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Illegal lithium exports undermine Zimbabwe's mineral wealth
In 2023, Peter, a truck driver, approached a border checkpoint between Zimbabwe and Mozambique carrying a sealed container he believed held chrome, a mineral listed on the shipment paperwork. Having t...Published: 10 Jul 2025 at 09:00hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to the President of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema
An Open Letter to the President of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema: I will not be silenced until death or a better Zambia emerges, whichever comes firstDear President Hichilema,Yesterday, I...Published: 09 Jul 2025 at 09:24hrs | 1119 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Machakaire launches scathing personal attack on Mahere
Youth Empowerment Minister Tinoda Machakaire has launched a blistering personal attack on former opposition legislator and lawyer Fadzayi Mahere after she posted a series of pointed questions on socia...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 10:54hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
Machakaire exposes the detachment of Zimbabwe's ruling elite from ordinary citizens' suffering
The surprises keep coming!It is not often that we hear a sitting Zimbabwean Cabinet minister openly acknowledge the painful reality faced daily by millions of citizens. That is why Min...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:18hrs | 581 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The new PVO law is a sign of a government that fears its own people
The Zimbabwe government has always been afraid of its own people.President Emmerson Mnangagwa's signing of the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Act, 2025, into law marks yet ano...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 09:27hrs | 85 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Stop dismissing and arresting everyone who criticises the president
45 years on, Zimbabwe is perhaps the only country where even the Vice President cannot publicly declare an ambition to be the next President without facing severe consequences. Under Robert Mugabe's r...Published: 06 Mar 2025 at 20:32hrs | 687 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
It's time to kick exploitative Chinese out of Zimbabwe!
Zimbabwe is a colony once again!It is time for Zimbabweans to confront the uncomfortable reality of Chinese exploitation in the country. Recent incidents have revealed the horrifying e...Published: 24 Jan 2025 at 08:31hrs | 1117 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Plundering of Zimbabwe's minerals stalling a just energy transition in fighting climate change
In his address at a High-Level Meeting on Resourcing the Energy Transition with Justice and Equity, held on the sidelines of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa delivere...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 12:37hrs | 175 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
SA constitution serves the elite and the neoliberal agenda
The MK Party has called for the scrapping of South Africa's constitution, claiming it serves the elite and the neoliberal agenda. The party, led by former president Jacob Zuma who was in the A...Published: 19 Oct 2024 at 19:59hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
ZIM condemns Mnangagwa's US$3 billion white farmers compensation plan
The Zimbabwe Independent Movement (ZIM) has condemned Mnangagwa's US$3 billion compensation package for white farmers, describing the act as reversal for the liberation struggle gains.In a sta...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 11:28hrs | 934 | by Staff Reporters
ZiG collapse linked to Mnangagwa SADC chairship?
During a recent Senate debate, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Senator Cecil Zvidzai urged Zimbabweans to confront uncomfortable truths about national issues impacting citizens' well-being. His re...Published: 28 Sep 2024 at 12:14hrs | 2463 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's opposition calls for regulations on foreign-based NGOs
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) secretary-general Marshall Dlamini has called for the introduction of strict regulations of non-profit organisations (NPOs) in the country.This, after the U...Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 16:04hrs | 437 | by Staff reporter
Politics of sympathetic pregnancies
Politics of mimesis Opposition in Zimbabwe - not the Zimbabwean opposition - is in a deep mess. It is vainly looking for causes, models and examples. Our politics, it would appear, has entered a p...Published: 11 Aug 2024 at 18:27hrs | 93 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Zimbabwe under attack from foreign powers
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has claimed that Zimbabwe is under attack from foreign countries seeking to destabilize the nation through sponsored instability. His comments come amid a crackdown on pro...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 09:04hrs | 622 | by Staff reporter
MKP express dismay at 'racist conduct' of the DA and NGOs
The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party has hit back at the DA and white monopoly capital funded non-governmental organisations that have opposed the election of MKP's parliamentary leader and former Western ...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 15:19hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
South African GNU and Zimbabwe economy
GNU as portfolio controlThis week, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa was inaugurated for his second and last term in office under the current Constitution.What is now awaited is...Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 11:28hrs | 7 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Zimbabwe is in hands of callous ruling elite
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, methinks Zimbabwe is in the hands of a callous ruling elite. It is my conviction that the country is not governed according to rule of t...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 07:16hrs | 12 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Chiwenga denounces gay elements
The Government has denounced some elements who are luring youths into homosexuality through offering educational scholarships for those who are into Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) act...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 04:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt against underhand plot to entice children into devilish sexual activities
The Zimbabwean government has expressed outrage against the local LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community for offering young students scholarships to study at tertiary institutions, s...Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 22:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
MASVINGO LAND EVICTIONS: Ibhetshu likaZulu steps in
In a shocking turn of events, the Ibhetshu Lika Zulu organization has issued a press statement decrying the eviction of villagers in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe. Distress calls have flooded in from Ma...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:07hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The year Mnangagwa tightened grip on power
The air crackled with anticipation on November 22, 2017 as Zimbabwe witnessed a moment etched in history.Emmerson Mnangagwa, the man once cast out, returned to his homeland not as a fugitive, ...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 12:59hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
'Interference on polls, overstepping unacceptable'
THE gross interference on the country's internal affairs and overstepping by some electoral observer missions will not be tolerated in Zimbabwe as is the case anywhere in the world. The Acting...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:03hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
EU polls report on Zimbabwe 'full of misrepresentations'
Zimbabwe yesterday called the European Union (EU) to order following the release of an adverse preliminary report "full of misrepresentations and allegations" by the bloc's elections observer mission ...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Even Mnangagwa wants 'whites' to develop Zimbabwe!
