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How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 2468 | by Samantha Power
Zimbabwe now a Vampire State
A Vampire State is a country where anyone who gets to be the president ends up with much more wealth than before s/he became president. On the other hand the poor and working class are always left beh...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 18:54hrs | 1120 | by Sam Wezhira
Indeed, the US never been paragon of democracy, but laughable that a worse tyranny would dare comment
As much as my health is not well today, and, would have preferred staying far away from the pen, the most recent outbursts and ranting by the perennially and inherently unrepentant brutal, barbaric an...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 13:19hrs | 586 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
US wasting millions on Zimbabwe election process - Report
THE United States (US) Senate has predicted Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mngangagwa, would win the 2023 presidential election despite Washington pouring in millions of dollars to democratise the...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:30hrs | 852 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'worse-than-Mugabe', says US lawmaker
THE US, through its US Agency for International Development (USAID), is spending US$10 million in efforts to improve Zimbabwe's political process and these include supporting non-governmental organisa...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 07:15hrs | 1457 | by Staff reporter
How South Africa can nudge Zimbabwe toward stability
What's new? As Zimbabwe's political and economic crises worsen, South Africa is moving beyond its policy of "quiet diplomacy" with its northern neighbour and applying more pressure on Harare to open...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 1935 | by crisisgroup
Indeed, let's tell our own true African story, including the brutality we have suffered under our 'liberators'
It was with great delight and jubilation when I learnt about the establishment of an African museum, that would tell the true African story, from the perspective of Africans themselves - as that would...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 16:51hrs | 350 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa prepares to deploy soldiers in Mozambique?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is preparing to deploy soldiers to fight terrorism in neighbouring Mozambique with Zimbabwe Defence House officials being locked in meetings to analyse the risks of placin...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 08:37hrs | 4257 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance abduction skeletons tumble
A FORMER MDC official, Nqobizitha Khumalo, who is now with the People Democratic Party (PDP) has revealed how the opposition party has been faking abductions and causing terror in the country through ...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:03hrs | 863 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF seeks Biden indulgence on sanctions
THE Zanu-PF government has tasked Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo to approach the United States President-elect Joe Biden in a fresh bid to mend the frosty relations between Harare and Washingt...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:57hrs | 1203 | by Staff reporter
The mystery of the Mnangagwa gold mill
NOTHING is wrong when a president deals in gold, ordinarily. But, when you hear that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his family run a gold mill, you struggle to convince yourself that everything is r...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:35hrs | 3268 | by Tawanda Majoni
'MDC smuggling guns and training violent militias under Operation Light House'
State Security Minister Owen Mudha Ncube says the opposition MDC is smuggling guns into the country and training violent militias to overthrow the government. Speaking at a press conference on...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 16:48hrs | 2768 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's MDC reject claims it is training militias in Serbia, Moldova
The MDC Alliance has rejected Zanu-PF attempts to link the party to the shooting death of a soldier in Chivhu last week, and claims that Zimbabwe's main opposition party is training insurgents in Serb...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 21:14hrs | 3622 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi can only be resolved with the victims
The Gukurahundi sanitisation project fronted by Jenni Williams and her cabal is a dismal failure except for its obscenity and vulgarity of holding vile celebrations in Bhalagwe - a scene of heinous cr...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 23:04hrs | 1062 | by Lizwelethu Dube
It's not an offence to advocate for regime change
EAR Mr President,A few hours ago, I was just going through articles that I wrote over the past years having embarked on this very long, torrid and perilous journey in 1989 when I started contr...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:12hrs | 777 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe regime should stop victimizing innocent activists for ZANU PF's own 'illegal regime change' tendencies
A few hours ago, I was just going through articles that I had written over the past years - having embarked on this very long, torrid, and perilous journey in 1989, in Form Three, when I started contr...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 20:14hrs | 832 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Kidnapping of Ivorian Civil Society Coalition President, Edith Gbal condemned
