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Chief Khayisa' s widow honoured with a State-assisted funeral
THE widow of the late Chief Khayisa Ndiweni, Gogo Agnes Masuku-Ndiweni was last Thursday laid to rest at the family cemetery in Ntabazinduna.She was honoured with a State-assisted funeral. Gog...Published: 13 hrs ago | 758 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown of Zim will starve citizens - Policy analyst
Policy Analyst Batler Tambo has warned that if Zimbabwe implement a lock down due to Covid-19, citizens most of them who rely on informal trading with starve to death as there are no any other means o...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 07:39hrs | 1561 | by Stephen Jakes
Death row inmate challenges sentence at Supreme Court
A LUPANE man who was sentenced to death in 2014 for killing two workmates at the late Vice-President John Nkomo's Winterblock Farm in Insuza in Matabeleland North has approached the Supreme Court chal...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 20:13hrs | 1496 | by Staff reporter
Artisanal miners up for murder
TWO artisanal miners at Fort Rixon in Matabeleland South allegedly assaulted a villager to death with an okapi knife and electrical cord in a dispute over an unspecified issue.Kwanele Promise ...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:27hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
Chief Gwesela distressed over Coronavirus
Zhombe chief Ntabazinduna Wait Gwesela expressed his distress over coronavirus speaking from his homestead in Zhombe today.Gwesela highlighted how unprepared he is to curb the virus not to aff...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 18:59hrs | 1307 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Zimbabwe Space dream edges closer
ZIMBABWE has taken another step towards realisation of a vision to launch its satellites into space after finalising a $25 million agreement to upgrade the TelOne Satellite Centre in Mazowe and improv...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:28hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
Police working with illegal miners at Mazowe mine
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Support Unit has been accused of working in cahoots with illegal miners at Mazowe mine despite the on-going "Operation Chikorokoza ngachipere" which has seen a...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 13:43hrs | 878 | by Simbarashe Sithole
ZAPU mourns the passing of chief Ndiweni's mother
Zimbabwe African People's Union has joined the families of Masuku, Ndiweni and indeed Nhlambabaloyi in Ntabazinduna on the untimely passing on of Mama Masuku, widow of late Chief Khayisa Ndiweni and m...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 08:52hrs | 1377 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa mourns Ndiweni matriarch
President Mnangagwa has mourned the late Chief Khayisa Ndiweni's widow, Indlovukazi Agnes Masuku Ndiweni, who died after a short illness yesterday. She was mother to dethroned "Chief" Felix Nhlanhlaya...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 06:13hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's sends condolence message on death of Chief Ndiweni's mother
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sent a condolence message to the Ndiweni family following the passing on of Indlovukazi Agnes Masuku Ndiweni the widow of the late chief Khayisa Ndiweni.We pre...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 21:28hrs | 2902 | by Staff reporter
Chief Ndiweni's mother dies
DETHRONED Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni's mother, Agnes Masuku died on Wednesday after a short-illness.Masuku was aged 96.Her death will come as an even heavier blow to the Ndiw...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 11:31hrs | 2564 | by Staff reporter
Bakers send SOS to Government
The Bakers Association of Zimbabwe (BAZ )wants the Government to extend the period it granted them to import flour and to contract farmers to grow more wheat this winter season to boost local supplies...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 06:28hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
Circus reigns supreme in Zimbabwe parliament
This aptly sums up what characterises most sessions of the National Assembly.Usually, on Wednesdays the National Assembly will be packed to the rafters as MPs get a chance to raise questions w...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 17:45hrs | 1420 | by Staff reporter
'Dr Joshua Nkomo happy with Mnangagwa'
There is no better joy to loyalists of nationalism than having Zimbabwe's 40th Independence anniversary being celebrated in Bulawayo. The City of Kings and Queens is the birthplace of the late Dr Josh...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 08:54hrs | 441 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Zimbabwe bank charges surge 900%
