Columnist / Luke tamborinyoka
The infamy of Mnangagwa's US$18m chopper toy
A parent's aptitude is determined by their priorities. As teachers and other civil servants table legitimate grievances regarding their grossly inadequate salaries and parlous living circumstances, Em...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 07:12hrs | 2010 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zimbabwe independence is now a senior bachelor!
YOUR Excellency, President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Sunday April 18 was Independence Day a once-hallowed day that has since lost its glitz because the requisite freedoms associated with the occasion are...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:11hrs | 1171 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
A bad-bye to a bad year
Arsenal's emphatic win over Chelsea at the Emirates stadium on Boxing day lifted my spirits in a tenuous and gloomy year in which the despondent people of this country were boxed down mainly by the tw...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 19:08hrs | 218 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Central government at the epicentre of the challenges facing local authorities
IntroductionToday is Christmas day, the day we celebrate the birth of the Son of Man, our Lord Jesus Christ. It is a day that is supposed to be a day of love, unity, togetherness and cel...Published: 25 Dec 2020 at 20:19hrs | 1244 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Morgan Tsvangirai must be turning in his grave
Morgan Tsvangirai, the late icon of Zimbabwe's tenuous democratic struggle, is a man I knew so well, having served as his spokesperson and trusted lieutenant for almost a decade until his untime...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 09:34hrs | 6629 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zimbabwe flares up in flames.... as SB Moyo becomes face of yet another coup
As Zimbabwe flares up in flames in the latest repressive rendition of the country's multi-layered political crisis, the regime in Harare has ostrich-style decided to firmly bury its head in the ...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 14:20hrs | 32635 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
We remain a nation of heroes
Today, Zimbabweans celebrate Heroes Day; that day when national valour is honoured and cherished on our land.It is that day when we remember, salute and commemorate the huge sacrifice th...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:21hrs | 323 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Mnangagwa a prime candidate for the ICC
Emmerson Mnangagwa is a prime candidate for the International Criminal Court because of heinous crimes against humanity by rogue elements of the army who twice callously murdered innocent Zimbabweans ...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 08:22hrs | 3608 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Polad foreign jaunts a waste of scarce foreign currency
AS Zimbabwe's economy sinks to plumbing depths, with the country's hospitals and clinics without basics such as gloves, bandages and painkillers, fringe political leaders under the Political Actors Di...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:47hrs | 230 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Prosecutor-General confirms State capture by cartels
Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi today dented any hopes that cartel ring-leaders will be prosecuted when he startlingly revealed that they have captured key State institutions including the judiciary...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 07:12hrs | 1659 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
POLAD comedians splurge scarce forex on foreign trips
As Zimbabwe's economy sinks to plumbing depths, with the country's hospitals and clinics without basics such as gloves, bandages and painkillers, fringe political leaders under the POLAD banner will s...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 16:23hrs | 587 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Regime continues to curtail freedom of expression
The government continues to inhibit the basic right to freedom of information after the Broadcasting Association of Zimbabwe this week imposed a punitive $1 million for television licences and&nbs...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 13:11hrs | 466 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
MDC National Executive makes momentous resolutions
The MDC National Executive today concluded a two-day retreat to chart the way forward. The two-day retreat came on the back of President Advocate Nelson Chamisa's National Agenda 2020 unveiled to Zimb...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 14:57hrs | 2127 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zanu-PF militia besiege Mbare
Zanu PF youths armed with machetes and logs have gone on the rampage in Mbare indiscriminately attacking residents following MDC President Nelson Chamisa's highly successful address to the Nation deli...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 18:07hrs | 1531 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Charamba gets it wrong - Mnangagwa's illegitimacy remains the people's key fight
In his seminal statement yesterday, the people's President Advocate Nelson Chamisa was unstintingly consistent, particularly regarding the party's position on the illegitimacy of Mr Mnangagwa, given t...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 11:40hrs | 3200 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Police sanction MDC's Agenda 2020 event
All roads lead to Stodart Hall in Mbare in Harare tomorrow as the police have sanctioned the MDC's Agenda 2020 programme that will be officially unveiled by the People's President Advocate Nelson Cham...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 09:02hrs | 1375 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Police thwart MDC event scheduled for tomorrow
