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Why does Zimbabwe attract rogue Chinese investors?
Last night, I had the honor of being one of those invited for the launch of a report, in Harare, by the Center for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) titled, 'Chinese Investments in Zimbabwe'....Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 22:57hrs | 4976 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Gukurahundi hearings: Where from and possible outcomes
IT'S 42 years now since a dark cloud of Gukurahundi engulfed Matabeleland and parts of Midlands provinces, in which the Zanu-PF government, then led by Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, unleashed No...Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 09:19hrs | 360 | by Silas Nkala
Mnangagwa must stop flirting with extending rule
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been sworn into office three times in six years, and in his inauguration speeches in November 2017, August 2018, and September 2023, he promised radical reforms aimed ...Published: 23 May 2024 at 10:56hrs | 4 | by Nyasha Macbride Mpani
Zimbabwean woman tortured by SA police gunned down outside court
A couple gunned down outside a court in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 8 have been named as Zimbabweans Sicelubuhle Moyo and her partner Wilfred Dube.Moyo, who worked as a domestic wo...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 11:41hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans can elect recycled opportunistic politicians at own risk!
I am not much of a soccer fan, but there is something that I have always found strange, if not downright weird - without anyone able to provide a satisfactory explanation. Why is it that a coa...Published: 24 Jun 2023 at 08:26hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Busisiwe Mkhwebane merely annoyed agents of white monopoly capital
In my view, both Tina Joemat-Pettersson (may her soul repose peacefully) and Busisiwe Mkhwebane are victims of a system that lives off the subjugation of women, where women are treated very differentl...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 17:18hrs | 1 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
Zimbabwe churches turn evil, please Jesus come back!
I have never been shy in expressing my strong Christian views, as well as my undying and uncompromising love for my Lord Jesus Christ. As such, it is without doubt how it grieves my heart, wit...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 18:15hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Uproar over Mnangagwa's US$54m jet
ZIMBABWEANS have angrily reacted to reports that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has acquired a US$54 million presidential jet — a Dassault Falcon 7X , at a time the majority of the population is wallo...Published: 01 May 2023 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans danced when Mugabe fell, now life is worse than ever
For Jasmine Toffa, the hardest moment of her life was not being beaten black and blue by regime thugs. It came when the Zimbabwean MP appeared in parliament after surgery, broken hands in plaster, and...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:15hrs | 11 | by Christina Lamb for The Sunday Times (UK)
Zimbabwe's upcoming general elections test for Commonwealth readmission
The upcoming general elections in Zimbabwe should be a highlight of the country's willingness to re-join the Commonwealth but so far, nothing is pointing in that direction, according to Sonny Leong, a...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Forthcoming Zimbabwean elections not a Chamisa alone spectacle
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa cannot wrestle power from Zanu PF single -handedly without all progressive Zimbabweans putting hands on deck....Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 16:03hrs | | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Mnangagwa still isolated after 47 global trips
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has travelled 47 foreign trips since coming to power, in a re-engagement drive that has been bogged down by human rights abuses and failure to implement key political refo...Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 11:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
150 Zimbabweans to be deported from the UK
Human rights groups have expressed grave concerns over Home Office plans to deport 150 people to Zimbabwe next week, warning that their lives would be in danger.The flight, scheduled for July ...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 10:46hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally serves Harare council with a default notice on $750,000 fee
HARARE city council has been served with a default notice after failing to pay some US$780,890 to Netherlands-registered company Geogenix BV in the controversial Pomona waste-to-energy deal.Un...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 07:06hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa is no James Bond, it will end in tears
Cyril Ramaphosa's silence in the aftermath of his #FarmGate saga is worrying for South Africa's democracy.It's not just that he is on mute but also the manner in which he continues to evade an...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 18:59hrs | 9 | by Ray Solomons
CCC craving for Ian Smith and his come-again UDI
Craving for Smith, a Second RhodesiaTHOSE who have read big book know what Spinoza saw clearly as the problem which political philosophy could not crack , a problem which Wilhelm Reich rhetori...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:07hrs | | by Jamwanda
There's absolutely nothing Pan-African and Anti-Imperialist about oppressing one's citizens and looting nation's resources
In all my 48 years of existence on this planet Earth, there has always been one thing that has always thoroughly vexed my intellect - as I have greatly struggled to fathom how something that appears s...Published: 26 May 2022 at 21:13hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What does it profit Zimbabwe's ruling elite to gain the country but lose their souls?
