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Zanu-PF's push for Chamisa to join Polad a nullity
YOUR Excellency, President ED Mnangagwa.In my self-opinionated response to a recent media report where Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu said MDC Alliance president Nelson Chami...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:19hrs | 1486 | by Paddington Japajapa
Zimbabwe in key post-Brexit UK investment indaba
Zimbabwe's engagement and re-engagement drive continues to bear fruit after the United Kingdom invited local businesses to participate in next week's Africa Investment Conference along with companies ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:28hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter
Whilst the politicians scramble for power, who cares about suffering Zimbabweans?
If ever there is one major lesson I am so grateful to have learnt very early in my life, it was that, politicians, and participating in active political party politics, have absolutely nothing to do w...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 14:35hrs | 459 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimra demands US$7m fuel import duty
DIRECT Fuel Imports Group Zimbabwe (DFIGZ), a grouping of small-scale fuel procurement firms, is seeking a relief order from the High Court that will nullify demands by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority ...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:55hrs | 1000 | by Staff reporter
Teachers review salary demands downwards
STRIKING teachers have reviewed downwards their salary demands amid no learning in most public schools as the month-long work stoppage by the educators continues, the Daily News reports.The te...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 06:50hrs | 5208 | by Staff reporter
The light shines at the end of the tunnel - MLF
Some days before the late leader of MLF, Mr David Magagula breathed his last breath, he alerted Mthwakazi that 33% of her independence had been won and what remained was 67%. Many people regarded it a...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 17:38hrs | 844 | by MLF
Mnangagwa will never solve any substantive Gukurahundi matters - a cynical divide and rule
"The Government will also start issuing birth certificates to children of some of the people who were killed during the disturbances and have been failing to get the documents and death certificates o...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 09:14hrs | 2088 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zanu PF eager to repeat Gukurahundi: ZAPU's comment on Mutsvangwa's provocative words to Catholic Bishop Conference Pastoral Let
Zanu PF eager to repeat Gukurahundi: ZAPU's comment on Zimbabwe Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa's provocative words to Catholic Bishop Conference Pastoral Lette...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 11:46hrs | 1570 | by Iphithule Maphosa
'Mutsvangwa 'anti-Ndebele' diatribe stokes tribal hatred'
OPPOSITION Zapu says recent angry remarks against Catholic bishops by Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa were capable of stoking tribal tensions in the country.Party spokesperson Iphithule...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 08:31hrs | 3125 | by newzimbabwe
ZANU PF eager to repeat Gukurahundi genocide
The mother party, concerned by the need for equality of the Zimbabwean people, respect of their constitutional and natural rights, as well as the need for a peaceful co existence of its citizens, is c...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 16:09hrs | 4561 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Open letter to Senator Monica Mutsvangwa
Senator Monica Mutsvangwa The Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Archbishop Robert C Ndlovu Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops' Commission ...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 08:54hrs | 3711 | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda - ADGN President
Cop arrested for inciting colleagues to revolt
A junior police officer in Plumtree has been arrested for allegedly using social media to incite members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) to defy orders from thei...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:22hrs | 1227 | by Staff reporter
Decolonisation of Zimbabweans
Dear fellow Zimbabweans we need to remove this yoke of bondage and free our minds, spirit and bodies from this Zanu-PF and its government and their colonised leaders' minds that still continue to suff...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 22:08hrs | 1228 | by Mzilikazi Zwane
Political power, leadership and language in Zimbabwe
Besides being a tool for communication, language has many other functions in all societies. However in countries where there are several or many languages, such languages are often ranked in order of ...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 07:56hrs | 926 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Panicky Mnangagwa spoils security forces
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is pampering security forces to forestall an uprising amid growing discontent over the deteriorating economic situation in the country, analysts have said.Mnangagw...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:12hrs | 11382 | by Staff reporter
Does Lobengula deserve a monument?
