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You can leave the ghetto, but you can't remove the ghetto inside - Same with apartheid

Apartheid is no longer a legal system, but it remains deeply embedded in the psyche of South Africans - black and white. Black South Africans loathe black foreigners with the same intensity that white South Africans once loathed black Afri…

Published: 20 hrs ago | 220 | by Nomazulu Thata

Germany's Dislike of Ms. Anna Lena Baerbock Makes Her Vulnerable at the UN

Anna Lena Baerbock has become a punchbag - ridiculed to the point of nastiness. Her first taste of public insult came from Germany itself, where her English accent was mocked and reduced to caricature. She once tried to say "beacon of hope…

Published: 15 Sep 2025 at 21:57hrs | 42 | by Nomazulu Thata

South African Criminal Organization Exports 'Operation Dudula' to Zimbabwe

The female leader of Operation Dudula seems to believe violence is a badge of honour. She recently suggested that Operation Dudula should be exported to Zimbabwe to remove ZANU-PF. In South Africa, foreigners are treated like rats and mice…

Published: 11 Sep 2025 at 10:54hrs | 6 | by Nomazulu Thata

Strangely, Shonas Have Pardoned Chiwenga's Gukurahundi Atrocities

Binary positions often emerge in blame-shifting narratives. In most media outlets, Chiwenga has been nearly sanctified. Listening to Shona media, one hears reverence for Chiwenga - while Mnangagwa is cast as the villain. He's described as …

Published: 10 Sep 2025 at 08:51hrs | 281 | by Nomazulu Thata

Jonathan Moyo's Praise-Singing to Return: It's Cold Outside the ZANU PF Bubble

I strongly advise Jonathan Moyo never to make the mistake of thinking he can return to Zimbabwe. Makuruwane is still alive and kicking. Dr. Walter Mzembi's incarceration is a clear warning of what awaits Jonathan should he come back. Years…

Published: 05 Sep 2025 at 21:30hrs | 1675 | by Nomazulu Thata

Organized Crime Syndicates in Southern Africa: We Begin with Our Presidents!

To be politically correct, I will exclude African presidents who have served their citizens with great respect. My article responds to a piece on BYO24 today, which lamented crime syndicates in Southern Africa as if this were a new phenome…

Published: 03 Sep 2025 at 19:36hrs | 596 | by Nomazulu Thata

The Slightest Push of a Button: 'Sex' - A Commodified Female Body on Display

Tendai Mbofana's article today was a masterstroke. He is a shining star among gender critics - far surpassing many others we know but won't name. The title of his piece on BYO24, "Can it truly be called empowerment if women still believe t…

Published: 01 Sep 2025 at 21:09hrs | 969 | by Nomazulu Thata

Tembeka Nicolas Ngcukaitobi, your legal reputation could be on the line!

Having had the Lungu case decided conclusively in court by three judges, a sudden twist of events followed immediately after the ruling. The Lungu family must have prepared themselves for both outcomes - that they might win or lose. Bitter…

Published: 20 Aug 2025 at 21:10hrs | 636 | by Nomazulu Thata

How could Chiwenga be so near a religious institution

The Zimbabwean Catholic Church is compromised seriously! My reply to your article while still very fresh; about three hours old on Bulawayo 24 social media. I loved reading your input today regarding VP. Chiwenga, his deep connection with …

Published: 19 Aug 2025 at 07:15hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata

If Lord Mayor David Coltart dies, will his remains be sent to the UK for burial?

How many millions of white people are buried in Southern Rhodesia? It is indeed attention seeking to demand the removal of Cecil John Rhodes be repatriated to the UK. Following the logic carefully, are we to exhume all who were part of the…

Published: 13 Aug 2025 at 18:56hrs | 891 | by Nomazulu Thata

To be President is the highest job most Africans dream of

The best job an African dream of is to become a President: not medicine, not teaching, not becoming a university professor, not engineering or physicists, Chemists, social scientists or whatever. What if the young and hopeful Akot Emmanuel…

Published: 10 Aug 2025 at 15:50hrs | 247 | by Nomazulu Thata

Kemi Badenoch is bad enough: Thanks to Socialist East Germany: GDR!

I was about 22 years old when I landed in East Germany on scholarship to study metallurgy. To put everything into context, I was facilitated with a Zapu PF scholarship to study in East Germany, a socialist country back then. I must emphasi…

Published: 07 Aug 2025 at 17:10hrs | 389 | by Nomazulu Thata

How African dictators are groomed! Akot will be one!

