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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 | 540 | by Staff reporter
Augustine Chihuri's book has no useful history of policing in Zimbabwe
The History of Policing in Zimbabwe by Augustine Chihuri is a disappointing and poorly written book that fails to provide any meaningful insight into the evolution of the police force in the coun...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 11:54hrs | 15 | by Tatenda Mashanda
Umkhonto weSizwe fighter will never forget what a white man told him in Zimbabwe in 1980
I have no idea whether the white man I am writing about is still alive or not. He gave me an understanding of what actually happened to us Africans, and how sinister it was, when we were colonized. Hi...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 13:11hrs | 15 | by Thula Bopela
Killer cop hit with another charge
MURDER suspect, Jaison Muvevi who made headlines last week after he shooting and killing three people, including a police officer in Wedza has been hit with another murder charge.Muvevi ...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 22:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Independent Matabeleland presages the worst to come: South Sudan war will be nowhere near
We have been saying time and again that these numerous Mthwakazi parties are a group of young boys who do not have the slightest idea about the past liberation war. Reading the daily news in social me...Published: 16 May 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Tribalism and politics in Zimbabwe
Tribalism regularly comes into play in Zimbabwe. sometimes it is in terms of political rivalry and competition. at other times it is based on a friendly joking relationship between different tribes....Published: 14 May 2021 at 07:00hrs | | by Fay Chung
Turning Point - HRM King Mzilikazi II
Mthwakazi omuhle ondlela zimhlophe, sizwe senkosi yohlanga ngiyalibingelela!Sesiside isikhathi lingezwa lutho oluvelela ngapha nges'Godlweni. Isizatho yikuthi njengothunyiweyo, kumele ngizwe N...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 09:27hrs | | by HRM King Mzilikazi II
'Zimbabwe's hyperinflation challenges should be addressed'
THIS week we had Justin Machibaya (JM), the managing director of homelux Real Estate, as a guest on ‘In Conversation with Trevor', a weekly programme hosted by AMH chairman, Trevor Ncube (TN)....Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ndebele 'King' addresses the nation
I would like to make it known that I, as King of Matabeleland alias Mthwakazi, am very much committed to the Restoration of my Kingdom. I also want the whole world to know that the whole Inter-cultura...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 13:19hrs | 1 | by Stanley Khumalo
MDC and the colonial ghost of whiteness
David Coltart, the self-confessed former British South African Police (BSAP) member, who authored a rehashed moribund autobiography, recently rebounded as treasurer of the MDC at the party's congress ...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:16hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
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 | 12 | by PUMA
Mnangagwa says 'Let's dream, think Zimbabwe'
Address by His Excellency, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, E.D. Mnangagwa, at the burial of the late Mishack Ntundu Velaphi, National Heroes' Acre, May 9, 2019 ...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:46hrs | | by ED Mnangagwa
Dabengwa opens up on the ZIPRA/MK Wankie battle
Former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) Intelligence Supremo Dumiso Dabengwa on Thursday retold the historic Wankie battle of 1967 where the ZPRA cadres combined with the UMkhonto we Sizwe ...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 12:21hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The Zimbabwe Republic Police
During the Rhodesia era the police force then was called the British South Africa Police( BSAP). It was well trained, disciplined and efficient. More-so it had resources for use in combating crime. It...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 21:26hrs | | by Clemen Moyo
Zimbabwe won't die, the youth will save it
What really caught Ian Smith unawares was presumptuous complacency and his government's arrogance of incumbency… a deeply entrenched sense, both of class entitlement and invincibility based, not so ...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:40hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
Former top cop buried
Former police officer commanding Matabeleland South and North Provinces, Senior Assistant Commissioner Boyathi Ngwenya who died on New Year's Day, was laid to rest at Umvutsha Cemetery Park in Bulaway...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 09:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Knox Mutizwa wins August Goal of the Month award
Golden Arrows striker Knox Mutizwa has been handed the Absa Premiership Goal of the Month award for August.The Zimbabwean striker's cracking strike against Maritzburg United on the opening wee...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 17:46hrs | | by kickoff
Jonathan Moyo defends Coltart
