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The cancel culture is misogynistic. Mokoena must be silenced by Zanu PF!
The political culture of South Africa is not interchangeable with that of Zimbabwean political landscape. These two countries are different even in the processes of gaining their political independenc...Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 22:51hrs | 887 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa exit throws fresh election push in jeopardy
NELSON Chamisa's spirited diplomatic offensive to push the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to facilitate fresh elections in Zimbabwe is effectively dead in the water after the politician...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 17:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa dumps AFM for SDA...fails to pay bodyguards
In a surprising turn of events, Nelson Chamisa, the leader of the opposition in Zimbabwe, has quietly switched churches from the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) to the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) denomi...Published: 10 Dec 2023 at 10:38hrs | 64 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Recalls kingpin affirms commitment to accepting results in the spirit of democracy
Sengezo Tshabangu, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary general and a key figure in the recent recalls, expressed the party's commitment to accepting the outcomes of the upcoming ...Published: 09 Dec 2023 at 21:09hrs | 88 | by Staff Reporter
MDC: End of an era
SEPTEMBER remains significant in the MDC as the party was conceived in this ninth month of the year before making an instant impact on the Zimbabwean political landscape.Then led by firebrand ...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 07:51hrs | 2 | by Harriet Chikandiwa
Zanu-PF remembers Joshua Nkomo with Bulilima rally?
THE Zanu-PF rally to be addressed by President Mnangagwa at Nyele Primary School in Bulilima District, Matebeleland South Province today is a celebration as it is the rolling out of the ruling party's...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 08:01hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Nation remembers Father Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe will forever cherish the invaluable contributions by former Vice President and Pan-African Dr Joshua Nkomo, President Mnangagwa has said, as the country commemorates the 24th anniversary of h...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 06:26hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to win 2023 Election
Since the 1990s the Zimbabwean political landscape has been shaped by political succession fighting raging within the ruling party. The internal fights have been prolonged and leaving the majority of ...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 21:47hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Chamisa poses major threat to Mnangagwa, but....
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has emerged as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's most formidable challenger for the presidency when the country goes to the polls in the next few...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 05:20hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Intolerance behind polarisation in Zimbabwe
AS Zimbabwe heads for crucial harmonised later this year, there has been an unsurprising increase in calls for unity among the country's citizenry.This is in response to the highly toxic natur...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:31hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Morgan Tsvangirai, the flawed political giant who dismantled Zanu-PF's one-party state project
MORGAN Tsvangirai succumbed to cancer on Valentine's Day in 2018. Some remember him as a charismatic trade unionist turned politician who led the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) since its incepti...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 17:25hrs | | by Itai Michael Preston Choto
Tough questions for Mnangagwa, Chamisa ahead of 2023 polls
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's desperate quest to stop Nelson Chamisa from contesting elections under the MDC-Alliance banner betrays the Zanu-PF strongman's lack of confidence in his ability to win a...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 20:41hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
President E D Mnangagwa @ 79 and overcoming the struggle in transition
The surfeit of one's proximity to a hero has a tendency of dissuading them from appreciating their rarely accorded access to greatness — such is the descriptive parable of the privilege I have to se...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:16hrs | 2 | by Dr Obert Moses Mpofu
My desperate plea to billionaire Masiyiwa
Last Sunday I dwelt on the depressing theme of the hardship that journalists often endure for failing to toe the ill-defined line drawn by intolerant politicians.Newspaper editors must be the ...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:10hrs | 17 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Ngarivhume lays into Chamisa once more
Leader of Transform Zimbabwe, Jacob Ngarivhume, has attacked MDC Alliance's leader, Nelson Chamisa, for being ineffective and failing to inspire thousands of urban dwellers who are looking up to him f...Published: 23 Jun 2021 at 11:09hrs | | by Political Reporter
Drawing parallels between bitter election losers Khupe and Trump
Is it even possible to make such comparisons between Madam Thokozani Khupe and Donald Trump regarding the shenanigans of the two politicians' elections defeat? Yes, it is possible; this is a global vi...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 08:30hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Tribalism at its best: Khuphe a leader sent from hell! My reply!
They see everything is wrong and going wrong because of Thokozani Khuphe. But who ignited the whole shenanigans going on in the MDC opposition parties? Indeed tribalism is embedded, it is entranced in...Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 15:10hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
Temba Mliswa: a hero or villain?