I read with great interest the report that a monument is to be built in honour of Mbuya Nehanda at long last. But then i said to myself: Why not do the same for King Lobengula or even Mukwati (Makwati...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:41hrs | 730 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Mnangagwa pampers soldiers, police
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pampered soldiers and the police, giving them between $5 000 and $8 000 COVID-19 allowances which critics say are meant to appease them ahead of the planned July 31 pr...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 21796 | by Staff reporter
Engagement is not surrender
Some compatriots are confusing the New Dispensation's re-engagement and engagement thrust as some kind of surrender. This line of thinking is couched within a linear liberal rapprochement approach tha...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:07hrs | 326 | by Ranga Mataire
Opposition forces in Africa lacks strategic intelligence to wrestle power from the incumbents. Case study - Zimbabwe and Zambia
Getting into State House is not about numbers of figures, but it is about strategic intelligence. Winning elections is another factor and going to State House is another issue. If you see ruling Gover...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 19:21hrs | 1230 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo PhD
Mugabe was a murderer says Chiwenga
Outspoken preacher Apostle Talent Chiwenga said former president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe was murderer but he died so people should not fear death....Published: 26 May 2020 at 10:54hrs | 10262 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
UK has become Zimbabwe's tribal tower
The MDC sings from Zanu PF's hymn books without shame when it comes to tribalism. How do you replicate a party you are opposing in all aspects of its operations? MDC is comfortable with tribal allocat...Published: 13 May 2020 at 19:22hrs | 3149 | by Nomazulu Thata
Joshua Nkomo betrayed Zipra, writes Obert Mpofu
THE late former Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's participation in the 1979 Lancaster House talks was frowned upon by the military element in his-PF-Zapu, Zipra, which felt the negotiations were a "self-c...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 08:26hrs | 4737 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe@ 40: Joshua Nkomo and the Liberation Footpath (Part 2)
The Lancaster Conference and the Build-up to Nkomo's temporary setbackIn 1979, Nkomo's Zapu and Mugabe's Zanu delegations under the PF banner took part in the final push for diplomatic transit...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:15hrs | 268 | by Obert Mpofu
Zanu-PF will never choose leadership for us - MDC
MDC Alliance, Mashonaland Central province has rubbished the Supreme Court ruling which found that Nelson Chamisa is not the legitimate leader of MD...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 19:41hrs | 4092 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Chamisa suspends top four MDC members
MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa, has suspended four top Masvingo Provincial Executive Assembly members over alleged acts of misconduct, the Harare Post reported.Sources from the Morgan Richard Tsva...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 18:59hrs | 11494 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe@ 40: Joshua Nkomo and the Liberation Footpath (Part 2)
This is a continuation of the instalment published last week in this paper.It is also believed that Dr Nkomo's decision to take part in Lancaster Conference was largely driven by the advice he...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:30hrs | 337 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Joshua Nkomo and the Liberation Footpath
This is a continuation of the instalment published last week in this paper. Once again, I should reiterate the late Father Zimbabwe, Dr Joshua Nkomo's profound role to my political path and wh...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:32hrs | 352 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Nhlanhla Ndiweni berates Mnangagwa's govt
Outspoken Ntabazinduna Chief, Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni, has lambasted the government for failing to designate community radio stations to Ndebele communities.He defined this segregation ...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 07:17hrs | 2098 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda's ill-conceived statement grossly misplaced
The ill-conceived statement by one Victor Matemadanda that anyone who wants cheaper goods must join the army is grossly misplaced and aninsult to the suffering people of Zimbabwe.Matemadan...Published: 06 Mar 2020 at 17:33hrs | 2024 | by Emmanuel Chimwanda
Zimbabwe: Orwell's Animal Farm reincarnated
SATIRIC George Orwell novel Animal Farm has received classic status in literature. Millions have read the polysemic text, set on an imaginary farm where animals took over from the owner, Mr Jones, aft...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:18hrs | 394 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
'Mugabe must be turning in his grave'
Zimbabwe Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF Zimbabwe) are proud to remember the legacy of former President of Zimbabwe Robert Gabriel Mugabe notably on the pan African ideas he espoused and promoted....Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 08:50hrs | 1901 | by Rudairo Dickson Mapuranga
'Mat provinces are marginalised' - same folly caused mess in post Gaddafi Libya
The Zanu PF dictatorship is imploding, the regime was rotten to the core and the centre can not hold. 40 years of this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical misrule has left the country in economic ruin...Published: 02 Jan 2020 at 19:50hrs | 1597 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Tshinga Dube: The Anti-colonial Transfiguration of the Self: Part 2
