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Donald Trump's bold plan to dismantle the 'Deep State'
In a sweeping statement, former President Donald Trump has outlined his comprehensive plan to dismantle what he refers to as the "Deep State," a term he uses to describe the entrenched bureaucratic ap...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 07:56hrs | 1696 | by Staff reporter
Why Kamala Harris Lost and How Donald Trump Won: A Deep Analysis of the 2024 US Election
Today I am mourning, but this too shall favour me - Donald Trump's victory and Kamala Harris's loss carry lessons for us all. She joined the race just 107 days ago, facing a former president who began...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 12:43hrs | 1744 | by Ifeanyi Abraham
Vaaz not a Replica of MDC VAA nor a Mwonzora Baby: Veteran Activists Association Zimbabwe (VAAZ)
We've seen unscrupulous career politicians attempting to mislead the nation into believing the Veteran Activists for Democracy kowtow to Mwonzora. NADA, we all hate him and his entourage with a passio...Published: 23 May 2024 at 23:11hrs | 38 | by Mandava Blessing VAAZ Spokesperson
An open letter to Nero
Hello incoming President of Zimbabwe. Hope this letter find you in good health.The proof of the pudding is in the eating. The people want to taste you.Age is still on your side and you...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 22:38hrs | 3 | by Leonard Koni
CCC recalls: Hope is a finite resource
HOW is one Sengezo Tshabangu's recalls of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Members of Parliament a dress-rehearsal for politics of manipulation and inconsistence in Zimbabwe?For students of...Published: 18 Nov 2023 at 19:44hrs | 2 | by Sharon Hofisi
Chamisa set to run CCC with unelected officials
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has advised career politicians within his party to form their own if not happy with his leadership style.Addressing CCC Mashonaland Ea...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 11:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says there is no place for career politicians in his CCC
Nelson Chamisa, the leader of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has advised career politicians within his party who are unhappy with his leadership style to form their own party. He made these ...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 06:29hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Politics now highest paying job in Zimbabwe'
Zimbabwe Socio Economic Democrats (ZSD) party President Nkosikhona Ndlovu has said politics was now the highest paying job in the country as evidenced by internal squabbles in the ruling party and som...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 16:11hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF buys its 2023 election candidates 4x4s
Zanu-PF is holding a winter school for its heavily pampered election candidates, while the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is still in the process of selecting candidates ahead of the 23 August ge...Published: 08 Jun 2023 at 09:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
An acid test for Zimbabwe's opposition parties
EVERY institution is bound by a code of conduct which helps an organisation to run professionally and within the parameters of operations.There are several kinds of codes of conduct which the ...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
A clinical test for the opposition
Every institution is bound with the code of conduct which helps an organisation to run professionally and within the parameters of operations....Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Khupe mocked for dramatic endorsing Chamisa
MDC Alliance spokesperson Witness Dube has described MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe as an old yellow born who fell off King Lobengula's scorch cart, after her decision to throw her weight behind the ...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 20:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
The calibre of councillors
THE Auditor-General's (AG) Local Authorities Report for 2018 makes for some serious, but disturbing reading.It reports the state of financial management of local authorities and shows the exte...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:18hrs | 3 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Zimbabwe opposition and lost opportunities
Election 2018 was largely considered a landmark event for the different meanings and opportunities that were attached to it, particularly for the new faces in the presidential race, Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Chamisa clause, a view from the other side!
