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Mr. Mnangagwa, fighting for independence doesn’t give you the right to oppress us!
He never tires reminding us!Zimbabwe's independence was fought for in a protected liberation struggle where thousands of innocent lives were lost.It was never given on a silver platter...Published: 13 Apr 2024 at 16:28hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Ngidlaliswe amatope mina?
Reading Edward GibbonWhere is God bakithi?Edward Gibbon is no writer for easy readers. Yet he is so important to Britain's governing myth. No wonder why every British-born Prime Minist...Published: 14 Oct 2023 at 07:21hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
The difference between Mugabe and Mnangagwa
Based on pure analysis it can be argued that the difference between the late and former president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe and the incumbent and successor Emmerson Mnangagwa can be cited in the fact ...Published: 05 Aug 2023 at 22:22hrs | 8 | by Martin Stobart
Is Mnangagwa the most unpopular Zimbabwe leader since independence?
Not that Zimbabwe has had many presidents since attaining her independence from Britain in 1980, having known only three.The first, Canaan Sodindo Banana, was merely a ceremonial one. ...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 13:39hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Elections won't change anything as long as Zimbabweans don’t hold leaders accountable
Some people have asked why I appeared as though I was not particularly enthusiastic about the forthcoming harmonized elections in Zimbabwe.This deduction seems to have emanated from my apparen...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 16:12hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What do we have to show for Africa Day except traditional attire?
When the OAU (Organization for African Unity) was established on 25th May 1963, in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), the main objective of the founding fathers was the unity and solidarity of all the people Afr...Published: 26 May 2023 at 10:31hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
When the rich fight over the poor
A SLEEK Toyota Prado VX V8 off-road vehicle makes a rumbling sound along a gravel road as it negotiates its way into the poverty-stricken Chihota communal areas.A group of people, mainly Zanu-...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 17:06hrs | | by Jairos Saunyama
Zimbabwe in desperate need of national leaders not Mafia bosses and gang leaders!
It was the most heartbreaking sight - as images of a collapsed primary school in my home city of Kwekwe made the rounds across the country. In fact, the stab to my heart was made more excrucia...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:17hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
This and that with Mal'phosa: Zan'arcissists
We are in a forced relationship with a narcissistic government. They think they are the best. They think they are great and important. They think we can never survive without them. And they think we d...Published: 12 Mar 2023 at 16:05hrs | 3 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Zimbabwe in 2023: There is great disorder, chaos under the heavens
GEORGE Orwell wrote so much and so well that one day it became cause for a whole essay to explain to himself and the world why he wrote as such.In the essay of 1946, Why I Write, Orwell recoun...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 58 | by Dr William Jethro Mpofu
Third World Underdevelopment - a forced condition
Underdevelopment in Africa, Latin American and much of Asia is not a condition of being several centuries behind the various kinds of transformations experienced in the capitalist centre but a conditi...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Glorification of violence coming back to haunt Zimbabwean societies
Hardly a day passes without Zimbabweans encountering a horrific story of one incident of barbaric violence or another – be it in romantic relationships ...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 11:32hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
This and that with Mal'phosa: No, South Africa can never be another Zimbabwe
Finally, load 'shredding' is over, for now. Well, my workmate calls it so. She is a modern day Malaprop and does not care whether words she uses are appropriate or not. 'This morning poli...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 13:46hrs | 7 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Chibuku Cup exit deflates Dembare
SO, there won't be that glittering blue and white colour of Dynamos in the final of the Chibuku Super Cup this year, again.DeMbare are now starring at the grim prospect of finishing the season...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lightning rod
God's emissariesI have nothing against clerics or pastors; in fact my reverence for them is a euphemism for the abject fear I hold of being denied the side and place of comfort in the world yo...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:33hrs | | by Jamwanda
'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 10 | by Dumisani Muleya
Tech drifts that are changing the gaming business
In the previous ten years, the universe of betting has quickly advanced. This is expected essentially to the turn of events and development of the web. The ubiquity of web-based betting is obvious aro...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 16:34hrs | 11 | by Staff Writer
Sprouting shebeens rile Makokoba residents
