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Zimbabwe elections will go ahead as planned
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says nothing will stop the holding of elections this year, despite a court challenge by MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora who wants the polls postponed because of con...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:24hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
'Gold Mafia is bigger than Zanu PF' said Al Jazeera. The tail is wagging the dog - out of spite!
"Gold Mafia Episode 1: Laundry Service" will be aired on Al Jazeera TV tonight Thursday 23 March 2023, an advance version was already circulating on the social media. There are six take home point...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 03:14hrs | 6855 | by Wilbert Mukori
'We have learned GNU lessons' insist Chamisa - yet participating in flawed elections for umpteenth time!
It is bad enough that we should find ourselves ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs whose only priority is to secure absolute power and retain it at all cost. Of course, they know that in...Published: 22 Mar 2023 at 07:30hrs | 1456 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Forget elections, go out in the street!' argue Mapfumo. Protesting what? It's CCC who is hell bent in participating in flawed e
"Zimbabweans must understand who they are really dealing with, [President Emmerson] Mnangagwa took over power from (Robert) Mugabe in an unconstitutional manner and he will never let go of that power ...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:22hrs | 356 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa has failed the youths, through Mutoriro and Kambwa
As far as Zimbabwe is concerned things are not appealing ranging from economic, social to political discourse. The government of Zimbabwe is supposed to start now to lay out robust and effective mecha...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:11hrs | 181 | by General Franco
Poor Pamela Tremont and Triple C: Politics without lawful issue
I have watched Pamela Tremont's hearing in preparation for her posting to Zimbabwe as US' next ambassador.Both the line of questioning by US Senators, as well as her responses, were, to say th...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 06:32hrs | 187 | by @Jamwanda2
'A new great Zimbabwe is possible!' says Chamisa. Not as long as pay lip service to reforms before elections
Nelson Chamisa, President of CCC, Zimbabwe's main opposition party penned a three pages long article - a departure from his usual two paragraph tweets - affording a very rare glimpse into what's cooki...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 18:05hrs | 356 | by Wilbert Mukori
'West should have lifted sanctions after 2017 coup!' ANC maintains. Nonsense, Zimbabwe was and remain a pariah state.
One of the most obnoxious things appoint white racism is the how the whites denied the blacks a voice. "Our blacks are very happy it is the Russian and Chinese communists how are agitating for black m...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 21:51hrs | 1137 | by Wilbert Mukori
Underperforming ANC hell bent on stopping regime change in Zimbabwe; it's fiddler crab strategy
"South Africa has a Zimbabwe problem - and no one is willing to help it, said African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Fikile Mbalula as he called for an end to long-standing sanctions agains...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 07:33hrs | 1901 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Zifa officials a confused lot'
A CHICKEN INN football club executive member has accused Zifa of double standards following their decision to ban coaches without Caf A coaching licences to coach in the Castle Lager Premier Soc...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:28hrs | 604 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa poses major threat to Mnangagwa, but....
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has emerged as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's most formidable challenger for the presidency when the country goes to the polls in the next few...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 05:20hrs | 5020 | by Staff reporter
Is Zifa trying to fool Fifa?
ZIMBABWE has been in the international football wilderness since February 24, 2022. This was after the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) thought it prudent to suspend an elected Zifa board in Nov...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 07:41hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa violates the Zimbabwe Constitution
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa almost certainly violated the delimitation process by not following constitutional requirements, while brazenly subverting the constitution at critical junctures, renderin...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 10:36hrs | 1544 | by Staff reporter
Who is 'bogus' Zifa trying to fool?
ZIMBABWE has been in the international football wilderness since February 24, 2022. This was after the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) thought it prudent to suspend an elected Zifa board in Nov...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 07:03hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
US, UK to spoil Zimbabwe polls
The United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) are determined to spoil the country's elections to isolate Zimbabwe on the international stage and in their subversive plots, they have roped in non-...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 06:46hrs | 832 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF is rigging 2023, it's normal and CCC must be hard-hat equipped for it!' It's insane and must be stopped, now
In an interview with AFP Nelson Chamisa admitted that Zimbabwe's electoral process has "always attracted controversy" and is "littered with rigging, manipulation" and it is his reaction that we should...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 16:54hrs | 396 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa et al are hell bent on participating in flawed 2023 out of greed. What's in it for povo?
