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Emmerson Mnangagwa says he will rescue Zimbabwe. Don’t believe it
The Economist 26th July 2018 In the first election since a coup, the party of Robert Mugabe deserves to lose FOR the first time since independence in 1980, Zimbabwe goes to the polls on July 30th without Robert Mugabe on the ballot. Instead the old despot’s former sidekick, who took his place after a coup […]
Chamisa, MDC Alliance leaders in another trip of shame
The Chronicle Editorial Comment 8th May 2018 IN December last year, less than two weeks after the dramatic events of November where a new dispensation was ushered into power in the wake of former President Robert Mugabe’s resignation, MDC Alliance leaders Messrs Nelson Chamisa and Tendai Biti embarked on a trip to the United States […]
Coltart reveals sinister agenda on UK trip
The Herald “David Coltart Correspondent” – as it quoted me! 7th May 2018 The Herald published a Facebook post I did quoting me as a correspondent and suggestig that this was a sinister agenda – here is what they published. “Today (yesterday) I leave for the UK to join MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa […]
Planet Cricket – Zimbabwe are being zapped by hapless bosses
www.thecricketpaper.com 21st April 2018 After disappointment, there are a few alternative routes for an organisation or a sports team to take. There is stability, reasoning that those who failed will learn from their errors and put things right; there is well-reasoned change, carefully analysing what went wrong, making carefully-judged changes in personnel, aiming to tweak […]
MDC-T violence must be nipped in the bud!
The Chronicle Propaganda by Hildegarde Manzvanzvike 23rd February 2018 TRUTH can be ruthless and hurtful. There is no substitute to truth for to substitute it would be to give dignity to fabrications. We all wanted to see former Prime Minister in the inclusive Government Mr Morgan Tsvangirai who died on Valentine’s Day accorded a befitting […]
Coltart and Gukurahundi conspiracy against Mnangagwa
The Herald MY TURN (Propaganda) WITH TICHAONA ZINDOGA 31st January 2018 Last week, opposition politician and lawyer — one of Zimbabwe’s few politically active white men — David Coltart, published on his blog a statement “on Rhodesian atrocities, his time in the BSAP and an apology for his role in sustaining an unjust system of […]
How ED got it wrong with first Cabinet
The Standard By Violet Gonda 10th December 2017 Journalist Violet Gonda (VG) interviewed former Education minister David Coltart on the Hot Seat programme to understand President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Cabinet soon after he announced it on the 1st December 2017. This is the transcript of the interview which was done before President Mnangagwa changed his Cabinet […]
An hour or so of Chopin and Beethoven may briefly calm the shattered minds of Zimbabweans
Catholic Herald Notebook 6th December 2017 By Petroc Trelawny I got an email this week inviting me to a recital by a pianist called Genaro Pereira. At the Zimbabwe Academy of Music in Bulawayo. Given the battered, troubled state of the country, it seems almost unbelievable that such events still take place. The people who […]
Let’s break out of the political madness zone
Newsday 1st December 2017 By Conway Tutani Now that the disastrously failed and highly polarising Robert Mugabe is out, the imperative is to manage expectations, which have shot high in a matter of days. CONWAY TUTANI ECHOES Flashback to 1980: There was an outbreak of strikes as over-expectant Zimbabweans demanded immediate change after the attainment […]
“The Zimbabwean crisis exposes the Democratic Alliance’s hypocrisy” – opines Andile Lungisa
Daily Maverick By Andile Lungisa – the former deputy president of the ANC, Eastern Cape 30th November 2017 Sometimes foreign policy reveals much more about a political actor’s position on critical questions in domestic policy than the position they adopt on such matters at home. Foreign policy, it has become trite to observe, is the […]