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Hichilema blunders again
Today, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will hold the 44th ordinary summit of Heads of State and Government in Harare, Zimbabwe. The SADC Summit is accountable for the regional bloc's...Published: 17 Aug 2024 at 15:47hrs | 3297 | by Dr Fred M'membe
Mnangagwa's govt says Chamisa's resignation from CCC is a non-event
AS was expected, serial political parties' hopper, Mr Nelson Chamisa, has quit the opposition CCC after he lost control to party interim secretary-general Mr Sengezo Tshabangu, triggering a rebellion ...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Redi Thlabi: the black woman weaponized against South Africa
South Africa is under attack by Western countries led by the US due to its BRICS membership and non-aligned geopolitical policy. This isn't surprising, given the West's frustration with the country's ...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 12:46hrs | 3 | by Larmbert Ebitu
Hakainde Hichilema's reckless attempt to export puppetry
We note with great concern and embarrassment, the dishonorable and subjective activities of Mr Nevers Mumba, who was appointed as the Head of the SADC Electoral Observation Mission to Zimbabwe by Mr H...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 19:49hrs | 2 | by Fred M’membe
Why Zanu-PF will remain in power
Western countries, through some of their election observers, are interfering in the country's elections. The interference is being done to aid their preferred candidate, Nelson Chamisa.They po...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 06:25hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Why Zimbabweans will vote for Zanu-PF, according to Dr Obert Mpofu
ZIMBABWE is a few weeks away from the much-awaited harmonised elections.Zanu-PF is poised for a resounding victory.Thanks to the milestone-unleashing pedigree of Cde Dr Emmerson Dambud...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 08:51hrs | 10 | by Dr Obert Moses Mpofu
Malema says Kasukuwere must be allowed to contest
Free-spoken militant South African opposition EFF leader Julius Malema says if Zimbabweans want main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, they must vote for him without hindrances.He also says in...Published: 15 Jul 2023 at 17:10hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Fake news a tool used by detractors on Zimbabwe
Fake news is not a new phenomenon, for a long time, the mere mention of Zimbabwe in the global mainstream media (social media) has been associated with a negative story. Zimbabwe post-2000 ent...Published: 23 Mar 2023 at 07:09hrs | | by Grace Zvavamwe
Chamisa boycotts, Nhlanhla Ndiweni calls for sanctions on Zimbabwe
On Wednesday this week, the Mike Campbell Foundation (MCF), held its 10th Anniversary Celebrations at the Royal Geographical Society in London, themed: "An exciting journey of hope: Stories from the p...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 06:57hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa's star rally rolls into Mashonaland West
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is today expected to address legions of Zanu-PF supporters in Mashonaland West as he continues with his crusade to ensure the revolutionary party triumphs in the upcoming by-electi...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF unmoved by CCC
Zanu-PF is unmoved by the entrance of Mr Nelson Chamisa's Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) faction of the opposition into the political fray because the ruling party is confident of its massive app...Published: 20 Feb 2022 at 08:49hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
'Puppets will never rule Zimbabwe'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said the door is open for former opposition officials who defected to the ruling Zanu-PF party to rise through the ranks just like all other members.Addressing thousand...Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 05:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rebranding is a matter of life and death for MDC-Alliance
WILLIAM Shakespeare, the 16th century English playwright who once prominently featured on the Zimbabwean Ordinary Level and Advanced Level English literature school curriculum, once rhetorically asked...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:16hrs | 10 | by Taona T. Denhere
Mnangagwa, who has bewitched you?