A few days ago, I had a very interesting debate with a ZANU PF sympathizer - who was adamant that Zimbabwe was going in the right direction under President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa.He based...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 21:50hrs | 19 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Incompetent Western puppet faking political bravery
There is a sequence that can be employed to identify CCC leader Nelson Chamisa as a snollygoster!A snollygoster is a political candidate, usually willing to be an instrument of another country...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:41hrs | 12 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Redwing: a tale of plunder, impunity, chaos and death
Redwing Gold Mine, once touted as a giant gold mining venture capable of transforming the quality of life in the Penhalonga area of Manicaland province and a cash cow for the national economy, has bec...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 12:12hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says 'Zimbabwe shaping own destiny'
ZIMBABWE has adopted Africa's aspirations of self-determination through the "Nyika inovakwa nekutongwa ne vene vayo" philosophy and is open to foreigners coming in as partners to assist in the country...Published: 29 May 2023 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: Hoping for tricks of providence
A belch from a priest has greater valueFor a shiny trinket / Give not away your country / The foreigner is a trafficker / To mind him is no bargain / If you were skilled and artful / You'd sta...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 06:49hrs | 4 | by Jamwanda
Zimbabweans will reject political mannequins
FOR over two decades, some Western administrations have sponsored proxy political entities in Zimbabwe with the primary goal of dislodging ZANU-PF from power. Over two decades of moral, financ...Published: 21 Feb 2023 at 05:51hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Mnangagwa vows to 'speedily' sign PVO Bill
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has vowed to sign the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Bill into law, ignoring wide calls to dump a law viewed as draconian by Zimbabwean NGOs.The c...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:00hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's PVO Bill will be signed into law
The Private Voluntary Organisation Bill, PVO Bill, has now passed the various stages of the legislative process.It is now being cleaned up for my assent. I will sign it into law once it reache...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 17:34hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa welcomes Morgan Tsvangirai's brother to Zanu-PF
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, Saturday said Zanu-PF structures should prepare themselves for an influx of former opposition supporters after receiving hundreds in Harare.In the hundreds was fo...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 19:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Beware of the folly of Trojan rulers!
Government, folly of mankind?Barbara W Tuchman is a prolific writer on politics as read through history. I enjoy her take on her subject.But she is American, western, itself an importa...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 18:07hrs | 3 | by on Saturday
ZLHR on the payroll of the United States?
IN a shocking admission, Mr Macdonald Moyo of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights has admitted that his organisation is on the payroll of the United States, bringing to the fore the nexus between so...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 19:36hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pressures Parly on PVOs Bill
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has piled pressure on Parliament to fast-track the controversial Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill but opposition leaders have urged a rethink....Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa could defeat the unreformed Mnangagwa'
ZIMBABWE has been reeling under a multifaceted economic and political crisis since 2000, and it appears there is no end in sight. Amid chronic high inflation, Zimbabwe is confronted with a crucial gen...Published: 12 Jul 2022 at 18:17hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
NGOs plot to unsettle Zimbabwe exposed
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) under the auspices of Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC), which have become fretful over the proposed Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment, have hatched ...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Biti and CCC manifestly lack patriotism
While the yellow fever may have gripped the nation, and the youth seems to be captured in the idealistic bankruptcy, the CCC remains the most unpatriotic outfit which uses the current economic stress ...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
African NGOs: Conveyors of national subversion?
Did you know that over 75 percent of the world's poor today live in Africa compared to 10 percent in 1970?Did you know that despite receiving a total US$4,6 trillion in aid between 1960 and 20...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Warmongers will never preach peace
Do you still remember what the Bishop has been prophesying from the beginning?He hopes you still do!We will definitely inherit a different world order when the coronavirus finally runs...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi
Honeymoon over for Zambian leader
Almost six months after the high expectations created by his historic landslide victory over Edgar Lungu and his promises of fundamental reform, Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema's halo has begun s...Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
A chain is as strong as its weakest link
The Bishop's heart always bleeds each time he thinks about Ethiopia, the land of brave men and women who valiantly frustrated Italy's imperial designs in the 20th century, making it difficult for colo...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:08hrs | 14 | by Bishop Lazarus
Mnangagwa looting Zimbabwe's wealth for Belarus, China
NEWLY former Front for Economic Emancipation (FEEZ) leader Godfrey Tsenengamu has castigated President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF party for fronting foreign interests by looting the country's ...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Top MDC Alliance officials join Zanu-PF
SEVEN senior MDC Alliance officials joined the mass exodus of opposition figures who are opting to join Zanu-PF after defecting to the ruling party yesterday.Former Zengeza Member of Parliamen...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Business has learned nothing and forgot nothing
SO there was this prominent businessman-cum-pastor who was obsessed with religiously lampooning politicians as occultic during his daily sermons.Preaching from his moral high horse, the raboni...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 09:50hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Mnangagwa continues 'scoring own' goals
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration continues presenting "itself in the worst possible light at home and internationally", casting any pretense of implementing reforms to the wind, and any h...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:30hrs | 9 | by Staff report
Biti hits back at Mnangagwa aide
MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti has rubbished claims by the government that lawyers in the party crafted laws used by western countries to impose sanctions on the country.President Emm...Published: 16 May 2021 at 10:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe churches not honest brokers'
THE push for talks between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the opposition has suffered a significant setback after Zanu-PF accused the church yesterday of acting in bad faith over the mooted national...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 15:41hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's office did not get Chamisa's talks letters
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's office says it never got any letters from Nelson Chamisa regarding the mooted national talks, and neither was it aware of emissaries that the MDC Alliance leader sent to...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 11:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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
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