MAKOKOBA residents in Bulawayo have raised concern over an increase in shebeens and drug peddling which they say could be behind a recent spike in criminal activities in the area.Makokoba high...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and dodgy Zanu-PF characters
WHEN Zanu-PF activist Marx Mupungu filed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application in June seeking to quash the High Court judgment by the three brave judges who had barred Chief Justice Malaba fr...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans need to alienate themselves from celebs that support the regime
For the last few years Zimbabwe has seen quite a rapid infestation of so called ‘celebs' and like with all celebrity culture, a lot of these people are famous for being famous, an example being peop...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 07:04hrs | 4 | by Deborah Harry
When Zambia had a Tsvangirai moment
Phew! What an eventful week it was, from the fall of Kabul to the Taliban and the fall of Edgar "Chagwa" Lungu to Hakainde Hichilema in Zambia.And we also had new Malawian President Dr Lazarus...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 07:47hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Suspected panners axe eight, kill one in Mabutweni
TWO men, suspected to be gold panners, ran amok axing eight people and killing one in the streets of Bulawayo's Mabutweni high density suburb, in a gruesome orgy of violence over US$2. Shepard...Published: 15 May 2021 at 09:41hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Fred Shava's criminal past clouds future
NEWLY-appointed Zimbabwean Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister Frederick Shava, who has an unsavoury dark and criminal past, has his work cut out for him.Shava replaced retired Lieute...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs a new crop of politicians, not these MDC - Zanu-PF criminals
As a nation, we can only blame ourselves for allowing these two criminals to capture the way we think as if our success as a nation is entirely dependent of these criminals. Both these two parties are...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 19:02hrs | 1 | by Knowledge Hakata
Diaspora men held at ransom by their wives
Man sitting on outdoor wooden stairwell, cupped hand wrapped around clenched hand, both hands held to mouth, a pained gaze" This is the everyday posture most men in the UK adopt under pressure from th...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 23:55hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavava
When 'skinning a live snake' is not working
SOON after Fortune Chasi was sworn in as Energy minister in May, he admitted that the country was in a rut. In spelling out his immediate plan to avert power shortages, Chasi vowed to skin a live snak...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:34hrs | | by Cliff Chiduku
Monetary policy statement, an admission of failure
On February 20, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor, John Mangudya, issued his monetary statement which contained both admissions of failure in the economy and a topsy-turvy aspiration for an immediate ...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 08:25hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
ShutDownZimbabwe: Where do we go from here?
When the heart is burdened, the spirit is broken, the soul feels encumbered, and the body is debilitated, making hope a mirage forever receding to the horizon. It is during such times that music becom...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 23:16hrs | | by Elliot Ziwira
Mnangagwa - the face of a pathetic coward!
Do we all remember when we little children, and we could not sleep with the light off - otherwise, we would start seeing monsters and ghosts that were not there!That shadow of that tree outsid...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 08:29hrs | 1 | by Taurai Pachena
Mnangagwa calls MPs to order
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on public servants, including legislators, to tighten their belts and stop making outrageous demands as the country goes through a lean restructuring spell....Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 21:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
What if witchcraft is our technology?
One of my aunts is a drama queen. She is bubbly and energetic, and a storyteller of note. Whenever she is around, we all find ourselves surrounding her and listening to tale after tale of her adventur...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 09:20hrs | 1 | by Thandekile Moyo
A timeline of how Zimbabwe lost its currency
Today, November 14, marks the 21st anniversary of "Black Friday", the day the Zimbabwe dollar crashed in 1997.We track the Zimdollar's collapse from that fateful November day, and the many des...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 15:10hrs | 2 | by newZwire with The Source
Truth the medicine for a sick nation
"Before a nation can get on with the routine task of nation building, it has to come to terms with its past" (Walter Wink).My family brought me up in Germany after World War I (1914-1918) and ...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:49hrs | | by Fr Oskar Wermter sj
Zimbabwe to splash over $20 million on top-of-the range vehicles for MPs
Treasury is set to splash over $20 million on top-of-the range vehicles for Members of Parliament and Senators in the ninth Parliament.This is at a time when government is struggling to mobili...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Coventry 'a mere swimmer'?
