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'Some very strange things are happening in China!'

President Donald Trump has threatened to pull out of an expected meeting with President Xi Jinping of China after Beijing tightened its rules for exports of rar

Published: 10 Oct 2025 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter

Extending Mnangagwa's term through corruption and patronage

AS Zimbabweans grapple with economic hardships, skyrocketing inflation, and a deteriorating healthcare system, Zanu-PF is once again prioritising its grip on power over the welfare of the people.The ruling party's latest scheme - a blatant…

Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 06:40hrs | 4 | by Political Correspondent

Britain's interference in the US presidential election will backfire badly

Foreign interventions in elections or referenda rarely end well for the interventionists. In 2016, then US President Barack Obama foolishly lectured the British

Published: 19 Oct 2024 at 19:22hrs | | by Nile Gardiner

US elections have literally become a problematically violent affair

It's rich and absurd for the new US Ambassador to Zimbabwe - Pamela Tremont - to start her first day in her office in Harare by recklessly charging that the US has "problems with elections" in Zimbabwe, when elections in the US have litera…

Published: 19 Jul 2024 at 05:42hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo

Why Donald Trump's support has been growing!

My friends in Europe and in Africa ask me the perennial question. What makes for Donald Trump's longevity in American politics? And why are the Democrats trying their best to lock him up in a  jailhouse to prevent him from being on th…

Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:59hrs | 2 | by Kenneth Mufuka

Persecution of Donald Trump!

If I were in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's situation, and the US I had an audience with the ambassador whereby the honourable ambassador would lecture me about free and fair elections, the rule of law, and accountability, I would keep my …

Published: 28 May 2023 at 07:06hrs | 3 | by Kenneth Mufuka

From Trump to Biden, it is getting 'more worse!'

In black English,  former president Donald Trump was a lunatic, a loud-mouthed New Yorker, whose mouth was unfiltered, a thoroughly "worse guy". If that is so,  US president Joe Biden (lovingly called Uncle Joe) has proved, in ma…

Published: 07 May 2023 at 18:35hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka

New restaurant opens in Bulawayo

Check out this unique new establishment, The Good Place Restaurant, situated downtown of Bulawayo, offering a coterie of dishes that include western and traditi

Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 11:38hrs | | by Jamela

When the US media is captured!

When my mentor, Eddison Zvobgo, returned to his hotel room in London after the Lancaster House Conference, he was met with delirious laughter from his English friend. The cause of laughter was Zvobgo's assertion that the Lancaster Constitu…

Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:19hrs | | by Ken Mufuka

Chamisa and Trumpism - Sanctions, Sex and Infiltration

That the MDC-Alliance led by Advocate Nelson Chamisa is an ailing force is no longer a subject for debate.The party suffers mostly from self-inflicted wounds - ones that its opponents are graciously exploiting, meaning that it is no longer…

Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 20:00hrs | | by Grace Kwinje

Trump, Chamisa birds of the same feather

Outgoing United States (US) president, Donald Trump and Zimbabwe's opposition MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa both refused to concede defeat, in their separate elections. The world is surprised by Trump who has revealed his dictatorial…

Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 14:38hrs | 6 | by Prosperity Mzila

Donald must phone Dambudzo

It never rains but pours for the little boy. Things haven't been going his way of late and I would never want to be in his shoes. Zvakaomera Chamisa hama dzangu and I feel sorry for him. Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, Save rwizi rwukuru, Rest …

Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 18:47hrs | | by Mapombi

Trump called Chamisa for advice

The American elections have shown us a number of interesting things and indeed it has given us shocking similarities between Trump and Nelson Chamisa. There is

Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 22:47hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavza

Trump hammers nail into coffin of US's fake democracy

WE all knew it was coming, and now it is here: an attempted coup. There is no other way to describe what US President Donald Trump did in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.Standing in the East Room of the White House, the room where Frank…

Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:08hrs | | by Lowenstein

The inscrutable Mr Trump!

