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From Ramaphoria to Ramageddon
Many political observers have reacted with both "shock and awe" to the astounding performance of the Umkhonto we Sizwe Party in one of South Africa's most contested elections.Indeed, to borrow...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 15:01hrs | 2 | by Sipho Seepe
South Africa on the edge! National renewal needed urgently
WITH various leaders and commentators having suggested that things have gone horribly wrong in South Africa since Cyril Ramaphosa became president more than five years ago, to such an extent that the ...Published: 24 May 2023 at 17:18hrs | | by Thandisizwe Mgudlwa
Elvis Nyathi can't just die in vain
IN the aftermath of the gruesome murder of Zimbabwean man Elvis Nyathi (43) by vigilantes in Johannesburg's Diepsloot township, tough questions must be asked.Nyathi cannot die in vain. The tim...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 11:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Insurrection! Sounds like copy and paste United State America's 6th of January 2021 - a global circus!!
This is how low ANC has sunk to equate the last weeks violent events in South Africa as an insurrection. Again to term hungry population as criminals is a sign of a government that has lost authority ...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 22:02hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Jacob Zuma's jail case was a golden opportunity: a catalyst to real issues
Criminals have taken a golden opportunity to hide behind another criminal who disdained the nation's constitution he once presided. Chinua Achebe writes about corruption in Nigeria's early independenc...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 18:40hrs | 17 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mbeki criticises ANC and Cyril Ramaphosa's leadership
Political analyst Moeletsi Mbeki has criticised President Cyril Ramaphosa's leadership and the ANC's governance of the country.In an interview, Mbeki said with the government's deployment of t...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 19:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe judges take former Lesotho Army Commander head on
Zimbabwean judges Charles Hungwe, Moses Chinhengo and Tafuma Mtshiya are part of a group of foreign judges lending their expertise to the Lesotho government in its quest to try double-murder accused f...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 16:10hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation Director's Life in grave danger: Q & A Interview
The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) has had contact with the Director of the Dr Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation who is now in hiding and fears for his life. We put to him a co...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 16:46hrs | | by Thembani Dube
Dumiso Dabengwa defended
There is debate raging here on social media about what former Zipra commander and intelligence chief Dumiso Dabengwa has said. In short, Dabengwa said Mugabe and Zanu did not help the ANC and MK much ...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 13:04hrs | | by Dimisani Muleya
Former Army Commander, ex-defence minister opposes judge
Former Army Commander, ex-defence minister opposes Zimbabwe judgeZimbabwe's Justice Charles Hungwe is among five foreign judges facing rejection by Lesotho's murder-accused former Defence mini...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 15:11hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zim Judge to deal with army killings in Lesotho
Top judge Justice Charles Hungwe is in Lesotho as one of the foreign judges who will preside over the politically sensitive criminal cases involving politicians and members of Lesotho's army, police, ...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:35hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Maimane's money & monkey tricks
Last week the South African opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader, Mmusi Maimane handed a letter to the Zimbabwean embassy in that country requesting to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Digging to the roots of Maimane's stunts
Last week the South African opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader, Mmusi Maimane handed a letter to the Zimbabwean embassy in that country requesting to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 14:56hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zimbabwe oligarchy conundrum
Zimbabwe is full of drama that lacks focus. Have we been zombified by politics?Over the past two decades, former President Robert Mugabe was the problem. In November last year, the country bad...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:54hrs | 35 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Tsvangirai left an incomplete legacy
IN Morgan Tsvangirai's final journeys and last orders, there's something quintessentially Zimbabwean.He went to Johannesburg, the city with the largest concentration of Zimbabweans living abro...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 05:49hrs | | by Percy Zvomuya
MDC Alliance to craft economic rescue plan
THE Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC Alliance has begun gathering its policy experts to craft an alternative economic rescue plan for Zimbabwe, which they believe will remove the country from its quagmire on...Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Al Jazeera highlight: 'Julius vs The ANC'
