Gilbert Nyambabvu

is New Zimbabwe.com's Business and Weekend Editor. He is a keen football fan (read Manchester United) and reads classics to stay sane

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Barwe’s mindless sycophancy

By Gilbert NyambabvuMedia, Politics

CDE Reuuben Barwe was on ZTV news the other day accusing this writer and a few other non-resident journalists of peddling what he described – without explaining – as “anti-Zimbabwe” propaganda. For those not quite in the know, Cde Barwe’s … Read more

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Wake the dead, it’s election time!

By Gilbert NyambabvuPolitics

  THE words ‘functional’ and ‘normal’ came to mind as I contemplated my impressions of Zimbabwe after spending time in Harare during a recent visit to the country. But Harare is typically dissembling, and my initial sense of marvel soon … Read more

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Mugabe: death betakes man, never his legacy

By Gilbert NyambabvuPolitics

THE recent frenzied media speculation over President Robert Mugabe’s health attracted a robust and typically acerbic rebuttal from ex-information minister Professor Jonathan Moyo, who demanded of those behind the rumours to state whether they were witches driven by malice or … Read more

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Why diesel mystic is a national treasure

By Gilbert NyambabvuPolitics, Transport

SECTIONS of the police and state prosecution service must be suffering a dangerous infestation of opposition sympathisers keen to thoroughly embarrass Zanu PF ahead of general elections now expected next year. For how else does one explain the whacky decision … Read more

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Post-Mugabe turmoil, what turmoil?

By Gilbert NyambabvuPolitics

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe recently felt sufficiently miffed by the increasing speculation over his health that he took the unusual step of granting an extensive interview to specifically address and hopefully dowse the rumours. Images of a frail looking Mugabe walking … Read more

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Mugabe has outmaneuvered MDC

By Gilbert NyambabvuPolitics

A COLLEAGUE reacted to news that President Robert Mugabe would seek re-election if asked by Zanu PF, and that such elections could be held whether or not there was a new constitution, by saying the elderly gent was having a … Read more

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The internet and media reform in Zimbabwe

By Gilbert NyambabvuInternet, Politics

COMMENTS recently attributed to MDC-T spokesman and Information Communication Technology Minister Nelson Chamisa regarding government’s inordinate delays in licensing private and commercial broadcasters serve as an alarming reminder of how terribly misdirected the media reform debate in Zimbabwe has become. … Read more

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How Mugabe outfoxed Amanpoor

By Gilbert NyambabvuPolitics

Unprepared … CNN’s Amanpour found wanting in Mugabe interview   CNN’S Chief International Correspondent, Christine Amanpour’s interview with President Robert Mugabe on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly was appallingly inept and very nearly scandalous.   Indeed outraged … Read more

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Propaganda and the GPA

By Gilbert NyambabvuPolitics

QUITE apart from being evidently ridiculous, the sudden emergence of a whole catalogue of titles preceding any and all mention of President Robert Mugabe’s name in the state media also demonstrates just how perverse the game of perception management has … Read more

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