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Remembering the peaceful giant

The last two months have been very important for the mother party and Zimbabweans as we have been engrossed with memories of giants who played prominent roles in our quest for a dignified and free life. Linked in life, linked in the strugg…

Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 12:02hrs | 3 | by Iphithule Maphosa

A genuine reform agenda could have saved Zimbabweans

Since the adoption of the new constitution in 2013, there have been expectations of constitutional reforms and realignment of the country's laws to the new supreme law.The reform agenda did not necessarily begin at the 2013 constitutional …

Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 19:48hrs | 3 | by Iphithule Maphosa

Sanctions. What sanctions?

25 October will go down in history as the day SADC took Zimbabwean people to the sacrificial altar simply to shore up their dictator brotherhood cult ruining the country. The day set aside in 2019 to ostensibly rally the world to lift non …

Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 07:50hrs | 5 | by Iphithule Maphosa

Emperor with no robes

The proverbial Emperor with no robes aptly describes the government of Zimbabwe and particularly President Mnangagwa following the August 29 2020  court interdict against unlawful reburials of Gukurahundi victims by Mnangagwa and his …

Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 08:18hrs | 2 | by Iphithule Maphosa

Chief Ndiweni's incarÃ§eration an attack on peoples rights

Chief Ndiweni has been incarcerated not only because of the crime he is alleged to have committed but he has long been an undesirable element according to ZANU PF.The sending away of the chief from the people is a well-calculated ploy by t…

Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 21:30hrs | 1558 | by Iphithule Maphosa

Misheck Velaphi Ncube Obituary: Connecting the Dots

Misheck Velaphi Ncube was buried at Heroes Acre in Harare on 9 May 2019, a well-deserved recognition from the ruling party and the state for his contribution to the liberation and independence of Zimbabwe. As happens in such events, some i…

Published: 19 May 2019 at 20:59hrs | 223 | by Iphithule Maphosa

ZAPU's independence day message

As Zimbabweans remember the end of colonialism and the advent of independent rule on 18 April 1980, it is saddening to note that what every citizen celebrated as a new chapter has in actual fact been an incubation of a failed state and a p…

Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 12:33hrs | 3 | by Iphithule Maphosa

Cyclone Idai exposed misplaced priorities in Zimbabwe

The devastating cyclone effects as witnessed and experienced in the eastern parts of the country makes a very sad reading of the kind of leadership Zimbabwe has had since the advent of independence.To begin with, it is disheartening to cou…

Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 08:01hrs | 3 | by Iphithule Maphosa

Arbitrary arrests wonâ€™t solve Gukurahundi

Zimbabwe African People's Union is dismayed by the state's arrest on  journalist Zenzele Ndebele at Bulawayo State House today. As much as it is a clear misplacement of priorities in a country so devastated  by bad weather in the…

Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 17:44hrs | 2 | by Iphithule Maphosa

Nephat Madlela - a Zimbabwe liberation war-national hero

One after another they depart to the Creator, in the same manner they departed from the then Rhodesia into the wilderness in neighboring countries for the liberation struggle. This is the story of our Zimbabwean gallant sons and daughters …

Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 10:40hrs | 68 | by Iphithule Maphosa

ZAPU Youths Angry over threats and harassment of Vendors

ZAPU Bulawayo Youth Front condemns in the strongest terms the insensitive treatment and harassment of vendors in Zimbabwe. For a nation with such a failed economy and where every third person one meets is a vendor to allow a minister, who …

Published: 03 Jun 2015 at 13:40hrs | 1 | by Iphithule Maphosa

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