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'Your vote counts!' said Obama. Only selective amnesia: politics (Sapo) sufferers believe it's equally true in Zimbabwe
Zimbabweans suffer from selective amnesia, a peculiar variant that affects their political thinking. I will call it selective amnesia: politics (Sapo). Amnesia...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Uebert Angel will neither be prosecuted nor charged!
Dear Bulawayo 24 News Staff Writer: Upon reading, your article entitled: 'Mnangagwa throws Prophet Uebert Angel under the bus,' I went to my dictionary to verify the meaning of the idiomat...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 03:41hrs | 1 | by Tawandah Mudzingwah
Gweru town clerk challenges suspension
SUSPENDED Gweru City Council (GCC) acting town clerk Mr Vakayi Douglas Chikwekwe is challenging his employer's decision to suspend him, arguing that his suspension letter contradicts what is contained...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Under Mthuli Ncube, Zimbabwe going nowhere fast
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube is either a liar or suffering from selective amnesia.Either way he should not be involved in anything to do with the financial affairs of Zimbabwe.He has ...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:30hrs | 2 | by A Mbire
Chamisa's futile attempt to steal Zanu-PF history
DURING his visit to Boston in 1921, Albert Einstein made a famous statement. "Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of minds to think," he said. This statement by one of the greates...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:25hrs | | by Major Action Mandingo (Retired)
Even under ZANU PF urban local authorities boreholes will be the order of the day in our towns and cities!
It is now undeniable that Zimbabwe has been turned into a rural state - with most urban areas having been completely and cruelly ravaged, pillaged, and laid to waste by subsequent local authorities si...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 15:43hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe-Zambia: There goes the puppies again!
OVER the past few months, the political temperature has been heating up as if the country's general elections are scheduled for next year.Watching developments from my poshto has been quite in...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:06hrs | 14 | by Retired Major Action Mandingo
MDC-T is putting the cart before the horse
RECENTLY, someone asked me to share my view on the recent call by the MDC-T for dialogue for all the concerned stakeholders to discuss a common way forward for our great country, Zimbabwe.The ...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Daniel Molokele, Hwange Central MP, MDC Alliance
Mnangagwa and the deconstruction of the anecdote of Matabeleland marginalisation
History is replete with many memories of pre and post-independence pains endured by our people. Against this backdrop, even with the Lancaster Conference right up to the Unity Accord of 1987 the natio...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:44hrs | 9 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Soul Jah Love's dodgy hero status divides opinion
THE ruling Zanu-PF party's decision to declare the late Zimdancehall chanter Soul Jah Love - born Soul Musaka - a liberation war hero has inadvertently raised political dust and left internet users di...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Social media driving us to doomsday
Bishop Lazi is convinced that nostalgia is a timeless disease.It is normally associated with selective amnesia and the romanticisation of cherished memories.This is why it is unsurpris...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:51hrs | | by Bishop Lazarue
Zanu-PF ministers' evil deeds can't be forgotten
UK-based lawyer and one of the founding opposition MDC leaders Yvonne Mahlunge-Gwashawanhu, David Coltart's deputy then, says while people should upon death mourn Zanu-PF ministers like Joel Biggie Ma...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 16:07hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Sibusiso Busi Moyo and the Continuity of the Struggle
On the dawn of November 15, 2017, the late hero of Zimbabwe's armed struggle assumed the symbolic biblical ‘‘voice of one crying in the wilderness'' to make a way for the New Dispensation.To t...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 22:50hrs | 4 | by Obert Moses Mpofu
Demystifying false narrative of a 'crisis' in Zimbabwe
For the past few months, Zimbabwe's internal and external detractors have been in overdrive, pushing a concocted narrative that there was a "crisis" in Zimbabwe. This false narrative is premis...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Pardon Muzavavi
Sadc resolutions portend well for Africa's unity
In his seminal public lecture in South Africa, Prof Artwell Nhemachena succinctly attacks the jugular vein of coloniality by stating that: "African voices have spoken and cried but the world has not b...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
British Queen divides Matabeleland leaders
The decision by Her Majesty the Queen of England to invite United Kingdom based Matabeleland activist Dr Brilliant Sigabade Mhlanga to her 2019 Party at Buckingham Palace has created a war of words be...Published: 10 May 2019 at 14:50hrs | 8 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Wonders never cease
AFTER watching the-PFeesident's sidekick Victor Matemadanda's soporific homily on one online television, one gets an abiding feeling that indeed Zimbabwe is a God-forsaken country. Things are ...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:10hrs | 3 | by Hon Criss
Zimbabwe Communist Party respond to attacks by ZANU PF mouthpiece
"The Patriot, 31 January 2019, carried an article titled 'Unmasking a pseudo-communist organisation,' although obviously there was no unmasking to do, instead it degenerated to slanderous personal att...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 13:23hrs | 2 | by Dr. Samukele Hadebe
Response to The Patriot: Unmasking Pseudo Communists
The Patriot, 31 January 2019, carried an article titled 'Unmasking a pseudo communist organisation,' although obviously there was no unmasking do to, instead it degenerated to slanderous personal atta...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 18:21hrs | 1 | by Dr. Samukele Hadebe
ZANU PF also accused ZEC of vote rigging!
