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Mutambara defends his book on Mugabe
PROFESSOR Arthur Mutambara has defended the credibility of his newly published book, which opens a window on the political life of former President Robert Mugabe, who died without writing his memoirs....Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 20:53hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Dzino thinks Mnangagwa was a minor and peripheral player in the liberation struggle
Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)By Professor Arthur G.O. MutambaraI later lose my autographed copy of Wilfred Mhanda's b...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:36hrs | 29 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
Zimbabwe: A nation at crossroads
Good day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, Zimbabwe is dogged by reputational and socio-economic challenges. Consequently, the citizenry is despondent, crying out for commitment to uphol...Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 06:41hrs | | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Rough campaign for opposition as election nears
AS Zimbabwe gears for the polls, opposition members have been arrested, dozens of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) events blocked and the party complains of being given little airtime on national t...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by AFP
Tsvangirai's epic speech on epic day
MEMORY is a site of the struggle. Only in the rubric of yester-year memories can we trace where we have come from so that we use the lessons of the past to forge and sharpen future struggles on the an...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:11hrs | 9 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Mnangagwa to compensate 160,000 more war veterans, ex-detainees
The Zimbabwe government plans to pay one-off gratuities and monthly pensions to a new batch of 160,000 war veterans, war collaborators and ex-political prisoners who missed out during the first round ...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:15hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC says Mnangagwa in panic mode
THE opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa says his party will soon convene an elective congress to choose a leadership amid reports of a tussle for positions as senior ...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 19:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai speaks from the grave
EXACTLY four years ago, the doyen of the country's democratic struggle died. It was only befitting that the late Morgan Richard Tsvangirai would die on Valentine's Day - on the day that the power of l...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
A golden future: Unpacking the new direction
LAST week, Advocate Nelson Chamisa unveiled the Citizens Coalition for Change as the new name of the people's movement. Our old name had been pilfered and Zanunised by the political pirates of our tim...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:28hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Bribes, vicious circle of illegal immigrant re-arrests at Beitbridge border post
Arresting and deporting people trying to cross the Beitbridge border post illegally is a vicious circle and a waste of government resources, according to Home Affairs officials and the police....Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
When desperate, tactless opposition fakes victimhood
Last Monday the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction was at it again. It was involved in skirmishes with the people of Masvingo in an incident which involved the discharge of a firearm.This was all sc...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Grandpa (73) slices privates in suicide bid
THE word suicide or death is not just scary, but too morbid to even imagine or think about.Having been a widower for the past 19 years and depending on his 34-year-old son and daughter-in-law ...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 15:10hrs | | 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
A bad-bye to a bad year
Arsenal's emphatic win over Chelsea at the Emirates stadium on Boxing day lifted my spirits in a tenuous and gloomy year in which the despondent people of this country were boxed down mainly by the tw...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 19:08hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
President E.D, you need Strategic Thinkers around you!
