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Ramaphosa must enforce full implementation of BELA Act, says ANC
The African National Congress (ANC) Study Group on Basic Education in Parliament has urged President Cyril Ramaphosa to promulgate the full commencement of all sections of the Basic Education Laws Ame...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 10:43hrs | 431 | by Staff reporter
What will Zimbabwe do on the UN Security Council without a foreign policy?
Zimbabwe is campaigning to be elected as one of the non-permanent UN Security Council members for the period 2027-28.Yet, since the overthrow of President Robert Gabriel through a military cou...Published: 30 Sep 2024 at 09:58hrs | 489 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Pravin Gordhan became factional in the ANC
The monologue in a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare and the poem, which was recited by Jaques entitled "As you like it" painted a broader picture about life when they stated that "All the world'...Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 13:30hrs | 320 | by Bheki Mngomezulu
Pachedu exposes Chamisa
In last year's harmonized elections, President Mnangagwa secured 52.6 percent of the vote, while Nelson Chamisa received 44 percent. However, groups aligned with Chamisa, including Pachedu, claimed th...Published: 25 Aug 2024 at 11:27hrs | 3346 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe never acted like a maniac as Sadc and AU Chair
I am still struggling to wrap my head around this madness. What is it about hosting a SADC heads of state and government meeting in Zimbabwe that can drive the host leader to go off the rails?...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 16:56hrs | 510 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Please stop lying over Zimbabwe's SADC chairmanship!
To say I was shocked would be an understatement. I was dumbfounded. In fact, I was filled with indescribable revulsion!I came across a video of an address by an unnamed ruling ZANU PF ...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 20:42hrs | 1081 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Are we cursed as Zimbabweans?
Let us not pretend and lie to each other. We need to be brutally honest.Have we not, at some point, asked ourselves or one another this question?Are we cursed as Zimbabweans?...Published: 29 Jul 2024 at 08:13hrs | 1285 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Give Chamisa a chance
Zimbabwe is currently suffering from aggravated kwashiorkor of leadership, both in the opposition and the ruling party.The political space without the charismatic Nelson Chamisa is seemingly l...Published: 23 Jul 2024 at 16:50hrs | 1119 | by Leonard Koni
African children are wood, and water collectors for the whites: nothing has changed!
I wish I lived in another planet and certainly not planet Earth because this one has painful contradictions. Africa, especially, a continent that was ravaged by slavery for centuries. The white popula...Published: 23 Jul 2024 at 16:48hrs | 646 | by Nomazulu Thata
President Ruto got away with murder in the ICC before
President Ruto thinks he can get away with any political conflict situation - even murder. We have more than 20 deaths resulting from serious demonstrations across Kenya. Listening to the exclusive pr...Published: 04 Jul 2024 at 19:55hrs | 29 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabweans should now see it's corruption, not 'sanctions', causing their suffering!
Zimbabweans has been engulfed in a seemingly unending debate as to what is the real source of their two-and-a-half-decade-long suffering.There have been two dominant narratives.Unsurpr...Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 21:50hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Illegal regime change in Zimbabwe already happened in 2017!
Recent utterances by President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have raised an issue that has bedeviled Zimbabwe for the past few decades. In his wild alle...Published: 13 Jun 2024 at 22:23hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
SA parties alarmed as ANC enlists Zanu-PF help for election campaign
ZIMBABWEAN state media on Tuesday broke the news that the country's ruling party, Zanu-PF, had been called on by the ANC to assist with its final stretch of campaigning ahead of South Africa's general...Published: 19 May 2024 at 11:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Targeted sanctions were inevitable
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, my deduction is that targeted sanctions were inevitable. It does not augur well for Zimbabwe that you are the first sitting President to be des...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 16:09hrs | 1 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
The US should show us some respect
PALESTINIANS who live in Gaza, which has now been literally turned into a hellscape by the Israeli military's firepower, are experiencing untold suffering.While the media in the West calls it ...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu leader calls out Charumbira's Gukurahundi genocide denial
Sibangilizwe Nkomo, leader of the ZAPU party, has criticised Chief Fortune Charumbira, the deputy president of the National Chiefs Council, for publicly denying that the atrocities during Gukurahundi ...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 14:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must face Gukurahundi victims for resolution to genocide!
