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Interest in Geza might be waning
I was quite surprised to hear that Blessed Geza had another video last Wednesday, an indicator that my interest in him and that of many is waning.Geza makes a lot of sense, but I cannot shake ...Published: 07 May 2025 at 21:23hrs | 1695 | by Nqaba Matshazi
SADC also fed up with Zanu-PF roguery
For decades, SADC countries have been playing their usual big brother role to successive Zanu-PF governments, shielding them from international condemnation for oppressive rule and corruption and alwa...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 19:33hrs | 22 | by Simbarashe Jingo
It's tragic how 'Pan-Africanism' has become a refuge for those who ruined fellow Zimbabweans' lives!
I genuinely believe that I am actually more Pan-Africanist that most of those who claim to be Pan-Africanists. I, as so many others, have chosen to place my own safety and life in danger ...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 20:42hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What is Gata even still doing at ZESA?
As Zimbabwe continues to sink deeper into an economic abyss - exacerbated by recurrent crippling electricity shortages - one is baffled as to why heads at the power utility are not rolling.No ...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 11:43hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
We need new leaders, not new notes
THE country's inflation continues spiralling under President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government and the introduction of a $100 note by the central bank will see the local currency plunging into economic ...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 08:59hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa had a chance to be a Gorbachev, but he chose to be Milosevic!!!
Zimbabweans celebrating the fall of the late ex-President Robert Mugabe during the November 2017 military coup which brought President E.D Mnangagwa to power. Pic Credit; Google.Reader, Mnanga...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 20:36hrs | 12 | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo Sr
Government must expeditiously engage ZIST
Zimbabwe has for a very long time been experiencing boorish governance which led to unprecedented economic abyss coupled with gross violation of human rights and other ignoble injustices manufactured ...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 19:31hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
How South Africa can nudge Zimbabwe toward stability
What's new? As Zimbabwe's political and economic crises worsen, South Africa is moving beyond its policy of "quiet diplomacy" with its northern neighbour and applying more pressure on Harare to open...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by crisisgroup
A partisan military: The most potent weapon against democracy
That Zimbabwe has become the proverbial cursed nation, which simply can't unshackle itself from an economic abyss and political crisis that has rankled for decades, is beyond doubt.The highly-...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:32hrs | 1 | by Learnmore Zuze
Zimbabweans need to do a serious soul searching
What should government do to response to ongoing tensions between police officers the army and communities. Zimbabwe must sharply condemn the rioters for damaging private property and taking i...Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 06:09hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa beaten to his game
The difference between Chamisa and ED is that ED is now playing development and focusing on the future of the nation. Chamisa is focusing on the politics and playing politics with both his party and t...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 13:12hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa's MPs must go beyond heckling, walkouts
WHILE heckling and walkouts during parliamentary sessions are common the world over, and are considered legislators' privileges, it is important that in countries like ours, where a positive attitude ...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Newsday Comment
Zimbabwe economy on the mend
Zimbabweans have entered the most anxious week. The new cabinet flew into a cholera crisis and from nowhere prices sky rocketed and rates came to obnoxious stinking levels. Mthuli Ncube's first week i...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:32hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Does Zimbabwe need deputy ministers?
There is consensus among Zimbabweans that the improvement in the country's economic fortunes will hinge on the Cabinet to be appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.We agree with Zimbabweans...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 13:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new cabinet will either kill or awaken Zimbabwe's economic prospects
The real threat to Zanu-PF's survival does not come from Nelson Chamisa's election petition court challenge. It comes from within Zanu-PF itself and how its leader will decide to confront the politica...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 17:09hrs | 1 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Trump signs Zimbabwe sanctions law
UNITED STATES President Donald Trump has signed into law the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Amendment Act.The Bill was passed by the United States Congress in July and sets tough con...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 21:57hrs | 13 | by Staff Reporter
'We left all the bad things behind,' says ED - leopard smelling of elephant dung, it is still a killer
Things are bad enough when tyrants bombard the people with their propaganda and brainwash them with falsehoods. Hell breaks loose when the tyrants begin to believe their own propaganda and lies. In Zi...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 16:42hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Dotito be ready for Joice Mujuru
Revolutionary greetings comrades. I am hereby reminding you that today and tommorrow is Dotito day. NPP and its PRC alliance will hold star rallies thereat. Today it is the clean up rally for the yout...Published: 18 May 2018 at 10:07hrs | 3 | by NPP youth Desk
Mnangagwa must not be overly optimistic
Our politics have entered very interesting times with social media, as usual, going into overdrive peddling any form of lies that can be imagined, most casting aspersions on specific persons in politi...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 11:22hrs | 1 | by Eddie Zvinonzwa
Mnangagwa 'doesn't have a team fit for purpose yet'
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa came into office after his former boss, Robert Mugabe, had been forced to resign following a military intervention, he could have done anything that he wanted to do a...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 10:27hrs | 3 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Why Mnangagwa dispensation keeps old problems
WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa came into office after his former boss Robert Mugabe had been forced to resign following a military intervention, he could have done anything that he wanted and still...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 14:55hrs | 3 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
People Rainbow coalition against the possible postponement of the elections
Revolutionary greetings comrades. The people of Zimbabwe are tired of old selfish, corrupt and violent horses that have plunged the country into an economic abyss. They are tired of violence,&nb...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 10:44hrs | 1 | by Khulani David Ndhlovu
Zanu-PF demands $2 protection fees from vendors
ZANU-PF's controversial Bulawayo district youth league leader Magura Charumbira has ordered informal traders to pay $2 protection fees to the ruling party to avoid being harassed by municipal police d...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to count losses after Cabinet reshuffle
President Robert Mugabe is seen prising Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa out of the Justice ministry but let him retain the vice presidency in his mooted Cabinet reshuffle, analysts said yesterday....Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 16:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Electronic transfers in Zimbabwe just a big lie - Biti
The electronic money transfer system in Zimbabwe is just a big lie living on borrowed time, it will collapse against the pressure of cash demand, President Biti has said.Addressing a gathering...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 11:53hrs | | by PDP
Warped World: Future is BitCoin, Zim opts for Billy Goat, Citizens choose memes
Zimbabwe's social media realm has been metaphorically invaded by unimpressive jokes and dull memes whose main theme is a since rebuffed proposal to adopt a primitive trading method whose currency is t...Published: 22 Apr 2017 at 19:55hrs | | by Chenai Makurumure
'African leaders are cowards,' claims Mugabe
Most African leaders are cowards who have no direction, President Robert Mugabe said yesterday while threatening to orchestrate a split of the United Nations.Political analysts and local o...Published: 25 Sep 2016 at 10:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Minister dress down Annan Elders for asking SADC to end Zimbabwe's never ending crisis
Last week the "Group of Elders" comprising notable individuals like the former UN Secretary General Koffi Annan, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Ms Graca Machel advised SADC leaders to facilitate "a t...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 07:09hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Citizens lose faith in Mugabe
As food prices rise further beyond reach amid cash shortages, struggling Zimbabweans are losing belief in their president and his promise of a brighter future.The country has been hit by persi...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 21:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
How come our government doesn't get this?
There is no need to be a Nobel Prize economist to decipher that the economic pains ghost of 2008 is reincarnating at alarming speed. It equally doesn't need a prophetic calling to decipher that we...Published: 29 May 2016 at 19:29hrs | | by Brian Sedze
Zim Ministers in a magical economic double act to half civil servants wage bill - drum roll
We have a government that has promised to reduce by half the civil servant wage bill, goggling up an unsustainable 83% of collected revenue, on the one hand. On the other hand the same regime maintain...Published: 04 May 2016 at 09:51hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zim Ministers in a magical economic double act to half civil servants wage bill - drum roll
We have a government that has promised to reduce by half the civil servant wage bill, goggling up an unsustainable 83% of collected revenue, on the one hand. On the other hand the same regime maintain...Published: 04 May 2016 at 07:30hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mugabe era draws to a close
For much of January, Harare, the charming if somewhat faded capital of Zimbabwe, was awash with rumour. While Robert Mugabe, the president who has dominated the country for 36 years, was on a break in...Published: 23 Feb 2016 at 12:58hrs | 1 | by David Pilling and Andrew England
'There's still hope for Zimbabwe,' says Mujuru
Former Vice President Joice Mujuru has described President Robert Mugabe's administration as immoral and presiding over a lethargic and dying economy, throwing the majority of Zimbabweans into abject ...Published: 02 Jan 2016 at 10:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF resisting reforms because 'we want development' said Grace
Mugabe and Zanu PF have hijacked the people's struggle for national independence, freedom and human rights to redefine it in its narrowest format of a racial struggle to remove the whites and rep...Published: 14 Aug 2015 at 16:57hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
MDC statement on the proposed curriculum change
THE Government proposed syllabus change which will see foreign languages like Chinese, Swahili, French and Portuguese being compulsory subjects in all government schools is ill-timed and speaks of...Published: 12 May 2015 at 17:58hrs | | by MDC
What are the economic and political ramifications of Grace publicly denouncing chillaxing VP Mujuru
Being vice-president is not about chillaxing in the office and leaving President Robert Mugabe to shoulder alone the responsibility of leading the country, the veteran leader's wife said Monday while...Published: 14 Oct 2014 at 17:09hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe's 'Look East Policy' hits brick wall
THE Zanu-PF's Look East policy to revive the country's sagging economy has hit a brick-wall as Asian investors are shunning Zimbabwe perceiving it as a risky business destination, it has been learne...Published: 12 Nov 2013 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe discussing with IMF over debt
ZIMBABWE is in discussions with the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and African Development Bank for fresh financial support to rebuild capacity to repay the country's debt, a Cabinet minister...Published: 04 Nov 2013 at 02:23hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Woza members storm Parliament Building demanding devolution of power
More than 500 members of the militant Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) on Monday afternoon marched on Parliament in central Harare demanding the speedy completion of a draft constitution and w...Published: 26 Jun 2012 at 09:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
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