I vividly recall Mugabe's last two gigantic rallies in 2017 where politicians fell over each other to bootlick the despot. The former ZANU PF youth leader Kudzai Chipanga openly told the gathering tha...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:40hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Bitter first anniversary for Mugabe
DESPONDENT and waiting in a long queue for daily food handouts from a well-wisher, Milka Mandimutsa gets nostalgic about Zimbabwe's autocratic and longtime ex-leader Robert Mugabe, who died a year ago...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dialogue not GNU- ZIST
Zimbabwe Institute of Strategic Thinking (ZIST) director Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo says his organization is not calling for a government of national unity (GNU) but is seeking to find lasting solutions ...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 15:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa goes for the kill
Movement for Democratic Change leader Nelson Chamisa is cranking up the heat on President Emmerson Mnangagwa, amid revelations that the MDC will soon launch fresh mass protests against the government ...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC in crisis meeting
THE opposition MDC's top leadership is convening in Harare today to review their foiled countrywide protests which were ruthlessly crushed by the police and soldiers.The leaders are expected t...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt getting in the way of its own reforms
FOR much of the past year, Zimbabwe's economy has oscillated between confusion and chaos, and as the second half of 2019 wears on, the headwinds show no immediate sign of relenting.This is in ...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 08:04hrs | | by Perry Munzwembiri
Mnangagwa's police brace for Chamisa's anti-government protests
Zimbabwean police are not being allowed to resign and all leave has been cancelled as authorities brace for potential opposition and labour protests over the country's economic collapse.Intern...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 17:02hrs | | by ZimLive
Why your managers should be like coaches (Not Bosses)
Every business aims to constructively engage, develop and retain the most talented employees. This specific strategy is not merely about developing the person's specific skills but more so about impro...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 22:11hrs | | by Staff Writer
Building national confidence
And so the old Indian tale is told. When the country became infested with venomous cobra snakes, government, in its wisdom, reacted with a smart snake stabilisation programme.A dollar for ever...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye
Lack of truthful dialogue is hurting Mthuli Ncube
At any pivotal societal inflection point, wise nations have sought out to have structures of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Cases of these are as broadly traceable to South America, North Afri...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 08:09hrs | | by Chris Chenga
Plot to oust Mnangagwa 'foiled'
A daring plot to oust President Emmerson Mnangagwa through an impeachment process has been "foiled", according to one of the Zanu-PF leader's loyalists.The rebels "lack the numbers for impeach...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 08:58hrs | 4 | by ZimLive
Mutsvangwa leads dramatic plot to oust Mnangagwa
Zanu-PF rebels have initiated a process to recall President Emmerson Mnangagwa from the presidency, ZimLive can reveal.At least 35 Zanu-PF MPs met at the party's headquarters in Harare on Frid...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 10:01hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa's false start
AS undergraduates in our day, one of the most cynical commentaries on post-independent Africa was French writer, Rene Dumont's book False Start in Africa (1966).Those were the years of militar...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Mnangagwa's selective arrests erode anti-graft campaign
ZIMBABWEANS, who were very hopeful for progress after President Emmerson Mnangagwa's call for zero tolerance to corruption in his maiden speech, have reason to now feel despondent.Talk is chea...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 06:12hrs | | by Editorial - newsday
Power to the people!
PEOPLE will always support the underdog.In Zimbabwe today, the people have no trust in the government and all its institutions. They think that their town councils are, for want of a better wo...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:04hrs | | by Winston Siwela
Nox 'robbed' in Cape Town
ENOCK Nox Guni this week joined the ever-growing list of artists who have been used and never get paid by unscrupulous conmen masquerading as music promoters in Cape Town.Our sources say the m...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 14:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA surprised at the low number of Zimbabweans returning home to vote
The South African Department of Home Affairs has expressed surprise at the low number of Zimbabweans who have gone through the Beitbridge border post in northern Limpopo province in the past few days ...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 15:09hrs | | by SABC
Trust, not arrogance, will deliver a good election
The 2018 World Cup spectacle has been a jarring and intriguing global tournament at many levels. Besides the remote control tensions and conflicts it visited unto our living rooms and the early humble...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:01hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
MDC Shirking Responsibility For Peace
