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Life cycle of the Zanu-PF dictatorship vs bilharzia parasite - cure is the same too
Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess because the country has been stuck with a this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu-PF dictatorship for 38 years. The party rigs elections to stay in power and i...Published: 20 hrs ago | 1006 | by Wilbert Mukori
'West must support ED and no regime change for 20 years' argued Mutsvairo - so why bother
"IF Western governments are sincere about political reforms in Zimbabwe, then they have to support President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new government," wrote Bruce Mutsvairo."There are no two ways ...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:19hrs | 2304 | by Nomusa Garikai
Time for West to back Zimbabwe
IF Western governments are sincere about political reforms in Zimbabwe, then they have to support President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new government.There are no two ways to it.Long-time fo...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:56hrs | 657 | by Bruce Mutsvairo
'Seek ye first the political kingdom' advised Dr Nkrumah. We did not and have paid dearly for our folly
"Seek ye first the political kingdom and all else shall be added unto you," said Dr Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Independent Ghana. After 38 years of blundering from pillar to post wh...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 22:16hrs | 365 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Focus on delivering campaign promises and 2030' said ED - no, focus on BROKEN free election promise and 2023
"As we officially open the 9th Parliament, our focus is on delivering the promises made during the campaign period," said President Mnangagwa in his speech marking the official opening Zimbabwe's parl...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 10:36hrs | 870 | by Nomusa Garikai
UK want 'serious dialogue' with ED on debt but not vote rigging - history repeating itself
The British are not helping Zimbabwe get out of the economic and political mess the country is in. Not at all!"Ambassador Catriona Laing said an International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme wou...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 16:36hrs | 3842 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'What can deadwood cabinet advise dream team?' ask ZCTU - no ask; what will we do if it fails, yet again?
"The reshuffle of cabinet actually promoted all those deemed 'excess baggage' by certain sections of the media. The big boys whom the majority called dead wood were actually reassigned to full time jo...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 14:24hrs | 791 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
38 years of Zanu PF tyranny has sucked all marrow out of life - We are living dead
"Insanity," said the great Physicist Albert Einstein "in doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result" Talk of insanity and one immediately thinks of the mental patien...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 08:28hrs | 2940 | by Wilbert Mukori
Khupe earmarked for a diplomatic posting
Speculation is rife within the MDC led by Thokozani Khupe that its leader could be earmarked for a diplomatic posting in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government.This follows claims on social...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 14:06hrs | 2411 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is dead! what next?
Opportunistic leaders not only cost lives and resources but also set back the march to freedom by decades. In Zimbabwe and across Africa, democracy has suffered a steady decline in recent years becaus...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 19:49hrs | 5604 | by Sam Wezhira
'Engage every Zimbabwean' Manyika tells ED - fishing for gravy train seat, reward for selling-out
"In an open letter to Mnangagwa dated September 11, (Noah) Manyika said there was need for the country to avoid the trauma of disputed elections in future to ensure whoever is elected can govern with ...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 16:41hrs | 2368 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa seems to be on track - ZUNDE
It is a matter of public record that, from inception, ZUNDE fiercely and consistently fought against President Mugabe and his destructive policies. On 24 October 2013, we came together to adva...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 07:17hrs | 3395 | by Moses Chamboko
'We are stuck with (vote rigging) ED junta, make it work' argue Cross - how, GNU fog has never cleared
The trouble with dealing with single track minded people like Eddie Cross is once they have made up their minds on something they are off. Even a train on a single track can be stopped and even revers...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 3000 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa beat Nelson Chamisa by over 300 000 votes, says Eddie Cross
All of us have a stake in what is going on right now in Zimbabwe.When I say all of us - I mean everyone, every Zimbabwean from the peasants in the Tribal Areas, the Zimbabweans in the Diaspora...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 15:11hrs | 6165 | by Eddie Cross
Chamisa’s dictatorial tendencies exposed
Following the confirmation of President Mnangagwa's election victory by the Constitutional Court and his subsequent inauguration last month, the nation had one eye on the unfolding mayoral elections a...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | 601 | by Nobleman Runyanga
'I will take Zimbabwe forward' twittered Coventry - how naïve, vote rigging ED is taking it backward
"I am honoured to be appointed by President Mnangagwa as Zimbabwe's Minister of Youth, Sports, Art and Recreation. I will continue to carry our Flag with pride and dedication of service so we can come...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 18:56hrs | 5464 | by Wilbert Mukori
Matabeleland has been captured
Mzukulu Chamisa, listen to this noble advise: pick up your toys, call all your friends and go back to Harare before tribal fires that you are stocking in Bulawayo consume you. Bulawayo is not a play g...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 15:13hrs | 4492 | by Israel Dube
'I will attract investors,' promised new Finance Minister - first resolve underlying illegitimacy issues
"I promise to do my best, I am a hard worker and I want to see Zimbabwe record strong and sustained growth. I also want to see creation of jobs and one of my major priorities would be to attract forei...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 07:27hrs | 3716 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa hits out at Mnangagwa
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he will continue putting pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa, even through protests, until he is recognised as the winner of the July 30 election...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:55hrs | 10977 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has his cake, can he eat it?
