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Chamisa surrenders hard-won political and democratic space
"THIS is to officially, and under my hand, inform you fellow citizens of Zimbabwe and the world, that, with immediate effect, I no longer have anything to do with CCC."With these words, Zimbab...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Sad Truth About CCC
Yesterday, Tshabangu and his gang unintentionally revealed their vendetta to destroy their own political party. It was malicious stuff. In so doing, they also showed that their party was a rud...Published: 19 Jan 2024 at 13:17hrs | | by Max Lion
Zanu-PF says by-elections victory strong base for 2023
AS Zimbabwe hurtles towards the 2023 elections Zanu-PF registered an emphatic victory against opposition pretenders in the by-elections held over the weekend in what the party and observers said is a ...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC must not be a ghost organisation, it needs to be accountable
The question of whether or not CCC must frame a constitution, come up with structures and go to congress to select party leaders is, no doubt, such a hot and wearying one.But that's one questi...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 12:34hrs | 8 | by Tawanda Majoni
Warriors kicked out of CHAN because of illegal Zifa Board
ZIFA have insisted that there is no need to rush the nation back to international football as systems are being put in place to ensure Zimbabwe returns stronger from the FIFA suspension. The W...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa's moonlighting President has a serious constitutional case to answer
Our rudderless President Cyril Ramaphosa has been exposed not only for his lack of leadership, but also for his gross misunderstanding of the country's Constitution.We all know that he was a v...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 12:01hrs | | by Paul Ngobeni
Ramaphosa has a serious constitutional case to answer
Our rudderless President Cyril Ramaphosa has been exposed not only for his lack of leadership, but also for his gross misunderstanding of the country's Constitution.We all know that he was a v...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 09:26hrs | 7 | by Paul Ngobeni
A golden gift from the political gods
If next year's watershed elections needed any divination, then the just-ended by-elections were the divine bones cast by a bone-thrower to provide a reading of the future.Well, they are a gold...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:27hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
CCC project exposes Chamisa's poor political pedigree
For the past week the adherence of the MDC faction led by Nelson Chamisa, some interested distant watchers and anti-Government elements have been head over heels in excitement.This follows Cha...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zimbabwe govt wants to appear wealthy 'Mbinga' in the eyes of the world, yet can't even feed own children!
So, the Zimbabwe government is up to no good - again! I am sure we have all come across (at least once, in our lives) that guy who wants to appear wealthy in the eyes of the community - shops ...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 09:05hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe leaders incapable of successfully running even a 'kombi'!
I am sure we have all come across or traveled on, those ramshackle commuter minibuses (we call 'kombis') - whereby, seats are now all terribly worn out, their backs tilted backwards making it impossib...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:53hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Ramaphosa deploy soldiers to guard his houses
THE SANDF confirmed on Monday that it had deployed soldiers to both of President Cyril Ramaphosa's homes, in Pretoria and Cape Town.This was in addition to the presidential protective benefits...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 11:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parliament warns of aviation disaster in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE'S airports could cause an aviation disaster due to poor weather-detecting instruments, outdated radar, few emergency vehicles, inadequate fire-fighting capacity and deplorable runways....Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa bans WhatsApp
THE MDC-Alliance led by Mr Nelson Chamisa has barred its members from discussing party matters on social media platforms. Political analysts who spoke to The Herald described the decision by M...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 05:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC divisions plumb new lows
NOTWITHSTANDING the internal damage that the MDC's infighting is causing, the party's senseless wars are escalating - amid growing fears that the once formidable movement could soon implode altogether...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 15:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Khupe out thinking Chamisa?
