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Mmusi Maimane criticizes SA govt over Zimbabwe crisis
South African opposition leader Mmusi Maimane has accused President Cyril Ramaphosa and the ruling African National Congress (ANC) of "folding its arms" amid Zimbabwe's ongoing political crisis. He ar...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 10:18hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
After making Zimbabweans suffer, the ZANU-PF leadership now wants to kill them!
Do those in power really care about us? After plunging millions of Zimbabweans into untold poverty and misery through corruption, misgovernance, and authoritarian rule, the ZANU-PF leadership ...Published: 09 Apr 2025 at 11:08hrs | 720 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Obert Gutu urges humane handling of vendors' crisis
National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) commissioner Obert Gutu has called for restraint and empathy in dealing with vendors, following the Zimbabwean government's order to remove them fro...Published: 14 Mar 2025 at 07:02hrs | 3063 | by Staff reporter
'Entire budget is anti-people in the extreme' We know that, tell us why you hell-bent on perpetuating Zanu PF rule!
Zimbabwe's main opposition parties are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless. Zimbabwe is a failed state, 43 years and counting of Zanu PF corrupt and tyrannical rule has left the country i...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 20:38hrs | 8 | by Wilbert Mukori
Ncube budget proves, once again, 'nation can tax itself into prosperity' by taxing poor to spare the rich
"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle," said Si...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 08:44hrs | 12 | by Wilbert Mukori
The creation of absolute poverty and suffering in post-colonial Zimbabwe
THERE is little doubt that the advent of Zimbabwe's independence in 1980 has paradoxically generated a new debate on the notion of freedom and justice, particularly from philosophical perspectives....Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 13:51hrs | | by Dr Admore Tshuma
'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 | 2 | by Nomusa Garikai
'On land, Mugabe travelled a path Mandela did not dare' - Yes, but look where he landed Zimbabwe!
There is overwhelming evidence out there to show Nelson Madiba Mandela was a visionary leader his greatest legacy to South Africa is a stable democratic system of government. On the other hand, Robert...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 13:53hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
'War veterans must show their unflinching war time vibrancy' - fighting whom and for what
When Robert Mugabe got into power in 1980, he was cocksure his scientific socialism would bring economic prosperity to the masses, "Gutsva ruzhinji!" as he never tired of saying. Instead of build on t...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 07:27hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Inflation will drop to 10% by December 2021' - not as long as Zimbabwe remains a Banana Republic
"The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) yesterday forecast annual inflation to plummet to less than 10% this year, driven by a good agricultural season, fiscal and financial sector stability," reported Bu...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:43hrs | 3 | by Nomusa Garikai
We have more heroes in 40 years than UK in 400 years - but not one stopped Zim going to the dogs, why
"President Emmerson Mnangagwa is the biggest thief," said Thomas Mapfumo in a facebook video circulating in the social media.Thomas Mapfumo, is a very talented Zimbabwean musician who has cons...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 20:38hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa's SONA was empty promises and murderous defence of status quo – antithesis of what nation dying for
"Mnangagwa ndiChomugore!" (Mnangagwa is Chomugore!) was my instinctive response to President Mnangagwa's State Of Nation Address (SONA) yesterday.Chomugore was a mean old man who would ask you...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 16:21hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Gloomsters betting on UK democracy failing will lose their shirts' - indeed, nak*d already
"I pay tribute to the fortitude and patience of my predecessor and her deep sense of public service, but in spite of all her efforts, it has become clear that there are pessimists at home and abroad w...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:12hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Civil servants get 40% pay rise (30% cut given 100% inflation), thin end of very thick hyperinflation wedge
"CIVIL servants yesterday started receiving a cushioning allowance while the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) convened a meeting to discuss an increment and other conditions of service for Go...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 06:39hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
PM May resigns over Brexit and sheds a tear – ED Pfee will shed buckets of crocodile tears but never ever resign
"Brexit means Brexit!" said British Prime Minister Theresa May when she took over from David Cameron in 2016. After three years of blundering from pillar to post, she has failed to deliver Brexit and ...Published: 24 May 2019 at 21:23hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Ncube explain 'how we will get to' Vision 2030 prosperity - What if we're heading for usual mass poverty, what then?
