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Transcript of 'Russia-Zimbabwe talks' between Putin and Mnangagwa
The penchant for frivolous bluster in Zimbabwe's public discourse has once again reared its ugly trappings after the widespread circulation on social media platforms of a 2.42-minutes video clip poste...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 08:37hrs | 16 | by Jonathan Moyo
What Of The Logo?
Five months ago, I wrote an article criticizing the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) for using ...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 19:29hrs | 1 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Top 10 political Mamparas and Screw-ups in 2023
The political landscape in Zimbabwe has witnessed its fair share of controversies and questionable decisions over the years. In 2023, several political figures made headlines for their actions and dec...Published: 21 Dec 2023 at 10:58hrs | 16 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa threatens poll boycott?
Zanu-PF spokesperson Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa has said the ruling party is unfazed by reported threats by the opposition CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa to boycott the forthcoming harmonised ele...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere: Popular delusions or realpolitik?
THE nomination court has sat and registered aspiring candidates for the upcoming polls. The process was marred with drama generally, but it was the presumptive presidential candidates that provided th...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 19:43hrs | 1 | by Ntando Dumani
Bosso, Caps fight for scraps
Highlanders and Caps United, two of the country's biggest teams, might be currently immersed in the mid table zone of irrelevance. Their chances of winning the league title this term seem to have long...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:09hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, credibility crisis has dogged your leadership
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, it is my fervent conviction that your conferring the national hero status on Rev Ndabaningi Sithole was motivated primarily by ulterior motiv...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga fallout, Zanu-PF youths spring to Mnangagwa defence
A SENIOR Zanu-PF youth league official has hit out ruling party "renegades" who recently claimed there was mounting tension over a power handover agreement between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 08:20hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Sadc faces irrelevance
SOUTHERN Africa Development Community (Sadc) member states are now beginning to join other regional blocs, a move that political and economic analysts say was an indication that the regional body was ...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
Mystery deaths deepen in Zimbabwe
DEATH is never easy and, whenever it strikes, the grief it causes is traumatic for family and friends who would have lost a loved one.This encounter with mortality always leaves the surviving ...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 18:49hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Bona - Mnangagwa fight over Mugabe's dead body to get nasty'
South African based academic Dinizulu Macaphulana (real name Dr. William Mpofu) has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa that the spirited fight to have the late President Robert Mugabe's corpse ...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 13:42hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
London reaches out to Zimbabwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa prepares to visit the United Kingdom (UK) in October for a crucial global summit, Whitehall says it is working to increase trade between Britain and Zimbabwe despite the u...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sets to fly to UK
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is reported set to visit the United Kingdom (UK) soon, a visit which has set excitement in the ruling Zanu PF and the state media.No Zimbabwean leader has travelle...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 17:00hrs | | by Staff Writer
Mnangagwa's impending UK visit riles opponents
President Mnangagwa's impending visit to the United Kingdom, the first by a Zimbabwean President in more than two decades, has riled detractors, who see the Second Republic entering a fruitful new pha...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magaisa was secretly dining with a Zanu-PF faction
Having gone through a lot of Alex Magaisa's recent articles, it is fair that a response by a Zimbabwean youth is given. After the disastrous 2013 election, the MDC-T family and its president Morgan Ts...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:38hrs | | by Honourable Vincent Tsvangirai MP
Who are the actual NGO beneficiaries?