About a year ago, a close cousin of mine committed suicide after repeated acts of adultery by her husband. This was a most terrible and traumatizing experience for the family as we felt deeply...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 15:03hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF denies sponsoring CCC recalls from parliament, councils
Zanu-PF has dismissed claims by CCC leader Nelson Chamisa that the ruling party was sponsoring recalls on opposition legislators and councillors in attempts to both fan division and destroy his party....Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 08:26hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Regime change is perfectly legal
ONE of the most disingenuous things the Zanu-PF administration is notorious for is its persistent portrayal of "regime change" as some diabolical concept, to be viewed with utter disdain.Whene...Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Redi Thlabi: the black woman weaponized against South Africa
South Africa is under attack by Western countries led by the US due to its BRICS membership and non-aligned geopolitical policy. This isn't surprising, given the West's frustration with the country's ...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 12:46hrs | 2 | by Larmbert Ebitu
Oh, please, Zimbabweans, shut up!
Of late, most particularly after the recent elections, I have felt thoroughly fed up with Zimbabweans!The dejection has reached a point where I have all but concluded that we are a lost cause....Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 11:47hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
If peace overshadowed justice, then there wouldn't have been a liberation struggle!
There is a common thread that defines oppressive leaders. They subjugate the population - stripping them of all their rights, whilst unleashing some of the most horrendous injustices - thereaf...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 20:11hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe Election: 17:00 CCC update
Good afternoon. Serious problems with voting persist as several polling stations, particularly in urban areas, remain unopened. However, there are reports of great morale among opposition voters on th...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 16:37hrs | 13 | by Charles Kwaramba
Zimbabwe govt ducking responsibility by urging new graduates to start companies!
I remember soon after graduating from journalism school in 1998, I was so eager to be my own boss, such that I implored my parents to help establish a newspaper for me. I had always been passi...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 20:14hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa can't preach peace when his government is doing exactly the opposite!
It is well and good when the president of a country makes a habit of preaching peace and unity whenever and wherever the opportunity presents itself.Surely, what right-thinking citizen would b...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:55hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe is under siege
GOOD day President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, my heart subscribes to the notion that Zimbabwe is completely under siege. As I see it, the country is overwhelmed with all manner of naked aggr...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:40hrs | | by Cyprian M Ndawana
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 | 9 | by Jonathan Moyo
Prosecutors in Zimbabwe declare incapacitation
WHEELS of justice are set to grind to a halt after public prosecutors indicated they are no longer able to continue reporting for duty because of low salaries in local currency.The prosecutors...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa must be stopped for Zimbabwe to win
The only result acceptable from the August 23 elections is a win for Zimbabwe, not a victory for an individual or a political party. Our nation is in dire straits and no single individual or political...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 08:31hrs | | by Trevor Ncube
Will the next ZANU PF leader call Mnangagwa a 'dimwit'?
The ruling ZANU PF is always full of drama, which never ceases to amaze, if not bemuse.So, after current President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's monumental failure to resuscitate the country's...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 13:05hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why Mnangagwa failed to improve Zim's economic prospects
IT is now more than five years since President Emmerson Mnangagwa assumed power with a mandate from his backers to improve the country's economic fortunes, the nemesis of his predecessor, Robert Gabri...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 06:29hrs | 10 | by Martin Majaji
Mnangagwa should be the last person to speak about patriotism!
These days I am eagerly following a documentary on the Nat Geo (National Geographic) channel entitled, 'Hitler - The Lost Tapes'.This chronicles the heinous Nazi Fuhrer's (Adolf Hitler) li...Published: 27 Jun 2023 at 09:09hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans can elect recycled opportunistic politicians at own risk!
I am not much of a soccer fan, but there is something that I have always found strange, if not downright weird - without anyone able to provide a satisfactory explanation. Why is it that a coa...Published: 24 Jun 2023 at 08:26hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans will always suffer with a govt perpetually crying over sanctions!
