The Revolutionary Star Podcast

Comrade Chiwenga was born in 1956 in Wedza District .

A Cadre through and through however do we truly know him as a fellow comrade.

Joined the revolutionary armed struggle in 1973 and was trained in Mozambique as a ZANLA militant. He rose through the ranks to become a Provincial Commander for Masvingo/Gaza Province.

Today we delve into the warrior and cadre of our Comrade and not the leader that he is today.

Zimbabwe's Cartels and Syndicates and our Organized Crime problem :

Today we talk Zimbabwe's Cartels and Syndicates and how this delves into our Organized Crime problem as a nation

These systems having existed prior to our independence at 1980 and inherited by the political class that ushered in Zimbabwe as we know today

Why do Zimbabweans not trust many of the key institutions in our country. They do not trust in the money issued by their Central Bank, or the electoral process that bestows power on their leaders neither do they trust the opposition completely. 

They also do not trust their leaders to serve the interests of citizens, and there is no trust in the courts, the military or the police to serve them well.

Cartels are formed to transfer wealth from consumers and public funds to participants in the cartels (i.e., rent-seeking).The undeserved or unearned profit that rent-seekers gain is defined by economists as an “economic rent”. 

sanctions are clearly not entirely responsible for the state capture and economic malfeasance described throughout this report. However, the sanctions regime and U.S. sanctions in particular have had some negative externalities, for example, Zimbabwe lost over 50 relationships with correspondent banks between 2008 and 2017 as they engaged in derisking as a result of the sanctions and global non- compliance with anti-money laundering legislation.

Join Us as we start delving into this subject!

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The Birth of MDC Explained: Episode 8 Yes We Can Change We Can Believe In Chinja Maitiro

Today is Sunday the 14th of March 2021 today we talk on How MDC was Born

The MDC began after the People's Working Convention in February 1999. In February 2000

As a political party, the MDC was created by a coalition of civic groups that were united more by distaste for Mugabe and ZANU-PF than by any unity of political programmes.

Its origins may be located primarily in ZANU-PF’s adoption of the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) in 1991.

What there is MDC and who is a Chinja Cadre?

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The Birth of ZANU Explained: Episode 7 Omertà this thing of ours chinhu chedu

Today is Sunday the 7th of March 2021 today we talk on How ZANU was Born: How did this Revolutionary Party become what it is today? The Politics of the Gun and the Bullet meets the Ballot.

ZANU was formed at Cde Enos Nkala's house in Highfield on 8 August 1963 just a few days before a ZAPU Congress was supposed to take place.

ZANU was formed as a breakaway Party from the main Nationalist Party then ZAPU.

What therefore is ZANU the general version?

Zimbabwe's Housing Issues Explained: Episode 6

Today is Sunday the 28th of February 2021 today we talk on National Housing in Zimbabwe

Is housing for all considered realistic in Zimbabwe?

"The transition to majority rule in 1980 saw the lifting of decades of racial restrictions to the “Right to the City”. The urban population of Zimbabwe rose rapidly from 23% in 1982 to 30% by the early 1990s. This trend, typical of many developing countries, can be described as the “challenge of rapid urbanization” whereby people migrating to urban areas improve their livelihoods in terms of income opportunities and access to social services, while cities, as economic units, witness impoverishment."

Where are we now?

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Today is Sunday the 21st of February 2021 Happy Happy Mugabe Day......... today we talk on Thomas Sankara and his Social Political thought in relation to Zimbabwe

Is Sankarism alive in Zimbabwe politics?

Thomas Isidore Noel Sankara (1949–1987) was one of the world’s most prominent pan-African socialist revolutionaries.

He was a military captain and a president, an unapologetic anti-imperialist, a critic of patriarchy and a partner in the “total emancipation” of women, a formidable and often amusing orator, and a humble but resolved human committed to the co-creation of a more just world.