"Twenty Thirty Over the past year, there has been much talk about Vision 2030, our national growth strategy to transform Zimbabwe into a Prosperous and Empowered Upper Middle Income Society by the end...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 07:10hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
A letter to Mugabe that could have changed the course of Zimbabwe's history
An Eritrean diplomat friend sent the attached letter to me last night and I was blown away by how prophetic it was to Zimbabwe's situation, and how if Robert Mugabe had applied the advice given to him...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 15:22hrs | 6 | by An introduction by Hopewell Chin'ono
'Doctors' strike is over' First Lady Mnangagwa boasted - many more strikes coming, till husband steps down
Striking junior doctors have agreed to go back to work after meeting First Lady, Auxilia Mnangagwa. "Pavavona mai zvinhu zvafamba. Vati mama zvakaoma hazvo asi todzokera kubasa. Vati vachakamb...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 08:52hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'ED to surprise with prosperous 2019' argued Mavaza - insane to allow him to last another year in power
"ED will surprise Chamisa with a prosperous 2019," Dr Mavaza argued in Bulawayo24. Why wait! Why did ED fail to surprise the whole nation with a prosperous 2018?Mnangagwa was a senior ...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 08:39hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
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
Confronting ED dictatorship head-on: demand enlightened Gvt based on free elections – not next time, NOW
"England must move forward to a more enlightened form of government based on a true representation of a free people. Such an institution is known as a democracy!" These were the memorable words of Oli...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 14:07hrs | 6 | by Wilbert Mukori
'I will attract investors,' promised new Finance Minister - first resolve underlying illegitimacy issues
"I promise to do my best, I am a hard worker and I want to see Zimbabwe record strong and sustained growth. I also want to see creation of jobs and one of my major priorities would be to attract forei...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 07:27hrs | 5 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Zimbabwe is stable and prosperous!' is ED's interminable gabble as reality emerge from web of lies
"A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth," said Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's minister of propaganda.Goebbels has had many disciples who have subscri...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 15:52hrs | 3 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa rebufs Grace Mugabe's overtures
It has emerged that MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has rebuffed ousted former president Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace's overtures for the trio to work together - as the former first family fran...Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 15:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa snubs Mugabe, Grace
It has emerged that MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has rebuffed ousted former president Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace's overtures for the trio to work together - as the former first family fran...Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I will make Zimbabwe a middle-income by 2030,' ED promises - just deliver first free elections or shipping out
"Muromo hauzarurwi nerwizi!" (Nothing can stop those who talk too much, not even a flooded river!) so goes the Shona adage. When you are dictator who is not democratically accountable to anyone, t...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 11:36hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
'I heard your cry for freedom!' says Mnangagwa - how patronising; never had a voice, thanks to you
The white colonists controlled the country's radio and TV and most of the print media, the white regime constantly harassed the few newspapers and magazines that catering for black, so the only voices...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zim 'elections are done' before ballots are cast - after 38 years, it is incumbent on us to end the madness
Much as President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Junta regime would like the nation and the world at large to believe the 2018 Zimbabwe elections are a normal contestation; anyone with half a brain can se...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 22:18hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa's New York Times article was all hot air no substance - I'm dutifully embarrassed for him
I was both disappointed and ashamed to see President Mnangagwa make a complete fool of himself in his widely publicised, but wrongly named, article "Towards a new Zimbabwe." "In November, the ...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 05:50hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
'We have $98m instead of $146m for elections,' complains ZEC - proof ZEC is compromised and useless
Zimbabwe is in economic mess; with unemployment soaring to 90% plus, ¾ of our people living on US$1.00 or less, etc., etc.; because for the last 38 years the nation has been stuck with a regime that ...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 19:06hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
2018 is about wrestling veto from Zanu PF thugs - key question, do you have intelligence to see that
There is no doubt about it, the most valuable possession in man or beast is one's intelligence. Those who have the intelligence have thrived and prospered whilst those mentally challenged have struggl...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
First Lady joins philanthropist bandwagon; robbing the needy blind - her river of crocodile tears fooled me!