Yesterday (March 22, 2022) when I penned an article, "Did war veterans fight for a political party or the people of Zimba...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 07:22hrs | 4 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mugabe's education revolution collapses
ZIMBABWE'S education system, a source of pride for citizens and envy of many across the continent under the late former President Robert Mugabe, is now on a downward spiral seeking urgent intervention...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Khaya Moyo was politically correct'
MATEBELELAND-BASED political analysts have described the late Zanu-PF spokesperson and former minister Simon Khaya Moyo as a "politically correct" person who avoided aligning himself with factions in ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Democracy is not about generational entitlement
Following the United Parties for National Development's (UNPD) win in Zambia's August 12, 2021, general elections, the MDC Alliance faction leader Nelson Chamisa became unnecessarily excited.T...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:52hrs | 6 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Reckless drinking is destroying the youths
Cenosillicaphobia is the fear of having an empty glass of beer, so the seasoned drinker or connoisseur is always topping up the glass with more beer after every swig. Not so with 'Musombo' or 'Kambwa'...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 07:43hrs | 5 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Cyril Ramaphosa appears to be using the ANC's step-aside rule to target, purge political opponents
President Cyril Ramaphosa increasingly appears to be using the ANC's "step-aside" rule to target and purge his political opponents, while affirming his untouchable supporters, before next year's elect...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Clyde Ramalaine
UK to deport 150 Zimbabweans
HUMAN rights groups have expressed grave concerns over Home Office plans to deport 150 people to Zimbabwe next week, warning that their lives would be in danger.The flight, scheduled for July ...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Constitution changes: Understanding the history and motivation
There are extensive deliberations back and forth in May, June and July 2012, resulting in Copac (Constitution Parliamentary Committee) formally adopting a draft national constitution on July 21....Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:56hrs | | by Arthur Mutambara
Mnangagwa, Sadc leaders in crucial Moza indaba
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will tomorrow join other Southern African Development Community (Sadc) leaders in a crucial regional meeting to map a strategy to fight Islamist militants in Mozambique's ...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:56hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
4 ways to easily improve your home
If you want to improve your living space, you have two options. One, buy a potted plant that brightens your living room for a couple of days and makes a negligible difference in your life. Two, employ...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 18:19hrs | 16 | by Staff writer
Unravelling Douglas Mwonzora's web of Zanu-PF capture
Procrastination is the thief of time. To Mr Douglas Mwonzora the wait was just too much and he made sure that the tables were turned to his favour. The only way was to hide under constitutionalism whe...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 15:06hrs | | by Leonard Koni
How can a brutalised nation stand with abusive regime?
YOUR Excellency, President ED Mnangagwa,At times I believe the main reason Zimbabweans are still standing today in spite of the political, economic, physical, and emotional brutalisation they ...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 06:05hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
How can a brutalized Zimbabwean nation be expected to stand with their abusive regime in international re-engangement?
At times I believe the main reason Zimbabweans are still standing today, in spite of the political, economic, physical, and emotional brutalization they have endured at the cold-hearted and blood-drip...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Displacement of indigenous people from their ancestoral land proves Zimbabwe regime a continuation of colonialism
It has never been in doubt to most of us that, the 1980 government, that came into power in Zimbabwe, was nothing more than a British project, which had been created to hijack the genuine and gallant ...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 12:33hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Vice President Mohadi's weapon of mass destruction misfired or was he trapped?
One American writer by the name Samantha Rose Hill once said" we can shout truth to power and it will never be heard, because truth and politics don't stand on common ground"So how vulnerable ...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 23:34hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Exactly just how does Zimbabwe's ZANU PF expect South Africa to 'rein in' SABC's Mokoena - the Hopewell Chin'ono way?
