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ANC's long fight for SA democracy inspiration for Zimbabweans never to give up on struggle for freedom
The African National Congress (ANC) yesterday celebrated its 109th anniversary - being the oldest political party on the continent - yet, the fact that South Africa was the last country to attain its ...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 10:30hrs | 672 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Will true Zimbabwe liberation heroes always be 'unknown soldiers' whilst ruling elite over-glorified for sitting pretty in Mozam
If ever there was anyone still harboring inexplicable and incomprehensible doubts regarding the grossly opportunistic, selfish, and self-conceited dark cloud hanging over Zimbabwe's ruling elite, one ...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 09:33hrs | 888 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What Zanu-PF would do as an opposition – Part 1
What would the Zimbabwean government, ruling Zanu-PF party, or their perennial supporters, say of me if I were to declare: "In terms of our economy, and citizens' wellbeing, and if you go anywhere in ...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:43hrs | 160 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zim govt preparedness for Chalane proves was negligent with Cyclone Idai and should be held responsible for deaths
There is a popular local adage, "Mhosva hairovi" - which, loosely translated means that no crime goes unanswerable - that I keep hearing in my mind, as I watch, with amazement, the seemingly swift res...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 07:40hrs | 365 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Indeed, God is with Zimbabwe, as He protects us from parasitic abusive regime
As much as I am not against the annual day of prayer for Zimbabwe (which, is being held today in Bulawayo) - as, indeed, my daily earnest and prayers are always for a better life for all Zimbabweans -...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 09:38hrs | 535 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
President pleads Int'l Community to donate US$250 million to WFP-Zim emergency operation
Emej Zimbabwe (Economic Movement for Equality and Justice) party President, Maxwell Teedzai has pleaded the international community including the U.S., U.K and Russia to donate US$250 million to suppo...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 07:20hrs | 220 | by Tomorrow Musandipedza
So, did ED also 'disparage' Zimbabwe, and sound like a 'nefarious detractor'?
What would the Zimbabwe government, ruling ZANU PF party, or their perennial supporters, say of me if I were to declare, "In terms of our economy, and citizens' wellbeing, and if you go anywhere in Zi...Published: 25 Dec 2020 at 17:33hrs | 1282 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Soldiers severely tortured 2 men while praying on mountain
TWO Harare men were recently severely tortured by soldiers while praying on a "prayer mountain".According to Takudzwanashe Mudenga, he and a friend Perfect Khumalo on 13 December went to a mou...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 06:44hrs | 1094 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa - a true hero who, even on his sickbed, urged me to continue struggle for justice and better life for all Zimbabweans
If ever I was to be asked my definition of a hero, without any hesitation or faltering, I would sum it up in only two words - "Dumiso Dabengwa", as that name is the personification and epitome of ever...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 16:48hrs | 1002 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Ubuntu/Hunhu is misplaced in African societies: Give me signs of...?
I should be excused once more for critiquing African values or should I say the African philosophy of humanism – Ubuntu/Hunhu. There are no traces of this noble philosophy in our culture: instead, w...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 13:32hrs | 966 | by Nomazulu Thata
A visit to cyclone Idai victims with Jacob Ngarivhume
When Cyclone Idai struck Chimanimani and other areas in March 2019, it left a trail of destruction. To this day, thousands remain unaccounted for. Livelihoods were negatively affected by both loss of ...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 21:35hrs | 640 | by The 31st July Protests Correspondent
Female Judge fighting a merciless Zanu PF regime: worse than that of Ian Douglas Smith!
Justice Erica Ndewere is alone, fighting the evil regime of Mnangagwa's Zanu, worse than that of Smith's UDI. There is not a single women's organisation fighting on her side to give her emotional assi...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 23:24hrs | 3116 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe is our only home
Gogo Chapo moved up and down the whole night checking on her sons Enock and John who were recuperating at their respective homes after a thorough beating by the settler forces. The cat had com...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:18hrs | 1296 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
Before the July 30 elections in 2018, MDC Alliance's swashbuckling and technophile public relations machine nourishingly fed us the optics of what we were told were the makings of a political tsunami ...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:26hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Civil society not the ones massacred during Gukurahundi - Zimbabwe regime insincerity an insult to genocide victims
What would be your reaction if I were to tell you that the British government was engaging various Zimbabwe civil society organizations - let us say, the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC), or Zimbab...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 08:48hrs | 767 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why should Zimbabweans not open ZANU PF inflicted wounds, but freely open Rhodesian caused wounds?
As much as the highly emotive Gukurahundi genocide has never ceased to be one of the most central issues to grip Zimbabwe for the past four decades - being indisputably the darkest blot on this countr...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 18:58hrs | 2057 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Dear SADC, if you genuinely love your ZANU PF comrades, please advise them that evil never ends well!
