Dec 23, 2025
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Political Branding 101: Why Chamisa Cannot Claim Ownership of the CCC

It is frankly embarrassing to see a lawyer of Thabani Mpofu’s standing publicly lamenting what is nothing more than Nelson Chamisa’s own strategic failure. This is the predictable consequence of poor political judgment.

Chamisa’s ameaturish mistake was collapsing an institution into himself. He deliberately personalised the CCC, fusing its identity to his face instead of building it as an autonomous, people-owned political brand. Having now distanced himself from that institution, he cannot credibly claim exclusive rights over its symbols, imagery, or political identity. It’s that simple. More …

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Dec 21, 2025
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The Making of a De Facto One-Party State

It is no longer far-fetched to argue that Zimbabwe is steadily moving toward a de facto single-party state. The voting patterns are becoming too clear and too consistent to ignore.

In the Nkulumane parliamentary by-election, ZANU PF candidate Freedom Murechu recorded a decisive victory, polling 3 416 votes. Even if the votes of all the other candidates were added together and then multiplied by two, they would still fall short of his total.

Such margins are not accidental. Repeated outcomes of this nature point to a clear and deliberate expression of the political will of the Zimbabwean electorate.

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Dec 21, 2025
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When Popularity Becomes Treason – The Coming War on Fadzayi Mahere

The undeniable reality is this: Fadzayi Mahere has overtaken Nelson Chamisa in both social media and in the public arena, and that places a target squarely on her back. This is precisely the moment when Chamisa’s loyal attack dogs – the bootlickers and political opportunists like Ostallos and Promise – begin to circle. The whisper campaigns are already festering in WhatsApp trenches, led by these figures who have perfected feigned loyalty. More …

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Dec 20, 2025
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How 2025 Broke Zimbabwe’s “Twitter Economics”

When historians eventually analyse the structural evolution of Zimbabwe, 2025 will likely be recorded as the definitive point of inflection. It was the year the specific gravity of reality finally crushed the buoyancy of digital hysteria. It was the year the economic debate did not merely break down, but was rendered obsolete by a government that simply performed beyond the capacity of its detractors to comprehend. For the better part of a decade, we have suffered a plague of “Twitter Economics” – a phenomenon where political sentiment masquerades as financial literacy. But in 2025, the Second Republic didn’t just govern; it outpaced the rhetoric, executing its mandate with such granular focus that attacking the economy as a proxy for political warfare became a futile, intellectually bankrupt exercise.

Throughout the year, we witnessed the peak of undisciplined commentary: a landscape where Zimbabwe was plagued by a surplus of opinions and a deficit of data. On social media, every movement of the exchange rate was weaponised: treated not as a standard market variable but as a portent of Armageddon. The digital opposition complex operated on a simple, flawed heuristic: if the government does it, it must be failing. They painted a picture of a nation in freefall, predicting a return to 2008 with repetitive monotony. However, economics is a science of measurement, not a contest of feelings. When one stripped away the vitriol and looked at the ZIMSTAT ledgers, the collapse narrative disintegrated against a wall of hard data. More …

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Dec 20, 2025
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Unity Is a Discipline, Not a Slogan – December 22, Our Annual Reminder

Every year, the 22nd of December arrives quietly, almost like a pause in the national calendar as we are all preparing for the December 25 and 26th holidays – a moment when Zimbabwe is invited to remember that the most difficult victories are not won on the battlefield, but in the heart of a nation learning to live as one. National Unity Day exists because we once discovered, painfully, that political independence is not the same thing as national cohesion. Every patriot across the length and breadth of our Great Zimbabwe honours a sacred covenant. The signing of the 1987 Unity Accord was not merely a political handshake; it was a deliberate act to end a season of internal conflict and to pull the country back from the edge. It was a miraculous stitching together of the very soul of our nation.

To speak honestly about the Unity Accord is to admit what made it necessary. The early years after Independence were marked by deep mistrust, insecurity, dissident violence, and heavy-handed responses. It was a period whose scars did not follow neat political boundaries, and whose pain still sits in family stories, unmarked graves, and silences passed down like inheritance. For seven long years, brothers who had shared the trenches of the Second Chimurenga found themselves on opposing sides of a tragic divide. The risk was total – the disintegration of the state and the reversal of our revolutionary gains. More …

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