NOTWITHSTANDING the internal damage that the MDC's infighting is causing, the party's senseless wars are escalating - amid growing fears that the once formidable movement could soon implode altogether...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 22:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa confronts Mthuli Ncube
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has told Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to start producing the results because the citizens are suffering. Mliswa said the people of Norton have been as...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 11:17hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Sipho Pityana is a 'drama queen', 'angry old man'
Black Business Council (BBC) president Sandile Zungu has responded to a scathing open letter from Sipho Pityana by questioning "the ethics and drama queen antics" of Pityana and calling him an "angry ...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 18:45hrs | 2 | by City Press
An analysis of Chamisa's recent trip to Israel
In the midst of a gruelling election campaign, MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa surprised many by posting pictures on social media holidaying in Israel, which he dubbed a private vis...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:06hrs | | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
Time to remove military's presidential straitjacket
"The lack of imagination in South Africa's leadership is even more disturbing than its ignorance. The country has become a one dimensional universe held together by little more than the anxiety it gen...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:51hrs | 2 | by Tapiwa Nyandoro
Chamisa's lack of a unique vision and plagiarism has left me despondent and rudderless
Perhaps we always knew but didn't want to believe. Since the last elections in 2013, many from within the MDC had complained about Nelson Chamisa. Many blamed him for the loss of those elections....Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 20:20hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
Is Thokozani Khupe serious or just a spoiler?
EDITOR,Thokozani Khupe was conspicuous by her absence from MDC party business for some eight months but suddenly comes out guns blazing when our icon, Morgan Tsvangirai, died.I would l...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 16:01hrs | | by A Mbire
This is Zimbabwe, We should back Strive Masiyiwa
Children of Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana and King Lobengula Khumalo can you hear the new Zimbabwe echo from rock to rock and shrub to shrub in the wet and weathered hills and ridges and slippery slopes ...Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 07:49hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Mnangagwa only serious Mugabe successor , says Coltart
Reporter Jeffrey Muvundusi had a wide ranging interview with Bulawayo-based respected lawyer and former Education minister, David Coltart. Below are the excerpts of the interview.Q: To begin w...Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 13:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Even students are fatigued by MDC-T's empty rhetoric
If anyone ever doubted the waning fortunes of the opposition MDC-T, the recent University of Zimbabwe Student Representative Council elections have put to rest those doubts following the trouncing of ...Published: 16 May 2017 at 06:37hrs | | by Lonias Rozvi Majoni
Mutsvangwa raps Mugabe
Defiant Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) chairperson, Christopher Mutsvangwa, has escalated his savage assault on President Robert Mugabe, saying yesterday the increasing...Published: 09 Jan 2017 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Analysts rubbish Mugabe's SONA
Political analysts have mocked President Robert Mugabe for presenting an empty State of the Nation Address which they said does not address the current economic challenges bedeviling the na...Published: 06 Dec 2016 at 14:36hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Better alternatives to Zimbabwe import ban exist
In June 2016 the Zimbabwean government instituted the infamous Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016 banning the importation of basic commodities such as bottled water, sugar, soap, cooking oil, cellpho...Published: 17 Aug 2016 at 10:52hrs | | by Lovemore Fuyane
Opposition seeks relevance via failed protest
THE announcement by MDC-T deputy president Ms Thokozani Khupe of another demonstration, this time called "beat the pots" to protest "against hunger" in the country points to something going wrong in h...Published: 14 Jul 2016 at 07:18hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
PDP Weekly Policy Brief - The urgency of establishing a National Technical Transition Council (NTTC)
Our beloved country, Zimbabwe, is in crisis and we can confirm that we now have a leaderless and rudderless failed state which needs immediate emergency rescue.There is no doubt in our minds a...Published: 07 Apr 2016 at 14:19hrs | | by Vince Musewe - PDP Secretary for Finance and Economic Affairs
The urgency of establishing a National Technical Transition Council (NTTCC) - PDP Weekly Policy Brief
Our beloved country, Zimbabwe, is in crisis and we can confirm that we now have a leaderless and rudderless failed state which needs immediate emergency rescue.There is no doubt in our minds a...Published: 05 Apr 2016 at 09:04hrs | | by Vince Musewe - PDO Secretary for Finance and Economic Affairs
'Mugabe offered to quit twice'