A reflection on Nkirote, a woman from a small village in Kenya, and James, a country director of an NGO.The World Bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than $1.90 a day. I have often ...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 18:50hrs | | by @NGOsceptic
Magaisa warns Chamisa
University of Kent law lecturer, Alex Magaisa has warned MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa against accepting an offer for dialogue with the ruling ZANU-PF party and the MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora....Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 18:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance remains a cry baby
Whenever die-hard cadres in the MDC Alliance see smoke in the MDC-T, they wish it was hell manifesting, except that this time it is a braai not hell. It is common cause that the victims of Tho...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 07:14hrs | | by Robert Sigauke
Songstress, Congress, Compress not Oppress
Whenever the die-hard cadres in the MDC Alliance see smoke in the MDC-T, they wish it was gehena manifesting, except that this it is a braai not gehena. It is common cause that the victims of Khupe's ...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 17:19hrs | | by Robert Sigauke
De-listing wave hits ZSE
FIVE counters have announced plans to de-list from the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE), precipitating fears that a new forex-denominated bourse planned for Victoria Falls could ground one of Africa's ol...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fresh headway in stock market plan
ZIMBABWE inched closer to establishing the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX) on Friday, after the central bank and the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) inked a deal spelling out terms of a settlement ...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
There is too much clutter in Mnangagwa's new dispensation
LEADERSHIP is about setting strategic goals for a nation or society and motivating individuals to effectively conduct assignments in service to those goals. In modern day democratic societies, leaders...Published: 20 May 2019 at 07:00hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
Matutu, Gumbi's ugly fight divides MDC Alliance branches
The battle for the MDC Masvingo provincial chairperson post between incumbent James Gumbi and rival Tongai Matutu is turning ugly in Mwenezi district with members of the two camps engaging in serious ...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 10:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Motlanthe Commission pulls the rug under MDC feet
Ever since the demise of MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC Alliance is labouring under the erroneous assumption that it has an upper hand in everything. Based on some fictitious reasoning, the ...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 12:19hrs | | by Elijah Chihota
Mnangagwa left paralysed by a crisis of legitimacy
Last week on November 24 Emmerson Mnangagwa was in Murombedzi - former president Robert Mugabe's village backyard in Mashonaland West - to commemorate his chequered one year in office following his co...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:17hrs | | by Jonathan N Moyo
Chamisa, MDC at wits' end
It is three months since this year's harmonised election and all is not well in the MDC-T Chamisa faction. As each day passes, the faction and its leader, Nelson Chamisa, are getting to grips with the...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 20:04hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Redefine, reskill and reposition yourself, chartered secretaries told
Chartered secretaries must redefine, reskill and reposition themselves in a way that enables them to come up with formidable solutions when challenges arise, Pan African Federation of Accountants chie...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 09:36hrs | | by Agencies
Zanu is an old serpent, canning, deceptive, conniving, sly and waiting to strike again
Listening to the debate which were ably conducted by Great Zimbabwe Debate and moderated by Gary Thomson was revealing and fascinating.I do not think anyone will deny the fact that Chris Mutsv...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 09:05hrs | | by Andrew Manyevere
Banks in South Africa not treated the same
BY EMAIL (CC: Mr. Dondo Mohajane-Natl treasury)Mr. Kuben NaidooRegistrar of BanksSouth African Reserve BankHelen Joseph StreetPretoria...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 08:13hrs | | by T. Matodzi
Eddie Cross insensitive to rape victims
Editor, The statement by Eddie Cross that "We have to be careful about dropping our pants - we may get raped!" betrays how insensitive he is to victims of human rights abuses. Th...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by ZimRights
Tsvangirai told to resign
Zimbabwe's main opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party youths have called on long-time leader Morgan Tsvangirai to step aside in order to allow new leaders to take the party forwar...Published: 02 Dec 2017 at 12:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tribalism is not humour, but hate
IN recent days social media has gone into overdrive with memes which poke fun at people from Masvingo or Karangas in general. The underlying messages behind almost all of them is that this group of Zi...Published: 15 Aug 2017 at 06:24hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Man, the silliest animal
