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Zapu slams Zimbabwe's new currency ZiG
The 'mother' party ZAPU says as long as the country lacks legitimacy derived from free and fair elections, people will have no faith in a currency produced in Zimbabwe.On April 5, 2024, the ne...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 21:08hrs | | 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 | 1 | by Dr Obert Moses Mpofu
Zimbabwe's post-election government appointments are a circus of madness!
So, the elections are over in Zimbabwe!In as much as their conduct and outcome is still hotly disputed by the opposition - a justifiable and legitimate cause, considering how the election was ...Published: 22 Sep 2023 at 16:09hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Election buzz has not gripped Zimbabwe
ELECTION 2023, A FIRST IN 43 YEARS: As Zimbabwe holds a General Election in the Heroes & Defence Forces MonthWhen it comes to the meaning of things whose spiritual force can move mou...Published: 25 May 2023 at 18:46hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Jonathan Moyo takes a dig at Chamisa
EXILED former Cabinet Minister Jonathan Moyo has dismissed any chance of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) President Nelson Chamisa unseating Zanu-PF's Emmerson Mnangagwa and declared Zimbabwe's wan...Published: 23 May 2023 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF has been in power for 42 years so let's not pretend as if we've new government!
I am always flabbergasted when listening to senior government officials in their attempts at convincing the citizenry that development cannot be expected to occur overnight, as the country was being b...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 12:43hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Is it just naivety or simply greed driving POLAD to believe sitting around table with corrupt power-greedy regime will yield res
A few years ago, a dear cousin of mine - who worked quite closely with the then president Robert Gabriel Mugabe, especially in the health sector (having held top positions in both government, and the ...Published: 20 May 2022 at 10:23hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Basics run out of Zimbabwe shelves
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's recent economic pronouncements have reportedly triggered a shortage of most locally-manufactured basic commodities in most retail shops...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
The day Nelson Chamisa 'won' Zambian elections
Yesterday the world woke up to the news of the confirmation of Zambia's 12, August 2021 elections results. Opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) leader, Hakainde Hichilema had beaten...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:15hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Looting cripples MDC-Alliance operations
Zimbabweans in the Diaspora and sponsors of the MDC Alliance have threatened to stop contributing funds to the party's financial coffers following reports of mass looting of donated funds by the party...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 14:15hrs | | by Innocent Mujeri
Eswatini revolution today and Zimbabwe tomorrow: Catharsis in the words of Franz Fanon
"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better," wrote a theologian Richard Hooker in the 16th century. Confronted with a dilemma on one hand: Violence is a tool in which Zimbabw...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 19:49hrs | | 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 | 7 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Death threats for Tendai Biti
MDC alliance vice-president Tendai Biti yesterday said unknown assailants besieged his law firm while others called on his mobile phone threatening him with death over his remarks that Zanu-PF was res...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges Zimbabweans to stop attending private parties
Zimbabwe's ex-Finance minister and opposition MDC Alliance deputy leader Tendai Biti says the fact that the country's key political leaders and their business cronies are under Covid-19 siege locally ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF to blame for COVID-19 deaths'
MDC ALLIANCE vice-president Tendai Biti has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of deliberately imprisoning opponents and critics in COVID-19-infested jails as a way of exterminating the...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti claims Mnangagwa want to exterminate rivals through COVID-19
MDC ALLIANCE vice president Tendai Biti has accused the Emmerson Mnangagwa led government of deliberately imprisoning opponents and critics in Covid-19 infested jails to try and exterminate them throu...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
We look up to the MDC Alliance
After successfully submitting my doctoral disquisition in October 2019, I thought of taking a three-month break as I waited for my examiners' feedback. This meant travelling to South Africa where my w...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 10:13hrs | | by Mutsa Murenje in Queensland, Australia
Unity can never be built on mass graves
For thirty three years now, Zimbabwe has been celebrating, disguised as unity, loss of tens of thousands of lives for ZANU PF political expediency.What ZANU PF failed to achieve by way o...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 13:22hrs | 6 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Biti's sensational take on state of the Zimbabwe economy
MDC-ALLIANCE vice president Tendai Biti painted a bleak picture of the state of the economy this week in what he called the "State of the Economy Address". Many in Zimbabwe and abroad would find his t...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti slams govt over 'economic malaise'
MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti yesterday slammed the ruling Zanu-PF party for presiding over "economic malaise", accusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of being "incompetent"....Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dirty things happen at Mnangagwa's State House
An unsaid but angry war is raging in the State Residences department as you fret over the prices of essential commodities, government's cluelessness to fix the economy and, of course, the swarm of cor...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 19:00hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Chamisa's MDC at crossroads: Damned if they do, damned if they don't
FOR the best part of the last 12 months, the MDC has been threatening to roll out demonstrations and mass protests to either force President Emmerson Mnangagwa out of power or at least to the negotiat...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
The reluctant reformer, Mnangagwa is thy name
IT'S nearly a year since Emmerson Mnagangwa (ED) was sworn as the President of Zimbabwe after the disputed July 2018 elections.The common talk among many is that Zimbabwe should be better than...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Rashweat Mukundu
'Mnangagwa out of touch with reality'
The opposition MDC has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of being divorced from reality, claiming his views and understanding of the situation obtaining on the ground do no tally with the current s...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
What leaders? No more than tortoises sitting atop lamp posts
I decided in the new year to return Kuumba, my beautiful pet tortoise, to his wild, natural habitat of Matojeni.Besides my amazing wife, few sights and few life experiences have left a greater...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 10:54hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye
Mnangagwa's Cabinet fails to sit