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe reportedly offered to step down as early as 2002, but the ruling Zanu-PF proposed that he should stay on in a ceremonial position, with Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa assumi...Published: 26 Mar 2016 at 15:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru poses real threat to Mugabe's rule
Zimbabwe's renowned girl guerrilla and anti-colonialism activist, Joice Mujuru, who is set to launch her political outfit soon, poses a credible threat to the hegemony of Zanu-PF and represents the fi...Published: 23 Feb 2016 at 15:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa kicked out for disrespecting Mugabe
THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) last night said it had kicked out Christopher Mutsvangwa as its leader and also revoked his wife, Monica's membership of the associa...Published: 13 Feb 2016 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's happy Christmas - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary: 26th December 2015
As we spent another Christmas in exile we were surprised to hear from the United Nations that 'Zimbabwe had done tremendously well' on the human rights front. We would never have known this if the Her...Published: 31 Dec 2015 at 15:38hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil
Zimbabwe cricket's darkest hour
Plain as day, the story of Zimbabwe Cricket is a tale of a cherished game that fell into the wrong hands and it is not surprising that the national team at present is a fractured outfit suffering from...Published: 30 Dec 2015 at 16:32hrs | | by Prosper Tsvanhu
Hope for Zimbabweans as Mugabe's Zanu-PF implodes
Zimbabweans are learning more and more about Zanu-PF's ugly modus operandi - thanks to the party's worsening internal wars and its purged senior officials who are singing like canaries.And at ...Published: 23 Apr 2015 at 14:04hrs | 1 | by Chris Goko
'Air Zimbabwe's pathetic online presence'
In the 21st Century, there's probably no better way of relaying/receiving information or commercially transacting more efficiently than using the endlessly fascinating World Wide Web.Most avi...Published: 16 Jan 2015 at 10:57hrs | 2 | by Maguire
Mugabe's rudderless regime
It is becoming clear that there is no one in charge in Zimbabwe. There is a leadership vacuum. No sooner does one minister make a policy statement than another contradicts it.After Finance Min...Published: 11 Jan 2015 at 17:26hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Zanu-PF 'dogfights will continue' says Simba Makoni
HARARE - Former Zanu PF politburo member Simba Makoni has savaged President Robert Mugabe's party as a lawless organisation, saying its brutal factional dogfights would continue well beyond the party...Published: 30 Nov 2014 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Mugabe has developed incompetence into an art'
"It is a sign of a sick economy when the top two companies in it are a mobile operator and a brewery. The fact that Econet Wireless and Delta Beverages are the largest companies in Zimbabwe simply me...Published: 25 Nov 2014 at 09:09hrs | | by Ken Yamamoto
Zanu-PF taking advantage of Mugabe's age
As president Robert Mugabe presides over an extraordinary politburo meeting in Harare today, the Zanu-PF strongman and his supporters are confronted by critical questions on who exactly is in charge, ...Published: 24 Nov 2014 at 18:43hrs | | by Chris Goko
Mugabe in politburo jibes
President Robert Mugabe yesterday demonstrated clearly why he has remained at the helm of his now brawling party, Zanu-PF, for as long as he has done, as he worked his charm on politburo members who w...Published: 24 Nov 2014 at 12:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Stop Jonathan Moyo,' says Mutasa
Fireworks are expected at today's Zanu-PF politburo meeting in Harare as the ruling party's factional and succession wars continue to escalate.In the latest instalment of the ugly infighting ...Published: 23 Nov 2014 at 13:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fresh crises hit Zanu-PF
The Zanu-PF politburo meets again in Harare tomorrow with President Robert Mugabe under mounting pressure to stop the ruling party from imploding altogether as its factional and succession wars turn ...Published: 21 Nov 2014 at 16:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe, Baba Jukwa and the Olympics of Power in Zimbabwe
One stubborn theme that has arrested the attention of philosophers and poets from the childhood of humanity to the present era of technologised witchcraft is the theme of illusion and reality. Whe...Published: 05 Aug 2014 at 19:08hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Why I endorsed Tsvangirai
ON June 27, 2013, following a Constitutional Court ruling ordering the Registrar-General, Tobaiwa Mudede, to issue me with a national identity registration document, I proceeded to register as a vote...Published: 10 Jul 2013 at 06:37hrs | | by Mutumwa Mawere
Was The Zimbabwe Mail duped by CIO on Mugabe's health
The Easter global media frenzy over the apparently terminal state of President Robert Mugabe's health has obscured growing concerns over his wellbeing.The Zimbabwe Mail, one of dozens of websi...Published: 15 Apr 2012 at 09:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe is expired political and historical merchandise
THE mentally "young" and politically "restless" Psychology Maziwisa has taken to political blogging with the gusto of an infant bird at first flight - unequal to the demands of the heights, rudderle...Published: 26 Aug 2011 at 11:11hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
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