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Zimbabwe on the brink
As Zimbabwe's socioeconomic crisis deepens, analysts warned this week that the country may be heading for an implosion.According to Harare-based human rights lawyer Thulani Mzala, the mineral ...Published: 25 Apr 2025 at 07:01hrs | 1177 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans reduced to a placid, apathetic lot with no agency
During the past week, I was driving along Emmerson Mnangagwa (neé Enterprise Road) in Harare towards the central business district.If you know Harare, you will know that it gets congested in ...Published: 28 Mar 2025 at 11:54hrs | 279 | by Nqaba Matshazi
British Govt shows the world how to deal with rioters
It's, unfortunately, depressingly familiar. Violence has broken out in the United Kingdom led by loosely organised thugs driven by fake news and hate speech on social media that was made acceptable by...Published: 08 Aug 2024 at 07:46hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
Blue train is doomed
The promised version of an opposition party touted around as the Blue something is not a political project but a lucrative business enterprise where Nelson Chamisa will be the sole director....Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 19:21hrs | 604 | by Gugugu Magorira
Poll observers embarrassed by what they saw in Zimbabwe
Veteran academic and political analyst Ibbo Mandaza says election observers, including those from Africa, were embarrassed by what they witnessed during Zimbabwe's disputed elections.Mandaza (...Published: 17 Sep 2023 at 07:59hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Leadership Filled With Failure Weakness and Chaos
Looking at the Zimbabwean situation seems confusing at first glance yet in Zimbabwe, like any other country, the road to freedom and prosperity is long journey. It took the United States at least a ce...Published: 13 Aug 2023 at 12:47hrs | 14 | by Sam Wezhira
'America wants Chamisa'
SOUTH African ruling party ANC's Secretary General Fikile Mbalula has labelled Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) President Nelson Chamisa an American puppet in his latest rant over Zimbabwe....Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 19:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo pursues Municipal Bank dream
THE Bulawayo City Council has renewed its interest in establishing a Municipal Bank by broadening its scope in harnessing more insights from knowledgeable players towards setting up the finance instit...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe paying price for shoddy energy deals
ZIMBABWE is paying the price for failure to tap into renewable energy, as climate change is hindering power generation at Kariba Power Station - the country's largest electricity generating plant - wh...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 14:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rogue Zimbabwe civil society sponsor accusations of shrinking democratic space and protests
JUSTICE Ministry Permanent Secretary, Virginia Mabhiza has told African Union (AU) that concerns raised over Zimbabwe's shrinking civic space and protests against the intended Private Voluntary Organi...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe 2023 elections: What is at stake?
TODAY I woke up with the rising sun, savouring each caressing ray of light on my skin, awed at the amazing powers of mother nature to command the seasons. Across the paddock, wild nature echoed my spi...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 06:02hrs | 2 | by Taruvinga Magwiroto
Chamisa loses hope on reforms
OPPOSITION parties have lost hope of the country holding free and fair elections next year in the absence of electoral reforms.Some of the political parties have predicted a disputed poll as g...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora says he will definitely win 2023 elections
GOVEMENT for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance-leader Douglas Mwonzora is optimistic of winning the 2023 presidential race despite his party having been embarrassed in the March by-elections where it l...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 20:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ANC cannot continue treating Zanu-PF with kid gloves
SOUTH Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) should once again confront its sister revolutionary party Zanu-PF over the escalating immigration crisis across the Limpopo, with analysts sayi...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 20:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - SA relations: Mnangagwa's cabinet launches propaganda war
THE Zimbabwean government has largely been quite over boiling anger in South Africa on the influx of foreigners who are desperately seeking jobs and free medical treatment, but are enduring xenophobic...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 20:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt must fix healthcare system
THE Zimbabwean government has been challenged to fix the country's ailing healthcare system, which has forced citizens to cross the border to neighbouring South Africa to access better health services...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa grilled over propaganda
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube and the Reserve Bank have run out of ideas and are introducing complicated policies that continue to confuse and disadvantage the ordinary people while failing to address...Published: 12 Jul 2022 at 18:15hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Nigel Chanakira, please leave politics to politicians
Nigel Chanakira, please leave politics to politicians-no single individual, group, or political party can fight an entrenched dictator alone. One of the requirements of regime change is Unity of Oppos...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 14:44hrs | 17 | by Sam Wezhira
Mnangagwa says 'Britain should mind its own business'
MEDDLESOME Britain should focus on problems at home and stop poking its nose into the affairs of Zimbabwe through contrived stories and false oppositional narratives, President Mnangagwa has said....Published: 03 May 2022 at 15:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Cartels controlling Zimbabwe fuel sector'
THE Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) has alleged that the country's fuel sector is run by cartels that are manipulating fuel prices.In its weekly review on socio-economic d...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zera's continued excessive fuel price increases worry Zimcodd
The Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) has expressed worry over the continued excessive increase of fuel price by the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera).The worry ca...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 08:06hrs | 12 | by Stephen Jakes
Solving Zimbabwe's 2008 crisis was part of 'The Elders' milestones
ZIMBABWE's 2008 political and economic crises are part of The Elders' "So Far" story shared on its website to highlight what it has achieved and attempted to solve since its formation in 2007....Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:11hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
House of Lords reprimand leaves Mnangagwa propaganda in tatters
LAST week's heated British House of Lords debate on Zimbabwe in which parliamentarians and a government minister said the southern African country should not be readmitted into the Commonwealth until ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:43hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Authorities unleash sweeping crackdown on forex market
IN a renewed bid to contain the runaway foreign exchange rate - now trading at double the official rate around US$1: ZW$170 - the government has launched a fierce crackdown on currency traders in a mu...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:19hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe under attack as the united nations special rapporteur is deployed
THE United Nations (UN) will deploy a special rapporteur to Zimbabwe to probe the impact of sanctions on the country and determine if President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government was not using them as a ...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 17:07hrs | 11 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
US tells Mnangagwa to hold by-elections
THE United States of (US) embassy in Harare yesterday criticised President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government over continued suspension of by-elections, arguing that elections could be held safely despit...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:28hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Why are Zimbabwean companies failing to pay taxes?