It is one thing when people like Bill Gates of Microsoft or Richard Branson of Virgin Planes and Trains, whose source of wealth has a traceable paper trail, become generous philanthropists. It is quit...Published: 18 Jan 2018 at 21:17hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
'We are stuck with ED,' says Cross - nonsense, only if MDC contest flawed elections again
Zimbabwe's curse is not only in having Zanu PF, a party of corrupt, vote rigging, coup staging and murderous thugs but to be stuck with the regime because we also have a corrupt, incompetent and utter...Published: 10 Jan 2018 at 06:30hrs | 6 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Seek ye first political kingdom' said Nkrumah - one thing Zanu PF tricking us into giving up
In his classical tale Animal Farm, George Orwell has the witty and sharp –shooter, the pig Squealer, telling the other animals black is white today and the exact opposite tomorrow and the latter bel...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Guramatunhu
2 000 attend launch of Mujuru Rainbow Coalition - 2 000 too many to be certified insane
"The train has arrived!" was the buzz phrase at the launched Mai Mujuru's Rainbow Coalition in Bulawayo.2 000 or so people attended the launch. 2 000 or so people too many, I would say. This i...Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 19:44hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Where is the justice in Grace's son getting $300k car paid for by 72.3% living on $1 or less a day
Grace Mugabe's son by her first husband, Russell Goreraza has just taken delivery of a Rolls Royce luxury car worth $300 000 and will soon be getting an Aston Martin to add to his collection, accordin...Published: 19 Sep 2017 at 15:58hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'Ideology is glue binding Mugabe and Zanu PF,' says Noyes - nonsense, it WAS loot
"Mugabe and the senior echelons of Zimbabwe's military share a nationalist liberation ideology wrought during the fight for independence from white rule during the 1960s and 1970s. Mugabe and ZANU-PF ...Published: 09 Aug 2017 at 22:06hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe buys 300 top cars for army chiefs
THE cash-strapped government has splashed millions of dollars on more than 300 top-of-the-range vehicles, which include Toyota Fortuners, Ford Rangers and Toyota Corollas to appease security bosses ah...Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 07:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The case for boycotting 2018 elections until reforms is even more compelling than 2013
The first and by far the most important reality in Zimbabwe today is that the country is in a real economic mess; unemployment has soared to 95%, millions now live in abject poverty - they type that k...Published: 22 Mar 2017 at 10:54hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe's band of loyalists dwindles
"OUTDATED, self-centred and power-hungry ruler."These are the unlikely yet hard-hitting words used by former Zanu-PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu to describe President Robert Mugabe last ye...Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 16:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BVS will stop 'multiple registrants' say ZEC - nonsense, system is only as good as operators
The biometric voting system (BVS) is not in itself going to stop the blatant vote rigging we have seen in past elections because the system is only as good as the people running it! "In ...Published: 01 Feb 2017 at 07:53hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Zimbabweans are cowards,'says T Mapfumo - paying with human lives for it
"I tend to agree with Malema. I think he gave a perfect description of us Zimbabweans, that we are a bunch of cowards. Cowards are not only in Zanu-PF, but the majority of us. Malema spoke the truth. ...Published: 29 Jan 2017 at 18:43hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe's claim to revive the economy is as hollow as the owl has horns
Ever since Zimbabwe attained her independence President Mugabe and his Zanu PF henchmen and thugs have ruled this country with an iron fist. Even with the overwhelming evidence that their economic pol...Published: 01 Dec 2016 at 23:59hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mugabe promised war vets $500k and/or prosperity only to deliver poverty
Financial Gazette columnist CZ's (satirizing he who must not be named, the satanic satyr Robert Gabriel Mugabe, totem Gushungo) latest contribution "I never promised any war vet US$500k Cdes" Bulawayo...Published: 18 Nov 2016 at 19:28hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Mutsvangwa, good you know war veterans will not get $500k, pity that is all you know!
When I read the article "War Vets $500,000 demands false, malicious, says Mutsvangwa" in Bulawayo24 and Khuluma Afrika I cheered, laughed and cried, not for joy but rather in disappointment and despai...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 06:33hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zim 'bereft of capacity to reform' said Reeler - street protest is no proof of cure
"Zimbabwe is a country in crisis," wrote Tony Reeler, "bereft of any capacity to reform – neither politically nor economically. This is common cause for all Zimbabweans, and a major reason for the c...Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 21:05hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Was the Zimbabwe guerrilla war of liberation worth it?
The article written by Tsolo Dube on Bulawayo24 asks a very painful but pertinent question: The War Veterans owe the Nation an Explanation: why they went to fight in the liberation of our country. Thi...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 11:49hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Ultimately street protests a demand for free vote - secured 1980 but denied soon thereafter
Now that the winds of change are growing stronger and blowing with a sense of direction and purpose we should not be surprised that this corrupt and tyrannical regime has responded by turning up t...Published: 16 Jul 2016 at 21:50hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Musewe becoming nightmare leader - always wittering about what we already know
The real quality visionary leader is he/she who knows where they are going and how to get there and can explain and inspire others to follow. They will lead from the front to help define the direc...Published: 07 Jun 2016 at 13:43hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'2013 elections were not rigged' says opposition
The key to Zimbabwe's economic recovery is via democratic political reform. The only reason why the latter has remained a mirage is because the opposition leaders who are supposed to delivery it are b...Published: 19 May 2016 at 22:58hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
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