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South Africa is ruled by individuals who happen to wear robes
Apartheid was "legal". Jim Crow laws in the US were "legal". Colonialism was "legal". Even the Nazis were "legal". So, what does it mean to have the rule of law? And whose law is it anyway?In ...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 10:38hrs | 639 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
US elections have literally become a problematically violent affair
It's rich and absurd for the new US Ambassador to Zimbabwe - Pamela Tremont - to start her first day in her office in Harare by recklessly charging that the US has "problems with elections" in Zimbabw...Published: 19 Jul 2024 at 06:42hrs | 823 | by Jonathan Moyo
African countries assisted South African independence; payback is Xenophobic actions: blacks on blacks' violence
I quote from Byo24: Former ANC MP and Abantu Batho Congress Councilor in eThekwini, Makhosi Khoza, says South African natives have been shortchanged. Close quote. This is a statement that could cause ...Published: 14 Apr 2024 at 18:55hrs | 15 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe's ruling elite and the quest for one-party rule
Since 1980, the Zanublack government has replicated the colonial white minority government tactics of suppressing opposition and alternative views.This is a special note to assist friends in t...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 17:25hrs | 1 | by Tapiwa Shumba political analyst
Donald Trump suffers Kasukuwere fate
Colorado's Supreme Court has ruled former United States President Donald Trump is ineligible to run for the White House because of his role in the 2021 assault on the Capitol by his supporters and sho...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 05:57hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Umkhonto weSizwe fighter will never forget what a white man told him in Zimbabwe in 1980
I have no idea whether the white man I am writing about is still alive or not. He gave me an understanding of what actually happened to us Africans, and how sinister it was, when we were colonized. Hi...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 13:11hrs | 11 | by Thula Bopela
Hail King Nero: Impotence as strength
Hail King Nero, The First and Last!"There shall be a leader and Change Champion-in-Chief (Advocate Nelson Chamisa) who shall be the Administrator and President tasked by the citizens to champi...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:42hrs | 10 | by @Jamwanda on Saturday
CIO raises alarm over illicit army gold mining
ZIMBABWE'S state security agency, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), has raised serious national security fears over an illicit gold mining operation run by an army-owned company, Rusununguk...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 13:50hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF tells Chamisa to seek legal recourse if disgruntled
Zanu-PF has told Citizens Coalition for Change leader (CCC) Nelson Chamisa to seek legal recourse after the opposition registered discontent over the general election results.Chamisa was defeated ...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 20:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Senegal restricts internet access
The action is necessary to stop the spread of "hateful messages" on social media following an opposition figure's arrest, the Communications Ministry has saidThe government of Senegal has temp...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 19:25hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Patriotic Bill' has made free and fair elections impossible
In the lead-up to Zimbabwe's election, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF has passed a law that puts his opponents at considerable risk.Zimbabwe is just the latest of many unf...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga 'secret millions' exposed?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy, Constantino Chiwenga or their allies and relatives allegedly received US$3 million from a controversial South African businessman, Zunaid Moti at the heigh...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 07:53hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
French revolution brewing as France protests gets 'out of control'
Police clashed with over a million demonstrators opposed to President Macron's pension reformFrench authorities struggled on Thursday to suppress the protests against President Emmanuel Macron...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why army was deployed in oil-drilling precincts of the Zambezi Valley
FEARS of a Mozambican Cabo Delgado-style Islamic insurgency in the northern Zambezi Valley where the Zimbabwean government and an Australian Securities Exchange-listed Invictus Energy are engaged in o...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:59hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga put his head on the block for Mnangagwa
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga, who was the then commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, put his head on the block to rescue President Emmerson Mnangagwa before handing him power after the 2017...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa 'sneaks' into rural areas
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa is being forced to "sneak" into some parts of rural areas for safety reasons following previous attempts on his life by suspected Zanu-PF activists and state agents....Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Who is afraid of Donald Trump?
