Dr Phillan Zamchiya

The ruling ZANU-PF party says there will be no referendum on Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3, come hell or thunder. Yet its political actions increasingly resemble a party preparing for one.

Blessed Runesu Geza, known to many as Comrade Bombshell, died in the early hours of 6 February 2026 at a cardiac hospital in South Africa.

A number of Zimbabweans have mastered the art of majoring on minors and minoring on majors. We can spend days arguing over the wording of a slogan, the punctuation of a position, or the semantics of a statement, while the country burns behind us. Too often, we quarrel over the label while the substance collapses.

DEAR READER, it was on the 13th of May 2018 that Phineas Tagwirei, "father" to Kudakwashe Tagwirei a Zimbabwean tycoon with an avalanche of ‘’business’’ interests quietly breathed his last at the trauma center in the plushy suburb of Borrowdale in the north of Harare, Zimbabwe.

By Dr Phillan Zamchiya: "Dear Reader, It was in 2030 and the second dispensation had delivered a new goat-driven modern economy for all. I was in a luxurious 7-star hotel in Harare with fine whisky, apples, and a book just to remind people that I was still an active professor. The waiter asked me whether I wanted soft goat cheese or crumbled goat cheese. Reader, it was a new menu, built on the vision of the second dispensation."