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ANC cause of Zimbabwe troubles, claims Sikhala
OPPOSITION politician, Job Sikhala, has said South Africa's ruling party has undermined the democratic struggle against Zanu-PF by endorsing rigged elections in the country.Sikhala was speakin...Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala on BBC HARDtalk
Prominent Zimbabwean opposition activist Job Sikhala has been interviewed by Stephen Sucker on BBC HARDtalk this afternoon.The interview was pre-recorded for broadcast on Wednesday.The...Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 21:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza residents resort to bucket toilet system
The bulk of Chitungwiza residents have been forced to resort to the bucket toilet system as council struggles to bring a permanent solution to sewage and water reticulaion problems affecting most part...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Agricultural Extension officers in Tobacco farming tipped
Senior Agronomist Lazarus Gatawa has urged Extension officers in tobacco production to use their skills in guiding farmers to improve their farming practices.He said the current tobacco season...Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 17:22hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
I won't be balanced, fair towards blood suckers
OCCASIONALLY, I am accused of being predominantly biased against the Zanu-PF regime and that there was a serious lack of balance and fairness in my discourses.I plead guilty to the charges, bu...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 05:07hrs | | by Tendai R Mbofana
ZANU PF cell meetings a big flop
The Zanu PF Cell Day which has been recently held last Saturday has been done a proverbial sucker punch.Zanu PF has now been reduced into rubble and debris. The opposition must snatch this opp...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 07:11hrs | 7 | by Leonard Koni
Tobacco marketing season starts today
This year's tobacco marketing season kicks off today with the usual ceremony this morning at the Tobacco Sales Floor opening the auction sales with the contract floors, which will handle 95 percent of...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stop this ageism jibe
Those talking about ageism and maturity in politics must revisit an interview where the late President Robert Mugabe who was only 31 years old in 1961 where he was talking about inequality and e...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 20:08hrs | 8 | by Leonard Koni
Professor Arthur Mutambara, Dr Nkosana Moyo and Advocate Nelson Chamisa are speaking
I have dwelt a lot regarding Chamisa's infantile approach to politics and his policies that do not make too much sense. However, I wish to commend Chamisa's visit to Matabeleland South two days ago. T...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 17:20hrs | 8 | by Nomazulu Thata
MDC: A case of burning ambition, failed leadership
THE Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was founded in 1999 as an opposition party from members of a broad coalition of civic society groups and individuals that campaigned for a "no" vote in the 200...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | | by Cedric Steele
What is the plan B? Chamisa mistakes Zanu-PF with men and women from Ruwadzano
Chamisa's MDC-Alliance mistakes Zanu-PF with men and women from Ruwadzano who stage religious competitions and graciously win or lose in God's name. I will repeat, Chamisa underestimates Zanu-PF. We e...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 19:48hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Insurrection! Sounds like copy and paste United State America's 6th of January 2021 - a global circus!!
This is how low ANC has sunk to equate the last weeks violent events in South Africa as an insurrection. Again to term hungry population as criminals is a sign of a government that has lost authority ...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 22:02hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Matabeleland North farmers still planting wheat
WHEAT farmers in Matabeleland North were by yesterday still planting the winter crop following late delivery of inputs especially seed. The province is targeting to plant 1 000ha of winter whe...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 09:14hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Jonathan Moyo to undergo head surgery after his book excelgate
The Zimbabwean and international space has been congested by Jonathan Moyo posting Twitter messages designed to bring Zimbabwe's reputation into disrepute. Professor Jonathan Moyo has dedicated his ti...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 22:07hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chiwenga solidly behind Mnangagwa?