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, as I see it, the spirit of the Lord is not upon the clerics who surround you. They were not anointed to preach the good news to the poor. The...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:58hrs | 9 | by Cyprian Muketiwa
Cultivate succession culture in Zanu-PF
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, your gift of longevity is a demonstration of the generosity God has for you. Given that the average lifespan stands well below half your age,...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:50hrs | 10 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Iyasa honours late member through concert
AWARD-WINNING group Inkululeko Yabatsha School of Arts (Iyasa) in partnership with Theatro Piccolo (Vienna, Austria) on Monday held a virtual show for the production of Elephant Moon in memory of its ...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former Zanu-PF official vows to take Mnangagwa head-on
RECENTLY-EXPELLED Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central official Goodman Tamuona Musariri says he is going to challenge President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy in the courts of law. He allegedly denounced Mna...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 23:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
US raises concern over Biti arrest
THE United States embassy in Harare has expressed concern over the arrest of MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti in connection with an alleged assault of a Russian woman.Biti was arrested ...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 23:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
'MDC got more than US$10m to defend Western interests'
It is beyond debate that for the past decades or so, Zimbabwe has been reeling under the disastrous and debilitating effects of illegal sanctions that were imposed against the country by some powerful...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:44hrs | 5 | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
ANC: Things are not fine in Zimbabwe
Lindiwe Zulu, Chair of the ANC's Subcommittee on International Relations has conceded that things are not fine in Zimbabwe.Zulu was part of a 10 ANC member delegate that met with the ZANU-PF P...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 09:18hrs | | by Daniel Itai, Johannesburg, South Africa
Leeroy Gopal speaks on acting career
SOUTH AFRICA-BASED Zimbabwean actor Lerroy Gopal has disclosed that he had two breakthroughs in his career and learning from his mistakes made him a better actor.The renowned actor, who is now...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Let's deal with puppets
Back in the village, in Rhodesia, colonialism came in several waves, imposing itself on our people, who had their original political ideas, economic innovations and cultural idiosyncrasies, and sought...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Zimbabwean attitude, self hate
Is it not a shame that over the years, a lot of us have been taught by the West to define everything from democracy to good governance and accountability in the eyes of foreigners as if we are still a...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
'Ohh! The blue eyed MDC son is not all that shiney'
Why he has failed to attract the main stream media is still a mystery. This man is a hypocrite and is good at attaching himself to the presidency yet he has nothing to offer. This dude is non other th...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 15:04hrs | | by Marujata Ngomahuru
'Chamisa will never rule Zimbabwe' says Mutodi
Deputy Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Energy Mutodi says MDC leader Nelson Chamisa is a puppet that will never rule Zimbabwe.Mutodi was agreeing with MDC-T Vice P...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 13:17hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Amakorokoza's Mzambani ventures into music
TALENTED Bulawayo-based theatre and television actor Zenzo Nyathi could trade the stage for the studio amid revelations he is working on recording an album.Nyathi has featured in a number of t...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:14hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
West setting dangerous precedent in Kenya, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, as a committed pan Africanist, I am deeply disturbed by the very sad developments taking place in Kenya in the name of democracy. You don't need to ...Published: 07 Sep 2017 at 13:09hrs | | by CZ
William ‘Bill’ Saidi, a classic example of Zanu PF media capture.
The passing on of journalist cum writer Bill Saidi in Zambia yesterday opened a can of worms in Zapu circles especially in as far as the Gukurahundi genocide of the 1980s is concerned, Zapu has said i...Published: 05 Jan 2017 at 16:02hrs | 9 | by Stephen Jakes
New Curriculum - English Language Overview
As a nation, we should embrace the new curriculum as it brings more benefits than limitations to our society. It was introduced at a time when it was needed most. We were trailing behind in terms of t...Published: 18 Dec 2016 at 07:42hrs | | by Farirai Nyamana
Of Nando's and strawberry desserts
Out there in the open is a cold, desolate and unforgiving environment, especially for lazy layabouts such as petty thieves and common criminals who shudder to contemplate where their next meal will co...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 09:53hrs | | by Sambulo Vuma
Politics of Starvation and Decay: Zimbabwe and the Year Behind (2015) and Beyond (2016)
No doubt, Zimbabwe has emerged much poorer than before based on the politics of insensitivity, self-aggrandizement, decay and poverty in collective good will of leadership. In 1980, Zimbabwe obtained ...Published: 30 Dec 2015 at 06:14hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
'Hands off Mugabe,' Jerry Rawlings tells France
GHANA'S former President Jerry Rawlings has blasted France for questioning African leaders' decision to elect President Robert Mugabe as the African Union chairman. France, along with its Euro...Published: 17 Apr 2015 at 07:05hrs | | by Felex Share
Malema denied Botswana visa
Johannesburg - Botswana's refusal to grant EFF leader Julius Malema a visa showed that its President Ian Khama was a dictator, the party said on Friday."The Economic Freedom Fighters condemns ...Published: 13 Sep 2014 at 13:53hrs | 1 | by Sapa
Students torn between Tsvangirai and Biti
Zimbabwe National Students Union is, like other civil society groups caught between Morgan Tsvangirai and Tendai Biti. The Zinasu president Gilbert Mutubuki has gone along with Biti but his c...Published: 30 Jun 2014 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe headed to a new political discourse?
