South Africa parrots Zanu-PF’s fiction that all Zimbabwe’s ills can be blamed on the West, while doing its northern counterpart a favour by absorbing desperately poor refugees from across the Limpopo. By Peter Fabricius Zanu-PF has outsourced the responsibility of looking after its people to South Africa. That is both […]
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Zim-SA immigration: ‘How can a human being be illegal?’
By Taona Denhere The recent gridlock of south-bound human traffic at Beitbridge border post has once again reignited the debate surrounding the emotive, divisive, and controversial issue of immigration and migration. That is, the fault lines of a dichotomous, mutually exclusive relationships of ingroups and outgroups or insider and outsider […]
Mwonzora victory signals Chamisa’s end: Charamba
By George Charamba (posted as @Jamwanda2) I have intently listened to Douglas Mwonzora’s acceptance speech. A number of things stand out from that speech. I won’t waste time on his appeals for unity in the party; in politics all winners make that ritual. I will go straight to the nub. […]
Unity Accord was meant to stop regime genocide
By Tendai Ruben Mbofana DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Your Excellency, if ever I was to be asked what I valued more than anything else on this planet, my answer would be swift and unhesitant — unity, love, peace, and joy — which I regard more than all the silver and […]
Fears of devastating second COVID-19 wave in Zimbabwe
By Thandekile Moyo The first wave did not hit the country as badly as we feared. But now the second is upon us and, with our health system in shambles and our health workers still incapacitated, many fear we may not be as lucky. The first known casualty of Covid-19 […]
Chamisa claims ‘change is unstoppable’ but MDC has no strategy in sight
By Patrick Guramatunhu “What we know is victory is certain, it’s only a matter of time. Every struggle has its own unique characteristics. We know exactly what we are doing – please do not panic,” Nelson Chamisa told his audience over the weekend. If MDC knew what it was doing […]
Fraudsters and smugglers surround Mnangagwa
By Dr. Stop It It is now official. Zimbabwe has become a fully-fledged banana republic.Not that people did not know that we had become a banana republic, but events surrounding the arrest of one notorious Henrietta Rushwaya reflect that Zimbabwe has gone to the dogs in terms of people, who are […]
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter: Can the democratic struggle be digitalised?
The advent and growth of the internet revolutionised the way we communicate, interact, socialise and network. Accordingly, information and communication technologies (ICT) have become a fundamental tool and oxygen for the highly globalised and information saturated 21st century. One of the areas in which ICT has had transformative and far […]
Mnangagwa family’s dodgy friends
By Tawanda Majoni In its short years as the Zimbabwean first family, the Mnangagwas have fared quite sorely in one area: Choosing good friends. You will naturally remember Draxgate, the scandal that rocked the royal family to its toes. Collins Mnangagwa was/is friends with Delish Nguwaya. Delish still has a […]
Leaked JOC memo reveals Zim’s drift into authoritarianism
By Alfonce Mbizwo A leaked report following a Joint Operations Command (JOC) meeting of August 10 is alarming to say the least. The report shows Zimbabwe’s dangerous drift under President Emmerson Mnangagwa towards totalitarianism, with security agents now actively policing critics on social media while those in foreign lands are […]