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Chiwenga, Mohadi woken up at 2AM for Mnangagwa airport welcome
Acting President Constantino Chiwenga, alongside fellow Vice-President Kembo Mohadi, Cabinet ministers and other senior government officials, were roused from their beds in the early hours of Monday m...Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 11:33hrs | 1644 | by Staff reporter
Cucsman apologises for blind loyalty to Chamisa
Popular Zimbabwean opposition musician and political commentator Cucsman has issued a heartfelt public apology, urging for greater objectivity and accountability within Zimbabwe's political landscape....Published: 14 Jul 2025 at 10:07hrs | 1453 | by Staff reporter
Is the Trabablas Interchange a monument to Zimbabwe's misplaced priorities and corruption?
Is Zimbabwe's so-called ‘spaghetti road' just another highway to corruption?The recent announcement by Zimbabwe's Ministry of Transport that the long-awaited Mbudzi Interchange - now curious...Published: 15 May 2025 at 08:08hrs | 389 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Is Mnangagwa stalling real economic empowerment so that he can be thanked for handouts?
This morning, I watched a news report where the people of Goromonzi converged to receive one or two fire trucks which had been bought using so-called "Devolution Funds".My heart broke as sever...Published: 27 Dec 2024 at 17:40hrs | 871 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Let's promote patriotism and not a personality cult in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has increasingly alienated its audience by subjecting the few remaining viewers and listeners to relentless propaganda promoting President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 10:17hrs | 59 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's personality cult grows
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his loyalists have intensified efforts to create a political personality cult as part of a controversial campaign to extend his presidency beyond the constitutional tw...Published: 01 Dec 2024 at 12:21hrs | 541 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube rejects National Heroes Acre burial?
Former Minister and liberation struggle Zipra commander Tshinga Dube, who passed away on Thursday night, has expressed his wish not to be buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare, according to his...Published: 05 Oct 2024 at 16:12hrs | 2803 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chiwenga challenges Mnangagwa openly?
In a clear sign of his growing discontent with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's "ED2030" campaign, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga has openly criticized the rise of personality cults, power pursuits...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 13:02hrs | 6346 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga tells Zanu-PF members to be loyal to the party
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has cautioned Zanu-PF party members against falling into the traps of self-serving personality cults, personal power struggles, and factionalism.In a speech...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 10:51hrs | 725 | by Staff reporter
Coltart wants Zimbabwean political parties to organise like businesses
As Zimbabwe seeks to shift its politics from slogans and personality cults to a focus on ideas and issues, Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart advocates for political parties to be organized and managed effi...Published: 25 Jul 2024 at 13:14hrs | 1096 | by Staff reporter
Of course, Chamisa acted 'without democratic oversight'. Herd refuse to accept it out of blind personality cult
"Ncube pointed to Chamisa's consolidation of power, describing him as having reduced the party into a one-man show where he held multiple roles including president, spokesperson, secretary general, an...Published: 26 Jun 2024 at 21:03hrs | 8 | by Wilbert Mukori
The rise of General Chiwenga: My reply to this article
My article today is to reply an article written by Samkeliso Ncube on Bulawayo 24: it was written in large; The rise of General Chiwenga, Zimbabwe's vanguard to a prosperous future. This article is no...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 20:30hrs | 21 | by Nomazulu Thata
THE RISE OF GENERAL CHIWENGA: Zimbabwe's vanguard to a prosperous future
In the intricate tapestry of Zimbabwean politics, where challenges have often overshadowed triumphs, the emergence of leaders who can steer the nation towards prosperity becomes a beacon of hope. As t...Published: 23 Feb 2024 at 13:26hrs | 42 | by Samkeliso Ncube
CCC and MDC were led same corrupt leaders and both accomplished nothing. Same again are leading new blue party!