When I saw Emmanuel Akot from Uganda talking to President Mnangagwa in Zimbabwe, I despaired. I could not help but said to myself: this is how dictators are born and nurtured in Africa. The young innocent boy soiled himself: the audience h…

Published: 07 Aug 2025 at 14:04hrs | 322 | by Nomazulu Thata

President Lungu murdered by drug cartels in South Africa?

As we wait for the court proceedings regarding Advocate Chagwa Lungu's resting place, so many conspiracy theories are unfolding, some of which are unsettling. Before South African courts on the 4th of August could legally determine the nex…

Published: 03 Aug 2025 at 19:32hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata

Operation Dudula perpetrating genocide: Black on Black violence in SA

Operation Dudula is hunting down people and killing them by burning and stabbing them to death. Zimbabweans, together with other foreign nationals, all blacks are hunted down by criminals - Operation Dudula in South Africa; ruthlessly murd…

Published: 30 Jul 2025 at 17:12hrs | 876 | by Nomazulu Thata

Constantine Chiwenga: get lost!

Mrs. Merry Chiwenga is a victim of Zanu PF dirty politics. The young woman was used to the point of becoming mad. She is accused of trying to murder Chiwenga: question is, who gave Merry orders to temper with the hospital gargets put on Ch…

Published: 29 Jul 2025 at 20:47hrs | 2051 | by Nomazulu Thata

Ramaphosa went to Ukraine & Russia to bring peace that is not in South Africa

Operation Dudula is upon us. Our Zimbabwean citizens are chased like they are rats and mice in their neighbourhoods. Who is my neighbour: asked the philosophy of UBUNTU. A fellow human being, seeking health assistance, is denied because sh…

Published: 29 Jul 2025 at 17:00hrs | 512 | by Nomazulu Thata

If Regimond Tagwirei became President, he will not steal much!

Stealing revenues in national coffers will continue if Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa became president. It is not the same if Regimond Tagwirei: In Zambia looting became a thing of the past when Hakainde Hichilema became president. Hich…

Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 16:07hrs | 546 | by Nomazulu Thata

Kembo Mohadi betrayed Matabeleland: Mthwakazi MRP is spot on!

Before he dies, Kembo Mohadi must be told how much he betrayed Ndebele people. To say it post humus is too late. His home region constitutes Matabeleland. Kembo must be told now that he will not be missed in Matabeleland and Midlands if he…

Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 16:05hrs | 617 | by Nomazulu Thata

How President Trump humiliated African Presidents in the White House!

That Trump has a low opinion of Africans generally is known and documented since 2016 when he was elected president of USA. It began with President Ramaphosa of South Africa. What was he doing in the White House? Did the exodus of Afrikane…

Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 12:39hrs | 1265 | by Nomazulu Thata

An open letter to Chimhama: are you in South Africa?

Dear Madam Chimhama, I hope I find you well, daughter of the African soil!I am writing this letter because I am deeply concerned about your utterances of violence in your video you made and was played in Point 5 Creatives studies plat…

Published: 16 Jul 2025 at 16:04hrs | 548 | by Nomazulu Thata

Edgar Lungu: untidy facts surrounding his burial place?

The death of former President of Zambia, Advocate Lungu is opening a can of worms. How did he get a Zimbabwean diplomatic green passport from Zimbabwe. This question must be asked by Zimbabweans too, how did got it? Surely, from the govern…

Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 10:17hrs | 1587 | by Nomazulu Thata

Pearls cast before a swine: does not know what to do with them

Power was trust upon him: Chamisa was literally given power by former President Tsvangirai on his death bed. He was terminally ill; it was a matter of days and hours; Tsvangirai died leaving Chamisa baptized at the helm of the Movement for…

Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 12:31hrs | 398 | by Nomazulu Thata

Jabulani Sibanda, you got it wrong about Zimbabwean tribalism

To appease tribalism in that manner will not be solving tribalism anyhow. The politician you are talking to is the worst tribalist and the core problem in Zimbabwe body politics. Jabulani, fighting tribalism does not mean surrendering to C…

Published: 26 Jun 2025 at 20:31hrs | 1669 | by Nomazulu Thata

The death of an African President: Advocate Edgar Lungu!

The philosophy of Ubuntu will not allow me to talk about former President Edgar Lungu using outdoor language. Africa is rid of a ruler that destroyed the image of the African continent; we are yet to recover from the mess Lungu left behind…

Published: 23 Jun 2025 at 10:48hrs | 500 | by Nomazulu Thata

Savage Africans want colonialist Leander Johnson's demarcations revisited!

