Opinion

In just a few years, Tungwarara has travelled a remarkable distance—from relative obscurity to proximity with State House, from borehole launches to diplomatic credentials, from empowerment rhetoric to ownership of high-value assets that…
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Nelson Chamisa has returned to politics. Or, more precisely, he has announced that he has stopped watching the dance floor from the sidelines and decided to reclaim it—because, according to him, no one else had the decency or competence to…
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A voice begins to recur in courtrooms and news studios. A face becomes familiar in moments of crisis. Arguments once scattered start to cohere around a single figure. In Zimbabwe today, that figure is Fadzayi Mahere.
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Across Africa, a dangerous fiction masquerades as strategy: that electoral legitimacy can be coerced into existence through handcuffs, censorship, and courtroom theatre. Regimes intoxicated by power deploy arbitrary arrests, treason…
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Paul Tungwarara represents a growing phenomenon in Zimbabwean governance: the unelected political enforcer whose influence flows not from the ballot box or constitutional office, but from proximity to the centre of executive power.
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The news struck like a thunderbolt across Southern Africa today: Mutumwa Mawere, the once indomitable Zimbabwean businessman who rose from rural obscurity to command a vast empire spanning mining, finance, and beyond, has died at the age of…
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I promised to write this piece. Not because it is fashionable, nor because it is safe, but because Zimbabweans are being invited—again—to confuse political theatre with political destiny.
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In the heart of Nairobi's bustling streets, where matatus weave through chaotic traffic and vendors hawk everything from fresh nyama choma to handmade beads, a phenomenon unfolded that brought the city to a grinding halt.
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When IShowSpeed came to Zimbabwe, the internet erupted, but not for the livestream itself. Instead, it erupted over which women he did or did not notice.
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I did not know who IShowSpeed was until his recent African tour brought him to Zimbabwe. Like many adults outside Gen Z internet culture, I had to research him.
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