The police have today proscribed Agenda 2020, a key event for the party that was scheduled for tomorrow in Mbare, Harare, citing flimsy excuses that the event cannot proceed because the police...Published: 14 Jan 2020 at 16:01hrs | 3681 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
MDC leadership engages NPRC
The MDC leadership today met with Commissioners of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC), an independent Constitutional Commission, at the party headquarters at Morgan Richard Tsvang...Published: 17 Dec 2019 at 19:22hrs | 3743 | by Luke Tamborinyoka Deputy National Spokesperson
The MDC in full support of the suffering government workers
The MDC is in full support of next week's proposed work-stoppage by government workers in light of the paltry average monthly salary of $475 for civil servants, which can hardly buy 26 litres of f...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 08:59hrs | 2043 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
State-sanctioned human rights abuses at the core of the national crisis
The death of Hilton Tafadzwa Tamangani, who was brutally assaulted by the police and died while in prison, last Friday, is testimony to thefact that the real crisis in Zimbabwe is State-sanctioned...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 10:24hrs | 1960 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
FULL TEXT: MDC leadership meets over worsening national crisis
The MDC leadership of the National Standing Committee met for seven hours in Harare today and took stock of the deteriorating economic situation that has affected ordinary citizens, particularly with ...Published: 08 Oct 2019 at 17:32hrs | 2478 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Mnangagwa must disembark high horse of arrogance
Fuel prices went up over the weekend, triggering price hikes of basic commodities and further worsening an economic calamity whose roots lie in a legitimacy crisis arising out of the stolen election o...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 09:26hrs | 1643 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chief Justice Malaba wades into the political arena - MDC
The judiciary is a key cornerstone of any State. Zimbabwe theoretically is a constitutional democracy where the Constitution is the supreme law of the land and any law, practice, custom or conduct inc...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 10:42hrs | 1483 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa's MDC summons Harare City Council leadership
The MDC leadership led by the Secretary General Chalton Hwende and Local Government Secretary, Eng. Elias Mudzuri today held a crisis meeting with the acting Mayor of Harare and a team of his councilo...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 12:28hrs | 1495 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
High Court outlaws Mnangagwa government's illegal tax
In a landmark case argued by MDC Vice President Hon. Tendai Biti, the High Court today outlawed government's two per cent tax on despondent Zimbabweans in a move that vindicated the MDC position that ...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 11:35hrs | 2855 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
MDC turns 20 today
Following the MDC's launch at Rufaro Stadium in Harare on 11 September 1999, the party officially turns 20 today.However, the party's 20th anniversary bash has been moved to Saturday, 28th Sep...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 10:47hrs | 204 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zanu PF thugs brutally assault Chitungwiza Mayor
Chitungwiza Mayor Clr Lovemore Maiko was today brutally attacked by bussed Zanu PF thugs inside the municipality's Town House today.The Mayor sustained injuries and is seeking medical attentio...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 16:10hrs | 1564 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
State effects a de facto ban on civilian politics
In light of the continued proscription of the people’s sacred right to freedom of assembly and expression, Zimbabweans are disheartened that all democratic space in the country has virtually been cl...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 14:16hrs | 954 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Broke MDC cries foul over party funding
In a brazen act of political thuggery, the government has withheld the MDC grant entitled to the party under the Political Parties Finance Act while Zanu-PF has already been paid their dues. The past ...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 16:20hrs | 1013 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
High Court ruling vindicates the MDC
The High Court ruling that the Zimbabwe Newspapers and the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation were biased in favour of Zanu-PF in their coverage of the 2018 election vindicates the MDC position that th...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 19:20hrs | 647 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
MDC launches RELOAD rallies and grassroots engagement programme
The MDC this weekend launches nationwide RELOAD rallies as well as a robust nationwide consultation programme in the party's districts to engage the people on the key national grievances so as to coll...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 19:19hrs | 237 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
MDC believes in non-violence, legality and constitutionalism
The MDC notes with deep worry and concern that Hon. Job Sikhala's statements made during a rally in Bikita East over the weekend have caused uproar and the party wishes to clarify its position regardi...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 10:00hrs | 322 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Silaigwana's appointment dents ZEC credibility
The MDC is worried that Utoile Silaigwana, a former army Major who joined ZEC as a serving military officer, has now been confirmed as the electoral body's substantive chief elections officer....Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 11:04hrs | 2765 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa on diplomatic offensive in Africa
