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Demystifying Robert Mugabe's Pan-African bubble
When the dust settles, it's time to write. I have just watched Ian Bedowes' engagement of Robert Mugabe's legacy, which got me thinking. I was reminded of my very robust, 'no walls barred' WhatsApp re...Published: 16 hrs ago | 1170 | by Dr Brilliant Sigabade Mhlanga
Mugabe's legacy is palatial Blue Roof for himself and condemn povo to mud hovel - Sodom and Gomorrah of greed
-A lot has been said about Robert Gabriel Mugabe's legacy; some declared him a Pan-Africanist liberation hero per excellence, the founding father of Zimbabwe, etc. A picture speaks a thousand words an...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 18:42hrs | 1106 | by Wilbert Mukori
MDC is a disgrace to Matebeleland
The tribal fracas at the Mthwakazi capital "Esigodlweni seNkosi" is a clear manifestation of a tribal war against the local people. The unrepentant Shona councillors yesterday snubbed a scheduled budg...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 16:35hrs | 3190 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Abuse of mobile money platforms symptomatic of a failed currency regime
IT is a good thing that the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Corruption (Zacc) has finally taken interest in the stinking corruption that has been going on through some mobile money platforms on which members...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:26hrs | 348 | by Editorial - Newsday
African Dream boat spurs growth at Kariba Airport
THE Kariba Airport has started witnessing growth in passenger traffic following the launch of the African Dream boat in Kariba Dam in 2017, Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (Caaz) has revealed....Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:21hrs | 490 | by Staff reporter
No to Mugabe mausoleum
The Zimbabwe Campaign for Good Governance (ZCGG) would like to express its displeasure and dismay over the proposal to build a MAUSOLEUM for Robert Mugabe at the National Heroes Acre. The Symb...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:14hrs | 3330 | by Morgan Changamire
Chief Zvimba blasts Mugabe's nephew
Chief Zvimba has blasted some relatives of former President Robert Mugabe who are trying to politicise his burial while tainting President Mnangagwa's name. Speaking to The Herald on the sidel...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:06hrs | 3478 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls for production on allocated land
President Mnangagwa has called on beneficiaries of the successful land reform programme to optimally use their land to ensure food security in the country. The Head of State and Government and...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:44hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe praised
The country's success is inevitable owing to the rich and endearing legacy of "solid education", the land reform programme and economic empowerment initiatives laid by Robert Mugabe, President Emmerso...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:47hrs | 2201 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's success inevitable, says Mnangagwa
The country's success is inevitable owing to the rich and enduring legacy of "solid education", the land reform programme and economic empowerment initiatives laid by Robert Mugabe, President Emmerson...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:16hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
'Shame, elite using foreign hospitals after destroying local one' said Mahere - fuming she not MP
"It's embarrassing and selfish for political elites to destroy our public hospitals then seek health care abroad, destroy our airlines then hire private jets for themselves, destroy our farms then imp...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 12:58hrs | 592 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe to build mausoleum to honour dictator Mugabe - even in death his selfish greed is insatiable
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the Zimbabwean government is building a mausoleum at the National Heroes Acre as a way of paying homage and honour to the country's late founding father Robert Mugabe...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 12:49hrs | 917 | by Wilbert Mukori
Let's reduce road deaths: Do unto others...
This is an open letter to all stakeholders concerned with the rising road deaths on our roads. Recently I had an opportunity to drive in another African city, Francistown, Botswana to be specific. I w...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:47hrs | 142 | by Engineer Tororiro Isaac Chaza PMP
Mugabe nephew warns Mnangagwa
Robert Mugabe's nephew and former Cabinet minister Patrick Zhuwao on Tuesday made a dramatic intervention in the row over where the former Zimbabwe president should be laid to rest, warning that those...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 22:45hrs | 10988 | by ZimLive
It is impossible to portray dictator Mugabe as a hero, impossible, 'Rinemanyanga hariputirwi!'
