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Chamisa’s tasteless, infantile politicking regrettable
Losing Presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa, who is now a political orphan, for the umpteenth time chose to ridicule the man who walloped him during the 2023 Harmonised General elections, President ...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 09:51hrs | 3 | by Tonderai Ndoro
African countries assisted South African independence; payback is Xenophobic actions: blacks on blacks' violence
I quote from Byo24: Former ANC MP and Abantu Batho Congress Councilor in eThekwini, Makhosi Khoza, says South African natives have been shortchanged. Close quote. This is a statement that could cause ...Published: 14 Apr 2024 at 18:55hrs | 34 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Stop Gukurahundi hearings'
STAKEHOLDERS and interest groups in Matabeleland have called on the government to stop the Gukurahundi hearings accusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa of running the project like a personal show....Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 13:44hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa learning that politics is not child's play
POLITICS is no child's play. The opposition CCC are learning that now, the hard way, and they rightfully should. There are always consequences for every action. Miscalculations can be extremely costly...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 08:59hrs | 3 | by Dr Obert Moses Mpofu
Parly candidate caught offside
AN independent National Assembly candidate for Nketa constituency Vincent Bhala is alleged to be "double dipping" after pictures of his not-so-secret night escapades were caught on camera.In a...Published: 04 Aug 2023 at 06:51hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's land ruse fools no one
Apropos Advocate Nelson Chamisa's land remarks at CCC's campaign-launch rally at Mkoba Stadium in Gweru yesterday.The issue is not about how it is being framed either by Advocate Chamisa's det...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 21:56hrs | 14 | by Jonathan Moyo
Residents stampede to join Homeseekers4ED
HUNDREDS of Marondera residents are jostling to join the newly-formed Homeseekers for Economic Development (Homeseekers4ED) in anticipation of getting residential stands.The outfit, which has ...Published: 10 Jul 2023 at 07:21hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa sucked into AFM factional fights
AFM in Zimbabwe president Bishop Amon Madawo has refuted claims he ordered Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa to leave the church and focus on politics.Madawo told NewZi...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 20:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Azania Azania Azania! You are not an Island
Bulawayo - The first time I entered my primary school, 1988 at the assembly point after singing the national anthem, it was a mandatory to sing a song called Azania sympathising with our fellow contin...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 19:48hrs | 16 | by Enos Denhere
Zanu-PF, Chamisa's MDC trying to gain mileage using Mutare bus disaster hero
THE MDC Alliance Mashonaland West leadership Monday paid a visit to Sirizani Butau, the man who has made headlines last week after saving eight people trapped in a burning bus following an accident al...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:13hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Inevitably Zimbabwe is next!
This is the painful truth we dread to talk about in Zimbabwe consideration the South African volatile situation. Realizing that the unrest taking place in South Africa are poverty induced, lock-down-i...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 17:27hrs | 5 | by Nomazulu Thata
Constitutional amendments, the opposition's frustrations
Last week, President Mnangagwa signed into law two amendments to the Constitution, much to the chagrin and frustration of his detractors and anti-Government elements in the opposition and the civil so...Published: 13 May 2021 at 06:45hrs | 12 | by Nobleman Runyanga
NCA condemns defections
THE National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) makes this statement in light of the alleged "defections" by senior and ordinary members of various factions of the MDC who have been in recent days making h...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:06hrs | | by Madock Chivasa NCA spokesperson
President Magufuli: Letter to Prof. Lumumba of Kenya Cc. Energy Mutodi; Bcc African Presidents
Dear Professor Lumumba, Comrade Energy Mutodi is having his last laugh: he was spot on. He told us the bare truth about the President of Tanzania; the way he is handling the global pandemic wa...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF goes after nurses
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has accused nurses of working with the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance, saying their tendency to go on strike from time to time was meant to distabilise President Emmerson Mna...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief Ndiweni's dilemma: A balanced analysis
The obfuscation of issues seems to have reached unprecedented levels and it is therefore necessary for sober voices and sound arguments to be part of the national discourse to preclude the noise from ...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 08:46hrs | 4 | by L Dube
Chamisa stop window dressing
Leader of the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC-A), Nelson Chamisa, has proven beyond reasonable doubt that he is the king of selfies, that he is the master of window dressing and an expert...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 14:52hrs | 1 | by Prosperity Mzila
