Toward Post-Election Democratic Republic of the Congo
TestimonyDaniel BaerDeputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and LaborTestimony Before the House Subcommittee on Africa,...Published: 03 Feb 2012 at 10:58hrs | | by APO
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