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World's most expensive cow sets new Guinness World Record
The owners erected two billboards showcasing the cow along the highway traversing the state, which attracted curious locals and busloads of veterinary students eager to view this 'super cow'.T...Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Canaan Banana's Lord's Prayer in the Ghetto
Our Father which art in the ghetto,Degraded is your name.Thy servitude abounds,Thy will is mocked,As pie in the sky,Teach us to demand,Our share of gold,Forgive us our ...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 20:33hrs | 46 | by Canaan Banana
Chamisa has made a lot of mistakes because he is trying
IN the aftermath of local political activist Sengezo Tshabangu's recalls tsunami and by-elections that have shaken the main opposition CCC to the core and disrupted it badly, party leader Nelson Chami...Published: 16 Dec 2023 at 18:58hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
Flawed elections can never be a 'closed chapter'!
Let me make this abundantly clear from the onset.There is no way a flawed electoral process can simply pass by and be forgotten without its severe repercussions haunting the nation for a very ...Published: 20 Nov 2023 at 09:43hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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
Why did Al Jazeera even bother about Zimbabwe looting?
AS I was walking in Kwekwe's central business district last Friday, I came across an avid reader of my articles, whom I know very well.He was so excited about the Al Jazeera documentary exposi...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:48hrs | | 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
Did the emergence of a strong opposition extinguish the revolutionary spirit in Zimbabweans?
To me, those where the good old days - when Zimbabweans were a people of valor, who did not brook any nonsense from their government and never wasted any time in courageously standing up for themselve...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:27hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans' inaction against Sikhala's unjust continued incarceration is greatest threat to activism!
A tyrant will always be a tyrant - and, like the proverbial leopard, foolhardy for anyone to expect him to change his spots.It is, therefore, incumbent upon the people being oppressed to stand...Published: 26 Dec 2022 at 09:38hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Call to ban biased observers from Britain
ZIMBABWE is a friend to all and an enemy to none, but the British House of Lords should not take that as a sign of weakness, Zanu-PF Chief whip Pupurai Togarepi has said.This comes after some ...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Maybe Zimbabweans are okay with their suffering!
Tune in to any international news channel, and one encounters citizens of various nations around the world taking a firm stand against their pain and suffering endured as a result of unbearable econom...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 21:04hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans' unquestioning belief in their leaders a retrogressive weakness that prevents accountability and development
One would be forgiven for believing that questioning one's leaders, and holding them accountable would be a given - a normal part of everyday life, whereby a country's citizens, or city's residents, a...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 20:27hrs | 4 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
If Zimbabweans not angry enough over their oppression and suffering, then I don't know what we really want!
After another bout of involuntary strenuous morning exercises - engaging in some heavy lifting of several twenty litre (20lt) plastic containers [weighing about twenty-five to thirty kilograms (25-30k...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 09:26hrs | 5 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans' fear of their oppressors makes them an attractive magnet for dictators!
I have often wondered whether Zimbabweans were the easiest people to oppress on this planet.I once even wrote any article, some years ago, postulating that Zimbabweans themselves were the main...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:45hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
MDC Alliance's fake victimhood, internal ructions and sanctions
Over the years, the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction has perfected the art of creating stunts to attract the West's attention in the vain and ill-placed hope of besmirching President Mnangagwa and to wrin...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:21hrs | 6 | by Nobleman Runyanga
'Only removal of Zanu-PF from power will solve Gukurahundi issue'
MATABELELAND-BASED human rights activists say the Gukurahundi atrocities can only be fully addressed once the alleged perpetrators are out of power.The activists made the remarks on Sunday dur...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa should speak out on recalls, says Mliswa
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa (Independent) yesterday described the "docility" exhibited by the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance's in the face of recalls of its MPs and councillors as worrying.MDC-T l...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Are Zimbabweans a lost cause irredeemably content with being oppressed?
When I was reading renowned and award-winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono's latest tweets where he clearly expressed open frustration and even infuriation at most Zimbabweans' apparent docility, subm...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 07:45hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why are we not holding councils to account?
