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Call for reparations: A mere excuse by failed African leaders!
As the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) kicked off this week in Samoa, the topic of reparations for slavery and colonialism has once again been thrust into the spotlight. Sever...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:31hrs | 273 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangawa gifted multimillion-dollar executive helicopter by Russia's Putin
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been handed a multimillion US dollar helicopter by the Russian government at this year's Russia-Africa Summit.Mnangagwa, who received the aircraft on the sidel...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 06:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The Zimbabwean nightmare and tragic optimism of Mutambara
To mention Zimbabwe and the idea of a "dream" in the same sentence, as Professor Arthur Mutambara has done, is to be provocative and challenging.The provocation and the challenge come from the...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:06hrs | | by William Jethro Mpofu
Sikhala a habitual offender
Empty vessels make a lot of noise. CCC interim vice national chairperson, Job Sikhala, has of late been making unfounded claims about the country's judiciary as being captured.This is stemming...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | | by Zivanai Dhewa
'Zimbabwe political violence exported to diaspora'
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) interim leader for Sweden-Scandinavia branch has accused suspected Zanu-PF activists of allegedly torturing her 16-year-old son after he posted a video supporting o...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Beware of the folly of Trojan rulers!
Government, folly of mankind?Barbara W Tuchman is a prolific writer on politics as read through history. I enjoy her take on her subject.But she is American, western, itself an importa...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 18:07hrs | 1 | by on Saturday
'Courts, security forces belong to Zanu-PF'
NATIONAL Housing and Social Amenities minister Daniel Garwe who doubles as Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial chairperson has issued a chilling warning to the opposition while also bragging tha...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cheating wife beats up hubby for exposing affair
GETTING cheated on is one of the most devastating and damaging things that can happen in a person's life.It becomes even worse when that partner who is cheating on you becomes abusive as punis...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 13:06hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Cheating wife bashes hubby as punishment for exposing affair
GETTING cheated on is one of the most devastating and damaging things that can happen in a person's life.It becomes even worse when that partner who is cheating on you becomes abusive as punis...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 19:47hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
MDC Alliance's fake victimhood, internal ructions and sanctions
Over the years, the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction has perfected the art of creating stunts to attract the West's attention in the vain and ill-placed hope of besmirching President Mnangagwa and to wrin...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:21hrs | 10 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chamisa's MDC not cooperating with police
The MDC-Alliance is refusing to co-operate with police detectives assigned to investigate claims that the vehicle carrying party leader Nelson Chamisa was shot at, with no one in the group of vehicles...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC in fresh sanctions shocker
THE opposition MDC Alliance party led by Mr Nelson Chamisa has been burning the midnight candle, fervently agitating for economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies to stay as the p...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
When desperate, tactless opposition fakes victimhood
Last Monday the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction was at it again. It was involved in skirmishes with the people of Masvingo in an incident which involved the discharge of a firearm.This was all sc...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Peace and reconciliation in the Second Republic
The inherent Western footprints in the ontology and epistemology of African nationalism in the past has stagnated the dream of realising how we can reconstruct the past and re-imagine the future....Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:45hrs | 8 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Brotherly advice to Hon Joanna Mamombe
In our families, communities, religious and political groupings and even at workplaces, people tend to be hesitant to tell each other the truth especially that which is deemed the unpalatable truth. H...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 21:51hrs | | by Harare West Constituency Voter
Opposition offenders are no special citizens
Following the recent sentencing of MDC Alliance activist, Makomborero Haruzivishe to an effective 14 months in prison for inciting public violence, there were mixed reactions from across the political...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 11:46hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
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 | 7 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Abduction claims point to anti-Zimbabwe agenda
THE dismissal as falsehoods by a local non-governmental organisation some reports of abductions of civil society and opposition members allegedly by State security agents all but confirms a sinister a...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Editorial - Chronicle
How to think in Dark Times
"DO nothing but think" is a philosophical proverb that is much mistakenly attributed to the Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Zizek. Slavoj Zizek only stole and made famous the pithy statement. The genera...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:48hrs | | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Gukurahundi offered a subtle entry point for disempowering the USSR's ideological strength
I CONCLUDED the previous article of this series by exploring how Zapu was a victim of neo-colonial treachery which was brazenly targeting its Matabeleland and Midlands strongholds. The aim of this pol...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Time to appreciate Zimbabwe progress
It is a few days after the first anniversary of the history-making 30 July 2018 harmonised election when Zimbabweans participated in the first harmonised elections in the new dispensation. And what a ...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
30 July election: one year later
It is a few days after the first anniversary of the history-making 30 July 2018 harmonised election when Zimbabweans participated in the first harmonised elections in the new dispensation. And what a ...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 17:28hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Dumiso Dabengwa: A fad or paradox of the nationalist memory?
