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'Zimbabwe risks losing out on AI prospects'
ZIMBABWE and Africa, in general, stand to lose out on the potential US$7 trillion in additional gross domestic product (GDP) that artificial intelligence (AI) could brings to the world economy if they...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 04:55hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
Sengezo Tshabangu and his handlers have lost the plot big time
ZIMBABWE'S political history has been littered with opposition malcontents for a very long time, which has caused the weakening and splitting of the main opposition political party in the country....Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:31hrs | 1439 | by Leonard Koni
Mutambara speaks on AI opportunities for Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe and other African countries risk losing out on the potential US$7 trillion that artificial intelligence (AI) could bring to the world economy if they are unable to optimise the productivity o...Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:24hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa miserably failed to utilise the coup d'état dividend
Robert Mugabe on Herbert Chitepo (and a Rejoinder on the Missed Opportunity of the 2017 Coup)Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 16:49hrs | 637 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
Dzino thinks Mnangagwa was a minor and peripheral player in the liberation struggle
Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)By Professor Arthur G.O. MutambaraI later lose my autographed copy of Wilfred Mhanda's b...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:36hrs | 4153 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
Zimbabwe will never be ruled by traitors who called for Westerners to punish their people through sanctions
THE problem we have in Zimbabwe is we have a new generation of people who think they are educated and thus they don't acknowledge that Zimbabwe is a sacred country, nyika ine varidzi (a country with a...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:04hrs | 390 | by Rutendo Matinyarare
An opposition within an opposition
The Zimbabwean political history has been littered with opposition malcontents within itself for a very long time which has caused the weakening and splitting of the main opposition political party in...Published: 08 Nov 2023 at 14:27hrs | 1235 | by Leonard Koni
Maybe if there had been no social media, Zimbabwe would be free today!
When I started writing these social justice articles way back in 1989, as a form three pupil, the world was a very different place.Those of us who had chosen this path - of speaking for the op...Published: 05 Nov 2023 at 13:23hrs | 389 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
After all posturing CCC withdraw court challenge of recalled MPs - proof of CCC's blundering incompetence
After all the grandstanding and finger pointing by Chamisa following the recall of the party's elected officials, the case ends with yet another humiliating defeat for CCC. The High Court challenge of...Published: 03 Nov 2023 at 15:59hrs | 1840 | by Wilbert Mukori
Innocent Gonese quits CCC politics
Veteran opposition activist and former long-serving legislator for Mutare Central, Innocent Gonese, has officially retired from active politics. Gonese made the announcement of his retirement in a pri...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 06:14hrs | 1081 | by Staff reporter
CCC Parliamentary presence will be in disarray
Zimbabwean former deputy prime minister Professor Arthur Mutambara has joined the fray over main opposition CCC's crisis triggered by recalls of its 15 MPs.He says this is not surprising and i...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 09:42hrs | 1332 | by AGO Mutambara."
'GNU is not a local herb: excluding Zanu PF would bring spectre of instability.' So hangs the sword of Damocles!
