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Drawing parallels between Kenya and Zimbabwe's social, economic, and political disturbances
We want to believe that the demonstrations in Kenya just happened overnight. The Gene Zs went on a rampage assisted by criminals. To framing them so thin, is to trivialize a genuine revolution that wa...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 23:08hrs | 34 | by Nomazulu Thata
Judge John Hlophe appointed leader of MK Party in Parliament
Former Western Cape Judge President Mandlakayise John Hlophe has been appointed as the leader of uMkhonto Wesizwe Party in Parliament. Hlophe is known for his pro black native utterances especially on...Published: 20 Jun 2024 at 21:28hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
There is evidence to prove CCC is Zanu PF team B in all but name and it's foolish to deny it
There is a mountain of evidence to prove that MDC/CCC is Zanu PF team B in all but name. MDC/CCC leaders, especially during and since the 2008 to 2013 GNU, have played the role of Zimbab...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 22:28hrs | 5 | by Wilbert Mukori
Rupert Murdoch to wed Roman Abramovich's former wife
The media mogul Rupert Murdoch is engaged for a sixth time, it emerged on Thursday, this time to Elena Zhukova, a retired scientist.Murdoch's office announced that the 92-year-old is set to ma...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 14:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We want regime change!' clamoured Mt Pleasant 'fat cows'. They did not get it, punishment for decades of navel-gazing
A picture is worth a thousand words. A recent Zimbabwe Daily cartoon was one such picture. It depicted Mt Pleasant resident family, the fat cows in Pharaoh's dream, shouting "We want change! Ngaapinde...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 22:01hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Hospitals must be exempt from ZESA load shedding' – how when it's generating capacity, wake up for Pete's sake
"These power cuts are already piling more costs in some hospitals such as Ingutsheni and Ekusileni Hospital that now have to rely on generators, yet fuel ...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 05:53hrs | 7 | by omusa Garikai
Political elites' vacuous populism not serving Zimbabwean people's interest
IN a recent eloquent but rather dense article titled "Dynamics of the Zimbabwe crisis in the 21st century" adopted from a 2003 academic paper of a similar title, Professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni ma...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:45hrs | 10 | by Dr Mike Chipere
Why Zanu-PF is under siege
If Africans knew even half their history, they would understand the reason why they continue to stew in poverty, misery and disillusion while other parts of the world are swimming in prosperity, happi...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:59hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Mnangagwa must remove sanctions he has imposed on Zimbabwe first
A GROUP of academics last week announced that they had joined the anti-sanctions fight, and hoped to do something that the government and its shrill supporters have failed in nearly two decades: have ...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Academics call for the removal of sanctions
A GROUP of academics in Zimbabwe under the banner of Lecturers Anti-Sanctions Network, (LASN) have embarked on research to prove that sanctions imposed by the West were detrimental to ordinary people....Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pleads with civil servants
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pleaded with the restive civil servants to be more patriotic and drive government's devolution and decentralisation programmes to ensure uninterrupted service de...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges mindset change in civil service
CIVIL servants should change their mindsets and be drivers of devolution and decentralisation to ensure that every citizen has access to basic services such as clean water and well-resourced schools, ...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Let's protect the gains of our independence'
ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ZIMBABWE DEFENCE FORCES HIS EXCELLENCY, CDE. ED MNANGAGWA AT THE BURIAL OF NATIONAL HERO DR MARIYO MARIYAWANDA NZUWAH ON SEPTEMBER 26, 2021, AT T...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | | 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
A new film about Zimbabwe's 2018 elections is worth watching, but flawed
Danish director Camilla Nielsson's documentary President (2021) is an up-close, intimate tale. It follows the election travails of Zimbabwe's main opposition party the Movement for Democratic Change A...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 18:58hrs | 2 | by The Conversatio - David B. Moore
An open letter to Victor Matemadanda
Dear Mr Matemadanda, Hope this letter find you in good health wherever you are and I believe you are enjoying every minute of your heartbeat.I really know that you are a real war veter...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 13:07hrs | | by Leonard Koni
The bane of deadbeat intellectuals
Talent seems to come with more than its fair share of baggage.Most often than not, gifted personalities belong to a pantheon of living gods that wow the world during their time in the limeligh...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 06:58hrs | 9 | by Bishop Lazarus
State capture: Time to declare party financiers
