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Of all the don'ts, send Mnangagwa begging UNGA for US$5.8b food aid for SADC; he's eyeing 'pound of flesh' cut for himself
Of all the SADC leaders to be begging for food aid on behalf of SADC, Emmerson Mnangagwa would be the last leader anyone would choose to do it!"President Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken the...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 12:38hrs | 717 | by Wilbert Mukori
Amsterdam activists hand out hundreds of balloons and leaflets in protest against neocolonialism
In the capital of the Netherlands, Amsterdam, representatives of the African community gathered to protest against the neocolonial regime and the exploitation of the African continent's population....Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 18:51hrs | 417 | by Staff Reporter
Of all the don'ts, send Mnangagwa begging UNGA for US$5.8b food aid for SADC; he’s eyeing 'pound of flesh' cut for himself
Of all the SADC leaders to be begging for food aid on behalf of SADC, Emmerson Mnangagwa would be the last leader anyone would choose to do it!"President Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken the...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 23:01hrs | 760 | by Wilbert Mukori
Starving Zimbabweans to feed on overpopulating elephants
In the wake of chronic food shortages and starvation necessitated by El Nino induced drought countrywide, several communities in Zimbabwe are set to benef...Published: 13 Sep 2024 at 07:09hrs | 571 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Mnangagwa top aide warns aid looters
ZANU-PF legislators this Wednesday fumed over unfair distribution of food aid in several constituencies countrywide as authorities admitted something went wrong during the processes.Zimbabwe s...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 10:23hrs | 2318 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF has betrayed Zimbabwe war heroes
Zimbabwe's opposition parties claim that the sacrifices of the country's heroes have been betrayed by those in power, who have shown brutality, violated human rights, engaged in rampant corruption wit...Published: 13 Aug 2024 at 17:14hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Drawing parallels between Kenya and Zimbabwe's social, economic, and political disturbances
We want to believe that the demonstrations in Kenya just happened overnight. The Gene Zs went on a rampage assisted by criminals. To framing them so thin, is to trivialize a genuine revolution that wa...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 23:08hrs | 33 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe gets US$31.8 million drought insurance cover
Zimbabwe has received US$31,8 million from the African Risk Capacity, an arm of the African Union, to help mitigate the effects of the devastating El Nino induced drought.Receiving the insuran...Published: 06 Jul 2024 at 12:04hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Berita officially divorced from Nota Baloyi
In 2022, SA Music Award (Sama) award-winning singer Gugulethu Khumalo, better known as Berita, announced that she had split from her husband, controversial pop culture commentator and podcaster Nhlamu...Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 12:38hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
In Vienna activists demanded the West to stop exploiting the African people
The streets of Vienna were plastered with numerous leaflets containing anti-colonial slogans and calls for support for the African people oppressed by the West. The authors of the leaflets acc...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 20:25hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
FULL TEXT: Job Sikhala speech at the UN Geneva Summit
Iwant to greet you, honorable guests of this important summit for Human Rights and Democracy, from all the four corners of the world. I am Job Sikala, the surviving political prisoner from Zimbabwe. I...Published: 17 May 2024 at 16:38hrs | 31 | by Jo Sikhala
Mnangagwa's disaster management under scrutiny
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's US$2 billion humanitarian assistance plea has raised eyebrows as it is more than what regional countries suffering from El Niño-induced drought have asked for.S...Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 10:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
'You see skeletons' - the deadly migrant Limpopo crossing
The men who raped Portie Murevesi did not care that she was visibly pregnant. They attacked her with glass bottles too, she told us, pointing to a large and jagged scar on her forearm.Now, her...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mr Kudzai Mutisi, the German 'Economic wonder' after the WW2 had multiple favourable factors!
