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Mutambara calls for standalone AI ministry in Zimbabwe

One of Zimbabwe's foremost academics and artificial intelligence (AI) experts, Professor Arthur Mutambara, has called for the creation of a fully-fledged Ministry of AI, warning that relegating the technology to a sub-department risks leav…

Published: 29 Aug 2025 at 05:53hrs | 615 | by Staff reporter

Chief of Mutambara installed after years of dispute

The long-running contest over the Mutambara chieftainship was finally settled this afternoon with the official installation of Mr Norman Mutambara as the substantive Chief of the Mutambara Clan.The historic ceremony, held at Guhune Seconda…

Published: 22 Aug 2025 at 18:33hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe central bank raises ZWG$5.9 billion via treasury bills

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has raised ZWG$5.9 billion through Treasury Bill (TB) issuances and private placements in 2024, as the government intensifies its domestic borrowing to fund operations, manage liquidity, and meet rising p…

Published: 12 Jun 2025 at 19:00hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mutambara urges Zimbabweans to upskill for AI-driven economy

Former Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has issued a compelling call to action, urging Zimbabweans to commit to continuous learning and skills development in response to the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on th…

Published: 12 Jun 2025 at 18:59hrs | 89 | by Staff reporter

Mutamabara launches AI book

Renowned Zimbabwean professor of robotics and prolific author, Arthur Mutamabara, is set to launch his latest book this evening at 6pm at the Zimbabwe Institute of Engineers offices in Eastlea, Harare. The book, titled Artificial Intellige…

Published: 22 May 2025 at 11:30hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter

Mutambara defends his book on Mugabe

PROFESSOR Arthur Mutambara has defended the credibility of his newly published book, which opens a window on the political life of former President Robert Mugabe, who died without writing his memoirs.In the book titled In Search of the Elu…

Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 20:53hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

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 because of the crass ethnicity and primitive cla…

Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 08:31hrs | 22 | by Arthur Mutambara

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.Mutambara (AM) told Alpha Media Holdings chairman …

Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:24hrs | 14 | 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 assessment of the 2017 coup that toppled long-time ruler…

Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 06:34hrs | 12 | 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 challenges instigated by the Zanu-PF l…

Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 06:33hrs | 24 | 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.Professor Mutambara has been in the wilderness s…

Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 15:50hrs | 14 | 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 â€˜fradulent charade'.Sithole died in December 2000 in t…

Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:35hrs | | by Staff reporter

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 an exclusive interview with Alpha Media Holdings…

Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:50hrs | 1 | 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 troubling Zimbabwean economic and political co…

Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:06hrs | 3 | by William Jethro Mpofu

Opposition must coalesce against Zanu-PF, says Mutambara

ZIMBABWE'S fractured opposition have been urged to resolve their differences and come together in order to defeat the ruling Zanu-PF party in the 2023 election.The call was made by former Deputy Prime Minister in the inclusive government, …

Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Arthur Mutambara breathing fire over the Constitution amendment

FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara is breathing fire over the Constitution Amendment (No.2) Bill, saying it is meant to consolidate power and brazenly restore fully fledged authoritarian rule. The process which resulted in the B…

Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Why Chinese model has not benefited Africa

Diverse views have been expressed about the Chinese socio-political and economic model.These range from the Chinese themselves, who, of course, uncritically praise their system as a faultless model, their competitors in the West who condem…

Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:44hrs | 11 | by Arthur G O Mutambara

The brutality of March 11, 2007 and its impact

Back in Zimbabwe, the struggle continues.The Save Zimbabwe campaign (SZc) is a broad coalition of organisations spearheaded by the Zimbabwe Christian Alliance (CA).Its members include the factions of the MDc, other opposition parties, chur…

Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:27hrs | 6 | by Arthur G.O. Mutambara

The bane of deadbeat intellectuals

Talent seems to come with more than its fair share of baggage.Most often than not, gifted personalities belong to a pantheon of living gods that wow the world during their time in the limelight but wrestle their own demons away from the pu…

Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 06:58hrs | 16 | by Bishop Lazarus

Mutambara speaks about Chinese vacine trials

Former Zimbabwean Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara says if the Chinese were in a proactive and empowering partnership with Harare, clinical trials should have been done on the Sinopharm vaccine against the virulent SA Covid-19 varian…

Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 20:07hrs | | by Staff reporter