Zimbabwe's inflation is further expected to spiral upwards after local banks hiked transactional charges by as much as 900% as pressure mounts on the financial intermediaries to pay United States domi...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 07:10hrs | 3285 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed for stabbing a villager at beer drinking party
A man from Gwenyukwenyu village in Ntabazinduna has been sentenced to six months in jail for stabbing a villager with an okapi knife in a quarrel over unspecified issue during a beer drinking party....Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 14:45hrs | 573 | by Stephen Jakes
Land barons clash over stands
A DZIVARASEKWA housing co-operative faction leader, Simba Moyo, last week appeared in court charged with fraud after being accused of misrepresenting that he was chairperson of Nehanda Housing Co-oper...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 08:04hrs | 903 | by Staff reporter
Nhlanhla Ndiweni berates Mnangagwa's govt
Outspoken Ntabazinduna Chief, Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni, has lambasted the government for failing to designate community radio stations to Ndebele communities.He defined this segregation ...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 07:17hrs | 1988 | by Staff reporter
Ntabazinduna man steals sheep...family complains of eating vegetables
A Ntabazinduna man was arrested by the police for stock theft after sneaking into his neighbors' kraal and slaughtering a sheep. The accused person (known as Vusumuzi) from Bhekeni village und...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 07:12hrs | 1586 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Banks, money transfer agencies clash
Banks and money transfer agencies traded accusations in Parliament on Monday over an uneven playing field. Bankers Association of Zimbabwe (BAZ) accused money transfer agencies such as EcoCash, One Mo...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 07:49hrs | 867 | by Staff reporter
The Politics of Being and Identity
The politics of being and that of identity are as old as humanity. People are not objects that are just freely floating in the air and rolling on the ground. We are subjects that are named and...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 08:49hrs | 124 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Felix Ndiweni remains Chief Khayisa
The decision by ZANU-PF to remove Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Felix Ndiweni as Chief Khayisa is of no consequence, neither does it have any effect in as far as the people of Ntabazinduna, myself and ...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:31hrs | 1267 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Nhlanhla Ndiweni's hidden agenda to appease his handlers exposed
The collective voice of condemnation of the mischievous statement by the dethroned former Chief of Ntabazinduna must be amplified for the record. In not hidden agenda to appease his handlers in Chamis...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 08:44hrs | 1366 | by Qinisela Dube
Growing up eMalokishini back in the day
Cotton farmers made headlines this week for the wrong reasons. The merchants allege that the farmers are adding weight to their bales of cotton by hiding a few stones inside.I could not help but s...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 18:12hrs | 740 | by Wlliam Phiri
Pressure from children for meat prompt man to steal neighbour's sheep
A Ntabazinduna man has appeared in court for stealing and slaughtering a neighbour' sheep after his children pressed him that they wanted meat....Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 06:37hrs | 1318 | by Stephen Jakes
ZBC monopoly to be broken
The government on Thursday took the first step to break the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Cooperation's television monopoly by inviting applications for six new free-to-air commercial TV licences.The ...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 06:36hrs | 2790 | by Staff reporter
Be transparent on TV, radio licence issuances, BAZ told
MEDIA stakeholders have called for transparency in the issuing of television and community radio licences to ensure pluralism in the media and avert a monopoly by appendages of political parties....Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:55hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter
BAZ calls for community radio and television licence applications
THE Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) has made a call for applications from Zimbabweans wishing to operate community radio, television and campus stations.Six free to air national comme...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:38hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
Is the New Dispensation keen on devolution?