'Chamisa to be arrested,' says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday warned that opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa could be arrested if he continues to incite his supporters to picket at the Zimbabwe Electoral Commissi...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zvorwadza urges vendors to embrace new dispensation
Informal traders in the Midlands Province have been urged to support the new dispensation and spurn attempts by some political parties to influence them against participating in the economic developme...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 07:24hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
All road lead to Dotito - Mujuru party
Revolutionary greetings dear comrades. It is that time when an organisation has to campaign vigorously for the elections. NPP and the PRC alliance are ready to campaign, they are an oiled machine.&nbs...Published: 17 May 2018 at 14:46hrs | 1 | by Khulani David Ndhlovu
Chamisa speeches expose his folly
When one squeezes an orange one gets orange juice, similarly when one squeezes a lemon they get the bitter taste of lemon juice and not orange juice. It would appear that the election fever and ...Published: 09 May 2018 at 15:24hrs | | by Prosperity Mzila
Mutezo distances self from Chivayo solar project tender
FORMER Energy deputy minister Munacho Mutezo has distanced himself from controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo's Gwanda solar energy project, declaring that he was ready to appear before a parliam...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 05:54hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Hurricane Unstoppable: Watching from the terraces - A big Sunday Muzamhindo
Chamisa's ascendancy to power has touched the storms of Harare and indeed it is now hurricane and unstoppable, he got the opportunity and he struck on his competitors. He saw the opportunity and he st...Published: 19 Feb 2018 at 16:29hrs | 3 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Khupe speaks on Tsvangirai
MDC vice president Thokozani Khupe yesterday poured scorn on the party's national council's decision to name Nelson Chamisa as successor to Morgan Tsvangirai.Khupe broke her silence for the fi...Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 22:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe speaks on Chamisa's move
HARARE - MDC vice president Thokozani Khupe yesterday poured scorn on the party's national council's decision to name Nelson Chamisa as successor to Morgan Tsvangirai.Khupe broke her silence f...Published: 17 Feb 2018 at 21:36hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Khupe apologises
RE: Information On The Funeral Wake Of The Late Right Honourable Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai And The Immediate Events Around It.Fellow Zimbabweans, I h...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 15:14hrs | 1 | by Dr Thokozani Khupe
Advocate Chamisa remains people's choice and favourite
The current political dynamics of the main opposition MDC T favours Chamisa to be the front runner and Tsvangirai's successor. Generally on the ground you can easily tell that people have already made...Published: 10 Feb 2018 at 12:07hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
MDC-T accused of politicking on debt firm
MDC-T councillors have been accused of politicking at the expense of service delivery after their renewed effort to cancel Wellcash Debt Collectors' contract barely a month after re-engaging them. ...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 05:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu, chief tiff gets uglier
RELATIONS between Macro-Economic Planning minister and MP for Umguza Obert Mpofu and Ntabazinduna chief Nhlanhlayemangwe Ndiweni have become so strained that they have now attracted the attention of b...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 13:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai to to stop complaining about Mugabe's misrule
FORMER MDC-T Bulawayo senator, Matson Hlalo, has challenged Morgan Tsvangirai to stop complaining over President Robert Mugabe's misrule without doing anything to assist the electorate get rid of the ...Published: 16 Aug 2017 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chief Ndiweni's 'messengers' arrested
THIRTEEN villagers from Ntabazinduna appeared in court yesterday for allegedly pulling down a fence and destroying a cattle kraal at the homestead of a local villager.The complainant, Mr Fetti...Published: 29 Jul 2017 at 10:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Access to Information vital come Elections 2018
In a one day learning meeting held at Meikles hotel in Harare on Wednesday, hosted by Hivos for its partners and friends, it was commonly agreed that social media should be firmly embraced as it is no...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 19:35hrs | 2 | by Anwell Bepe - Patsaka Correspondent
Grace Mugabe escalates fight with villagers
GOVERNMENT has cleared the remaining villagers at Manzou Farm to make way for First Lady Grace Mugabe's business expansion and the reported establishment of a national monument, an official has confir...Published: 10 May 2017 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mliswa representing himself through cheap politics,' says Dr Killer
The war of words between Zimbabwe Amalgamated Housing Association (ZAHA) director Dr Killer Zivhu and Norton legislator Mr Temba Mliswa over the Galloway housing project in the area has escalated....Published: 09 May 2017 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's 'chair' gift draws scorn
Zimbabwe's 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe received a special chair as a belated 93rd birthday gift from his Cabinet, a present which the main opposition quickly used to question whether Afric...Published: 06 Apr 2017 at 10:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira condemns Harare-Copakabana hygienic conditions!