Heroes are born out the willpower to reconstruct inequality to egalitarianism. True heroes define the course for the redemptive path to civilising and dignifying subjugated people. These are "men of t...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:44hrs | 1 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Fuel crisis has nothing to do with MDC unconstitutionalism
Some of the problems Zimbabwe is facing today are clearly due to faulty thinking resulting in people mixing issues —and not knowing what the idiom "fair game" means.For starters, if Presiden...Published: 17 May 2019 at 17:32hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Disinformation and misinformation the new battlefront
EDITOR,The information age has brought with it many opportunities as well as challenges. Is it not ironic that in this digital age where information is supposed to be available at our fingerti...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 22:38hrs | | by Davison Kaiyo.
Debunking the Chamisa's political persecution claims
Following the violent and destructive protests of January 14 , which were called for by the MDC Alliance, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and some civil society organisations ostensibly t...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:49hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Jim kunaka's testimony: an epiphany of society's rupture
Zimbabwe is struggling to establish common ground on conflict resolution where even the formations of conflict-resolution institutions have turned to be spaces of ideological contest and score settlin...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 08:33hrs | 3 | by Micheal Mhlanga
A new transformational paradigm for Zimbabwe
"The future of our country Zimbabwe depends on how we, Zimbabweans, imagine it through a new transformational consciousness"I truly believe that Zimbab...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 09:56hrs | 2 | by Vince Musewe
Trump under fire over South Africa land reform
SOUTH Africa's land reform policy was long overdue and attempts by United States President Mr Donald Trump to muddy the programme is clear testimony of his administration's defiance to black self-dete...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Liberate and free the last colony of Africa
Dear Mr. S. Sibanda, "Very true that woman are marginalized" by S. Sibanda That was your article on the 8th of August 2018 on Bulawayo24: I wish to express my sincere gratitude for the...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 17:45hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa: Whither the legacy of opposition politics?
The opposition's participation in this election is quite commendable. The 2018 harmonised elections afforded all political parties an opportunity to measure their relevance in the country's body-polit...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:39hrs | | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Chamisa should accept defeat, says MDC-T
THE 2018 harmonised elections were free and fair and MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa should accept defeat, MDC-T vice-president Mr Obert Gutu has said.Disputing elections, Mr Gutu added,...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
If the people say 'Yes', why should Chamisa say 'No'?