SINCE time immemorial, the political class has been defined across the world by class, capital and raw power.In many instances, these groups of people have formed elite pacts to foster their h...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 10:15hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
'Zanu PF believes - rightly or wrongly- that it squarely won 2018 elections' - and what does 'Telling it like it is!' believe
"Rinemanyanga hariputirwi!" (No matter how seemingly clever the deception, the truth will always come out in the end!) so goes the Shona adage. The Kim dynasty has ruled North Korea since 1948...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 12:38hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chiwenga and the decolonisation of the field of political science
WHILE the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter Rodney, Archie Mafeje, Ali Mazrui, Thabo Mbeki, Asan...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 3 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Chiwenga triggers important political science debate
Black Epistemologies and the Non-Writing PoliticianWhile the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter R...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Richard Mahomva
MDC is not only falling apart, it has actually fallen apart
THE Daily News has been a lone voice over the past few months in highlighting the folly of the country's opposition engaging in self-immolation, and taking counsel from dubious characters.For ...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 17:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
We continue to be anglicised bastards
There is a hauntingly true African proverb that claims that unless the lion learns how to write, every story will always glorify the hunter.here is a hauntingly true African proverb that claim...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:36hrs | | by Bishpop Lazarus
Of market forces and price hikes
Not too long ago, three months ago in fact, fuel in Zimbabwe was cheaper than bottled water and flights from the country were some of the cheapest around. This was thanks to a fixed exchange rate that...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:13hrs | | by newZWire
Tribute to 'Save' the late Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai
Somewhere in the communal lands of Buhera Zimbabwe, there is the people's hero.Travelling in the rural areas holding and reading The Daily News tabloid newspaper was a crime, something v...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 21:02hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Mugabe, Mnangagwa in secret talks
A deal has been put on the table to end the bickering between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his predecessor, Robert Mugabe, as the ruling Zanu-PF party races against time to end internal discord be...Published: 10 Mar 2018 at 14:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa conspiracy theorists
The "hint" given by MDC founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai that he looks forward to the prospect of passing on the baton to the younger generation has generated a lot of interest and debate within and...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 14:41hrs | | by Wilton N Machimbira
How intellectuals made history in Zimbabwe
The history of Zimbabwe has been revised in the service of the governing ZANU-PF party. A 'patriotic' version of history, disseminated by public intellectuals and state media, has distorted le...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 13:00hrs | | by Dr Blessings-Miles Tendi
Mugabe going down fighting
Zimbabweans around the country and across the world seized the golden opportunity on Saturday 18 November 2017 morning to march against President Robert Gabriel Mugabe to peacefully step down after de...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 07:30hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Militarism in Zimbabwe: Which way forward Zimbabwe?
It will be amiss if we do not applaud the Zimbabwe military high command for cutting down on the length of suffering that people of Zimbabwe went through unnecessarily and the wasted opportunity the c...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 05:14hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Mugabe's newest challenger backs Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's newest challenger Nkosana Moyo has expressed admiration for Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa while likening ongoing plans to form a pre-election pact among opposition partie...Published: 10 Jul 2017 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe 2018 presidential election a choice critical and why?
Zimbabweans need a leader. Better admit it now and put an advertisement. Similarities can be given to an example of having numerous accidents but keeping hiring unqualified drivers because in part the...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 19:43hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
In Zimbabwe Elections Will Never Be a Tool to Change Government for As Long As Zanu Is in Power
Introduction: Who Really Is Zanu? A political organization that timely took an opportunity to talk right language at the right time on the need to fight...Published: 31 Mar 2017 at 00:13hrs | 10 | by Andrew Manyevere
DARE Statement on ZEC Engagement
The Democratic Assembly for Restoration and Empowerment (DARE) declares a deadlock with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission with regards to their independence and impartiality. We note with disdain the ...Published: 21 Mar 2017 at 16:44hrs | | by Clemence Tabatapashi Nhliziyo
Gropping, Gripping, Grapping or Grouping: the Politics of Developing Social Underdevelopment in Zimbabwe?
