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Zim opposition needs a reshuffle
Many Zimbabweans are wondering how they can fit into a new political discourse as the political hunger for change wanes.The conflict requires realignment and recalibration. A robust, resilient...Published: 18 hrs ago | 315 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe opposition needs reshuffle
MANY Zimbabweans are wondering how they can fit into a new political discourse as the hunger for political change wanes.The conflict requires realignment and recalibration.A robust, re...Published: 17 Jul 2025 at 09:00hrs | 544 | by Leonard Koni
A letter to Sengezo Tshabangu
Dear cousin Sengezo Tshabangu,I need to explain why I address you as Mzala. Bulawayo is a village, I am sure you could be related to my cousins, Nomusa and Fikile Tshabangu: daughters of Aunt ...Published: 15 May 2025 at 15:59hrs | 1369 | by Nomazulu Thata
Tshabangu and Chamisa are the same
While we all agree that Nelson Chamisa is a coward and a damn tribalist who through Central Intelligence advice disembarked from the freedom train midway, some of us strongly feel that Sengezo TShaban...Published: 26 Feb 2025 at 21:55hrs | 1261 | by Gugugu Magorira
Open Letter to Mr Songezo Tshabangu
Sir good morning and Compliments of the new season. We hope you had a wonderful year, 2024, and you will also have a great year ahead 2025.We hope that you have counted and identified ...Published: 14 Jan 2025 at 12:56hrs | 544 | by Cosmas Ncube
An acid test for Zimbabwe's opposition parties
EVERY institution is bound by a code of conduct which helps an organisation to run professionally and within the parameters of operations.There are several kinds of codes of conduct which the ...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
A clinical test for the opposition
Every institution is bound with the code of conduct which helps an organisation to run professionally and within the parameters of operations....Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Chamisa says Zanu-PF is bribing CCC bigwigs
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday made sensational claims that Zanu-PF was bribing his lieutenants to destabilise the party ahead of the 2023 elections.In a c...Published: 03 Nov 2022 at 05:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
The ugly face of political violence
"NATIONAL liberation, national reawakening, restoration of the nation to the people or Commonwealth, whatever the name used, whatever the latest expression, decolonisation is a violent event."...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 17:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar plunges into death spiral
ZIMBABWE's currency is in a death spiral and headed for a tragic end, two years after it was re-introduced into circulation, stoking fears of the 2008 hyperinflationary era where the government was fo...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sanctions hurting ordinary Zimbabweans
Zimbabwe has been on the receiving end of sanctions since 1966, either by the United Nations, United States, the European Union or both, thus qualifying the country for candidacy in the "sanctions ind...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
London government of BoJo says no opposition party in Zimbabwe
It is with great shock and despair to hear about President Mnangagwa's trip to meet BoJo in London the coming days or weeks! Indeed, there are no permanent friends in politics but only permanent inter...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 08:53hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Khaliphani Phugheni pounces on the smaller fish but exonerates the mighty crocodile
It is not different: the modus operandi is the same: Phugheni sees no evil in Mnangagwa but sees loads of evil in Obert Gutu. This is the same with Jonathan who blamed Gukurahundi to Mnangagwa and les...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 14:16hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa's youths led by Kambarami push for provincial chairperson ouster
The Bulawayo MDC Alliance Youth Assembly has called for the dismissal of the party's provincial chairperson, James Sithole, accusing him of being in bed with the rival MDC-T party.The party yo...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 18:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'More MDC activists flocking to Zanu-PF'
Zanu-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa has claimed that his party is inundated with applications from MDC Alliance members seeking to join the ruling party after realising that the opposition p...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Politics of the stomach choking Zimbabwe
It is really sad and beyond imagination to see democracy being shoved into the blast furnace with the aim of creating a one party state.Is recalling members of parliament by any chance g...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 19:35hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
Ndebele vultures fight for VP position left vacant by Mohadi
When you see vultures circling in the air and perching on the nearby tree branches you know that prey has fallen close by. The unceremonious fall of the 2nd Vice President of Zimbabwe, Kembo Mohadi ha...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 07:52hrs | | by Israel Dube
Kembo Mohadi presidential ambitions thwarted, we saw it coming!