A soldier looks at buildings ravaged by war in SyriaIT is perhaps true that human beings in their true state of nature began as citizens of a small world in a huge planet; through intelligence...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 17:27hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Quicksand sinking & mirages: Inside Zanu PFs long history of infighting
A long read on Zanu Pfs 54 years of bitter infighting, betrayal and power games. There is no iota of doubt that...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 15:40hrs | | by Maynard Manyowa
UNWTO Secretary General election campaign through the eyes of the Hon. Walter Mzembi
HARARE - Endorsed by the African Union (AU) during the July 2016 summit in Kigali, Rwanda, Dr. Walter Mzembi is continuing his worldwide outreach to garner international support for his bid to secure ...Published: 01 Mar 2017 at 23:29hrs | | by EINPresswire
Faction that supports Mphoko's presidential falls by the wayside
As old age is threatening to relegate President Robert Mugabe to the old people's home, political vultures within and outside the fractured Zanu-pf party are now positioning themselves to grab pow...Published: 30 Nov 2016 at 09:01hrs | | by Israel Dube
Why citizens' movements matter
Zimbabwean citizens must now wake up and realise that they can no longer outsource the creation of a future they desire to old tired politicians who can hardly imagine the great Zimbabwe we see....Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 17:33hrs | | by Vince Musewe
#Nera disturbed by Mugabe's continued statements of aggression
PRESS STATEMENTRESPONSE TO STATEMENT 'We're coming for you, Mugabe warns Tsvangirai and NERA'NERA is becoming increasingly disturbed by President Robert Mugabe and the ZANU-PF governme...Published: 12 Sep 2016 at 22:12hrs | | by Silver Bhebe
MDC-T, ZimPF promises serious attacks on Government properties
MDC-T, Zimbabwe People First and their proxies have scaled up their terrorism acts and continue circulating subversive messages on social media in their bid to foment anarchy and despondency in the co...Published: 31 Aug 2016 at 06:41hrs | | by Felex Share
'Mnangagwa's allies stoking Zimbabwe unrest'
As President Robert Mugabe's panicking government cranks up its propaganda assault on critics, including making embarrassing claims that the MDC is training its youths outside the country to use stone...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 17:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T youths undergo terror training outside Zimbabwe - Chombo
Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo has claimed that MDC-T trained scores of its youth outside the country in paramilitary tactics and urban violence."There is intelligence which we are gath...Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe and transition: Avoiding governance vacuum and complete breakdown of law and order
What masses are asking for does not need to be interpreted as a request for a vacuum in government if we do not share impressions on Transition. If impressions and plans are not forming to survive int...Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 17:25hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
ZAPU on the aftermaths of last week's shut down
Zanu-PF has reacted in a number of ways some of which are exposing its panicking over the response of the people on the calls to shut down. Zapu does not take credit for organising the shutdown. I...Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 07:22hrs | | by Mkhululi Zulu
Madhuku a victim of Stockholme Syndrome
Professor Lovemore Madhuku made a stunning volte face with regards to the way elections are conducted in the Republic of Zimbabwe. "Elections in the country have never been rigged and are ...Published: 19 May 2016 at 22:47hrs | | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
War veterans deserve to be discredited for being accessories to Mugabe's misrule
Robert Mugabe the President of Zimbabwe met his hitherto all weather friends, the War Veterans few days ago for the much hyped make it or break it Indaba. At face value the raison d'etre was to addres...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 11:32hrs | | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
'You can't divorce the gun from politics'
ON Thursday, liberation struggle veterans from across the country converged in Harare to parley with President Mugabe, who is also the patron of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Associat...Published: 09 Apr 2016 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Patrick Zhuwao on FDI - tyranny of the misinformed
There is appalling madness going on in Zimbabwe at the moment, the country has literally lost its socio-political and economic compass. Zimbabweans and the international community watch with astonishm...Published: 18 Feb 2016 at 23:57hrs | | by David Mutori and Justice Ben Paradza
Mugabe faces fitness probe
A United Kingdom-based Zimbabwean lawyer, Tinomudaishe Chinyoka on Friday filed a Constitutional Court application seeking an interdict to have Parliament investigate whether President Robert Mugabe i...Published: 07 Feb 2016 at 08:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to discipline Mnangagwa's ally
ZANU-PF Gokwe-Nembudziya MP, Justice Mayor Wadyajena, who is accused of insulting First Lady Grace Mugabe, will face disciplinary action from the party, national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere said yest...Published: 17 Dec 2015 at 05:58hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
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