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Mutsvangwa slams Tagwirei
Zanu-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa has publicly rebuked controversial businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei following his failed bid to join the party's Central Committee, accusing him of attemptin...Published: 22 Jul 2025 at 09:22hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Silent Struggle: A Nation on the brink but too fearful to rise
Zimbabwe is a nation in crisis, and the time for silence has passed. Power cuts are routine, water supplies are unreliable, and roads are riddled with potholes. The healthcare system has collapsed, wi...Published: 19 Mar 2025 at 21:22hrs | 1443 | by Vusani Magwala
Mnangagwa adds Rolls-Royce to Presidential motorcade, sparks debate
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly added a luxurious Rolls-Royce, dubbed "New Zim 1," to his presidential motorcade, igniting a fierce public debate over the display of opulence amidst Zimbab...Published: 21 Dec 2024 at 15:34hrs | 19465 | by Staff reporter
Why RBZ introduced the Gold-backed digital currency
With the local currency on a free-fall and Zimbabwe already a digital economy, ninety six percent of our transactions traded on digital platforms. The digital currency was long overdue. Zimbabwe is on...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 07:07hrs | 3 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zimbabweans must stay away from occult wealth seeking
IMAGINE being instructed by an inyanga or sangoma to take soil from a stranger's grave that will be used to perform a ritual to invoke the spirit of a dead person to help you get instant wealth and po...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:02hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Does Zimbabwe ruling elite have capacity to court spouses without instilling fear?
During a recent conversation with a friend, I expressed how incomprehensible it was that someone with high levels of intelligence would even consider bein...Published: 02 Jul 2022 at 21:54hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Political elites' vacuous populism not serving Zimbabwean people's interest
IN a recent eloquent but rather dense article titled "Dynamics of the Zimbabwe crisis in the 21st century" adopted from a 2003 academic paper of a similar title, Professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni ma...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:45hrs | 13 | by Dr Mike Chipere
Aren't Zimbabwe ruling elite ashamed when citizens have to beg to stay in foreign lands?
Imagine your spouse and children having to flee from home, due to your abusive, cruel, and irresponsible behavior - which had resulted in their untold hunger and unspeakable suffering - thereafter, se...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 15:16hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
FULL TEXT: Tawanda Muchehiwa's gory story on how he was abducted by Ferret team
I often wake up in the middle of the night sweating profusely with a pulsating headache. At that moment, I can feel intense pain on the right side of my jaw. I never get back to sleep.I have t...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 38 | by Tawanda Muchehiwa
Zimbabwe state capture fears escalate
The nasty brawl over the control of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government- driven by narrow economic interests- is threatening to paralyse both the State and the ruling Zanu-PF.For t...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei drives wedge between Mnangagwa, allies
Businessman Kuda Tagwirei, has triggered off fresh fissures within Zanu-PF and government, with the Sakunda Holdings founder wittingly or unwittingly driving a wedge between President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 13:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The stupidity of the Majority - Zimbabwe Post Election 2018
Zimbabwe is fast becoming a nation of idiots who consistently vote for a party that has tormented them throughout the years since independence in 1980. There are various groups of these shallow-minded...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 15:42hrs | 1 | by Sibusisiwe Tshuma
Mnangagwa is just like Mugabe
IT has long been a public secret that Zimbabwe was open for socioeconomic policy change. Although President Emmerson Mnangagwa was inaugurated in November last year, the voice of the people is unanimo...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 08:42hrs | 2 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Key protagonists in Zimbabwe power struggle
Zimbabwean military generals say they are seizing control to take power away from "criminals" around President Robert Mugabe.The crisis comes a week after Mr Mugabe sacked his deputy, Emmerson...Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 16:35hrs | 2 | by BBC
'You have run out of ideas, retire,' Mafirakureva Mugabe tells ED - great, tell RG too
Whatever anyone else says about the dramatic events happening before our own eyes in Zanu PF, the drama has given us some good laughs, double Dutch, you name it; it is all there. "It is furthe...Published: 06 Oct 2017 at 19:16hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zuma under pressure to quit
Jacob Zuma, South Africa's embattled president, faces renewed pressure to step down this weekend after a series of media reports detailed links between elected officials and a family of tycoons accuse...Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 14:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
The ANC must bring back apartheid
Since the first and second piece about bringing back apartheid, I've had a lot of (white) twitter commenters say I don't lay enough of the blame for where we are at the ANC's feet. To rectify th...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 14:36hrs | 2 | by Siya Khumalo
20 years on Mugabe still demanding UN veto - his maxim 'What is yours must be mine!'
When it comes to how Robert Gabriel Mugabe relate to others, be it at an individual, group or national level, everything he has ever said or done have all been guided by the following three cardinal r...Published: 22 Sep 2016 at 17:30hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabweans: has the liberation struggle benefited the country and people?
I make this one confession, stand by it vehemently as one believing, and guided by scriptural injunction. A powerful pleading to people by God in ancient days still applies too to modern time children...Published: 03 Mar 2016 at 11:21hrs | 1 | by Andrew M Manyevere
Scientific socialism in 21st century Africa
The concept of scientific socialism exploded on to the world scene with the publication of the Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels in Europe in 1848. So people might ask...Published: 14 Dec 2015 at 19:58hrs | 8 | by Ian Beddowes
SADC heads of state bar citizens access to illegally reconstituted regional court
Following the decision to deny the 258 million SADC citizens access to the regional court of the SADC Tribunal, taken during the 35th SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government in Botswana [17-18 Au...Published: 21 Aug 2015 at 20:53hrs | 3 | by Ben Freeth
Zanu-PF infighting has destroyed Zimbabwe
Former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa says Zimbabwe is destined to remain a nation of street vendors unless post-congress Zanu-PF leaders concentrate on fixing the country's comatose...Published: 26 May 2015 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Statement on Mugabe Kalanga remarks
Mugabe's statements about Kalangas are nauseatingly tribalistic, divisive and extremely hurtful. From the estimated 3.5 million Zimbabweans living in South Africa as a result of his government's ...Published: 30 Apr 2015 at 13:01hrs | | by Joshua Mhambi, MDC National Spokesperson
Mugabe cult imposed on his supporters and everyone
The campaign to instil a presidential adulation in Zimbabwe has taken many forms but one should note that it is a cult that has flourished from the top and has always been imposed on the millions of ...Published: 14 Feb 2015 at 20:02hrs | | by Fungayi Mukosera
The Black Man's Burden
The problems we face in Africa can never be solved using the same political structures that we have blindly adopted since 1950's.Reading Martin Merendith's book - "State of Africaâ€, ...Published: 09 Jan 2014 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Vince Musewe
Corporate governance values should be embedded in corporate DNA
Good corporate governance should be embedded within an organisation's corporate DNA, not be a policy document filed away in a cabinet, Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in Zimb...Published: 30 Sep 2013 at 05:45hrs | 2 | by Mike Hamilton
Another look at politics and ethnicity in Zimbabwe by Roy Bennett
Smoke and mirrors: another look at politics and ethnicity in Zimbabwe...Published: 19 Jun 2012 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Roy Bennett
'Arab spring' hits Wall Street
THE police clampdown on peaceful protesters who have occupied the US financial centre, Wall Street, in what has come to be known as ‘‘The Occupy Wall Street protest'', e...Published: 07 Oct 2011 at 04:42hrs | | by -
Reactions: Obama kills Osama
Barack Obama - US presidentToday, at my direction, the United States carried out that operation... they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his ...Published: 02 May 2011 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Nare Msupatsila
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