WAR veterans say talk of a rift between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy, Constantino Chiwenga, ahead of Zanu-PF's district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections and the national 2023 pol...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 16:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Wayward Child
After an uneasy pregnancy and long hours of labour pains, there was a great celebration when baby Lerato was finally born. Lerato was born into a broken family of school dropouts. Her elder siblings n...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 12:05hrs | 1 | by Salom Shilongo
Warriors lose to Somalia
Somalia 1-0 Zimbabwe ZIMBABWEAN football hit a new low last night when the Warriors lost to the world's lowest-ranked team, Somalia, in a Fifa World Cup preliminary round first leg match played at...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:51hrs | | by New Ziana
ZCTU can do better than demonstrate for redollarisation
No good deed goes unpunished.Normally, the doer of a good deed expects just a "thank you", but usually someone is adversely affected by the good deed. For example, saving someone's life from a...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:10hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Dishonesty now biggest threat to democracy
Two inter-related issues - highlighted in two feedbacks I have received over the past six months - should be addressed as a matter of priority and urgency.The first one is do with what one mob...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 06:54hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Cosafa bursts into life
COSAFA president Philip Chiyangwa officially opened this year's edition of the senior men's tournament in Durban, South Africa yesterday with a pledge to continue making the regional tournament a key ...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs a serious president
Prices of commodities, insurances and basic food (basically everything) are skyrocketing but wages remain constant equating to the increase in suffering of the ordinary people. Do we deserve this much...Published: 12 May 2019 at 08:14hrs | | by Dr Takesure Tazvishaya.
Corruption is the elephant in the room
No rocket science is needed to appreciate that, coupled with the debilitating effects of sanctions, corruption is one of the major drivers of the political and socio-economic decay in Zimbabwe today. ...Published: 03 May 2019 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Obert Gutu
Our Ponzi country Zimbabwe
A Ponzi scheme, for those unfamiliar with the term, is a way of creaming off money from deluded investors. They initially receive handsome returns but this does not come from profits on their investme...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 13:39hrs | 1 | by ZimVigil
Toiling for RTGS dollars: Tale of Zimbabwe farmers
ZIMBABWE'S top major foreign currency earners - tobacco growers - toil and till the soils growing the crop that drives the economy, only for their sweat to be rewarded in real time gross settlement (R...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Time to confront bloodsuckers wherever and whenever
THAT things could be on the verge of boiling over is not an overstatement, but for the "big boys" these are the best of times as they are making a killing.But it should be pointed out from the...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:39hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Eloquence without wisdom is vain
The invitation of MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa and his party deputy chairperson, Tendai Biti to give testimony before the Commission of Inquiry into the August 1 incident did not help the commission muc...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 07:32hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
'ED has so far created 800 000 jobs' says Mangwana - figment of delusional apologist
"President Emmerson Mnangagwa's first year in office has been very successful to the extent that his main thrust has been to deal with fundamental issues like, firstly, the fundamentals that improve o...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 17:12hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ED's First Ever Conference As The First Secretary
The Zanu-PF National People's Conference will be held in Esigodini, Matabeleland South province in December, the party's secretary for information Cde Simon Khaya Moyo has said.The 17th Nation...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 13:35hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa unleashes CIO on cash barons
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube will this week meet with the country's State security agents for a briefing on the soaring foreign currency shortages as government tightens the noose on highly-placed fo...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cry my beloved Dynamos
As a staunch Dynamos supporter, my heart bled profusely when I looked at the current Premier Soccer League log standing where Dynamos is fighting relegation.Dynamos Football Club popularly kno...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Sipepa-Nkomo endorses Mnangagwa, quits politics
Former National People's Party (NPP) Vice President Dr Sipepa Nkomo has endorsed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's leadership, as he announced his retirement from active politics at his Bulawayo base thi...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 12:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Do not kill a dead snake!
This is what former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma said in reference to Thabo Mbeki who was voted out of the party and government as party leader and president of South Africa in Polokwane. This...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 15:49hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa's MDC Alliance too unstable to govern
A delusion is defined simply as a belief or impression that is falsely held despite being contradicted by reality and rational argument. There have been many of those around. One of the most prominent...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:41hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Zanu-PF panicking
The ruling party is going to face one of its gruesome and greatest election challenge since independence. The coalescing of opposition political parties a brain child of the late Morgan Tsvangirayi ha...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 21:38hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Campion Mugweni for Mazoe North
Mazoe North in Mash Central has spoken, Comrade Champion Mugweni for Mazoe North. As Team Zanu-PF matches forward, let's rally behind our chosen parliamentary candidate for unity and development. ...Published: 28 May 2018 at 12:55hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa
'BBC HardTalk painted Chamisa as immature and unwise,' complain MDC - but that he is
When I was in high school, we had a hard-boiled male sexist teacher who hated woman of all ages with a burning passion. What irritated me most about him is the way he would go to town about how he was...Published: 23 May 2018 at 19:58hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Khuphe: Khuphe all the time, Thokozani-hatred and vitriol are tribally insulting, and gender-degrading!
