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The Zezuru-Korekore empire died with its founding King, Robert Mugabe
Through astonishing political ignorance, those who claim to be the successors to the Zezuru throan today, Constantino Chiwenga, 1st Vice President of Zimb...Published: 09 Jul 2025 at 06:58hrs | 639 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe's crisis will not be solved by another election
For over four decades since our hard-won independence, Zimbabwe has been trapped in cycles of political contestation, economic decline, and social fragmentation.As someone who has lived throug...Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 15:04hrs | 1306 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Until Zanu PF amend constitution to postpone 2028, subject is mumbo jumbo; Chapungu focus on free elections guarantees
Zimbabwe has many economic, social and political problems to be dealing with. The country is a failed state for Pete's sake. So why is parliament wasting time, energy and God only knows the amount of ...Published: 16 Jan 2025 at 22:22hrs | 1380 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Ncube's term expired, my suspensions authority resides elsewhere,' Tshabangu
Citizens Coalition for Change faction led by Sengezo Tshabangu has claimed that according to their constitution, Welshman Ncube's term of office as either substantive or acting President expired and o...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 08:13hrs | 2753 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Smith & apartheid regimes were angels compared to 44-Year-Old 'independent' Zimbabwe
Talking in terms of segregation, oppression and savagery towards those considered as foreigners or political undesirables, no present or past government in Southern Africa matches the black Shona supr...Published: 15 Apr 2024 at 15:56hrs | 28 | by Israel Dube
Chamisa should change strategy
Dear Mr [Nelson] Chamisa,I AM writing to you as a concerned citizen and a former supporter of yours. I voted for you in the presidential elections of 2018 and 2023, where the rigging of Zanu-P...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 17:31hrs | 15 | by Barnabas Musisinyani
Mnangagwa lines up US meetings with SADC leaders
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has lined up private meetings with SADC leaders during his US excursion amid signs of an attempt to hush wide condemnation over the manner with which he was re-elected las...Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 18:55hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
The law cannot resolve Zimbabwe's political question
AS debate raged over the weekend on whether the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) should have gone to court in the matter of the sham election, l was and still remain unconvinced on what would have ...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:20hrs | 16 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa pins hopes on Sadc, AU
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says it is now pinning its hopes on the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and the African Union (AU)'s intervention following its decision no...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Unity can save Zimbabwe'
ZIMBABWE'S economic and political challenges will continue to haunt the nation as there is no unity among the citizens, losing presidential candidate Trust Chikohora has said.Chikohora partici...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC Mthwakazi: kick out Shona supremacist Chamisa and declare Matabeleland independent, ignore Welshman apology
Nothing pains us more than seeing fellow Matabeles being humiliated, dehumanised, abused and used as voting cattle in the Zimbabwe election booths by opportunistic Zimbabwe opposition parties that do ...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 19:46hrs | 21 | by Israel Dube
Iran, please tell Mnangagwa that sanctions are a fallacy
SO, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was in Zimbabwe for a visit.That was good news; well, for me at least, because I believe this was an opportunity for him to finally get it into the heads of...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:57hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
President Raisi, please tell Mnangagwa that sanctions can never cripple a country!
So, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is in Zimbabwe for a visit. That is good news! Well, for me, at least this is an opportunity for him to finally get it into the heads of those gover...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:05hrs | 17 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Executive presidency behind African development problems
POST-COLONIAL Africa, which has been in existence for over 60 years is in need of a systematic examination of its constitutional obligations. Some of the major challenges facing African societies incl...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:10hrs | 17 | by Austin Chakaodza
Bereka Mwana is backward, archaic and a discredited voting method
Bereka Mwana (asking voters to stand behind a candidate they are voting for) is backward, archaic and no self respecting democratic organization should ever use such a discredited voting method....Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 19:23hrs | 6 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
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
Bleak future for Zimbabwe's returning citizens
ZIMBABWEANS expected to return from South Africa in four months' time after the expiry of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEPs) face a bleak future as the government has failed to put in place socia...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 15:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chigumba resists political pressure over delimitation
IN the days leading to 17 February when the final delimitation report was supposed to be gazetted by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Justice Priscilla...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 10:38hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Iran exposes Zimbabwe's lies about sanctions crippling economy
As a Zimbabwe delegation, led by foreign affairs minister Fredrick Shava, visits Iran, and is showcased the repressive regime’s phenomenal economic and scientific breakthroughs - amidst enduring arg...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 21:09hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Commonwealth has appalling human rights record
This written article by Professor Jonathan Moyo, then an academic at the University of Zimbabwe, was published by the Financial Gazette on 10 October 1991, a few days...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | 51 | by Jonathan Moyo
'Civil servants forced to buy Zanu-PF cards'
Civil servants in some parts of the country have protested over what they have described as "coercion" by the ruling Zanu-PF party to buy the ruling party's membership cards at US$3 each.To av...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF will win 2023 elections and turn country around - Fresh Prophecy
NIGERIA - The Leader Of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has released fresh prophecies for some African countries namely South Sudan, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Libya ...Published: 07 Jan 2023 at 09:07hrs | 37 | by Oluwatosin Issac
Chamisa's MPs dig in, defend US$40,000 loan
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators have defended their move to accept controversial US$40,000 loans from Parliament, days after party president Nelson Chami...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 19:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Auxillia Mnangagwa should tell her husband that sanctions can't cripple a country's economy!
