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Stop suppressing citizens' freedoms
The arrest on Friday of 34 people who were attending a prayer meeting in Harare was another demonstration of the government's lack of respect for freedom of assembly, which is a right that is enshrine...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 09:21hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Davos trip of shame
ZIMBABWE'S pariah state tag haunted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent visit to the Davos World Economic Forum in Switzerland with political analysts equating the journey to a trip of shame....Published: 28 May 2022 at 20:04hrs | 4501 | by Staff Reporter
Change in Zimbabwe is a big word and act
THIS country requires to make hard decisions and act in a radical manner for any sensible economic transformation to be upon us. However, we are expecting change of our economic fortunes using the sam...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:48hrs | 240 | by Brian Sedze
'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 2819 | by Dumisani Muleya
Walk the talk on reforms
Five years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa swept into power following a coup that toppled Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe is still stuck in the political and economic quagmire of the past two decades....Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:33hrs | 86 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe a pariah state that can't even be trusted by fellow African countries!
Can African countries genuinely trust the rogue Zimbabwe regime?In fact, should African nations be so foolhardy and naive as to place their trust in a proven pariah state as Zimbabwe?W...Published: 17 May 2022 at 16:41hrs | 1059 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa's CCC slams Mnangagwa
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) on Wednesday vowed a robust challenge to controversial measures to shore up the fast-depreciating Zimbabwe dollar, announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa las...Published: 11 May 2022 at 19:10hrs | 550 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Pre-Elections Pact on Reforms is a pseudo pre-marital power sharing agreement- no reforms will be implemented
If I was in a position to do so, I would make reading George Orwell's book, Animal Farm compulsory reading for all Zimbabwe for two reasons:1) The book is an allegorised allu...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 21:46hrs | 2193 | by Wilbert Mukori
SA Minister to resign once all foreign 'rascals' are locked up and keys thrown away
The occasion was his address at an ANC regional conference in the Eastern Cape where the minister pledged that "unlike other coward ANC leaders", his views on the scourge of undocumented foreign natio...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:14hrs | 1745 | by Staff reporter
Failure to compensate white farmers will result in Zimbabwe debt ballooning; IMF warns
ZIIMBABWE's failure to compensate white former farmers as per agreement will result in the country's public debt bulging, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.The Bretton woods ins...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 07:56hrs | 913 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe debt burden to worsen, claims IMF
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that Zimbabwe's debt burden will worsen considerably due to the country's inability to compensate its displaced white former farmers, and the Reserve B...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:34hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe committed to clear debt arrears
The government is committed to clear its debt arrears with international financial institutions (IFIs) to unlock fresh capital, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, John Mangudya (pictured) sa...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:16hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
Nothing wrong with Mpofu's declaration that Zanu-PF will rule forever
It is not surprising that political parties and pressure groups who are funded by the West have angrily reacted to Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu's declaration that the ruling party ...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:42hrs | 133 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'There is room to improve conduct of elections' says ZCC – were rigged but will never admit, what a waste
In 2018 the EU Election Observer Mission stated in its final report that "the electoral commission lacked full independence and appeared to not always act in an impartial manner. The final results as ...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 10:26hrs | 1191 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa fails to decimate opposition
THE Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) was the biggest winner in last weekend's by-elections, with Zanu PF coming a humble second while the MDC-T performed dismally despite the state pouring money i...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 07:28hrs | 2479 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's party has same fears of dirty tricks
ZIMBABWE'S opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa may have formed a new political party, but he is still facing the same old problems which some had hoped would end with ...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:00hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
