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The ZANU PF juggernaut roars

“GO and tell the opposition that munhu akatanga kufamba netsoka kuenda ku China anotanga kusvika opposition yemuno isati yasvika kuState House (please tell the opposition that someone who decides to walk to China will get there before the opposition here reaches State House).” The above...

Bid to divide Zimbabwe

WHEN the EU imposed illegal economic sanctions on Zimbabwe on February 18 2002, they created the lie that the embargo was ‘targeted’ at a few Zimbabweans who were accused of ‘violating’ human rights.  That was a subtle way by the Western bloc to vent out...

Taylor must face the music …something ‘fishy’ about his letter

BY the time disgraced former Zimbabwe cricket team captain Brendan Taylor dropped a stunning letter early last week containing startling revelations on his cocaine habits and that he had been approached by an Indian businessman to fix matches, red flags on the national cricket...

Mahere and the CCC factor…another split looming

By Special Matarirano FOR an ordinary person, Fadzayi Mahere is a shy-looking advocate who brought her name into prime view when she first demonstrated against the introduction of Bond notes in April 2016, working alongside Evan Mawarire and the so-called ‘#This Flag’ team.  She would come...

Regime change agents on the prowl …as 2023 draws closer

By Elizabeth Sitotombe OVER the years, attempts by the West to unseat a democratically elected Government in Zimbabwe have been the order of day. Each year comes with the birth of new so-called civic society organisations (CSOs) and the regrouping of the existing ones. They never tire...

ZANU PF vis-a-vis opposition…who’s fooling who?

By Special Matarirano WITHIN the Zimbabwean political landscape, we have a party, MDC Alliance, that has been affected by a very toxic mental disease known as oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). On the other hand, we have a reality-oriented Party, ZANU PF, which, since time immemorial, has...

2022: Leaving no-one and no place behind

AS is becoming the norm under the new dispensation, all things in the country are looking good, buoyed by an economy that is on the mend as well as the many infrastructure rehabilitation and development projects across the board. The year 2022 will be no...

Unpacking Britain’s colonial delusions

ALL too familiar remnants of British arrogance and blatant disregard of Zimbabwe’s independence and ongoing economic revival and development efforts once again came to the fore last week when Harare’s former colonisers spent hours ‘discussing’ what they claimed was the ‘deteriorating’ situation in the...

Vaccine apartheid haunts the West

THE travel ban imposed on Southern Africa by the West following the announcement of a new COVID-19 variant, omicron, exposes vaccine apartheid being practised by developed nations but which has no scientific basis of protecting them from infection. Flights have been banned from South Africa,...

Budget Summary: Is it people oriented?

LAST week, Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube presented a  ZWL$927,3 billion National Budget for 2022. Premised on the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1) which hinged on agricultural capitalisation, mining and infrastructure development, the 2022 budget has a strong bias towards meeting health and...

Plot to divide Africa

By Special Matarirano THE US President, Joseph Biden, has invited 16 African countries to attend the Summit for Democracy amid a gathering of more than 100 countries across the globe.  The Summit will be conducted virtually from December 9 to10 2021.  Of the 16 African countries invited...

When Jongwe killed Rutendo

By Special Matarirano LIKE the biblical Judas, the incarnation that has come to be associated with the name Learnmore Judah Jongwe has gained ‘a two dimensional’ symbolism.  Just like Judas, Jongwe was an early propagator of a false, foreign-sponsored opposition political allegory which was, and...

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