They cannot peacefully coexist without Leander Johnson's demarcations between Ndebele and Shona nations! British colonialist Leander Johnson realized the animosities between Shona and Ndebele Kingdoms. He authorized Munyathi River as the p…

Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 15:59hrs | 514 | by Nomazulu Thata

What value systems, dignity and integrity does Mnangagwa know? Stuff and nonsense!

In Shona, I would have said: Ndiko kunonzi kujairira Vahnu uku! This man can just open his mouth wotanga kubukura, ogo bukura ogo bukura! A Portuguese adage says: even a small ass can do it if a stomachache needs to empty lower bowel produ…

Published: 29 May 2025 at 21:32hrs | 776 | by Nomazulu Thata

Celebrating 10 years of selective activism and ticking boxes!

It pains me when I find myself critiquing Zimbabwean women, especially organisations that want bring change in our broken-down system of fighting gender violence. Sometimes I find it inappropriate to respond to some of their media informat…

Published: 26 May 2025 at 22:15hrs | 674 | by Nomazulu Thata

Nyokayemabhunu will not survive!

About Nyokayemabhunu, it has become clear that he was sent by big people in politics to do the dirty work for them outside Zimbabwe. South Africa is a political haven for Zimbabweans; still has a modicum of democratic principles: a politic…

Published: 18 May 2025 at 18:11hrs | 3660 | by Nomazulu Thata

A letter to Sengezo Tshabangu

Dear cousin Sengezo Tshabangu,I need to explain why I address you as Mzala. Bulawayo is a village, I am sure you could be related to my cousins, Nomusa and Fikile Tshabangu: daughters of Aunt Jenat, the younger sister to my daddy; she marr…

Published: 15 May 2025 at 15:59hrs | 1378 | by Nomazulu Thata

A narrative is created around Mrs. Auxilia Mnangagwa!

Auxilia married a murderer Emmerson Mnangagwa, a minister for security back then who went on a killing frenzy in Matabeleland and Midlands and left a carnage, curiously never acknowledged by the ICJ in the Haig. He murdered indiscriminatel…

Published: 11 May 2025 at 13:32hrs | 975 | by Nomazulu Thata

We celebrate the release of the iconic Blessed Mhlanga!

People who believe in the dignity of mankind are happy today: Blessed Mhlanga is out of a notorious prison. Seeing him coming out of prison reminded me of Comrade Mandela, when he left Robbin Island for the first time after 27 years of inc…

Published: 09 May 2025 at 10:44hrs | 271 | by Nomazulu Thata

NTA, best solution for Zimbabwe! Geza group is saying Chunhu Chedu!

Master of Philosophies say the same thing: without the backing of intelligenzia, there can never be remarkable national development. A Geza revolution is not backed by intelligenzia but by pastors, Izangoma, and prophets equipped with bibl…

Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 09:01hrs | 708 | by Nomazulu Thata

Where is Nyokayemabhunu: the silence about him is Loud?

It is not only Nyokayemabhunu who has been used and quickly cast aside as a disposable. I listened carefully to Geza updating us about the demonstrations yesterday. Sadly, there was no mention of Nyokayemabhunu in his speech, no mention of…

Published: 25 Apr 2025 at 20:55hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata

Civil war: Not Matabele-Shona but Zezuru-Karanga infightings!

Now that the impeachment is dead on arrival, Geza has changed his modus operandi multiple times, he wants people to make stay-away protests. His statement has again changed, and it now says: stay aways means that there will be war, so peop…

Published: 23 Apr 2025 at 13:55hrs | 1643 | by Nomazulu Thata

Sick and tired of sweet-talking! Set 109 activists & Blessed Mhlanga free!

Nyokayemabhunu informed us, the demonstrations on the 31st of March will be safe: nobody will be hurt or arrested or gunned down by Mnangagwa army: he said, he is carrying a true voice from Geza, it will be safe to demonstrate. Contingenci…

Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 21:41hrs | 762 | by Nomazulu Thata

A letter to President Emmerson Mnangagwa

Dear President Mnangagwa, President Mnangagwa, please release Blessed Mhlanga and 109 activists incarcerated in Zimbabwe prisons. I believe prisons are for people who have committed crimes in various degrees, according to the law, are unfi…

Published: 09 Apr 2025 at 12:31hrs | 1381 | by Nomazulu Thata

109 Geza31 demo activists arrested! Nyokayemabhunu, Geza, tell us, what are you doing about it?

The government of Zimbabwe gave SADC & South Africa feedback about the effects of Geza M31st demonstration that was quiet, with sporadic incidences, and insignificant. But 109 activists were arrested and are facing charges of causing m…

Published: 05 Apr 2025 at 19:40hrs | 1196 | by Nomazulu Thata

An 80-year-old Geza should have known better! Thank you, citizens, for your wisdom!