In more than one article we told over ambitious Kembo Mohadi that he will never be the President of Zimbabwe given his Matabele background. We told him not to fly to high because his wings were fake, ...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 13:38hrs | 6 | by Israel Dube
Chamisa's MDC ready to begin talks with President Mnangagwa
THE opposition MDC Alliance says it is ready to begin talks with Zanu PF to find lasting political and economic solutions for Zimbabwe but is not keen to deal with a rival faction led by its former se...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Where is Comrade Albert Matapo?
We always realize extremely late that we the general populace is taken for a ride by people without any conscience, unscrupulous chancers in politics who masquerade as genuine revolutionaries and yet ...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Mnangagwa will be President again in 2023,' says Ngarivhume
OPPOSITION politician Jacob Ngarivhume sees a bleak future for opposition politics in Zimbabwe, and has resigned to the fact that the ruling Zanu-PF will win again in the 2023 elections.Ngariv...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa loyalist Gutu confusing COVID-19 correlation with causality
"Correlation is not causality", this one of the basic principles of logical thinking. This concept is introduced in any philosophy, statistics or law program that is worth its salt. Obert Gutu, an acc...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 08:31hrs | | by Edzai Zvobwo
#ThisFlag: Pastor Evan Mawarire duped us into his Mnangagwa project: Man of God please do not play around with our pain!
When Pastor Mawarire sparked life in our desperation for change in Zimbabwe, we were excited and excitable at the same time. The nation supported and believed in Mawarire in the sense of his hold word...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 21:19hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
The outcome of the August 16 MDC mass protest foretold
The month of August in Zimbabwe is recognized as the month of heroes. We celebrate those who fought for our freedom and the institutions which facilitated the liberation process. 2019 hero...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 15:14hrs | 1 | by Fidelis Fengu
Dabengwa burial snub cannot erase his legacy
Twitter: @MuckrakerZimTHE presidium was last week conspicuously absent at the burial of Zimbabwe's liberation war stalwart, the late Zipra intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa, at his Ntabazin...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by MUCKRAKER
Zanu-PF's time to walk the talk
In his message to workers on the eve of the Workers' Day President Emmerson Mnangagwa said, and I quote "we must no longer merely survive, now is the time for us to blossom, thrive and prosper as a na...Published: 04 May 2019 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Pupurai Togarepi
Mnangagwa pushes Zimbabweans to revolt
The Zanu-PF government is pushing Zimbabweans towards an uprising following a fresh wave of price increases that have virtually turned workers into slaves.The price of bread, a staple diet tha...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 19:16hrs | 2 | by Methusi Ncube
Ndebeles will never rule Zimbabwe
The closest a Ndebele will get to political power and smell it, would be when they are appointed 2nd Vice President, an insignificant position that reduces one to a mere servant in the President's off...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 06:18hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
ZANU PF Youth boss warns Nelson Chamisa
ZANU PF Secretary for Youth Lewis Matutu has warned MDC President Nelson that he risks having a premature end to his political career. Matutu was speaking after Chamisa on Thursday raised his clarion ...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 07:29hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
It is the worst time to be in the shoes of ED
Zimbabwe is in a very precarious condition. Prices are dancing a dance of their own. Life is very hard and it is a nightmare being Zimbabwean. Everybody from the rich and the poor are crying. As expec...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 22:18hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Government has an obligation to sort the economy
In the narrowest sense, the government's role in the economy is to help correct market failures, or situations where private markets cannot maximize the value that they could create for society. ...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe's constitutionalism moves notch up
Today is a momentous day for Zimbabweans as constitutionalism moves a notch up with the Constitutional Court sitting to consider submissions by MDC-Alliance presidential contestant Nelson Chamisa in c...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:02hrs | | by Elliot Ziwira
Zanu PF a league of hynas and jackals - Mujuru youths
Revolutionary greetings comrades. The general elections are 10 days away and we still haven't seen any electoral reforms, worse, the voters roll is still littered with ghost voters coupled with clumsy...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 20:14hrs | 2 | by NPP National Youth Chairman
Sanctions: A contradiction to free and fair elections
Zimbabwe since the year 2000 has repeatedly confronted the scathing effects of economic sanctions that have outrightly challenged the plane handling of Zimbabwe's economic aspirations. Often, politica...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Tedious Ncube
Mugabe, Zanu-PF in their own world
The people of Zimbabwe have had enough of Zanu pf yet the party claims they are the answer to the country, s economic woos. Mugabe, in power for 37 years, says he ought to be in power. Bot...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Albert T Kadada
Mugabe vs Mnangagwa and us all!
