Columnist / Jonathan maphenduka
Letter of retirement
SINCE President Emmerson Mnangangwa's takeover it has become increasingly possible for the private media to publish views and comments, which are in the main contrary to government's view and expectat...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 10:14hrs | | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Has Sadc Tribunal Rights Watch signed a treaty with Zimbabwe?
I READ with great interest a re cent letter to the editor by Ben Freeth in which he raises issue with the government of Zimbabwe regarding the land compensation question and property rights of individ...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Mnangagwa's govt fails to fill gaps in compensation debate
THERE are issues in the compensation debate to which government has closed its mind and, therefore, has miserably failed to justify the decision. They include government's failure to justify compensat...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:55hrs | 3 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
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...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:27hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
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...Published: 17 May 2019 at 20:42hrs | 20 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
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...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 09:10hrs | | by Jonathan Maphenduka
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...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 06:16hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
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...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 08:51hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
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...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 06:27hrs | | by Jonathan Maphenduka
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: ...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 16:02hrs | | by Jonathan Maphenduka
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...Published: 04 Feb 2018 at 11:35hrs | 5 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
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...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 19:06hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
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...Published: 02 Jan 2018 at 14:08hrs | 3 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
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...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 17:31hrs | 75 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
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