Saudi Arabia to price oil in Yuan instead of dollars
Saudi and Chinese officials are in talks to price some of the Gulf nation's oil sales in yuan rather than dollars or euros, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the ma...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 16:00hrs | 2402 | by Staff reporter
This is not democracy
A clear a pattern of police using draconian laws to block the country's main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) from effectively campaigning ahead of the March 26 by-elections is emerging ...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:06hrs | 120 | by Staff reporter
Britain and the USA gave Putin the idea of invasion, by doing this in Iraq, Libya, Serbia etc
In the long-ago summer of 2010, I found myself in the beautiful harbour of Sevastopol, surveying the rival fleets of Russia and Ukraine as they rode at anchor in the lovely Crimean sunshine. O...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 08:45hrs | 1181 | by Peter Hitchens
Zimbabwe explains abstaining anti-Russia UN vote
THE international community must ceaselessly work towards facilitating dialogue between Russia and Ukraine to resolve the crisis in eastern Europe and not make unilateral decisions that seek to punish...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:33hrs | 219 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa under pressure to decant indifference to Zanu PF rigging 2023 elections
The worsening economic situation in SA is forcing ANC to revisit its indifference to Zimbabwe's curse of rigged elections and bad governance. SA cannot afford a new wave of economic and/or political r...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 13:09hrs | 1518 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa under pressure to reshuffle
PRESSURE is mounting on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to reshuffle his cabinet within the fractious ruling Zanu-PF ahead of upcoming 2023 harmonised elections.The anticipated reshuffle, accordi...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 21:32hrs | 4430 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has put the final nail into the MDC brand
THE move by opposition leader Nelson Chamisa to change his party's name to Citizens' Convergence for Change (CCC) has put the final nail into the MDC brand, which has since 1999 emerged as one of the ...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:33hrs | 856 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa had a chance to be a Gorbachev, but he chose to be Milosevic!!!
Zimbabweans celebrating the fall of the late ex-President Robert Mugabe during the November 2017 military coup which brought President E.D Mnangagwa to power. Pic Credit; Google.Reader, Mnanga...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 20:36hrs | 1389 | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo Sr
'We want Zimbabweans to work in SA but locals first' - can't have the cake and eat it too, not even Malema
"We want to make an emphasis to the owners of restaurants that no-one should stop employing Zimbabweans and say the EFF said they don't want them," said Julius Malema on Wednesday."We want Zim...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 09:59hrs | 1812 | by Nomusa Garikai
Electoral reforms must dominate political discourse in 2022
AS we bask on the cusp of a new year, Zimbabweans appear to have gone agog about the pending by-elections and what many deem to be the watershed plebiscite of 2023.And yet for some of us, high...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | 171 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Mwonzora cannot claim a non-existent entity, says Jonathan Moyo
POLITICAL scientist Professor Jonathan Moyo says Douglas Mwonzora's manoeuvre for the MDC-T to contest the 26 March by-elections under the MDC-Alliance banner is null and void at law and would confirm...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:05hrs | 3318 | by Staff reporter
ANC calls for 'lifting of sanctions' against Cuba, etc but not Zimbabwe - new awakening condemn rigged elections too
"The #January8statement at @MYANC's 110th anniversary by @CyrilRamaphosa called for the unconditional lifting of sanctions against Cuba, solidarity with Palestine and Western Sahara, but was silent on...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 17:29hrs | 1379 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa condemns 'chicanery' in Zanu PF elections - hypocrite orchestrated wanton violence in national elections
"Irregularities and political chicanery across party structures must be decisively dealt with and expunged from the party," said President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 23:25hrs | 411 | by Nomusa Garikai
ZACC boast 'great strides in stamping out corruption', seized US$700M - super slow applaud, 6% gold looted in one decade alone
"The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) said it had seized property worth over $700 million," reported Zimeye."The anti-corruption body has also filed 18 unexplained wealth order case file...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 13:58hrs | 452 | by Wilbert Mukori
UK PM snubs Mnangagwa
ZIMBABWE'S pariah status continues following reports British Prime Minister Boris Johnson consulted Southern African presidents, except President Emmerson Mnangagwa, before the latest travel restricti...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:46hrs | 47 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, is Zimbabwe a sovereign state or a pariah, failed state?
