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Mnangagwa's nonentity on global stage leaving Zimbabweans' continued oppression largely unnoticed!
After the November 2017 military coup d'état - which ousted long-time dictator Robert Gabriel Mugabe, and ushering in his protégé Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa as new president - the plight of oppres...Published: 7 hrs ago | 896 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mberengwa fights lithium plunder
MBERENGWA residents have formed a foundation led by prominent local people to fight the plunder of recently discovered lithium deposits in the vast district as well other available minerals like gold,...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 16:31hrs | 972 | by Staff reporter
Vicious crackdown on opposition part of Zanu-PF election playbook
THE arrest of Citizens' Coalition for Change parliamentarians Costa Machingauta and Amos Chibaya (pictured in khaki shirt) alongside other party members, including the elderly and juveniles, for ...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 09:39hrs | 677 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police dragged to Zanu-PF ideology classes
MORALE has reportedly hit rock bottom in the police force after all officers were commandeered to attend civic education meetings co-ordinated by the ruling Zanu-PF party as part of its indoctrination...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:52hrs | 1288 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should make a clarion call for peace
THE savage beating of elderly people in Murehwa last weekend for political reasons has once again raised concern over the spectre of violence in the country ahead of the harmonised elections to be hel...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 16:27hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa hell bent on granting vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy - sacrificing povo to gratify Zanu PF
"The ANC supports the calls for the lifting of punitive sanctions against Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Syria, Zimbabwe and elsewhere where such sanctions have been imposed unilaterally and unjustifiably, ca...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 10:32hrs | 1335 | by Nomusa Garikai
Terror visits Chamisa's rural supporters?
SEVERAL villagers in Murehwa were over the weekend left nursing bruises and sore limbs after suspected Zanu-PF members reportedly attacked opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters in ...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 07:01hrs | 1026 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa's 13-year-old daughter listed on US sanctions
When the United States announced the sanctioning of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son earlier this month, it also revealed the names of 17 individuals who had been removed from the list of Specially ...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 20:36hrs | 1644 | by Staff reporter
'Regime change' NGO duped
FORMER Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) employee Victor Mafuta (35) was yesterday arraigned before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi facing charges of fraud and forgery.Mafuta was gran...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:13hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi memorial ban sparks outrage
THERE is outrage in Bulawayo after police banned pressure group, Ibhetshu LikaZulu from hosting a Gukurahundi memorial on Unity Day and arrested three of its members.The group organised a memo...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:13hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Surely, does ZANU PF need 100 years to build electricity infrastructure?
ZANU PF never ceases to amaze! Always full of excuses - some just incredible, others pure madness, whilst there are downright stupid!I always say to myself, 'if ZANU PF had been a man,...Published: 13 Dec 2022 at 14:13hrs | 639 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe ruling elite detachment from reality makes them insensitive to citizens' suffering
If I were elected into political office tomorrow, I can confidently tell you that, should I still be in power after ten years - my policies would have become divorced from the ordinary people....Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 22:04hrs | 425 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Triple C: Puny-wise, Pint Foolish!
Obdurate immaturityIT is not like Nelson Chamisa had not been warned, whether by living men or by past circumstances. Both did; yet he still hurtled headlong towards yet another blunder, which...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:56hrs | 284 | by Jamwanda
What is Gata even still doing at ZESA?
As Zimbabwe continues to sink deeper into an economic abyss - exacerbated by recurrent crippling electricity shortages - one is baffled as to why heads at the power utility are not rolling.No ...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 11:43hrs | 2161 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa's CCC, Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF unite to 'loot' State coffers
GIVEN the fluidity of Zimbabwean politics, one can only second guess President Emmerson Mnangagwa's 2023 elections strategy.Cabinet ministers have been offered US$500 000 "loans" they have not...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:09hrs | 428 | by Sibanengi Mswazi Dube
Have black people failed to govern themselves?
I sit here without any electricity - due to outrageous load shedding or outrages induced by antiquated equipment becoming a daily occurrence - whilst not ...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 13:07hrs | 1530 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Does the Zimbabwe opposition stand any realistic chance of winning 2023 elections?
