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A Nation's Vision: Beyond Individual Ambitions
As Zimbabwe navigates its development trajectory, a crucial question emerges: should a nation's vision be tied to an individual's ambitions, or should it transcend personal interests? President Emmers...Published: 27 Feb 2025 at 17:18hrs | 408 | by Mlilo Joyinani and Ndaba Nhuku
The pitfalls of Zimbabwe's 2023 elections
One thing that many people might not be seeing right now is that the 2023 general elections have already started.That's for the simple reason that elections are not just about a few days befor...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:22hrs | 15 | by Tawanda Majoni
The pitfalls of the 2023 elections
One thing that many people might not be seeing right now is that the 2023 general elections have already started.That's for the simple reason that elections are not just about a few days befor...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:45hrs | 14 | by Tawanda Majoni
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
Zimbabwe headed for a political dead heat in 2023
ZIMBABWE'S marginalised and poor communities, which have traditionally voted for the ruling Zanu-PF party and often abused as political fodder in the fractious politics of the country, are turning aga...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:46hrs | 10 | by Rashweat Mukundu
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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC raps Mwonzora 'sellouts'
THE MDC Alliance has accused legislators who became MPs on its ticket and dumped the party for the MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora in order to retain their positions of being sellouts who sacrificed the...Published: 24 Aug 2021 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Will the Zambian winds blow in Zimbabwe?
IF the opposition in Zambia wins the elections this year, then the Zimbabwean opposition will win the elections in 2023. The Zambian opposition won the elections. Therefore, the Zimbabwean opposition ...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:10hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni
The year Chamisa was exposed
If there were still any pockets of MDC Alliance supporters who were convinced that Nelson Chamisa was the most suitable replacement for the late Morgan Tsvangirai, the events of the year 2020 must hav...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga and Shongedzai Mugwagwa
A political career built on jecha
To be or not to be, is the question Nelson? Well, they say, trying to talk sense to Nelson Chamisa is as good as winking at a blind person. It is a horrible waste of time. He sees nothing. Now it's a ...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe under confused leadership
People elect the kind of leadership they want and in most cases, unless forced otherwise, they are never wrong. If leadership imposes itself upon a people usually chaos is born and eradicating it will...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 08:24hrs | 9 | by Clemen Moyo
Sydney Malunga's son blasts ZANU PF over Cyclone Idai
The Executive Director of Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) Siphosami Malunga says ZANU PF cares about its conquest and retention of power by hook or crook and never about the genera...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 19:16hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa humiliates MDC Alliance 'sell-out' councillors
Four MDC Alliance councillors, who last week conspired to defy the party's directive on the mayoral elections, have found themselves in serious trouble after they were made to appear before party pres...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 12:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's dawn of hope will break
HEADS, big and small must roll, and be seen by the masses in this country to tumble as both a warning and an example that any people driven by insatiable power hunger cannot, and should not be allowed...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:59hrs | 3 | by Stephen Mpofu
Power hunger Zimbabwe's die hard challenge
The moment Zimbabweans and the global community had anxiously awaited came in the early hours of yesterday when Justice Priscilla Makanyara Chigumba announced that Mnangagwa had triumphed in the presi...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Stephen Mpofu
MDC Alliance and the consensus nonsense
When the Movement for Democratic Change was formed in 1999, it pivoted around the word democracy. There is no doubt the catchword "democracy" earned the party unlimited intimacy with Western Europe, a...Published: 22 May 2018 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Isdore Guvamombe
What is the most important virtue for Zimbabweans, be they politicians, businessmen, intellectuals, ordinary people, and peasant
New International Version: He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and ...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 19:12hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Disunity, confusion, cluelessness and power hunger = 3 coalitions
One would say we want change and yes it is time to bring the necessary change we have been yearning for the past decades under one man rule yet in the face of that opportunity we become even more divi...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 10:18hrs | | by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya
Arrest monsters on the run
Monsters on the loose are rampaging through Zimbabwean society, trampling underfoot the confidence in Government by both the gullible and rational-minded citizens of our country all the while defaming...Published: 30 Sep 2017 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Despots an insult to the Day of the African Child
Today the African Continent commemorates the heroic acts of the Soweto Uprising in 1976.Young people took it upon themselves to confront the evil apartheid regime in an endeavour to free the black peo...Published: 16 Jun 2017 at 09:55hrs | 2 | by Jacob Mafume - PDP Spokesperson
Why any leader emerging outside MDC-T and Zanu PF is regarded as Power hungry- ZimFirst
ZimFirst leader Maxwell Shumba has questioned why is that people think that leaders should emerge from Zanu PF and MDC-T and anyone who is not from these parties is regarded as power hungry."I...Published: 09 Apr 2017 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Passion for change or power hungry?
