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For once, do listen Mr Mnangagwa
THERE is a vernacular saying that advises us that: Akuruma nzeve ndewako.In simple English, this means whoever gives you friendly advice is on your side. And when a whole Head of State takes t...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 08:01hrs | 3 | by Editorial -Newsday
Self-aggrandisement mars opposition politics in Zimbabwe
I arrived at Oslo International Airport one late afternoon in October 2005 en route to Oslo University where I had been invited as guest professor.By some coincidence, the then secretary-gener...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 16:30hrs | 2 | by Geoffrey Nyarota.
War vets group fights in Chamisa’s corner
A GROUP of war veterans opposed to Zanu PF rule has given thumbs up to opposition MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa's pledge to improve the welfare of former combatants, saying the y...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mangoma should mind his business
The leader of opposition party, Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe, Elton Mangoma must concentrate on his party business and stop making false claims against President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is working ext...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 15:12hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano
Frail Mugabe vows to fight on
Defiant Mugabe had his first interview yesterday from SABC, Southern Times and Times of London at his Blue Roof mansion in Borrowdale Harare.This is a typical former President Robert Gabriel M...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 09:35hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Sibanda tears into Thokozani Khupe
Bulawayo provincial spokesperson for the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC, Felix Mafa Sibanda, has taken his gloves off against party deputy president Thokozani Khupe whom he accuses of high-jacking party me...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 11:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Failure to groom a successor backfires on Mugabe
Zimbabweans have had enough of the challenges they are subjected to every year and know what must be done. It is now crystal clear that their fighting in the government has nothing to do with the ordi...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 14:31hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
Mzilikazi II dismissed as a fraudster
DESCENDANTS of the late King Lobengula have distanced themselves from self-proclaimed Ndebele King, Stanley Raphael Tshuma, describing him as a "fraudster and misguided impostor" seeking political rel...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 06:51hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Strategic alliance with a winning formula
First of all you don't form alliance or come up with electoral pact out of emotions but it must be based on mutual and intellectual experience. What kind of results do you expect from an alliance? Aga...Published: 17 May 2017 at 11:04hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
CODE briefcase political parties
"Life's, but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying nothing". (Macbet...Published: 17 Feb 2017 at 12:54hrs | 4 | by Herbert Marufu
Biti's downfall
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader, Tendai Biti, seems to be misled and misinformed about the political landscape in the country. His allegations are intended to justify the regime change agen...Published: 11 Oct 2016 at 12:57hrs | 6 | by Stewart Murewa
Msipa has no agenda
The former ZANU PF politiburo member and Midlands governor, Cephas Msipa is hallucinating and living in the world of fantasy and make belief. How can the former and elder member of ZANU PF turn agains...Published: 15 Sep 2016 at 09:26hrs | | by Stewart Murewa
Violence begets violence
The people in Zimbabwe have learned that violence begets violence and it never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem; it merely creates new and more complicated ones. Thumbs up to Zimbab...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 10:27hrs | 1 | by Stewart Murewa
Sabotage through political activism should be criminalized
The wind of political hallucination and wishful thinking blowing across urban areas in Zimbabwe appears to have chipped away at the minds of most opposition activists, who are all now believing that i...Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 10:42hrs | 1 | by Gwinyai Mutongi
#ThisFlag pastor is nothing but only seeking political relevance
The economic problems that are currently a talk in every Zimbabwean`s lips have driven people into believing and applauding any Tom and Dick who comes over saying that he/she can come up with solution...Published: 24 May 2016 at 14:24hrs | 1 | by John Mukumbo
Only gullible people would take Lumumba seriously
From being a staunch ZANU PF member and supporter as well as a losing ZANU PF candidate for Hatfield in the 2013 harmonized elections, Acie Lumumba has now changed his colours to where he actually bel...Published: 19 May 2016 at 11:18hrs | | by Kazamula Matilaya
MDC-T at its weakest point
I could laugh my lungs out after reading an article from a local press which assumed that MDC-T brand was at its strongest. Truth be said, the opposite is real. MDC-T is currently at its weakest point...Published: 12 May 2016 at 12:04hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano
Lumumba took it too late now seeking political relevance
Listening to Acie Lumumba, the former Chairman of a Steering Committee on the Zimbabwe Youth Empowerment Strategy for Investment's video, which he posted on his Facebook account recently makes o...Published: 05 May 2016 at 12:45hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Biti a political malcontent
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader, Tendai Biti, seems to be misled and misinformed about the political landscape in the country. Biti's allegations are intended to justify the regime change a...Published: 12 Apr 2016 at 15:35hrs | | by Stewart Murewa
Mashonaland Central dares Mujuru
THE ruling Zanu-PF party in Mashonaland Central province has dared former Vice President Joice Mujuru who has formed her own party, Zimbabwe People First, to come and test her popularity in her former...Published: 07 Mar 2016 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi issue: Mujuru seeking political relevance
For the past thirty-four years the proponents of the People First project led by Dr Joyce Mujuru the former Vice President of Zimbabwe, were in government enjoying the benefits that come with one bein...Published: 12 Feb 2016 at 10:21hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
There is no room for economic saboteurs
It is disheartening and disturbing that Owen Kuwacha a leader of a minor opposition party, namely Zimbabwe People's Front and his three colleagues were recently engaged in a negative move of attemptin...Published: 27 Jan 2016 at 10:13hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano
Biti seeking political relevance through shadow councillors
While ZANU PF is getting down in business preparing for the 2018 harmonised elections through coming up with tangible projects that are being implemented throughout the country for the benefit of the ...Published: 06 Jan 2016 at 18:47hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Biti has no agenda
It is an oversimplification of a rather complex issue to say that the country's security forces are meddling in the electoral processes. The People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader, Tendai Biti, seems ...Published: 08 Dec 2015 at 14:10hrs | | by Stewart Murewa
New housing scheme unveiled
Government has introduced a new housing scheme to protect the public from land barons that have fleeced them of millions of dollars through illegal sales of residential stands on undesignated sites. T...Published: 31 Aug 2015 at 07:02hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika and Innocent Ruwende
Mutasa going astray
The private media is at it again as it tries its level best to make sure that its readers have something to be occupied with as it recently wasted no time in rushing to Didymus Mutasa who has of l...Published: 25 Jun 2015 at 13:28hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Mujuru and company are a bunch of misguided politicians
The Mujuru cabal does not cease to amaze the nation by its failure to read between the lines that its political career is now nearing extinction. Maybe its recent ranting in the private media iss...Published: 16 Apr 2015 at 13:56hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Zanu - People First a non-event project
It is surprising that some delusional people like Didymus Mutasa and his beleaguered nephew Temba Mliswa with Rugare Gumbo, former spokesperson of Zanu-PF and their perceived leader former VP Joyce Mu...Published: 08 Apr 2015 at 14:49hrs | 1 | by John Mukumbo
MDC-T politicises Dzamara's disappearance
The missing of Itai Dzamara, a journalist-cum MDC-T activist, has been unnecessarily politicised. Our parliamentarians have actually misplaced priority in parliament this week and spent precious ...Published: 13 Mar 2015 at 17:01hrs | 1 | by John Sigauke
No CSO propping up of Tsvangirai will change the fact that he is a failed leader
"MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai this week received a major boost in his bid to cajole the country's influential civil society community after they turned up for a key meeting where he appealed for sup...Published: 12 Feb 2015 at 23:13hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Sadly, when Africa yearned for true leadership of the continent, it got this South Africa!
It all started with the presidency of the late Nelson Mandela. How does one describe this presidency in terms of African leadership?'Useless' - as some have said - is perhaps harsh. However, ...Published: 31 Jan 2015 at 17:38hrs | 2 | by Silveria Margolis
Biti seeking political relevance by misleading
Mr Tendai Biti the reluctant leader of the so called MDCT Renewal Team is reported having said that Mr Robert Mugabe presided over the demise of Bulawayo as an industrial hub. The sentiments expressed...Published: 11 Jul 2014 at 06:25hrs | | by Thulani Nkala
Mugabe, Tsvangirai GNU is now history
The talk by the MDC-T party leadership, that for the country to recover economically, there is a need for Zanu-PF to negotiate with the MDC-T so that another government of national unity (GNU) is for...Published: 07 Feb 2014 at 10:04hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Zanu-PF urges Zimbabwean diaspora to come back home
Zanu-PF is urging Zimbabweans who left the country for greener pastures and other reasons, to return home since the situation has normalised following the recent Zanu-PF landslide victory at the harmo...Published: 12 Aug 2013 at 15:20hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
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