On 26 April 2017, Julius vs the ANC will broadcast South Africa's political turmoil to more than 310 million households in over 100 countries. Starting with the police killing of 34 strik...Published: 10 Apr 2017 at 10:11hrs | | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
Morgan Tsvangirai cannot do it alone: a growing need for a united opposition party
As motherland plunges into a social and political unknown, the outright solution for Zimbabwe remains within the parameters and influence of Morgan Tsvangirai. The leader of the MDC-T has reached his ...Published: 16 Nov 2016 at 10:06hrs | | by Tapiwa Diamond Chadya
'Mbeki would blame even the drought on the ANC'
Former president Thabo Mbeki's brother, Moeletsi Mbeki, would even blame the drought on the ANC, said the party's spokesperson, Zizi Kodwa.Kodwa was responding to a recent statement by Mbe...Published: 16 Jun 2016 at 16:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'White people do not control SA economy,' claims Mbeki
Cape Town – White people do not control the economy of South Africa, that is a myth, analyst Moeletsi Mbeki said on Saturday.Political economist Mbeki, former IEC head Brigalia Bam and City ...Published: 15 May 2016 at 12:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mbeki sues Mail & Guardian for R20 million
SOUTH AFRICA - Political analyst and brother of former president Thabo Mbeki, Moeletsi Mbeki, is claiming R20 million from the Mail & Guardian newspaper following two articles he said were "wrongf...Published: 12 Sep 2015 at 14:30hrs | | by Zelda Venter | Pretoria News |
Zimbabwe bars Zambian opposition leader
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's government has reportedly blocked Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilemba from coming into the country and address the local opposition MDC Renewal Team party's ina...Published: 10 Sep 2015 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mbeki must stop bootlicking
EDITOR,Recent utterances attributed to Moeletsi Mbeki against President Robert Mugabe require that he be told to stop licking the undressed booties of his white South African godfathers and pl...Published: 27 May 2015 at 08:59hrs | | by Tapfumaneyi K Manzira
Moeletsi Mbeki's think tank could be a project of westerners
EDITOR,I could not believe it when I read an article in one of our local dailies where a Moeletsi Mbeki, who is said to be a deputy chairman of an independent think tank, South African Instit...Published: 25 May 2015 at 09:40hrs | | by Chido Chikuni
Mbeki equates Mugabe to Nkurunzinza
Moeletsi Mbeki, a renowed South African political analyst yesterday said that President Robert Mugabe has been described as one of Africa's worst leaders and equated to Burundi's leader Pierre Nk...Published: 21 May 2015 at 10:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mbeki's mother dies
Johannesburg - Former South Africa president Thabo Mbeki's 98-year-old mother Epainette has died, the SABC reported on Saturday.The Mbeki family confirmed that Epainette had died at a private...Published: 07 Jun 2014 at 08:34hrs | | by Sapa
As discontent with the ANC increases, is the EFF a sober alternative?
Until recently, South Africa lay claim to the title of Africa's biggest economy, being the beacon of its former President Thabo Mbeki's vision of an African renaissance. Two decades post independe...Published: 22 Apr 2014 at 08:45hrs | | by Perry Munzwembiri
Africa's Income Inequalities: The reality of a 'A Few Big Men'
Economic inequality has dominated international economic debate recently, and with good reason. Developmental charity organisation Oxfam International made headlines not too long ago with its repo...Published: 08 Feb 2014 at 11:26hrs | | by Perry Munzwembiri
Tsvangirai gets his third and final chance to dethrone Mugabe
Harare - On Wednesday Morgan Tsvangirai gets his third opportunity to dethrone Zimbabwe's veteran leader Robert Mugabe as president.It may very well be the last chance for the bricklay...Published: 31 Jul 2013 at 04:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tsvangirai a thorn in Mugabe's side
This Wednesday Morgan Tsvangirai will get his third crack at dethroning veteran Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe.It may be his last.In 14 years at the helm of the Movement for Democrat...Published: 29 Jul 2013 at 05:58hrs | | by AFP
ANC will lose power - Mbeki
Stellenbosch - The African National Congress will not rule South Africa two or three decades from now, entrepreneur and analyst Moeletsi Mbeki said on Friday."South Africa, politically, is act...Published: 13 May 2012 at 12:36hrs | | by Sapa
Tough times lie ahead for Zuma and ANC
South Africa's "Sunday Times" reported on Sunday, March 25 2012, "Phosa warns of Arab Spring in SA". This year is South Africa's ruling ANC's presidential year. In the build-up to the Conference in...Published: 30 Mar 2012 at 05:43hrs | 1 | by Udo W. Froese
Mbeki behind Cope policy - WikiLeaks
A “secret” US diplomatic cable claims former president Thabo Mbeki was directly involved in drafting the Congress of the People’s (Cope) domestic ...Published: 13 Jan 2011 at 12:07hrs | | by News24
WikiLeaks: SA based
A BLOODLESS coup was planned to remove Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president with the help of pressure from the UN secretary general, according to classified US documents.A group of e...Published: 09 Dec 2010 at 11:07hrs | | by David Smith I Guardian
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