*This letter uses American jargonIt took me sometime to figure out why the inscrutable, rascally US President Donald J Trump drives so many elites into a lunatic frenzy until I read a post from my old friend of the Drum magazine days, Andr…

Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:09hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka

Pfumvudza agricultural inputs are home

It was agric-fete or farming 'tombola' at Chinehasha Community shed as villagers exhibiting excitement and zealousness mingled and mixed to receive the 'Pfumvudza' farming inputs. The unrelenting September heat did not deter the mass of hu…

Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 09:24hrs | | by Thomas Tondo Murisa

US media has become the true opposition

LISTEN ye men of Dzimbahwe, even those foolish MaShurugwi, to these wise words.Over the last 30 years, the power of the media has grown out of all proportion to its intended purpose, which was to render to the citizen unvarnished informati…

Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 07:59hrs | 34 | by Ken Mufuka

An abiding tortoise of White House goons

Politics, as an existential science, can be characteristically hot, heavy and heady.In its very extreme form, politics can be similar to religious fundamentalism, where it becomes a matter of life and death.It is high-octane stuff that can…

Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 07:18hrs | | by Bishop Lazi

Trump's isolationist message dangerous

Listening to the United States President, Donald Trump's speech at the 73rd Ordinary Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), yours truly could not help but join the leaders of other nations in chuckling at his speech. T…

Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 06:05hrs | 643 | by Tafara Shumba

We were too hopeful about Zimbabwe . . .

Zimbabwe is back on the international radar following elections that were held on July 30. Feels like we have been here before.Yes, we have been. Anyone who had hoped otherwise is either a hopeless optimist or naÃ¯ve. Or perhaps stupid. Th…

Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 08:57hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga

American meddling must be resisted

THE word "coon" is short for raccoon; - and in the old American South was (and, if we are honest, is) used as an insulting and contemptuous term for a black person.It is equivalent to "nigger", but instead of being descriptive (black), it …

Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 05:36hrs | | by Tinomudaishe Chinyoka

Why Africa deserves the sh*thole tag - part 2

African leaders after being told what the US President thinks of our continent were planning to gang up and ask the US administration to condemn the statement. This is the only time they find common voice albeit for protecting their blotte…

Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 06:16hrs | 47 | by Albert Madya

Chamisa exposes the MDC alliance in Mutare

The MDC Alliance's fragile foundation has been exposed, as one of the MDC-T vice presidents, Nelson Chamisa took a swipe at his party spokesperson, Obert Gutu for going against Alliance arrangements regarding fielding of candidates for the…

Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 14:52hrs | | by Charles Motsi

Trump is right to put America first

We don't agree with Trump very much. But where we do agree with him is on his aim to put America first. Extreme poverty is the normal condition throughout Africa only because African nations, and indeed the continent itself, do not put the…

Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 06:38hrs | | by David Barber & Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Dont blame Trump, blame African leaders!

The truth really hurts, hey! That is the sad part of reality ,we would rather bury our heads in the sand and pretend all is well.The US President, Trump ,has called Africa a shithole and we are livid. Yes,we are supposed to defend our moth…

Published: 20 Jan 2018 at 10:18hrs | | by Albert Madya

Trump is a 'loose cannon'

Indeed the American President is a 'loose cannon' that can explode rhetorically at no one but blacks, a few scandal ridden hangers-on and of course never at Put

Published: 17 Jan 2018 at 05:50hrs | | by Tondorindo Chinehasha.

