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Interest in Geza might be waning

1 week ago | bulawayo24.com | Nqaba Matshazi

I was quite surprised to hear that Blessed Geza had another video last Wednesday, an indicator that my interest in him and that of many is waning. Geza makes a lot of sense, but I cannot shake the feeling that his cause is increasingly looking like a lost one and before long he may be irrelevant. I may be wrong in my predictions, I am not a betting man and I am terribly poor at forecasting, but I have a feeling Geza's time has come and gone.
ZANU-PF's own conference resolutions tell a story of a party that doesn't care about the people

1 week ago | bulawayo24.com | Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Talk about upside-down priorities!I recently went through the list of resolutions adopted at the 2024 ZANU-PF Annual People's Conference - and what I found was both predictable and disturbing. Predictable, because over the years, the ruling party has consistently placed the interests of its leaders above the pressing needs of the people.
Govt cannot block the exodus of professionals through force

1 week ago | bulawayo24.com | Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo

Let's not kid ourselves. You can burn the letters, double the fees, threaten the nurses, and chain the airport gates if you want - but people will still find a way to leave this crumbling husk of a nation. This isn't just about migration anymore; it's an escape. An instinct for survival. Zimbabwe has become a place where dreams go to drown, and the people, God help them, are just trying to swim to shore.
Boreholes are not the solution to Zimbabwe's water crisis - they may worsen it

1 week ago | bulawayo24.com | Tendai Ruben Mbofana

There has been a growing disturbing trend. The Zimbabwean government has, in recent years, taken to vigorously drilling boreholes across the country as its signature approach to solving the country's deepening water crisis. Branded as the "Presidential Borehole Drilling Programme,” this initiative aims to install boreholes in all of Zimbabwe's 35,000 villages by 2025.
Machakaire exposes the detachment of Zimbabwe's ruling elite from ordinary citizens' suffering

1 week ago | bulawayo24.com | Tendai Ruben Mbofana

The surprises keep coming!It is not often that we hear a sitting Zimbabwean Cabinet minister openly acknowledge the painful reality faced daily by millions of citizens. That is why Minister of Youth Tino Machakaire's recent post on X (formerly Twitter) came as such a shock - both for what it admitted, and for what it exposed about the detachment of our ruling elite.
Who Owns the Future When the Youth Are Just Campaign Props?

1 week ago | bulawayo24.com | Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo

Every election season in Zimbabwe brings with it a familiar theatre: politicians parading youth like trophies, cladding them in party regalia, praising their energy, and promising them a future that never arrives. Stadiums fill. Slogans echo. T-shirts are handed out. But when the voting ends, the youth are promptly discarded like used flyers - unemployed, sidelined, and voiceless. This isn't conjecture. It is lived experience.
Minister Machakaire Just Discovered What the Rest of Us Live With

1 week ago | bulawayo24.com | Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo

I saw the post on X just after 9 a.m., while waiting in a queue for my grandmother's antibiotics at a local clinic. The power had gone out, again. There was no doctor on duty, again. And someone's mother was crying in the hallway because she'd just been told to "bring her own gloves." It was against this backdrop that I opened my phone and saw a government minister sharing his surprise - yes, surprise - at how bad things have become in our public hospitals.
Why community engagement and dialogue are key for Zimbabwe's development

1 week ago | bulawayo24.com | Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Communities are the backbone of any country. I was recently privileged to moderate the Multi-Stakeholders Dialogue on Bridging Community Solutions and National Policy - organized by the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT) and held in Harare - a profoundly enlightening experience that reshaped my understanding of participatory governance.
It's high time foreign governments took the lead in investigating Zimbabwe's corrupt elite

1 week ago | bulawayo24.com | Tendai Ruben Mbofana

The Zimbabwe ruling elite clearly won't act against high-level corruption. There is something profoundly disturbing about the silence of Zimbabwean authorities in the wake of the damning exposé by South Africa's Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) and the elite Hawks investigative unit.
Zimbabwe's rot of corruption began at the top - that's where it must end

2 weeks ago | bulawayo24.com | Tendai Ruben Mbofana

No one can deny that Zimbabwe has become synonymous with corruption. This morning, I woke up to deeply disturbing news reports that shook me to the core - not because they were shocking, but because they were sadly familiar. One headline detailed how nurses in Zimbabwe are now reportedly demanding payment from people living with HIV in exchange for access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment.