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Winky D spits lyrical venom targeting Wicknell Chivayo
Wallace Chirumiko, popularly known as Winky D, has reiterated his commitment to remaining free from political influence, confirming that he will not be swayed by politicians or their associates offeri...Published: 27 Jan 2025 at 08:28hrs | 2102 | by Staff reporter
The dangers of colonial nostalgia and Amnesia
The legacy of colonialism remains a stain on our society - something that cannot be whitewashed. It remains a source of trauma - a source of collective pain. Four decades after independence, its...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 11:21hrs | 448 | by Innocent Mpoki
The cancel culture is misogynistic. Mokoena must be silenced by Zanu PF!
The political culture of South Africa is not interchangeable with that of Zimbabwean political landscape. These two countries are different even in the processes of gaining their political independenc...Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 22:51hrs | 887 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabweans should know that independence never guarantees freedom
This is a truth that has seemingly been lost on many people. For some strange reason, we appear to believe that the attainment of political independence by a country automatically translates i...Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 16:19hrs | 605 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Africa's future lies in its own hands
President E.D. Mnangagwa's advice that Africans should utilize their own resources to sustain their livelihoods and avoid relying on foreign aid is a wise and timely move that all Africans should embr...Published: 27 May 2024 at 19:59hrs | 16 | by Tonderai Ndoro
Zapu celebrates 62 years
Zapu is today celebrating 62 years after its formation with the party spokesperson Mso Ndlovu saying they celebrate this milestone, as they continue on their journey to achieve the full emancipation o...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 11:50hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa addresses first session of 10th Parliament
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa addressed the first session of the 10th Parliament this afternoon at the new Parliament Building in Mount Hampden, Harare.Below is the full speech.It is my singular...Published: 03 Oct 2023 at 14:30hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bigger than all of us
ZIMBABWE, as a State, is bigger than all of us.By definition a State is characterised by four things: A permanent population, defined territory, sovereignty and government. These traits of a S...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Nicholas Aribino
CiZC claims not regime change agents
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) says labelling the organisation regime change agents is a usual tactic used by dictatorships worldwide to muzzle all voices which attempt to hold them to account....Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:49hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Ama2K turn up 4ED
ZANU-PF Second Secretary Kembo Mohadi has said the ruling party is geared up for the harmonised elections even if the polls were to be held next week, and called on the youth to play their part to ens...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF faced with mammoth task
THERE is a unique connection between Gweru and Zanu-PF that must be cherished by the young generation who are not yet privy to the liberation struggle, the country's independence, and economic emancip...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa knows where to find me, says Mnangagwa
OPPOSITION political party leaders should feel free to approach the Head of State for dialogue directly as opposed to using proxies, the media and third parties, President Mnangagwa has said.P...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Zimbabwean nightmare and tragic optimism of Mutambara
To mention Zimbabwe and the idea of a "dream" in the same sentence, as Professor Arthur Mutambara has done, is to be provocative and challenging.The provocation and the challenge come from the...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:06hrs | 2 | by William Jethro Mpofu
Zimbabwe's political culture is schizophrenic and historically underpinned by violence
Professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, who leads studies on Epistemologies of the Global South at the University of Bayreuth in Germany and a visiting fellow at Johannesburg Institute for Advanced...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Fringe political outfit holds primary elections, congress
LION Of Praise Progressive Party (LOPP), an ambitious political outfit held its inaugural primary elections last weekend in Bulawayo, which also doubled as a congress for party structures ...Published: 17 Apr 2023 at 06:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
As long as Zimbabweans are such unmitigated cowards - Chamisa will grow old, and go into the grave without ever tasting power!
