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ANC of Ramaphosa must brace itself for a messy implosion
For over six months, everyone argued about whether there would be consequences for former state president Jacob Zuma's action to support the Umkhonto WeSizwe Party (MKP) in the last national and provi...Published: 02 Aug 2024 at 07:00hrs | 176 | by Nkosikhulule Nyembezi
Top tips to play poker the next time
If you know how to play poker, you know how fun it can be. And if you don't, it's time to learn. You don't need to wati for weekends or a party to play. Instead, you can do it online on sites like ...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 08:23hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
'Lying' Coventry, Kamambo in bare knuckle fight
SUSPENDED Zifa board members have accused Sports minister Kirsty Coventry of lying under oath, following her recent claims in Parliament that she stepped in and fired them after they failed to account...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'West wants to partition Russia like USSR'
The Russian president accuses the US and its allies of seeking to subjugate his countryRussia is under an attack by the West, which wants the country to be broken up into warring pieces, Presi...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 20:22hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa-Tagwirei links getting clearer
THE other day I was talking to a respected colleague who said something that got me thinking hard and long.The colleague — who, sure, has access to President Emmerson Mnangagwa now and then ...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:49hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
If you sow mischief, you harvest grief
IN 2019, Zimbabwe experienced three days of darkness between January 14 and January 17.It seemed looneys had broken from the asylum and set fire on the tinderbox.Chaos and madness reig...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
What is holding back Zimbabwe - perverse Zanu-PF and MDC entente cordiale
There is no doubt that ever since the 2008 to 2013 GNU there was mutual understanding, a cordial agreement, a "entente cordiale" as the French would say, struck between Zanu-PF and MDC. MDC was suppos...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:29hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
New Zanu-PF/ MDC GNU is 'ordained by God' - brainwashing Magaba theology at its worst
"I know some of you have been saying 'why are you praying'. There is no dialogue between man and man which is not ordained by God. Now that we have dialogued with God, we have to dialogue man and man;...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 15:19hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
16 August demos echoes 2017 coup marches, Mnangagwa abused us then and now Chamisa's turn
"Now that we have dialogued with our God, we have to dialogue between man and man. To be able to do that, we have to take some very practical steps going forward and those decisive steps are going to ...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 08:08hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'MDC does not discuss strategies on twitter' - never had any, dare you to name just one
Opposition MDC President Nelson Chamisa has refused to divulge his party's strategy and plans on social media.Chamisa was responding to a Twitter user who asked for a way forward in relation t...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 09:05hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
There goes Mnangagwa bluffing, yet again!
History has a rich record of dumb presidents, so you really don't worry too much when President Emmerson Mnangagwa forgets the name of the National Sports Stadium or messes up simple math during a pol...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
'ED in fix as prices soar and workers ask for more money' - déjà vu, now it us in fix
"ED in fix …. as government workers want more money" screamed the Daily News Live headlines! "With only less than a month gone after their pay cheques were reviewed upwards, government worke...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 22:58hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Graft remains Zimbabwe's national sickness
The aftermath of one of Zimbabwe's most remarkable harmonised elections in recent history has been marked by a heightened sense of national anxiety.There is a curious mixture of great hope and...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 08:01hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
Chamisa calls Mnangangwa bluff on devolution
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has claimed President Emmerson Mnangagwa was bluffing on his promises to implement devolution, accusing him of violating the Constitution by appointing Ministers of State for...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Electoral offences
With the elections some days away, emotions are heating up and the rate of election-related crimes and offences is also rising.Some crimes are being committed intentionally and some unintentio...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 11:31hrs | | by Miriam Tose Majome
'SADC throw MDC petition in the dustbin,' reports Herald - bloated Chamisa balloon is deflating fast
The blatant cheating and wanton violence of 2008 elections have proven one thing beyond all doubt - that Zimbabwe cannot hold free, fair and credible elections without first doing something to take aw...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 16:11hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'No reform, no elections!' threaten Chamisa - for once he is not bluffing, wheels are flying off the bullet train
Chamisa threatens to withdraw from the elections; he has bluffed in the past but this time events beyond his control are force him to withdraw - the wheels are flying off the Chamisa bullet train! ...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 17:10hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'ED wetting himself after demo,' says Muchaiwa - nonsense, MDC will ignore all 'red lines' reforms, as usual
"After the peaceful electoral reforms demonstrations in Harare on Tuesday the 5th of June 2018 and a statement on Mnangagwa's "no action" position by the American Senator Chris Coons, I bet Mnangagwa ...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 16:08hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa gives EU MDC's 2018 'deal breaker' reforms - bluffing, no reforms and will never boycott
MDC leaders are corrupt and incompetent, that is a given, and they have proven this beyond all reasonable doubt during the GNU when the failed to get even one democratic reform implemented in five yea...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 07:26hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa's Joshua moment, Mawarire's Mandela wish
Call it irony. Call it fate. Or, just how circumstances can ruin a good story, which is enough a nightmare for us journalists.Two days ago, the New Zimbabwe website carried an interview from a...Published: 30 Sep 2017 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai: Grand defeat or a grand face-saver?