In just over a month's time, 23 presidential candidates will be asking us, the people of Zimbabwe, for a mandate to serve us and rule our country.There are many aspects that we will look at wh...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 15:46hrs | | by Mike Tawanda
Chamisa's lack of a unique vision and plagiarism has left me despondent and rudderless
Perhaps we always knew but didn't want to believe. Since the last elections in 2013, many from within the MDC had complained about Nelson Chamisa. Many blamed him for the loss of those elections....Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 20:20hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
Road to Victory (R2V): Nelson Chamisa on Tuesday
Completing our liberation heroes' struggle I was in the Midlands last week and addressed two rallies at Maboleni in Vungu and at Tongogara in Shurugwi; where I felt proud of connecting w...Published: 23 May 2018 at 12:27hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa
MDC-T Road to Victory (R2V): Nelson Chamisa on Tuesday
From London to Marange with love Introduction It was a tumultuous week in week in which I interacted with Zimbabweans in the United Kingdom and came...Published: 15 May 2018 at 15:14hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa
The speech Chamisa must have delivered in UK
AFTER the long Chamisa 14 hour trip to the UK, the much anticipated hype that turned to be a zero, Chamisa lost an opportunity to bring all Zimbabweans together as one, especially the majority Ndebele...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:50hrs | | by Simangaliso Fifinyana
Arthur Mutambara pursues fourth industrial revolution
THE so-called fourth industrial revolution can only succeed if all sectors are involved in its approach, says academic and former deputy prime minister of Zimbabwe Professor Arthur Mutambara."...Published: 07 May 2018 at 10:12hrs | 5 | by African News Agency
Chamisa looks to rejuvenate rural areas
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa wants to modernise the rural hinterland to boost rural incomes and living standards, according to a policy statement he unveiled on Saturday and Sunday in Seke an...Published: 03 May 2018 at 13:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Road to Victory (R2V): Nelson Chamisa on Tuesday
Seke: A despondent people who can no longer afford the laughter and the smileFellow Zimbabweans, in keeping with our Gogogoi Tisvikewo/Ekuhle campaign, I was in rural Seke and Mhondoro over th...Published: 01 May 2018 at 12:40hrs | | by Adv Nelson Chamisa
Road to Victory - Nelson Chamisa on Tuesday
Campaign Gogogoi Tisvikewo, Ekuhle --- Wisdom from the East I had enriching engagements over the weekend in rural Manicaland where I interacted with ordinary Zimbabweans from Chipinge to Nyang...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 12:40hrs | 1 | by Adv Nelson Chamisa
Inside Mnangagwa's China sojourn
President Emmerson Mnangagwa arrived back home from a five-day state visit to China yesterday amid optimism that his campaign to woo investors is paying off.Mnangagwa met Chinese president Xi ...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 15:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's remarks to the press - Full text
Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, Harare1. IntroductionAlmost two months after the untimely death of the nati...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 12:48hrs | 4 | by Adv Nelson Chamisa
4,000 MDC-T members submit CVs to contest coming elections
Movement for Democratic Change leader Nelson Chamisa today said his party was ready for the coming elections and 3 911 candidates had submitted their CVs to be considered as candidates for the electio...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 12:21hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa
Chamisa drops Tsvangirai's strategy of boycotting of national events
Movement for Democratic Change leader Nelson Chamisa says his party will now attend all national events as it is now time to "cast away the image of bastards in our own motherland"."From now o...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 13:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Road to Victory (R2V): Nelson Chamisa on Tuesday
1. The national Council and its deliberations The national council on Friday noted and acknowledged the fact that the party had positively rebranded is rene...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 10:06hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa
MDC Alliance campaign goes rural
The MDC Alliance Presidential candidate Adv Nelson Chamisa and his fellow principals will this weekend take their campaign to the rural hinterland as despondent Zimbabweans anxiously wait for a new go...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 12:27hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Morgan Tsvangirai: Footprints on the sands of history
Facts are stubborn. It is trite to state that the story of this country cannot be written without according veneration to the name of Morgan Richard Tsvangirai.For there is no debate he deserv...Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 12:22hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Mwonzora under fire
HARARE - MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora - who is also the opposition party's lawyer - is under fire for failing to take necessary steps to protect MDC property from foreclosure and charging th...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 11:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Whites should not play victim
I'm an Afrikaner of Free State farm stock, the descendant of Voortrekkers and Boer warriors (and concentration camp survivors) during the South African War - Du Preezs, Krugers, Van der Walts, Saayman...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 08:55hrs | | by Max Du Preez
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