South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has waded into a potentially explosive diplomatic tiff between Zanu PF and the ANC over threats by Zanu PF to “leak a bombshell” that would expose and embarrass South Africa’s ruling party. Ramaphosa has come out guns blazing, daring Zanu PF’s director of information Tafadzwa […]
Newly elected MDC-T president, Douglas Mwonzora has received gushing endorsement from President Emmerson Mnangagwa, raising serious questions about the party’s standing as a genuine opposition committed to dismantling Zanu-PF’s four decades stranglehold on state power. In tweets posted on his @edmnangagwa handle, the Zanu-PF leader welcomed Mwonzora’s pledge to transform […]
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. […]
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 […]
Daggers are drawn in Zanu PF over ruling party officials that are amassing land in urban areas, which they sell to desperate home-seekers, with some disgruntled youths demanding action. A letter to President Emmerson Mnangagwa by Zanu PF youths in Mashonaland West and messages on WhatsApp groups belonging to different […]
By Carien Du Plessis South Africa is one of the major recipients of smuggled mineral resources from Zimbabwe, but not much is being done about an illicit industry that deprives Zimbabwe of at least $100-million a month. Zimbabwean mining boss Henrietta Rushwaya was arrested on 26 October for allegedly […]
AT least five Zanu PF candidates will contest the party’s primary elections to be held soon to fill the Marondera East constituency seat that was left vacant following the death of Patrick Chidhakwa. Chidhakwa died in South Africa last month due to heart complications and was buried at his rural […]
By Tangai Chipangura The hullabaloo sparked by parliament bringing Thokozani Khupe and her MDC-T crew into the august House to represent people who rejected them in elections, has sounded the death knell to democracy in Zimbabwe. The effect of this brazen disregard of democratic tenets which dictate that political leaders […]
Oxford historian, Prof Miles Tendi says the late national hero dismissed Mnangagwa’s liberation struggle credentials as meagre University of Oxford professor of history and African politics, Prof Miles Tendi, has given four reasons why the late General Solomon Mujuru did not want President Emmerson Mnangagwa to succeed the late former […]
By Peter Fabricius Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change- Alliance (MDC-A), is imploding as the country’s ruling Zanu-PF conspires with a tiny MDC splinter group, MDC-T, to help it seize the much bigger party’s parliamentary seats and other elected offices, headquarters and finances. Zanu-PF has also arrested […]