When reading about United States politics, the reader should remember that the Democrats are the brainy party, but they are too brainy for their own good. While the Republicans are the stupid party, t...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:46hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
South Africa's precision-strike aircraft given Shona name 'Mwari'
The Paramount Group has produced and sold the first military aircraft made in South Africa since the 1980s when state-owned arms maker Denel SOC Ltd. unveiled the Rooivalk, or red falcon, attack helic...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 19:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accused of reversing Unity Accord
FORMER Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni says the late former President Robert Mugabe was far better in honouring the tenets of the 1987 Unity Accord than his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa....Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dangers of Arab Spring in South Africa
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki recently launched a sharp critique of the governing African National Congress (ANC) for failure to address what it has labelled the triple challenge of pover...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:15hrs | | by Sandy Africa
nZondo Commission 'a useful distraction' from South Africa's pressing problems
Many South Africans have already drawn their conclusions regarding the judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, corruption and fraud in the Public Sector, including Organs of ...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 19:50hrs | 1 | by Sipho Seepe
Zimbabwe: Class IN itself versus Class FOR itself
US goose versus NED ganderTHERE is always more to write about than there is space to publish. Last week I had to drop two key matters, to allow myself to address in extenso what I sought to ra...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Naysayers will be buried in own ignorance
For Bishop Lazi and his ilk, today - Palm Sunday - marks the beginning of Holy Week.It is a sacred period that commemorates Jesus Christ's ‘triumphal entry' into Jerusalem for the Passover w...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi
Europe cannot beat a bitterly cold winter through fire from faggots
They can't make fire from faggotsAS I write, for the short month of conflict in Eastern Europe, global food prices have risen by an average 17 percent.Energy costs have gone through th...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by @ Jamwanda2
US Embassy sweats to save Chamisa's sinking ship
The United States Embassy in Harare has reactivated its propaganda machinery ahead of the forthcoming by-elections slated for March 26.After a notable lull in propaganda tweets since the depar...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:40hrs | 6 | by Hosia Mviringi
Hi Mzansi, have we seen justice?
Apartheid was "legal". Jim Crow laws in the United States were "legal". Colonialism was "legal". Even the Nazis were "legal". So, what does it mean to have the rule of law? And whose law is it anyway?...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 19:44hrs | 4 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
Govt, NGOs showdown looms
A FIERCE battle between government and civil society is looming over the recently gazetted Private Voluntary Organisation (PVOs) Amendment Bill, with pro-democracy groups slamming the government for a...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:54hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Sphithiphiti Evaluator abused because of her pro-Zuma views
The 36-year-old woman identified as Zamaswazi Zinhle Majozi and known as "Sphithiphithi Evaluator" on Twitter, has finally spoken out about her social media accounts, her political beliefs and her abu...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 07:15hrs | | by The Star
Plot to oust South Africa's David Mabuza
Intelligence reports coming from neighboring South Africa indicate that some branches of the ruling ANC are set to pass a resolution for the recall of ANC and State Vice President David Dabede Mabuza ...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 16:20hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
David Mabuza stays clear of Ramaphosa's insurrection lies
South Africa's Deputy President David Mabuza has for the first time spoken about the recent riots in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, saying they were a reminder that the government must urgently address un...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 17:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
We need new heroes!
Sometimes, Bishop Lazi is glad that his uncle is dead.The man was never the same ever since returning from the war.He was no longer the bubbly and chatty young man who revelled in the ...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:16hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
South Africa's political prisoner admitted to hospital
South Africa's jailed former president, Jacob Zuma, was admitted to hospital for medical observation on Friday, the government's Correctional Services department said.Zuma has been held at Est...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 12:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Jean Gasho!
Dear Jean, Its already August 2021; incredible how time has flown!My recent conversation with you was uplifting it is one of those rare telephone calls one gets out of the blue we comm...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 23:44hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chaos in SA points to failure on democracy
The spate of violence that is engulfed South Africa shows that not all citizens have internalised constitutional democracy and the rule of law as the organising principle of the post-apartheid society...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:33hrs | 6 | by Mashupye Maserumule
SA under Ramaphosa becoming a military state, political analyst claims
POLITICAL analyst and University of South Africa (Unisa) Professor Tumi "BB" Senokoane said South Africa was fast becoming a military state reflecting the apartheid system which opposed freedom for al...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 20:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Insurrection! Sounds like copy and paste United State America's 6th of January 2021 - a global circus!!
