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Geza's selective apology fails to extend the same for Gukurahundi atrocities
Geza apologizes unreservedly for the atrocities he and war veterans committed between the year 2000 and 2008 and he stops there: Gukurahundi atrocities are consciously excluded for fear of opening a p...Published: 28 Mar 2025 at 21:13hrs | 1615 | by Nomazulu Thata
Ncube and Chamisa are one coin with two sides: Gugugu Magorira
Please do not play with our intelligence. Welshman Ncube is the worst politician we can think of today. Ncube is part of the problem too, just like Chamisa. Professor Mandaza told Chamisa to come clea...Published: 19 Jan 2025 at 19:50hrs | 714 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Zimbabwe politics derail anti-corruption fight'
At a national anti-corruption conference in Harare, Transparency International Zimbabwe (TI-Z) board chairperson Isheanesu Chirisa highlighted several challenges hindering the fight against corruption...Published: 18 Jul 2024 at 06:50hrs | 395 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa fall: Mnangagwa scared
SOUTH AFRICA held general elections on Wednesday and results trickling in are sending shivers down the spines of regional liberation movements.The ruling African National Congress (ANC) is set...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 08:16hrs | 2 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zimbabwe politics is a rat race and the antagonists' trump cards are deception and betrayal
Zimbabwe's political system is not a caucus race but a rat race! Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland explained what a caucus race is: "After swimming around in Alice's pool of tears...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:29hrs | 10 | by Wilbert Mukori
'With immediate effect, I no longer have anything to do with CCC!' Is this the end of the phoney 'Change Champion in Chief' epoc
"With immediate effect, I no longer have anything to do with CCC!" announced Nelson Chamisa.Could this be the turning point in Zimbabwe's turbulent and chaotic political history? I for one, wo...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 19:47hrs | 3 | by Wilbert Mukori
The role of religion in Zimbabwe politics
The role of religious and spiritual dynamics, including African Traditional Religion (ATR), in Zimbabwean politics has been significant and complex. These dynamics have influenced both the historical ...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 11:20hrs | 23 | by Josh Mhambi
Zimbabwe politics is no game for naive thinkers
They say hope is for people who cannot see the truth! There are those hopeful one day Zanu-PF will stop governing Zimbabwe, yet the truth is speaking against their hope.In a candid conversatio...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 05:17hrs | 2 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Chamisa's CCC preparing for a fight back
Reeling from a heavy blow of losing 15 MPs in parliament delivered behind-the-scenes by its bitter rival Zanu-PF, with the support of the Central Intelligence Organisation-run Forever Associates Zimba...Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 10:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Nutty Professor
Looking at most political analysts in Zimbabwean political perspective Jonathan Moyo confounds me with a professor who does not stand on his words and behaves like a pendulum, a flip flopper in the ma...Published: 02 Sep 2023 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
Karangas crush Zezuru-Korekore Alliance again
To Zezurus, politics of tribalism has become the Frankenstein's monster that destroys its own creator. Unless Zezurus find allies outside their small Zezuru- Korekore clan, it may take many years if n...Published: 19 Aug 2023 at 17:17hrs | 66 | by Israel Dube
British obsession with Zimbabwe politics nauseating
It is election time again in Zimbabwe and the British are at it again, pushing a narrative to discredit the August 23, 2023 harmonised elections, because it is clear Zanu-PF is winning.It seem...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:41hrs | 15 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Obama of Zimbabwe politics bows out of Presidential race due to financial challenges
OPPOSITION Democratic Union of Zimbabwe (DUZ) party leader Robert Chapman has withdrawn from the August 23 polls Presidential race citing financial constraints.This comes after DUZ Bulawayo pr...Published: 24 Jun 2023 at 06:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere: Red herring, Chamisa's double
Becoming a political clichéGustave Flaubert of the 19th Century licentious novel, Madame Bovary, said this of language: "Language is indeed a machine that continually amplifies emotion."...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 17:46hrs | 2 | by @Jamwanda2 0n Saturday
Mental colonisation is the biggest obstacle for African development
It is a paradox that the so-called under-developed African countries are the ones endowed with natural resources and yet the poorest in terms of the consumer goods ad services currently pr...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:47hrs | | by Austin Chakaodza
Demystifying youth participation in Zimbabwe politics
ZIMBABWEAN youth are often accused of being politically apathetic. This article will attempt to separate myths and facts about Zimbabwean youth political participation, identify who constitutes youth,...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:43hrs | 3 | by Innocent Mpoki
Zimbabwe politics: Lineaments of stock characters
What are stock characters?LET me be basic so I am accessible to many of my readers, whatever level of education, and from whichever discipline they hail.In literature we have what are ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 14 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
'Zanu PF primaries were utter fiasco for ED thx Mafia' said Mliswa. ED's turn to sleep with one eye open
If one, Right Honourable Temba P Mliswa, MP for Norton, is to be believed, then the Gold Mafia is certainly bigger then Zanu PF and they are the ones behind President Mnangagwa's humiliating defeats i...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 11:12hrs | 5 | by Wilbert Mukori
CCC hell bent on participating in 2023 regardless rigging and damned consequences
The 2023 Zimbabwe elections will be taking place by August 2023, that is seven months to go. The political temperature is rising!When Emmerson Mnangagwa seized power following the November 201...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Colonial master UK denies meddling in Zimbabwe politics
THE United Kingdom has denied meddling in Zimbabwe's electoral and political affairs and funding the opposition in its former colony.In a statement, the British embassy in Harare said: "The UK...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
We've to battle without reforms! Said Ncube - because wouldn't 'implement reforms like a man!'