Botswana chides Trump for derogatory claims against Africa

The Botswana government has issued a statement criticising USA president Donald Trump for calling Africa 'shithole countries' due to excessive immigration from the block.Trump is reported to have made these claims against Africa, El Salvad…

Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 15:17hrs | 2746 | by Takudzwa Chiwara

President Trump a threat to world peace

US President Donald Trump's inaugural address of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday shocked many political players the world over due to the American government's intransigence and threat to use violence in cases where dialogue…

Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 05:19hrs | | by Tererai Danga

Find yourself first, before you find a job

The economy only gets better on paper. The list of bills to pay are growing longer, and the influx of income - relatively thinner. We can't deny the fact that a nine-to-five job, can come in quite handy now than ever.However, aside from th…

Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 12:24hrs | | by Nimi Princewill

Tsvangirai's empty talk deplorable

So, MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai says he will not accept the results of the 2018 harmonised elections if he loses to President Mugabe and Zanu-PF?We are not surprised by such utterances from Mr Tsvangirai, he has made such threats in …

Published: 03 May 2017 at 13:05hrs | | by Zimpapers

Treat US under Trump 'like Iran or Zimbabwe'

One of the world's largest news agencies has instructed its journalists to "practice skills learned" in hostile countries and warzones while reporting on the Trump administration.In a message to thousands of Reuters reporters and photograp…

Published: 25 Apr 2017 at 14:34hrs | | by Lizzie Dearden

America drops 'Mother of All Bombs' on Afghanistan - T.B. Joshua's Prophecy

The world has reacted with shock to the announcement that USA used its largest non-nuclear weapon for the first time in an attack targeting ISIS forces in Afghanistan on Thursday evening.U.S. forces used a GPS-guided GBU-43 bomb, which is …

Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 22:43hrs | | by Ihechukwu Njoku

What Have We Benefited From Being 'Politically Correct?'

Political correctness has evolved quite interestingly, into a common media practice and a cardinal feature of journalistic writing/urban verbal expression. In recent times, you call into a radio or TV program to air your view on certain is…

Published: 25 Feb 2017 at 17:11hrs | | by Nimi Princewill

Digesting Mugabe's opinion of Trump

Because President Mugabe's birthday happens to be the same day Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, Mother Africa's children at home and abroad have always considered this day both bitter and sweet.While we are mor…

Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 05:44hrs | | by Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye

Trump's secret Rhodesian connection

A CASUAL reader of history may find it very remote to connect the historical dots between US President Donald Trump's "America First" mantra with a similar slogan popularised in the then Rhodesia.While Trump's "America First" maxim plays i…

Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 05:48hrs | | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire

The Frightful Christian Values of Trumpism

Statistics provided in America after the presidential election show white Christian voters voting overwhelmingly for Donald Trump, 80-16%. According to The Washington Post, that's the most they have voted for a Republican presidential…

Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 23:58hrs | | by Titshabona Malaba Ncube

Grace Mugabe the Trump of Zimbabwe

The $1.35 million diamond recently bought by Grace Mugabe was only the sparkler on top of a $7.5 million spending spree. Apart from the diamond, Grace is known to have also recently paid $4.5 million for a large property in Borrowdale clos…

Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 16:31hrs | | by ZimVigil

Trump's Zimbabwe connection

Donald Trump will be sworn in as United States president this week. So far, according to Zimbabweland, Trump's inconsistent and rare commentaries on Africa reveal little of his policy position.He has called South Africa â€˜a mess' (but few…

Published: 17 Jan 2017 at 11:28hrs | | by Ian Scoones

So how was America on November 9, and thereafter?

No surprises for me. Hopefully none for you too, gentle reader, if you didn't miss my September 24 and October 21 instalments. September 24 piece in part read: "However rough one finds him [Donald Trump], clearly he is the stronger candida…

Published: 12 Nov 2016 at 18:41hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru

Hillary Clinton wins popular vote 'narrowly', Trump's 'boat being rocked' - Foreseen by T.B. Joshua?

The US' 2016 Presidential Election was surely one which everyone waited for with bewilderment from the onset. With a particular atypical candidate having taken everyone by surprise, first by deciding to run as a candidate and later clingin…

Published: 10 Nov 2016 at 20:27hrs | | by Helen Baker

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