Every year, at my High School, we had a college ball. We invited girls from the neighbouring school to the ball and, before the end of the afternoon's dancing, it was the tradition to have a lucky dra...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 20:12hrs | 1058 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Giving Mugabe a hero's send-off proves we love our dictators and don't want change - not yet
Zimbabweans are not yet ready to end the de facto Zanu PF one-party dictatorship and with it the economic meltdown and political paralysis.Last year Mnangagwa and Zanu PF blatantly rigged the ...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 11:56hrs | 870 | by Wilbert Mukori
Closure of the University of Zimbabwe a callous act
The ZANU (PF) aligned leadership at the University of Zimbabwe needs to be challenged by the students including seeking a Court interdict. It is indeed a fitting tribute to their departed hero who cau...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 21:05hrs | 591 | by Lizwe Dube
UZ blasted over command mourning
We cannot allow a shift from command agriculture to command mourning. This time we are ready to make sure that as they bury Robert Mugabe they also bury the dictatorial tendencies he planted in this c...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 12:36hrs | 3093 | by Ashlegh Pfunye
Adios, the perfidious one!
FORMER President Robert Mugabe finally bade farewell at 95. The Mugabe story had lost currency, albeit temporarily, since his unceremonious departure from office in November 2017. Zimbabweans are just...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 12:44hrs | 808 | by Tapiwa Gomo
UK downplayed gukurahundi genocide to guard its interests, study claims
British officials repeatedly downplayed the massacre of thousands of innocent civilians by Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe in the 1980s to protect the UK's interests in southern Africa and their relationshi...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 13:15hrs | 1233 | by The Guardian
POEM: Ruthless ruin
There was A menace. A genocidist. A gukurahundist. A wrecker of life itself. He possessed oppression. Brutality. Immunity. Iniquity. A rea...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 10:30hrs | 650 | by Ndaba Sibanda
The method behind the protest madness
As international business leaders and politicians gathered in Cape Town last week for the World Economic Forum on Africa (WEF), xenophobic violence erupted in parts of South Africa.Ghoulish im...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:28hrs | 89 | by Wendy Nyakurerwa- Matinde
Mugabe just fell short of his goals
Until he was ousted two years ago, Robert Mugabe was the only president I and the other "born frees" - the generation born after independence in 1980 - had ever known.Mugabe was my grandmother...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 22:19hrs | 1004 | by BBC
Zanu-PF mourns former leader
Zanu-PF has described the death of former president Robert Mugabe as a great shock to the nation, continent and the world. The party's secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu said the entire ...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 09:56hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
Minister concerned about lives lost due to high healthcare charges
Health and Child Care Minister Obadiah Moyo has said he would prefer not to gazette fees for health services with no foreign currency component but might have to do so, as Government cannot continue w...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 17:10hrs | 420 | by Agencies
Genocidal Dictator Mugabe Dies at 95
The world and our organization, the 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM), woke up to the news that Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the former President of Zimbabwe, who ruled Zimbabwe ...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 16:58hrs | 2692 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
Cry our beloved 'Sunshine City'
In the mid-1990s, I left my village in Guruve to work in Harare and it was a city of bliss and flamboyance. My uncle Obedience Masakara, who was streetwise aat the time, took me around the city centre...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:56hrs | 91 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics
The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | 1471 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Mnangagwa's jelly foreign policy bad for development
ZIMBABWE has for a long time looked West or East, but in the last two decades it has become disoriented as it can't concentrate on one direction and most often ended up with an empty bowel. Probably i...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:16hrs | 326 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Killing of foreigners in South Africa is an evil act [Xenophobia]
When Mandela became the first black South African President, after a protracted struggle with the Apartheid government, many people thought that a new dawn of peace in Africa has been born. In...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 13:10hrs | 2129 | by Njabulo
Killing of foreigners in South Africa is an evil act
When Mandela became the first black South African President, after a protracted struggle with the Apartheid government ,many people thought that a new dawn of peace in Africa has been born...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 09:08hrs | 692 | by Njabulo
Chamisa's statement on South Africa's Afrophobia
WE MUST BUILD A NEW AFRICA!The attacks against fellow Africans in South Africa are appalling and heartbreaking. We call upon our African brothers and sisters to show a full sense of brotherhoo...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 15:17hrs | 4923 | by Nelson Chamisa
'ZANU-PF is good at killing'
FOLLOWING Zanu-PF's chairperson for Mashonaland Central Kazembe Kazembe's alleged threats of violence saying there will be bloodbath in the province if people try to remove him from his position and r...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 21:10hrs | 2264 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabweans should take back power from political parties
For nearly four decades, since Zimbabwe attained its independence from Great Britain in 1980, real prosperity, democracy and development have alluded the majority of citizens of this nation - leaving ...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 16:12hrs | 2507 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa has nothing to fear from a free Press, unless ...
