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What role have I played in the destruction of Zimbabwe?
For over two decades, Zimbabwe has been trapped in a seemingly endless economic crisis that has brought untold suffering to millions. With over 70% of the population living below the poverty d...Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 19:16hrs | 30890 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why buy a ZBC license when the broadcaster doesn't speak for suffering Zimbabweans?
The state-controlled broadcaster, the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), has published its radio and television licence fees. This was one of the most outrageous lists I have seen a long...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 12:34hrs | 532 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa laments suffering of pensioners
Former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has lamented the deteriorating living conditions of Zimbabwe's senior citizens, attributing their plight to persistent misgovernance. I...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 07:56hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ranks top on misgovernance
Zimbabwe has been highlighted for all the wrong reasons, with three research think-tanks ranking the country as the worst in governance, corruption, and human rights violations. A recent report by Wor...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 08:01hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
Please stop lying over Zimbabwe's SADC chairmanship!
To say I was shocked would be an understatement. I was dumbfounded. In fact, I was filled with indescribable revulsion!I came across a video of an address by an unnamed ruling ZANU PF ...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 20:42hrs | 1081 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Former MSU director case dismissed
A former director of the Graduate School of Business Leadership at Midlands State University (MSU), Mr. Alois Matongo, faced a legal setback in his attempt to claim US$160,000 in terminal benefits fro...Published: 05 Jul 2024 at 11:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Protesters across Kenya say 'Ruto must go!'
Kenyan riot police fired tear gas at protesters in Nairobi on Tuesday and demonstrations erupted in other cities across the country demanding the resignation of President William Ruto, following a wee...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 12:04hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
The death of coalitions
To drag out or not to drag Biden!What a disaster for the Democrats in United States elections!With little foresight or care, Democrats pitted a dead-man-come-to-life by the name of Joe...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:16hrs | 2 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
War vets pile pressure on Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) is under growing pressure from a section of war veterans, who say their fight is no longer about the welfare of neglected former liberation war fighters, but to...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:37hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
EU shuts door on Zimbabwe financing
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ambassador to Zimbabwe, Jobst von Kirchmann, says the bloc will not lend to the southern African country owing to arrears even if sanctions are lifted.The EU ambassador sai...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 05:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
There is no hope in Sadc
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, as the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) commemorates yet another annual day of solidarity with Zimbabwe, my sincere submissi...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 20:18hrs | | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
What's the sense in removing term limits for an 81-year-old president?
No one can deny that having a long life on earth is truly a blessing.It is especially so in a country as Zimbabwe - where the life expectancy is only 64.7 years, based on the 2022 Population a...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 23:30hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Chamisa has sold out'
The swearing-in ceremony of David Coltart as the new Mayor of Bulawayo was marred by tension and protests, with demonstrators criticizing Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa for ...Published: 12 Sep 2023 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mining sector grows about 10%
The Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development has said the latest ZimStat statistics show that the mining sector grew by 10.5% in 2022, up from 5.9% in 2...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 17:13hrs | 12 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF and its history of violence
ZIMBABWE'S ruling party subjugates the country's people so as to rule illegitimately and loot resources with impunity.This looting by individuals in Zanu-PF results in "unequal power and unequ...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 07:06hrs | | by Thandekile Moyo
Joshua Nkomo's undying legacy
THE 1st of July 2023 marks 24 years since the passing away of Zimbabwe's former Vice-President of Zimbabwe, Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo, after a long battle with cancer.Nko...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 09:09hrs | | by Taona Blessing Denhere
ANC to blame for immigration crisis, says Maimane
OUTSPOKEN South African opposition leader, Mmusi Maimane, says the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is to blame for the immigration crisis in that country by condoning Zanu-PF's bad govern...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 14:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere: Red herring, Chamisa's double
Becoming a political clichéGustave Flaubert of the 19th Century licentious novel, Madame Bovary, said this of language: "Language is indeed a machine that continually amplifies emotion."...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 17:46hrs | 1 | by @Jamwanda2 0n Saturday
Kasukuwere to split the votes
The Zimbabwean harmonised elections are around the corner. The date to hold the election has been announced and every serious political party is now gearing for this do or die election where a battle ...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 21:34hrs | 10 | by Leonard Koni
Analysts dismiss suggestion that Thokozani Khupe withdraw candidature against Mthuli Ncube
Professor Jonathan Moyo's recommendations that Dr Thokozani Khupe withdraw from running against Finance Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, as the latter has a better chance of developing Cowdray Park, ...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 07:10hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's son says 'It will be a big mistake to vote for Zanu-PF'
ZAPU leader, Sibangilizwe Nkomo, has criticised how Africa is divided, allowing imperial interests to divide the continent while misgovernance and abuse of human rights by post-independent governments...Published: 26 May 2023 at 17:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malema says Zimbabweans have let down Ngarivhume
SOUTH Africa's main opposition leader Julius Malema, has urged Zimbabweans to stand up against the harassment of pro-democracy activists following the jailing of opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa copying Smith's colonial handbook'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused of copying the late colonial leader Ian Smith's system of weaponising the law against critics."In fact, the methods used by the Smith regime on th...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Crisis Coalition slams secrecy around Mnangagwa, CSOs meeting over PVO Bill
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has described as unhelpful the secrecy surrounding last Friday's private meeting by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and a select group of Civil Society Organisations (...Published: 23 Mar 2023 at 19:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
What balance and fairness can one truly give a wicked cruel government?
