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Mnangagwa should know that demonstrations at international events are nothing new
First of all, let's get one thing straight.There is a huge difference between a demonstration and a riot.I felt that I needed to clarify a misconception that, in my book, has been deli...Published: 02 Aug 2024 at 10:40hrs | 892 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe sends junior officer to US-Africa Command Conference
Defense chiefs drawn from 32 African nations, excluding Zimbabwe, are attending a two-day U.S Africa Command conference in Gaborone, Botswana, focusing on the security situation on the continent....Published: 26 Jun 2024 at 07:36hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Nigerian cleric prophecies Mnangagwa victory, says opposition wasting their money
NIGERIAN cleric Primate Elijah Ayodele, who is the leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, has issued prophecies on the presidential elections of Zimbabwe, Central African Republic (CAR) and Sout...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 06:35hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
The greatest unpatriotism is keeping quiet when ruling elite destroys Zimbabwe!
So, the Parliament of Zimbabwe has gone ahead, in spite of all the public outrage, into passing the draconian so-called 'Patriotic Bill'.I should say that there was nothing particularly surpri...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 10:47hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Zimbabwe now a banana republic, mafia State'
NewsDay (ND) reporter Lorraine Muromo recently had an interview with Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiCZ) chairperson Peter Mutasa (PM) on the country's human rights situation and the controversial Pri...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:55hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Nigel Chanakira, please leave politics to politicians
Nigel Chanakira, please leave politics to politicians-no single individual, group, or political party can fight an entrenched dictator alone. One of the requirements of regime change is Unity of Oppos...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 14:44hrs | 17 | by Sam Wezhira
If Zimbabweans don't need to be reminded of painful history why does regime keep telling us about colonialism?
So, the Zimbabwe ruling establishment believes that the people of this country - especially, those who suffered the brunt of the regime's unimaginable cru...Published: 31 May 2022 at 19:48hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Despotic leaders to blame for Africa's economic morass
ON May 25, Zimbabwe joins the rest of the African continent in marking the 59th anniversary of Africa Day.The day has tremendous significance for Africans and was set aside to commemorate the ...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Please tell me the president is also paid in Zim dollars!
As a truly patriotic Zimbabwean - who earnestly cares about this country's development and fellow citizens' welfare and wellbeing - I make every effort in...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 20:33hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
By-elections Test Case
The upcoming by-elections are to be held on March 26. These involve both council and parliamentary seats. Some of these seats have become vacant due to the controversial recalls in the MDCs. Others ha...Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Zakhele Maphosa
The next President of Zimbabwe's name will start with a 'C'
Who will it be? If you think Chamisa will be the President of Zimbabwe before Chiwenga then you need to get your head examined immediately.In recent weeks, Chamisa vowed to wrestle power f...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 01:04hrs | 13 | by Sam Wezhira
Africa's acceptance of oppressive regimes fueling coups and terrorism
So, yet another African country has fallen to military rule! This time around - in apparent quick succession of one African government after another, particularly in the Western region - it wa...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 15:10hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa shuts down dissenting voices
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa once famously declared that he is soft as wool, but beneath that woolie facade lies a ruthless determination to either co-opt or coerce those he believes are a threat to h...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 19:00hrs | 13 | by Blessing Goronga
Chamisa needs our support now
I am not a member of MDC-Alliance. However, I will defend Chamisa with all my might. I consider Chamisa as my son and therefore he needs my support now.Chamisa is savagely attached on his way ...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 22:26hrs | 13 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnagagwa and Zanu-pf are defeatable
There is a despondency nationwide about the prospect of unseating a Zanu-PF government together with its leader ED Mnangagwa. It is sad that the ordinary man in the street now believes that Zanu-PF is...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Zakhele Maphosa
Zanu-PF has no permanent friends
THERE was a thought-provoking article in one of the weeklies encouraging the opposition MDC to safeguard documents containing human rights violations that occurred since 1999. The violations t...Published: 27 Aug 2021 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Vashe King
Outrage over Polad's new flashy cars
OPPOSITION parties accuse President Emmerson Mnangagwa of dolling out state-of-the-art vehicles to Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) principals as part of the ruling party, Zanu-PF's grand plan to cre...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 16:07hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Is it some kind of a curse to be a Zimbabwean?
