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Mwonzora schedules high-level meetings at SADC Summit
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by Douglas Mwonzora, has announced plans to meet with three presidents attending the upcoming SADC Heads of State Summit in Zimbabwe this Augus...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 06:57hrs | 1417 | by Staff reporter
From Ramaphoria to Ramageddon
Many political observers have reacted with both "shock and awe" to the astounding performance of the Umkhonto we Sizwe Party in one of South Africa's most contested elections.Indeed, to borrow...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 15:01hrs | 2 | by Sipho Seepe
Zimbabwe's structured currency: Here's the abracadabra
Against the backdrop of the inception of the supposedly gold-backed currency called the ZiG this week, there has been considerable confusion as to whether or not the Zig is a gold currency.For...Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 12:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Withdraw Zimdollar from circulation
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, it is my conviction that the Zimdollar, all things considered, is a swine. It is the epitome of voodoo economics, based on implausible assumpti...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 19:25hrs | 1 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Boomerang Voodoo!..Removing US$35 hex from son costs US$700
NEVER pray for your enemies to die, you might bury your own relatives . . .A woman from Magwegwe suburb in Bulawayo is a living testimony to the adage.She experienced the mind-numbing ...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
From Moondog Max to Arnold Zikhali, the storied lineage of Zimbabwe's 'strong men'
ON what had been a pretty ordinary and innocuous Tuesday afternoon, there was suddenly a flurry of activity around the corner of George Silundika and Sam Nujoma in Harare.Like bees attracted t...Published: 25 Jun 2023 at 09:35hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo attacks Chamisa's structureless party after Nigeria elections
EXILED former information minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has once again hit out at the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) over its lack of structures, describing the party as delinquent ...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 20:28hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Nyika inovakwa nevene vayo' insist Mnangagwa - Reality, Zimbabwe is a failed state in ruins, mocks him
On Monday, 12 December 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated four Zimbabwean individuals and two Zimbabwean entities and removed seventeen Zimb...Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chiwenga marries long-time soldier lover
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has married his long-time lover Miniyothabo Baloyi, the presidency announced on Wednesday.The two lovebirds exchanged their vows during a private ceremony a...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 17:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Cancelling CCC congress will not only 'keep infiltrators stewing' but citizens and democracy itself too
"KEEP THEM GUESSING & TOSSING, STEWING & ROASTING! THROW THEM OFF-BALANCE … Remember they infiltrate, manipulate and capture using 4 things ..1.Structures 2. internal Processes 3. Law-fare 4...Published: 21 May 2022 at 16:10hrs | 7 | by Wilbert Mukori
The Mundoza tree has become an oracle
The two trees stand side by side as if nature's siblings, one a Casternabar and the other a 'Mutohwe'. One is domesticated and the other wild but they are both fruit trees. Their combined cano...Published: 08 May 2022 at 15:35hrs | 8 | by Mutanda Wachingama
Black Christmas from growing economy
As has become the norm since de-dollarisation yesterday's Christmas was no exception but a black Christmas to millions of Zimbabweans who happened to get a plus one birthday of Jesus Christ, as the po...Published: 27 Dec 2021 at 19:03hrs | 9 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
What good is Mutambara prosperity pentagon if buffoon can, once again, rig elections and impose voodoo policies
Dear Nomazulu Thata, Thank you for your thought provoking article "Professor Arthur Mutambara, Dr Nkosana Moyo and Advocate Nelson Chamisa are speaking" in Bulawayo24.com. I agree that...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 07:38hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Robert Gabriel Mugabe: The killer of our dreams
THIS week marks the second anniversary of the death of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the first prime minister of an independent Zimbabwe, on April 18, 1980.While we acknowledge the fact that there ar...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:59hrs | 10 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Sangomas are also looking for money
A trio of male adults left Zimbabwe for Mozambique in search of a Sangoma to give them a get-rich-quick voodoo panacea. A yesternight borne fire discussion had assured them in Nampula province...Published: 27 Aug 2021 at 09:07hrs | 1 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Biti says Mthuli Ncube is 'clueless and incompetent'
FORMER Finance Minister Tendai Biti says the current head of Treasury Mthuli Ncube is "clueless and incompetent" who hopes that God or the spirit of Mbuya Nehanda will keep the economy afloat....Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:48hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Banjani abantwana ngekhaya? Ndebele women included: Celebrating the International Day of the African Child
To be fair to other cultures in Zimbabwe, it is only in Ndebele culture where a woman is considered and addressed as a child regardless of her age. Ndebele women are called abesintwana by their male c...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 21:56hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Spectre didn't work, scarf clearly isn't working, so why Zimbabwe regime's obsession on Voodoo governance?