The revolutionary party Zanu-PF's 17th Annual National People's Conference where all representative organs of the party are placing on the table a wide array of policy proposals is currently underway ...Published: 15 Dec 2018 at 09:28hrs | 3 | by Farai Muvuti
Wasted vote went to Chamisa
The behaviour of the opposition in elections was deplorable they entered the race with a warped mind which was bent on creating anarchy and distress. The supporters of the opposition dwell in serious ...Published: 27 Aug 2018 at 06:04hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Vote for me,' Moyo urges Zimbabwe
Leader of the Alliance for People's Agenda Nkosana Moyo has bemoaned that career politicians have mastered the art of monopolizing the political space for decades even when they no longer possess what...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 11:48hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF running scared
Zanu-PF is dangling ambassadorial postings, directorships in parastatal boards and other consolations to aspiring Members of Parliament who lost in its hotly-disputed primary elections to avert electo...Published: 20 May 2018 at 19:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Losing Zanu-PF MPs in rebellion
Zanu-PF legislators who lost in the recently-held primary polls are becoming rebellious in their attitude in the National Assembly which could force the ruling party to rely on the whip system to push...Published: 15 May 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Voters shut out ex-army bosses
The majority of ex-security officials who participated in the just-ended Zanu-PF primary elections were rejected by voters, an indication that the former soldiers are finding it tough to ease into civ...Published: 05 May 2018 at 14:17hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa allies fall
Some of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's key allies fell dramatically in Zanu PF primary polls held between April 29 and May 1, setting the stage for what is promising to be nail-biting general election...Published: 03 May 2018 at 14:03hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in 'bhora musango' dilemma
The uproar over alleged disqualification of preferred candidates by Zanu-PF's career politicians in the party's provincial and district structures has forced the party's national political commissar E...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 13:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
More independent candidates to contest in Zimbabwe's 2018 election
Zimbabwe is such a political savy country and barely a month passes without hearing of a new political party being launched.Another new political party Multi People's Democratic Party of Zimba...Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 17:08hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Will Mugabe's National Patriotic Front project pull the trigger
As we welcome the entrance of the new kid on the block National Patriotic Front into the Zimbabwe's political landscape, we expect voters to critically interrogate the motive behind such mushrooming o...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
A basic solution to Zimbabwe problems
Zimbabwean problems were politically created starting from 1980 when the then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe deliberately turned a blind eye to corruption. In the late eighties he lost one of his senior...Published: 08 Feb 2018 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Chikuni Gaba
'Zanu-PF stronger than ever before'
Opposition parties have been warned against taking Zanu-PF for granted in the forthcoming general elections after it roped in the military elements within its ranks, hence making it stronger than ever...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 11:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to Matebeleland
Dear Proud Citizens of Matebeleland The Land of our Forefathers, the Land of AmaNdebele, AmaXhosa, BaTjowa, BaKalanga, BaNambya, BaSotho, BaTonga, BaTswana and VhaVenda, IS NOT FOR SALE. Our L...Published: 27 Dec 2017 at 09:51hrs | 4 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo
'#Zimbabwe military coup strengthens Zanu-PF'
The current military siege in the country which is meant to push President Robert Mugabe into resigning will most likely benefit the ruling Zanu-PF while on the other hand this might signal the death ...Published: 21 Nov 2017 at 22:02hrs | 3 | by Maxwell Sibanda
Mnangagwa allies jump ship
FORMER Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies, both in the ruling Zanu-PF party and government, reportedly dumped his camp to save their political skin after President Robert Mugabe last week gave...Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZUNDE condemns mushrooming coalitions
Recent reports about the People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) led by Dr Joice Mujuru have invoked mixed reactions. After the creation of Tsvangirai's MDC Alliance and Mangoma's own coalition, Zimbabwe's p...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 10:53hrs | 5 | by Moses Chamboko
Is Zimbabwe 2018 presidential election a choice critical and why?
Zimbabweans need a leader. Better admit it now and put an advertisement. Similarities can be given to an example of having numerous accidents but keeping hiring unqualified drivers because in part the...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 19:43hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Can the real war veteran please stand up?
The Editor, This is June 2017; Zimbabwe is 37 years old. In 2018 Zimbabwe is going to choose a path to either her new high or God forbid new low. After a general election, a new go...Published: 15 Jun 2017 at 13:27hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
I never promised any war vet US$500k, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I was really shocked when Cde Sydney told me of the claims that some rogue war veterans are making … It is being claimed that they were promised U...Published: 18 Nov 2016 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by CZ
A coalition can trump Mugabe and ZANU PF in 2018
In 2008, it took the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) six weeks to release the results of an election in which only 3.2 million people had voted. Given that last week's American election attracted ...Published: 14 Nov 2016 at 06:34hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Hell beckons for Mujuru allies
IT was Aristotle the ancient Greek philosopher who said, "politicians have no leisure because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness".T...Published: 16 Dec 2014 at 11:54hrs | 2 | by Herbert Moyo
Why do we vote for poor leaders promising us riches?
The on-going tussle in Zanu-PF has awoken the country to raw politics. It is crude, uncensored and Live! Even those who have been planning to buy satellite equipment for christmas to get away from...Published: 03 Dec 2014 at 06:54hrs | 10 | by Shingai Mugochi, A lay concerned Zimbabwean
Zim opposition parties in disarray
RUCTIONS within opposition political parties in Zimbabwe have shaken the confidence of those eager to see change in the manner the country's affairs are governed. The country's main opposition politic...Published: 10 Apr 2014 at 10:59hrs | | by Ray Ndlovu
Ezra 'Tshisa', Erick Knight quits active politics
MDC-T losing National Assembly candidates mee have withdrawn their electoral petitions at the Electoral Court, saying they now want to pull out of active politics and go back to their broadcasting ...Published: 25 Oct 2013 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa warns of career politicians who make false promises
Flamboyant Harare businessman who is an aspiring Zanu-PF parliamentary candidate for Chinhoyi, Phillip Chiyangwa, has warned the electorate to guard against career politicians whose only objective i...Published: 24 Jun 2013 at 16:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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