Many have said it, and it is much true that our politics is the politics of the stomach, they have said bring principles to a hungry man on one hand, and a bag of mealie-meal on the other hand, the ma...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 15:26hrs | 1 | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
What goes around comes back with vengeance dear Khupe!!!
For a long time in our post modern political history we have seen how Madam Thokozani has messed up politically: despite all misdemeanours we decided to emotionally back her as one of us women, we tho...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 06:26hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe Decides: 2018 - A prognosis through the vision of my prism
The better "crook" will romp home in the 2018 Zimbabwe national plebiscite."Cetris Paribus " though.ED is abated by the power of incumbency and the well girded state apparatus.His new dispensa...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 22:01hrs | 2 | by Bernard Muchemwa
Mrs Masuku: she gaffed!
This boot-licking is so contagious it has become a disease; it's pandemic: this disease does not belong to any political party of ethnic group in the country. Be it Shona or Ndebele or of white race t...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 20:56hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Postponment of elections unconstitutional - NPP
Revolutionary greetings dear comrades.There is no time for the citizens that give them hope than the elections. It is the time they all hope will precipitate upon them unadulterated change. Change tha...Published: 17 Jan 2018 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Khulani David Ndhlovu, NPP National youth spokesperson
Success in O-Level History
Last time, we deliberated on Question 1 and 2 of Paper 2. Questions often arise as to why Germany lost the war in 1918 and students of History dig deep into their archives as they advance different re...Published: 28 Oct 2017 at 07:50hrs | | by Freedom Mutanda
Political Wisemen from The East! Where are you as political illiteracy grips The Opposition?
Today, I here-by, strangely, start my discussion with a multi-million US $ question! Multi-million US$ question with the intention of provoking pedigree political introspection upon Zimbabwe's mass bu...Published: 02 May 2017 at 18:06hrs | 1 | by Reginald T. Gola
Politics of the belly and boot-licking not for the suffering masses
My analysis is not going to be based on one political party but basically it's going to be a broad analysis which is inclusive of all parties. It's very painful to write about this because as I look a...Published: 10 Mar 2017 at 13:47hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Faction that supports Mphoko's presidential falls by the wayside
As old age is threatening to relegate President Robert Mugabe to the old people's home, political vultures within and outside the fractured Zanu-pf party are now positioning themselves to grab pow...Published: 30 Nov 2016 at 09:01hrs | | by Israel Dube
Statement on partisan distribution of food aid
The MDC condemns in strongest terms the partisan distribution of food aid by government across the country, particularly in rural areas whereby, food aid is being given to ZANU PF card carrying member...Published: 20 Jan 2016 at 07:06hrs | | by Kurauone Chihwayi - MDC National Spokesperson
Dr Mugabe's gracious secret
Lead by example is one of the oldest phenomenon and adage often said than practised, owing to traditional tendencies of prioritizing benefits ahead of responsibilities when one assumes duty in an ...Published: 29 Jul 2015 at 15:10hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba
MDC-T glorifies oppression
At a recent public seminar organised by the Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI), one man, an MDC-T supporter received a standing ovation for making a silly statement. There was ululation ...Published: 03 Jul 2015 at 09:35hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
'Spoil June 10 poll ballots,' says Tsvangirai
Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday urged party supporters in Tsholotsho North constituency to either spoil ballot papers or shun polls altogether than vote for Information minister Jonathan Moyo - Zanu-PF c...Published: 18 May 2015 at 08:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe surrounded by bootlickers
Zimbabwe economy has once again collapsed due to a combination of factors among them, economic mismanagement and bad governance.It looks as if the centre is failing to hold for President Rober...Published: 16 Nov 2014 at 14:44hrs | | by Moses Mugugunyeki
Mugabe surrounded by bootlickers
Zimbabwe economy has once again collapsed due to a combination of factors among them, economic mismanagement and bad governance.It looks as if the centre is failing to hold for President Rober...Published: 28 Sep 2014 at 19:31hrs | | by Moses Mugugunyeki
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