"Is it some kind of a curse to be a Zimbabwean? Why does it appear as if we are always one of those unfortunate countries to be presided over by some of the worst leaders on the planet?"These ...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 15:37hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF using psychological warfare
IN psychology, the brain can be conditioned or swayed into thinking in a certain direction by suggestive prompts either negative or positive by striking nerves.We get coded or get tuned like a...Published: 20 May 2021 at 06:39hrs | 3 | by Zimbabwe Liberation Movement
If peaceful demonstrations in Zim 'banned' due to some violent elements, then ZANU PF should've been banned 40 years ago!
Traditionally, it has been known that the major characteristic of a fascist dictatorship has been the nefarious enactment of laws that were solely meant to stifle any freedom and democracy, thereby en...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 12:42hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What makes the people of Myanmar so different from Zimbabweans, who can't even fearlessly stand up for their own rights?
There is nothing that gives me a renewed hope for human survival, and a reinvigorated sense of pride in the ability of an oppressed and brutalized people to finally say, "enough is enough", pluck up t...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 13:46hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF won't give up power, says Mudzuri
TOP MDC-T official Elias Mudzuri Friday said President Emmerson Mnangagwa was fronting a Zanu-PF military government that would not relinquish power if it lost in national elections.Mudzuri wa...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Students lock-up Impala Car Rental
Placard-waving students on Thursday staged a demonstration outside an Impala Car Rental motor spares shop in central Harare, before chain-locking it.The students accused the company of being b...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 20:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere demands release of Takudzwa Ngaidzore from jail
Former Cabinet Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has demanded the immediate release of President of ZINASU, Takudzwa Ngadziore who is currently languish in prison after being arrested for staging a demonstr...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 13:55hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Parliament under a Zanu-PF government manufactured majority
Our parliament under a zanu-PF government manufactured majority just doesn't exist, making every election in Zimbabwe a joke. There is no judiciary to complement the arms of government and therefore t...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:21hrs | 1 | by Clemen Moyo
The Zimbabwe Parliament
Our parliament under a zanu pf government manufactured majority just doesn't exist, making every election in Zimbabwe a joke. There is no judiciary to complement the arms of government and therefore t...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 08:17hrs | 5 | by Clemen Moyo
Another military group attacks Mozambique
The armed resistance group Renamo Military Junta launched attacks on a Correios de Moçambique (Mozambique Post-Office) passenger bus on Sunday, Mozambique media has reported. According ...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 12:38hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa and the cult of mediocrity in Zimbabwe politics
ZIMBABWE has finally arrived at its Idi Amin moment in history.This is a moment where the vulgar, obscene and grotesque performances of leaders get tragically normalised. It is a true "gods mu...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:23hrs | 5 | by Dinizulu Macaphulana
How Jonathan Moyo survived Chiwenga's killers
Professor Jonathan Moyo's escape story from the then Commander Defense Forces Constantino Chiwenga's killers in November 2017 is a candidate for a Hollywood script. While Prof Moyo is ye...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 12:56hrs | 16 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'External MDC branches key in national politics'
MDC external branches have not been seen as key players in national politics because the diaspora vote has been shut out of local elections.However, Tawanda Dzvokora (TD), chairperson of the U...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 14:28hrs | 1 | by Staff repirter
MDC Youths rally behind Job Sikhala
The MDC Youth Assembly is riled by the state and ZANU PF's overtures to flagrantly and wantonly disregard the right to freedom of expression through the ill thought move to charge MDC National Vice Ch...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 10:28hrs | 1 | by Stephen Sarkozy Chuma
Machete wielding gangs terrorize villagers in Zvishavane
The 2008 violence that saw most rural Zimbabweans decapitated and maimed by Zanu-PF militia is being relieved in rural and urbanZvishavane and Shurugwi in the Midlands Province following a new wave of...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 18:36hrs | 3 | by MakhoPrecious Moyo
Matabeleland - Zimbabwe border to be redrawn with blood
It must be unequivocally stated that Matabeleland is our motherland. We we will never seek Mnangagwa or any other Shona supremacist's permission to restore her independence and sovereignty.On ...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 17:17hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
'Chefs seized farms, Grace got 16' - precursor economic meltdown, why blame sanctions