"GNU is not a local herb!" wrote Jamanda2 in Bulawayo24. "The West also made sure there was no third party or parties with which to enter into a governing alliance that would exclude Zanu-PF f...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 07:52hrs | 396 | by Wilbert Mukori
Politics of ethnicity: Jumping from the pan into the fire
BELOW is a book excerpt from In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas and Solutions) by Professor Arthur Mutambara.President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet shocked many b...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 08:31hrs | 3057 | by Arthur Mutambara
Chamisa using David Coltart to play dangerous tribal political games in Bulawayo
Where is Welshman Ncube, where is Thokozani Khupe, where is Mqondisi Moyo of MRP, where is Sibangilizwe Nkomo of ZAPU? As for Cde Paul Siwela, I know he is pained and ashamed of what is happening in M...Published: 25 Sep 2023 at 06:29hrs | 2858 | by Israel Dube
Mutambara blasts Mnangagwa
Prominent Zimbabwean academic Professor Arthur Mutambara, who is also former deputy prime minister, has lambasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa for appointing a cabinet stuffed with ethnic cronies, fri...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 21:54hrs | 2597 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's crisis of an ineffective opposition and messiah politics
Late on Saturday night, I was sitting in a hotel room in Guangzhou, China, streaming the announcement of the results of the presidential race in Zimbabwe. Zimbabweans went to the polls on the 23rd of ...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 15:05hrs | 817 | by Malaika Lesego Samora Mahlatsi
Mutambara says Zimbabwean should close ranks and find a pathway to the future
Zimbabwe's former deputy prime minister Professor Arthur Mutambara says the country should close ranks and find a pathway to the future based on free, fair and credible elections.He also says ...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 12:00hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
Nevers Mumba's report on Zimbabwe election is invalid
SADC REPORT THAT FAILS TO DENOUNCE THE ILLEGAL SANCTIONS' IMPACT ON ELECTIONS IS INVALID.We acknowledge the SADC report concerning irregularities in the harmonized Zimbabwean elections....Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 23:04hrs | 1943 | by Rutendo Matinyarare
77% of Zimbabwean voters want change - survey
AT LEAST 77% of registered voters in Zimbabwe want change of government, according to a latest survey by a local research institute.A recent survey commissioned by the Public Policy and Resear...Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 08:08hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mutambara predicts disputed Aug 23 Zimbabwe poll
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has predicted another disputed poll for Zimbabwe given the escalation of political violence and other electoral malpractices.President Emmerson Mn...Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 08:07hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Povo are being force to choose Zanu PF or death' Chamisa admits. A consequence of CCC selling out on reforms
Zimbabwe is a failed state, stuck with a corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical ruling power, Zanu PF. The nation should have got rid of Zanu PF by 2013, at the latest, if it had not been for the fact th...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 19:10hrs | 9 | by Wilbert Mukori
Why Zanu-PF must win at any cost!
Let me start with that intellectual prostitute, Professor Jonathan Moyo, who, from his hide-out somewhere in Kenya is breathing fire and brimstone on a poor white man, David Coltart.David wrot...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:25hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tried to kill opposition, says Mutambara
Former deputy prime minister Arthur Mutambara says President Emmerson Mnangagwa wanted to destroy the country's main opposition party by denying it funding and using other unorthodox means.Mut...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:24hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Kasukuwere is not a solution to Zimbabwe's problems'
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Arthur Mutambara has slammed exiled former Zanu-PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere's presidential bid saying he is not the solution to Zimbabwe's proble...Published: 05 Aug 2023 at 19:37hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mutambara says Mnangagwa is 'dull and dumb'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa lost an opportunity to unite a fractious Zimbabwe after a military-assisted coup in 2017, failing to chart a new trajectory for the country.In his recent assessmen...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 06:34hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mutambara salutes Chamisa, CCC
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has applauded Nelson Chamisa and his Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party for standing up against President Emmerson Mnangagwa despite facing several...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 06:33hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
ZBC, a national embarrassment and huge shame on journalism!
Who can still remember the late great Bornwell Chakaodza?I can still see the images of the fiery no-nonsense renowned journalist and media lecturer - as he bombarded government officials on pe...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 18:06hrs | 5 | by by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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 | 6 | by Taona Blessing Denhere
Kasukuwere: Ndebeles amongst noise makers in Zimbabwe?