If there is one single conspicuous thing that seriously worries me about SADC (Southern Africa Development Community), more than anything else - it is the apparently fake, insincere, and totally stage...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 11:54hrs | 1809 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe needs to stop justifying repression
ON August 14, 2020,Southern Africa Development Community's organ on politics, defence and security co-operation's virtual meeting was an eyeopener, and had one major takeaway for the people of Zimbabw...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 21:35hrs | 186 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe only country in SADC hallucinating about 'asymmetric warfare' and 'dark forces', and should stop justifying repression
Yesterday's (14 August 2020) Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation virtual meeting was an eye-opener, and had one major takeaway for the peop...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 09:04hrs | 1881 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Can Zimbabwean Christians and Church leaders honestly not see the regime's evil ways - why are they silent?
As a devout Christian, there is one thing that I have never been able to wrap my mind around - that is, can most Christians and Church leaders in Zimbabwe honestly tell me that they can not see the ba...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 16:13hrs | 748 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
GNU best way out of Zimbabwe crisis
UNITED Kingdom-based lawyer and blogger Alex Magaisa last month published a list of beneficiaries of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) farm mechanisation programme, that included cabinet ministers, Z...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:06hrs | 2322 | by Staff reporter
Oppah Muchinguri not Covid-19 positive
ZANU-PF National Chairperson, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, has not tested positive for Covid-19 as suggested by some unscrupulous people on various social media platforms, the party has said. In ...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:06hrs | 732 | by Staff reporter
A passport is a privilege in Zimbabwe
I goT my current passport in 2016, three years after the election that ended the government of National Unity. This was also the year the government introduced bond coins and bond notes, and foreign c...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:29hrs | 813 | by Kudzai Mubaiwa
'Mthwakazi nation, not mourning the Zimbabwean terrorist Perrence Shiri'
Today Zimbabwe happens to be grieving after the sudden death through the deadly Corona Virus, of the so-called "Black Jesus" of the 1980s. A self-proclaimed 'Jesus' figure during the 5th brigade opera...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 19:57hrs | 2805 | by Velile D Moyo
Why I am standing with Hopewell Chin'ono
THE harsh treatment of journalist hopewell Chin'ono has shown the extent to which President Emmerson Mnangagwa can go to protect those robbing future generations of their wealth through unbridled corr...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:13hrs | 1362 | by Obey Manayiti
MDC an opposition party or tool of the West?
When a Republican Ronald Regan was still president of the United States back in 1986, his predecessor, then former president of the US, Jimmy Carter a Democrat visited Zimbabwe to meet local bankers t...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 08:23hrs | 1576 | by Prosperity Mzila
The 'witchcraft' of Nehanda's statue
There is nothing that Bishop Lazarus finds as nauseatingly revolting as the holier-than-thou brigade.Yes, those low-lives that seemingly have the uncanny ability of seeing past the girthy logs...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:35hrs | 702 | by Bishop Lazarus
Who is an opportunist between Chamisa and Mwonzora?
Mwonzora has been labelled as an opportunist by Chamisa supporters on Whatsapp, Twitter and Facebook platforms but nobody has ever tried to define or explain what is meant by the word opportunist. In ...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:09hrs | 2595 | by Etiwel Mutero
Rhodies wanted Gagisa for a war trophy
I first met Stanley Nleya (Elish Gagisa), who died in Bulawayo on 16 June and was buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare on Wednesday last week, at Morogoro in Tanzania in 1969.I had tra...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:27hrs | 330 | by Retired Brig-Gen Mazinyane
'Now is the time to liberate ourselves' - Why long wait? New Dotito puppy tale of the unexpected
Zimbabwe's corrupt and incompetent politicians, right across the political divide, take the Zimbabwean electorate for fools! It was only after Joice Mujuru was booted out; "baby dumped", as Gr...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 20:08hrs | 1985 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa warns his corrupt aides
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday warned key figures in his government involved in corruption that they would be dealt with mercilessly, the Daily News reports.This comes as several senio...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:17hrs | 1562 | by Staff reporter
MDC bulls have locked horns, they will fight to death - no glory for either much less for nation, 'Shaisano!'
Now that the MDC bulls have locked horns, there is no stopping the fight! There is death for both bulls, no glory! "Shaisano!" as one would say in Shona. Ever since the Supreme Court jud...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 13:10hrs | 2089 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabweans should stand up against parasitic sadistic ZANU-PF regime
It has never been doubtful, nor debatable, that the Zimbabwe regime is one made out of some of the most soulless, ruthless, and ungodly people on the face of the planet - who have no qualms at all in ...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 19:30hrs | 469 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Dr. Edison Zvobgo abolished lobola Mr Ziyambi: it has become commodified livestock with variable price tag!
