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How can Mnangagwa preach selflessness when his regime is master of self-interest and plunder?
It often seems that before lecturing others on morality, some people should first look in the mirror.President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Heroes Day interview with the state-controlled broadcaster Z...Published: 12 Aug 2025 at 21:24hrs | 456 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chiwenga, Muchinguri summon Masimirembwa over Tagwirei bid
HARARE - ZANU-PF's second-in-command and Vice President, General (Rtd) Constantino Chiwenga, National Chairperson Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri and Secretary General, Obert Mpofu yesterday allegedly summon...Published: 30 Jul 2025 at 16:17hrs | 3532 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa in South Africa for 2025 Liberation Movements Summit
President Emmerson Mnangagwa today joined fellow heads of revolutionary parties at the Liberation Movements Summit, which enters its decisive final phase amid growing concerns over the future and rele...Published: 27 Jul 2025 at 11:23hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi takes over as President in Mnangagwa's absence
Vice President Kembo Campbell Dugish Mohadi has assumed the role of Acting President of Zimbabwe following President Emmerson Mnangagwa's departure to South Africa, where he is attending the 2025 Libe...Published: 26 Jul 2025 at 15:44hrs | 1259 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei supporters hit back at Mutsvangwa
Allies of local business magnate Dr. Kudakwashe Tagwirei have launched a spirited defence of the controversial tycoon, following sharp criticism from Zanu-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa. The g...Published: 23 Jul 2025 at 14:56hrs | 934 | by Staff reporter
'Tagwirei lacks Zanu-PF grassroots support,' says activist
Political activist and editor of 'Footprints in the Chains: The Life Story of Job Sikhala' Rejoice Ngwenya has dismissed the possibility of businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei succeeding President Emmerso...Published: 05 Jul 2025 at 09:10hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
There were no Zvigananda under Smith because Rhodesians loved Zimbabwe more than ZANU-PF!
There is something tragically ironic about the state Zimbabwe finds itself in today.A country that was once described by none other than former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere as the "jewel...Published: 27 May 2025 at 20:45hrs | 1238 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Machacha questions Blessed Geza's liberation credentials
Zanu PF national political commissar Munyaradzi Machacha has launched a scathing attack on war veterans leader Blessed Geza, casting serious doubt on his liberation struggle credentials and personal i...Published: 09 Apr 2025 at 21:55hrs | 1118 | by Staff reporter
The idea of Zimbabwe and Matabeleland question
I think the best way to understand the present day manifestations and character of Matebeleland politics is to situate them properly historically and politically within the broader terrain of the deve...Published: 29 Mar 2025 at 17:01hrs | 2187 | by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Why Botswana's shift has Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF on edge
As the region and the continent at large continue to digest the outcome of the recent Botswana elections and their ramifications reverberate across borders, a bigger debate is unfolding on the changin...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 14:39hrs | 1259 | by Ntibinyane Ntibinyane
If only Mnangagwa was white
Our fellow Zimbabweans suffered for so many decades from white racism that the last thing we need is an excuse for Emmerson Mnangagwa's brutality because of his skin color. This is a sad reality for m...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 16:35hrs | 3 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
SA can turn into another Zimbabwe, hallucinates Mozambique linked Mashaba
Prominent South African opposition politician Herman Mashaba says he is fighting to stop the neighbouring country from turning into another Zimbabwe because of failed leadership.Mashaba (HM), ...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 08:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reiterates his call for tolerance and peace
As Zimbabwe prepares for the 2023 harmonised elections, President Mnangagwa has reiterated his call for tolerance and peace, saying constructive criticism and divergent views can spur national develop...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mr President, Zimbabwe has never known respite from terror
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as we count down to the 2023 harmonised elections, it is my fervent supplication that you replicate the Madiba blueprint. Despite the massive...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 06:00hrs | 2 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
'Army plays decisive role in politics' - Zanu PF fuelled conjecture, without one iota of evidence
"It is beyond any iota of doubt in Zimbabwe that the institution of the military plays a decisive factor in the politics of the country," reported The Independent. "Numerous "clever" politicians ...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 09:50hrs | 11 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe military remains single decisive factor in politics
The opprobrium that characterised the rebuke of remarks made by Chief Murinye by the Vice President of Zimbabwe, Dr Constantino Chiwenga exemplifies the reality around the power matrix in Zimbabwe....Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 16:40hrs | 16 | by Sapien Sapien
The letter of deceit
