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Poor remuneration of academic staff at state universities a national crisis
THE poor remuneration and deplorable conditions of service for academic staff at Zimbabwe's state universities, which has led to the highly publicised indefinite strike by the teaching staff at the Un...Published: 26 Apr 2025 at 10:14hrs | 740 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
ZAA Founder on Diaspora, ZIG, Xenophobia and Julius Malema
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."Aristotle's age-old dictum has been used and sometimes abused to the point of cliché.But whatever truth; b...Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 13:02hrs | 571 | by Staff Reporter
Ramaphosa's ANC has not learnt from history
In 2018, ANC chose Cyril Ramaphosa as President because they believed that white capital liked him and thus he would attract western investment into the country. However, things did not quite go accor...Published: 14 Jun 2024 at 13:23hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala's New Year Message
CHIKURUBI MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONNEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM CHIKURUBI MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONDear Zimbabweans and my Worldwide friends.My dearest Zimbabweans and Worldwide friends, ...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 20:19hrs | 18 | by Job Wiwa Sikhala
Living a lie
IN our NewsDay edition yesterday, we carried two stories titled: Low civil servants wages a time bomb and Let the good time roll, let's enjoy: Mthuli.The two stories clearly highlighted the gl...Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
'America not the world policeman and must respect Zimbabwe's independence'
African National Congress (ANC) Secretary General Fikile Mbalula has said disputes arising from the recently concluded elections should be addressed guided by the constitution and laws.Speakin...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ruling elite detachment from reality makes them insensitive to citizens' suffering
If I were elected into political office tomorrow, I can confidently tell you that, should I still be in power after ten years - my policies would have become divorced from the ordinary people....Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 22:04hrs | 4 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF makes bold statement ahead of 2023 harmonised elections
AS Zimbabwe barrels towards next year's harmonised elections, Zanu-PF is firing from all cylinders winning elections in urban areas and increasing its leads in rural constituencies in a bold statement...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Masisi proves ruling elite out of touch with suffering ordinary citizenry as he enjoys life in ivory tower with Mnangagwa!
I perfectly understand that life in the ivory tower of power and wealth is so lavish and comfortable!I am similarly aware that - living an ...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 07:31hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's Cyber City mirage
I TOLD Mr (Shaji Ul) Mulk that my desire is to build a smart city like Dubai here. He agreed to build a smart city better than "Dubai," President Emmerson Mnangagwa told guests on Wednesday during the...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:29hrs | 17 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 28 | by Dumisani Muleya
Elvis Nyathi can't just die in vain
IN the aftermath of the gruesome murder of Zimbabwean man Elvis Nyathi (43) by vigilantes in Johannesburg's Diepsloot township, tough questions must be asked.Nyathi cannot die in vain. The tim...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 11:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
LSU rocked by unscrupulous procurement deals
LUPANE State University (LSU) is reportedly rocked by unscrupulous procurement deals after it received 52 000 000.00 for Innovation and Industrialisation from ZIMDEF.Indications are that...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 10:51hrs | 14 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC violence a threat to national peace
TIME and again many have inked articles articulating how the MDC-Alliance is wired in violence, with the streak running so deep that removing it simply means an end to the political outfit that was fo...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:01hrs | 7 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Coltart raises red flag over education crisis
FORMER Education minister David Coltart has painted a gloomy picture of the country's education sector, saying lack of motivation among teachers will see schoolchildren paying a heavy price in future....Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Comeuppance for Gucci comrades
Most people clumsily stumble through life thinking that intelligence is similar to wisdom.Well, it isn't!Intelligence is natural, but wisdom is preternatural. Similarly, while intellig...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi
Dr Mangudya's reappointment welcome
The reappointment of Dr John Mangudya by President Emmerson Mnangagwa for a second five-year term as Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, and thus the custodian of the national monetary policy, w...Published: 05 May 2019 at 09:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Facing national challenges: None but ourselves
In mid-March Zimbabwe together with Malawi and Mozambique fell victim to the violent and destructive Cyclone Idai which killed hundreds of people and left thousands displaced in these three southern A...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 15:31hrs | 10 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Facing national challenges: None but ourselves
In mid-March Zimbabwe together with Malawi and Mozambique fell victim to the violent and destructive Cyclone Idai which killed hundreds of people and left thousands displaced in these three southern A...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 12:17hrs | 3 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Teaching University or Research University: More than a case of to be or not to be
That our State Universities have modelled themselves mostly as teaching-focused universities where, the main activities are teaching and scholarship of learning and teaching, is a public secret. With ...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 11:33hrs | 4 | by Enock JONATHAN
Obasanjo learns the hard way in Zimbabwe
FORMER Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo - who supported Zimbabwe's liberation struggle in the late 1970s when he was a military ruler - learnt it the hard way that democracy is not yet working in ...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:10hrs | 7 | by Dumisani Muleya
Teaching University or Research University: More than a case of to be or not to be
That our State Universities have modeled themselves mostly as teaching-focused universities where, the main activities are teaching and scholarship of learning and teaching, is a public secret. With a...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 22:30hrs | 2 | by Enock Jonathan
#Cyclone Idai: Mnangagwa on the ground
President Mnangagwa will today tour areas that were affected by Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani to assess the extent of the damage and get a realistic appreciation of the situation on the ground. ...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's think tank sets targets