I have written extensively on how our appalling cowardice as Zimbabweans is the greatest single most outstanding factor holding us back as a nation - preventing us from pushing for the change we despe...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 21:39hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Puppets will never rule Zimbabwe'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said time has come to vote out corrupt opposition councillors whose parties have not only run down local authorities but are puppets of Western countries that want to rem...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:37hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to launch Divorce Club
Zambia and Zimbabwe were once a single country known as the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, also known as the Central African Federation or CAF. This was a colonial federation that consisted of ...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 12:13hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
The political agency of xenophobia, violence in SA
SOUTH Africa is home to millions of immigrants, mainly from Lesotho, Nigeria, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The regional giant has played an immense role for more than a century in attracting labour for it...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:50hrs | 1 | by Tatenda Mazarura
Protest vote won't help Zimbabwe
THE culture of casting a protest vote during elections will not get Zimbabwe anywhere, as the Government pushes ahead with development fixing roads, building dams and completing a raft of projects sta...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 08:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Yellow ‘fever' fast turning into despair
Just a few weeks down the line, the euphoria is fast dying down.The yellow fever is fast turning into despair.Zimbabweans being the creative lot that they are have turned CCC into "Cha...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:40hrs | 2 | by Major Action Mandingo (Retired)
Black rights now need to transcend elitism and racism, but be inclusive of all Black people across the globe!
The month of February is traditionally known as Black History Month - whose origins stem from a proposal by Black educators, and the Black United Students...Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 13:53hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Ex-Zipra commander pens book to correct history
A FORMER Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) commander, Andrew Ndlovu, yesterday said his book titled Zimbabwe Struggle. The Delayed Revolution: An Autobiography sought to correct Zimbabwe's ...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:35hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
20 years of ruinous sanctions
The unilateral sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West in the last 20 years have, among others, adversely affected the country's ability to boost its manufacturing sector, build health and education...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:21hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Not even ZANU PF late presidents are laid at the national heroes acre!
The first ZANU president, Ndabaningi Sithole, was deposed by Robert Gabriel Mugabe (who had been the party's secretary general) in 1975 - in an internal coup, whose constitutionality was questionable....Published: 18 Nov 2021 at 18:25hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Never imagined Zimbabwe ruling elite would be so euphoric about visiting former colonial master!
Indeed, it was a bit of a shocker, but most certainly not particularly surprising at all.I have always maintained that the hatred, by the Zimbabwe ruling elite, of the main opposition MDC - ev...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 00:23hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
At times, I really wish Zimbabwe was a colony again!
Today is one of those mornings, which just leaves any person (no matter how good-natured they may be) furious and agitated, confused and dazed - wondering what really is going on, and where is all thi...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 08:00hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mr President, even a husband who makes excuses for failing his family soon finds himself with divorce papers!
Excuses, excuses, excuses! Thats is what the people of Zimbabwe have come to expect from their government, ever since coming to power in 1980 - after the country attained political independenc...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 18:40hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
All Zanu-PF provinces endorse Mnangagwa
ALL Zanu-PF provinces have endorsed President Mnangagwa as the ruling party's presidential candidate in 2023 elections in a major show of confidence in his leadership following the advent of the New D...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Are Zimbabweans a lost cause irredeemably content with being oppressed?
When I was reading renowned and award-winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono's latest tweets where he clearly expressed open frustration and even infuriation at most Zimbabweans' apparent docility, subm...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 07:45hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Jacob Zuma's jail case was a golden opportunity: a catalyst to real issues
Criminals have taken a golden opportunity to hide behind another criminal who disdained the nation's constitution he once presided. Chinua Achebe writes about corruption in Nigeria's early independenc...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 18:40hrs | 19 | by Nomazulu Thata
Is Zim's deafening silence on Palestinians' bombardment instructive of regime's long-standing relationship with Israel?
Ever since the relentless bombardment on the Palestinian territory of Gaza was ruthlessly unleashed by the Israeli regime on Monday 10 May 2021, I have been patiently awaiting a statement of condemnat...Published: 16 May 2021 at 07:47hrs | 4 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Peter Hain's heinous plot against Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's justice system is under siege from foreign powers and their opposition proxies. The dishonourable Peter Hain, a member of the House of Lords in Britain, on April 27 2021, under the misguide...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:17hrs | 2 | by Charlene Shumba
Zimbabwe independence is now a senior bachelor!
