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Flaws in the US electoral system
The United States of America has long been touted as a citadel of democracy where every citizen's voice is valued. Yet, despite the ideal of equal participation, one glaring flaw within the U.S. elect...Published: 23 Jan 2025 at 13:25hrs | 380 | by Takudzwa Chada
CCC MP faces legal setback in challenge against wealth tax
Marondera Central opposition legislator Mr. Caston Matewu has suffered a legal defeat in his attempt to challenge the Government's wealth tax, which was introduced in the 2024 National Budget and has ...Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 06:30hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
Namibia to vote in toughest election yet for ruling party
Namibians will vote on Wednesday in what is expected to be the most competitive election yet for the ruling SWAPO party, which has governed the southern African nation for 34 years.If SWAPO ca...Published: 27 Nov 2024 at 07:13hrs | 605 | by Staff reporter
There're now two Zimbabwes: One for a small elite and the other for millions of poor Zimbabweans
Over the past few years, Zimbabwe has reportedly experienced steady economic growth. According to government statistics, GDP growth rates have shown positive movement, suggesting that the coun...Published: 13 Nov 2024 at 22:05hrs | 585 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Call for reparations: A mere excuse by failed African leaders!
As the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) kicked off this week in Samoa, the topic of reparations for slavery and colonialism has once again been thrust into the spotlight. Sever...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:31hrs | 281 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
WATCH: Qoki women acquire coach
THE entrepreneurship drive of Qoki Zindlovukazi women continues to scale dizzy heights after they bought a luxury coach which is set to ply the Bulawayo-Harare route.The group comprising 30 wo...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 08:08hrs | 34 | by Staff Reporter
How worried should we be about income inequality?
How worried should we be about Income Inequality actually? We worry plenty about its opposite. Forced economic equality is socialism. It is unZimbabwean to be for socialism. But Zimbabwe's strength is...Published: 29 May 2023 at 23:14hrs | 4 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Western hegemony is nearing its end!
This article is reproduced from the public account: Guo Rong (ID: xuu5336)Recently, at an internal meeting, a certain President made a general analysis of the current international situation. ...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by President
South Africa tops in inequality rankings
South Africa is the most unequal country in the world, with "race" playing a key role in a society where 10 percent of the population owns more than 80percent of the wealth, according to a World Bank ...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 05:35hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Will the IMF US$961m windfall rescue Zimbabwe?
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Covid-19 has caused substantial long-term global macroeconomic environment change, and the pandemic inflicted long-term scars on the global economy....Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Learnmore Nyamudzanga
Who owns South Africa?
FORMER South African President Jacob Zuma did not bring the Guptas to South Africa. His folly was allowing the Guptas to be bigger than the Oppenheimers.Atul settled in Johannesburg and sold s...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:12hrs | 3 | by New York Times
Zimbabwe shines to glory despite hardships
Zimbabwe has struggled to improve its deteriorating infrastructure in business, education, and healthcare. Zimbabwe's power grid is overstressed, and power failures have been daily occurrences in...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 07:17hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
40 million Americans live in poverty
America is known for flash. But all that glisters is not gold, according to the latest United Nations report on President Trump's country. From the outside, America is heaven, "God's own country" they...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 08:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Dismissal of Zacc commissioners commendable
Corruption in Zimbabwe has to be stamped out. On January 31, 2019, President Emmerson Mnangagwa fired the entire Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) in a move that was hailed as progressive....Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:28hrs | 2 | by Gloria Ndoro-Mkombachoto
Can ED turn the economy round
Over the last three months, Zimbabwe has been dominated by some ugly headlines from elections squabbles to economic down turn.- It is fair to say the loud silence on the issue by His Excellence did no...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 10:53hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
South African billionaire defends white wealth
Johann Rupert, South Africa's second-richest man with a $6.3 billion fortune, spoke out to defend the stranglehold white people still have over the economy more than two decades after the end of apart...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 06:15hrs | 3 | by Bloomberg
South Africa: Update on the Labour Amendment Bills with specific reference to the National Minimum Wage Bill
The National Minimum Wage legislation marks an important new milestone in the history of labour relations in South Africa...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by APO
Could It Be Time To Deny White Men The Franchise?