There is an eye-catching Zimbabwe Daily cartoon depicting a Yellow Kobi with three drivers (the three rotational presidents in the Tshabangu CCC faction). The Kobi has no wheels and resting on bricks....Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 11:15hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa surrenders hard-won political and democratic space
"THIS is to officially, and under my hand, inform you fellow citizens of Zimbabwe and the world, that, with immediate effect, I no longer have anything to do with CCC."With these words, Zimbab...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:22hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa drops a political bombshell
Zimbabwe's main opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa, who has given President Emmerson Mnangagwa a good run for his money in two tightly-contested and disputed presidential elections, has abandoned hi...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 19:44hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa's worst nightmare
ON November 4 2023, the High Court of Zimbabwe issued a judgment in favour of Sengezo Tshabangu in the case of Prince Dubeko Sibanda and others.The case was filed by former legislators, who we...Published: 18 Nov 2023 at 19:44hrs | 11 | by Liam Kanhenga & Youngerson Matete
Nelson Chamisa can work a crowd
WITH all the drama of the Pentecostal preacher that he is, Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa can work a crowd.He will now put that charisma to the test in the general election o...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 21:43hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
The political leaders we want in Zimbabwe
WHEN a system is not producing the results we want, we must change the system to get different results.That system can only change when those in leadership realise and acknowledge that the old...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 07:08hrs | 2 | by Vince Musewe
Paranoid Chamisa feels politically threatened by Job Sikhala
The political persecution of Job Sikhala by the Zimbabwe government should be condemned by all progressive and democratic forces in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe and the world. We have first hand exp...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 19:39hrs | 17 | by Israel Dube
No leader will serve Zimbabwe without pressure from citizens
WHY do we as Zimbabweans somehow appear to believe that there will ever be a politician who will emerge in our country or possibly has already manifested, who places the interests of Zimbabwe ahead of...Published: 29 Aug 2022 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's sense of insecurity compromising progress, unity
DURING the days of ousted late despot Robert Gabriel Mugabe, Zimbabweans were introduced to the sickening politics of cultism - whereby the ruling Zanu-PF party, the country and its structures were mo...Published: 19 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's sense of insecurity and lack of confidence as a leader compromising national development and unity
During the days of ousted late despot Robert Gabriel Mugabe, Zimbabweans were introduced to the sickening politics of cultism - whereby, the ruling ZANU P...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 08:36hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Nothing new about CCC's same old characters
When CCC won in the majority of constituencies in by-elections held in March, its leaders ran with a line that they had done well, yet they were a new party on the scene.Yet the claim that CCC...Published: 28 May 2022 at 08:50hrs | 3 | by Lovemore Chikova
Boardroom coup to topple Matabele leader backfires on Chamisa
When it comes to tribalism in Zimbabwe, CCC aka MDC and ZANU-PF lead. To put it in other words, ZANU-PF is the first anti- Matabele Shona project and first home for Shona supremacists in Zimbabwe and ...Published: 21 May 2022 at 16:12hrs | | by Israel Dube
CCC congress debate: Whither democracy?
THE Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was built around Morgan Tsvangirai's personality. It is personality politics or personality cultism. Similarly, Zanu-PF under the late former president Robert ...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:28hrs | 1 | by Faith Zaba
End of the road for Tsvangirai's MDC
D-DAY has arrived for the MDC brand, with the electorate expected to decide its fate, as analysts say the iconic party associated with the firebrand Morgan Tsvangirai may disappear into oblivion if it...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
The rise and fall of the MDC: Winners, losers and neutrals
AS Zimbabwe approaches crucial by-elections in March, which will test the strength of main contestants while determining the authentic opposition, there is no denying that the MDC, which has posed the...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:21hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa concedes defeat in the battle for MDC?
FORMER MDC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa conceded defeat in the battle for control of the heart and soul of the opposition party as he surrendered the name MDC-Alliance to adopt the name Citizen Coalition ...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF cults, national myths, hegemony
THE British are renowned for their liking of leaders, particularly those who took them through tough periods like the Second World War and the Cold War-era. Most notable are army commander Winston Chu...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:23hrs | 3 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Chamisa a cunning megalomaniac
THERE is a problem that the Zimbabwean electorate is not seeing in the opposition politics of our country.The situation cannot even be explained using the words disaster and catastrophe. Many ...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Lessons from SA social unrest
THE turmoil in South Africa following the recent jailing of former president Jacob Zuma and subsequent social unrest characterised by rioting and looting for many other reasons - including deprivation...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 15:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Unconstitutional extension of Malaba’s tenure, predictive of a 2023 rigged election?
Mnangagwa owes Malaba a tonne of gratitude. He insulated Mnangagwa from what was imminent loss of power when the coup, illegal, was challenged, allowing him to consolidate power aftermath the illegal ...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:03hrs | | by Nancy Makurira
Unconstitutional extension of Malaba's tenure, predictive of a 2023 rigged election?