It should never escape me to comment on what Justice Minister Ziyambi previously said about lobola in our diverse cultures. Talking about lobola nowadays, almost every society in Zimbabwe upholds trad...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 18:50hrs | 3463 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabweans should pray and fast to be delivered from evil regime that has refused to turn away from its wicked ways
If there is anything I find most detestable and repulsive than everything else on this planet, is the purposeful blaspheming of the name of our Almighty Jehovah, in the fulfilment of shallow, narrow-m...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 13:22hrs | 1016 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'You have pinned my neck down. I can't breathe!': The spine-chilling cry of Matabeleland
The sad narrative of underdevelopment in the generality of Matabeleland is a horrendous and unattractive delineation of the unceasing marginalisation of the region since the primitive and callous deth...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 08:00hrs | 738 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Americans' brave struggle for justice, in the face of state brutality, should inspire oppressed people of Zimbabwe
It is so easy for a perpetually oppressed, subjugated, and choked people to give up their struggle for justice, freedom, and equality - in the face of ever-growing brutality and brazen abuse of their ...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 13:59hrs | 970 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Christians betraying Jesus by selling out oppressed Zimbabweans to tyrannical regime
As the Novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) sweeps through the world in general, and Zimbabwe in particular, one can not fail to witness the amazing phenomena of Christians - especially, musicians and...Published: 27 May 2020 at 20:10hrs | 530 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Spare a thought for the orphan this winter
Very soon some orphans, lonely widows and the neglected elderly will be shivering like reeds in flooded rivers because of the cold. It is that time of the year when those in better situations should s...Published: 25 May 2020 at 07:43hrs | 152 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Go well true blue Ndebele warrior
I AM very sorry to learn about the death of Absolom Sikhosana, who I got to know quite well in my formative years in Bulawayo during the late 1950s right through the 1960s.Although he was abou...Published: 19 May 2020 at 07:50hrs | 971 | by Muchadeyi A Masubda
Covid-19: An alliance of the opposites
Unfolding world developments suggest that times of pandemic are also fertile epistemological moments. Epistemological moments are those times in life when new knowledge and the discovery of new social...Published: 10 May 2020 at 07:33hrs | 147 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Gen Mujuru portrayal - valiant, but misdirected
George Shire, you are very right my revolutionary soul mate.There was a turning point way back in 1976 to 1977 at Chimoio in Mozambique. Robert Mugabe wrestled leadership.Clutching a f...Published: 03 May 2020 at 09:00hrs | 806 | by Amb Christopher Mutsvangwa
Zimbabwe false prophets and govt have blood of innocent congregants on their hands - and they know exactly what they do!
As the Christian world commemorates the gruesome killing of our sinless Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, about two thousands years ago, at the hands of that period's religious and political leaders - one...Published: 10 Apr 2020 at 10:05hrs | 964 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans still in bondage in 'Egypt' - we're still awaiting our Moses to deliver us
It is always common knowledge that whenever political leaders - with the help of their sidekicks, mouthpieces, and praise singers - resort to misinterpreting biblical scriptures to justify and defend ...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 12:17hrs | 846 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZimFirst taking Zimbabwe to the future
Zimbabwe has been groaning under the pains of corruption cronyism and relentless looting by the ZANU PF and its vampires. As Zimbabweans we hoped for a land of milk and honey managed by ourselves for ...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:47hrs | 311 | by Dr Maxwell Shumba ZimFirst President
Pool boss 'snookered' in love triangle
A BULAWAYO businessman reportedly confronted former Bulawayo Pool Association president and beat him up for allegedly having an affair with his wife of seven years, who is a well-known national pool p...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:25hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter
Why I wept bitterly when Robert Mugabe died!
I wept bitterly when Robert Mugabe died, leaving me discombobulated and severely pained. Indelible, agonizing, stabbing, chronic pain! Pain that eats into my liver, intestines and buttocks. The ...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 08:59hrs | 7170 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Jazz vanishes from Bulawayo
IN THE pre and post-independence era jazz music was part and parcel of Bulawayo's magnificent history. Back then, the inhabitants of Kontuthu Ziyathunqa could be easily identified by their insatiable ...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 07:02hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
The moment is ripe for Zimbabwe to deal with the elements of terrorism
Zimbabwe is the most peaceful and stable country in southern Africa. Over the past few months the wave of terrorism just emerged in Zimbabwe. Terrorist gang running under moniker name "Mashurungwi" st...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 06:23hrs | 291 | by Matora Hupile
Mnangagwa risks removal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa should reform sooner rather than later or face overthrow by angry citizens who have endured continued abuse under his regime, an international human rights defender has wa...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 18:10hrs | 8518 | by newzimbabwe
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