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Cry, the beloved country
Zimbabwe, formerly one of Southern Africa's most promising countries, is today seen as a laughingstock throughout the region.It's really tragic that the Zanu PF leadership is just worried abou...Published: 10 Mar 2025 at 13:36hrs | 296 | by Leonard Koni
Chamisa exhibits traits of a megalomaniac dictator
ADVOCATE Nelson Chamisa and his loyalists in the strife-torn Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) have been left in a quagmire as they contemplate what to do to stop the opposition party from tumbling ...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 06:00hrs | 17 | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Zanu-PF wary of CSOs, teachers' unions
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has accused unions representing teachers and civil society organisations (CSOs) of acting as conduits for funnelling illicit funds from the West to topple the government....Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 05:13hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
CCC candidates must prove loyalty to Creator!
Aspiring Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) candidates are required to prove their loyalty to God, as part of the party's stringent selection procedure. As part of the vetting process, ...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 18:33hrs | 2 | 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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Brotherly advice to Hon Joanna Mamombe
In our families, communities, religious and political groupings and even at workplaces, people tend to be hesitant to tell each other the truth especially that which is deemed the unpalatable truth. H...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 21:51hrs | 2 | by Harare West Constituency Voter
Chief Justice threatened
There was a report in the media in particular the Newsday Zimbabwe alleging that the suspended judge Ndewere had told off the Chief Justice. The reporter went on to say she refused instructions and th...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 12:00hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa so obsessed with power
As Tsvangirai lay dying in a posh hospital in South Africa on a fully government funded health trip, against all African ways Nelson Chamisa was in the arms of the soon to be widow scheming on ways of...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
There is no better dictator , one who comes after is worse
Comparisons between the junta leader and his predecessor have been made.People have come to the conclusion uncle Bob was better than his successor, the junta leader, Dambudzo Munangagwa. Dicta...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 22:00hrs | | by AT Kadada
Khupe throws weight behind Mnangagwa
THE MDC-T breakaway faction led by Thokozani Khupe has endorsed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government as legitimate, throwing its full weight behind national dialogue meetings being championed by ...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 12:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khupe endorses Mnangagwa legitimacy
THE MDC-T breakaway faction led by Thokozani Khupe has endorsed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government as legitimate, throwing its full weight behind national dialogue meetings being championed by ...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is a smiling merchant of death
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister, Thokozani Khupe might have been left in a sticky situation after his MDC-T party national chairman Abedinico Bhebhe compared President Emmerson Mnangagwa to his predecess...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 08:40hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
Why ZANU PF will not reform
The recent events since the beginning of this year of 2019, has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that there is no such thing in reality as the so called ‘New Dispensation'. The reckless announceme...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 12:11hrs | 7 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Zanu-PF will never reform
The recent events since the beginning of this year of 2019, has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that there is no such thing in reality as the so called ‘New Dispensation'. The reckless announceme...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 10:00hrs | 1 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Emmerson Mnangagwa is a monumental failure
Robert Mugabe's protracted despotic rule brought Zimbabwe down to its knees. Such was the damage to a nation hitherto referred to as 'Jewel of Africa' that the general consensus was that things could ...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 18:28hrs | 1 | by Grace Kwinjeh
Chamisa so obsessed with power
As Tsvangirai lay dying in a posh hospital in South Africa on a fully government funded health trip, against all African ways Nelson Chamisa was in the arms of the soon to be widow scheming ...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 18:18hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Chamisa is also an illegitimate leader'