"We've to battle without reforms!" screamed the Daily News headline with a picture of Professor Welshman Ncube. "We have to be ready, prepared to win elections under the most adverse of conditions...Published: 05 Sep 2022 at 17:31hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa's 2023 strategy
Zimbabwe's general election is several months away but many opposition figures say they are already battling intense government repression similar to the iron-fisted rule of Robert Mugabe, the former ...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 07:58hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe politics remains toxic'
HUMAN rights watchdog, Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) says the country's political environment has remained toxic with Zanu-PF cited as the worst culprits.In its latest monthly report titled Tox...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe politics remains a two-horse race
THE Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) on Wednesday released the Afrobarometer round nine survey on Zimbabwe.The survey shows the incipient decline of the ruling Zanu-PF's leader, Emmerson M...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Need pact and reforms to avoid disputed elections.' Need to end CCC sell out and confusion galore
One says this, another says that and a third says something else that is neither this nor that. Indeed, in Zimbabwe politics the same individual will say one thing now and say the exact opposite in th...Published: 04 May 2022 at 12:29hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa: When the Goliath Complex Afflicts
My early days in primary school were dominated by the story of Goliath, the giant of Philistine.Goliath's name was onomatopoeic; this sonorous name heavily suggested physical hugeness afflicte...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:38hrs | 3 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Clandestine dealings with Mnangagwa! Thokozani, you stripped your dignity
Drear Dr Thokozani Khuphe, Much as activists would like to assist women against gender discrimination in public spaces, we find your case too complex to intervene. We do not have the loci stan...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 16:24hrs | 14 | by Nomazulu Thata
Americans lecturing Zanu PF on 'criteria for free elections' – umpteenth lecture, how naïve/patronising
"March by-elections and the 2023 harmonized elections give the Government of Zimbabwe a chance to show that #ZimVotesMatter, especially if it honors its c...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 00:29hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Army plays decisive role in politics' - Zanu PF fuelled conjecture, without one iota of evidence
"It is beyond any iota of doubt in Zimbabwe that the institution of the military plays a decisive factor in the politics of the country," reported The Independent. "Numerous "clever" politicians ...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 09:50hrs | 10 | by Wilbert Mukori
Jonathan Moyo says Zimbabwe politics is toxic
ZIMBABWE's political environment is "toxic" with citizens polarised by personality politics, self-exiled former Cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo has said.Moyo was responding to a public backlash...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:30hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF 2017 coup coalition has collapsed' hyenas are fighting fiercely - it's no place for timid MDC jackals
Zanu PF is a party of thugs who got into politics for the sake of securing political power, absolute power, and the influence and wealth it brings. They don't care about anything or anyone else. ...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 10:32hrs | 13 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Unoka' Biti 'appeals' to tyrant Mnangagwa to uphold rule of law - 'Go implement reforms like a man!'