ANY hopes of media freedom that many people nursed when President Emmerson Mnangagwa ushered in his "Second Republic" have been dashed after the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) Bill retained autocrati...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 18:41hrs | 1032 | by Editorial - Newsday
'War veterans are living on US$0.48 per day, demanding own ministry' - I am speechless.
"War veterans are surviving on US0.48c a day and nothing has been done yet everyone and everybody who could be driving a Mercedes Benz, living in a nice house and things like that; it came from the wa...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 08:54hrs | 655 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ZANU PF eyes Tinashe Kambarami's seat
ZANU PF is reportedly eyeing the Ward 3 seat that was held by ousted former Bulawayo Deputy Mayor Tinashe Kambarami.A ZANU PF Bulawayo Youth League member who spoke to this reporter said...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 10:37hrs | 5402 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Powerful political enemies out to finish Magaya
Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries found and preacher Walter Magaya is a household name in Zimbabwe. Magaya commands crowds that would make any politician jealous and envious of the pr...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 14:35hrs | 7948 | by Nicholas Ncube
Time for serious legal action against ZESA
As the constant, but greatly debilitating, power outages continue to torment the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans - who are already at the mercy of an unprecedented economic turmoil in 10 years - with se...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 10:47hrs | 4993 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa hailed for Cites pullout plan
President Mnangagwa's announcement that Zimbabwe plans to pull out of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (Cites) has triggered excitement in Geneva, Swit...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | 840 | by Emmanuel Koro
'I'm positively impacting Zim's development' Gutu insist ' are you, 'many were called but few were chosen'
"I have got absolutely no apology to make to anyone for loving my country, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is currently facing serious political & socio-economic challenges but these challenges aren't insurmou...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 21:31hrs | 536 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Abduction claims point to anti-Zimbabwe agenda
THE dismissal as falsehoods by a local non-governmental organisation some reports of abductions of civil society and opposition members allegedly by State security agents all but confirms a sinister a...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:38hrs | 266 | by Editorial - Chronicle
So what did the people's president bring us the povo from Russia and China?
Dear ZimbabweansGreetings in the name of our blessed country Zimbabwe. I hope and trust I find you all well despite the obtaining economic hardships and this drought which is threatening to sw...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:35hrs | 1567 | by Munya Shumba
What is holding back Zimbabwe - perverse Zanu-PF and MDC entente cordiale
There is no doubt that ever since the 2008 to 2013 GNU there was mutual understanding, a cordial agreement, a "entente cordiale" as the French would say, struck between Zanu-PF and MDC. MDC was suppos...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:29hrs | 2388 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa using people for his own selfish ends
MOST probably ensconced in the comfort of their homes, the violence mongering leaders of the opposition used their proxies to ignite chaos in the heart of Harare. What they did not know is that their ...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | 356 | by Pupurai Togarepi
Caps Utd elevates Darling Dodo
Caps United have elevated Darlington Dodo to the post of head coach until the end of the season after the championship-chasing giants were dumped by Lloyd Chitembwe, who joined the free-spending Harar...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:47hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's hired soldiers caught with their pants down
The demonstrations in Harare on the 16th August 2019 have exposed many stake holders. There were people who were so much waiting for these demonstrations each one with his own ulterior motive. The...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 21:23hrs | 12024 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe is not a banana republic
Blessed Sunday good people.How was Friday?Has the Government changed yet?Is Nelson Chamisa now president of our teapot-shaped republic? Kikikiki.Yes, exactly as Bishop ...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:30hrs | 267 | by Bishop Lazi
Go home Nero! The demons are with you
We are told sister Piri, as Prisca Mupfumira was known in her close circles, is demanding too much luxury behind bars. Yes, she has not yet been convicted, but it could be her insatiable quest for swa...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 07:58hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
Harare protestors brave riot Police to demand 'CHANGE!' - still with no clue 'WHAT CHANGES!' it's futile
The nation heaved a huge sigh of relief when it was reported that the Zanu-PF regime had given the green light for the MDC demos to go ahead. This morning it was clear the Police were deployed determi...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 15:46hrs | 1338 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
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