African is an observer, a subject in vaccine development, says Mutambara

Former deputy prime minister Professor Arthur Mutambara says it is a tragic indictment on all Africans that there is no African country or black-owned company producing a Covid-19 vaccine. "The African is an observer, a subject and not a p…

Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 20:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Mutambara's family lucky to be alive

SHEER luck!This best explains how the infamous empire that the late Kimpton Mutambara built and his family survived the brunt of Cyclone Idai which hit the country last month.The empire was built a few metres away from the banks of Umvumvu…

Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:41hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Stay away and Looting in Zimbabwe: A narrative created to push for a national dialogue

Zimbabwe does not get tired to engage into processes that will help the corrupt and governance failures survive another day. As I write this article I have no doubt in my mind that what is happening now is no different from what happened i…

Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 20:10hrs | 5 | by Dumisani Mpofu

The Path to Power: A review of Arthur Mutambara's book

This is the second book in a series of three volumes  that traces the leadership thoughts and philosophical disposition of Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara over a period of 35 years. The dramatic removal of Robert Mugabe by a people-ba…

Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 08:21hrs | 25 | by Arthur Mutambara

Mutambara launches second book

Former Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Guseni Oliver Mutambara, has written volume 2 of his autobiography The Path to Power, In Search of the Zimbabwean elusive dream.Posting on Facebook on Monday Mutambara said, "Good People It is about that…

Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 15:15hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu

Mutambara trashes Zanu-PF manifesto

Despite the critique we have offered in the past, Zanu-PF in its recently launched manifesto, insist on claiming that its vision is for Zimbabwe to be a middle-income country (MIC) by 2030.This is a bland and banal statement which requires…

Published: 14 May 2018 at 07:50hrs | 2 | by Arthur Mutambara

Arthur Mutambara pursues fourth industrial revolution

THE so-called fourth industrial revolution can only succeed if all sectors are involved in its approach, says academic and former deputy prime minister of Zimbabwe Professor Arthur Mutambara."The fourth industrial revolution (FIR) is a glo…

Published: 07 May 2018 at 10:12hrs | 191 | by African News Agency

Tafadzwa Musekiwa resurfaces and label MDC-T candidates useless

Many of us clearly remember the young boy who was elected Member of Parliament for Zengeza West back in 2000. The young boy then fled from Zimbabwe to the UK barely months after his election. Almost two decades later the young man resurfac…

Published: 01 May 2018 at 11:51hrs | 1 | by Gibson Shanyika

The definition of success and what it takes to achieve it

The headmistress of Hillcrest College Anne Holman, the deputy headmaster Orbert Chipato, our young people, the students, parents, teachers, officials from the Primary and Secondary Education ministry, teachers from neighbouring schools, fe…

Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 17:43hrs | 2 | by Arthur Mutambara

WATCH: Prof. A. Mutambara on the VukaVukaBreakfast

Published: 11 Jul 2017 at 11:40hrs | 2 | by facebook

Mutambara moots political comeback

FORMER Deputy Prime Minister in the inclusive Government, Professor Arthur Mutambara, yesterday said he is considering bouncing back into politics.Prof Mutambara, who was MDC leader, withdrew from politics and public life at the end of the…

Published: 07 Jul 2017 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter

Chasing the elusive Zimbabwean dream

Arthur Guseni Oliver Mutambara, a world-renowned robotics professor and one of the most intriguing figures in Zimbabwean public life, has rarely written about the private dimensions of his life - until now.In this new 249-page memoir entit…

Published: 16 Jun 2017 at 16:59hrs | 5 | by Brezhnev Malaba

Give Arthur Mutambara a Bell's

Some truths are self-evident.The world ain't flat. You are your mother's child. President Mugabe will win the next elections. Single malt whiskey is for men, beer is for boys. Dynamos is God's own team. And Charles Mungoshi has a beautiful…

Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 10:43hrs | 1 | by Staff writer

Arthur Mutambara pens new book on Zimbabwe politics

Sapes Books, to be launched in Harare on June 14 2017 is a most welcome addition to the Sapes Books' stable of illustratious autobiographies/biographies: Elijah Mudenda (Zambia: A Generation of Struggle, 1999); Joshua Nkomo (The Story of M…

Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by Ibbo Mandaza

Where is Mutambara?