It is desperation to hope for a successful revolution championed by Geza, fronting his boss Chiwenga. The demonstrations yesterday were a complete debacle. I said this before in one of my articles about Geza: for him to lead a revolution i…

Published: 01 Apr 2025 at 18:37hrs | 2123 | by Nomazulu Thata

Geza's selective apology fails to extend the same for Gukurahundi atrocities

Geza apologizes unreservedly for the atrocities he and war veterans committed between the year 2000 and 2008 and he stops there: Gukurahundi atrocities are consciously excluded for fear of opening a pandora box; exposing his choice of pres…

Published: 28 Mar 2025 at 21:13hrs | 1615 | by Nomazulu Thata

Will Geza demonstrations take place in Berlin-Brandenburg Gate or Harare?

I am deeply suspicious about the elaborate preparations regarding demonstrations on the 31st of March. Complete demo details from A to Zee are now in the public domain. I get a brain spasm when I think about the coming demonstrations. Was …

Published: 23 Mar 2025 at 19:56hrs | 1441 | by Nomazulu Thata

Only Now, they can speak IsiNdebele!

Gone are the days when Shona people had visceral hatred of IsiNdebele. Instantly the so-called revolutionaries realize the advantages of speaking multiple languages that could be of benefit to the current regime change efforts. It amuses u…

Published: 21 Mar 2025 at 17:05hrs | 1839 | by Nomazulu Thata

Will Blessed Geza lead the planned 31st March demonstrations?

Anticipation can be a nervous expectation. Even in situations where there is zero hope of success, out of desperation we cling on to it. We have been subjected to ignorance, how this revolution is going to unfold. How will this kinetic for…

Published: 18 Mar 2025 at 18:21hrs | 2962 | by Nomazulu Thata

Choosing Chiwenga to replace Mnangagwa is like a mouse telling a black mamba bites better than a green mamba!

I wonder still if I could have said it better than this! (Wilbert Mukori's last article on BYO 24) Zimbabwean GenZs are a problem, not a solution. They will muddle with water instead of coming up with practical political solutions: Politic…

Published: 16 Mar 2025 at 15:13hrs | 1297 | by Nomazulu Thata

Mnangagwa successfully thwarted a premature revolution! We waited for a Geza signal that would never come!

There is open disdain in all societies about how President Mnangagwa failed the people. At the same time the open discussions about a rift between Chiwenga and Mnangagwa is known; hostilities are playing out in the public. After the electi…

Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 20:32hrs | 1805 | by Nomazulu Thata

Ã‰clat Chimhama & Rumbie: One's hysteria, pacified by man's presence in bed and the other, perceived deprived!

I will leave out the causes of their tongue lashings: what is interesting is the language use. I will start with Chimhama whose eloquent speeches and her facial beauty do not escape me.  The woman is gifted and talented in the sense o…

Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 16:24hrs | 356 | by Nomazulu Thata

If revolutionist Che Guevara rose from the dead in Zimbabwe, listens to Zim-GenZs rumbling on social media?

Che will collapse, but before he dies again, he will wish never to wake up again. The caliber of our revolutionaries falls far short of what a revolution is and about. The combination of bible verses and "change champions" mantras is inter…

Published: 08 Feb 2025 at 19:37hrs | 690 | by Nomazulu Thata

Chamisa disregards Gukurahundi: now fights in cahoots with Genocide perpetrator Chiwenga

This visceral loathing of Ndebele people. We have been saying multiple times that Chamisa is connected to Chiwenga and Zanu PF at several levels. Chatufa TV channels confirmed our fears about Chamisa's connection to Chiwenga. Chamisa has b…

Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 21:42hrs | 1254 | by Nomazulu Thata

Ncube and Chamisa are one coin with two sides: Gugugu Magorira

Please do not play with our intelligence. Welshman Ncube is the worst politician we can think of today. Ncube is part of the problem too, just like Chamisa. Professor Mandaza told Chamisa to come clean and tell us why he left the CCC leade…

Published: 19 Jan 2025 at 19:50hrs | 715 | by Nomazulu Thata

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