IS our opposition politics hitting a tipping point? Are we headed towards a new political discourse that gives Zimbabwe priority over foreign interests, a political discourse that fosters faith i...Published: 24 May 2014 at 20:29hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
MDCs are orchestrators of their own demise
Presented with an opportunity to confront the malign in the country, the MDC's have plunged into their darkest hour as a result of self-interest and greed.Because absolute power corrupts absol...Published: 15 May 2014 at 14:46hrs | | by Immigration Maziwisa
Tsvangirai alienates himself from democracy
Elton Mangoma, the MDC-T Deputy Treasurer-General's suspension by the MDC-T National Executive Council over alleged insubordination on Friday 7 March 2014, just confirms that the MDC-T in genera...Published: 11 Mar 2014 at 14:38hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
MDC-T, The gloves are off!
The MDC-T is characterised by unrelentingly venomous verbal clashes, leadership squabbles and general in-house hurly-burly. As many may have predicted prior to the July 31 harmonised elections, the pe...Published: 09 Mar 2014 at 09:18hrs | | by Lincoln Towindo
Dabengwa in danger
Ever since President Robert Mugabe made the passionate plea to ZAPU President Dumiso Dabengwa and his Comrades to return back to Zanu PF on the 22nd of December 2013, the media has been abuzz with...Published: 03 Jan 2014 at 12:43hrs | | by Mso Ndlovu
Kaunda held hostage by President Sata
A thousand hearts bleed for KK as he is helplessly dragged into the dungeon of destruction by President Michael Sata. At best, a shrewd tactician and strategist, Sata is skillful at discerning wh...Published: 04 Nov 2013 at 12:44hrs | | by Field Ruwe
'MDC formations will follow the dinosaurs,' says Moyo
The former director of policy and research co-ordination in Professor Welshman Ncube's MDC, Mr Qhubani Moyo, who resigned from the party at the end of September, openly confesses that he has been char...Published: 14 Oct 2013 at 05:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Madhuku set to form new political party
NATIONAL Constitutional Assembly chairman Professor Lovemore Madhuku will step down from the helm of the lobby group during the organisation's congress on Saturday as he moves to launch an as yet to b...Published: 24 Sep 2013 at 02:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gwisai urges workers to dump Tsvangirai
Former MDC Highfield legislator and founding member of the party, Mr Munyaradzi Gwisai, yesterday called on the working class to dump the MDC-T saying there was no future in the party and its leader ...Published: 08 Aug 2013 at 12:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
US magazine lays into Tsvangirai
THE choice Zimbabweans face at the elections is a simple one, continue on the path of revolution and true independence espoused by Zanu-PF or regress to the counter-revolutionary politics of puppetry ...Published: 11 Jun 2013 at 03:54hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Matebeleland and the emergent Generational Challenges
The current political trends obtaining in Matebeleland and calls for different systems of governance and policies, such as devolution of power, should be understood as offshoots of...Published: 03 Sep 2012 at 09:45hrs | | by Dr Brilliant Sigabade Mhlanga
Professor Moyo goes full Monty with puppetry politics
Professor Jonathan Moyo's dust raising article on Zuma's mediation role and SADC's resolution not to recognise Mutambara as a principal of the Global Political Agreement of the po...Published: 21 Aug 2012 at 20:00hrs | | by Khumbulani Moyo
West trying to rebrand Tsvangirai claims state owned newspaper
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai's attacks on nationalists are inspired by his sponsors who are trying to rebrand him as a new African leader to pursue their neo-colonial agenda, reported the state o...Published: 07 Aug 2012 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: The rise of spectator democracy
WHEN Woodrow Wilson was elected to the presidency of the United States in 1916 his administration was committed to joining World War I at a time the US population was so pacifist that it saw no reaso...Published: 30 Jun 2012 at 16:14hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
The African condition: Of Imperialists, tyrants and puppets
Chief among the many challenges that confront the African continent are three evils that African thinkers and intellectuals must urgently find durable solutions to---The vicious scramble for Africa√...Published: 05 Jan 2012 at 09:20hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Sexed Tsvangirai: The day WOZA could not arise!
What has the American ambassador to do with a Zimbabwean Prime Minister who gets deserved societal flak for promiscuous misbehavior? Which part of the Geneva Convention, or of our bilateral agre...Published: 10 Dec 2011 at 15:38hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
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