The International Coalition Against the Coronavirus and other Pandemics for African Development, CICC-DA, has condemned the kidnapping of the President of the Ivorian Civil Society Coalition, Pulchér...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 09:40hrs | 1130 | by Stephen Jakes
America slaps notorious African army General with stiff sanctions
United States of America has responded to a global call by the United Nations for all UN member states to implement sanctions on Bi Sidi Souleman who leads the Central African Republic (CAR)-based mil...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 19:42hrs | 3248 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe headed for upheaval, report says
WITH security forces having seized control of economic and financial policy at a time of shrinking GDP and skyrocketing inflation, Zimbabwe is facing its worst crisis in more than a decade.Bas...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:23hrs | 16875 | by Elliot Smith
Zanu-PF schools inspector terrorising teachers
A ZAKA schools inspector, Lylletty Aleta Makomeke, who is also Zanu-PF councillor for Masvingo Rural District Council (RDC) ward 5, has been accused of terrorising teachers for the past two years....Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:29hrs | 2743 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces a people-powered change
Emmerson Mnangagwa told us the voice of the people is the voice of God. He didn't listen to either. Now he faces a people's power movement.This article was first published by ...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 22:50hrs | 11275 | by Siphosami Malunga
Govt dismisses claims of ZDF deployment in Mozambique
Government has dismissed allegations by some opposition elements that it has deployed troops to Mozambique to help its eastern neighbour crush an Islamist insurgency in the Cabo Delgado region that ha...Published: 05 May 2020 at 08:18hrs | 822 | by Christopher Makaza
Mnangagwa heads to Mozambique after government kills 129 people
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's is expected to meet Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi after Mozambican contract killers gunned down 129 extremist Islamic rebels. According to reports Nyus...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 14:22hrs | 11149 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The illegality of the illegal Chamisa
The words of Hopwel Chingono in 2018 are true today as they were then. Hopwell wrote with all his brains in one place, when he was guarded by reason and common sense unfortunately Chingono now has pac...Published: 14 Apr 2020 at 11:57hrs | 3353 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Machete gangsters go underground
Hundreds of militias in the gold mining sector who were responsible for waves of terror nationwide have significantly retreated after a recent police clampdown.The militias were notorious for ...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:41hrs | 853 | by Staff reporter
Anselem Sanyatwe and Owen Ncube are slapped by US sanctions
Dear Editor, The warlords in power are complaining about being held accountable for their despicable acts of state-sponsored terrorism against defenceless Zimbabweans. It's amazing how they do...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 10:40hrs | 1150 | by Bigboy Sibanda
A long wait to freedom
The road to political , economic and democratic space in Zimbabwe has never been so easy and rosy.When the opposition labour party MDC was formed in 1999 following a spate of poor economic per...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 08:55hrs | 561 | by Leonard Koni
'We will not become part of any efforts to light a fire' - Pakistan reacts to US, Iran conflict
Pakistan's foreign minister yesterday insisted that the country would not be dragged into any conflict between the US and Iran as he urged both sides to lower tensions following the killing of Iranian...Published: 06 Jan 2020 at 21:42hrs | 3431 | by News24
MaShurugwi menace poses danger to Zimbabwe
OUTSPOKEN Member of Parliament for Norton Temba Mliswa once called for decisive action against marauding criminals going by the moniker MaShurugwi who are unleashing untold violence in mining communit...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 11:34hrs | 1841 | by By Toby Sithole
POEM: The merciless militias
They were dinning in their happy and humble way When they heard the heavy tread of their boots The militias marched into the hut, and did damage They trod on the elderly bodies of me...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 05:20hrs | 569 | by Ndaba Sibanda
MDC mourns political violence victim
The MDC Mashonaland East province has been plunged into mourning following the death of party stalwart Obed Pindu Muchabaiwa who died at Marondera Provincial Hospital on Sunday at the age of 81....Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 11:08hrs | 1823 | by Staff reporter
REWIND: Mugabe: A good candidate for Egyptation
I am still looking and searching for the vocabulary and diction with which to name and describe what I saw in Bhengazi. After what I saw, I believe that God is the people and that the people are God. ...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 20:32hrs | 1226 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Mnangagwa's Politburo, Youths League slam abductions
The ZANU-PF Politburo yesterday criticised the alleged kidnapping of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association acting president Dr Peter Magombeyi over the weekend, and called for security agencies to int...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 06:37hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance behind abductions