This is the million dollar question - which has been on the lips of many, and the source of much debate, in Zimbabwe. What I see, though, is that most of us are living in a delusional world - ...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 14:08hrs | 1417 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa rebukes party MPs who accepted government loot
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa Wednesday issued a guarded condemnation of party MPs who have joined the queue to receive government's US$40,000 windfall issued generously to...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:05hrs | 2434 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa invited to the US as the West lose hope on Zimbabwe's hopeless opposition
ZIMBABWE has been invited to the upcoming United States-Africa leaders' summit in Washington despite concern over a "dire" authoritarian pivot by the Harare government which has seen a crackdown again...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:32hrs | 3566 | by Staff reporter
Reluctance in registering to vote shows distrust in current political players
I said it before - and, I will say it again and again. I can totally understand the immense frustration amongst some sections of our Zimbabwean society - as they wonder why there appears to be...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 08:58hrs | 271 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe court cancels arrest warrant for Buyanga
A Zimbabwean court on Monday cancelled a warrant for the arrest of millionaire businessman Frank Buyanga who was arrested by Interpol in Johannesburg on November 10 accused of abducting his son two ye...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 19:26hrs | 763 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube gets bashing for buying Sandra Ndebele's album for US$8,500
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has taken some social media bashing after buying musician Sandra Ndebele's newly launched album for US$8,500.The treasury boss was a conspicuous dignitary among a...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 19:23hrs | 1066 | by Staff reporter
Zec unsettles CCC
THE opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) fears the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) will manipulate the delimitation process in favour of Zanu-PF, hence the commission's strange failure ...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:45hrs | 1921 | by Staff reporter
Petitioners ropes in international stakeholders for Sikhala's release?
PETITIONERS, who want an end to the lengthy incarceration of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole, have called for "urgent action" to rope in international s...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:14hrs | 799 | by Staff reporter
Female teachers in Zimbabwe demand unlimited maternity leave
TEACHERS affiliated to the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) have called on government to come up with labour policies that will ensure unlimited paid maternity leave for female tea...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:29hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa still isolated after 47 global trips
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has travelled 47 foreign trips since coming to power, in a re-engagement drive that has been bogged down by human rights abuses and failure to implement key political refo...Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 11:50hrs | 2983 | by Staff reporter
RBZ in dramatic U-turn on Fidelity privatisation
IN a dramatic policy U-turn, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has indefinitely suspended its plans to partially privatise Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR) nearly two years after announcing inten...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:32hrs | 891 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga put his head on the block for Mnangagwa
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga, who was the then commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, put his head on the block to rescue President Emmerson Mnangagwa before handing him power after the 2017...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:54hrs | 2345 | by Staff reporter
Paul Kagame: Cruel Betrayal of Matebeleland
In the first week of September 2022, Emmerson Munangagwa visited the Rwanda Genocide Memorial while he was attending a continental African Green Revolution Forum Conference in that country. Many peopl...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 08:56hrs | 2137 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
'Biti baiting journalists with sensational but false claims'
A Harare Company West Properties Zimbabwe has exposed parliamentarian Tendai Biti's malicious attack against them after the legislator claimed that the company received 200 000 hectares of land from t...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 19:41hrs | 521 | by Staff reporter
Britain actually demanded Zimbabwe independence and majority rule before ZANU PF!
I always find it most disingenuous and particularly infatuating listening to the Zimbabwe ruling elite distract from valid demands from the international community for the respect of human rights in t...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 22:13hrs | 953 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Sadc dismisses targeted sanctions claim
SADC chairperson and President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, has reiterated calls for the removal of illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by some Western countries saying the...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 05:51hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans aren't fools and refuse to be hoodwinked with 'sanctions on country' yarn!
