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ZANU PF succession battles open window of opportunity for Matabeleland breakaway
Zimbabwe Independence Day Celebrations on 18 April 2025 marked 132 years of Matabeleland oppression. Firstly by the British South Africa Company, 1893- 1980, under the rule by coquest, secondly by the...Published: 02 May 2025 at 09:33hrs | 1333 | by Israel Dube
Éclat Chimhama & Rumbie: One's hysteria, pacified by man's presence in bed and the other, perceived deprived!
I will leave out the causes of their tongue lashings: what is interesting is the language use. I will start with Chimhama whose eloquent speeches and her facial beauty do not escape me. The woma...Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 16:24hrs | 345 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chivayo and Russia: Lessons from South Africa
Among those Zimbabweans observing the elections in South Africa was Owen Chikukwa in Cape Town.The loss of power by the African National Congress can easily be explained. Brother Owen put it s...Published: 23 Jun 2024 at 10:46hrs | 17 | by Kenneth Mufuka
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 | 36 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
Sengezo Tshabangu, Welshman Ncube and fellow Mthwakazi, come let's declare Matabeleland independence!
"Be sure to appoint over you a king the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite."Blocked by a thick ...Published: 20 Nov 2023 at 09:37hrs | 12 | by Israel Dube
Drawsolona!
THERE are two things that have let down Highlanders in the 2021/ 2022 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League campaign — poor conversion rate and drawing matches that they should have won.A poor ...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
CCC's politics of a scavenging bird
A vulture is a scavenging bird. It feeds from and thrives in the dead, dirt, smelly and foul.A green parrot, on the other hand is an adorable creature of magnificent beauty. It blends with and...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 20:45hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Credible reforms are the only way forward
THE political and economic reform agenda has dominated Zimbabwe's political discourse for over two decades, but consensus remains distant because the ruling Zanu-PF party has rebuffed attempts at ever...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Leaders should put Zimbabwe first
ZIMBABWE is reeling under the brunt of political polarisation and electoral hangover.Its ripple effects are hitting the person on the street and scuttling efforts to revive the economy....Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:23hrs | 1 | by Mukunda waChitova
The pull her down myth
DURING the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, which started on November 25 (the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women) and December 10 ( Human Rights Day) is ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:37hrs | 12 | by Miriam T Majome
Pro-ZANU PF activists and analysts are Zimbabwe regime's own worst enemies!
Losing our baby-girl in 2013, to a still-birth due to breeching, was undeniably one of the most traumatic and painful experiences in my entire life - which, even today, affects me in so many ways, inc...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 12:38hrs | 15 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZANLA/ZANU did not liberate Matabeleland
To say that ZANU and it's razmataz armed wing, ZANLA, liberated Matabeleland and therefore are our leaders, comrades or heroes, is as good as claiming that the Rhodesian Army and government liberated ...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 00:20hrs | 8 | by Israel Dube
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IntlTech is a digital marketing and web development company based in Toronto, Canada. We have got a professional team of online marketers, web developers, designers, SEO specialists, content managers,...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 23:08hrs | 5 | by Staff writer
Civil servants in Mnangagwa salary U-turn
ZIMBABWE'S impoverished civil servants yesterday made a volte-face and embraced a 76% salary adjustment made by their employer, hardly a week after they scoffed at the offer, describing it as falling ...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Sables on a roll
Zimbabwe 32 - 26 UgandaIT'S all looking rosy for Zimbabwe as the Sables continued to edge closer to success after making it four out of four wins with a hard fought Victoria Cup rugby triump...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
We, Zimbabweans, are our own worst enemy and made country hell-on-earth to live in
"Come on Wilbert, I thought you are smart enough to have figured it all out for yourself by now," Brian said, provokingly."What, may I ask, is it I should have figured out for myself by now!" ...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 21:23hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Matabeleland independence will come through the barrel of the gun
That Matabeleland will be an independent state very soon is no longer a question of if or how, but a mere when.One bullet one settler, one necklace one traitor! That is the trajectory the revo...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Israel Dube
Madinda cry foul as Yadah triumph
Yadah 1 - 0 HighlandersHIGHLANDERS coach Madinda Ndlovu felt they were their own worst enemies as they came out of Rufaro empty-handed despite dominating their Castle Lager Premier Soc...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