What is sovereign about Zimbabwe whose government fails to give its people basics such as food securities for all, good education for all, basic health facilities, good all-weather roads, water & ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 11:48hrs | 454 | by Nomazulu Thata
Patriotic Act will leave ZANU PF supporters out of the definition
The recently tabled patriotic bill in the Zimbabwe parliament will expose that ZANU PF supporters, surrogates and appendages are not patriotic.You cannot have a whole party that claims to have...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 19:29hrs | 55 | by Phosiwe Ncube
ZANU PF regime's uncivilized and undiplomatic savage diatribes main impediment to international re-engagement
In any relationship and encounter on this planet, there are bound to be some disagreements and misunderstandings.Even in the animal kingdom, there is always conflict to be expected - whether i...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 09:41hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
School heads forced to attend Zanu-PF induction
Several school heads in Mutasa district, Manicaland province were allegedly forced to attend an induction training facilitated by Zanu-PF at the weekend, a development that has irked teachers who desc...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:22hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
If empty chairs are an audience then re-engagement is at its lowest
With pomp and ceremony, the hired private jet left Harare (former Salisbury) to Glasgow Scotland in the United Kingdom. The jet was flying the largest contingent to the Cop26 conference, the Earth sum...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:27hrs | 6 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Egg on face for Mnangagwa in Glasgow
The much anticipated COP26, UN Summit in Glasgow (Scotland) has turned tables upside down on ED and his entourage who were expecting merry-making at the expense of suffering tax payers back home. Inst...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:18hrs | 2711 | by Zakhele Maphosa
Mnangagwa's Glasgow trip a missed opportunity
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit to Glasgow, Scotland, was a missed opportunity for Zimbabwe to meaningfully engage world leaders on climate matters, but instead he reduced the all-important summi...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 17:58hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe will reduce CO2 emission by 40% in 9 years' - it's rich, failed to deliver free elections in 41 years
It is great to be a dictator; you can say whatever you like, make all manner of promises knowing fully well you will never ever be held to democratic account for it!"Zimbabwe has set an ambiti...Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 06:23hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Panicky Zanu-PF deploy riot Police' - no reforms means no economic recovery, civil unrest is inevitable
"Emmerson Mnangagwa's panicky administration has deployed hundreds of police officers, many in riot gear, in Harare amid fears of an imminent uprising, it has emerged," reported Zimeye."Securi...Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 06:16hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa drools over COP26
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa is relishing his forthcoming visit to the United Kingdom for COP26 - the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference - the Zimbabwean leader will soon fly into Gla...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe the new Cold War front
ON February 5, 2018 United States President Donald Trump wrote to the US Congress that he was extending sanctions on Zimbabwe by another year. This year President Joe Biden did the same.The gi...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:28hrs | 5 | by Nevanji Madanhire
Mnangagwa's anti-sanctions charade finds few takers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-sanctions charade, including rallies and marches devoid of concrete political reforms, is senseless escapism from what the government ought to do to convince the We...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Remove the sanctions!' chorused SADC leaders on Anti-Sanctions Day - leaders cum howler monkeys
Man is a creature of reason and it is therefore most disconcerting when he starts to behave like one of the other animals, especially when the individual is in a position of power and authority. ...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 20:51hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Remove yoke of sanctions so Zimbabwe can breathe
ZIMBABWE tomorrow joins the Southern Africa Development community, the wider African continent and other progressive nations of the world in commemorating the Day of Solidarity Against Illegal Sanctio...Published: 24 Oct 2021 at 09:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Sanctions against Zimbabwe are a setback' - a feeble excuse cum insult cum tool for oppression
"Sanctions against Zimbabwe are a setback to stability in our region. Botswana therefore calls on the international community to end sanctions against Zim...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 08:08hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
UN must act on lifting of Zimbabwe sanctions
THIS year's United Nations General Assembly, held in hybrid format in New York due to the coronavirus pandemic, has once again shone the spotlight on the devastating impact of years of sanctions on Zi...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinese worse colonizers than the British, as savagely exploiting our country out of existence
I am a ZISCOSTEEL product. Born and bred in the iron and steel making small town of Redcliff.As with most towns and cities in Zimbabwe - Redcliff was built entirely by companies that opened th...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 19:38hrs | 25 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mugabe's contested legacy far from settled
TWO years after the death of former president Robert Mugabe, there remains no consensus regarding his legacy, with conflicting perceptions of the liberator-turned-despot dominating debate whenever his...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa turns 79
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa today celebrates his 79th birthday with the dream of a better and greater Zimbabwe still his main mission. Since his inauguration in November 2017, Mnangagwa has remained ...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 06:19hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
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