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MUCKRAKER: The grapes are sour anyway
Who can forget one of Aesop's most famous fables. Once, a fox tried to eat some juicy looking grapes, which were high up on a vine.
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Sep. 9, 2022
MUCKRAKER: Adios Queen Elizabeth II, kindly pass regards to Mugabe
Our President was in Kenya this week to witness a peaceful transfer of power, a field in which he is a leading international expert.
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Sep. 16, 2022
MUCKRAKER: Crooks are having a field day while Chris keeps blabbering
On Monday, the man from Oxford, Mthuli Ncube, expressed outrage that someone had tried to sell the government a two-kilogramme chicken at US$30.
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Sep. 23, 2022
Muckracker: The circus goes to America
The country will soon be overrun by American investors, he told the nation.
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Sep. 30, 2022
MUCKRAKER: ‘ArmedRobbers4ED’: New group to join gravy train
Tafadzwa Mugwadi, the party’s designated loudspeaker, shocked an audience when he declared:
By Muckraker
Oct. 21, 2022
Idle Jonso longs to return
At this rate, before long, the Commonwealth will be the one begging Zimbabwe to rejoin the club. Who would not want such decisive leadership among its members?
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Nov. 18, 2022
Muckraker: Power cuts: Undeniable sign of economic growth
“The power cuts are causing distress, inconvenience and cost to the citizenry and business. This is regrettable. The challenge is affecting part of our region.
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Dec. 9, 2022
From Zanu PF’s genius solutions to the gospel according to Mnangagwa
Some people even went mad, suggesting that our leaders need to face the full brunt of the power situation in order to get a sense of the urgency.
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Dec. 16, 2022
Muckraker:From our lithium to Dougie in the house
One of the greatest achievements is that he has managed to have a quarrelsome member of the opposition locked up for making too much noise.
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Jan. 6, 2023
MUCKRAKER: Police ought to mean what it says
Evey faithful party cadre knows which campaign materials are mandatory during campaigns; regalia, bribes, lies, and machetes.
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Jan. 13, 2023
Muckracker: It’s not only Moyo who will be left ‘very naked’ Hon. MP
The High Court ruled that Section 314 of the Urban Councils Act, which gave Moyo the cojones to tell councillors what to do, was null and void.
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Jan. 27, 2023
Muckracker: Scarf on high demand
It was the turn of Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, owner of Equatorial Guinea, to host President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Arriving at the airport in Malabo
By Muckraker
Feb. 10, 2023
Muckraker: Old Obert is, in fact, telling the truth and nothing but the truth
“Most of us here have had our children going through his hands (under the Presidential Scholarship Scheme,” said Obert.
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Feb. 17, 2023
Muckraker- Zim: New Dispensation or Dislocation
Another reject was making news this week. One Paddington Japajapa came out to tell the world that he had ditched the CCC and he was now joining Zanu PF.
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Jun. 30, 2023
Muckracker: Speak good only of the dead
We are truly blessed to have a romantic leader in power. What more could a country want?
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Aug. 18, 2023
Muckracker: Don’t look back in anger!
Zimbabwe, it seems, is still waiting for its own “winds of change” moment because at every election there are disputes, which have always deeply divided the nation.
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Sep. 1, 2023
MUCKRAKER: Inauguration: What a show!
The likes of Java and other such jesters are now the recognised owners of the party, and not those ‘unwashed’ war vets and cotton farmers.
By Muckraker
Sep. 8, 2023
MUCKRAKER: Zanu PF dancing on Masaya’s grave
The response to the murder of Masaya has been as one would predict. There was much mourning from normal people, even those not of the opposition.
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Nov. 17, 2023
Selfishness, entitlement in our DNA
This week, some idle people were making themselves angry over nothing, after Nelson Chamisa filed a constitution for his own party in court.
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Nov. 24, 2023
Zim jubilates for a takeaway meal
Some people were shocked by this news. One wonders why. Here is an association of gold dealers and gold panners appointing an accomplished gold smuggler to lead them.
By Muckraker
Dec. 8, 2023
Muckracker: When Zanu PF still sweats to convince itself it won
Mike Bimha, the most bored Zanu PF commissar in living memory, said the party had won because “we have done well with the economy”.
By Muckraker
Feb. 9, 2024
He said it: ‘We’re 1 000s of years behind others’
Still in glitzy Dubai, we hear our owner was massively impressed to hear that the place has a functional police force.
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Feb. 16, 2024
The ‘comedy of errors’ endures
Unexpectedly, and in a rare display of professionalism, Dynamos fired Chawonza over his comments on Billiat’s latest signing.
By Muckraker
Mar. 1, 2024
Even after splurging millions, poor Wicknell can’t find love
Reports suggest that Chivayo paid a bride price of US$50 000 in 2017, and the intervening years have seen Wicknell buy more fancy cars to stock in his garage.
By Muckraker
Mar. 28, 2024
Is Chivayo the new Tagwirei?
The guy is an ex-convict, with a chequered history that does not lend itself to polite company at best.
By Muckraker
May. 3, 2024
What the Zany is going on?
This was because the Zimbabwe dollar equivalent paid by the tax collector was lost to inflation. And the government has been keen to tell us that inflation was under control.
By Muckraker
May. 17, 2024
Muckraker: Nepotism, cronyism our daily bread
They move around with bricks of mint United States dollars and shower them on supporters, the last stunt being giving Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka US$500 to buy a suit.
By Muckraker
Jun. 7, 2024
Muckracker: The discord for a third term
Critics were quick to pounce. Our owner, we were told, is a constitutionalist. The third-term narrative was created by the opposition to demonise our righteous and brave leader.
By Muckraker
Jul. 19, 2024
MUCKRAKER: I now have the gavel, Dr Amai!
Sadc observers, ever diplomatic, declared the vote free, but avoided commenting on its fairness, while the opposition screamed electoral fraud.
By Muckraker
Aug. 23, 2024
Muckraker: Of the ‘prostate’ currency and ZiG
The man single-handedly engineered the collapse of Zaire’s economy and ensured that the country’s infrastructure faded into the annals of history.
By Muckraker
Aug. 30, 2024
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