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Zimbabwe Generals are all style and no substance!
As I sit in my library in a far away foreign country, I see clearly what my brothers on the ground in Zimbabwe fail to see.An Ashanti idiom that says chickens are too close to the ground to se...Published: 11 May 2025 at 16:41hrs | 1672 | by Kenneth Mufuka
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
A golden gift from the political gods
If next year's watershed elections needed any divination, then the just-ended by-elections were the divine bones cast by a bone-thrower to provide a reading of the future.Well, they are a gold...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi
Mnangagwa's grandfather was raised in King Mzilikazi court
WITH a grandfather who was raised in King Mzilikazi court and maternal links to the great Munhumutapa State, President Mnangagwa was from an early age poised for greater heights. On the day that his h...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:02hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF greed is on steroids, will not give up power' said ZCTU - know enemy well but ignorant of yourself
My beef with Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) leaders, as with many other civic organisations in Zimbabwe, is why they have remained doggedly loyal MDC leaders even in the face of the overwhel...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 17:53hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Ndebele villages or regiments: Organisational units within the state
FOR about 25 weeks now we have been investigating the phenomenon of naming, initially starting off at the cosmic level but later getting down to the terrestrial plane. Our interest has been to investi...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:56hrs | 7 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Zim should brace for a Kenyatta-Odinga 'Handshake' after polls
Sun Tzu in his book "The Art of War" says;" Anybody, including me, can contest the Presidency, but not anybody can become President. Queuing to vote is a formality, but the President is selected throu...Published: 12 May 2018 at 16:21hrs | | by Knowledge Hakata
Mujuru, Khupe heading towards Zimbabwe's political cemetery
The recent developments in which former Vice President Joice Mujuru and her PHD colleague Thokozani Khupe has formally decided to join hands under an electoral pact which is yet to be unveiled have no...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:38hrs | | by Knowledge Hakata
Zanu-PF strategy could only mean one thing
The opposition gear is in overdrive yet the ruling party , or should l say the junta is taking a laid back approach to the approaching watershed elections. In all honest this should worry the oppositi...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 07:09hrs | 2 | by A.T. Kadada
Matabeleland; Strike whilst the iron is still hot…
The events of the past few weeks in my motherland, have brought out of the woodwork all manner of analysts, commentators and agent provocateurs; and as usual my people, the people of Matabeleland, hav...Published: 09 Nov 2017 at 22:20hrs | 1 | by Thamsanqa N. Ncube
Zimbabwean Politics, Social Media and the bane of fake news
Truth is often subjective. Technology in the form of social media has made truth even more subjective. Judging by recent events, espionage, cyber-attacks, misinformation, conspiracy and fake news have...Published: 22 Feb 2017 at 10:25hrs | | by Richard Mugobo
A chat with Auntie Noe - Does size really matter?
Yes of course size does really matter, most people would say! The sad truth however is that sexual organs, how we look, complexion are truly none of our choices, that having been said it becomes unfai...Published: 14 Jul 2016 at 18:27hrs | 30 | by Nobuhle Virgie
Zanu-PF differences did not shake the house to its core
I think a qualification, if not retraction, is in order. Whoop, those "tweeters" do read I tell you. I was wrong, and am determined to be right about them, now and in future. The hooves generation I h...Published: 01 Nov 2014 at 11:27hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Robert Mugabe 'a haunted and stressed octogenarian tyrant'
AT 86, and approaching 87 years of age, Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe is the world's oldest ruler.Depending on where one stands, the political life and historical legacy of Mugabe i...Published: 30 Jan 2014 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
'I am from Zimbabwe and that is threat enough' - who is Hakeem?
ZIMBABWE'S hottie in the Big Brother house Munyaradzi Hakeem Mandaza continues to steal hearts in the house and his performance is impressive.In his opening remarks, the first day in Big Broth...Published: 01 Jun 2013 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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