The firebrand Norton legislator Temba Peter Mliswa is a refreshing and entertaining contributor to every Parliamentary session he attends. He has won the admiration of many hearts in Norton over his d...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 09:12hrs | 4 | by Nicholas Ncube
Joining MDC a smart move by Mahere
Former International Criminal Court lawyer Fadzayi Mahere has announced her move from being an independent to being a senior member of the MDC Alliance. Her move could have wide ripple effects in Zimb...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:21hrs | 2 | by Mandipa Ndlovu
Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland
While I was going through my archives I came across the Election Manifesto below. Quite interesting.PATRIOTIC UNION OF MANDEBELELAND (PUMA)ELECTION MANIFES...Published: 21 May 2019 at 12:35hrs | 21 | by PUMA
Zinasu victory a reflection of the turning political landscape
One primary reason why young people are cynical or even repulsed at the thought of politics is because of its mental turn off.Watching your entire future being plundered by some old out-of-tou...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 13:27hrs | 2 | by Roy Muroyi
Football league takes Zimbabwe polls break
IT'S election season and football is no exception when it comes to giving prevalence to the much anticipated day in the Zimbabwean political landscape.The Zifa Southern Region League executive...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Mnangagwa
Dear Mr PresidentThere is no doubt you will win the July 30 election. Even Thomas in the Bible would believe that if he were here today. Though my vote is supposed to be private, you may want to e...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff writer
Self-aggrandisement mars opposition politics in Zimbabwe
I arrived at Oslo International Airport one late afternoon in October 2005 en route to Oslo University where I had been invited as guest professor.By some coincidence, the then secretary-gener...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 16:30hrs | 2 | by Geoffrey Nyarota.
NPF: Possessed by a retrogressive agenda?
Mark Duncan, writing from Moscow, felt compelled to advise The Economist [Letters - A party of the people, April 14, 2018], that its belief that Russian youth post Gorbachev generation offered optimis...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Tapiwa Nyandoro
WATCH: Economy to decide election outcome, says Tendai Biti
This weekend bomb blast in Bulawayo has rocked the Zimbabwean political landscape ahead of the elections on July 30th. On this Political Capital, we are Karabo Letlhatlha discusses Zimbabwe's ...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 16:46hrs | 1 | by CNBCAfrica
MDC Alliance cannot afford clashes at this hour
I WISH I could write the following statement across the sky in giant and fiery capital letters: The MDC has held plenty parliamentary seats since 2000, but apparently, no change has come. The oppositi...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:59hrs | 3 | by Learnmore Zuze
Beyond bullet trains and homestead airports
What exactly is the MDC Alliance offering in this election? I ask because I have failed to point precisely what I, as an ordinary person, stand to benefit under their Government, should they win the f...Published: 28 May 2018 at 14:24hrs | | by Mapozho Saruchera
NPF: Much Ado about nothing
The emergence of the New Patriotic Front (NPF) led by Ex-Zanu PF Provincial Minister, Rtd Brigadier General, Ambrose Mutinhiri seems to cast a spell of de ja vu in the Zimbabwean political landscape....Published: 18 May 2018 at 09:26hrs | 1 | by Claver Nyuki
The dilemma of the electorate in Zimbabwe's 2018 polls
The Zimbabwean electorate have a real dilemma in the coming elections. There are a lot of candidates from a plethora of political parties as well as independent candidates to choose from. It can be ar...Published: 15 May 2018 at 17:12hrs | 3 | by Nicholas Mlamuli Ndebele
Vulnerability of politicians when they fall from grace
Political leaders appear to be saints for as long as they are in power but tumble off that pedestal of cleanliness once they are out of the power equation.This, however, is not limited to Zimb...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 08:56hrs | | by Eddie Zvinonzwa
Endorsement of coups tarnishes AU and Sadc
As Zimbabwe heads towards crucial general elections expected in July, one wonders if our regional bodies are competent enough to monitor the polls as they have, of late, tarnished their images by endo...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 12:27hrs | 2 | by Tendai Mbofana.
AU/SADC endorse coups, can they be trusted to monitor elections?
