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Mr Mnangagwa where are the ZUPCO buses purchased in 2019?
The Citizens Coalition for Change raises critical questions surrounding the fate of ZUPCO buses reportedly bought and commissioned by Mr. Mnangagwa in 2019, as citizens grapple with transport challeng...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mutapa looting machine
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is full of surprises.He wants to be seen to be doing something and, in many instances, creates new offices that in reality are as clear as mud.Mutapa Inves...Published: 23 Sep 2023 at 21:34hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zanu-PF imploding now?
IN 2016, the late President Robert Mugabe reacted angrily to details contained in a document titled, Blue Ocean — Taking Back Zanu-PF, and labelled war veterans backing his successor Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 23:31hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance... a hallmark of political Ponzi schemes
MDC activist, Freeman Chari, launched an initiative to raise salaries for the so called "political detainees" in Zimbabwe and he indicated that the campaign has raised over US$400 already. The MDC All...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 19:20hrs | | by Uncle Shumba
Chamisa vs Mwonzora
German dictator and NAZI supremo Mr Adolf Hilter once told his Gestapo these famous words "If you loose you don't need to be there to explain".Zimbabwe politics is no longer the same since the assumin...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 12:42hrs | 2 | by Nkosana Malinga
The primacy of regime survival: State Fragility and Economic Destruction in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe crisis has been analysed from varying stand points among researchers. State fragility as analytical and conceptual framework is deployed by the duo of Mark Simpson and Tony Hawkins (2018)...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 07:52hrs | 16 | by Brian Maregedze
Zimbabwe Airways scandal a continuation of the ZANU-PF looting machine
The unfolding theatrics involving Zimbabwe Airways, Air Zimbabwe and central government exposes the rhetoric around combating corruption being parroted by the Mnangagwa government.It confirms ...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 14:55hrs | 2 | by Jacob Mafume - PDP Spokesperson, MDC Alliance Information Committee
Africa's resources a blessing for only the so called revolutionaries - analyst
A political analyst Vince Musewe has said the curse of Africa's resources has become the blessing for the pseudo revolitionaries liberation struggle predatory elite class in partnership with foreign p...Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 07:58hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zapu sceptical over Zipra properties
THE Dumiso Dabengwa-led opposition Zapu, yesterday expressed scepticism over Zanu-PF government's commitment to returning former Zipra properties seized during the Gukurahundi era.Zapu...Published: 26 Apr 2017 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Zimbabwe's dictatorship has played out
While 2016 ominously came to a close with long bank queues nationwide owing to egregious economic mismanagement by the Robert Mugabe regime, 2017 is set to be another annus horribilis for Zimbabwe, pr...Published: 15 Jan 2017 at 08:52hrs | 1 | by Paul Simon
Bigwigs pillage new $500m agric scheme
HARARE - Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs minister, Martin Dinha, has made startling claims that senior Zanu PF officials and members of the military are looting the new $500 million government-...Published: 04 Jan 2017 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by FUNGI KWARAMBA
Chinamasa's $4,1 billion budget alarms Mugabe opponents
For many, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa's dour 2017 budget presentation could have passed as a non-event, but his predecessor Tendai Biti is a worried man.Biti, who helped stabilise t...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 09:03hrs | 3 | by Blessing Mhlanga
Coaltion of Democrats (CODE) Statement on the 2017 Budget Announcement
The 2017 Budget theme was titled "Pushing the Frontiers of Production Across All Sectors of the Economy", and unfortunately this budget dismally fails to seriously address the relevant issues, and ins...Published: 10 Dec 2016 at 05:27hrs | | by E. S. Mangoma
Zuma and his corrupt cronies now desperate
President Jacob Zuma and his corrupt cronies inside and outside the government are now desperate. The decision to lay criminal charges against the former public protector, Thuli Madonsela, is just the...Published: 28 Nov 2016 at 12:23hrs | | by Justice Malala
Zimbabwe's looting machine
The curse of Africa's resources has become the blessing of the liberation struggle predatory class in partnership with the military and foreign predators.Investigations Correspondent at the Fi...Published: 27 Oct 2016 at 13:13hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Zanu-PF predatory cabal and cronies our curse - analyst
A political commentator Vince Musewe hanu PF predatory and its cronies who have publicly admitted that they are entitled to use public funds for partisan politics.He described the ruling Zanu ...Published: 27 Oct 2016 at 07:59hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Time to change the game
"Those who caused yesterday's pains do not have power over tomorrow's potentials" Mike Murdoch.I am rather disappointed at the amount of despondency out there. It appears to me many Zimbabwean...Published: 21 Oct 2016 at 08:55hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Where is the President? - PDP
Three years after the 2013 elections, Zimbabwe is going through one of its worst socio-economic challenges characterized by a severe drought, cash shortages, the non-payment of civil servants salaries...Published: 22 Aug 2016 at 15:43hrs | | by Jacob Mafume
Red-tape and patronage continue to frustrate potential investors - PDP
Zimbabwe continues to attract paltry foreign investment amounts simply because we are not geared to welcome new investments into the country and thereby make it easy for foreign companies to establish...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 07:17hrs | | by Vince Musewe
BBC Hardtalk fails to get to the crux of the matter with Chinamasa
I have just finished watching BBC Hardtalk with Zimbabwe Finance Minister Chinamasa and am rather disappointed that the BBC missed an opportunity to get to the crux of the matter and instead gave ...Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 16:31hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Mphoko hotel stay under spotlight
VICE-President Phelekezela Mphoko, has, like President Robert Mugabe, emerged as a polarising figure since his appointment to the presidium in December 2014.In June 2014, Mphoko reportedly...Published: 03 Jul 2016 at 16:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti trying to rejoin MDC-Tsvangirai?