I am writing this article as a reply to your article you wrote last week: My article is not in any way or form critiquing your own but including factors that must be known, but, however, adding to wha...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 20:53hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe govt workers starving
FUNERAL policies and medical aid contributions are gobbling up a huge chunk of civil servants earnings, leaving most of them with little for food, rent, school fees and transport, NewsDay has been inf...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Blue train is doomed
The promised version of an opposition party touted around as the Blue something is not a political project but a lucrative business enterprise where Nelson Chamisa will be the sole director....Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 19:21hrs | 410 | by Gugugu Magorira
How Mzila's family suffered during Gukurahundi genocide
IN 1982, I was assaulted by five Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) uniformed young men donning red berets at my Luveve house number 4136 where I lived, while I taught at St Bernards High School in Pumula, ...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:52hrs | 58 | by Moses Mzila Nkalange
A generation of EDiots
THE politicians keep fiddling while Zimbabwe is burning. The opposition is at sixes and sevens, while Zanu-PF is at sea when the education system is now in comatose and the peril of having a generatio...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
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 | 55 | by Staff reporter
Umkhonto weSizwe fighter will never forget what a white man told him in Zimbabwe in 1980
I have no idea whether the white man I am writing about is still alive or not. He gave me an understanding of what actually happened to us Africans, and how sinister it was, when we were colonized. Hi...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 13:11hrs | 11 | by Thula Bopela
Mwenezi man attempts to rape step-mother
A sex starved 27-year-old Chiredzi man has appeared in court for attempting to rape his 46-year-old step-mother while they were fetching firewood in a bush.The young man literally begged for s...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 14:18hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Secret affair with married woman exposed
Bulawayo-based anti-drug campaigner Romeo Matshazi has been caught cheating with a married woman, Blessed Maturure, who is the wife of Clement Gwatidzo.The illicit affair was exposed after Gwa...Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 04:50hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Can we honestly say someone in ICU is 'doing very well'?
So, finance minister Mthuli Ncube actually believes Zimbabwe's economy is 'doing very well'!Wow!Talk about delusional thinking!Or, perhaps it is just someone who is deliberatel...Published: 03 Nov 2023 at 17:56hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Will the new ‘ZiG' ‘gold backed' digital currency alleviate Zimbabwe's currency stability woes?
THE chronic problem of Zimbabwe's economy has its roots in the land reform activities that began more than 30 years ago.The principle of ‘ethnic balance' in land ownership was fair. The prob...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by John Mc Keown
Mnangagwa has no political and, with no competent cabinet, no performance legitimacy either. He must go!
"As I said last week, stealing elections through all manner of rigging before and after the polling day itself would have been ignored by the business and investor communities if Mnangagwa had appoint...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 23:15hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
WATCH: Zambia's Hakainde Hichilema advised to resign on moral ground
Zambia must prosper. President Kelvin Bwalya Fube has advised President Hakainde Hichilema to resign on moral grounds.Mr. Fube said he supported President Hichilema purely on the principle of ...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 21:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Limiting live streaming of court proceedings hinders transparency and public engagement
In recent days, the issue of live streaming court proceedings in Zimbabwe has come to the forefront, causing a stir among media organizations and proponents of open justice. I believe Bulawayo High Co...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 09:41hrs | | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Caps United return to winning ways
Caps United 2 - 0 Green FuelTEN men Caps United ended their five match winless run with a convincing two nil win over Green Fuel in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match played here yesterday...Published: 15 Jul 2023 at 19:30hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Man of God sexually starves wife
Wonai Moyo from Thorngrove suburb in Bulawayo has accused her husband of sexually starving her as he spent night time reading the Bible and praying.She said when she demands her conjugal right...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 18:38hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Biti says pharmacy licence cancellation illegal
FORMER finance minister, Tendai Biti, says the suspension and cancellation of trading licences for pharmaceutical companies for flouting foreign exchange regulations is "blatantly illegal, puerile and...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:45hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Greener pastures not so green for Zimbabweans in the diaspora
They have high-paying jobs, a high standard of living, and almost everything they need, but for Zimbabweans abroad, all that glitters is not gold.Twenty-eight-year-old Gift Gonye, based in Ger...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 08:42hrs | 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 | 7 | by Eddie Cross
Bona Mugabe alone got 21 farms peasants, supposedly beneficiaries of Land Redistribution, got nothing
If you asked most Zimbabweans out there today what the war of independence was about; most of them will say, "Land!" Before independence the major would have said "One man, one vote!" but all ...Published: 04 May 2023 at 10:13hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Epworth title deed scheme Zanu-PF vote-buying stunt
THE regularisation of Epworth settlements after President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week started distributing so-called title deeds has come under the spotlight as it has since emerged that the document...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 19:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans will wake up after elections…well, hopefully!