As Zimbabwe First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa visits Iran, and is showcased the Islamic Republic’s phenomenal economic and scientific breakthroughs - amidst...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 07:34hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
CIO training centre gutted in suspected arson attack
ZIMBABWE'S state security agency Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)'s training centre in Harare's Msasa suburb along St Patrick's Road across Chiremba Road from Hatfield has been burnt down by fi...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Find lasting solution to this political problem
During the colonial days some Zimbabweans crossed the Limpopo river going to egoli searching for employement and greener pastures and were coming back home without any problems. There was no such a th...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 19:58hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Kenyan elections: A lesson to Zimbabwe opposition parties
On August 9, Kenyans came out in their numbers to elect a man who will lead their country for the next five years.Dr William Ruto was on August 15 declared as the President-elect by the countr...Published: 23 Aug 2022 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Mukachana Hanyani
Chamisa's CCC rules out street protests over Sikhala
MAIN opposition Citizens Coalition for Change has denied claims that it has turned a blind eye on its 16 members that have been languishing in prison for nearly three months.Legislators, Job S...Published: 19 Aug 2022 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tells Zanu-PF to stop abusing chiefs
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF party desists from using chiefs and village heads as commissars during ele...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa must find each other
OR the better part of this week, Chitungwiza, especially Nyatsime, resembled a warzone.One would be forgiven to think that the community is party of Ukraine's Donbas region given the heightene...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Operation Dudula spreads
Fears abound that more Zimbabweans living in neighbouring South Africa are in danger as Operation Dudula has spread to Durban and other areas.Operation Dudula is a fast-rising anti-African imm...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland does not need leaders from Mashonaland, we have our own
"The buzz word "change" in Zimbabwe has generated hope and excitement that will deliver gloom and doom only to be felt and experienced after the elections. Removing Zanupf and E.D Mnangagwa is not Cha...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 06:01hrs | | by Israel Dube
'Zanu PF will not rig 2023 elections' 40 000 in Gweru believed it - proof we are still a naïve lot
Mankind is supposed to be a creature of reason, of rational behaviour and can think. In Zimbabwe many of us have taken leave of their senses and rational thinking and hence the reason the country has ...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 10:17hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe dumps SA-based students
GOVERNMENT has practically dumped Zimbabwean students affected by a recent South African government directive which withdrew a waiver allowing students to apply for permanent residence permits....Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 16:34hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
More woes for SA-based Zimbabweans
ZIMBABWEAN students in neighbouring South Africa have suffered a major blow after Pretoria withdrew a waiver allowing them to apply for permanent residence permits.Foreign students studying in...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'(Ramaphosa) don't have ostrich mentality. Help us!' demanded Chamisa - should wash his foul-mouth with bleach
"Don't bury your head in the sand. Don't have an ostrich mentality. Zimbabwe needs you. We have a crisis, a governance crisis, a leadership crisis, and that is a political problem that must be fixed,"...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 18:19hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa tells Ramaphosa not to have an ostrich mentality
NELSON Chamisa Thursday appealed to South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa's administration not to ignore the growing political crisis in Zimbabwe by "burying its head in the sand, and having an ostri...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 21:23hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe a nation or just a country?
THE question is often asked "Where did Zimbabwe go wrong?" but it is not necessarily a helpful question. Any attempt to pin down what has gone wrong to one single factor like corruption or bad governa...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 00:06hrs | 16 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Zimbabwean failure
LOOKING back over the past 40 years in Zimbabwe, I am surprised we are still here.In 1980, I was playing a small part in the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe in that I was selected as one ...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:57hrs | 12 | by Eddie Cross
Chamisa takes campaign to Matebeleland South
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa on Saturday took his meet-the-people campaign to Matebeleland South province to drum-up support for the by-elections to be held early next year and general electi...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:14hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Engage political reforms and abandon sanctions rhetoric' UN rebuke Mnangagwa - no time for diplomatic niceties
Zanu PF invited the UN Special rapporteur to investigate the negative impact of sanctions on the ordinary people. The regime hoped the rapporteur would confirm its claim that sanctions were the root c...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 00:29hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
When the police officer is actually a thug
CRISES bring out the best or worst in people.Well, for Britain, the current fuel shortages have brought out the bad and nasty side of a people that we are told are supposedly more civilised th...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:10hrs | 3 | by Bishop Lazi
Africa: A complex trajectory and legacy of military coups
FOR their spectacular nature, coups always appear like new phenomena when actually they are an old military and political issue that dates back to the genesis of humanity.It is like that in th...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 8 | by William Jethro Mpofu
Fresh push for Mnangagwa, Chamisa coalition govt
ZIMBABWE'S two main political parties have expressed interest in the formation of a unity government to unlock the country's long-standing political logjam, but seem to differ on implementation matrix...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Open letter UK PM Boris Johnson, MPs, Councillors, Religious leaders, any other community leaders
I write this with concern about the current deportations of the Zimbabwean immigrants:...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 17:26hrs | 1 | by Chris Goshomi
Letter to Boris Johnson about the deportation of Zimbabwean immigrants
A letter to the Prime Minister (Boris Johnson), MPs, Councillors, Religious leaders, and any other community leaders who may have communities at heart.I wri...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 10:26hrs | 1 | by Chris Goshomi
Malema snubs Ramaphosa meeting
The EFF will not participate in Cyril Ramaphosa non-productive meeting with political parties to rubber-stamp decisions already made. Ramaphosa meetings are a waste of time because he does not conside...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 12:44hrs | 1 | by EFF
'Sending Jacob Zuma to jail was not a wise move'
EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu has accused the Constitutional Court of using apartheid tactics to imprison former president Jacob Zuma for 15 months for contempt of court.Shivambu also cr...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 19:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Sort out political mess, says RBZ boss
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe deputy governor Kuphukile Mlambo has called on the country to sort out its political problems, which he said played an important role in informing investment decisions....Published: 17 May 2021 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa makes history as Chief Justice Malaba is saved by the bell
The present Constitution of Zimbabwe became fully operational on the 22nd August, 2013, having been assented to on the 22nd May, 2013, by the President as the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 2...Published: 09 May 2021 at 00:31hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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