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Minister warns against sidelining traditional leaders

Minister of State for Matabeleland South Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Albert Nguluvhe, has called on government departments and development partners to respect the authority of traditional leaders when implementing programmes in loca…

Published: 11 Sep 2025 at 10:45hrs | | by Staff reporter

Botswana president rebukes leaders clinging to power

Botswana President Duma Boko has condemned leaders who attempt to extend their presidential terms beyond the established limits, boldly stating that such leaders are failures. His remarks came during the ground-breaking ceremony of the Bon…

Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:36hrs | 1112 | by Staff reporter

Why is the greed of Zimbabwe's leaders so insatiable - even at the cost of the nation?

Killing the goose that lays the golden egg! There is a peculiar kind of greed that afflicts some leaders - one so insatiable it defies logic. It is a form of acquisitive madness that turns a nation's most sacred resources into disposable a…

Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 09:17hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Some leaders are supported because they're stupid and corrupt!

Leadership is a fascinating subject. Ideally, leaders are chosen because they stand out as exemplary individuals with admirable qualities. These are the people with the organizational skills to manage resources and people effectively, the …

Published: 29 Nov 2024 at 12:35hrs | 329 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Obert Mpofu hits out at incompetent leaders, corrupt police officers

ZANU-PF secretary-general Dr Obert Mpofu came out guns blazing against unscrupulous law enforcement officers in Nyamandlovu, Matebeleland North Province yesterday, as he addressed concerns by villagers that they were allegedly working toge…

Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:26hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe going nowhere with delusional leaders

I KEEP being reminded of my younger days when we used to love joking about a guy who had fallen head over heels with a certain girl.In the midst of their intimate rendezvous, the guy would become so love-struck that he ended up promising t…

Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 05:01hrs | 5 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Zimbabwe's solution not necessarily in regime change but holding leaders accountable

I have often told those around me this fact.If truth be told, I actually do not hate  Zimbabwe President Mnangagwa or opposition CCC party leader Nelson Chamisa.In fact, I did not even hate former president Robert Gabriel Mugabe. Due …

Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 20:32hrs | 16 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

The political leaders we want in Zimbabwe

WHEN a system is not producing the results we want, we must change the system to get different results.That system can only change when those in leadership realise and acknowledge that the old ways of doing things cannot create better resu…

Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 07:08hrs | 2 | by Vince Musewe

Mnangagwa hosts regional heads of states in Victoria Falls

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa, along with the presidents of Zambia, Rwanda and Malawi and the King of Eswatini will this week meet in the resort town of Victoria Falls for the three-day Transform Africa Summit (TAS2023).The summit …

Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 08:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe paying the price for not holding leaders to account

AS much Zimbabwe scares me, sometimes!It is terribly unsettling and outright creepy, to say the least, whenever I watch how some Zimbabweans treat their leaders.I try to imagine if I had been the president of this country, or ruling or opp…

Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:27hrs | | by Tendai R Mbofana

Zimbabwe needs respectable leaders

IN response to Vote Zanu-PF, Mohadi tells chiefs: Is Zanu-PF second secretary Kembo Mohadi displaying his complete ignorance of the law or is he displaying complete contempt of the supreme law of the land, the Constitution?Looking at the w…

Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:35hrs | 10 | by A Mbire

Zanu-PF must stop abusing traditional leaders

WITH a few days to go before the by-elections, Heal Zimbabwe has witnessed an increase in cases of human rights violations.The traditional leadership institution continues to be at the centre of abuse by the ruling party elite ahead of the…

Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:49hrs | | by Heal Zimbabwe

Leaders should put Zimbabwe first

ZIMBABWE is reeling under the brunt of political polarisation and electoral hangover.Its ripple effects are hitting the person on the street and scuttling efforts to revive the economy.It is paramount that in whatever we do, let us put our…

Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:23hrs | 1 | by Mukunda waChitova

Zimbabweans' unquestioning belief in their leaders a retrogressive weakness that prevents accountability and development

One would be forgiven for believing that questioning one's leaders, and holding them accountable would be a given - a normal part of everyday life, whereby a country's citizens, or city's residents, always keep close checks and balances on…

Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 20:27hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Let's all register to vote and kick out our leaders

IT is not fair to say Zimbabweans deserve the leaders they have. Whether through fear or otherwise, many in this land voted Zanu-PF into power.If there was any rigging or intimidation, it was done by Zimbabweans. And so is the stealing tha…

Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Revai Dani

Do we need more diseases that freak out our leaders for them to finally attend to crumbling health care system?

It is really strange, in fact, creepy, how people appear freaked out and terrified by the thought of death and dying.Honestly, as much as most of us are not suicidal, and not actively seeking death - but, endeavor exercising a healthy life…

Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 17:37hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Zimbabwe leaders who have nothing to show for 40 years of misrule now find glory in liberation struggle tales

"Matakadya kare haanyaradzi pwere" - that is the saying that I always think of whenever our leaders in Zimbabwe launch a book glorifying their liberation struggle exploits of more than forty years ago.Inevitably, I find myself wondering wh…

Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 10:04hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Covid-19 crisis: Can corporate leaders stand up and be counted!

Zimbabwe has undergone several crises over the years and each time disaster strikes, citizens have been known to put aside their differences - real or imagined - to put out the fire. It is through this unity of purpose in the face of a cri…

Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 20:21hrs | 3 | by Nathan Chikara

What leaders? No more than tortoises sitting atop lamp posts

I decided in the new year to return Kuumba, my beautiful pet tortoise, to his wild, natural habitat of Matojeni.Besides my amazing wife, few sights and few life experiences have left a greater impression or ever etched as permanent a place…

Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 10:54hrs | 3 | by Zifiso Masiye

Mnangagwa risks capture by corporate leaders

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's idea that the industrialists and bankers he met on October 29, 2018 should constitute and second some advisers from within their ranks to his office stinks of inviting capture by industrial lobby groups.These…

Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 06:02hrs | | by Brian Sedze

No hope for Africa: Next generation of leaders learnt from the best, could yet be the worst

Kenya's former Director of Anticorruption Commission, Prof Lumumba, warns that the younger generation is even more dangerous to Africa because they have learned from the older generation. Structures such as Student Representative Councils …

Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 11:42hrs | 1 | by Phillemon Sithole (Khuluma Afrika)

'I am smart individuals' masquerading as leaders are a disease time will cure: Zimbabwe experience, lessons and a tough way forw

1 Corinthians 1:26-27 (NIV) "For you see your calling brethren, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble but God choose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. Go…

Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 09:15hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere

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