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Verwoerd's grandson in new parliamentary role thanks to Ramaphosa
Wynand Boshoff, grandson of 'apartheid architect' Hendrik Verwoerd, will report to a new parliamentary leader as the Freedom Front (FF) Plus announces that Pieter Groenewald's appointment as Minister ...Published: 25 Jul 2024 at 09:43hrs | 735 | by Staff reporter
King Lobhengula: The Statesman Par Excellence
The man who is credited to have expanded Buthwakazi until it covered virtually the whole of Budlanondo (present day Zimbabwe and parts of present day Botswana) is King Lobhengula (named after Prince N...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 17:31hrs | 18 | by George Mkhwanazi
Can Afrikaners save South Africa?
I AM not a South African, so I venture into their space with trepidation because I know how sensitive these things are. But I am an African and a keen observer of events that affect all of us who live...Published: 24 May 2023 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross
Cowboy country
I DO not get away very often but right now I am in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, which is my wife's home base. We have not been here for seven years and the changes and challengers are very visible....Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:26hrs | 7 | by Eddie Cross
Lesotho demand its land from South Africa
Lesotho's parliament has debated a motion to claim huge swathes of territory from its much larger neighbour, South Africa.An opposition MP wants to declare Free State and parts of four other p...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 17:17hrs | | by BBC
This & that with Mal'phosa: The endangered species
I have a feeling the Ndebele language is endangered - and we, the custodians of the language by right of being senior citizens - are not helping the situation in any way. How would you feel if you wer...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 11:04hrs | 1 | by Clerk Ndlovu
SA army tells Afrikaner rights organisation to back off border areas
THE South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has told AfriForum that safeguarding and patrolling the country's borders is its responsibility and not for "any other non-State groupings or groups"....Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Colleen Bawn segregation: Spacious and crammed villages
VICTORIAN style houses surrounded by beautiful greenery on cosmic pieces of land characterised Village 1, a gated community for the white minority living in Colleen Bawn, Matabeleland South before the...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:31hrs | | by Yoliswa Dube-Moyo
Mtshana Khumalo: The general who outfoxed villain Allan Wilson
A MILITARY tactician, General Mtshana Khumalo, commanded an elite group of fighters tasked with safeguarding King Lobengula's life and dignity as he trekked north at the height of the Matabele War of ...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:27hrs | 10 | by Elliot Ziwira
New Gates Foundation trustee led plot to overthrow Zim leader alongside US
WHILE Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa, recently appointed to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to add his other high-profile board appointments such as at Rockefeller Foundation, is a rol...Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lindiwe Sisulu hits back at Zondo
Less than a week ago, I published an opinion piece that captures the importance of where ordinary South Africans find themselves.This opinion piece is my contribution to a conversing South Afr...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:35hrs | | by Lindiwe Sisulu
Apartheid leader De Klerk to be burnt
The funeral of South Africa's last white president, Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk, who died last Thursday aged 85, will take place on November 21 in a private ceremony, his foundation said in a statem...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sanctions: Politics of sabotage in 'Jambanja'
The opening chapter of Eric Harrison's memoir, "Jambanja" (2006) is telling in that it places Zimbabwe in the context of the many sanctions the country had been exposed to, either by the United Nation...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:29hrs | 6 | by Elliot Ziwira
South Africa: Is the Rainbow fading away?
