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Roman Catholic priest, Father Emmanuel Francis Ribeiro died this morning at St Anne’s Hospital in Harare at the age of 86. The late heroic priest who was born in 1935 was the brains behind the late President Robert Mugabe and liberation hero Edgar Tekere’s escape to Mozambique.
Tafi Mhaka – Zimbabwe has been slowly ruined by the toxic and infectious mishaps perpetrated by overly educated civil servants who boast pumpkin pudding-like PhDs, which clearly, remain good for nothing.
By Maynard Manyowa A long read on Zanu PFs 54 years of bitter infighting, betrayal and power games. There is no iota of doubt that Zanu PF remains the toughest and most resourceful movement in Zimbabwe and indeed a regional political powerhouse. At a ripe age of fifty-four, the party still has the tenacity of […]
By Benjamin Semwayo Recently the Sunday Mail published a story in which Mr Johannes Chikanya, Robert Mugabe’s ‘twin’, asserts that the latter is a prophet without honour in his own country and that people will only realise this when he is gone. Mr Chikanya idolises Mugabe, describing him in glowing terms and lavishing inordinate praises […]
By Charles Star Kungwengwe In 1990, euphoria enveloped the entire country when one of Zimbabwe’s most controversial war veterans, Edgar Tekere, broke ranks with his former party, ZANU-PF; and in the process also severed ties with his war-time bosom buddy, President Robert Mugabe, to form his own political outfit, the Zimbabwe Unity Movement (ZUM). Everyone […]
By Bill Saidi Before he parted company with his old friend, President Robert Mugabe, Edgar Tekere chose a statement with which many people would identify at the time: “Democracy is in the intensive care unit…” If other people thought this was typical hyperbole from Two Boy, there was a shock for them: Tekere quit the […]
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe at the burial of national hero, Zanu PF founder and former minister Enos Nkala, gave a profound narrative of the life history of the man he described as his personal friend.
Enos Mzombi (actually Muzomubi in Ndebele) Nkala will be remembered most as one of the founders of the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu), as a break-away from the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (Zapu) on August 8 1963.
“How about a challenging and rewarding career in the service of your country” was a catch-phrase on Air Force of Zimbabwe’s job adverts which, many years ago, could easily attract the eye of a curious and adventurous youngster across the racial and ethnic divide.
Wilfred Mhanda, a former guerrilla commander, has released his war-time memoirs exposing how President Robert Mugabe ruthlessly suppressed him and other commanders in the late 70s on his way to becoming the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.