You will never walk alone, Comrade President
Events of the 18th to the 24th November 2017 in Zimbabwe are still vivid in the minds of many people across the world. The events were greeted by many with jubilation, tears of joy, all night celebrat...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 23:09hrs | 1 | by Kennedy Mapesa Mandaza
Africa Day not yet uhuru
Africa emerged from the dark cruel days of colonialism. The inspiration to find itself and shake the shackles of bondage came from the soup of Africa day. Africa day has brought about different vibes....Published: 25 May 2019 at 14:51hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Africa lost in Africa day
Africa emerged from the dark cruel days of colonialism. The inspiration to find itself and shake the shackles of bondage came from the soup of Africa day. Africa day has brought about different vibes....Published: 23 May 2019 at 21:47hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC-T welcomes POSA repeal
THE pariah image still haunting Zimbabwe in the West can easily be sanitised by making sure that the country's Constitution is religiously obeyed and upheld, opposition MDC-T said.Led by Thoko...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:00hrs | | by newzimbabwe
No to sanitising culture of violence
Possibly, the most well-known theory in this genre of work, Wolfgang and Ferracuti's Subculture of Violence attempted to outline a methodological framework for the empirical examination of violent sub...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:05hrs | 1 | by Limukani Ncube
We are our own worst enemies
I have a question that needs an honest answer. Do we, as Zimbabweans, want our country to succeed?Having been unable to get cooking oil in supermarkets, I decided to pay downtown Harare a visi...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 06:42hrs | | by Mapozho Saruchera
Factions in Zanu PF jostling to give Mthuli Ncube their proposed plans to recover the economy
MDC Alliance official Discent Collins Bajila has said his preliminary understanding is that Minister of finance Mthuli Ncube has been put in a precarious position by emerging Zanu PF factions....Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 09:07hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Madinda slams match officials after shock defeat
Mutare City Rovers 1- 0 Highlanders HIGHLANDERS' coach Madinda Ndlovu was livid with the way this match was handled and slammed the match officials after his team slumped to a shock defeat at the ...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans are their own worst enemies, sometimes
I have been following with great concern negative remarks by our fellow Zimbabwean brothers and sisters since President Emmerson Mnangagwa was declared winner of the July 30 harmonised elections, befo...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | | by Tendai Guta
'Elections are going to be free, we told,' says Chamboko - name them, another feeble excuses
It is easy to see why Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends failed to implement even one democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections; it is, either, Zimbabwe's opposition politic...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 06:20hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
The NPF-Mugabe factor in 2018 polls
The emergence of the National Patriotic Front (NPF) led by the former minister of state for Mashonaland East provincial affairs, Retired Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri, has created possibilities ...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 14:00hrs | | by ZDI RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Zimbabweans adopt mothers' surnames
SPEAKER of parliament Jacob Mudenda says Zimbabweans should now consider carrying their mothers' surnames in addition to their fathers' which they traditionally use as their second appellations....Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 06:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ndebele King's Christmas Message, 2017
It is that time of the year when the world celebrates in different celebrations; it is time of Christmas, a celebration unknown to us as a people before the advent of the white man. This time ...Published: 24 Dec 2017 at 14:20hrs | 3 | by Stanley Raphael Khumalo
Will only have time to register 5 m voters instead of 7 m, admits ZEC - yet to admit the worst part
The trouble with Zimbabweans is that we are our own worst enemies because we never stop to think anything through. When it was clear toward the end of the 2008 to 2013 GNU that MDC had failed ...Published: 21 Dec 2017 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe needs to be fixed - MDC-T
MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu has said Zimbabwe needs to be fixed considering the fact that 90% of the population survives on a dollar per day."With an ailing national economy where more...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 07:10hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
As Zimbabweans, we can be our own worst enemies
As I was standing next to some ladies - who were selling little goodies to pupils at a school gate - it was so disturbing to hear one of them loudly bragging that she was making a 100 percent profit....Published: 02 Oct 2017 at 17:43hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Whither Zimbabwe?