MEMBERS of the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) on Thursday pledged to work hard to improve the country's current situation and expected results to start showing by month-end.President Emme...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 12:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open letter to the president Mnangagwa
Dear ED, It is with great disappointment, broken heart and shattered dreams that I write to you as the Head of this great state Zimbabwe. Today marks a complete year since the former pre...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 20:25hrs | 9 | by Mberi Prince
The White Man who sent fear down Mugabe's spine
Canadian mining company Falconbridge Inc. had a big problem in Zimbabwe during the Gukurahundi disturbances in the early 1980s.Its operations in war-torn Zimbabwe were in chaos. ZIPRA rebels o...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 09:08hrs | | by Globe and Mail
Time for Zimbabwe to move on
THE 2018 harmonised elections have come, but not exactly gone because the main opposition MDC Alliance has signalled its intention to approach the Constitutional Court to challenge the results, which ...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:57hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Mnangagwa regime is 'illegitimate', say Zhuwao - we know and so too was Mugabe regimes
Since the November 2017 coup that saw the removal of Robert Mugabe from the presidency the nation has been bombarded by the G40 members and supporters trying to give their own spin on the event....Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 22:26hrs | 3 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mujuru 'was confined to her ivory tower' to stop Zanu PF misrule, says Mugwiji - case of insanity
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Said the great Physicist, Albert Einstein. If one was to accept Einstein's definition of insanity then, if...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 19:46hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mutasa and Gumbo are just dwarfs in large robes
In 2014, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi the foreign affairs minister had the audacity to boast to his peers at the SADC summit held in Victoria falls, saying that even if the economy crumbles, Zimbabweans wil...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 15:26hrs | | by Whitlaw Mugwiji
Time to act on varsity sex predators
The recent revelation that at least 74 percent of female students in tertiary institutions have been subjected to sexual harassment by male staffers at campuses throughout Zimbabwe is shocking and is ...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 06:05hrs | | by Ruth Butaumocho
Tichaona Zindoga was right Mutasa and Gumbo are just dwarfs in large robes
In 2014, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi the foreign affairs minister had the audacity to boast to his peers at the SADC summit held in Victoria falls, saying that even if the economy crumbles, Zimbabweans wil...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 00:09hrs | 1 | by Whitlaw Mugwiji
Zanu PF certain of massive 2018 victory - Charamba
State media columnist Nathaniel Manheru has declared that ZANU PF is set for an emphatic 2018 election victory.Manheru, widely thought to be President Robert Mugabe's spokesperson George Chara...Published: 30 Jul 2016 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Rural teachers effectively on strike
Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (RTUZ) is now effectively on strike across the country with its 6125 strong membership and thousands of other teachers posted in rural stations having stopped to u...Published: 02 Jul 2016 at 14:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZLHR stands with workers in their celebrations
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) have said they stand in solidarity with workers of Zimbabwe in commemorating International Workers’ Day on 1 May 2016.ZLHR says it salutes all courag...Published: 02 May 2016 at 06:57hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe: One side black, the other side bright
I suppose it is called delayed sight. Last week I drew the ire of opposition MDC-T supporters when I raised the self-evident, dead-end scenario that comes with demonstrations, and the fleeting joy tha...Published: 23 Apr 2016 at 12:56hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
People First - is it a pig with lipstick?
"Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" The rich young ruler was confident that since he had followed all the Ten Commandments from the time he was a young boy, he therefore, automatic...Published: 19 Jan 2016 at 11:29hrs | 1 | by Moses Chamboko
Welshman Ncube on Friday: Who Really is an 'Ordinary' Zimbabwean?
A few years ago, I heard an Afro American rhythm and blues singer named John Legend sing this about ordinary people: 'We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go. Cuz we're ordinary...Published: 27 Jun 2015 at 07:30hrs | | by Welshman Ncube
Zimbabwe's land reform is far from over
Not long ago, ZANU PF "chefs" and blind followers praised land redistribution as one of Mugabe's major successes, an epitome of his three and half decades of leadership. We were told that people h...Published: 04 May 2015 at 07:31hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Dr Moyo's points are irrelevant and border on mischief
Dr Qhubani Moyo, a policy and political analyst from Bulawayo East constituency in one of his many articles in the public media last Sunday attempts to dismiss the efforts of civil society organisatio...Published: 08 Feb 2015 at 09:34hrs | 1 | by Godwin Phiri
Please buckle up, this is Flight Zimbabwe
Emmerson Mnangagwa, Joice Mujuru and Sydney Sekeramayi are/were the longest serving ministers in the Mugabe government who have/had been there for 34 years. Mnangagwa only had a brief stint out of cab...Published: 10 Dec 2014 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Moses Chamboko
Open letter to Grace Mugabe
I AM sure you don't know me at all, being the First Lady of the Republic of Zimbabwe, not a dynasty, and somebody who is high up in society and has had the privilege of living a dream life in Gracela...Published: 24 Oct 2014 at 18:29hrs | | by GP Ndlovu
Steve 'Dhongi' Makoni set for new release
FOLK musician, Steve "Dhongi" Makoni, is back in the studio and is currently working on a new album.The new offering, the Rusape-based composer said, was set to hit the market during the first...Published: 03 Feb 2013 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cain Mathema is speaking from the leafy suburbs of his ivory towers: MLF
This is the response by Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF) to Governor Cain Mathema's article published on 21 June 2011 in 'Bulawayo24 News' titled ...Published: 23 Jun 2011 at 09:25hrs | | by David Magagula
Namibia backs Mugabe on nationalising British companies
Visiting Namibian Minister of Regional and Local Government Jerry Ekandjo has lauded President Mugabe's proposals to nationalise the over 400 British companies operating in Zimbabwe to counter the ill...Published: 04 Mar 2011 at 19:51hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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