Zimbabwe's 2008 elections were a watershed elections in that Zanu PF's power to rig elections was exposed in its ugliest and graphic details. Ever since Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, the co...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 15:25hrs | 419 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabweans will reject political mannequins
FOR over two decades, some Western administrations have sponsored proxy political entities in Zimbabwe with the primary goal of dislodging ZANU-PF from power. Over two decades of moral, financ...Published: 21 Feb 2023 at 05:51hrs | 240 | by Ranga Mataire
Political violence casts spotlight on free, fair polls
WITH political violence escalating in Zimbabwe, national elections slated for later this year face questions about whether the polls will meet free and fair international benchmarks.Zimbabwe's...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:33hrs | 476 | by Staff reporter
White skin, black masks!
Two developments caught my attention this week. One is a Brenthurst Foundation scholarship invitation to young Africans intent on pursuing postgraduate studies.Brenthurst Foundation is owned a...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:08hrs | 749 | by Jamwanda
Tsvangirai remembered five years on
February 14, 2023 marked five years since late Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai succumbed to colon cancer.He was 65.Tsvangirai left the main opposition MDC...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 17:36hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is NOT a democracy and Zanu PF is rigging 2023 - the reality we must accept and act accordingly
Zimbabweans love to talk about democracy but most of us have no clue what they are talking about. None! "Democracy is the government of the people, for the people and by the people!" said Abra...Published: 14 Feb 2023 at 07:05hrs | 2168 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa nemesis bemoans 'grand looting' under Zanu-PF rule
Zanu-PF activist, Sybeth Musengezi who became known through his bold challenge against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy as party leader, resurfaced weekend to haunt his nemesis, this time for...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 07:08hrs | 2368 | by Staff reporter
Polad a tool to sanitise Mnangagwa legitimacy
FORMATION of the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) in 2019 was primarily meant to give President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration a veneer of legitimacy after narrowly winning the disputed 2018 gen...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:27hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Poll survey angers Zanu-PF
A survey on the impending elections conducted by Sabi Strategy Group for Brenthurst Foundation has been described as an attempt by opposition funders in the mould of a South African billionaire with a...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 05:06hrs | 1676 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa slams selective application of law
INDEPENDENT Norton Member of Parliament (MP) Temba Mliswa has slammed selective application of the law and lack of political will to fight corruption after Zanu-PF MP Mayor Wadyajena was removed from ...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:07hrs | 2043 | by Staff reporter
CCC duplicity, hell bent on participating in 2023 with not cat in hell chance on winning, has exposed SADC duplicity
Yes, Zimbabwe is heading for yet another rigged elections. Zanu PF has learned the lessons from the past and by putting these into practice, the party is hoping to get political legitimacy from SADC a...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 09:52hrs | 1361 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe after Robert Mugabe
This opinion-editorial piece was written by Japhet Ncube, a Zimbabwean-born former editor of South African daily, The Star, in November 2017 during the coup which ousted the late former president Robe...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:10hrs | 349 | by Japhet Mathanda Ncube
Zec incompetence could lead to disputed elections
ZIMBABWE is heading towards another disputed election should the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) adopt the discredited delimitation report without correcting the glaring shortcomings, analysts hav...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:03hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
Polad gobbles millions in taxpayers' money
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's creation, the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad), hangs in the balance after gobbling millions of dollars in taxpayers' money as Zimbabwe hurtles towards make-or-break ge...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 19:13hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
CCC hell bent on participating in 2023 regardless rigging and damned consequences
The 2023 Zimbabwe elections will be taking place by August 2023, that is seven months to go. The political temperature is rising!When Emmerson Mnangagwa seized power following the November 201...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 07:25hrs | 451 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa swore a solemn oath to serve the good of Rome and not - by rigging elections - the glory of Caesar
If we in Zimbabwe are serious about digging ourselves out of the economic and political hell-on-earth we are in, then we must start by paying attention to detail on why we got into this mess. If we kn...Published: 28 Jan 2023 at 21:23hrs | 1232 | by Wilbert Mukori
'We aim to win big!' insists Chamisa oblivious Zanu PF is rigging big, there is verified voters' roll, etc., etc.