The much-vaunted harmonised elections have come and gone. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in many respects, clearly set out to deconstruct and reconstruct, if not the ultimate purpose, certainly the und...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:52hrs | 2055 | by Zii Masiye
'Elections more open than any since 1980,' says Cross - for once, answer the question asked
The root cause of Zimbabwe's economic meltdown and political paralysis is the failure to remove Zanu PF from office even when it was clear the party was incompetent and corrupt. Zanu PF rigged the ele...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 07:33hrs | 150 | by Nomusa Garikai
Stinking tribalism inside MDC-T!!! Chamisa where is Khupe today?
The last person who can chide the people of Matabeleland as tribalist is Nelson Chamisa himself! A Portuguese adage says "you did not need a big ass to get diarrhoea: even with a small one, this disea...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 1026 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mugabe endorses rigged elections as 'will of the people' after ED guarantees of fabulous wealth
A team of top notch scientists must be dispatched immediately to Blue Roof Mansion, Harare; the task is to take and test blood samples, urine samples, test all medicine, perfume, test all the fo...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 06:32hrs | 1341 | by Nomusa Garikai
A decolonial response to 'The case of Colonialism’
It is over a year now since Bruce Gilley, the political imperial historian wrote his controversial article as an apologist to colonialism in Africa. More contentious from the article, was the call to ...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 16:20hrs | 1469 | by Brian Maregedze and Tedious Ncube
A decolonial response to 'The case of Colonialism'
It is over a year now since Bruce Gilley, the political imperial historian wrote his controversial article as an apologist to colonialism in Africa. More contentious from the article, was the call to ...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 13:06hrs | 316 | by Brian Maregedze and Tedious Ncube
ED rigged elections, per se, illegitimate and 'Chamisa holds the key' argue Biti - what a narcissist
Zimbabwe is in serious trouble already with unemployment at the dizzying heights of 90%, basic services such as clean running water and health all but collapsed and 75% of our people living on US$1.00...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 16:37hrs | 2520 | by Nomusa Garikai
Victoria Falls residents bay for Chamisa ally's blood
CHAOS reigned supreme during voting for the next Victoria Falls mayor and deputy as residents protested imposition of a candidate by the MDC Alliance. While the swearing in process went on peacefully,...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Bass' compare 'messy' USA elections to Zim's rigged elections is Antoinette's 'eat cake!'
"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!" (Let them eat cake!) is what Queen Marie Antoinette is said to have said on learning that the peasants had no bread. USA Congresswoman Karen Bass' callous indifference ...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:22hrs | 371 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Chamisa and ED must find each other,' argues Standard - to what end, appease vote rigging junta
It is heartening that many Zimbabweans are finally taking the country’s economic and political situation with the seriousness the matter demands. After decades of burying their heads in the sand and...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 13:17hrs | 934 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'ED is Mugabe mark 2!' skunk is out and UK wants it doused with GNU, Chanel 5 perfume
There are certain events which, on their own would not even be noticed, assume ginormous significance because of the circumstance under which they take place. The last straw that broke the camel's bac...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 18:21hrs | 3563 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa is 'mark 2 Mugabe and deserves no support!' says UK MP - Hallelujah! Amen!
If President Mnangagwa was beginning to feel that he had blatantly rigged the elections and going to get away with it he has just had a very rude wake-up call. British MP Kate Hoey has spelt it in pla...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 19:08hrs | 9997 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa warned against demos
HARARE - MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's plans to roll out protests in the wake of Friday's decision by the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) to uphold President Emmerson Mnangagwa's hotly-dispute...Published: 27 Aug 2018 at 12:30hrs | 9644 | by Staff Reporter
Open letter to E.D. Mnangagwa the Incoming president of Zimbabwe
Mr. President, I congratulate you with 'heavyheart' for being sworn in as the next president of the republic of Zimbabwe for the next five years. I am sure that that you are aware that millions of Zim...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 23:10hrs | 2809 | by Don Chigumba
'Chamisa, my door is open,' Mnangagwa invited - to what end, another de facto one-party dictatorship
The International Commission of Jurists under the auspices of the African Judges and Jurists Forum has endorsed the Constitutional Court Judgment which declared President ED Mnangagwa the duly elected...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 23:07hrs | 2052 | by Walter Nyabadza
Case was more than Chamisa vs Mnangagwa it was People vs Zanu PF - we were cheated again
The single most important issue raised in Nelson Chamisa's Con-Court challenge of Emmerson Mnangagwa's electoral victory was that the election process was not free, fair and credible. This is importan...Published: 25 Aug 2018 at 17:52hrs | 3444 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa praying for unbiased Con-Court ruling
Political analysts and opposition political parties are praying that the judiciary will today conduct itself in a manner that is going to leave the credibility of Zimbabwe's electoral and judiciary sy...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 13:03hrs | 2150 | by Staff reporter
'Don't want to hear about election!' commanded Chiwenga - hoping to get away with rigging, not this time!