Prodigious things always happen. Reading the letter which Emerson Mnangagwa wrote to Zimbabweans and published on the 9th of November 2017 after he had been dismissed from both government and party is...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 23:27hrs | 9 | by Phosiwe Ncube
FLASHBACK: Mnangagwa's November letter to Zimbabweans (2017)
My family was banished to Zambia when I was still in primary school for resisting the oppressive rule of the white minority regime in 1955. This action hardened my resolve for justice and black empowe...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 12:45hrs | 19 | by Emmerson Mnangagwa
Mnangagwa's new Gukurahundi whitewash
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's controversial biography, A Life of Sacrifice, which trended upon its launch this week – mainly for the wrong reasons – has many shades of grey, but it does not compl...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 18:26hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Army must delink itself from ZANU PF' Jonathan Moyo says
Exiled former cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has called upon the Zimbabwe Service Chiefs to delink themselves from the ruling party ZANU PF and protect the gains of the liberation struggle. ...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 17:47hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
New promotion criterion riles police officers
A NEW proposed method of promoting police officers during the COVID-19 pandemic has riled the law enforcement agents, with junior officers alleging the system was susceptible to abuse and corruption, ...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa: Quiet diplomacy 2.0
ZIMBABWE is in turmoil. It is facing the twin political and economic challenges again. Political tensions are high and activists are paying the price. Inflation, while now a bit stagnant, but it is ab...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:32hrs | 6 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zapu candidate chides Tsvangirai's son
FORMER liberation movement Zapu's candidate for the Glen View South by-election has unwittingly taken a dig at former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's son Vincent the MDC's candidate in the race to ...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa says 'Let's dream, think Zimbabwe'
Address by His Excellency, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, E.D. Mnangagwa, at the burial of the late Mishack Ntundu Velaphi, National Heroes' Acre, May 9, 2019 ...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:46hrs | | by ED Mnangagwa
Damnatio memoriae and Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day?
In the recent past few years, it had become a norm in February to see pomp and extravagance in Zimbabwe's state and independent media with preparations towards and celebrations on the birthday of "com...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 21:18hrs | 3 | by Brian Maregedze
Southern Africa's problem of political elite impunity
Former South African deputy foreign affairs minister Aziz Pahad's support for the Maduro regime in Venezuela throws into sharp relief the acceptance by political elites in Southern Africa of die-hard ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Tendai Biti and Mills
Panic as Mutsvangwa throws Matemadanda under the bus
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association has been thrown into a panic mode after it emerged that the announcement by Secretary General Victor Matemadanda to increase Presidential age ...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 09:11hrs | 10 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's New Cabinet?
COCKPIT PRESIDENT --- ED DEPUTY PRESIDENT --- CHIWENGA DEPUTY PRESIDENT --- KHAYA MOYO CHAIRMAN --- OPPAH KASHIRI ...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 07:02hrs | 4 | by Noble Tawanda Ngara
Are revolutionaries real or just a bunch of oppressors? - Mthwakazi activist
Mthwakazi activist Hloniphani Ncube has questioned if the so called revolutionaries who liberated Zimbabwe from the colonial jaws are real or they are a bunch of oppressors bent on using liberation cr...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa fanning anarchy
This weekend marks the end of the campaigning period for Zimbabwe's watershed harmonized elections to be held on Monday the 30th of July 2018. Two of the major and arguably the contesting parties ZANU...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 19:47hrs | 1 | by Tendai Jongwe
An inherited crisis of imagination: A Long Essay concerning the understanding of Zimbabwe - Pt1
If it is a despot you would dethrone, see first his throne erected within you is destroyed lest what you call freedom is the strongest of chains. The Gibranian perception sums the November 201...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 19:02hrs | 3 | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
Mliswa accuses Mutsvangwa of bringing in war vets to Norton for his purported bloodshed
Norton independent candidate Temba P Mliswa has accused Zanu PF candidate Christopher Mutsvangwa of bringing in war veterans into the constituency to intimidate electorate as the latter has since thre...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:19hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Chiwenga recounts role he played in Mnangagwa's escape
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has said he arranged for the escape of then vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa in the wake of his abrupt removal from the post by fallen despot Robert Mugabe....Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 16:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa recounts poisoning incident
