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Arresting protesters in Zimbabwe exposes an Illegitimate government that fears its own people
Fear breeds monsters, and these monsters, in turn, seek to instil fear in others.Those who seek to instil fear in others are often the most fearful themselves.The recent arrests of at ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 280 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The abuse of freedoms and upending of Constitutional order
THE freedoms of expression, assembly, and association are fundamental human rights, essential for the flourishing of democratic societies.However, these rights are not absolute, and their limi...Published: 03 Apr 2025 at 08:39hrs | 326 | by Nick Mangwana
Mnangagwa's regime forces police officers to sign loyalty forms
Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers have been compelled to sign loyalty forms affirming their commitment to Commissioner General Stephen Mutamba, NewZimbabwe.com has learned. The forms, which are ...Published: 02 Apr 2025 at 09:10hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans' Dilemma: To Support the Geza Revolution or Not?
For over four decades, Zimbabweans have endured increasing hardships under the rule of ZANU-PF. The party has entrenched itself in power by any means necessary, showing little regard for democratic go...Published: 29 Mar 2025 at 09:40hrs | 754 | by Fikile wa Motsamai
Mnangagwa, Ruto to set terms of reference for DRC mediation panel
Consultations are underway to set a date for a high-level briefing between Southern African Development Community (SADC) Chairperson, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, and his East African Community (EAC)...Published: 27 Mar 2025 at 06:06hrs | 94 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa missed one fact: Unlike Mugabe, he has never been genuinely respected within ZANU-PF
Who can deny that ZANU-PF is teetering on the brink? As factional fighting within the ruling ZANU-PF intensifies - and even threatens to get ugly with the so-called "uprising" slated for 31st ...Published: 26 Mar 2025 at 22:52hrs | 978 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Blessed Geza should learn from Sam Geza and Simba Makoni
History has a strange way of repeating itself, often with bitter consequences for those who fail to learn from it. In 2008, Simba Makoni, once a high-ranking member of ZANU PF, boldly announced his ca...Published: 10 Mar 2025 at 14:14hrs | 2746 | by John Mbizvo
Tongogara's overt hostility toward Herbert Chitepo
Tongogara's overt hostility toward Herbert Chitepo eventually led to unfounded accusations that he had been responsible for Chitepo's death, despite a lack of supporting evidence. Chitepo was killed b...Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 18:22hrs | 1372 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's days are numbered, says Kasukuwere
Former Zanu-PF political commissar and ex-local government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's tenure is nearing its end, citing the loss of support from a key ...Published: 13 Feb 2025 at 09:31hrs | 2847 | by Staff reporter
Sam Nujoma dies aged 95
Sam Nujoma, the activist and guerrilla leader who became Namibia's first democratically elected president after it won its independence from apartheid South Africa, died aged 95 on Saturday, the Namib...Published: 09 Feb 2025 at 09:05hrs | 405 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Harare youth, provincial leadership clash
ZANU-PF youth members in Harare are in open rebellion against their provincial leadership, accusing them of sidelining them in key party projects, including the controversial transformation of the par...Published: 29 Nov 2024 at 07:14hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
Dembare players back at work
After two-and-a-half days of strike action, Dynamos players returned to training yesterday in preparation for their highly anticipated Chibuku Super Cup semi-final clash against Manica Diamonds at Ruf...Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 12:41hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Know your history:- Filabusi Memorial and the Edkins Store killings
Why Visit?: - This historic site remembers one of the earliest European murders of the Matabele Rebellion or First Umvukela of 1896. There seems no doubt that the initial killings occurred on ...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 15:48hrs | 557 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe investigative journalist released without charge
Prominent investigative journalist and director of the Information for Development Trust (IDT), Tawanda Majoni, was released without charge on Tuesday after being summoned by police over his work. Maj...Published: 15 Oct 2024 at 18:37hrs | 1128 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi hearings stalls amid logistical challenges
The Gukurahundi public outreach programme, initiated by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in July 2024, has hit a major roadblock due to unresolved logistical issues.The programme, designed to prov...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 18:44hrs | 164 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, opposition and the road to 2028
Zanu-PF's internal power dynamics regarding President Emmerson Mnangagwa's tenure beyond the constitutionally mandated two terms ending in 2028 and the state of the currently fractured opposition....Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 11:32hrs | 245 | by Zimbabwe Democracy Institute
Is Zimbabwe headed for another coup?