In the early 1980s, he undertook a grounded, applied, and radical approach for the total transformation of the State for the well-being of the people of Burkina Faso.1 Sankara was also distinctive for his revolution’s—the August Revolution—successes, including achievements in food self-reliance, the importance given to ecological balance and reforestation, rapid infrastruc- tural achievements, and advances in healthcare. ***Audio states 2020 this is an error production done 2021

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Today is Thursday the 18th of February and today's 2nd Watchlist Cadre is the stoic and steady; headstrong and conservative firebrand current Deputy Chief Secretary for Communications in the President's Office : Comrade George Charamba

As of the year 2021 he is the current Deputy Chief Secretary-Presidential Communications in the Office of the President of Zimbabwe and former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information of Zimbabwe.

His position makes him the official spokesperson for President Emmerson Mnangagwa

A veteran in the dark arts of PsyOps communications

Comrade Charamba is a Zanu PF ideologue who seems to favor the marxist and socialist philosophers

Comrade Charamba's asserts that ideology and history are the main issues that give ZANU-PF's an advantage over many other opposition parties within Zimbabwe.

Welcome to the World of Comrade Charamba, where as stated from one of his liked quotes from Karl Marx:

"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language." Karl Marx

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Women in Zimbabwean Politics: Episode 4

Happy Valentines as we discuss: Women in Zimbabwean Politics

“Women have traditionally occupied subservient positions in relation to men in the social, economic and political spheres of life.

In Zimbabwe, women constitute 52% of the population. This, according to the Research and Advocacy Unit (2012), means that there are about a quarter of a million more women voters than men, given the estimated 12.6 million total of the population, and assuming that half of the population is under the age of eighteen and thus cannot vote

The few women that have made it to political office have had limited influence as compared to their male counterparts”..........Why is that? We delve into this. **Audio states 2020 this is an error production done 2021

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Today is Thursday the 11th of February and today's 1st Watchlist Cadre is the current president of the Senate of Zimbabwe; Comrade Mabel Chinomona the Iron Lady within Zanu PF politics and the Senatorial halls of Zimbabwe.

Mabel Memory Chinomona (born 21 January 1958) is a Zimbabwean politician who is the current president of the Senate of Zimbabwe.

Previously, she served as deputy speaker of the National Assembly from 2013 to 2018, and as MP for Mutoko North until her election as senate president in 2018. She has also served as secretary of the ZANU–PF Women's League since 2017.

She joined the liberation movement in 1975 during the Rhodesian Bush War.

After Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, Chinomona served as the ZANU–PF Women's League chairman for Mashonaland East Province.She served in that role until 1990, when she became political commissar. She is an actual political operator and not a fly by night carpetbagger or opportunist.

She was also involved in the Women's League as commissariat director. She also worked in the Ministry of Local Government for ten years, and served as Deputy Minister of Home Affairs

In February 2016, while serving as provincial head of the Women's League in Mashonaland East, Chinomona was suspended from ZANU–PF in a vote of no confidence by the party's provincial

coordinating committee.The reason given was that she had been neglectful in facilitating a planned trip by a group of Women's League members to Harare to meet President Robert Mugabe.

Welcome to the World of Comrade Chinomona where: 

As the president of the Senate Comrade Mabel Chinomona

is the presiding officer of the Senate, whose main function is to guide and regulate the proceedings in the Senate. It is also the duty of the President of the Senate to ensure that the powers and privileges of the Senate are observed.

The President is also responsible for the administration of the bicameral Parliament of Zimbabwe as the Deputy Chairperson of the Committee on Standing Rules and Orders.

The President represents Parliament at international and regional conferences and leads Parliamentary delegations to other nations, as well as receives delegations from other nations.

Today is Sunday the 7th of February 2021 today we talk on What exactly is Joe Biden's Foreign Policy Agenda?

When it comes to Zimbabwe, is America open for Business?

Biden Administration is expected to depart from some of the key tenets of President Trump's 'America First' foreign policy, experts also point to a high possibility of continuity in areas such as trade and relations with China. However, on climate change, multilateral cooperation and support for NATO, expectations are high regarding a potential return to deep levels of transatlantic consensus and cooperation.

So what does a Biden Administration mean for Zimbabwe?