Geographically, South Africa is another country, apart and distinct from our Zimbabwe. Experientially, South Africa is all Southern African countries, Zimbabwe especially. A whirlpool of event...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF dares SA, Botswana
THE ruling Zanu-PF has pooh-poohed on the ongoing mediation efforts by fellow liberation movements in the region to resolve Zimbabwe's political logjam, with the party's national political commissar V...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malema is a political delinquent, says Zanu-PF commissar
The Zanu-PF politburo member and national political commissar Victor Matemadanda yesterday attacked South African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema, labelling him a polit...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 00:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Charamba torches a storm by 'insulting' a South African journalist
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba yesterday torched a storm when he "insulted" South African journalist Sophie Mokoena following their protracted debate on South Africa's inv...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cannot last as a unitary state - MIOR
More evidence gathered by the Mthwakazi Institute of Research reveals further that the State or Country known in the world as Zimbabwe cannot last longer as a unitary entity. Tracing back from the day...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Mthwakazi Institute of Research
Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland
While I was going through my archives I came across the Election Manifesto below. Quite interesting.PATRIOTIC UNION OF MANDEBELELAND (PUMA)ELECTION MANIFES...Published: 21 May 2019 at 12:35hrs | 9 | by PUMA
A letter to Mugabe that could have changed the course of Zimbabwe's history
An Eritrean diplomat friend sent the attached letter to me last night and I was blown away by how prophetic it was to Zimbabwe's situation, and how if Robert Mugabe had applied the advice given to him...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 15:22hrs | 2 | by An introduction by Hopewell Chin'ono
Chamisa is a very bad and poor chip off the Tsvangirai block
Mario Vargas Llosa, the world-famed Peruvian writer, penned a small, but sweet collection of incisive essays titled "A Writer's Reality." My favourite from that collection is "Novels Disguised". Its a...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:13hrs | | by Igomombe
Zimbabwe's uncertainties clouding everyone's vision
SOMETIMES in this game, the safest route into the immediate future is to keep your head down and wait for the dust to clear before looking over the wall to see what has happened. It is impossible to p...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:14hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Umthwakazi: Honouring the San (Abathwa) who tamed the land
TODAY'S article is the last in a detour we took to prepare for the continuation of visits to the Ndebele State by London Missionary Society (LMS) Reverend Dr Robert Moffat. His last trip to King Mzili...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:27hrs | | by Pathisa Nyathi
Mugabe's hero worshippers' message to South Africans
Here's something about the continent of Africa I've been wrestling with for some time: a political leader can have tens of thousands of his citizens murdered and destroy his country's economy, but he ...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 08:42hrs | | by Max Du Preez
Whites should not play victim
I'm an Afrikaner of Free State farm stock, the descendant of Voortrekkers and Boer warriors (and concentration camp survivors) during the South African War - Du Preezs, Krugers, Van der Walts, Saayman...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 08:55hrs | | by Max Du Preez
WATCH: Malema threatens Afrikaner men
Julius Malema of the EFF gave a stern warning to Afrikaners men.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9vUZ20Mlr4...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 20:15hrs | | by youtube
Ndebeles are divisive
Over a 1000 years ago three of my distant relatives who were tribal leaders on the Scottish Border with England, were taken prisoner by English troops and hanged for treason. Their crime? Supporting R...Published: 02 Oct 2017 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross
Reflections on tribalism in Zimbabwe
OVER a 1000 years ago three of my distant relatives who were tribal leaders on the Scottish Border with England, were taken prisoner by English troops and hanged for treason. Their crime? Supporting R...Published: 01 Oct 2017 at 12:04hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross is MDC MP for Bulawayo South
'Youth empowerment, Govt priority,' says Mugabe
Government is rolling out a cocktail of economic empowerment interventions to facilitate the integration of young people into mainstream economic activities and establish their position as the foundat...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 09:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
The time for compromise and accommodation in South Africa is over
Many years ago we were discussing our future National Anthem in the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ANC. On invitation from President Mandela, Professor Mzilikazi Khumalo's proposed renderin...Published: 27 Apr 2017 at 11:34hrs | | by Carl Niehaus
Myth or reality: The raid by Ndebeles of Shona cattle and women
A lot has been said recently about alleged raids carried out by the Ndebele State on their then neighbours in 19th century. I say alleged because while some think it is a forgone conclusion that the r...Published: 18 Mar 2017 at 06:59hrs | 34 | by Velempini Ndlovu
Afrikaners threaten SA govt with war for land
The group also said lack of action against farm murders would be seen 'as an act of hostility against the white population'.The fight for the land ownership is reaching heated levels appar...Published: 05 Mar 2017 at 15:46hrs | | by Citizen
Makarau's 'station-specific' voting is as sadistic as Afrikaners' 'right to starve' to Biko
For those of us old enough to have lived through the years of white colonial oppression and exploitation one of the things the whites loved doing was to take a serious concern of the blacks and mockin...Published: 16 Oct 2016 at 20:55hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Bad governance keeps secessionist movements in Africa alive
In 1981 African leaders met in the Gambian capital,Banjul where they adopted the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights.But the so-called Banjul Charter has largely been ignored by Africa...Published: 26 Sep 2016 at 10:27hrs | 5 | by Thabo Kunene
I want change - Zanu PF loyalist in the diaspora
A disgruntled diaspora based Zanu PF loyalist Rutendo Benson Matinyarare has revealed that despite being a supporter of the ruling party he eagerly wants change and was tired of trying to survive in t...Published: 23 Jul 2016 at 07:52hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Jacob Zuma investigated for hate speech, after telling the truth
President Jacob Zuma has until July 4 to respond to complaints of hate speech laid against him at the Human Rights Commission by the Freedom Front Plus."I can confirm that several complaints w...Published: 19 Jun 2016 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rapists, be warned, Mugabe is coming after you!