This season we are living in, it's not a time for a hairdo. People are perching on the edge of the cliff. There is a loud whisper drifting around, almost like a wish among many. These chaps wi...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 10:25hrs | 2516 | by Tawanda Majoni
'Mnangagwa's third term will lead to internal rebellion'
Political observers have expressed concerns about ZANU-PF's push for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to extend his presidency beyond the two-term limit set by the Constitution. Despite Mnangagwa's indica...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 07:45hrs | 2952 | by Staff reporter
Dembare splash US$1,000 on sangoma
DYNAMOS splashed US$1 000 to pay a sangoma ahead of their blockbuster league championship showdown against their biggest rivals Highlanders at Rufaro on Sunday.The Glamour Boys bizarrely chose...Published: 16 Jul 2024 at 12:26hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos, CAPS Utd players continue sit-in
Harare giants Dynamos and CAPS United are experiencing a chaotic player rebellion, with both teams' players refusing to train for the second consecutive day due to unpaid dues. This unrest comes just ...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 07:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The death of coalitions
To drag out or not to drag Biden!What a disaster for the Democrats in United States elections!With little foresight or care, Democrats pitted a dead-man-come-to-life by the name of Joe...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:16hrs | 3 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Ramaphosa refuses to go, seeks coalition with DA
President Cyril Ramaphosa does not intend to resign as ANC leader despite leading the party to the historic loss of an electoral majority it has held for 30 years, the Mail & Guardian has learned....Published: 02 Jun 2024 at 11:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
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 | 27 | by Israel Dube
The Chemist Siziba and Oasis bar story
It is hard to find a patron who would mostly and consistently drink in one bar for 44 years - a whole generation; a lifetime.Yet Chemist Siziba, a local businessman and socialite, did. Before ...Published: 14 Mar 2024 at 17:01hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
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 | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide brigade was deployed on this day 41 years ago
Today in history: On this day 41 years ago and three years after Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s Fifth Brigade was deployed in Matabeleland North on 2...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:40hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter
Colourful place names of Rhodesia and their origin
THE TRACING of place names in a country in Africa can be both fascinating and frustrating. One must know – or quickly learn – something about history, about geography and the origins of word...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 17:59hrs | 68 | by Phillippa Berlyn with some amendments by Tony Tanser
Donald Trump suffers Kasukuwere fate
Colorado's Supreme Court has ruled former United States President Donald Trump is ineligible to run for the White House because of his role in the 2021 assault on the Capitol by his supporters and sho...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 05:57hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Scrap December 22 public holiday
ANY nation has its own historical landmarks, political or otherwise, that are peculiar to its survival and embedded in its heritage.Such landmarks are revered in certain ways, in the form of p...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:27hrs | 4 | by Vivian Siziba
Mnangagwa miserably failed to utilise the coup d'état dividend
Robert Mugabe on Herbert Chitepo (and a Rejoinder on the Missed Opportunity of the 2017 Coup)Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 16:49hrs | 31 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
Ngidlaliswe amatope mina?
Reading Edward GibbonWhere is God bakithi?Edward Gibbon is no writer for easy readers. Yet he is so important to Britain's governing myth. No wonder why every British-born Prime Minist...Published: 14 Oct 2023 at 07:21hrs | 2 | by @Jamwanda2
Cowering to a dictator only makes him more brazen!
I was bullied when I was a little child - from my crèche days to early primary school.That was the period my life changed forever - becoming the person I am today. There were two thin...Published: 16 Sep 2023 at 19:27hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa sat on US$3 million from EU to finance CCC campaign?
