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Nkomo blasts Zanu-PF over policy confusion

Zapu leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo has blasted Zanu PF government over policy  which he blamed for economic quagmire in the country.In a statement Nkomo who is the son of the late former Vice President Joshua Mqabuko was reacting to recen…

Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 07:21hrs | 574 | by Stephen Jakes

'ZPRA archives handed to British and American govts'

A former government minister claims that the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) archives, confiscated by Zanu immediately after independence, were handed over to the British and American governments to examine their tactics and un…

Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 14:46hrs | 43 | by Staff reporter

Heavily Militarised government is the reason for economic meltdown

I am compelled by love of my country to delve deep into the core issues that hinder progress and meaningful development including but not limited to the abuse of power and intimidation of citizens by state agents. The first symptoms of mis…

Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 22:25hrs | 2 | by Sithembiso Hadebe

Chief Ndiweni accuses Zanu of hypocrisy

Outspoken Ntabazinduna traditional leader, Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has accused the Zanu-PF government of "hypocrisy" in commissioning the Pupu Battlefield Memorial Site in Lupane.Chief Ndiweni claims the act is merely an attem…

Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 15:01hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Pitfalls of Liberation Movements in Zimbabwe

This paper seeks to provide an introductory general overview of the pitfalls associated with liberation movements in Zimbabwe up to a certain historical point. However, the most accurate and up-to-date information, will be provide in the n…

Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 08:30hrs | 20 | by Josh Mhambi

Zanu, Zapu Unity Accord

It is exactly 36 years today since the signing of the Unity Accord, which brought about lasting peace and unity in Zimbabwe. The pact was a culmination of pain-staking negotiations between 1985 and 1987 pitting Zanu-PF and PF-Zapu. Robert …

Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 06:56hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Dzino thinks Mnangagwa was a minor and peripheral player in the liberation struggle

Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)By Professor Arthur G.O. MutambaraI later lose my autographed copy of Wilfred Mhanda's book when Emmerson Mnangagwa, then Minister of Defence, …

Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:36hrs | 66 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara

I'm grateful to have been born and bred in Rhodesia!

Ever since I started writing current affairs and social justice newspaper articles in 1989, at the age of 16 years, this is probably the most painful, frank and heartfelt piece I have ever authored.It comes from a place of deep anguish, re…

Published: 19 May 2023 at 14:04hrs | 18 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

This and that with Mal'phosa: Zan'arcissists

We are in a forced relationship with a narcissistic government. They think they are the best. They think they are great and important. They think we can never survive without them. And they think we deserve them and they deserve us. These …

Published: 12 Mar 2023 at 16:05hrs | 5 | by Clerk Ndlovu

The many political lives of Mohadi

WHEN the "Ides of March" devoured Kembo Mohadi as he stepped down as country Vice-President (VP) late February last year, many thought the epitaph on his political grave had been inscribed for eternity.Mohadi had seemingly been a victim of…

Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

The enablers of Shona hegemony and enemies of Mthwakazi's peoples' emancipation from the MLF President

Greetings to all!, The compilation of this article identifies the enablers of Shona hegemony among others as the so-called "ZPRA Legacy Group". This group is comprised of charlatans who are in shape and form, enemies of Mthwakazi peoples' …

Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 09:37hrs | 36 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza

Nkomo berates ex-Zpra cadres intimidating communities

ZAPU president, Sibangilizwe Nkomo, has chastised some ex-ZPRA cadres who are reportedly being used by the ruling Zanu-PF party to intimidate communities ahead of next year's elections.His remarks come as some war veterans have been used a…

Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 19:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Report Mphoko never deserted Zapu to join Zanu

The former members of the Rhodesian special branch are the ones who claimed that I deserted the struggle in 1976, to join ZANU.They forget that ZANU was banned in Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambique. They were the same people who claimed that…

Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 19:54hrs | 16 | by Phelekezela Mphoko

Zanu-PF MP dies in car accident

ZANU PF Gokwe-Kabuyuni MP, Hon Leonard Chikomba has died.He was 67.ZANU PF Midlands Provincial Chairperson, Senator Larry Mavima said Hon Chikomba died in a car accident this evening, some 20 kilometres from Chitekete on his way home from …

Published: 29 May 2022 at 00:34hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

5 pieces of evidence that show why Mnangagwa's trip to the UK was a complete disaster

Over a week after the beginning of the COP26 Climate change summit, all Zimbabweans will have come to the conclusion that Mnangagwa's trip to Scotland did not achieve what he wanted it to do. In fact, it was a disaster for the dictator of …

Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 19:40hrs | 19 | by Dudzai Mukondorongwe

Zanu-PF conference a Mnangagwa bootlicking contest

THE King is dead â€¦ long live the King.The scenes at the Zanu-PF annual conference in Bindura have played out many times before.A posse of party faithful pledges undying admiration and loyalty to the Dear Leader, extolling his wisdom and …

Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 07:30hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

ZSE gains US$287bn

THE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) gained $286,760 billion in value during the third quarter of this year due to inflation hedging activities and increased retail investors participation, a report by Old Mutual Investment Group Zimbabwe sai…

Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 07:29hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Banks lobby for tax regime revamp

ZIMBABWE'S banking sector says government must extend tax payment periods to twice a year to give industries breathing space after being affected by pandemic-related headwinds.Under current policy, companies pay taxes to the Zimbabwe Reven…

Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 07:27hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Tiri pama one: Now it's the people of Mashonaland demanding a cake for all

You can't help but wish Joshua Nkomo was alive. This is exactly what he prophesized. Josh said in his own words: "This tribalism will not take you anywhere Robert. This pasi newe, pasi naye cannot be politics of the day". When he said this…

Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 20:27hrs | 4 | by Nomazulu Thata

Zimbabwean courts have no spectacles to see Mnangagwa's illegitimacy

President Mnangagwa's legitimacy as a Zanu leader and President of the Republic, has been challenged in court. But, any Zanu leader's first duty on the job is to take the Court's spectacles and keep them in his pocket. So, what will happen…

Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 15:18hrs | 2 | by Ryton Dzimiri

A red card or exit package for ED and his ZANU-PF Govt in 2023

The ground is shaking for EDiot and his cronies as they crave to hold onto power in 2023 when their fall is imminent. The sudden rise and revival of ZAPU with Sibangilizwe as the man- of - the - match in a scramble for the Party Presidenti…

Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 14:25hrs | 1 | by Mjibha Ndlovu

Chamisa's Life is in danger

About 200 ZANU-PF sponsored youth and women were baying for Chamisa and his team's blood on their way to meet the people of Masvingo community in chief Charumbira area yes 10/10/2021.The same ZANU-PF yesterday, today and forever who preach…

Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 18:31hrs | 6 | by Nobukhosi Moyo

Nehanda must be brought back but what about gukurahundi victims, post-2000 election victims?

I don't cope and usually don't quote fellow bloggers but on this one, I will quote Nomazulu, who said "I used to think bootlicking,hero-worshipping was for the uneducated but even the highly educated do so excellently". This is very true w…

Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 19:41hrs | 3 | by Phosiwe Ncube

We are not abandoning Merry Chiwenga-Mubayiwa

To be a woman activist in Zimbabwe is totally different from being an activist in the comforts of Germany. I have come to terms with this fact. Women activism especially in our societies does not mean firing unguided missiles to General Ch…

Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 14:56hrs | 10 | by Nomazulu Thata

Unity accord died with his father and Mugabe

A SPIRING Zapu president Sibangilizwe Nkomo, son to the late VicePresident Joshua Nkomo, has described the unity accord which his father and the late former President Robert Mugabe signed to end hostilities in December 1987 as the most dis…

Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Why ZAPU's Parliamentary Recalls will fail, Legally

NewsdzeZimbabwe on Sunday reported that Iphuthile Maphosa who is the spokesperson for ZAPU announced that the party had recently taken the decision to recall former PF ZAPU members from the current parliament. The decision was taken as a r…

Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 11:57hrs | 5 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Johannesburg

The fighting spirit of Honourable Joanne Mamombe deserves honour: Salute my girl-child

After 2 minutes of watching a video in New Zimbabwe news media, Honourable Mamombe was narrating how they got attacked by a snake in the prison cell in the middle of the night, I did not finish watching to the end but was overcome by emoti…

Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 18:20hrs | 11 | by Nomazulu Thata

Thabitha Khumalo's attack - 'Same Old Story!'

It is very unfortunate, according to press reports, that Thabitha Khumalo (59) was caught in a politically set up violence which resulted in her many injuries she sustained recently at her home in Saurcetown in Bulawayo. To me - this is ju…

Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 20:40hrs | 13 | by Pythias Makonese

Josiah Magama Tongogara 41 years on

A day after celebrating christmas swimming through the stiffed hard but good festive seasons on the 26th December 1979 duty called. In the call of duty the son of the soil breathed his last breath.Josiah Magama Tongogara was born on the 4t…

Published: 26 Dec 2020 at 17:42hrs | 19 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza

'Let me puff Mnangagwa has failed to rule this country'

YOLAM Chakanetsa of Mur-oford farm, Mvurwi was arrested and dragged to Guruve magistrates courts yesterday accused of insulting president Emmerson Mnangagwa at a beer binge.Chakanetsa appeared before magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa who reman…

Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 17:24hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole

Fare thee well comrade president

Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017. He chaired the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) group from 1975 t…

Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 08:58hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza

'We need NTA or heading for Armageddon' - no, we there and Zanu PF will drag us past no-return

Zimbabwe has sleep-walked into "failed state" and now the country is heading for dark dungeons of Armageddon!"We need a national transitional authority (NTA), we need a soft landing for our country, if we do not do that we are heading for …

Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:43hrs | 5 | by Wilbert Mukori

Zimbabwe is not Mthwakazi and Mthwakazi is not Zimbabwe - MLF

When the situation is good Mthwakazi people are told in the face that they are enemies of the State, that they must go back to South Africa. When it is bad, then they are a much needed piece to solve the puzzle. The sun has not set yet and…

Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by MLF

Ndabaningi Sithole's birthday bash set for this weekend

A celebration of the life of the Founding President of ZANU Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole will be held on the 20th of     July at the Freedom Farm in Chipinge. A flyer inviting Zimbabweans to the event says it will start at 8 …

Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 15:14hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu

The Inevitable Rise of ZAPU

I must contend from the onset that the rise of the people's vanguard party ZAPU is inevitable and unstoppable. Everyone who has once associated with the party in the past and expended effort in improving the fortunes of this party should b…

Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Mqondobanzi Nduna Magonya

If Zanu is not for Mugabe, Sithole, Nkala, Mujuru or Gumbo, then how can it be yours?