It should be recalled that the nationalist struggle's main focus was the achievement of an electoral system with one person one vote as its basis and the resultant establishment of a newly independent...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:25hrs | 106 | by Vivian Viyo Siziba
Mnangagwa playing dangerous gukurahundi games in Matabeleland - we see blood on the floor
This has to be put as crude as it is. Mnangagwa, Zanu-PF government and the Shona majority that cheered the Zimbabwe National Army 5th Brigade and celebrated the death of innocent Matebeles in the 198...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 09:08hrs | 4863 | by Israel Dube
Black uMfolosi sends message of condolence to late Joseph Shabala's family
It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the death of Joseph Shabalala, a leading Isicathamiya musician and a greatest leader of our times, and who has greatly influenced the Isicathamiya music...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 18:24hrs | 823 | by Black uMfolosi
Mnangagwa grilled over gukurahundi genocide
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa had a torrid time Friday at the Bulawayo State House as members of the Matabeleland Civic Society demanded answers on how the government would bring closure to the Gukurah...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:09hrs | 147 | by newzimbabwe
6 TV licences issued to independent players
Government will have issued six television licences to independent players by August to improve diversity in information dissemination as the new administration liberalises the airwaves, Information, ...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:03hrs | 426 | by Staff reportert
'Killer' cops abscond trial
TWO detectives, who are part of a group of eight police officers accused of fatally assaulting two armed robbery suspects before shooting their bodies and claiming that they were shot while flee...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1412 | by Staff reporter
Man stabs villager in a quarrel at a beer drinking party
A 31-YEAR-OLD man from Ntabazinduna in Matabeleland North stabbed a villager with a knife over a quarrel during a beer drinking party at Gwenyukwenyu village.This was heard by the Bulawayo mag...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 12:19hrs | 824 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa meets Bulawayo's divided structures
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa will today meet the party's divided structures in Bulawayo, as part of efforts to mend rifts which have cost them votes in the past elections, Southern Eye has learnt....Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 06:06hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
Black Mambazo's Joseph Shabalala dies
Reports coming from South Africa have confirmed that Ladysmith Black Mambazo founder Joseph Shabalala has died after a long illness at Eugune Marais Hospital in Pretoria.Speaking to South ...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 09:07hrs | 2808 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREXIT like Britain or breakaway like Matabeleland
Undoubtedly, the resounding success of BREXIT shows that many nations under the sun, big or small, are now seeking to restore or maintain their independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and be ...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 10:10hrs | 1159 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe community radio sparks tribal debate
SHANGANI community members in Chikombedzi have accused non-Shangani speaking people of elbowing them out of and hijacking developmental programmes, allegedly with the blessing of government officials....Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 10:04hrs | 1106 | by Staff reporter
'Matabeleland Collective was a Mnangagwa scam' Jonathan Moyo says
Former Minister of information Professor Jonathan Moyo says the now-defunct Matabeleland Collective was a creation of President Emmerson Mnangagwa to cover up for the Gukurahundi genocide that l...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 07:03hrs | 2067 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Who's taking the Zanu-PF young Turks seriously?
Something is awkward here. How come, whenever people from Zanu-PF and their cronies start talking about corruption, many things stop making sense?Well, they say corruption is to Zanu-PF what water...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 06:12hrs | 493 | by Tawanda Majoni
Muchinguri disowns illegal miners
ZANU-PF Chairperson and Minister of Defence Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has rubbished claims that she was sponsoring illegal gold panners in Penhalonga.The minister further warned gold panners ag...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 17:47hrs | 1798 | by Staff reporter
Duo steal solar panel worth $15 000
TWO men from Ntabazinduna in Matabeleland North appeared in court for allegedly stealing a solar panel worth $15 000 from a homestead.Brian Sibanda (27) and Mkhokheli Ndlovu (20) appeared befo...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 09:52hrs | 991 | by Stephen Jakes
Govt firm on community radio stations establishment
GOVERNMENT has said it has taken a firm decision to give marginalised communities a voice through the establishment of community radio stations this year, a development which is also in line with the ...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:02hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
10 community radio stations on the cards
Government is working on establishing 10 new community radio stations countrywide in the first quarter to empower marginalised communities through universal access to information. The pilot pr...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 05:35hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa goes after makorokoza
OPERATION Chikorokoza Ngachipere that is being spearheaded by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to end illegal mining activities has been taken to Manicaland province, Mutasa district where hundreds ...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 13:21hrs | 4193 | by Staff reporter
Is the new dispensation keen on devolution?
It should be recalled that the nationalist struggle's main focus was the achievement of an electoral system with one person one vote as its basis and the resultant establishment of a newly independent...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 13:45hrs | 488 | by Vivian Viyo Siziba
Chamisa's MDC in solidarity rally for 'Chief' Ndiweni
THE MDC is planning a solidarity rally for ousted Ntabazinduna chief, Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni, NewZimbabwe.com reported.Ndiweni is currently in the United Kingdom where he is set to und...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 09:02hrs | 1792 | by newzimbabwe
Dethroned Nhlanhla Ndiweni off to UK
DETHRONED Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni of Ntabazinduna, Matabeleland North, has left the country for the United Kingdom for a cataract operation, Southern Eye has heard.Cataract surgery is a...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 07:33hrs | 9099 | by Staff reporter
'Chief' Ndiweni unites MDC
THE MDC Matabeleland North and Bulawayo provincial structures have "temporarily" buried their differences to support the under-fire Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni with a solidarity rally planned for n...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:28hrs | 3104 | by Staff reporter
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