President Nelson Chamisa is out of the country on a diplomatic offensive in Africa to sensitize the continent on the situation in Zimbabwe.The MDC leader’s diplomatic engagement drive comes ...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 13:40hrs | 10674 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Morgan Tsvangirai: A lasting epoch in the national story
Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, my boss for 10 years until he died last year on 14 February on the day the power of love is celebrated worldwide, was not a persona but a gargantuan political moment whose i...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 11:34hrs | 1106 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
An ode to Oliver Mtukudzi
Oliver Mtukudzi achieved both in life and in death what our national leaders have failed to do: uniting a deeply polarised and fractured nation.Such was his greatness.In life, he performed...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 10:28hrs | 698 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
MDC reacts to ConCourt verdict
Zimbabweans have just received with a heavy heart the Constitutional court verdict that Emmerson Mnangagwa was legitimately elected president of Zimbabwe in the just-ended harmonized plebiscite....Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 15:59hrs | 12736 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Tomorrow is D-day for Zimbabwe
Zimbabweans across the country are anxiously waiting for the Constitutional court hearing tomorrow as they ardently follow the fate of their vote. Even Zimbabweans in the Diaspora and the entire globa...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 12:49hrs | 2628 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa heads for Matabeleland South
The people's leader and MDC Alliance presidential candidate Adv Nelson Chamisa heads for Matabaleland South tomorrow where he is set to address four rallies in three days.Tomorrow, the people'...Published: 23 May 2018 at 15:49hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Public media ups propaganda ante against Chamisa
The public media has upped its propaganda ante against the people's leader, president Adv. Nelson Chamisa by putting words into his mouth in a desperate bid to malign and ostracize him from the women ...Published: 18 May 2018 at 12:35hrs | 3583 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa's rural campaign rolls into Midlands
President Adv Nelson Chamisa's rural campaign juggernaut rolls into the Midlands province tomorrow for a four-day blitz that ends on Sunday.The people's leader will tomorrow address a rally at...Published: 16 May 2018 at 16:33hrs | 6598 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
MDC-T candidate process proceeding well with no hiccups
The MDC-T candidate selection process is proceeding well with no hiccups and no violence, contrary to press reports. The party has not even begun its primary elections and is still holding pea...Published: 16 May 2018 at 13:39hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Plot to discredit Chamisa
There is a plot to soil and malign the people's leader, President Adv Nelson Chamisa by circulating concocted flyers with his phone number on them and falsely purporting that there will be a demonstra...Published: 10 May 2018 at 09:35hrs | 4840 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
MDC salutes the Press Corps
The MDC joins the rest of the world in commemorating World Press Freedom Day under the theme "Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and The Rule of Law".It is common knowledge that the media ...Published: 03 May 2018 at 18:16hrs | 1270 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa off to the United Kingdom
MDC-T President Adv Nelson Chamisa this weekend leaves for the United Kingdom where he will take the opportunity to interact with Zimbabweans in the Diaspora.The people's leader and MDC Allian...Published: 03 May 2018 at 18:13hrs | 3205 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa calls for an Audit of all business deals
The MDC dismisses malicious falsehoods peddled by the state-owned newspaper, The Herald attributing certain statements to the People's President Nelson Chamisa. The gist and essence of Preside...Published: 02 May 2018 at 20:36hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa the person enriching Chamisa the moment
It all began two years ago when MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai appointed a then 38-year-old Nelson Chamisa as one of his two additional vice presidents following his diagnosis with cancer of the co...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 09:02hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa meets Carter Centre observer mission
President Nelson Chamisa today held meetings with the Carter Centre pre-election observer team where he bemoaned the lack of comprehensive reforms that will ensure the free expression of the sovereign...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 16:48hrs | 967 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa urges BYO Councilors to prioritize service delivery
President Adv Nelson Chamisa today held a meeting with Bulawayo City councilors committees to discuss issues affecting the second largest city where the people's President exhorted the city fathers to...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 15:34hrs | 831 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa unveils innovative Road to Victory (R2V) platforms
The people's President Adv Nelson Chamisa this week unveils new and exciting interactive platforms to share ideas and his vision for the imminent new Zimbabwe that sets in after the watershed forthcom...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 13:44hrs | 1955 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
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