A wannabe Zimbabwe President who turns a blind eye on Matabeleland restoration cause is making a fatal political miscalculation which may lead to unprecedented political upheaval.As we navigat...Published: 28 Jun 2023 at 14:46hrs | 52 | by Israel Dube
Mwonzora kills MDC
AFTER Zimbabwe's fast-fading opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), led by Douglas Mwonzora, failed to field candidates in all constituencies around the country amid reports that it is too...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 19:46hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe speaks from the grave'
FORMER deputy prime minister, Prof Arthur Mutambara, will this Monday launch the third and final book in his autobiographical trilogy in the United Kingdom at the Law School of the University of Westm...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 06:53hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Mutambara is a political opportunist'
Zanu-PF linked political analysts have described former Deputy Prime Minister, Professor Arthur Mutambara as an opportunist whose grasp of the obtaining situation in Zimbabwe is questionable.P...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 15:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's strongest man eats 60kgs of isitshwala, 60kgs of rice every month
SIXTY kilogrammes of isitshwala, 60 kgs of rice and 750 bananas per month for just one man. For breakfast, he consumes two loaves of bread, 30 eggs (15 boiled and 15 fried), one litre of juice...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 08:38hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers kill shop owner
A suspected armed robber who allegedly shot dead a shop owner in Chiweshe has been arrested while his four accomplices are still at large.Tanzima John Alias Nyambekah was dragged to Concession...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 16:09hrs | 5 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa not qualified to judge liberation struggle credentials of comrades
Zimbabwean former deputy prime minister Arthur Mutambara, an Oxford University-trained robotics professor known for his outstanding academic prowess and political activism, says President Emmerson Mna...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 08:24hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is a crude version of Mugabe
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has offered a brutal analysis of President Emmerson Mnangagwa whom he says performed below par under his purview in the Government of National Unity (GNU)...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutambara scoffs at Sithole hero gesture
Former deputy prime minister Arthur Mutambara has dismissed the move by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to officially confer national hero status on Zanu founder Ndabaningi Sithole as a ‘fradulent char...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:35hrs | 1 | 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 | 9 | by @Jamwanda2 0n Saturday
Mutambara backs Chamisa
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has thrown his weight behind Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa's candidature ahead of the August 23 general elections.In a...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa must empower his leadership'
Former Zimbabwean deputy prime minister and academic, Professor Arthur Mutambara, says Nelson Chamisa must empower his party leadership and give them official positions so that they effectively execut...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 07:09hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa a crude tribalist'
Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) in the 2009-13 Government of National Unity (GNU), Arthur Mutambara, has sensationally claimed that the late former President Robert Mugabe was a sophisticated tribalist wh...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:54hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa pushes out CCC bigwigs in Bulawayo
A NUMBER of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) bigwigs aspiring to represent the party in the August 23 polls fell by the wayside after being disqualified during the verification process which starte...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:53hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Mutambara lets cat out of the bag
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister in the Government of National Unity (GNU), whose life expired in 2013 after being birthed in 2009, Arthur Mutambara, has dropped a bombshell after making stunning revealat...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:51hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF chefs have title deeds for grabbed farms'
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has sensationally claimed that all top Zanu-PF chefs have acquired title deeds to the farms they grabbed from white former farmers at the height of the la...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:55hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
'Bona Mugabe divorce opens can of worms'
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara says a divorce case involving the late former President Robert Mugabe's daughter, Bona, exposed how Zimbabwe has been looted to economic collapse by the r...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:50hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
The Zimbabwean nightmare and tragic optimism of Mutambara
To mention Zimbabwe and the idea of a "dream" in the same sentence, as Professor Arthur Mutambara has done, is to be provocative and challenging.The provocation and the challenge come from the...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:06hrs | 11 | by William Jethro Mpofu
8 mistakes in Zimbabwe's 2013 Constitution
ON May 22 2023, Zimbabwe's Constitution turned 10, having become effective on 22 May 2013. This year, we mark the 10-year anniversary. I choose to mark this day with a reflection, and my reflection is...Published: 27 May 2023 at 09:15hrs | 7 | by Musa Kika
Zimbabwe govt rapped over failure to respect the Constitution
LEGAL experts say Zimbabwe is one of the countries with a good Constitution, but suffering from constitutional disorder because of an authoritarian leadership which has no respect for the governance c...Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutambara roasts Mnangagwa govt
FORMER deputy prime minister Arthur Mutambara has described President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government as incompetent, corrupt, authoritarian and directionless.Mutambara made the claims in his ...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutambara finishes a third volume of his new enlightening autobiography series
Oxford-trained Zimbabwean academic Professor Arthur Mutambara has finished a third volume of his new enlightening autobiography series, Ideas and Solutions: Deputy Prime Minister and Beyond; In Search...Published: 13 May 2023 at 19:03hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
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