Author: Tawonga Kurewa

There are moments in Zimbabwe when the ceremony is so choreographed that it risks becoming background noise, a familiar script, familiar faces, familiar slogans. And then, every so often, a line slips through that is not merely ceremonial. It is accusatory. It is a mirror. On 2 January 2026, at the burial of Brigadier General (Retired) Mathias Tizirai Ngarava at the National Heroes Acre, Acting President Constantino Chiwenga took the podium in the full voice of the State. herald The occasion was mxourning, yes, but it was also a public audit, of sacrifice, of governance, of what the living have…

Let us be clear: there is nothing “Zimbabwe First” about the so-called “Breaking Barriers Initiative.” This entire project puts one thing, and one thing only, above the nation, above the law, and above the people: Emmerson Mnangagwa’s presidency. It is a sophisticated, cynical, and fraudulent legal project designed to kill the 2013 Constitution, murder the principle of a direct popular vote, and illegally extend the tenure of a failed president beyond his final, mandated term. This is not constitutional engineering. This is a constitutional coup. And who are the architects of this constitutional monstrosity? The internal documents point to known…

It is a feeling that settles deep in the bones of any Zimbabwean who has lived through the last two decades: the unnerving echo of history. Less than a decade since the nation poured onto the streets, brimming with a desperate hope that was ultimately betrayed, we are back. The air is thick again with talk of mass action, of removing a captured leader, of a final push against a predatory state. The names and faces have shifted slightly, but the script feels hauntingly familiar. One has to ask, with a profound sense of weariness: Are we merely turning a…

In the fortified opulence of Kudakwashe Tagwirei’s Newlands office, a secret and frantically charged crisis meeting took place last night. The Zvigananda faction, the criminal cabal that has held our nation hostage, reached a terrifying conclusion: their patron, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is a failing asset. His rapidly deteriorating health and incapacity to lead are no longer just a political problem, but a “serious security threat” to their looted wealth and their freedom. Their solution, finalized in this state-of-panic meeting, is not a political strategy. It is a blueprint for a palace coup. Fearing imminent arrest at the hands of a…

A Head of State’s birthday may warrant a degree of pomp and ceremony. But what we witnessed in Zvishavane was not a party; it was a self-coronation. By branding the event “Munhumutapa Day,” President Emmerson Mnangagwa was not merely marking another year; he was attempting to elevate himself beyond the constraints of party and constitution. He was cloaking himself in the sacred history of the Munhumutapa Empire, a legacy of sophisticated statecraft and regional power; in a grotesque attempt to legitimize his own project of state-deconstruction. And at the right hand of this new emperor, paraded for all to see,…

The land. It was the alpha and the omega of our liberation struggle, a promise sealed in blood and sacrifice. It was meant to be the one tangible inheritance of our freedom, the final reclamation of our birthright. Now, that sacred inheritance is being systematically stolen in a heist so brazen, so meticulously planned, that it amounts to the final desecration of the revolution itself. The vehicle for this grand theft is the so-called “Presidential Title Deeds Programme,” championed by Kudakwashe “Mamvura” Tagwirei. It is being sold to the nation as the key to unlocking agricultural wealth, but it is…

Sleep was a reluctant and indifferent companion. I tossed and turned all night, my mind wrestling with the disquiet familiar to all Zimbabweans, a feeling that settles when the headlines speak of yet another political fracture, another violent clash, another promise deferred. In these moments, the cavernous silence left by Dr. Alex Magaisa (MHSRIP) feels most profound, for his Big Saturday Read was our national ritual for making sense of the chaos. This FAR (For Alex Read) Series, seeks to continue on the analysis front, and an attempt to continue, in a small way, that tradition of unflinching reflection. In…

Sometimes history repeats itself not as tragedy or farce, but as outright insult. What is scheduled for Wednesday at ZANU-PF headquarters is nothing less than a midnight coup. A brazen attempt by a cabal of opportunists to force the co-option of Kudakwashe “Mamvura” Tagwirei into the party’s core structures while Vice President Chiwenga is thousands of miles away. The plot is transparent: wait for the general to leave the room, then crown the merchant of plunder. It is the political equivalent of thieves breaking into your house at night, while you are away, then inviting the neighbors to call it…

History, it is said, does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. Yesterday in Mashonaland Central, Kudakwashe “Mamvura” Tagwirei proved the maxim true. What was billed as a “Historic Launch Event” for land tenure reform became the loud rebirth of the very ghost Zimbabwe thought it exorcised in 2017: the G40 star rally machine. In front of a bused crowd in the tens of thousands, Tagwirei unveiled not a developmental milestone but a billion-dollar heist. The incapacitated President Mnangagwa reduced to a ceremonial prop. The Mechanics of a Heist The scheme is diabolical in its simplicity. Every recipient of a new…

For months, a lone voice pounded the same rhythm into the national conscience. Cde Blessed “Bombshell” Geza, a dissident soldier with a camera and a creed, hammered one message across his broadcasts, clip after clip. He framed the battle inside ZANU PF as moral rather than procedural, ideological rather than transactional. And he set that battle to a battle hymn, “Nzira Dzemasoja,” the liberation code in song, his relentless signature against the Zvigananda faction. On Defence Forces Day, 12 August 2025, at Rufaro Stadium, that soundtrack escaped the phone screen and seized the national stage. The anthem rose from the…