Mnangagwa owes Malaba a tonne of gratitude. He insulated Mnangagwa from what was imminent loss of power when the coup, illegal, was challenged, allowing him to consolidate power aftermath the illegal ...Published: 13 May 2021 at 22:07hrs | 1 | by Nancy Makurira
Workers decimate Mugabe's cattle herd
VILLAGERS have gone on a raiding rampage on a farm belonging to the late former president Robert Mugabe in Mazowe, hunting down and slaughtering over 1 400 cattle belonging to his family, in a which h...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 17:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Polad needs gravitas
Polad (an acronym for Political Actors Dialogue) is a voluntary platform for national dialogue launched by President Emmerson Mnangagwa just a few days after the Ides of May 2019.Polad was fla...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Willard Chinhara
Zimbabwe EFF CIC's profile
1) Who is Innocent Ndibali?Innocent Ndibali is proud Zimbabwean, a Commander-In-Chief of Economic Freedom Fighters (Zimbabwe Chapter: EFF-Zim), business man in both Zimbabwe ...Published: 24 May 2019 at 08:06hrs | 2 | by Zim EFF
G40, MDC Alliance plot to form GNU exposed
THE notorious G40 cabal and the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance made futile attempts to form a coalition under the "Grand Union" in the run up to last year's elections in the vain hope of forcing a Go...Published: 01 May 2019 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
The paradox of Chete Chete! Emerging understandings in 2019
Pursuant to last week's instalment, an erstwhile barrister in the making, Zwelithini Xaba gave a candid response on how Nelson Chamisa and his generational consensus are a façade. But the budding bar...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Michael Mhlanga
'Mugabe hollowed out Zanu PF leaving punkah-wallahs' said Godwin - true, with idiots' help they will rule for many more moons
"Mnangagwa's rule may not last very long," wrote Peter Godwin in the Spectator and Bulawayo24. Well if it was left to you, my brother, and me, I would agree with you 100%. Sadly, there many others out...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 09:11hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa's rule may not last very long
Ten days ago, Zimbabwe's President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, hiked the price of petrol by 250 per cent, making it the most expensive in the world. There had been an acute fuel shortage for months and this ...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 08:41hrs | 4 | by Peter Godwin
Things fall apart as EDIOTS hero-worship
Not to see faults in our leaders is injustice to the person concerned also, Hero worship. It has probably always been a thing and is also not likely to die out any time soon. Picking someone to excess...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 00:31hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The new dispensation: One year on
This week last year Zimbabwe went through the epoch-making Operation Restore Legacy which culminated in the resignation of former President Robert Mugabe on 21 November and the ascension of President ...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 16:43hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
The Zimbabwe Kakistocracy
A Kakistocracy is a government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power (Oxford Dictionary). This has been the case since 1980 when Zanu pf took over, a year ...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 13:26hrs | | by AT Kadada
19 shades of the MDC
Yesterday marked the 19th birthday of the Movement of Democratic Change - Zimbabwe's once formidable opposition party. Of course, one can be forgiven for not knowing what that name actually now repres...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Belling Zimbabwe's electoral-ideological cat
IT will take a while yet for the national after-effect of the 2018 harmonised election to wear off. Praise singers of President Emmerson Mnangagwa will continue justifying his eventual victory, while ...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha
It's not about Chamisa or Mnangagwa, stupid!
The political brouhaha is fast reaching a crescendo, with political parties launching their manifestos pasted with unrealistic promises. I am no longer a fan of those, as they have become nothing ...Published: 28 May 2018 at 07:59hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
This is what Independence feels like
This year's Uhuru Day will be a celebration of several firsts.It is the first under a new administration, one led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. It is the first without Mr Robert Mugabe as H...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Churches should not blaspheme just to please Mnangagwa
As a devout Christians it is always painful to hear any form of blasphemy against Jehovah God, but it is most insulting when it emanates from those who should know better - the church and its leaders ...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 10:34hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Churches should not blaspheme just to please Mnangagwa
As a devout Christians it is always painful to hear any form of blasphemy against Jehovah God, but it is most insulting when it emanates from those who should know better - the church and its leaders ...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 08:46hrs | 14 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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