After decades of blaming the sanctions imposed by West for Zimbabwe's economic woes Mugabe stop doing so in 2016 after he admitted the country was swindled of US$15 billion in diamond revenue. Even he...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 19:05hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa wants a critical friend, not more praise worshippers
Always, there was something inherently evil about that dinner table, authority and truth-to-power. I shall come to that.My maternal grandfather's very name said it all … Ndabakayithethwa! (L...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:33hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye
'Mnangagwa's advisor is a CIO double agent'
One of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's key advisors Dr Shingi Munyeza is alleged to be a CIO spy who worked as a double agent during the run up to the bloody coup that ended 37 years of forme...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 11:41hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Light is shining at the end of the Zimbabwe tunnel
Today Zimbabwe reminded me why I think this is such an amazing place to live. I woke just after 5am, outside it was crisp, dew on the grass and the birds just waking up with me – a pair of Robins se...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:29hrs | 3 | by Eddie Cross
Undemocratic 'democrats'
Over the years, the US-backed and Western-sponsored opposition politics in our country has been in many ways a replay of Washington's mindless games that started soon after the declaration of the Amer...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 23:48hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafwarova
10 vie for MDC vice-presidency
JOSTLING for positions in the MDC has heightened with many high-ranking officials vying for senior positions ahead of the congress coming in two months' time.Almost 10 names have been thrown i...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'More Zimbabweans in exile under Mnangagwa than there were during Mugabe's rule'
MORE Zimbabweans have been driven into exile by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration than under his predecessor former President Robert Mugabe, an opposition activist has said.Promise...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:37hrs | 3 | by newzimbabwe
ZAPU Presidency Appalled by the violence and brutality
The Presidency of ZAPU unreservedly condemns the violence that has been going on in our country. It is an unacceptable abomination. We are dumfounded by the childish finger pointing and scapegoating. ...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 13:26hrs | 2 | by Mkhululi Zulu, ZAPU Presidential Spokesperson
Why Matabeles must not die for Zimbabwe
Matebeles do not owe Zimbabweans or Shona people anything. We are fade up with Zimbabwe's endless political problems. Zimbabweans/ Shona people must learn to fight their own battles from now on. As Ma...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 10:17hrs | 15 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwean authorities must restore internet connectivity
Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) is utterly dismayed by the Zimbabwean government who have cut and shut down internet service and connection in the country.The mother party is worr...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 10:48hrs | | by Iphithule Maphosa
Chiwenga's 'coup face' failed to intimidate fuel protesters
The fall of a military junta should not be a surprise. But what is astonishing in Zimbabwe is the speed at which the coup plotters have run into political problems that will surely end their rule....Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 10:05hrs | | by Israel Dube
It's time for government to resign - Zapu
Zanu-PF's socio-political bankrupcy has finally come out openly for all to see now. The economic lunacy that this government has created and is all out to perpetuate at all cost, renders the regime un...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 13:46hrs | 2 | by Iphithule Maphosa ZAPU National Spokesperson
The Pains and Effects of ZanuPF Lies
Maybe lies have succeeded somewhere but they can never produce permanent success unless acknowledged, confessed and their effects redressed at the necessary cost. This might sound meaningless but what...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 13:34hrs | 1 | by Mkhululi Zulu
Confused Mnangagwa must spare us our hardworking doctors
What a big joke that the junta led government has suspended our striking doctors. Does Mnangagwa and Chiwenga really think well?, these two guys might be in need of mental medical check ups. Suspendin...Published: 27 Dec 2018 at 18:23hrs | 1 | by Knowledge Hakata
Trump's govt piles more pressure on Mnangagwa
THE United States administration has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to deal with his government's economic mismanagement rather than blame the current economic mess on sanctions the global po...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 14:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zezurus fall from high positions as Karangas take over
Like bags of maize dropping from a speeding truck, Zezurus that have been occupying strategic positions during Mugabe era are now falling in numbers as Mnangagwa's Karanga take over and build their ow...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 07:34hrs | 4 | by Israel Dube, MLO Secretary for Information and Public Affairs
Linda Masarira roped in to counter Biti, Chamisa testimonies
Linda Masarira has just announced she will shortly be appearing before the Motlante Commission of Enquiry! No prizes for guessing her version of what transpired on the ill-fated August day. Masarira's...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 14:55hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
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