At a moment when Zimbabwe is preparing for another round of the long waited for elections disorder seemed to be the order of the day. It has become quite evident that in a world where self glorificati...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 13:55hrs | | by Jurgen Namupira
Is Mugabe a hostage of his own power hunger?
Whenever I think of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, I am always reminded of those movies whereby an armed bank robber is trapped in the bank as he is now surrounded by the police and SWAT team, and ...Published: 04 Jul 2016 at 08:43hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Greed, opulence Mujuru's undoing
Former Vice-President Dr Joice Mujuru has eventually come out in the open and tossed her hat into the ring as the protagonist of the Zimbabwe People First party (ZPF). The declaration was made...Published: 22 Feb 2016 at 05:37hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Zanu PF lied on 2.2m jobs - Rugare Gumbo
Zanu PF sold Zimbabweans a dummy when the ruling party promised to create 2,2 million jobs in the run-up to the 2013 elections, former members Rugare Gumbo says.With at least 18 000 jobs lost...Published: 06 Aug 2015 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe Simply Needs Serious Opposition
As things are running haywire, with the economy at the tip edge as poverty and lawlessness are sinking in, Zimbabweans remain anxious. There is no hope for the way forward. The once supposed formi...Published: 04 Apr 2015 at 23:48hrs | 2 | by Chris Tongogara
Grace blasts Byo leadership, claims factionalism is rampant in the province
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe has described Zanu PF leaders in Bulawayo as lazy and power hunger at the expense of suffering people arguing that the party was failing to dislodge the MDC-T party in elec...Published: 15 Oct 2014 at 15:08hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Is Zimbabwe opposition disabled without the letters, 'MDC'?
Just looking at the proliferation of any opposition political force in Zimbabwe, the letters MDC ring bells. A stranger may easily be forgiven for thinking that MDC is the only ticket with which t...Published: 07 Aug 2014 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Chris Tongogara
'Why we suspended Tsvangirai'
Statement issued by the MDC (Tendai Biti faction), April 26 2014 WE the delegates of our people, being members of the MDC National Council, so lawfull...Published: 29 Apr 2014 at 06:18hrs | 4 | by MDC
Tsvangirai must hand over to Ncube
If Tsvangirai loves Zimbabwe and its freedom as much as he says, it is time now he hands over the Presidency of a United Coalition to Welshman Ncube.Politics is a Science of multi-faceted dy...Published: 06 Jul 2013 at 14:01hrs | 3 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Zanu-PF and the Chindori Chininga saga
The issue started when Edward Chindori Chininga (ECC) was killed in a phony accident whose elements could not add up from an objective consideration. Airbag intact. Windscreen intact. Rammed tree inta...Published: 25 Jun 2013 at 15:30hrs | | by Wilkins Mugofora
Power hunger too strong for SADC quotas to work
The South African weekly newspaper, the Mail & Guardian, published an extraordinary story in its issue of March 15-21, 2013.Headed "Red carpet for dead Malawi President" it described in sh...Published: 10 Jun 2013 at 21:32hrs | | by Nancy Forokah
Sidelining of Ncube not a guarantee 2013 election victory
Having noted mixed reactions some of which make anyone collapse with laughter, I meant to make a comment about the Mugabe-Mutambara-Tsvangirai tripartite talks on the constitution this last Thurs...Published: 18 Jan 2013 at 04:39hrs | | by Chris Tongogara
Who killed Zapu in the UK?
Zapu in the UK is dead, the final straw was the All Stakeholders meeting held in Leicester on the 10th December 2011. This is an honest analysis and diagnosis of what has...Published: 14 Dec 2011 at 12:51hrs | | by Nqobile Sibanda
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