As Zimbabweans still debate and grapple over the veracity of the just ended 30 July 2018 harmonized election results - especially, considering the possible legal challenge by the opposition MDC Allian...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 20:57hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF destroyed Zimbabwe soon after taking over from Smith
Election time in particular, and politics in general, is predominantly a game for liars and tricksters, but as Zimbabwe heads towards the watershed 30 July harmonised polls, the electorate can not aff...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 08:28hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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
Mnangagwa free and fair polls pledge questioned
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's pledge for free and fair elections this year has come under scrutiny, with the opposition and analysts describing the Zanu PF leader as insincere after he recently claim...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Outlawing metal IDs for BVR registration is electoral fraud
Tobaiwa Mudede's decree that metallic National Identity Cards are not permissible for Biometric Voter Registration because they are not machine readable is not just illegal, but a sheer desperate atte...Published: 31 Aug 2017 at 07:08hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
SADC now an obsolete and pitiful organisation
As I was watching the live broadcast of the opening ceremony of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) 37th ordinary summit in Pretoria, South Africa, one could not help but be filled with ...Published: 19 Aug 2017 at 12:41hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Gukurahundi were not mere 'disturbances', but a genocide
It was not only shocking, but bewildering, to read - in a recent edition of the state-run The Herald newspaper - that Zimbabwe Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko recklessly referred to the Gukurahundi ...Published: 24 Jul 2017 at 09:07hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Morgan Tsvangirai , the legitimate President of Zimbabwe- supporter
An MDC-T supporter Esau M'Zambia Milanzi has claimed that his party leader Morgan Tsvangirai is the only legitimate leader of Zimbabwe despite having been blocked several times to head the nation b...Published: 22 Dec 2016 at 05:03hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Reburials and atonement
Jonathan Moyo and Joice Mujuru share much more than the "Js" in the first names and a desire for atonement. Both have been senior ZANU PF officials and have once been thrown out of the party, with Muj...Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 11:10hrs | | by Sambulo Vuma
'Mugabe suffering from selective amnesia'
Opposition political parties have labelled as hypocritical demands by President Robert Mugabe for reforms at the United Nations Security Council, saying the Zanu PF leader should first implement s...Published: 26 Sep 2016 at 09:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe's actions put his family in peril'
WAR veterans have warned that President Robert Mugabe risked eroding his legacy and exposing his wife, First Lady Grace Mugabe, and children to Zanu PF vultures by refusing to step down.Zi...Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Workers are an integral part of any development, not a liability
Recent reports of workers being dismissed by their employers, mostly without due process being followed, is another clear sign of a heartless and cruel corporate culture that shamelessly puts money ab...Published: 21 Dec 2015 at 09:13hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why Dr Tsvangirai is Zimbabwe's best foot forward
Some commentators and competitors have sought to place doubt on the suitability and ability of Dr Morgan Tsvangirai to lead the Zimbabwean opposition to victory over Zanu-PF, arguing, among other thin...Published: 20 Aug 2015 at 12:05hrs | | by Douglas T. Mwonzora
Why Dr Tsvangirai Is Zimbabwe's Best Foot Forward and Face of the Struggle
Some commentators and competitors have sought to place doubt on the suitability and ability of Dr Morgan Tsvangirai to lead the Zimbabwean opposition to victory over Zanu PF, arguing, among other ...Published: 20 Aug 2015 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Douglas T. Mwonzora
Don't trust 'jambanja boys' Jabulani, Mliswa
The Bible calls them wolves in sheep's clothing, the intellectuals call them turncoats or opportunists, a simpler term is Jabulani Sibanda and Temba Mliswa.It was indeed a sight to behold, the...Published: 17 Jul 2015 at 12:04hrs | 3 | by Nicole Hondo
Why we laughed when Mugabe collapsed
We all have elderly people in our lives that we love and care for dearly. None of us would make fun of them if they stumble, trip or fall over. So how come the 91-year-old president of Zimbabwe, Rober...Published: 08 Feb 2015 at 09:50hrs | 1 | by Lance Guma
'Black Jesus' demands to be declared paramount chief
CONTROVERSIAL Masvingo self-styled war veterans' leader, Black Jesus, real name Francis Zimuto, has petitioned Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo, demanding to be declared paramount chief of an...Published: 31 Oct 2014 at 06:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Facebook group aims to expose absentee fathers
Launched two weeks ago, 'Dead Beat Kenya' and its affiliated sites already have 125,000 likes. But can any good come from naming and shaming, asks Kagure MugoKenyan men, have you ever chosen t...Published: 30 Sep 2014 at 20:38hrs | 1 | by Guardian
Peta's story had serious omissions
LAST week the Southern Eye and Bulawayo24.com carried a story headlined "Zimbabwean Journalists banned from working in Lesotho".The crux of the story was that I, Shakeman Mugari, and Abel ...Published: 14 Apr 2014 at 07:06hrs | 2 | by Shakeman Mugari
Matabeleland is full of 'talkers, not real solid performers' says Enos Nkala
The man widely accused of spearheading Gukurahundi massacres in the 80s, former Zanu-PF minister Enos Nkala has told FinGaz that Matabeleland is just full of "talkers, not real solid performers" ther...Published: 09 Jun 2012 at 04:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
No place for rebels in Zimbabwe
The move taken by the Zimbabwean Government to expel former Libyan ambassador to Zimbabwe, Taher Elmegrahi following his undiplomatic move to dump Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the leader who appointed him...Published: 07 Sep 2011 at 07:41hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Their bones shall rise
LAST Wednesday, the High Court in Bulawayo ruled that the exhumation of thousands of bodies dumped in disused mineshafts at Chibondo by the Rhodesians during the liberation war, be discontinued....Published: 13 Apr 2011 at 10:17hrs | 2 | by Alex Kanengoni
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