I had the privilege of attending discussion panels in Washington DC during my Humphrey fellowship year at American University, Washington College of Law. The United States Institute of Peace hos...Published: 14 Sep 2017 at 16:24hrs | 3 | by Mthokozisi Nyathi
Chidzambwa demands fighting spirit against Swaziland
HARARE WARRIORS coach Sunday Chidzambwa reckons his side will present a difficult proposition to opponents, and the 65-year-old has demanded a fighting spirit for tonight's Cosafa Castle Cup quarter-f...Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 10:33hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chinese exploiting Zimbabwe resources
A political analyst Vince Musewe has lamented that Zimbabweans are to blame themselves for allowing their natural resources to be exploited by the Chinese.He made the remarks following...Published: 25 Apr 2017 at 03:47hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Democracies that have thrived on feminine disempowerment within The African Union
Extract from Reginald Thabani Gola's Operation Save Africa Campaign: The Multi-National Silent Holocaust.Democracy - as defined in the Dictionary of Con...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 19:05hrs | 1 | by Reginald T. Gola
Beneficiaries of Codesa linked BEE transactions feeling the heat
President Jacob Zuma's plan to take white capital monopoly head-on is starting to bear fruits and more casualties line up for trauma treatment.Although Zuma appears as a victim but the truth i...Published: 10 Apr 2017 at 08:18hrs | 3 | by Social media
Parastatals fundamentally supports Zanu PF
A political analyst Vince Musewe has said state institutions and parastatals are forced to support the ruling Zanu PF or those who lead them lose their jobs if they defy the logic."I am certai...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 05:29hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
3 Life Changing Motivational Lessons From Barcelona’s Historic Comeback
1 The Folly Of A 4-0 Lead PSG beat Barcelona by 4 goals in their first match. No one imagined their impressive 4-0 score-line would be overturned by the...Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 19:58hrs | 3 | by Mthokozisi Gwizi
SADC must 'resolve Zimbabwe crisis' says SA Bishop - need more than kind words
"Hell is full of good meanings, but Heaven is full of good works" is an aphorism that has echoed louder and louder in Zimbabwe as the nation has sunk deeper and deeper into the economic and politi...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 17:25hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Electoral reform starts with us, vote registration is key
Yes, that is correct, electoral reform starts with us - you and me - and that is a fact. In addition, voter registration cannot be stopped because the government says it has no money. While the govern...Published: 07 Nov 2016 at 05:31hrs | | by Benjamin Paradza
Changing cultural political mind set is required for Africa: the Zimbabwe case
BRIEF PREVIEW Apparently Africa is not conscious of the global political change processes transitioning in the world. Similarly, just as North America is blind to people behavioural change manifes...Published: 02 Nov 2016 at 12:13hrs | 1 | by Andrew M Manyevere
Changing cultural political mind set is required for Africa: The Zimbabwe Case
BRIEF PREVIEW Apparently Africa is not conscious of the global political change processes transitioning in the world. Similarly, just as North America is blind to people behavioural change manifes...Published: 31 Oct 2016 at 22:18hrs | 7 | by Andrew M Manyevere
Electoral reform starts with us, voter registration is key - ZUNDE
Yes, that is correct, electoral reform starts with us — you and me — and that is a fact. In addition, voter registration cannot be stopped because the government says it has no money. While the go...Published: 31 Oct 2016 at 11:12hrs | 10 | by Benjamin Paradza
Mugabe a Pan Africanist in words and a colonialist in political implementation.
Mugabe a pan African in words and a colonialist in political implementation programs. Mugabe a gukurahundist and an outstanding human rights violator, he is outstanding as an opinion leader especially...Published: 23 Oct 2016 at 15:35hrs | 1 | by Hlonipani Ncube
MDC-T council 'deadlocked' on election boycott - still have no clue of reforms
"The MDC-T national council that met on Wednesday was deadlocked on whether to lift its election boycott stance which has seen the opposition party surrendering to Zanu-PF parliamentary and council se...Published: 06 Aug 2016 at 07:57hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Let's take back our Great Zimbabwe
"And if it is a despot you should dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed." Kahlil Gibran-The ProphetThe time has come for us to rise and destroy any thrones we may...Published: 14 Jul 2016 at 09:50hrs | 1 | by Vince Musewe
Mugabe to face united opposition
As the eagerly-anticipated 2018 national elections get closer, virtually all of the country's opposition parties are signalling that they are ready to be part of the mooted grand coalition which a...Published: 20 Jun 2016 at 15:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
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