MY soul is so disquieted, as I feel so dejected as a Zimbabwean, wondering about our inexplicable docility, cowardice, and inability to stand up against local government authorities who have failed to...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 18:28hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
If Zimbabweans can't even stand up against non-brutal opposition urban authorities who're failing in service delivery, then what
A morning like today, is one of those when my soul is so disquieted, as I feel so dejected as a Zimbabwean, wondering if we truly knew what we wanted as a people - displayed by our inexplicable docili...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 08:43hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zim Christian Church shouldn't just pray for a better economy and country, but also for better leaders than what we have
I have often been so hard on the Christian community, for their apparent indifference and docility in the face of a relentless, concerted, and evil campaign of terror and injustice callously unleashed...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:28hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why protests are important
LAST night as I was scrolling down latest postings - usually not very useful except for banter and comic relief - on our WhatsApp chat group feed with former journalism training classmates, I came acr...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:55hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
Talking Nkayi Development: 'No cry babies on their mothers' backs!'
The inspirational and progressive people of Nkayi have risen to the occasion in their endeavour to see their native area of habitation, 'Nkayisburg', effortlessly and unencumberedly adopt the bottom-u...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 09:20hrs | 1 | by Nhlanhla Moses Ncube
When losers seek to overthrow winners
Quite burdensome are the times we are living in, and one hopes to wake up from this nightmarish existence wiser. What with all this talk about overthrowing a constitutionally elected Government or coe...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:17hrs | | by Elliot Ziwira
Job Sikhala talks tough
Following the MDC Alliance elective congress recently, our deputy editor, Tangai Chipangura (TC), spoke to the newly-elected vice-chairman of the party Job Sikhala (JS) on a wide range of issues....Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa has no divine duty to heed the West
IT'S quite refreshing that many Africans - both black and white - have refused to submit to Eurocentrism, where all things from the West are viewed in utopian terms in which everything is projected as...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:48hrs | | by Conway Tutani
It's time for government to resign - Zapu
Zanu-PF's socio-political bankrupcy has finally come out openly for all to see now. The economic lunacy that this government has created and is all out to perpetuate at all cost, renders the regime un...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 13:46hrs | 1 | by Iphithule Maphosa ZAPU National Spokesperson
Zimbabwe has no option other than a change of govt in order to progress
Let me begin this series of write ups with preamble that governance is not machine management but a human driven process responsive to good decision that minimizes corruption and give eminence to the ...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Andrew M Manyevere
'Mangudya deserves our support'
Zimbabweans must support the country's recently announced monetary policy measures because they are "meant to preserve people's savings at banks", a youth empowerment activist has said.This al...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 12:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths gun for forex dealers
Zanu-PF youths have declared war on illegal traders and ruling party bigwigs suspected of being behind the country's thriving foreign currency black market.Their warning comes as bond notes co...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 12:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chickens respond better than Zimbabwe people
There is something that keeps me up at night and today I decided to share it with my fellow Zimbabweans. What makes me worried is what I call the Zimbabwe character. Our behavior, our responses, our e...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Zanu-PF is an obstruction to rule of law: The cost of dismissing nurses while people already die from lack of medicines in the c
One does not know what is best to believe in order to describe fully what Zanu-PF is. Sad, but however real, that Zanu is either tyrannical or outright in competed to run a country hence the state the...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Andrew M Manyevere
ZANU-PF casts death on sickness than finding permanent solution
We have just come out of a military coup six month ago when all human rights activists spoke well of coup drivers General C Chiwenga inclusive. It was difficult then, clouded in the harsh reality of M...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 18:47hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Poor leadership MDC's Achilles heel
ANYONE who has read the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro, last year's Nobel Prize winner for literature, will know that characters in his books cope with the bleakness of their situation through denial and se...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Itayi Garande
Mthwakazi's boycott of elections is not docility - activist
Mthwakazi activist Hloniphani Ncube has said sometime people must not take the boycott of elections by people in Matabeleland as docility.This come in the wake of reports that there were conce...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 07:35hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Struggle on my beloved country
I wanted to title this article Cry My Beloved Country. After all we recently had cholera outbreaks and our political parties are competing to demonstrate proximity to the West. It does not seem to mat...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obituary : Rest in peace our eminent revolutionaries
Zimbabwe lost two prominent women in September alone, their deaths occurring hard on the heels of that of Mrs Maud Muzenda, another eminent Zimbabwean revolutionary mother.Mrs Angeline Kamba's...Published: 10 Oct 2017 at 01:56hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Déjà vu as Zimbabwe's 2008 ghost returns
The year 2008 was the zenith of shortages of basic commodities. Hyperinflation reached levels that had only been seen during Europe's Great Depression. After a decade of hyperinflation, Zimbabwe learn...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 18:15hrs | | by Linda Masarira
When Mugabe or Mnangagwa go: Are Zimbabweans fixing their eyes on wrong goal posts?