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa is not qualified to accuse President Emmerson Mnangagwa of being an illegitimate president because he (Chamisa) is also illegitimate, Thokozani Khupe, leader of the breakaway...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 18:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe must get in good books with Mnangagwa for his own interest
Worried religious groups are apparently stepping up their efforts to bring together President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his sulking predecessor Robert Mugabe, pictured, in a bid to break the heightening ...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 15:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'regime change' pushes opposition into panic mode
President Mnangagwa this week knocked out another pillar off the opposition's irksome electoral demands.This comes after a multiple head cracker when ED announced at his inauguration address t...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 10:05hrs | 4 | by RADAR
The national question post-Mugabe era
Reports that former president Robert Mugabe is bitter as extensively covered in two sister weeklies, the Zimbabwe Independent and The Standard, made interesting yet very sad reading.In what tu...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:24hrs | | by Nigel Nyamutumbu
Robert Mugabe tasting his own medicine
Mugabe must be reminded that he is the one who started shredding the constitution and did not respect the rule of law.His complaints against Emmerson Mnangagwa, that he will not hold a free an...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 14:15hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa is a mafia obsessed with power
FORMER Zanu-PF Central Committee member and Masvingo Urban MP, Daniel Shumba, has come out guns blazing, accusing the Emmerson Mnangagwa-led administration of being a mafia obsessed with power ahead o...Published: 24 Feb 2018 at 21:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Campaigns kicks off at a slow pace as political parties gears for 2018 elections
As the clock ticks away to the 2018 harmonised election watershed where the the former President's name will not appear for the first time in Zimbabwe's political history since his ouster from active ...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 20:37hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Understanding the method behind Mnangagwa's cabinet
Zimbabwe has a new President and a new cabinet. The ascendency of the former to the throne was greeted with praise, the naming of the latter with skepticism and sometimes sheer outrage.Excitem...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 15:37hrs | 5 | by Hubert Sithole
Zimbabwe lacks foreign direct investment whilst leaders are obsessed with power
For how long are we going to remain in this jungle of toxic politics which have a negative impact on our economy? Honestly Zanu PF has a mountain to climb on the issue of our ailing economy when leade...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 17:08hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo (PhD candidate)
The opposition struggle in Zimbabwe
Many who have followed the political scene in Zimbabwe are wise enough to know that the political sector is dominated largely by President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Fro...Published: 05 Sep 2017 at 11:53hrs | | by Gwinyai Taruvinga
Why choosing Mugabe successor is a difficult job
As President Robert Mugabe begins to look for a possible successor from among his subordinates, Zimbabweans are anxious to know who will eventually be picked to become the country's second executive p...Published: 10 Aug 2017 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Energy Mutodi
Are elections really necessary and important?
I stand to differ when Zimbabwe is held to ransom with few individuals who are obsessed with power. The dimensions in the current state of affairs of this country do not require an election but rather...Published: 25 Apr 2017 at 19:36hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Donald Trump's victory in relation to African politics - Zimbabwe as a case study
Elections evolve a lot of things and this is what makes one win an election. The problem with our African politics we always cry foul yet there is need for every political party to put facts, ideologi...Published: 05 Dec 2016 at 10:54hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mugabe and his Leadership are clueless - Zanu-PF member
The Editor Mugabe and his Leadership are clueless The meeting held in Triangle this past weekend by our President and leadership of Masvingo province to discuss factionalism in ZANU PF...Published: 27 Jun 2016 at 14:30hrs | 1 | by Sam
Mphoko faces war vets' guns
The long-running feud between Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko and disaffected war veterans loyal to his embattled counterpart, VP Emmerson Mnangagwa, has now hit an all-time low, with one freedom fi...Published: 13 Jun 2016 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe set for the 2018 presidential elections campaign trail
Despite growing calls for him to step down in the wake of an unprecedented economic crisis characterised by cash shortages and his now visible frailties, President Robert Mugabe told his backers last ...Published: 13 Jun 2016 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Time to save our Great Zimbabwe