Yesterday saw some skirmishes in Harare as opposition hoodlums caused mayhem protesting the outcome of the July 30 elections which, ironically and for the first time in recent times, was widely seen a...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga, and Nobleman Runyanga
Mugabe's bitterness the X-factor
FORMER president Robert Mugabe (pictured) has accused several of his former Zanu-PF lieutenants of betraying him in his hour of need and launched a fresh attack on President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 11:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ambiguities and fall of Chamisa
The 2018 election is here. Certainly, nothing will change the unescapable fate which awaits Zimbabwe after the July 30 plebiscite.This reality is confirmed by the fact that even the MDC-Allian...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 08:16hrs | | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Bulawayo White City explosion: Dereliction of duty
In every election, be it in Zimbabwe, Africa or any other country, there are pre-election furores, these are events and pronouncements that either shock or intrigue the masses before the election....Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 06:55hrs | 6 | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
Chamisa flying on broken wings
Following the passing on of Tsvangirai, the late leader of a faction of the MDC, I had an animated discussion with some opposition figure whose identity I shall not disclose. Congenitally boisterous a...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 15:28hrs | 1 | by Igomombe
Jessie Majome: The ‘dark art' of manufactured outrage
Election season is in full swing in Zimbabwe. The country's first election without its "political godfather", former President Robert Mugabe, is due in a few months' time.What makes this elect...Published: 15 May 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Enocent Nemuramba
Mugabe's bare-knuckled challenge to Mnangagwa's legitimacy
It was, for the most part, an exercise in bitter retrospection.Zimbabwe's former President Robert Mugabe spent much of his first press conference since being ousted reflecting on the illegalit...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 09:33hrs | | by Andrew Harding - BBC
Mnangagwa's administration rapped over selective application of law against G40
MDC official Discent Collins Bajila has rapped President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration over what he called selective application of the law, which has seen most of the members of the G40 which c...Published: 21 Jan 2018 at 09:26hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Gukurahundi planned in 1979'
ZAPU leader, Dumiso Dabengwa on Friday sensationally claimed that Gukurahundi was planned in 1979 during the Lancaster House talks, adding he still has more to reveal about the 1980s mass killings tha...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 05:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Value of Peace in Mthwakazi - Mthwakazi Forum with Mzelikahle
The value of peace is universal. Peace has the same positive contribution in Afghanistan as much as it has in Zimbabwe. Peace is the single biggest contributor to economic development, human satisfact...Published: 23 Dec 2017 at 07:29hrs | 5 | by Stephen Jakes
Open letter to Mrs Grace Mugabe: Ask the Universe for forgiveness!
Dear Mrs Mugabe, The agony you are now going through is just unimaginable, you are pained right in your heart, your soil, your bones and your very self. You wish dozen times that what you did ...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 16:39hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Yes. It's a coup, a genocidal political cleansing
Yes. It is a coup. Not against but about Robert Mugabe and his power. More than that it is a genocidal political cleansing. A political faction in the ruling party, a faction that cannot win a war of ...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 13:27hrs | 3 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Will this be the end of an era and error?
Zimbabwe's current political conundrum is hinged on Zanu PF's weakness and the opposition's confusion. Zanu PF is engulfed in a fierce succession battle and it has never been this weak since its forma...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 09:39hrs | | by Patson Dzamara
Zimbabwe urgently needs a youthful leader
IN response to Chamisa eyes Tsvangirai post: Understandably, Zimbabweans have precariously held their lives at the mercies of President Robert Mugabe's entitlement and MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai's...Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 09:39hrs | 1 | by Tinotenda Samukange
Most Zimbabwean men in UK suffer domestic violence in silence
Zimbabwean men have suffered in silence in the UK as they bleed under the cruel squeeze of their wives. The most painful thing is that nobody believes that a man can be violated by a woman or that a m...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 10:37hrs | 28 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe opposition lacks internal democracy
Zanu-PF'S 2018 campaign is slowly gathering momentum. In a few months, it will be all systems go at every level. This will kick in what is considered the primary election season for the party. When do...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 06:36hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Electoral reforms are not a luxury but critical
"One thing that opposition parties must understand is that continuously bombarding people with messages of ZANUPF rigging and its refusal to implement electoral reforms actually works to the advantage...Published: 22 May 2017 at 06:51hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Bosso's reaction to Placardgate duplicitous, unacceptable, irresponsible
On Friday Zimeye.com published further reactions from Bosso CEO, Ndumiso Gumede , this, after comments Gumede had allegedly given The Herald on Thursday following The Herald's first edition of the ‘...Published: 18 Sep 2016 at 14:50hrs | 1 | by Xoxani Ngxoxo
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