President Mugabe has reiterated that rapists, especially those who abuse minors, do not have a place in society and hinted they will soon be dealt with using measures commensurate with their diabolic ...Published: 19 Jun 2016 at 12:15hrs | | by Levi Mukarati
King Zwelithini did not praise apartheid
THE storm had barely passed over King Goodwill Zwelithini’s alleged xenophobic rant when Mzansi’s best-paid monarch dropped another bomb!This time even his diehard supporters might find i...Published: 10 Dec 2015 at 12:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean politics in underwear moments
In the opinion of philosophers, Man the angriest and the saddest of all animals invented laughter to cushion himself from the pains of the universe. Man has invented gods, music, dancing and beer...Published: 10 Aug 2015 at 14:02hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwean politics in underwear moments
In the opinion of philosophers, Man the angriest and the saddest of all animals invented laughter to cushion himself from the pains of the universe. Man has invented gods, music, dancing and beer to ...Published: 10 Aug 2015 at 13:30hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Afrikaners forgot they had a home in Holland, says Mugabe
He astounded and amused the media, who he called comrades, with long chats about various topics, and thanked them for the "publicity'" about him."You focused on me as a real dictator. Yes. A d...Published: 08 Apr 2015 at 17:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
We are not debating with you Nathaniel Manheru
Last week I responded in part to Nathaniel Manheru's article of December 27 in which he described the people of Matabeleland as cry babies and described the Gukurahundi atrocities of theeighti...Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 04:16hrs | 5 | by Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo
Mugabe and his wife Grace are terrified people
An observant student of power and its effects, the late French philosopher Michel Foucault noted that "we are subjected to the production of truth through power" and that "we cannot exercise power exc...Published: 02 Nov 2014 at 19:43hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Inside Mugabe's sealed succession envelope: Fear, self assassinations and a coup
An observant student of power and its effects, the late French philosopher Michel Foucault noted that "we are subjected to the production of truth through power" and that "we cannot exercise powe...Published: 01 Nov 2014 at 08:36hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
USA created Al-Qaeda and the ISIS terror group
MUCH like Al Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS) is made-in-the-USA, an instrument of terror designed to divide and conquer the oil-rich Middle East and to counter Iran's growing influence in the region. ...Published: 23 Sep 2014 at 08:01hrs | 6 | by Garikai Chengu
Origins of the name KoBulawayo
"IT is my job to declare the town open. Gentlemen I don't think we want to waste any talk on it. I make the declaration now. There is plenty of whiskey and soda inside so come in."These histor...Published: 21 Apr 2014 at 14:17hrs | | by Bulawayo @120 Pathisa Nyathi
Kenneth Kaunda hospitalised
Zambia's founding father and former president Kenneth Kaunda was taken to hospital on Sunday, but is said to be in good spirits, the government said.President Michael Sata visited his pred...Published: 24 Feb 2014 at 13:37hrs | | by AFP
Can Africa produce another Mandela?
MTHATHA - As tributes continue to pour in for the departed global icon and great son of Africa, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, I have been asking myself whether the continent will be able to produce anoth...Published: 19 Dec 2013 at 05:50hrs | | by Thabo Kunene
South Africa unveils nine-metre statue in honour of Mandela
A nine-metre statue of in honour of Nelson Mandela has been unveiled on a day of rest dedicated to reconciliation, 24 hours after the solemn burial of the icon credited with ending racial segregation ...Published: 16 Dec 2013 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
When even a Devil cries 'Amen'
We are headed for very interesting times I tell you. The MDCs do not want elections before or by June 29, which is when the life of Parliament extinguishes itself. Yet they harp on laws which need rea...Published: 18 May 2013 at 04:37hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
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