"In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. In such a country...Published: 17 Mar 2016 at 13:02hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Mugabe loyalist Mutodi claims war vets seek new order
President Robert Mugabe loyalist Energy Mutodi has claimed that the war veterans were seeking a new order after realising that Mugabe is now increasingly siding with a G40 faction that is linked to hi...Published: 03 Mar 2016 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
'We shouldn't have chosen Mugabe,' says Gumbo
War veteran and Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) spokesperson, Rugare Gumbo, says he and his comrades made a grave error during the country's liberation struggle when they chose President Robert Mugabe to ...Published: 21 Feb 2016 at 11:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF has always been obsessed with power
Zanu-PF is a party built on lies. One of the most-told lies by President Robert Mugabe's party is the constantly parroted claim that it (alone) liberat...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 10:46hrs | | by Chris Dube
Statement by Save the Soul of Africa upon the Bujumbura Attack in Burundi
Save the Soul of Africa sent heartfelt condolences to the people of Burundi, and especially those who have lost loved ones and cronies in the Bujumbura attack, on Saturday December 12 ,where 87 lives ...Published: 20 Dec 2015 at 17:20hrs | | by Save the Soul of Africa
Some Harare Councillors obsessed with power - HRT
Harare Residents Trust has said in some parts of Harare there are reports of some councillors who want to portray their power to the residents than servicing the electorate that put them into office....Published: 06 Nov 2015 at 07:22hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Time to redefine Zimbabwe politics
After decades of economic stagnation, political paralysis and leadership crisis which Madiba bluntly and correctly called "tragic failure of leadership", Zimbabwe is now at a crossroads. More than eve...Published: 09 Aug 2015 at 08:54hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Zimbabwe - time to redefine our politics
After decades of economic stagnation, political paralysis and leadership crisis which Madiba bluntly and correctly called "tragic failure of leadership", Zimbabwe is now at a crossroads. More than eve...Published: 08 Aug 2015 at 23:20hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Mugabe obsessed with power retention, says Biti
President Robert Mugabe has no vision beyond power retention and those angling to succeed him are worse off, MDC Renewal Team secretary-general Tendai Biti has said.Addressing a district struc...Published: 07 Jul 2015 at 15:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-judge rubbishes Mugabe, Tsvangirai
Benjamin Paradza former Supreme Court Judge and vice president of the newly formed party Zunde, has accused Zanu PF leader President Robert Mugabe and main opposition MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai of...Published: 28 May 2015 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe obsessed with power, says Tsvangirai
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai has said president Robert Mugabe is possessed by a goblin which will not allow him to leave office.He said this during a rally in ...Published: 24 May 2015 at 10:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
35 years on, nothing to celebrate
Talented with foresight and frankness, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere did not mince his words when he advised then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe in 1980 "You have inherited the jewel of Africa, please don't de...Published: 13 Apr 2015 at 12:21hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Gweru city council should not be heartless - WhatsApp update
06:16, 19 Jan - +263 7* *** ****: Gweru city council should not be heartless...Concerned citizen. &nb...Published: 19 Jan 2015 at 14:34hrs | | by Concerned citizen
'Mujuru thought I'd die in September,' says Mugabe
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe revealed Wednesday that Joice Mujuru's faction believed he would die in September and started plotting a coup after hopes that his biological clock would stop ticking were d...Published: 03 Dec 2014 at 23:47hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Tsvangirai turned into a 'demi-god'
POLITICAL analysts yesterday warned that the constitutional amendments adopted by the MDC-T at the weekend to have all administrative powers centred around its leader Morgan Tsvangirai was likely to f...Published: 04 Nov 2014 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Succession planning - Mugabe's tragic failure
Since 1977 when he controversially landed the leadership of ZANU PF, President Mugabe deliberately avoided grooming a successor. In his insidious or at least unannounced quest to become life presi...Published: 01 Sep 2014 at 06:03hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Tsvangirai's dirt exposed
MDC Renewal Team chairperson Samuel Sipepa Nkomo yesterday said the MDC-T lost last year's harmonised elections because party leader Morgan Tsvangirai squandered campaign money on escapades with wome...Published: 07 Jul 2014 at 06:19hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
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