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Know your history:- Filabusi Memorial and the Edkins Store killings
Why Visit?: - This historic site remembers one of the earliest European murders of the Matabele Rebellion or First Umvukela of 1896. There seems no doubt that the initial killings occurred on ...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 15:48hrs | 534 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa must expand Lady R probe to include Nato
SOUTH Africa's sovereignty stands in the dock. Whether we emerge as truly autonomous before the eyes of the world – the jury is out. Recent events that have pitted our country against the might of t...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 17:05hrs | 9 | by Abbey Makoe
Deputy minister's remarks frightening
I was expecting people like Dr Masimba Mavaza to come out guns blazing to condemn the remarks by Deputy Minister Energy Mutodi that alleged that Zimbabwe accommodated South Africans and allowed them t...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 09:03hrs | | by Lizwe Dube
The Chief can do no wrong
In Nguni "inkosi ayoni" the Chief can do no wrong. This is derived from the concept that all decisions made by the Chief represent the collective wisdom and aspirations of his people. Unlike a Judge t...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 09:07hrs | | by L Dube
Chief Ndiweni's dilemma: A balanced analysis
The obfuscation of issues seems to have reached unprecedented levels and it is therefore necessary for sober voices and sound arguments to be part of the national discourse to preclude the noise from ...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 08:46hrs | | by L Dube
How Matebeleland could immediately prosper itself
Matebeleland is the most potentially wealthiest Nation in the entire Southern Hemisphere of this planet. What we need to do, to tap into that wealth, are a few simple, but educated steps.The f...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Multiverse Dungani
I've no problem with Bev: Harpers' wife
While very few ladies can trust Beverly "Bev" Sibanda with their husbands, Harpers Mapimhidze's wife says she has no problem with the dancer being with her hubby.Mapimhidze has been Bev’s ma...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 09:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa will win Nobel Award if he delivers
A political analyst Isaya Ndawana has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa will win a Nobel Prize if he delvers on a free and fair elections."His Excellent E. D. Mnangagwa will get a Nobel Awa...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mzilikazi: A Mountain Falls
Each of our public holidays has a special meaning - a particular reason for its existence. Heritage Day, which South Africans celebrate every year on September 24, is no different. The day has been se...Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 09:17hrs | 2 | by City press
The Ncube Clan: a Tale of Kalanga Origins
THE REBIRTH OF BUKALANGA: A GREAT NATION Since the publication of my book, The Rebirth of BuKalanga, a lot of interest has been generated in Kalanga ide...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 17:15hrs | 519 | by Ndzimu-Unami Emmanuel Moyo
Chipanga joins Assegai Crew
SUNGURA maestro Hosiah Chipanga's son, Donewell ‘Curtis Mayne' Chipanga, has joined top local group Assegai Crew.The young Chipanga - a song writer, rapper and music producer - also plays th...Published: 07 Sep 2017 at 14:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
White Propaganda: Hellen deZille, and Colonialism's intra generational theft and insult
The world heard Helen DeZille premier of the Western Cape province of South Africa stand up for white supremacy when she tweeted early inn the morning on 16th March 2017 that "For those claimi...Published: 24 Apr 2017 at 09:57hrs | | by Bhekuzulu Khumalo
Political agent provocateurs have been unleashed, Mthwakazi!
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" - Mahatma GandhiThe 'mocking you' stage is set to end soon enough, and to give way to the 'fighting you' stag...Published: 16 Dec 2016 at 20:56hrs | | by Xoxani Ngxoxo
The Shutdown
Firstly greetings from the cyber terrorist, the bridge dealer, in the dusty ghetto streets of Zimbabwe. The land of vendors and home to ZIMASSET.I write to you today humbled by the task before...Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 20:30hrs | | by Barney Tinarwo
A bumper season of ‘Unholy Alliances' - An Mthwakazi-Zanu-PF is one too?
Commonly, in these difficult and challenging times Mthwakazi - in this endgame - we are not only faced with what is happening and what should happen, but crucially, with what we should do ourselves to...Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 07:56hrs | | by Xoxani Ngxoxo
Gringo hits out at Baba Tencen
Veteran comedian Lazarus Boora, affectionately known as Gringo says there is need for a paradigm shift in how people do comedy in the era of social media to avoid infantilising the trade.In a ...Published: 19 Jun 2016 at 12:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
'WE' Khumalos are sorry for the genocide presided by our forefathers
Our fore-father and one of the most illustrious leaders to ever evolve in Africa Mzilikazi created the problems for us from onset. I always wish if he had been loyal to king Shaka we could be a better...Published: 02 Dec 2015 at 16:00hrs | 3 | by Bhekifa Mtungwa Khumalo
Baboon with the smell of a white man
YOU cannot help but admire American choreography. At the start of this month they had a hearing on Zimbabwe, itself an opportunity for demonstrating how much they stand in loco parentis to all of us t...Published: 27 Jun 2015 at 20:11hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Unclothed sangoma caught in city bar
A female traditional healer was caught red handed with no clothes on armed with a assegai and oxtail busy performing rituals at a bar in the early hours of the morningThe shocking incident hap...Published: 17 Apr 2015 at 12:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The future of opposition politics in Zimbabwe with Dr Tsvangirai
My good friend from Zambia once recounted to me a stormy encounter between President Sata and a dismissed senior Patriotic Front party official who proceeded to join the opposition Movement for Multip...Published: 19 Jul 2014 at 10:17hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
The day Charamba fell pregnant
Putting your ideas in the public domain always has its pains. You are called names, given jabbing identities, misread...you name it. And you have to bear it all, meekly as behoves a humble columnist. ...Published: 27 Feb 2013 at 04:27hrs | 3 | by Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side
Inside the Great Nation of Bukalanga: A Definition of Bukalanga vis-à-vis the Ndebele, Shona and Ngwato
For most of the time in the past 200 years, the peoples of Bukalanga have been treated as a sub-ethnicity of the Ndebele, the Ngwato and the Shona. We also raised the point that the Great Nation of B...Published: 29 Apr 2012 at 22:58hrs | 45 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo
When Rhodesia coils through lasting myths
TODAY is April 14, a mere four days away from yet another 18th April, the day we commemorate our birthday as an independent, sovereign nation.The year for that momentous event was of course 19...Published: 14 Apr 2012 at 14:24hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Manicaland Chibuku road to fame a success
SUNRISE Jazz Band emerged the winners of the Manicaland provincial Chibuku Road to Fame competitions held at Dangamvura Hotel on Saturday.The group walked away with the coveted US$1 000 prize ...Published: 14 Jun 2011 at 05:51hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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