A ZIMBABWE Revenue Authority (Zimra) annual report for 2020 released last week confirmed the heavy burden that the country's industries are battling to contain — outstanding taxes are mounting, and ...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
What is the plan B? Chamisa mistakes Zanu-PF with men and women from Ruwadzano
Chamisa's MDC-Alliance mistakes Zanu-PF with men and women from Ruwadzano who stage religious competitions and graciously win or lose in God's name. I will repeat, Chamisa underestimates Zanu-PF. We e...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 19:48hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Constitutional amendments will haunt Zanu-PF
OPPRESSORS do not care how much effort you put to make them accept and respect you. Oppressors will take everything from you until you are broken and desperate. The Zimbabwean situation is ref...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Precious Shumba
No democracy works without dialogue
WHEN a President in the United States of America (USA) is set to address the nation, it is often report-ed that many citizens tend to go about their business and catch up with the address afterwards. ...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:12hrs | 2 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Zimbabwe gives away 99% of exported tobacco
A STAGGERING 99% of the tobacco crop produced annually by Zimbabwean farmers is shipped to the international markets without being processed, the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (Timb) revealed l...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 12:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean women in Diaspora financial bullies
Many married couples, the world over, develop a shared understanding of who does what in their relationship. It is sometimes an unspoken recognition of an inevitable division of labour and responsibil...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:25hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
No one is going to save Zimbabweans but themselves, says Makoni
Simba Makoni (Sm) is regarded as one of the best ministers to preside over Zimbabwe's Treasury. He then formed his party, mMvambo/Kusile/Dawn (mKD) which had a good showing in the 2008 presidential el...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why is Zanu-PF afraid of the ANC?
ZANU-PF has been throwing tantrums against the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa over the last two weeks and that peevishness clearly exposes fright on their part.Spin-doctors in...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The West's hypocrisy exposed as pregnant journalist gets arrested for incitement in Australia
The world was shocked as an Australian woman was arrested in her pyjamas and very pregnant on camera in front of her two minor children and her partner. Australian police in Ballarat Victoria arrested...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 19:52hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF, ANC to expose detractors' lies
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa and his South African counterpart, President Cyril Ramaphosa, have agreed to periodically engage so as to apprise each other on regional security threats as well as expose machinat...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa turns heat on Mnangagwa
SOUTH African President and African Union chairperson Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday said his special envoys to Zimbabwe must travel back to Harare soon and engage all stakeholders to fully appreciate the ...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 07:48hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
ANC piles pressure on Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
SOUTH Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), is reportedly mobilising liberation movements in the Sadc region to pile pressure on Zanu-PF over rampant state-sponsored human rights...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Walking the corridors of the engagement and re-engagement policy
The most difficult people to convince that the situation in Zimbabwe is mutually hurting are neither the politicians nor the ordinary person in the streets, but the intellectuals. They are the ones wh...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 20:33hrs | 7 | by Emmanuel Murema
Dialogue only way out for Zimbabwe, says Uncle Tom
UNITED States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols has said that the southern African country's multi-pronged political and socio-economic crisis can only be resolved through stakeholder dialogue and ...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe a failed state - SA opposition leader
South African Democratic Alliance party leader Mmusi Maimane says his country needs to intervene on the Zimbabwean situation which has all the hallmarks of a failed state. Maimane's sentiments...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe democratic space has shrunk
IT is indisputable that the little democratic space that existed during ex-President Robert Mugabe's tyrannical era has now even shrunk further.I write this article with a bleeding heart, as s...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Learnmore Zuze
Mnangagwa fears Sudan-style protests will rock Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT'S deep-seated fears of massive Sundanese-style protests over the deteriorating political and economic emergency have been exposed after it moved yesterday to block mass demonstrations calle...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally says 'Time not yet right for protests'
THE main opposition MDC went to congress two months ago and the new leadership is getting down to work. Newsday senior reporter Obey Manayiti (ND) spoke to the party spokesperson Daniel Moloke...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti now speak dialogue and not protests
MDC deputy president Tendai Biti has warned the country is facing imminent implosion due to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration's failure to deal with the deteriorating economic situation....Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 14:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Operation Restore Legacy has collapsed'
The time is now for New Freedom Fighters and war veterans .The Job Wiwa Sikhala MDC Bikita rally declaration to "overthrow " the ED government before 2023'has generated a lot political.and legal talk....Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 13:28hrs | | by Sindiso Mazibisa
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe can learn from Rwanda
Zimbabwe should take a leaf from Rwanda's post-genocide reconciliation model as it embarks on its own healing process, President Mnangagwa has said. In an interview at Kigali International Air...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Polad needs gravitas
Polad (an acronym for Political Actors Dialogue) is a voluntary platform for national dialogue launched by President Emmerson Mnangagwa just a few days after the Ides of May 2019.Polad was fla...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Willard Chinhara
South African election results brings painful memories to MDC
General elections were held in South Africa on 8 May 2019 to elect a new National Assembly and provincial legislatures in each province. These were the sixth elections held since the end of apartheid ...Published: 11 May 2019 at 19:11hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'GNU is the solution to disputed elections' - rigged, can't even get that detail right
It has taken nearly 40 years for some people to formulate the outline root causes of the country's economic meltdown and political paralysis - a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. A...Published: 08 May 2019 at 00:11hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
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