Today, 25 October, was put aside as a so-called 'Anti Sanctions Day' - in which, the ever suffering people of Zimbabwe, and even citizens across the regio...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 19:05hrs | 553 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF loses plot on parastatals
Zanu-PF never ceases to amaze to a point that many of us end up wondering whether it really understands what it means or entails to be a ruling party. At every turn it increasingly makes it super diff...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 06:07hrs | 1065 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe rising above illegal sanctions,' claims Mnangagwa
ZIMBABWEANS must fully utilise their capabilities to rise against the bane of illegal sanctions and help in the lifting of thousands of people from poverty to prosperity, President Mnangagwa has said....Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 05:59hrs | 167 | by Staff reporter
UBH cancels 21 inflated tenders
THE United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) has cancelled 21 out of 34 tenders flighted this year to ensure that the Government is not fleeced, but gets value for money after some of the suppliers had highly ...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Students arrested over fees demonstration
SIX Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) students were on Monday arrested for allegedly demonstrating against a recent fees hike by the institution.The six students are; Kimberly Joni, Ernest Liyal...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 19:06hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa forced to withdraw new perks for ministers after DA outcry
"The president listened."This was the message from President Cyril Ramaphosa's spokesperson Vincent Magwenya on Monday when he announced the withdrawal of a controversial amendment to the mini...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | 1719 | by Staff reporter
Church leaders campaigning for ED akin to Jesus' apostles campaigning for Pontius Pilate!
It is undeniable that the Christian Church, particularly over the past centuries - after its institutionalization by the Roman Empire, through Constantine the Great, over 1,700 years ago - has been a ...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 17:46hrs | 720 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe govt 'pampers' education executives
GOVERNMENT is reportedly pampering senior civil servants in the education sector by giving them travel and subsistence allowances pegged in United States dollars (US$), a development that has sparked ...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 06:10hrs | 703 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over Zanu-PF-State conflation
A LEAKED government correspondence has exposed the State-Zanu-PF conflation after it emerged that the party's second secretary and former Zimbabwe's vice-president Kembo Mohadi was being allocated fue...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:15hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
Why ordinary Zimbabweans not particularly thrilled, or may actually be terrified, over possible gas and oil discovery!
The advent of the 'metaverse', or most specifically social media, has created an alternative reality for most people - which, oftentimes, is far divorced from the real physical world that we live in....Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 10:29hrs | 1393 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Residents cry foul over BCC billing system
BULAWAYO residents have slammed council over its billing system that has seen some of them being asked to pay amounts that they say are outrageous.Under the auspices of the Bulawayo Progressiv...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:50hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter
At times I feel Zimbabweans deserve ED!
Whenever I observe the ordinary people of Iran, I am always filled with awe and admiration. Here is a nation with one of the most ruthless oppressive theocratic regimes on the planet.H...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 11:22hrs | 1785 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa challenger appeals Nguni inclusion
FORMER Zanu-PF youth member Sybeth Musengezi has filed an application challenging the inclusion of Goodson Nguni in a court case he is questioning President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy as the pres...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 05:56hrs | 1090 | by Staff reporter
MPs blast 'dishonest' Mthuli Ncube in heated tax-free salary stand-off
LEGISLATORS stood their ground in Parliament this week, firmly rejecting what they saw as a bid by Finance Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube to use the Senate to backtrack on a commitment to increase th...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:08hrs | 2659 | by Staff reporter
Africans' 'victim mentality' now sickening and disgraceful!
I know what racism, racial segregation and discrimination are - having spent the first seven years of my life under colonial rule in the then Rhodesia.Thereafter, facing the same at the dawn o...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 12:32hrs | 1166 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Public procurement loopholes enable looting of Covid-19 goods
THE absence of statutes aimed at managing the procurement of goods and services and their issuance in times of emergency in Zimbabwe led to the country not getting value for the funds it invested towa...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 20:02hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
Spies stalk US Senate aides to Harare cafe, stage high speed chase
In a dramatic incident, suspected Zimbabwe state agents tailed and secretly filmed two visiting US Senate aides who were having a meeting with a civil society activist at a Harare cafe.The inc...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 19:15hrs | 2366 | by Staff reporter
Nurse caught pants down on-duty, married lover runs away
GETTING it on with your lover at work can feel naughty, steamy, and hot but, it can also be a risky "affair" since there can be consequences if you are caught in the act.In a rather strange in...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:20hrs | 7552 | by Staff reporter
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