Mugabe Rewards Army Brass For Violent June 2008 Electoral Runoff Campaign

President Robert Mugabe’s fight back campaign of violence and brutality in the run up to the June 2008 presidential election run-off, have been rewarded with promotions. The promotions are widely seen as a thank you gesture by Mugabe who was rescued by the military after losing the first round of the 2008 presidential election to MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Mugabe got 43%, while Tsvangirai had 47%. After the Zimbabwe Election Commission withheld results for a…

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Philip Chiyangwa, Temba Mliswa To Face Off In Zifa Presidency Race?

Philip Chiyangwa,  Temba Mliswa To Face Off In Zifa Presidency Race?

ZANU-PF politician and businessman, Philip Chiyangwa, and former chairman for the ruling party in Mashonaland West, Temba Mliswa, look set to go head to head in Zifa Presidency elections after Mliswa also entered the race to occupy the hot seat at number 53 Livingstone Avenue. The ZIFA elections will be conducted on the 5th of December. Chiyangwa and Mliswa looks like do not see eye to eye after Chiyangwa said Mliswa is no saint having…

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‘Zimbabwe’s Education System Is A Deadly Human Conveyor Belt Into An Ailing Economy’

‘Zimbabwe’s Education System Is A Deadly Human Conveyor Belt Into An Ailing Economy’

AS an educationist with extensive teaching experience at university level, I feel particularly saddened that the young people who are graduating in their thousands every year from all manner of colleges in the country are unable to obtain formal employment through which they can put their skills to use in assisting with the development of the country. Zimbabwe is churning out no less than ten thousand graduates every year from its many universities and colleges….

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18 NGOs, Demand ‘No Threats To Anybody Reforms Before Political Reforms

18 NGOs, Demand ‘No Threats To Anybody  Reforms Before Political Reforms

“As a democracy, we need to grow and the electoral reforms that we are proposing are not a threat to anybody,” said Tawanda Chimhini. “These are recommendations that will open up space for all political actors to get involved in elections, for Zimbabweans to actually fully participate in elections.”It is when one hears this kind of nonsensical talk that one sighs in despair. Our people have been denied this basic and fundamental right to free,…

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Harare Deputy Mayor ‘Thomas Muzuva’ (43) Succumbs To Cancer

Harare Deputy Mayor ‘Thomas Muzuva’ (43) Succumbs To Cancer

HARARE deputy mayor Thomas Muzuva died Wednesday morning after a long battle with colon cancer. He was born in 1972. MDC-T director of communications Luke Tamborinyoka confirmed the passing on of the Kambuzuma councillor, who breathed his last at Harare’s West End clinic. “The deputy mayor for Harare, councillor Thomas Muzuva, has passed on at West End clinic in Harare where he was receiving treatment for cancer,” Tamborinyoka said in a statement. “President Morgan Tsvangirai…

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‘The Death Of Infrastructure In Zimbabwe’-Welshman Ncube

‘The Death Of Infrastructure In Zimbabwe’-Welshman Ncube

WE know from studying Greco-Roman history that civilisations do die, especially if the momentum of human enlightenment is not maintained. Civilisations are also killed by wars, diseases and the abuse of political power. Actually, the world’s most exciting archeological discoveries in the Middle East, North African and Mediterranean regions are based on civilisations that died. I am writing this rather cryptic introduction because in Zimbabwe, we are under the rule of a Zanu PF dynasty…

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“Mugabe Must Stop Handing Out Cabinet Posts Like Sweets To Friends”-MDC

“Mugabe Must Stop  Handing Out Cabinet Posts Like Sweets To Friends”-MDC

THE MDC formation led by Professor Welshman Ncube says President Robert Mugabe must stop “handing out cabinet posts as if he is giving sweets to his friends” at a time when the economy is dwindling. The party said this at the weekend when it was reacting to the aging leader’s Friday appointments in which he added an astounding 14 ministers to an already bloated cabinet. In his latest cabinet appointments, Mugabe created other ministries before…

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TsvangiraI Apologies For Participating In 2013 ‘NIKUV’ Ballot Without Electoral Reforms

TsvangiraI Apologies For Participating In  2013 ‘NIKUV’ Ballot  Without Electoral Reforms

Opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has apologised to Zimbabweans for agreeing to participate in the 2013 elections in the absence of requisite reforms demanded by the party and Sadc before the controversial polls. Last Thursday night while unveiling his party’s “Without Reforms, No Elections” document, the veteran opposition leader, whose party turns 16 this month, said they made a mistake. “We were wrong in 2013 and we cannot afford to be wrong again in 2015….

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Ncube’s MDC Will Not Be Easily Swayed By Current Mujuru’s ‘People First party’ Fever.

Ncube’s MDC Will Not Be Easily Swayed By Current Mujuru’s ‘People First party’ Fever.

PROFESSOR Welshman Ncube’s MDC has vowed it will not be easily swept up by the current fever to join forces with ousted Vice President President Joice Mujuru’s semi-existing People First party. The former Zanu PF stalwart was late last year dislodged from her lofty party and government positions during a fierce party witch-hunt for those angling to dethrone President Robert Mugabe from the helm of the party. Her backers and Zanu PF opponents have since…

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Biti Open To Coalition With Mujuru, Ncube, Makoni, Madhuku, Dabengwa But Not Tsvangirai

Biti Open To Coalition With Mujuru, Ncube, Makoni, Madhuku, Dabengwa But Not Tsvangirai

FORMER Finance Minister Tendai Biti literally slammed the door in the face of his erstwhile comrade MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai but indicated he was willing to work with former Zanu PF second in command Joice Mujuru and her People First project. In his address to his MDC-Renewal now People’s Democratic Party congress in Harare Thursday, Biti said he would also revive re-unification talks with former industry minister Welshman Ncube’s MDC as well as coalition talks…

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