YOUR Excellency, President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Sunday April 18 was Independence Day a once-hallowed day that has since lost its glitz because the requisite freedoms associated with the occasion are...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Cry my Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe attained 41 years of socio political independence which was awarded with deception by the British colony to the majority native citizens....Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 15:06hrs | 3 | by Shelton Muchena
Guta RaMwari Celebrates a Diamond Jubilee
It has been six decades since Guta RaMwari was established, transitioning from its old order to what it is today. In February of each year, Guta RaMwari congregants pilgrimage to their Head Quarters i...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 12:30hrs | 26 | by Mpumelelo Ncube
Chief Mtshana hero status: A veiled insult on Matabeleland
Although the all-conquering Chief Mtshana, was a bona fide and outstanding freedom fighter of all-time requiring recognition, the recent villainous conferment of hero status on him by the relevance-se...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 09:20hrs | 1 | by Nhlanhla Moses
How Zanu-PF came into existence
The born-free generation, born after Zimbabwe gained its independence in 1980, has grown up knowing a political system run by the Zanu PF party.Unbeknown to many people, the ruling party, is a...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 19:17hrs | 10 | by Irvine Sibhona
South Africa has no capacity to make demands on Zimbabwean internal affairs.
The rumour monger has again started to spin into overdrive against Zimbabwe. There has been a talk of intervention by south Africa in Zimbabwe. This rumour is spread and calculated to make people beli...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa hailed for Cites pullout plan
President Mnangagwa's announcement that Zimbabwe plans to pull out of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (Cites) has triggered excitement in Geneva, Swit...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | 14 | by Emmanuel Koro
No double standards for rule of law, Mnangagwa declares
Zimbabwe will not bend the law to please the opposition and its sympathisers who are supporting the recent attempts to embark on illegal protests, President Mnangagwa has said. Western embassi...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe War vets warn neo-imperialists
War veterans are committed to defending the country's sovereignty against erstwhile forces working in cahoots with the opposition MDC-Alliance, an official has said. Speaking at a Press briefi...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Heroes Month message to the people of Zimbabwe
It is exactly twelve months since disputed and stolen election of 2018. The majority of Zimbabweans are still in shock at the brazen manner inwhich their vote was stolen. Disputed ele...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 17:24hrs | 2 | by Nelson Chamisa
State Capture: The imperfect metaphor
Language and its expressions and metaphors does not only deliver messages and meaning but it can also do a lot to hide the truth. In that way language can be used, sometimes innocently and at ...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:20hrs | 2 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Why should we remember Joshua Nkomo
IN this two-part series, the Zimbabwe Independent reproduces the 2019 Annual Joshua Nkomo Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni, organised by Joshua Nkomo Legacy Foundation ...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:52hrs | 2 | by Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni
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
Velaphi Ncube's unheralded journey
ON Thursday, Misheck Ntunduzakovelaphi Velaphi Ncube was laid to rest at the National Heroes Acre in Harare following his declaration as a national hero.Born on 25 July 1937 in Matobo District...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:36hrs | 11 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Mthwakazi working class living in dire poverty
When the working class from all walks of life, celebrate the opportunities it has been afforded by its respective governments to put food on the table, Mthwakazi working classing is living in serious ...Published: 03 May 2019 at 07:54hrs | | by MLF
Mthwakazi working class living in dire poverty - (MLF)
Today, 01 May, when the working class from all walks of life, celebrate the opportunities it has been afforded by its respective governments to put food on the table, Mthwakazi working classing is liv...Published: 01 May 2019 at 09:29hrs | | by MLF
Matebeleland Problems won't be solved by Zimbabwe Government ( ZANUPF)
How can the Zimbabwe Government solve Matebeleland problems when the same Zanu PF system is the chief creator of all our problems?Our problems today as a region were created, knowingly and del...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 19:46hrs | | by VV Vodloza kaVodloza
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