FORMER deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has made an unceremonious exit from the grand political stage, quietly slipping into the shadows.Ever since the expiry of the unity government last year, Mutambara has gone quiet, amid indicati…

Published: 23 Jan 2014 at 07:13hrs | | by Ray Ndlovu

'Mutambara has joined the bandwagon,' says Biti

Wananchi, if the election of Jacob Mudenda as Speaker of Parliament is anything to go by then this country is heading for reversal, regression and more sterility.This man has been a round for a long time.Now in the late summer of his life …

Published: 04 Sep 2013 at 18:48hrs | 3 | by Tendai Biti

Mutambara faction celebrating the demise of the MDCs

THE Professor Arthur Mutambara MDC faction is having a good time following the crushing defeat of the MDC-T and the Professor Welshman Ncube-led MDC in last week's harmonised elections, saying they saw their demise coming. In a telephone i…

Published: 08 Aug 2013 at 12:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

MDC faction refutes Mutambara palace coup allegations

Breakaway MDC faction has described Arthur Mutambara's alleged ouster from the party's helm as a "monumental dream".In a statement, the party's secretary general Maxwell Zimuto said the robotics professor was still the leader of the party.…

Published: 25 Jun 2013 at 04:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Remedies to our problems will come from Zimbabwe

Once again we continue to plunge forward into unnecessary and avoidable conflict on matters of the State. There is dearth of leadership across the political divide.Just to emphasise the position I re-stated on June 6 2013."All the problema…

Published: 16 Jun 2013 at 13:19hrs | 1 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara

Mugabe poll move unfortunate

We must work together. Remedies to our problems will come from ZimbabweansONCE again we continue to plunge forward into unnecessary and avoidable conflict on matters of the State. There is dearth of leadership across the political divide. …

Published: 16 Jun 2013 at 11:41hrs | | by Arthur Mutambara

What kind of a sovereign nation are we?

Fellow ZimbabweansJust to emphasize my position. All the problematic implementation issues with the Constitutional Court ruling should be addressed by first committing to complying with the judgment. We should solve these compliance challe…

Published: 07 Jun 2013 at 04:43hrs | | by Arthur G.O. Mutambara

Arthur Mutambara speaks about why he joined politics - video

Arthur Mutambara, a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, and Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe, talks about Stone Soup - a collaborative model to help leaders make change in society. He discusses his personal su…

Published: 23 May 2013 at 05:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Sidelining of Ncube not a guarantee 2013 election victory

Having noted mixed reactions some of which make anyone collapse with laughter, I meant to make a comment about the Mugabe-Mutambara-Tsvangirai tripartite talks on the constitution this last Thursday. Many have been left in dangerously fals…

Published: 18 Jan 2013 at 04:39hrs | 1 | by Chris Tongogara

Open letter to Arthur Mutambara

THIS week I feel convicted to write an open letter to Deputy Prime Minister, Arthur Mutambara, and give my brother some advice based on my observation of his embryonic but eventful political career. My brother, there are some grand lessons…

Published: 06 Sep 2012 at 16:06hrs | 1 | by Allen Hungwe

Tsvangirai, Mutambara: If it ain't broken, fix it; if it's broken praise it

The one thing I have always rued about being Zimbabwean is this our propensity to ensure our total compliance with the Sabbath, total compliance with the ten commandments. Zimbabweans would rather they are not born at all than offend again…

Published: 25 Feb 2012 at 05:55hrs | 4 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Mutambara's political party is thriving

MUNYARADZI Huni's comments under the opinion and analysis column (Sunday Mail, January 1, 2012) headed "2011:  The good, the bad and the ugly" is incorrect, misleading and malicious. Huni claims that Arthur Mutambara has no party and …

Published: 06 Jan 2012 at 10:51hrs | | by MM Changamire

Mutambara undermining the judiciary

THAT Arthur Mutambara is a dangerous element to our democracy is no longer an assumption but a statement of fact backed by evidence of his nefarious deeds of violating the Global Political Agreement (GPA) and undermining the judiciary.His …

Published: 09 Mar 2011 at 09:13hrs | 2 | by Qhubani Moyo

The tribal cat is out of the bag

The cat is out of the bag. The MDC congress held last weekend has delivered for the tribal supremacists and the anti-democrats the result they dreaded most and as expected, they have come out guns blazing.The attack on the MDC following it…

Published: 19 Jan 2011 at 11:24hrs | 4 | by Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga

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