Anyone who thinks is a Zanu Member, is a proper fool who will never Learn. Foolishness is the Quality to be Unable to Learn, and unfortunately, in Zimbabwe, we have a surplus of that Quality.Does anyone remember President Mugabe saying a p…

Published: 18 May 2019 at 18:24hrs | | by Multiverse Dungani

Response to The Patriot: Unmasking Pseudo Communists

The Patriot, 31 January 2019, carried an article titled 'Unmasking a pseudo communist organisation,' although obviously there was no unmasking do to, instead it degenerated to slanderous personal attacks to comrades Ngqabutho Mabhena (Gene…

Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 18:21hrs | 1 | by Dr. Samukele Hadebe

Stay away and Looting in Zimbabwe: A narrative created to push for a national dialogue

Zimbabwe does not get tired to engage into processes that will help the corrupt and governance failures survive another day. As I write this article I have no doubt in my mind that what is happening now is no different from what happened i…

Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 20:10hrs | 7 | by Dumisani Mpofu

Zimbabwe chuff identifies from grain

What I find repulsive and impregnable even in the mind of a grade seven child is simple this, can you talk of restoring food from a robber who is busy robbing at the same time?  There is something called arbitration. By implication it…

Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 09:37hrs | 1 | by Manyevere M Andrew

War Veterans now Hated like Armed Robbers in Zimbabwe

Imagine living in a country run by Armed Robbers. The President, the Ministers, the Police, the Judiciary all being armed and ready to pull a trigger to defend their positions of power at any cost? This is what we find ourselves in after b…

Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 09:31hrs | 2 | by Multiverse Dungani

The provincial and metropolitan councils bill

Devolution of power has been the flagship policy of ZAPU for a long time. ZAPU recognises and acknowledges the vast contribution of all who came on board the principle of devolved governance. The results of the Constitutional Parliamentary…

Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 16:45hrs | 375 | by Iphithule T. Maphosa, ZAPU Information and Publicity Secretary

Give peace a chance

The immediate past government of Robert Mugabe assembled a National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) mandated to investigate and make recommendations on past injustices in Zimbabwe. The need to set up this Commission was necessit…

Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 10:35hrs | 2 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa

Zimbabwe Struggle, The Delayed Revolution: an Autobiography

The need to account for multiple narratives in the history of the liberation struggle compelled Andrew Ndlovu's autobiography to proffer his narrative from the front. The book serves to demonstrate the continuation of the 'struggles within…

Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 12:29hrs | 51 | by Brian Maregedze

Priorities for the new Parliament

THE harmonised elections have come and gone. A new Cabinet will soon be in place, and Members of Parliament and councillors sworn-in.The time for sloganeering is over and economically weary Zimbabweans expect quick delivery on the promises…

Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:08hrs | | by John Makamure

The people have spoken Zanu must go

The brazen robbery of the election and the scale in which it was carried out is astonishing. ZANU PF is longer appealing to the masses due to systematic abuse of state's instruments and callous torture of those opposed to military rule.It …

Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 14:37hrs | | by Zenzo Siziba Poltical Analyst and Activist

Can you do Zanu and God together?

How can someone be Zanu and a Christian together? Or, can someone save Satan and God at the same time? Sometimes Zimbabweans exhibit cognitive dissonance when it comes to Faith and Politics. The bible says that one must strive to choose go…

Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 14:27hrs | 1 | by Ryton Dzimiri

In the aftermath of the 'most peaceful' elections

The repeated calls by President Mnangagwa for unity and understanding, together with the condemnation of all violence must bring much hope to all Zimbabweans. This is a stance of a true statesman. If the results of the recent harmonised el…

Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 18:16hrs | 1 | by Dr Ralph Mguni

The polls got it right

In general, the last few years have not been great for pollsters.  They have been misread all over the world.  In America they correctly predicted that Hilary would win the popular vote, but failed in their analysis that Trump wo…

Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 11:30hrs | | by Mike Tawanda

Brutish and Ferocious 'Crocodile' your time is up to vacate Munhumutapa Building

With less than 5 days before Zimbabweans cast their votes for the make or break presidential elections on July 30, it is important especially for those in the rural areas to punish Emmerson Munangagwa and his regime for marginalising them …

Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 12:55hrs | 4 | by Knowledge Hakata

MDC movement has proved that very little separates them from Zanu PF

I turned to Professor Brian Raftopolous and a senior respected civil society leader for ideas and discussions about our country.I proposed to them that the best way out of this political nightmare for the country was if Morgan Tsvangirai a…

Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 11:40hrs | 2 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

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