Hate speeches against Khuphe must just stop at once! We have enough of the insults on women whom they hate with a passion. Stop at once insulting Thoko, stop abusing her, stop denigrating her, we have...Published: 23 May 2018 at 16:24hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa's rude awakening - Hardtalk
MDC-T and MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa had the opportunity to be grilled by Stephen Sucker - traditionally known to take no prisoners - on BBC Hardtalk and his responses have drawn divergent vie...Published: 12 May 2018 at 13:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's roller coaster politics
MDC-T leader, Nelson Chamisa, is learning the hard way that 'good ideas sell themselves' as the United Kingdom (UK) trip bears shambolic and humiliating real life experiences for the 'youthful' opposi...Published: 11 May 2018 at 11:37hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba
Chamisa's UK baptism of fire exposes lies, lack of depth
MDC-T and MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa, left for the United Kingdom last weekend amid ad nasueam announcements from his supporters who saw it as an endorsement or "stepping up the ladder of the...Published: 11 May 2018 at 11:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Highlanders salute travelling supporters
HIGHLANDERS have saluted supporters that travelled to Baobab Stadium on Saturday to cheer on the boys in a Castle Lager Premiership match, which they lost 0-1 to Ngezi Platinum Stars.Terrence ...Published: 30 Apr 2018 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Litmus test for Madinda's ECD class
Five matches, four wins and a single draw while conceding just once has given Bulawayo giants Highlanders an almost perfect start to this year's Castle Lager Premiership season.But Sunday's Bu...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 15:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Who exactly was former President Mugabe?
The late VP Nkomo warned us in his 1984 book that there is a Robert Mugabe we don't know, but we were too consumed by the dummy we had been sold by the dominant liberation war discourses. These warnin...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 08:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Will MDC rule if they are voted in?
In September 2017 Zimbabwe experienced a coup within a coup. Coup d'etat is a French word to mean that strike on the state. A coup detat is usually an unconstitutional means of changing the status cor...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 18:48hrs | 6 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa finally emerged out of Mugabe's shadow in Davos only to prove what a fool he is
For 37 years President Mnangagwa has lived in the shadow of Mugabe, rarely seen, much less, heard. The odd occasion he has opened his mouth, many thought him a fool but they were not 100% certain of t...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 14:29hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Staying Positive this festive season amid a Negative Political landscape
Christmas is around the corner , the time we all eagerly wait for , for the whole year. Tinkling bells, colorful decorations, bright lights, the Christmas tree decked up like a bride, a sumptuous feas...Published: 18 Dec 2017 at 10:28hrs | | by Matthew Dube esquire
The rescinded Goodwill Ambasssdorial honour a welcome move
The withdrawal by WHO director to honour and appoint President Robert Mugabe as a Goodwill Ambassador has been applauded by most of Zimbabweans who have been going through a lot of challenges to acces...Published: 27 Oct 2017 at 10:41hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe needs to be fixed - MDC-T
MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu has said Zimbabwe needs to be fixed considering the fact that 90% of the population survives on a dollar per day."With an ailing national economy where more...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 07:10hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF prepared to break the bank to retain political power
THE Movement for Democratic Change party led by Morgan Tsvangirai has called on all opposition parties in the country to put aside "petty personal squabbles" and unite behind one banner in the upcomin...Published: 11 Sep 2017 at 18:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Reforms are rallying and clarion call,' says MDC - so what happened to WIRE?
In Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends, the nation is stuck with individuals who are corrupt and incompetent; set in their ways they are now immovable concrete blocks. They believe in their own rhet...Published: 08 Sep 2017 at 16:22hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
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