FIVE issues have had a profound influence in the writing of this piece; President Mugabe says the opposition faces a grand defeat in 2018.Zanu-PF wins Mwenezi East by-election: yet another mas...Published: 12 Apr 2017 at 06:26hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Around claims of a dying Zanu-PF
One question many of my readers pose and even criticise me for is taking contrary thoughts too seriously. I fully understand where my readers are coming from. We have become a virtual community of opi...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mugabe is 'Everready battery ready' for 2018 - if elections were free, the battery would be dead!
"Zanu PF is ever ready (for 2018 elections). You know that battery, which is written Everready, always yielding power. We stand ready all the time," President Mugabe said.With billions of doll...Published: 22 Feb 2017 at 07:35hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Plot to oust Mugabe exposed
THE plot to push President Robert Mugabe out of office has thickened, amid reports the opposition MDC-T has rekindled its impeachment motion in Parliament and wants the matter treated as urgent....Published: 11 Aug 2016 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru has secret plans to stop vote rigging - euphemism for being clueless
Mai Mujuru has poured ice cold water on the idea of the opposition forming a coalition."Those that make the assertion have reasons to support their observation. It could be a way, but not a gr...Published: 03 Jul 2016 at 21:16hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Mugabe's promises to war veterans met with scorn amid discontent
President Robert Mugabe's critics have dismissed as cheap politicking his claims that he would relinquish power anytime if his party or the people of Zimbabwe told him to. The long-ruling leader c...Published: 11 Apr 2016 at 11:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe bluffing, trip to China wont stop economic meltdown!
The West imposed sanctions on Mugabe in 2002 and he countered by announcing his "Look East" policy. But as the Zimbabwe economy continued to go down the tube Mugabe reverted to the mantra of blaming t...Published: 08 Sep 2014 at 11:58hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe is destroying not saving Zanu-PF
President Robert Mugabe has for long claimed that he cannot leave Zanu-PF because doing so would cause the party to disintegrate. He has used that claim to justify his overstay but is clearly bluffing...Published: 30 Aug 2014 at 15:00hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Mugabe should read the riot act to his security generals first
President Mugabe, whether he was bluffing or working on a new propaganda plan for his party as we approach elections, promised the world that Zimbabwe will and are capable of hosting free and f...Published: 04 Jun 2013 at 17:23hrs | | by David Hwangwa
June 29 elections - Mugabe bluffing
One has to give it to the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, for he has a way of throwing a cat among pigeons.His bluff call for elections by the dissolution of parliament n...Published: 24 May 2013 at 07:06hrs | | by Tabani Moyo
Mugabe's speech at the 12th Zanu-PF Annual People's Conference in full
On behalf of our Party, the Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front, I warmly greet and welcome you all to our 12th Annual National People's Conference which is being hosted by the Bulawayo ...Published: 09 Dec 2011 at 18:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Neighbours attack 'cheating' wife over hubby's suicide
Sisasenkosi Chitonho (22) narrowly escaped being beaten up by vengeful neighbours yesterday after being implicated in her husband's suicide. The police had to shield her from an angry crowd that was b...Published: 29 Jun 2011 at 20:13hrs | 1 | by Mafu Sithabile
Fears Growing of Mugabe's Iron Grip Over Zimbabwe
HARARE: The warning signs are proliferating. Journalists have been harassed and jailed. Threats of violence are swirling in the countryside. The president's supposed partner in the government has bee...Published: 26 Dec 2010 at 03:18hrs | | by nytimes
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