"This is to advise friends and family that I am ok and in a good space. Thank you for your love and care. To Mr Mnangagwa, I appeal to you to stop your shenanigans, uphold the rule of law and protect ...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 07:58hrs | 10 | by Wilbert Mukori
When it comes to Zimbabwe’s 41 years and counting of rigged elections - it takes three to tango
When it comes to Zimbabwe's rigged elections - it takes three to tango. The ruling party Zanu PF, the MDC opposition and the ordinary Zimbabweans have all played a part in historic fact that Zimbabwe ...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:06hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mliswa taunts Mnangagwa over war veterans
NORTON'S Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa (independent) says successive Zanu-PF governments have dismally failed to look after war veterans since 1980.In a statement on his Twitter page, Mlis...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 05:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Sweet scent of democracy sweeping Zambia in coming to Zimbabwe' - finally, many are questioning MDC A foolishness
It is heartening to notice there is a noticeable shift is Zimbabwe politics; the old naïve, gullible ask-no-question mentality is being replace by the sober and savvy realism. "Africa must ha...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 20:16hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Life though the eyes of a Gukurahundi survivor
This week I was back in the village after a week away in the city and as usual to get the best of the news of what happened in my absence the first point of call is the home of my uncle, apart from be...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 14:58hrs | 2 | by Gifford Mehluli Sibanda
Kembo Mohadi and Enos Nkala learnt lifetime lessons; Israel Dube my reply!
The first time I agreed with Israel Dube about facts in our mainstream politics. Let me make it clear however, that I am not appealing to Israel to drop death threats hanging on my throat: I have been...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 12:48hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa's UK re-engagement bid comes apart
ZIMBABWE'S attempts to restore normal relations with Western powers could be in jeopardy after British prime minister Boris Johnson's administration slapped sanctions on four top government officials....Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 18:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Call for New Legislation Limiting Number of times a political party can shield a presidential candidate in Zimbabwe
Amid Zimbabwe's political landscape at risk of conflict as political violence escalates, Emej Zimbabwe (Economic Movement for Equality and Justice) founder and president Maxwell Teedzai has called for...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 19:04hrs | 7 | by Agencies
2017 coup targeted 'criminals around Mugabe' and now it's payback time - we are but mice to these Zanu PF thugs
Three years ago at 04.00 hours local time on 15th November 2017 Zimbabwe Defence Force (ZDF) spokesman, Major General Sibusiso Moyo, addressed the nation and the world at large, live on Zimbabwe Broad...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 20:50hrs | 3 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Zanu PF has mastered art of rigging can't be removed with ballot' - rubbish, above all else, they are mortals
Albert Einstein defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result." He was right! What he should have said too, is how easy it is to fall into this tra...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Church says 'it's time for Zimbabwe to come together'
WITH the country and its two major political parties - Zanu-PF and the MDC - continuing to contend with serious challenges, the church has renewed its calls for all Zimbabweans to come together in the...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 19:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora taunts Chamisa
MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora Saturday took time to harangue MDC Alliance rival Nelson Chamisa, describing the politician as a hypocrite who pretended he did not like Zanu-PF when in fact, ...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs opposed to national dialogue
SHARP differences have emerged in Zanu-PF over the push by South Africa and its ruling African National Congress (ANC) to help end Zimbabwe's decades-long myriad crises. At the same time, poli...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 20:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo is remembered in diverse forms fairly and unfairly
In year 1980, Joshua Nkomo was the most hated persona in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland and some parts of Midlands. The first elections were so toxic, a tribal card was key to get most of the people vote for ...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 19:54hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
All eyes on Ramaphosa delegation's trip
MANY Zimbabweans and outsiders alike will be watching closely, and waiting to see what happens during and after this week's visit to Harare by a delegation of the top brass of South Africa's ruling Af...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 19:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
If Jonathan Moyo's advice is premised on "cut yangu yakamira sei" in the future dispensation, then this country is in for a joke
Listening to the lecture Jonathan Moyo gave in last week one-hour video now circulating in the social media, it felt sick in the pit of the stomach. It is for this reason one must be careful what soci...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 20:22hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Politically, Mnangagwa has failed to bring all stakeholders together
IT IS critical that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF urgently lead efforts to address the country's decades-long political crisis if the government is to have any chance of mitigating the econ...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 15:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and the cult of mediocrity in Zimbabwe politics
ZIMBABWE has finally arrived at its Idi Amin moment in history.This is a moment where the vulgar, obscene and grotesque performances of leaders get tragically normalised. It is a true "gods mu...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:23hrs | 5 | by Dinizulu Macaphulana
Dialogue or Suspension of Constitutionalism? Prohibition orders Narrative
Academic Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo writes: Events leading to August 16, determines whether constitutionalism should remain order of the day or it can be suspended? There is need for re-configura...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 12:57hrs | 2 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
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