As tensions between Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU PF party, and South Africa's ANC intensify - after the telling threats uttered by the former's director of information, Tafadzwa Mugwadi, as he, typical of t...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 12:10hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
South Africa now feeling the consequences of its own myopic irresponsible policies towards Zimbabwe
Each and everyone of us has a family, has friends, and lives in a community - and, there is one common thread between all these: a strong sense of peer review, as we have a responsibility towards one ...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 18:52hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's SRC ready for Fifa sanctions
THE Sports and Recreation Commission have said they will not be bullied by threats of FIFA sanctions, to force them to compromise their mission, to deal with issues they believe are holding back the d...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nkomo 1983 Prophetic Letter to Mugabe
DR. JOSHUA M. NKOMO2 Stevenage RoadEast Ham E6 2WLLondon United Kingdom7th June 1983 Dear Robert,1. I write to you as a citizen of Zimbabwe and one of the leade...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 13:58hrs | 12 | by Dr Joshua M Nkomo
Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics
The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | 3 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
The Christian attack against the native family and The Native Religion Beyond Jerusalem! Rome and London
"I have travelled across the length and breath of africa and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief such wealth I have seen in this country such high moral values, people of ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:36hrs | | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Zanu-PF turning country into a graveyard
ZIMBABWE hit the headlines this week as the world pondered in stunned silence how a government big on rhetoric and dismal on delivery has spectacularly squandered the goodwill of the international com...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:54hrs | | by Brezh Malaba
Job Sikhala offered $5 000 bail
MDC Deputy National Job Sikhala was offered $50 000 bail by the state on Monday morning. Sikhala was however, freed on Z$5,000 bail by a court in Masvingo.Ju...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 10:03hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Call To Investigate Ingwebu Breweries
Mthwazi Republic Party is concerned with the rumours of corruption and the abuse of workers and corporate governance at Ingwebu Breweries in Bulawayo. We call upon the City authorities to swiftl...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 12:12hrs | 2 | by MRP
Mnangagwa must heed voices from South Africa
There are press reports that the South African Ambassador to Zimbabwe,Mr. Mbete,said that Mnangagwa must have an External Credible Dialogue Facilitator.Elsewhere, a senior ANC member Fikile Mbalula is...Published: 21 May 2019 at 10:34hrs | 7 | by Mkhululi Zulu
Dembare is sinking and very fast
WE are sinking fast. I had always believed that the only person who could take Dynamos FC to the top is Sunday Chidzambwa and his firing in 1991 had been wrong. In my view, Sunday is the greatest coac...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Memory Mucherahowa
Gukurahundi genocide healing must include 'truth-telling'
The Movement for Democratic Change says bringing closure to victims of the Gukurahundi genocide must involve a "comprehensive programme of truth-telling."The Gukurahundi was a series of atroci...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 21:08hrs | 8 | by ZimLive
Diaspora lay flowers for the #shutdown victims on steps of The Zimbabwe Embassy - demand an end to state-sponsored murders and a
London - Saturday 9 February 2019 - Diaspora Protestors carrying flowers staged a demonstration outside the Zimbabwe Embassy in London calling for an end to the wave of murders which have taken place ...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 17:06hrs | | by Kingstone Jambawo
Mnangagwa's military crackdown a reincarnation of Gukurahundi
We, the deeply concerned, patriots of Zimbabwe living here in the United States, are here because we have a problem, a problem of State-sponsored terror and atrocities ordered and sanctioned by someon...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Pearl Matibe
Chief Ndiweni calls for transitional govt
NTABAZINDUNA Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has called for the formation of a transitional authority to resolve Zimbabwe's escalating economic and political crises, but said the ruling Zanu-PF p...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu backs Chief Maduna on Petitioning President Mnangagwa to address Gukurahundi issue
The Dumiso Dabengwa led Zimbabwe's oldest opposition party Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu) has declared its support for the Matabeleland elderly chief Vezi Maduna Mafu for petitioni...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:25hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Police crush teachers' protest demo
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has alleged that police boss in Marondera Chief Superintendent Nenguwo has instructed his officers to block their protest march which moved fro...Published: 15 Dec 2018 at 11:07hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Massive teachers' demo over salary and bonus cuts
Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has announced that it is engaging in a series of industrial targeted at the minister of Finance to force them to respond to teachers' concerns....Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 15:03hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
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