As much there is always overwhelming acceptance and approval of my articles on social justice in Zimbabwe - now and again, there are, nonetheless, some who demand fairness and balance in my analysis....Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 18:53hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Don't be a dunderhead and vote them back,' says Chapman
DEMOCRATIC Union of Zimbabwe (DUZ) leader Robert Chapman has said Zimbabweans must not be dunderheads and vote the ruling party Zanu-PF back into power.Chapman also said the country has a fail...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 16:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans are serial plan B people!' Where is plan B if millions are in the dark and starving
"Zimbabwe did not become a failed state overnight. The collapse of the country happened over a period of decades, starting as early as the 1980s," wrote Malaika Mahlatsi in an article circulating in m...Published: 15 Dec 2022 at 10:01hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
An acid test for Zimbabwe's opposition parties
EVERY institution is bound by a code of conduct which helps an organisation to run professionally and within the parameters of operations.There are several kinds of codes of conduct which the ...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A clinical test for the opposition
Every institution is bound with the code of conduct which helps an organisation to run professionally and within the parameters of operations....Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 09:11hrs | | by Leonard Koni
ZANU PF has been in power for 42 years so let's not pretend as if we've new government!
I am always flabbergasted when listening to senior government officials in their attempts at convincing the citizenry that development cannot be expected to occur overnight, as the country was being b...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 12:43hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Beware of the folly of Trojan rulers!
Government, folly of mankind?Barbara W Tuchman is a prolific writer on politics as read through history. I enjoy her take on her subject.But she is American, western, itself an importa...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 18:07hrs | 1 | by on Saturday
Only a revolution not the ballot can remove Mnangagwa!
As President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa consolidates his grip on power, and openly creating parallel structures intended to entrench him as Zimbabwe's FĂ...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 18:03hrs | 1 | by Peace Marangwanda
'Mnangagwa-Masisi alliance bad for democracy'
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Botswana counterpart Mokgweetsi Masisi clearly have many things in common — the hounding of political foes out of the country and the silencing of cri...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 17:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt taking country back to Ian Smith era'
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) says the current Zanu-PF led government was taking the country back to the dark pre-independence period when the black majority was subjected to tough security laws...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Crisis in Zimbabwe coalition bemoans heroes
Crisis in Zimbabwe coalition bemoans the strides made by the heroes during the liberation struggle and what has been attained since independence as we cel...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 13:48hrs | | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Mnangagwa under fire over crackdown
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been accused of clamping down on critics and closing the democratic space ahead of the 2023 elections where he is facing stiff challenge from Citizens Coa...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean NGOs take Mnangagwa head-on
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC), a grouping of over 75 civic society groups, has threatened to organise large-scale protests in response to the persecution of human rights defenders.Th...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 08:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Is ED honestly proud of his five years in office?
All too often I encounter disturbing media reports of ordinary Zimbabweans being callously arrested and hauled before the courts for ostensibly "undermining the authority of/or insulting the president...Published: 12 Jul 2022 at 11:21hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Stop govt, Zanu-PF conflation
WHILE corruption and misgovernance have a bearing on the chaos at most parastatals, the main problem is plunder of money and other resources at these institutions by the ruling Zanu-PF party and fatca...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 06:58hrs | | by Mukunda Chitova
Zimbabwe is definitely open for looting!
For someone who has been around for close to half a century, and four decades of these under the governance (or rather, misgovernance) of the ZANU PF regime, I never for once believed the yarn of “r...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 06:37hrs | 14 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Walk the talk on reforms
Five years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa swept into power following a coup that toppled Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe is still stuck in the political and economic quagmire of the past two decades....Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's real fear over NGOs revealed
Zanu-PF has exposed its real reason behind the push for the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Bill, saying there is fear of a regime change plot backed by non-governmental groups, but legislators...Published: 14 May 2022 at 19:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zupco deal: The cost of corruption
THE Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco)'s monopoly on the public transport system has opened a can of worms amid reports that Parliament was blocked from making inquiries on the procurement, own...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF sets conditions for Chamisa talks
Zanu-PF yesterday set conditions for talks with opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa, saying he must first publicly distance himself from British politicians.Ad...Published: 04 May 2022 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa delivers a 'glowing' speech at the Independence Day celebrations
President Emmerson Mnangagwa delivered a 'glowing' speech at the Independence Day celebrations in Bulawayo, Monday, which showed a country that is on a recovery path, particularly under his administra...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 18:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's party has same fears of dirty tricks
ZIMBABWE'S opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa may have formed a new political party, but he is still facing the same old problems which some had hoped would end with ...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:00hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns chiefs against supporting the opposition
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday warned chiefs against supporting the opposition, saying traditional leaders must remain loyal to the ruling Zanu-PF party if they want to retain their positions....Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:27hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Nyarota launches book tonight
VETERAN journalist Geoffrey Nyarota will this evening launch his latest book titled The Honourable Minister, An Anatomy of Endemic Corruption at Royal Harare Golf Club.Nyarota's book is presen...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Money changers a product of misgovernance
IN his address at a Zanu-PF campaign rally in Marondera on Sunday, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga threatened to lock up and impose stiff jail terms on money changers.The Vice-President gl...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 05:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe NGOs unfazed by sanctions threats
CIVIC society organisations (CSOs) and opposition parties yesterday said they were not moved by Zanu-PF threats to slap them with local sanctions for criticising the ruling party and government....Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
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