As Zimbabweans continue to suffer through unmitigated poverty, under the ZANU PF regime, for the past two decades - do they honestly see any light at the end of the tunnel?Surely, every time I...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 10:06hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe has officially become a pariah state!
The Government of Zimbabwe has officially become a tyranny - fraught with all the legislative tools to be justifiably labelled a pariah state.By the country's Parliament passing the much-loath...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:43hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe has officially become a pariah state!
By the country's Parliament passing the much-loathed so-called ‘Patriotic Bill', Zimbabwe has effectively joined the unenviable international ‘Hall of Shame' - joining other nations, such as North...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 19:09hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Africa should stop being such a crybaby!
We all know there is nothing more 'uncool' or 'unsexy' than someone who never owns up to his own failures in life - but seeks to blame others as to why he is not succeeding.Amongst all these, ...Published: 17 May 2023 at 13:44hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Drilling of boreholes by ZANU PF proves regime has no permanent solution to urban water crisis!
Judging by the manner in which the ZANU PF government is so fond of always castigating the opposition for failing to run urban authorities, one would be excused for believing the party had solutions....Published: 15 May 2023 at 14:02hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
If Mnangagwa had a shop how much would he sell a loaf of bread?
It is really sickening whenever I hear senior government and ruling ZANU PF party officials always choosing to fault business every time prices of basic commodities shoot up. Over this past we...Published: 15 May 2023 at 11:19hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
SA reporters fear arrest after exposé links businessman to Zimbabwean president
Journalists Sam Sole, Micah Reddy and Dewald van Rensburg, of the amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism believe they are under threat of arrest because of an exposé they wrote implicating b...Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why does Africa feel it has to be a slave to one global power or the other?
Will Africa ever be truly free? That is the question that always bugs my mind, as I watch the manner in which our leaders appear perpetually trapped in a 'slave mentality' - whereby, they beli...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 12:17hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's Uhuru celebrations now a stale ritual
GOOD day President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, in my estimation, it was inevitable for the 43rd independence anniversary to be devoid of ceremony. As I see it, even the hosting of the ...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 18:56hrs | 1 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Mnangagwa was never appointed by God!
As the Christian world moves out of the so-called 'Easter holidays' - to be expected, there were multitudes who gathered in various places to commemorate the death and resurrection of our Lord and...Published: 11 Apr 2023 at 09:45hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What's there to 'investigate' in Al Jazeera lies?
IF the Zanu-PF regime was a soccer player, it would be the top goalscorer.The prolific goalscoring would unfortunately not be into opponents' nets, but into their own net.That is what ...Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 10:19hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Actually, what one does in privacy of bedroom DOES determine what type of leader they become!
Over the past years, as more and more scandals of infidelity amongst our leaders in Zimbabwe are exposed - a pertinent issue has inevitably been regularly raised. What have an individual's pri...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 09:12hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What does Zim govt now want to 'investigate' when they've already dismissed Al Jazeera exposé as lies?
If the Zimbabwe regime were a soccer player, he would be the highest goal scorer!Although, not known for his prolific scoring against opponents - but, into his own net (own goals)!That...Published: 05 Apr 2023 at 12:34hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Opposition should break, and not actually perpetuate, cycle of dictatorship in Zimbabwe!
Every dictator has a justification for his decision to be a tyrant. Authoritarian rulers have always given what appeared sound reasons as to why they should govern with an iron-fist, and any w...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 08:50hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Christians who support oppressors, looters and killers will answer to our Lord Jesus!
Of course, it is not particularly shocking when some of us witness the proliferation of so-called 'churches', and their leaders, who support evil.I can not deny that it hurts me in indescribab...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 11:42hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What's there to say about 'Gold Mafia' if Zimbabweans can't stand up for themselves?
As I was walking in the Kwekwe CBD, this past Friday, I came across a loyal reader of my articles, whom I know very well. He was so excited about the Al Jazeera documentary exposing corruption...Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 11:06hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe-based NGOs in panic mode
A new law governing operations of non-governmental organisations is likely to be operational in Zimbabwe before year end.Predictably, there is uproar and panic in the NGO sector, including som...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:17hrs | 1 | by Ranga Mataire
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