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, so says Murphy's law.Well, Murphy's law seems to following — nay, stalking — losing MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa.If ...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 07:55hrs | | by CONWAY TUTANI
Chamisa is not a factor in parliament, which is good
Since there are so many impious hands on Zimbabwe's internal affairs, so many hands challenging its sovereignty, I thought my opening paragraphs should address those meddlesome, self-righteous foreign...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 07:53hrs | | by Igomombe
Are revolutionaries real or just a bunch of oppressors? - Mthwakazi activist
Mthwakazi activist Hloniphani Ncube has questioned if the so called revolutionaries who liberated Zimbabwe from the colonial jaws are real or they are a bunch of oppressors bent on using liberation cr...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 08:11hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugamisa: The Mugabe-Chamisa Monster Is Real
I don't believe people are born monsters. I don't believe in pure good or pure evil. I believe people are driven to do bad things by evil temptations. One of those evil temptations is the lure of powe...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 11:51hrs | | by Knowledge Moyo
Biti wants UN to supervise elections to stop Zanu PF 'brutalising civilians' - he cannot resist Sirens' beguiling song
"I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that this is going to be a violent election," admitted Tendai Biti on Thursday.SADC leaders advised MDC leaders in June 2013 not to contest in that year'...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 17:37hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Gumbo petitioned over Zinara's $16 million 'snow' graders
Mabvuku-Tafara legislator James Maridadi has reignited debate about the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara)'s 80 motorised graders after petitioning Transport minister Joram Gumbo to expla...Published: 08 Feb 2018 at 10:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
We must stop this culture of bootlicking
Harare West MP Jessie Fungayi Majome has warned citizens and politicians to stop the bootlicking of leaders habits saying this has resulted to the creation of monsters.She said recently at the...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 11:31hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Appointing military men in government is normal
The appointment of the military personnel I government is not only peculiar to Zimbabwe. World over governments are filled with ex army officers and there is no one who complains about it.In p...Published: 25 Dec 2017 at 22:05hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa: The bloody end of crocodile politics
Concealed to many of us is that the real misfortunes of a true crocodile pursue Emmerson Mnangagwa and the politics that he represents. The crocodile tears over corruption and crime in Zimbabwe that h...Published: 19 Dec 2017 at 15:16hrs | 4 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Mugabe's hero worshippers' message to South Africans
Here's something about the continent of Africa I've been wrestling with for some time: a political leader can have tens of thousands of his citizens murdered and destroy his country's economy, but he ...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 08:42hrs | | by Max Du Preez
MLF does not support Mnangagwa's presidency
Mthwakazi Liberation Front has said they do not support the idea that former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa because he has a hand in the 20 000 people's killing in Matabeleland and Midlands in the ...Published: 18 Nov 2017 at 06:08hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
MDC-T, the worst corrupt party ZANU has ever produced
Mthwakazi Republic Party has claimed that the MDC-T is the worst corrupt party that Zanu PF has formed for Matabeleland people and the political parties have since started campaigning for the 2018 ele...Published: 22 Oct 2017 at 07:47hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Arrest monsters on the run
Monsters on the loose are rampaging through Zimbabwean society, trampling underfoot the confidence in Government by both the gullible and rational-minded citizens of our country all the while defaming...Published: 30 Sep 2017 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
My life is in danger - Priscila Misihairabwi-Mushonga
MDC Proportional representation house of Assembly member for Matabeleland South Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga has expressed fears that her life is in danger after her interview with the Zimpapers ra...Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 12:44hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
'We are not on Course, Mr Tsvangirai,' says ZUNDE
The recent statement by MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai titled "We are on Course" as published by NewsdzeZimbabwe.com is not truthful. We are not and have never been on course regarding a grand coalit...Published: 06 Jun 2017 at 06:54hrs | | by Benjamin Paradza
Mthwakazi party blasts Ezra Sibanda over Highlanders, Dynamos game remarks
Mthwakazi Republic Party spokesperson Mbonisi Gumbo has blasted the former Radio Zimbabwe presenter Ezra 'Tshisa' Sibanda following his remarks that the Highlanders and Dynamos game on Sunday was stop...Published: 16 May 2017 at 11:57hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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