Genesis 21:19 "And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water, and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink."History has shown that when dictators die order is ...Published: 21 Aug 2017 at 21:22hrs | 2 | by Andrew Manyevere
Norman Mabhena: The honour and price of principle in Zimbabwe
After more than three decades since we attained independence from colonial rule in 1980, there is a steady depletion of the ranks of those who stood up to be counted without counting the cost to thems...Published: 09 Jul 2016 at 06:31hrs | | by Dr. Strike Mkandla
Bond coins and notes - Zimbabwe dollar incarnate
THE ECONOM Zimbabwe Economy in a crisis and the actors are in a paralysis to address or take those measures that are sustainable to restore the econom...Published: 08 May 2016 at 14:31hrs | | by Jacob JD Dube - Treasurer General/Resource Mobilization and Finance Secretary Zimbabwe African Peoples Union(ZAPU)
Mugabe no longer worthy celebrating
Mugabe no longer worthy celebratingTaking into account what Mugabe has done to our lives and future I am bold to say that he is not worthy of any national celebration. The only people who can ...Published: 07 Mar 2016 at 12:23hrs | | by Farai Mbira
A warning to Zimbabwean Ministers, all of them
The current political picturesque has Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the focal point and going into 2016, much is expected to add to the drama, mainstreaming a handful of government officials to...Published: 02 Jan 2016 at 16:29hrs | 4 | by Zisunko Ndlovu
The Truth About Chenjerai Hove
Fellow Zimbabweans,Let me correct malicious, insensitive, half-truths, untruths, and innuendos written about Chenjerai Hove by several people in several publications since his passing on i...Published: 23 Jul 2015 at 15:29hrs | 1 | by Morgan Mugove Changamire
Mupositori response to Mugabe 'education' insult
We read with disdain President Robert Mugabe's comments about Vapositori and their not being educated. The report came out in Zimbabwe's Daily News online paper and we respond that once again Mugabe i...Published: 28 Jun 2015 at 15:59hrs | | by Wilfred Kushure
Why is Cuthbert Dube hanging on?
AS pressure mounts from almost all angles, there are some sectors that have formed an unholy alliance with the embattled ZIFA president and his under-fire chief executive Jonathan Mashingaidze....Published: 07 Feb 2015 at 07:42hrs | | by Bothwell Mahlengwe
Zanu-PF's politics of hypocrisy and opportunism
A South African-born woman who was a young teenager struggling with early effects of puberty in 1980 has suddenly risen to become a serious contender on Zimbabwe's political landscape. Not long a...Published: 13 Oct 2014 at 10:07hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
What I think about Morgan Tsvangirai
This man and his antics have brought the MDC and the general democratic movement into disrepute. He has singlehandedly brought it down in a manner that even Zanu PF, in their most optimistic of dr...Published: 06 Jun 2014 at 05:58hrs | | by Julius Magarangoma
Our spirit of resilience, says Tendai Biti
Wananchi, the goat month draws to an end and not many will shed tears to see the echoes of its ironic laughter.It has been a long month, with even longer scars and shadows of pain planted acro...Published: 03 Dec 2013 at 08:52hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Zanu-PF is not indispensable
The meeting held this week [04/06/2013] by Morgan Tsvangirai, Edwin Mushoriwa who stood in for Professor Ncube, Mavambo Kusile Dawn (MKD) leader Dr Simba Makoni, ZAPU leader Dumiso Dabengwa and Z...Published: 05 Jun 2013 at 20:07hrs | | by Tendai Kwari
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