Last week's introductory instalment attempted to locate Retired Col Tshinga's profile within the shifting currencies and contexts of our struggle for independence. His radical political tutela...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:56hrs | 180 | by Richard Mahomva
Chiwenga was planning a coup while in China
RETIRED army general Chiwenga returns from China after four months of plotting against his health. He thanked president Emerson Mnangagwa for giving him a second chance in life. Literally.Zimb...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 07:31hrs | 34282 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Why Joice Mujuru failed to succeed Mugabe
FELLOW compatriots, where is madam Joice Mujuru? Is it game over for madam Mujuru? I posit that if she is to do her homework she can still maintain her political relevance. At a fireside conversation ...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:30hrs | 2937 | by Nyasha Machimbira
South Africa reignites historical bonds of unity
Something unprecedented happened on November 18, 2019 in South Africa.For the first time in many years, a neighbouring country took it upon itself to hold a convention to pragmatically explore...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:10hrs | 142 | by Ranga Mataire
Chief Ndiweni's saga divides Matabeleland
The case of Nhlambabaloyi Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has sharply divided Matabeleand activists over ethnic lines.Kalanga Cultural activist Divine Dube posted on Facebook saying, "We have a...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 15:17hrs | 5753 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe: The tragedy of gumboot Shona hegemony and dictatorship
When the colonial masters settled in Africa in the late 1700s and early 1800s, they mainly had one goal to stretch their economic prospects. In their arrival, it was numerically impossible to gather i...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:15hrs | 1277 | by Ayanda Manala
Mnangagwa's govt must come clean on salary discrepancies
AS far as this country's statutes are concerned, civil servants' wages and benefits are not a secret to the extent that they should actually be published in the Government Gazette. It does not matter ...Published: 12 Oct 2019 at 10:34hrs | 2446 | by Staff reporter
Zapu: The great awakening
Zapu has embarked on a brave mission by starting the long overdue process of ‘root-cause analysis' in order to tackle the twin scourges of declining membership and electoral failure at recent po...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 05:34hrs | 677 | by Mlindelwa Vundhla
Kings and Mambos must be careful
In English they say "let lying dogs lie", in Ndebele there is a saying that goes "lala lulaza sikwengule."Have we been sleeping in the stupidity slumber that we haven't seen all this coming, some men ...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:50hrs | 2485 | by Presia Ngulube
Ndebele nation panic over Mambo King installation
The recent installation of a new leader of the Mambo dynasty has riled some Ndebele traditional leaders who have viewed the event as an attempt to cause divisions among the Ndebele nation.This...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 05:55hrs | 3885 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF hypocrites left in the bare as ED negotiates heroes acre for Mugabe
The former Zimbabwean opposition member of parliament Ambassador James Maridadi took the bull by the horns. ZANU PF should applaud him for that. He stated that "we Zimbabweans must be dignified and we...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 07:57hrs | 5953 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Liberation movements will miss Mugabe
The death of Zimbabwe's founding father, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, whom President Emmerson Mnangagwa, described as "comrade, liberator, founder and leader", has coincided with the 10th meeting of secreta...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 05:55hrs | 86 | by Trevor Shiri
Imperial forces behind xenophobia
The western imperial forces are adopting new and comprehensive strategies to destabilise and eventually overthrow SADC governments that they do not view as allies amidst suspicions that the same force...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 14:23hrs | 1655 | by Sizalubuhle Khumalo
Just a little violence on civilians ...how satanic?
This is the arrogant advice given the South African leader by a Head of State of a neighbouring country ravaged to the ground by yet to be punished genocidists wallowing in the endless comfort of the ...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:01hrs | 1012 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
The Christian attack against the native family and The Native Religion Beyond Jerusalem! Rome and London
"I have travelled across the length and breath of africa and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief such wealth I have seen in this country such high moral values, people of ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:36hrs | 1105 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Fellow Zimbabweans, could you please help me find my young children who were abducted in UK?
I live in Swansea, and have lived there since 2007. In March 2008, l met a woman who comes from Swaziland and we were blessed with our first girl in January 2009.In 2012, we were blessed with a ba...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 10:17hrs | 3039 | by Ryton Dzimiri
'A coup against Mnangagwa is about to explode'
The November 2017 military coup which forced tyrant Robert Mugabe from power is still haunting Zimbabwe almost 18 months down the line. The remnants of the coup and its footprints will not disappear s...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 16:59hrs | 23077 | by Blessing Ivan Vava
Ndebele 'King' addresses the nation
I would like to make it known that I, as King of Matabeleland alias Mthwakazi, am very much committed to the Restoration of my Kingdom. I also want the whole world to know that the whole Inter-cultura...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 13:19hrs | 8080 | by Stanley Khumalo
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