I have always tried my best to keep away from individuals' personal beliefs and faiths - since, as the phrase, "personal belief" clearly connotes, these a...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 09:00hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Give Mnangagwa tsvimbo (sceptre) or else..?
No amount concrete on Mugabe's grave or temper proof installed on his coffin will stop ritualist Mnangagwa from digging up Mugabe's remains. According to Mugabe's nephew Leo Mugabe, Emmerson M...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 15:23hrs | | by Israel Dube
Ziyambi Ziyambi in voodoo storm
OUTSPOKEN Nor-ton legislator Temba Mliswa (independent) has sensationally accused Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi of using voodoo to eliminate him and his sister, Mary Mliswa-Chikoka. Mliswa-...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt 'annoyed' by links to Mugabe voodoo, exhumation fuss
INFORMATION ministry permanent secretary Nick Mangwana has distanced government from ongoing manoeuvres to have late President Robert Mugabe's remains exhumed from the former ruler's rural home in Zvi...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
G40 resorts to voodoo conspiracies
When the weekly Standard newspaper published a story on 2 May 2021 to the effect that a Zvimba villager, Tinos Manovengere, was not happy with the burial of former President Robert Mugabe, G40 members...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
'Informal sector is 70% GPD but remitting paltry 1% in taxes' - get nothing from taxing imaginary wealth, common sense
"Shocking evidence of tax leakages hogged the limelight this week, with Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube saying the informal sector, which makes up 70% of Zimbabwe's gross domest...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 21:38hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'War veterans must show their unflinching war time vibrancy' - fighting whom and for what
When Robert Mugabe got into power in 1980, he was cocksure his scientific socialism would bring economic prosperity to the masses, "Gutsva ruzhinji!" as he never tired of saying. Instead of build on t...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 07:27hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
No.1 lesson Zanu PF learned from 2008 GNU - how to turn MDC into its vote rigging ally
The 2008 Zimbabwe elections were a watershed moment in the country's political history. The elections and the 2008 to 2013 GNU that followed shook Zanu PF to the core and transformed the country's pol...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 09:14hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Can black arts (Kuromba) be sole source of wealth in Zimbabwe?
According to Colin Powell, the first African-American Secretary of State, diplomat and retired general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001-2005, a dream does not become r...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 16:40hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo (PhD)
We can not all go to OK
Prophets of doom taking their first bite of the proverbial humble pie, may be also taking a face cloth to remove egg from their murky faces, york, white and its all. Who ever thought the forex...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:08hrs | 2 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Berita set to release her highly anticipated new single
Multi-award-winning, singer-songwriter and producer Berita, is set to release her highly anticipated new single titled Yours, the follow up to her hit single 'Ndiceli'ikiss' on Thursday, August the 8t...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 12:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's moves are intelligent, complicated and effective' - what a laugh, name one, just one, such move
"Highly placed sources from Harare have indicated that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is vetting MDC MPs who are under consideration to form a quasi-government of national unity,"...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 20:59hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Mission: Zanu PF realise link between Z$, knowledge and production' - how, when only they know best
Last month the Mnangagwa government enacted the Statutory Instrument 142 (2019) in which the regime banish the use of the basketful of multi-foreign currencies as legal tender in Zimbabwe leaving the ...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 19:46hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
How ZANU PF will be removed
The leaked audio featuring a conversation between Mnangagwa's wife Auxillia and an army commander named as one Murombo has exposed the power struggles in the "New Dispensation" administration. In the ...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 10:24hrs | | by Blessing Vava
Chief Makope is a traditional leader par excellence
Half a dozen elderly Chiweshe men were recently slapped with a 16 cows fine and a few goats for delving in 'immoral witchcraft', blue-toothing and violating women without their knowledge. Chie...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 19:38hrs | 5 | by Thomas Murisa
eSwatini bans 'witchcraft and magic' competition
A competition pitting witchdoctors against each other in a battle of skills this weekend in eSwatini - formerly known as Swaziland - has been banned, according to a government statement.Organi...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by AFP
Zimbabwe's curse of voodoo economics
I was attending a pre-conference of Christian pastors in Masvingo at the urgent invitation of Prophetess Elizabeth Chademana.I had been charged by the saints in Greenwood District of the Unite...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:30hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
'We must make Z$ work', who is 'we' - it's doomed and quadrillionaires are to blame; how convenient!