AHEAD of the recent harmonised elections, the European Union (EU) extended US$3 million to CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa to build a war chest for the polls, but he sat on the money and is now facing a ...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 21:12hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
EU extended US$3 million to Chamisa to build a war chest for the polls
AHEAD of the recent harmonised elections, the European Union (EU) extended US$3 million to CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa to build a war chest for the polls, but he sat on the money and is now facing a ...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zanu-PF will romp to victory
Zanu-PF will romp to victory in the August 23 harmonised elections, riding on a crest of tangibles and deliverables and no meaningful opposition, President Mnangagwa has said.Addressing scores...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 06:54hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Russia's Wagner has 'footprints in Zimbabwe'?
RUSSIAN mercenary group Wagner Group has been implicated in illicit gold mining dealings in Zimbabwe, according to a latest report by data analysts and an African research organisation.The Wag...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:46hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
A curse that will forever haunt Zimbabwe opposition
THOSE of us who grew up in the village know that nothing can be as foul-smelling as a skunk.It literally stinks to high heaven.By some freak of nature, these cat-sized black-and-white ...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:40hrs | 15 | by Bishop Lazi
Maradona vs. Messi: Who Is Better?
Debate rages over who's better between Maradona or Messi, both famed for their skills, number 10 jerseys, and left-footed play. Read our blog to find the answer. In the world of soccer, two...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 10:31hrs | 38 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa against hounding Mugabe loyalists
FORMER Zanu-PF Youth League political commissar, Godfrey Tsenengamu has claimed self-exiled ex-cabinet minister, Saviour 'Tyson' Kasukuwere will win the impending 2023 presidential election as this wa...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 06:25hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Enraged Biti calls CCC colleague 'a snake whose head must be crushed' - just another Zanu PF thug 'vafanana'
In his book David Coltart acknowledged the sheer of participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. He explained that it was greed that forced him and his follow MDC friends to participa...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 12:14hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Govt has neglected us,' says war vets
DISGRUNTLED veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle are clamouring for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to improve their measly monthly allowances and pay-outs to surviving spouses and...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cowboy country
I DO not get away very often but right now I am in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, which is my wife's home base. We have not been here for seven years and the changes and challengers are very visible....Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:26hrs | 14 | by Eddie Cross
Mr. President, it's great to be loved by the Brits, isn't it!
I can not help finding it thoroughly amusing how the ZANU PF regime is always so excited over the supposedly 'warming relationship' between Harare and London.We witnessed this with the embarra...Published: 08 May 2023 at 15:41hrs | 4 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe politics: Lineaments of stock characters
What are stock characters?LET me be basic so I am accessible to many of my readers, whatever level of education, and from whichever discipline they hail.In literature we have what are ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 10 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Mnangagwa to publish ZEC's final delimitation report on Monday
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will publish the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC)'s final delimitation report on Monday, the elections body said.ZEC deputy chairperson Simukai Kiwa made the di...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 19:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec incompetence could lead to disputed elections
ZIMBABWE is heading towards another disputed election should the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) adopt the discredited delimitation report without correcting the glaring shortcomings, analysts hav...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga mourns Stella Chiweshe
Acting President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has described the late iconic songstress, Stella Chiweshe, as a cultural ambassador who worked hard to preserve Zimbabwe's culture and promote the country's tr...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 12:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
New battle lines drawn in Zanu-PF
NEW battle lines have been drawn in the ruling Zanu-PF as factions within the party start jostling for new portfolios announced during politburo appointments in December last year, the Zimbabwe Indepe...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 22:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mutambara wants Zimbabwe to dump, rework delimitation
FORMER Deputy Prime minister in the 2009-2013 Government of National Unity (GNU), Arthur Mutambara says the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) must redo the delimitation exercise as he dismissed the ...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:54hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF rift grows
A Zanu-PF activist who wrote to parliament last week raising objections to a draft delimitation report submitted by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) was seized by state security agents on Monda...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 18:27hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
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