She is dead right for once. I agree with Linda Masarira that the conditions in our capital Harare-Copacabana are a serious threat to health. But it is not in Harare alone: in all town and cities...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 15:56hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zanu-PF in populism overdrive
WHILE opposition parties are busy bickering over the establishment of a coalition, the ruling Zanu-PF party is actively perfecting its elections winning formula, based on populism.With Sate ma...Published: 09 Feb 2017 at 06:00hrs | | by Alois Vinga
Open Letter to Joice Mujuru - Stand down gracefully
Dear Comrade Joyce Runaida Mujuru: YOUR TIME IS UP! Stand down gracefully from Zimbabwe politics at once! You have become irrelevant to current politics of Zimbabwe Runaida Mujuru! Your dignit...Published: 09 Feb 2017 at 02:24hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
We Want devolution! Not secessionism! Siqhubumthetho thank you for your insightful article
How many times have I been insulted by this very invisible person called Xoxani Ngxoxo. He wrote big English than me and he told me in writing that I am an average person: to be precise, a middle fing...Published: 31 Dec 2016 at 22:38hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Army has a right to comment on civil matters- Mutodi
Zanu PF outspoken youth member Energy Mutodi has said the members of the Defence Forces have a right to comment on any civil matters as they are also affected by such issues.This come at a tim...Published: 15 Nov 2016 at 15:57hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe's Lancaster House Accord needs amendment
I am writing this article in part to try and offer a viable solution for Zimbabwean democracy, and in part for regional peace in Southern Africa. The agreement which ushered in a democratic Zimb...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 13:58hrs | | by Ken Sibanda
Mujuru told to avoid talking about Gukurahundi to win Matabeleland vote
Zimbabwe People First's provincial coordinator for Matabeleland North has told the party's interim leader Joice Mujuru to avoid talking about Gukurahundi if she has any hopes of winning in the pro...Published: 21 Aug 2016 at 10:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cheap media, cheap politics?
Something that appeared on one news website yesterday really got us to ponder: have the media become so cheap to the extent that it has become easy for the exploitation by characters of all colours an...Published: 19 Mar 2016 at 11:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa stop being a hypocrite
The recent claim by MDC-T Kuwadzana East MP, Nelson Chamisa that funds meant for by-elections should be channeled towards paying civil servants' bonuses should not be tolerated but dismissed with due ...Published: 05 Feb 2016 at 08:13hrs | | by Sibusiso Ndlamini
There is no room for economic saboteurs
It is disheartening and disturbing that Owen Kuwacha a leader of a minor opposition party, namely Zimbabwe People's Front and his three colleagues were recently engaged in a negative move of attemptin...Published: 27 Jan 2016 at 10:13hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano
'Bonuses not a right,' says Jonathan Moyo
HIGHER and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has said some workers - including civil servants - seeking bonuses do not deserve the 13th cheque as they were "non-performers and drunkards"....Published: 08 Jan 2016 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF will not lose sleep over PF
The recent claim by the private media that ZANU-PF was in the panic mode following a meeting that was held at former ZANU-PF Secretary for Administration, Didymus Mutasa should not be taken seriously ...Published: 05 Jan 2016 at 14:06hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano
Zanu-PF by-election scandal deepens
The damaging claims that Zanu-PF winning candidate for Hurungwe West Keith Guzah may not have been registered to vote in the constituency in last week's by-elections - which could see him losing his p...Published: 21 Jun 2015 at 14:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere under fire for MDC-T slur
Zanu-PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has come under attack for claiming that opposition MDC-T had caused the collapse of companies in Bulawayo. Kasukuwere on Sunday urged Bulaway...Published: 19 May 2015 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rugare Gumbo is a political coward
The spokesperson of the Mujuru cabal, Rugare Gumbo should be ashamed for making wrong uninformed decisions on the former Vice President Joice Mujuru's political career. In one of the local...Published: 11 May 2015 at 09:07hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano
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