The quest for power should never ever replace our humanness and the inherent spirit of Ubuntu that is the hallmark of our people, either in their deeds or spirit. Such virtues that are found in Zimbab...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 06:35hrs | 1737 | by Pupurai Togarepi
A too-comfortable end for Mugabe
"Peace has come to Zimbabwe/Third World's right on the one/Now's the time for celebration/ ‘Cause we've only just begun." So sings Stevie Wonder in Master Blaster, his 1980 hit single. And he wa...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 06:43hrs | 303 | by Jason L Riley
Dear Mr President Mnangagwa
Dear Emmerson,I am writing this in response to your call on Zimbabweans to cherish the peace we are enjoying as you addressed members of the Defence forces.I would to like to bring to your...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 22:41hrs | 2132 | by AT Kadada
Zimbabwean mine worker kidnapped in DRC
A Zimbabwean man employed by a Canadian gold mining firm in the Democratic Republic of Congo was last Friday morning kidnapped by armed bandits in the wartorn country.A DRC army spokesperson, ...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:21hrs | 830 | by Staff repoirter
'Grace Mugabe instructed the shutdown of internet in Zimbabwe'
Former First Lady Grace Mugabe instructed the then Minister of Cyber Security Patrick Chinamasa to shutdown social media during the height of the bloody military coup in November 2017.Hagiogra...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 14:05hrs | 11233 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'War Lords to take over Zimbabwe'
Zimbabwe will soon be run by War Lords who will drive the country to the level where Somalia is, political analysts have said. South Africa based political analyst Fortune Mlalazi said the lea...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 10:17hrs | 27296 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC Alliance declare war on Mthwakazi
There are licked audios and messages from the MDC Bulawayo group which are in bad taste. In one of the audios, a woman is heard calling upon all MDC members to meet at Bulawayo high court tomorrow at ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:45hrs | 5991 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Joint police, army operation to flush out illegal miners raises stink
The police and army recently mounted a joint operation to flush out violent illegal miners throughout the country, but the officers have quickly seized the opportunity to make dirty money, it has been...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 09:10hrs | 1270 | by Staff reporter
Bravo to Chamisa and team MDC
Besides celebrating the High court dismissal of an appeal to interdict the about-to-start peoples congress in Gweru, we congradulate Advocate Nelson Chamisa for his courageous leadership against eleme...Published: 24 May 2019 at 21:22hrs | 4434 | by Benny Gudo
Illegal miners defy soldiers
Illegal mining continues unabated at one of Kwekwe's richest gold mines even after the government deployed soldiers to stop the marauding Zanu-PF-linked militias from looting the precious mineral....Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:25hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
The oldest profession is no profession
Reports of two members of the ZNA dying in Bindura at the hands of gold panners is very sad. Some got injured during the fracas in which machetes, knives and an assortment of weapons were used...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 09:00hrs | 1845 | by Tondorindo
Mnangagwa, Zanu-PF babysitting a time bomb
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his party, Zanu-PF, have a ticking bomb on their lap. And they look quite cozy with that.The so-called "mabhemba" wars - a group reference to violence involvin...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:11hrs | 1027 | by Tawanda Majoni
Machete terror gangs spreading mayhem in Mnangagwa's home province
Murder and violence are spreading in the mineral-rich Midlands - President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province - as armed militias reportedly sponsored by politicians wreak havoc with impunity....Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 09:02hrs | 2061 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's victory not free, not fair, not credible
When Zimbabwean soldiers shot civilians during riots against alleged election-rigging on August 1, 2018, many Zimbabweans were horrified - but they weren't surprised.The previous November, the...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:11hrs | 3033 | by Rahul Nagvekar
Slain MDC activist’s family living in fear
Family members of the late MDC activist, Blessing Toronga who was killed by suspected Zanu-PF militias during the January clampdown on protests against fuel price hikes, said they were being "terroris...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 07:22hrs | 844 | by Staff reporter
'Unite and politicians will jump' Linda Masarira tells Zimbabweans
Self-exiled MDC–T Spokesperson Linda Masarira has urged Zimbabweans to unite and combine their power in defining the kind of Zimbabwe they want instead of following what political leaders tell...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 07:51hrs | 3310 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa running out of options - and time
ZIMBABWE'S political chaos is a function of its economic crisis – and the economy is only getting worse. To all intents and purposes, Zimbabwe is broke.The government has so little income that i...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 08:40hrs | 4366 | by Simon Allison
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