After last November's military coup that ousted Robert Mugabe the incoming regime of the coup plotters went to town to assure everyone that the corrupt and tyrannical rule of Mugabe was over. Zimbabwe...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 12:30hrs | 3396 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zanu-PF war vets criminals or fighters for freedom?
Mthwakazi activist Hloniphani Ncube has said he has always asked himself on whether the sects of the ZANU PF war vets are really war vets or they were tribal criminals who took the advantage of the su...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 07:26hrs | 1792 | by Stephen Jakes
'MDC did well, winning 64 MP seats,' boasted Cross - elections were rigged, for Pete's sake
MDC leaders sold-out during the GNU, if you lot had implemented the democratic reforms we would not still be in this mess! Many thinking Zimbabweans have long lost patience with you MDC leaders and I ...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 07:08hrs | 5943 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Deportation of Biti low, low point for Zambian regime
From 1953 to 1963, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe were one country. Except for someone who has a real problem in their heads, even now that they are separate sovereigns, in fact their people are one. Pre...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 06:47hrs | 1044 | by Michelo Hansungule
'We neither give up nor give in!' twittered Chamisa - fancy that, insane too never give up
"Insanity," said the great Physicist Albert Einstein, "is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result!"I had my first encounter with the insane when I visited my aun...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 15:12hrs | 9026 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Anxiety' grips Zimbabweans ahead of Con-Court hearing
Anxiety has reportedly gripped Zimbabweans as the southern African country awaits the verdict of the Constitutional Court following the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) presidential candidate Nels...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 19:58hrs | 2819 | by Staff reporter
MDC mount spirited fight 'to protect vote' - too late, Zanu-PF has stolen the vote already
The spirit is willing but the intellect is weak. MDC Alliance leaders and supporters are like an army mounting a spirited attack of an enemy on top of a hill when it was them who had the hill top adva...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 15:41hrs | 1842 | by Nomusa Garikai
Millitary Juntas cannot be removed through votes or courts
Is there anyone in troubled Zimbabwe who still believes that Mnangagwa/Chiwenga regime is a democracy? You better awaken from your dream and face reality before it is too late. Zimbabwe is now a milit...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 15:13hrs | 2211 | by Israel Dube
Storm over plan to bar Chamisa from polls
Zimbabwe risks confirming its pariah status in spite of claims by the new dispensation that it has broken away from former president Robert Mugabe's autocratic rule if it tweaks with the Constitution ...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 12:52hrs | 4779 | by Staff reporter
Deportation of Tendai Biti low, low point for Zambian regime
From 1953 to 1963, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe were one country. Except for someone who has a real problem in their heads, even now that they are separate sovereigns, in fact their people are one. Pre...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 07:42hrs | 2949 | by Prof. Michelo Hansungule
Zambia's Lungu petitioned over Zimbabwe rights violations
Zambia Social Forum, a movement of civil society organisations, last week petition President Edgar Lungu highlighting the deteriorating human rights situation in Zimbabwe following the disputed July 3...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 07:22hrs | 508 | by Staff reporter
Stop the blame Mr Mnangagwa
It is alleged that 6 people were killed by the soldiers on 31st of July, 2018, the day after voting. One woman who worked for the Zimbabwe National Water Authority was one of the victims. She was buri...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 21:24hrs | 1961 | by Amen Mpofu
Zapu slams Mnangagwa
The Dumiso Dabengwa-led Zapu says Zimbabwe has experienced the worst under the leadership of President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa.Zapu spokesperson Iphithule Maphosa said since Mnangagwa took ov...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:34hrs | 978 | by Staff reporter
Magaisa get this in your thick head: President Chamisa + 2/3 Zanu PF MPs = most dysfunctional govt ever
Alex Magaisa was the late Morgan Tsvangirai's chief adviser in the last 11 months of the 2008 to 2013 GNU. History will judge the GNU was a wasted golden opportunity to implement the democratic reform...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 17:30hrs | 13233 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
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