This is how low ANC has sunk to equate the last weeks violent events in South Africa as an insurrection. Again to term hungry population as criminals is a sign of a government that has lost authority ...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 22:02hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe MPs on SA crisis intervention
LEGISLATORS have called on Zimbabwe and its regional counterparts to urgently take action on the raging South African crisis to rescue locals who could have been caught in the crossfire following rece...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA Minister made a fool of himself on BBC by denying ANC failures and yet admit 'slow response gave rioters field day'
"The people responsible for the riots sparked by the jailing of former South African President Jacob Zuma failed in their insurrection because the ground for them was not fertile, the country's transp...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 09:38hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Ramaphosa's desperate security agents claim 'looted SA goods Botswana and Zimbabwe-bound'
SOUTH African security agents have reportedly confiscated several goods worth thousands of rand as smugglers attempted to move the loot into Zimbabwe and Botswana following days of rioting in the neig...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fresh wave of protests loom in South Africa
SOUTH African authorities fear a new wave of uprisings as networks loyal to jailed former president Jacob Zuma seek to force his freedom.Investigators believe the unrest last week, which kille...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe feeling heat from SA riots
Zimbabwe's industries will likely feel the pinch of the violent demonstrations and looting unfolding in South Africa, its largest trading partner, as trade channels get clogged and supply chains disru...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Calls for state of emergency in South Africa are misguided
CASAC has noted with great concern several calls for the President to declare a state of emergency in response to the incidents of public violence and looting in the provinces of Gauteng and KwaZulu-N...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 14:48hrs | 3 | by CASAC
Honouring Mbuya Nehanda was a coup for Mnangagwa
We, from the Zipra side of the Zimbabwe nationalist movement, do not agree with President Ammerson Mnangagwa on many issues, but on the issue of honouring Mbuya Nehanda, reclaiming our history and rew...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:50hrs | 1 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabweans have come to view constitution not as statement of shared principles but as cudgel with which to attack enemies
Zimbabweans on both the left and the right now view their political opponents not as fellow Zimbabweans with differing views, but as tribal enemies to be vanquished. And they have come to view t...Published: 19 May 2021 at 23:53hrs | | by Mandla Dlamini
Angela Merkel and Liz Cheney are conservatives, but their political values and principles are worth of gold!
We are also called anarchists; our socialistic values about removing a capitalist world to an order that puts emphasis on humanity and not profit. Activists defy status core, demand a remake of our tu...Published: 13 May 2021 at 22:03hrs | 6 | by Nomazulu Thata
Opposition offenders are no special citizens
Following the recent sentencing of MDC Alliance activist, Makomborero Haruzivishe to an effective 14 months in prison for inciting public violence, there were mixed reactions from across the political...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 11:46hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Trump's 'Make America Great Again' movement has only just begun
Former US president Donald Trump has been found not guilty in his impeachment trial.In a statement after the trial, Mr Trump said it was "a sad commentary on our times" that the Democrats had ...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 13:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is UK impeding Zimbabwe's democratisation?
WHERE persuasion does not work, the big powers continue turning to sanctions.The imposition of sanctions against perceived powerful individuals in "undemocratic regimes" like Zimbabwe has been...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:48hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
UK exposes MDC Alliance violent streak
MDC-Alliance's violence and terror tendencies that have now found space on social media platforms have yet again hogged the limelight after a party activist with close links to the party leader Mr Nel...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe condemns Western embassies over January 2019 'insurrection'
GOVERNMENT has condemned a coterie of Western embassies, which have gone on a co-ordinated and biased social media attack on Zimbabwe over the January 2019 violent protests that rocked the country's m...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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