"The world is flat or round not because you or me say it is flat/round. It is round because the mountain of supporting evidence say it is round," my Secondary School teacher used to say. Zimba...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 17:04hrs | 1406 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Tsvangirayi says no opposition party can unseat Zanu-PF
LATE MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai's son, Mr Vincent Tsvangirai, says there is no single opposition party in Zimbabwe with the capacity to defeat the ruling party, Zanu-PF, in the forthcoming electi...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 05:45hrs | 1678 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under fire
Civil society organisations have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of refusing to implement electoral reforms in order to gain an unfair advantage in this year's hamornised elections.The cl...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 15:11hrs | 5838 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe not ready for credible harmonised elections, says 'regime change' NGO
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition's (CiZC) has established that the country is not yet ready to hold free, fair and credible elections due to a number of systemic bottlenecks impeding transparency....Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:26hrs | 775 | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri, allies reject MDC suspension order
Former MDC vice president Elias Mudzuri and six party allies suspended recently over a slew of alleged misdemeanours, have declared their ouster was illegal, further questioning party leader Douglas M...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 08:10hrs | 2061 | by Staff reporter
CCC fishing for coalition but will participate in 2023 no matter what for same reason - greed
"At the outset I wish to affirm your Constitutional right to stand for President. My only questions, Sir, are: One - Do you realise that all you are going to do is divide those opposed to Zanu-PF, whi...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 19:29hrs | 2141 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Former MDC party officials resist their suspension
Movement for Democratic Change national chairperson Solomon Chikohwero announced the suspension of seven officials saying they face serious disciplinary charges, yesterday.The seven are Mudzur...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 14:22hrs | 481 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Sanctions choking Zimbabwe: Myth or reality?
"African politics is dogged by crises of legitimacy, monetised politics and corruption, personalised leadership, and lastly the sit-tight syndrome" notes the African Exponent. During an electoral seas...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 16:33hrs | 600 | by Zvikomborero Sibanda
Third World Underdevelopment - a forced condition
Underdevelopment in Africa, Latin American and much of Asia is not a condition of being several centuries behind the various kinds of transformations experienced in the capitalist centre but a conditi...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 08:47hrs | 422 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Business community slams BCC forex conversions
THE Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce and the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries have accused the Bulawayo City Council of using a wrong formula to convert the 2022 and this year's tariffs to Un...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 05:47hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
'What leadership invest in violence?' asked Chamisa - a dictatorship and after 23 years you have done nothing to end it
"If you have support why are so violent, so heartless against citizens even the elderly? And why should bases and vigilante groups be allowed around the country? Are we now worse than animals? What le...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 18:25hrs | 893 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe is about to do the Zambia - One last chance to save democracy and bury Mnangagwa
Happy new year to all. 2023 is finally here after 5 long years. Zimbabwe is about to do the Zambia. It is time to bury Zanu pf for good. It is time to make the dinosaurs of the last Chimur...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 10:54hrs | 1538 | by Nobukhosi Moyo
Ramaphosa hell bent on granting vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy - sacrificing povo to gratify Zanu PF
"The ANC supports the calls for the lifting of punitive sanctions against Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Syria, Zimbabwe and elsewhere where such sanctions have been imposed unilaterally and unjustifiably, ca...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 10:32hrs | 1338 | by Nomusa Garikai
Sikhala case clouds Zimbabwe's Commonwealth readmission bid
UNITED Kingdom (UK)'s House of Lords member Kate Hoey has said Zimbabwe must not be re-admitted into the Commonwealth club over the country's deteriorating human rights record and continued detention ...Published: 06 Jan 2023 at 18:11hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
'CCC will win big 2023!' bombardment is relentless. Real challenge, educate povo to know it's all wishful thinking
"2023 IS A YEAR FOR CHANGE. 2023 brings hope, dignity and prosperity.May this year be the year Zimbabwe becomes free, happy and prosperous. This time Citizens will WIN BIG & celebrate BIG....Published: 04 Jan 2023 at 01:11hrs | 1687 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Generals will not salute Chamisa' said Chombo. How carelessly he speaks treason, name them
"Chamisa himself knows he is too small to be saluted by these men of war. These generals are waiting for their turn on the presidency and this can only happen when Zanu PF is in power, so even if Zanu...Published: 04 Jan 2023 at 01:02hrs | 1775 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Draconian PVO Bill passed, shrinking democratic space to a singularity point. CCC will participate in 2023, regardless. Why?
"Zimbabwe democratic space narrows ahead of 2023 polls" screamed the Bulawayo24 article!"In December alone, critical developments that undermine democracy have unfolded. Most notably, th...Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 19:14hrs | 1565 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Nyika inovakwa nevene vayo' insist Mnangagwa - Reality, Zimbabwe is a failed state in ruins, mocks him
On Monday, 12 December 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated four Zimbabwean individuals and two Zimbabwean entities and removed seventeen Zimb...Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 08:03hrs | 1747 | by Nomusa Garikai
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