There are growing indications that opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and his erstwhile lieutenant Tendai Biti may be willing to work together again for the good of Zimbabwe, as the eagerly-anticipat...Published: 18 Jun 2016 at 21:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joint statement by MDC-T and PDP on the IMF Visit
Only substantive political and economic reforms can save Zimbabwe Professor Erik Reinert, a well-known developmental economist, in his book titled-How t...Published: 16 Jun 2016 at 06:37hrs | | by Vince Musewe and Dr Tapiwa Mashakada
PDP position on the on-going ZESA saga - Minister Samuel Undenge must resign or be fired
It is not new for ZANU (PF) Ministers to interfere in the running of state enterprises which fall under their mandate, in fact that is all they ever do as they scheme on how to make money from any ten...Published: 02 Jun 2016 at 13:26hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Minister Samuel Undenge must resign or be fired
It is not new for ZANU (PF) Ministers to interfere in the running of state enterprises which fall under their mandate, in fact that is all they ever do as they scheme on how to make money from any ten...Published: 01 Jun 2016 at 11:43hrs | | by Vince Musewe
PDP weekly economic policy brief - Corruption is a curse which retards our development
In our economic blue print, HOPE, we recognise the need to deal will corruption as a fundamental prerequisite not only to attract investors back to the country, but to ensure that public funds are app...Published: 27 Apr 2016 at 09:56hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Chinamasa continues to fuel the looting machine
As the People's Democratic Party (PDP), we are rather surprised that Parliament has once more approved a further $98, 6 million loan from the Export Import Bank of China to fund TelOne's backbone netw...Published: 08 Apr 2016 at 13:47hrs | | by Vince Musewe - Secretary for Finance and Economic Affairs
PDP statement on TelOne Loan - Chinamasa continues to fuel the looting machine
We are rather surprised that Parliament has once more approved a further $98, 6 million loan from the Export Import Bank of China to fund TelOne's backbone network expansion. This comes as a closely r...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 13:52hrs | | by Vince Musewe - Secretary for Finance and Economic Affairs
PDP claim "State capture" by ZANU (PF) and Mugabe
In Zimbabwe we therefore have a typical example of "state capture" by ZANU (PF) and a sitting President.From what has been reported in the press and on social media with regard to corruption a...Published: 25 Mar 2016 at 11:03hrs | | by Vince Musewe
PDP statement on corruption within the State
In Zimbabwe we therefore have a typical example of "state capture" by ZANU (PF) and a sitting President. From what has been reported in the press and on social media with regard to corrup...Published: 23 Mar 2016 at 09:40hrs | | by Vince Musewe - PDP secretary for Finance and Economic Affairs
A State monopoly on diamonds will not necessarily benefit Zimbabweans
As far as the PDP is concerned, a State monopoly on diamonds will not necessarily benefit Zimbabweans. In fact the consolidation of this sector into one government controlled entity will result in a l...Published: 04 Mar 2016 at 18:54hrs | | by Vince Musewe - PDP Secretary for Finance and Economic Affairs
PDP Weekly Economic Policy Brief - Zimbabwe's key economic enablers
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) has identified 13 key economic enablers in its economic blueprint HOPE (Holistic Programme for Economic Transformation). These will be critical in creating a new Zi...Published: 23 Feb 2016 at 09:34hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Local content achieves much more than indigenisation
The Indigenisation Act must go because it is the wrong policy at the wrong time for the wrong reasons. For the umpteenth time, I must repeat myself that indigenisation will not inescapabl...Published: 29 Jan 2016 at 07:18hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Politics of inequality in Africa
The middle wall between the haves and the have-nots occupies real estate in the cultural imagination of every generation. It has drawn a storm of intellectual sledgehammers in the lapse of history yet...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 05:31hrs | 1 | by Stanely Mushava
Living in Mugabe's Zimbabwe
Broken dreams and broken souls as alcohol and religion have become the opium of the masses to escape reality.Our once beautiful country is on the brink of social and economic collapse. The sad...Published: 25 Nov 2015 at 00:27hrs | 1 | by Vince Musewe
Welcome to the patronage order of Zimbabwe
Patronage is a curse, a cancer that spreads quickly and is very difficult if not impossible to remove without killing the patient. I am not surprised at all on the latest revelations that our ...Published: 19 Sep 2015 at 14:57hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Bravo to Mnangagwa!
It is commendable and rather surprising that someone in authority has admitted that Zimbabwe is at least 20 years behind.I think 35 years, if not more, is a better estimate, but that's beside ...Published: 08 Aug 2015 at 12:25hrs | | by Vince Musewe
CIOs were part of Asiagate and Rushwaya abused Joseph Msika
THE dreaded members of President Robert Mugabe's the Central Intelligence Organisation were part of the delegation (s) that went with a bogus Zimbabwe national soccer team to Asian countries for fixe...Published: 13 Oct 2011 at 09:36hrs | 1 | by Bekithemba Nhlanhla Ncube
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