As 2016 closes we have to ask a question: What do ordinary or normal thinking Zimbabweans, without invested interest in this madness say regarding the country condition and its politics of sordid brut...Published: 30 Dec 2016 at 18:12hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Patrick Zhuwao! You must stop talking nonsense! Mnangagwa is better enemy than G40
Emmerson Mangagwa is an enemy of the peoples of Mathebeleland. We know this as far back as 1980. We know how he was assigned to deal with us people of Mathebeleland, on his capacity as Minister for Se...Published: 06 Dec 2016 at 14:26hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Doctors join Zanu-PF Govt in callously fleecing povo of last cent
"Sooner or later the people will always get the government they deserve," this is a universal truth as true, irrefutable and common sense as the second law of thermodynamic which simply put, states th...Published: 24 May 2016 at 21:11hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
When America aims fatal blow to the stomach
A genius in the American establishment must finally have realised that so long as Zimbabweans have the land and they can feed themselves, it would be very hard to separate them from Zanu-PF, never min...Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 05:29hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Ndebeles to claim back their land in South Africa?
President Jacob Zuma on Thursday raised the prospect of shifting the goalposts in terms of land claims, raising hopes for the Ndebele people to claim some of the land that King Mzilikazi used to own i...Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 22:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mbeki, as GPA guarantor, is 5% responsible for its failure to deliver free and fair elections
I totally agree with Former President Thabo Mbeki's position to oppose the British proposal to invade Zimbabwe and forceful remove Mugabe from office. "In the period preceding the 2002 Zimbabw...Published: 22 Feb 2016 at 22:30hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
When 'THEY' tell us Africans are stupid, we cringe
When we are told by them that "Africans are as a matter of fact not only unintelligent but also very stupid," we become very annoyed and we shout on top of our voices; down with imperialist thinking ...Published: 01 Feb 2015 at 08:58hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe's intelligentsia are to blame for the mess - they used their degrees for decor only
Zimbabwe has become a hell-on-earth and 90% of the blame of what has happened must be laid on the door of the country's intelligentsia; they could and should have stopped the country's descend into h...Published: 23 Dec 2014 at 05:58hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'I don't fear death,' says Kasukuwere
NEWLY-appointed Zanu-PF secretary for the commissariat Saviour Kasukuwere says he is ready to execute his new mandate with vigour and without fear of untimely death associated with his predecessors....Published: 14 Dec 2014 at 15:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Michael Chilufya Sata: Hero or Villain
On the day President Michael Chilufya Sata died Reuters carried the headline "Zambia's President 'King Cobra' Sata dies." The New York Times of October 30, 2014 described him as an "acerbic leader...Published: 12 Nov 2014 at 06:06hrs | | by Field Ruwe
That PhD, the undoing of Mugabe and Zanu-Pf
It has been called many names from microwave PhD with regards to the speed of its remarkable completion, sexually transm...Published: 27 Oct 2014 at 15:05hrs | | by Shingai Mugochi, A concerned lay Zimbabwean.
Zimbabwe students view Grace Mugabe's 'bogus' doctorate as an 'insult'
The Zimbabwe National Students Union condemns university Vice-Chancellor Professor Levi Nyagura for condoning Grace Mugabe's bogus doctorate.Grace Mugabe's PhD, awarded just months after she e...Published: 28 Sep 2014 at 19:23hrs | | by AFP
Zimbabwe students protest over Grace Mugabe's 'miraculous' PhD
The Zimbabwe students union has demanded the resignation of the university's officials over Grace Mugabe's "miraculous" PhD from the University of Zimbabwe apparently just months after she enrolled fo...Published: 27 Sep 2014 at 11:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Dr Grace Mugabe PhD scandal deepens
THE Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) has called for a thorough investigation into how First Lady Grace Mugabe acquired her controversial PhD degree and demanded resignations of all those invo...Published: 26 Sep 2014 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Mangoma is wasting his energy
The struggles within the struggle (remember Masipula Sithole) ravaging the MDC-T makes one wonder whether those who aspire to leadership positions in mass protest movements (that masquerade as politic...Published: 18 Mar 2014 at 06:28hrs | | by Alois Masepe
Sata, a danger to our children
I would like to start my article with a question, if I may: what makes president Sata to snap and cut his rivals in shreds with his tongue? I know some of you adore and worship him, and for many in th...Published: 29 Jul 2013 at 12:42hrs | | by Field Ruwe
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