Mnangagwa walks tight rope

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is still walking a tightrope between extremism and moderation as he approaches the end of the first year of his election last July.Perhaps nothing demonstrates his...

The birth of tribal domination in Zimbabwean politics

On 8 November 1978, at the age of 61 years Chief Khayisa Ndiweni, formed the United National Federal Party (UNFP), as a break away from the Zimbabwe United Peoples Organization (ZUPO), a political par...

Opposition is looming against the 'Ndebele' king

GOVERNMENT has not lost any time to mobilise opposition to the time-honoured Ndebele monarchy. This follows the court dismissal of Bulelani Colin Khumalo's coronation bid on March 3. It is cle...

Recalling the bungling and painful reality

THE recent announcement by the Government that Zimbabwe has joined Zambia and Botswana in the Kazungula Bridge project, belated though it is, is a coup de grace in international relations and co-opera...

Ndebele king: Unemotional solution required

I HAVE been investing a great deal of time to find a possible solution to the monarchy controversy and I have come to the conclusion that the recent Court ruling provides a possible answer. It provide...

Quibbling about chiefs' role and Lobengula's coronation date

THERE are several stumbling blocks against resolution of the Ndebele monarchy issue.The first is that those who are not members of Lobengula's house cannot join in the identification of an hei...

King Nyamande Lobhengula II, unveiling invite

You are cordially invited to come and attend an unveiling function that shall be held to unveil King Nyamande Lobhengula II. This function shall be held as follows:Date:    ...

King Nyamande Lobhengula II, Named

The King Lobhengula Royal House has finally come to a conclusion in regard to the heir of the Royal Throne. This communique comes as a follow up to the announcement that was made on 02 January 2018. T...

Drama enters race for monarch

IN a dramatic new development in the race for the Ndebele monarch, the Sihluku house, which had appeared to monopolize the race, has lost its dominance with the emergence of the Sumpe house in an on-g...

King Nyamande Lobhengula II to be Unveiled

King Nyamande Lobhengula II is to be unveilled mid January 2018. UMthwakazi nation must brace itself for the unveiling of the rightful heir to the Mthwakazi Royal Throne. Identified by the King Lobhen...

The amaNdebele monarchy

On 9 September 2017 hundreds of Ndebele people and their leading chiefs gathered at Mhlahlndhlela to be told that a successor to the Matabele kingship had been identified. He is Bulelani Khumalo, a de...