The Zanu PF propaganda machine has gone into overdrive in a rearguard action to justify the regime's decision to reverse the 2009 decision to allow a basket of foreign currencies as legal tender. ...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 18:33hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Scrapping US$ as legal tender will 'cushion' against US$ pricing – imposing rotten Z$ will stifle trade
Zimbabwe scrapped the Z$ in November 2008 and introduced the basket of multi-foreign currency for one very good reason - it had become impossible to do business in Z$. Because of the hyperinflation, t...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 16:14hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ZHRO Vigil celebrates World Refugee week
The ZHRO Embassy Vigil on the 19th of June 2019 at 429 the strand outside of the Zimababwe embassy started on a rather clammy day. The small talk before the protest started was filled with despa...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 13:06hrs | | by ZHRO
Manyika mocks Mnangagwa's 'voodoo economics'
Opposition Build Zimbabwe Alliance leader Noah Manyika has mocked President Emmerson Mnangagwa for introducing what he described as "voodoo" economics anchored on lack of understanding that the econom...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New currency unlikely to perform miracles for Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT'S plans to unveil a new currency by year-end without addressing macro-economic fundamentals could be catastrophic, while the proposed local unit risks suffering the same fate as the defunct...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Ncube, like Moses, deserves a chance to lead' - to tax the poor whilst protect looters
"Well, this is not a pie in the sky. What is our attitude to Mthuli Ncube's Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP)? A lot of us really want us to go back to the hiatus," is the latest diatribe fro...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 19:12hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Flying winnowing basket or African drone?
Witchcraft, can it be called profession, career, art or low intensity murders where there is absence of evidence. We have heard before that absence of evidence does not mean evidence of absence. ...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 10:17hrs | | by Thomas Murisa
MDC congress: Redefining the people's agenda
This weekend the MDC will hold its elective congress in Gweru, Midlands province, under the theme Defining a new course for Zimbabwe. This is the 5th congress we are holding since February 1999, when ...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Tendai Biti
ZNA used loot-all-you-want platinum concession to secure $500m loan - proof junta resolve to hang on
Last week RBZ Governor, Dr John Mangudya, and Finance Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, were thrilled to announce that the country secured a $500 million loan. The loan would end the shortages of fuel...Published: 23 May 2019 at 18:29hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Khupe is dancing Nobert Kunonga music
Not so long ago the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe had tasted abhorrent deep factional fights pitted embattled cleric Bishop Nobert Kunonga and the then incumbent Chad Gandiya cabal. Kunonga, a stan Muga...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:44hrs | | by Benny Gudo
'GNU is the solution to disputed elections' - rigged, can't even get that detail right
It has taken nearly 40 years for some people to formulate the outline root causes of the country's economic meltdown and political paralysis - a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. A...Published: 08 May 2019 at 00:11hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Resolute in faith, we will triumph,' Mnangagwa argues - faith in voodoo policies delivering prosperity, insane
"In Zimbabwe, we are currently undergoing our own struggle of light over darkness. As we walk the road of transformation and reform, we are guided by our Lord Jesus Christ's teachings of forgiveness, ...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:22hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'Price control is the way to go' - Zanu PF rigged elections only to impose voodoo economic policy
"For a country that has no currency of its own, no competitive industry and no jobs, price control is the way to go in order to protect the poor." said Deputy Minister of Information, Energy Mutodi. "...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 18:23hrs | 3 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
2% tax is right, 'right is not always popular' quoting Einstein - Mthuli Ncube, you are NOT Albert Einstein
"They say you can only know the true state of a car when you lift its bonnet and look inside. And so it was back in September, when I was appointed Minister of Finance, and got to take a look at the t...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 09:41hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa copying Cambodia's dictator?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is an ardent follower of Pol Pot a dictator whose Khmer Rouge government led Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, Professor Jonathan Moyo has said. Pot was known for his bl...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 08:13hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'RTGS$ a failed fraud' Tendai Biti says
Former Finance Minister Tendai Biti says the recently introduced RTGS$ currency has failed to maintain a steady exchange rate thereby affecting people's savings. "The RTGS$ is a failed fraud. ...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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