Some of the biggest blows to the progressive cause in the past year have often been due to the votes of white men. If white men were not allowed to vote, it is unlikely that the United Kingdom...Published: 22 Apr 2017 at 18:18hrs | 3 | by Shelley Garland, Huffington Post, April 13, 2017
Jacob Zuma, help us help you resolve this immigration headache
According to an article on Africa Check's website, the number of Zimbabweans living in South Africa cannot be substantiated. The South African official figures have loads of discrepancies and data...Published: 05 Mar 2017 at 16:32hrs | 2 | by Whitlaw Mugwiji
Poor leadership at the center of Africa's under-development
In his book 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa' Walter Rodney contends that Western capitalist nations developed through a process that underdeveloped African nations. It is true that the relationship ...Published: 16 Oct 2016 at 20:47hrs | 2 | by Whitlaw Tanyanyiwa Mugwiji
Long Read: A way forward for Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is going through an unprecedented phase of both political and economic volatility. The economy has virtually collapsed with the majority of its citizens currently unemployed (published statis...Published: 14 Sep 2016 at 11:56hrs | | by Kuzi Mutonga and Isaac Jonas
Obama's brother endorses Trump
United States President Barack Obama's half-brother Malik says he endorsed the election of Republican Party candidate Donald Trump because he is a "down-to-earth" person.An excited Trump yeste...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Politics of inequality in Africa
The middle wall between the haves and the have-nots occupies real estate in the cultural imagination of every generation. It has drawn a storm of intellectual sledgehammers in the lapse of history yet...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 05:31hrs | 1 | by Stanely Mushava
'What skill will be lost if Cuthbert Dube leaves Psmas?' - Prof Moyo
Zimbabwe will not run any loss if indicted corrupt parastatal CEOs left their offices because the country has abundant talent to take up those positions, a Cabinet minister has said....Published: 13 Apr 2014 at 17:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Africa's Income Inequalities: The reality of a 'A Few Big Men'
Economic inequality has dominated international economic debate recently, and with good reason. Developmental charity organisation Oxfam International made headlines not too long ago with its repo...Published: 08 Feb 2014 at 11:26hrs | 3 | by Perry Munzwembiri
Africa's population is set to double by 2050 due to improved health care - Study
Africa's population is set to double to more than 2,4 billion over the next few decades due to improved health care and medicines, a new study found.Sub-Saharan Africa - the world's poorest r...Published: 15 Sep 2013 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Moyo responds to Bill Gates' personal attacks
On May 28th, 2013 during a Q&A session at the University of New South Wales, Bill Gates, co-Founder of Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, made some shocking and inappropriate ad-...Published: 30 May 2013 at 12:11hrs | 1 | by Dr Dambisa Moyo
The myth of Africa's rise
If Africa is on the rise, it is on the rise as a wealth generator for multinationals and not for Africans themselves.I thoroughly get miffed when Western analysts continue to talk of Africa's ...Published: 23 May 2013 at 11:37hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Adopting national winning and empowering beliefs and ethos
The import of the topic before us must be understood. We are discussing the importance and impact of identifying, designing and adopting national winning and empowering beliefs and ethos that will all...Published: 28 Apr 2013 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by DPM Prof Arthur Mutambara
Few countries compare to South Africa in the effort to fight corruption says Zuma
Pretoria - The fight against crime was more intense in South Africa than it was in many other countries, President Jacob Zuma said on Saturday."Fellow South Africans, I must underline here th...Published: 28 Apr 2013 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe: Beware of the ides of 2013 (Part 1)
...Published: 31 Jul 2012 at 16:17hrs | 2 | by Vince Musewe
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