Yesterday, during a relative's burial, I had a wonderful opportunity to mix and mingle with friends, family, neighbors and people from all walks of life. In these interactions - especially wit...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 07:00hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe chiefs, headmen get a windfall
CHIEFS and village heads are set to receive a one-off Covid-19 allowance backdated to May 2022 which is essentially yet another vote-buying exercise by the Zanu-PF government to win the support of 26 ...Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 20:11hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
A dunderhead leader believes what he can't do is impossible for everyone else to accomplish!
Those who follow my articles are now all too familiar with how I regard with utter disdain those who make excuses for failing to fulfill their mandates.Quite frankly, I seriously doubt if ther...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 10:33hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwean nurses fret over global recruitment ban
UNDERPAID Zimbabwean nurses and doctors have vowed to find alternative ways to circumvent a foreign recruitment ban recently imposed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), saying they cannot bear the...Published: 27 Mar 2023 at 09:54hrs | 32 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF perfects vote-buying tactics
Zanu-PF has resorted to its traditional vote-buying tactics ahead of the next elections with the latest move being the pampering of traditional chiefs with all-terrain vehicles in a development that s...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 15:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poor Pamela Tremont and Triple C: Politics without lawful issue
I have watched Pamela Tremont's hearing in preparation for her posting to Zimbabwe as US' next ambassador.Both the line of questioning by US Senators, as well as her responses, were, to say th...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 06:32hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
Zimbabwe army, police get 400% pay hike
Teachers' unions have slammed government over the selective remuneration of its workforce following the controversial awarding of a 400 percent pay hike to the military and police.Teachers are cur...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 07:35hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 'Obama' calls for lasting economic solutions
Aspiring presidential candidate and Democratic Union of Zimbabwe (DUZ) leader Robert Chapman has described economic policies by the government as gimmicks while calling for the ouster of the ruling pa...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Makandiwa says 'Mind your own business'
UNITED Family International Church (UFIC) founder Emmanuel Makandiwa says people must mind their own business and leave him alone after attracting attention with his purchase of a US$300 000 luxury ve...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt splashes US$60m on police
GOVERNMENT has set aside US$60 million and several billions in local currency for police operations for next year.This comes ahead of elections next year, which are likely to be held in July o...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 20:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans are serial plan B people!' Where is plan B if millions are in the dark and starving
"Zimbabwe did not become a failed state overnight. The collapse of the country happened over a period of decades, starting as early as the 1980s," wrote Malaika Mahlatsi in an article circulating in m...Published: 15 Dec 2022 at 10:01hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Surely, does ZANU PF need 100 years to build electricity infrastructure?
ZANU PF never ceases to amaze! Always full of excuses - some just incredible, others pure madness, whilst there are downright stupid!I always say to myself, 'if ZANU PF had been a man,...Published: 13 Dec 2022 at 14:13hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What is Gata even still doing at ZESA?
As Zimbabwe continues to sink deeper into an economic abyss - exacerbated by recurrent crippling electricity shortages - one is baffled as to why heads at the power utility are not rolling.No ...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 11:43hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
MPs scrimmage for US$40 000 loan shows how we all are dependent on the dictator's benevolence
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to the...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 10:49hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Reluctance in registering to vote shows distrust in current political players
I said it before - and, I will say it again and again. I can totally understand the immense frustration amongst some sections of our Zimbabwean society - as they wonder why there appears to be...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 08:58hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's minister exposes vote-buying plot
LANDS and Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka has unwittingly exposed Zanu-PF's plot to use State resources to buy votes ahead of next year's polls.Addressing villagers in the Chinyamukwakwa a...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
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