Cabinet failed to sit on Tuesday despite the fact that President Emmerson Mnangagwa had to cut short his annual leave to attend to a crippling strike by doctors in public hospitals.Cabinet is ...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa plots opposition clampdown
THE panicky government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly put its security arms on high alert as part of measures to clamp down on leaders of opposition parties, non-governmental organisat...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fadzayi Mahere exposes 'Tax scam'
Chinese companies in Zimbabwe have not been paying tax since 2012 human rights lawyer Fadzayi Mahere has sensationally claimed.Posting on micro blogging site Twitter Mahere said, "A country th...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 08:13hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Pay the doctors and save lives
The government must quickly and effectively resolve the issue of Medical practitioners' welfare to avoid further crippling of the health delivery system and avoid loss of life.The ongoing medi...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 15:10hrs | 4 | by Dr. Henry Madzorera, MDC National Secretary for Health
'Budget is full of illegalities' says Tendai Biti
Former Finance Minister Tendai has shred the budget statement by Minister Mthuli Ncube calling it a load of confusion, illegalities and contradictions. In a series of frenzied tweets on ...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 14:08hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe political union running out of ideas
The MDC Alliance has announced its intention to stage a demonstration in Harare's city centre this week to protest against aspects of ongoing preparations for July 30 2018.An examination of th...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC Alliance demo: Political union running out of ideas
The MDC Alliance has announced its intention to stage a demonstration in Harare's city centre this week to protest against certain aspects of the ongoing preparations for the 30 July 2018. An examinat...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 08:54hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chamisa's statement on the death of Tsvangirai
From humble beginnings, a giant was born. President Morgan Tsvangirai was a champion of the workers' struggle, a doyen of democracy, a diplomat and a statesman---all rolled into one.Zimbabwe, ...Published: 15 Feb 2018 at 13:18hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa
Disunity, confusion, cluelessness and power hunger = 3 coalitions
One would say we want change and yes it is time to bring the necessary change we have been yearning for the past decades under one man rule yet in the face of that opportunity we become even more divi...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 10:18hrs | | by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya
The MDC-T has failed Harare residents
The MDC-T has been in charge of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare for the past 17 years and, despite promising "change" for better times, it has been one monumental disappointment. The Party has even appoint...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 14:09hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zimbabwe now back to 2008 doom
Experts have issued a fresh warning that the country is now a touch away from an economic disaster similar to the meltdown of 2008 when local inflation hit world record levels and supermarket shelves ...Published: 24 Sep 2017 at 16:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Moyo takes dig at Chiyangwa over red card
THE shocking decision by Zifa boss Philip Chiyangwa to rescind Dynamos striker Christian Eupopa's red card after he head-butted Highlanders defender Peter Muduhwa has proved to be comedy gold for come...Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Joshua Nkomo could have saved Zimbabwe'
THE Dumiso Dabengwa-led Zapu has claimed Zimbabwe would not be facing the grinding socio-economic crisis had the late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo lived longer, arguing he had a growth and rebuilding a...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mpandare is paradoxically blocking players from playing for the warriors
I am happy ladies and gentlemen who love this most beautiful game of football/soccer that is always never short of feelings,hatred and emotions.The reason why I am happy is not because of my h...Published: 08 Jun 2017 at 20:15hrs | | by Wilson Chipangura
'Tsvangirai will be an albatross round nation's neck,' predicted US Ambassador - so it is
"A discerning man, when he eats grapes, takes only the ripe ones and leaves the sour," said John Climacus. You know what, John was right. In this world there are those who seemed destined to e...Published: 29 May 2017 at 20:26hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
The resurgence of the democratic movement in Zimbabwe
It might have taken long in coming but the past few months have seen the much-awaited resurgence of the democratic movement in Zimbabwe.For a long time, this is what the people of Zimbabwe hav...Published: 29 May 2017 at 12:55hrs | | by Morgan Richard Tsvangirai
The poison of Dokora's goats and Chinamasa's recipe
The People's Democratic Party has always argued that ZANUPF can steal all the elections but will not manage to rig the economy; science has proven that the rules and principles of economics cannot be ...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 06:22hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Mugabe told use Sona to announce resignation
Opposition parties have told President Robert Mugabe to use Thursday's State of the Nation Address (Sona) to announce his retirement as he no longer has any viable solutions to extricate Zimbabwe ...Published: 29 Nov 2016 at 09:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition takes Mugabe head-on
OPPOSITION parties under the banner of the National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) have launched a court battle against Statutory Instrument 101a of 2016, which banned protests in Harare for two weeks...Published: 04 Sep 2016 at 14:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru, Tsvangirai marriage close
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai says a coalition with other opposition parties including former vice president Joice Mujuru's Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) is now close as the country gears for the...Published: 21 Aug 2016 at 09:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Khupe's #Beatthepot Harare demo still on'
EMBATTLED MDC-T vice president Thokozani Khupe said the women-only #Beatthepot protest against President Robert Mugabe's misrule will take place in Harare in a fortnight, as their party is current...Published: 07 Aug 2016 at 19:39hrs | 47 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai to lead Masvingo demo
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will lead MDC's demonstration against President Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF's misrule in Masvingo tomorrow.Tsvangirai's spokesperson, Luke Tamborinyoka, told ...Published: 05 Aug 2016 at 11:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
'My cancer better than Mugabe's misrule,' says Tsvangirai
MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai is suffering from serious illness - colon cancer - but still has time to throw a jibe at President Robert Mugabe - describing his handling of the country as worse t...Published: 18 Jul 2016 at 13:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's remarks to the press (15 July 2016)
We meet in the context of two developments that have shaken our country and greatly disturbed the spirits of the people of Zimbabwe.The first is my health condition which I disclosed to the pe...Published: 15 Jul 2016 at 10:39hrs | | by Morgan Tsvangirai
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