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday recounted the day he was poisoned while attending a Zanu-PF rally in Gwanda last August.Mnangagwa who was then the Vice President, had to be airlifted to...Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 06:49hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
'For free elections, army must stop meddling in politics,' says ISS - too late, up to its eyes already
In an interview with News24, Senior researcher at Institute for Security Studies (ISS), Derek Matyszak said that there was need for the Zimbabwean military to stay clear of politics if the country was...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 18:45hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe army told to 'stay out of politics'
The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) has questioned the Zimbabwe National Army's ability to explicitly stay clear of the southern African country's forthcoming election - regardless of its o...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 11:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
The most important question in Zimbabwe
There is no other period in the history of independent Zimbabwe that has saw significant shifts in the political discourse of the country than the last two decades. The contestation of divides was mai...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Robert Sigauke
Mnangagwa prepared to fail
I have been following reckless and misguided statements by Emmerson Mnangagwa especially soon after taking charge of Zimbabwe’s highest office. In his inaugural speech as the new president of Zimbab...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 10:01hrs | 1 | by Trust Vimbayi Mukamba
Zimbabwe's quest for legitimacy
Events of November 2017 in Zimbabwe represent the culmination of a crisis whose tenets include a crisis of legitimacy. One of the most urgent tasks for Zimbabwe's new government is the restoration of ...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 06:57hrs | | by Showers Mawowa
Drawing parallels between the ZANU PF and ANC recalls, the issue of Constitutional order
Whether this is by design or it is the swinging pendulum of fortune swinging in reverse it stands to be seen. The ANC has had two recalls in successive Presidencies. This is the biggest problem Africa...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 12:25hrs | | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
Time we tell Mugabe some home truths
Having worked with ex-President Robert Mugabe as editor of the Zanu-PF's publication, The People's Voice, for close to three years, I must admit that there was a time when I sincerely believed the man...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 06:01hrs | 3 | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
Zimbabwe after Morgan Tsvangirai - A narrative full of trials, sadness and hope
Our condolences go to the family of the Tsvangirais for an irreplaceable loss of their father, brother and, uncle, and for the country to whom Morgan Richard Tsvangirai became a stalwart for championi...Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 22:42hrs | | by Andrew Manyevere
Mnangagwa then fled 'assassins' for a safe place
George Charamba, the man who served former president Robert Mugabe for over 30 years and mediated the veteran ruler's resignation under pressure from the military and his party, has lifted the lid on ...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 05:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Unfolding and uncertain future with Mnangagwa in power
Mnangagwa has been Mugabe's confidante and close security guard, since the days of the liberation struggle. To put this into perspective, Mnangagwa has been part and parcel of Mugabe's political journ...Published: 04 Jan 2018 at 19:38hrs | 3 | by Annitha Ndlovu
Was the army intervention party politics or national interest?
In the 1960s AFRICA Tested independence and many states gained freedom. This was followed by military coups to change the demi gods created by the military and bootlickers. The 2000s saw a comparative...Published: 27 Dec 2017 at 14:29hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Land a metaphor for freedom
Revolutionary greetings comrades. Land is the most vital resource of socio-economic development. It was the main grievance of Black Africans that led to the struggle for independence. Therefore, attai...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 11:12hrs | | by Khulani David Ndhlovu
Mnangagwa's extra-ordinary track-record of escape
A child of the revolution, nurtured on the perennial run, from childhood to the present age of 75. Multiple narrow escapes! Emmerson Munangagwa's multiple escapes remain too extra-ordinary to ...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Zimbabwe today by the Liberal Democrats
Fellow Zimbabweans, indeed it appears true that the morning sickness after an orgy of drinking is more unbearable than the cocktail of all beers night. The excitement of the fall of the mighty Mr Muga...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 10:35hrs | | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
WATCH: Whither Zimbabwe's Nationalist Project
Good Evening everyone, I'm very pleased to have this opportunity to share my ideas and views with you on the state of the Nationalist project in Zimbabwe. As I prepare to make my remarks I note that i...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 14:39hrs | 3 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Mnangagwa urged recognise that Zimbabwe belongs to all its citizens
Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum have hailed the smooth transition in government but made demands which they expect the new administration to implement as soon as possible"We, the undersigned c...Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 07:05hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
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