As Zimbabwe heads towards crucial harmonised elections in a few months time, one wonders if our regional bodies are competent enough to be monitors and observers, as they have, of late, tarnished thei...Published: 03 Mar 2018 at 08:05hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
A thought on Morgan Tsvangirai
A few years ago I came across a quote by VS Naipaul which said that, "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."I thought that ...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 11:10hrs | 1 | by Gwinyai Taruvinga
The dangers of giving in to impulse of revenge
The Zimbabwean situation presents politician's quest for vindication.the machinations in the Zimbabwean political landscape is immensely entertaining but a little over the top. While it is politic...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mugabe, Tsvangirai off ballot for first time in decades?
ZIMBABWE is set to have its first elections in nearly two decades without veteran politicians, Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, the two men whose epic duels have for years reduced other political ...Published: 11 Jan 2018 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
NPP youths mourn late Ndlovu
Revolutionary greetings dear comrades. Compliments of the new year. I hope 2018 is going to be a golden year which will confirm that NPP is a formidable political outfit in the Zimbabwean political te...Published: 10 Jan 2018 at 13:52hrs | 1 | by Khulani David Ndhlovu
Pokello at the deep end
For weeks, rumours have suggested that Pokello's marriage to Elikem Kumordzie is teetering on the brink, with reports from her beau's native Ghana suggesting that it might already have plunged over th...Published: 02 Dec 2017 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's greatest opposition is not Tsvangirai's Alliance
AS THE Zanu-PF wars continue to grip the State, amid serious economic meltdown and a disjointed opposition, our reporter Tendai Kamhungira took time to speak to respected political analyst and civil s...Published: 10 Nov 2017 at 13:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Grace Mugabe must not run for VP'
First Lady Grace Mugabe must not stand as vice president at Zanu-PF's extraordinary congress in December, a move veteran political analyst and civil society leader Brian Kagoro described as a potentia...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 13:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Can blame 'proliferation of parties' for Zanu PF victory - it is hara-kiri contesting in the first place
Without even one democratic reform in place there is nothing to stop Zanu PF rigging next year's elections. The party will rig the vote just as readily as it rigged the July 2013 elections. "I...Published: 19 Aug 2017 at 17:54hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe Women In Politics Alliance statement on assault of Thokozani Khupe
It is in a bad mood accompanied by good faith that I prescribe this article seeking to touch on the nerves of targeted violence towards women on the Zimbabwean political landscape.ZWIPA castig...Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 11:37hrs | 1 | by Linda T Masarira
Is Nkosana Moyo a decoy or real deal?
The arrival on the political stage of Nkosana Moyo has been received with mixed feelings.Just like Simba Makoni did in the run-up to the 2008 elections, Moyo has generated an equal amount of e...Published: 12 Jul 2017 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Dumisani O Nkomo
Mugabe must just go home and rest
That at 93, President Robert Mugabe is too old to effectively run a country must be common cause. But there are, as always expected, other people who view this fact of life as untrue, mischievous, cri...Published: 14 May 2017 at 16:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Current Zimbabwean Women-Politicians seriously compromised: Dear Zebb Chakawa
I will never belittle the contributions some of our women have done in Zimbabwean politics: be it before independence and after independence. Women sacrificed everything: they were the abused niche du...Published: 23 Mar 2017 at 12:53hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Selfish political leaders mark Zimbabwean political landscape
A few days ago, Mrs Joyce Mujuru surprised many totally by saying that her party, ZPF will contest the 2018 elections with or with no reforms. It was very disturbing when she revealed this in direct o...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 15:40hrs | 1 | by Zanda Shumba
How Robert Mugabe's corpse will win in 2018 elections
I hate to be a messenger of doom but the idea of opposition coalition in Zimbabwe is: "... a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing," Macbeth. The idea lacks originality and...Published: 19 Feb 2017 at 19:04hrs | 3 | by Sam Wezhira
Another Mugabe rival forms a political party
A NEW political party called Build Zimbabwe Alliance (BZA) recently registered with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).Nothing unusual about that; historically in Zimbabwe, before any...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 12:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T inconsistency costly
"MUGABE has two thirds! Vote DA."This was the campaign message that South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) took to the electorate in that country's 2004 elections.The party, th...Published: 19 Jan 2017 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Cyril Zenda
ZimPF youths invade Bikita West
OPPOSITION Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) youths have thrown down the gauntlet, challenging the ruling Zanu-PF party in what promises to be a bruising fight for the Bikita West by-election set for ...Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
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