Self imposed exile former Zanu PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo has leaped into MDC Alliance senior official David Coltart's defend on accusations that he was a Selous Scout during the liberation war...Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe after Morgan Tsvangirai - A narrative full of trials, sadness and hope
Our condolences go to the family of the Tsvangirais for an irreplaceable loss of their father, brother and, uncle, and for the country to whom Morgan Richard Tsvangirai became a stalwart for championi...Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 22:42hrs | | by Andrew Manyevere
Gukurahundi, Nyadzonya and the David Coltart apology
Its sixty days since the inauguration of Emmerson Mnangagwa as the president of the Republic of Zimbabwe on the 24th of November 2017. In his inauguration speech, he promised visible changes within th...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Lloyd Msipa
Coltart and Gukurahundi conspiracy against Mnangagwa
Last week, opposition politician and lawyer - one of Zimbabwe's few politically active white men - David Coltart, published on his blog a statement "on Rhodesian atrocities, his time in the BSAP and a...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 05:24hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Coltart apologise for his role as a police officer with the BSAP
STATEMENT BY DAVID COLTART ON RHODESIAN ATROCITIES, HIS TIME IN THE BSAP AND AN APOLOGY FOR HIS ROLE IN SUSTAINING AN UNJUST SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT WHICH DISCRIMINATED AGAINST PEOPLE OF COLOURTh...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 15:03hrs | | by Senator David Coltart
Coltart apologises for his role in Rhodesian atrocities
STATEMENT BY DAVID COLTART ON RHODESIAN ATROCITIES, HIS TIME IN THE BSAP AND AN APOLOGY FOR HIS ROLE IN SUSTAINING AN UNJUST SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT WHICH DISCRIMINATED A...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 06:56hrs | 6 | by Senator David Coltart
The Chinhoyi Battle: Did Zanu send its guerrillas on a suicide mission
During the early years of Zimbabwe's struggle for independence, Zanu's military high command based in Zambia infiltrated its first group of Chinese trained guerrillas into Rhodesia with orders to carr...Published: 27 Jul 2017 at 12:17hrs | 2 | by Thabo Kunene
The Ian Smith myth and other fallacies
There are many fallacies associated with the history of Zimbabwe. Let's start with one of the oldest.Rhodesia was not built on an empty veld. The fallacy that the land was empty is just that: ...Published: 15 May 2017 at 06:53hrs | | by Simon Massey
Whites planned for the time when Africans would rise up against them
I have no idea whether the white man I am writing about is still alive or not. He gave me an understanding of what actually happened to us Africans, and how sinister it was, when we were colonized. Hi...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 14:57hrs | | by Thula Bopela
A Response to Petros Joseph Dude's Article: Matebeleland Was Never a Land of Shonas
A RESPONSE TO PETROS JOSEPH DUDE'S ARTICLE : MATEBELELAND WAS NEVER A LAND OF SHONAS.1. To Mr J.P.Dube let's say you are right, and Matebeleland was never a land of the Shonas as you suggested. Th...Published: 17 Dec 2016 at 22:25hrs | | by Felix Muthanyana
MLF responds to Job Sikhala
Thank you Mr Job Wiwa Sikhala for the inquiry on Mthwakazi. I am David Magagula answering as MLF Policy and strategy Secretary. I will be guided by MLF constitution,Policy Document and Code of Conduct...Published: 17 Dec 2016 at 07:07hrs | | by David Magagula
Has Chiyangwa lost his mind?
While yours truly was growing up in the Eastern Highlands, the name Phillip Chiyangwa was synonymous with a successful native businessman. Every young person was envious of him though they were not pr...Published: 16 Dec 2016 at 08:15hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
What a White Man Told Me in Zimbabwe in 1980
I have no idea whether the white man I am writing about is still alive or not. He gave me an understanding of what actually happened to us Africans, and how sinister it was, when we were colonized...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 20:25hrs | 95 | by Thula Bopela
Untold story of Zipra Women's Brigade
Starting this week, The Sunday Mail will be publishing excerpts of the biography of Group Captain Sithabile Sibanda aka Ntombiyezizweni Mhlanga. Under the working title "A Woman's Choice, The untold s...Published: 30 Oct 2016 at 10:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zipra: The Wankie campaign
Once agreement had been reached, preparation for the campaign began. A joint political and military High Command was formed. Tambo and James Chikerema, the head of ZAPU in exile, directed the politica...Published: 16 May 2016 at 14:17hrs | 3 | by facebook
Zipra / MK prisoners in Rhodesia
The Rhodesian government responded to the Wankie campaign by passing a legislation in September 1967, making it capital offence for anyone to be found in possession of 'arms of war'. Intended to stren...Published: 16 May 2016 at 14:12hrs | 1 | by facebook
Coltart: (Hi)story and our story as Africans
As I sit down to write this piece, it is February 18, 1978, and David Coltart has just taken off for South Africa, to start his university studies at UCT, the University of Cape Town. He leaves behind...Published: 07 May 2016 at 20:11hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mthwakazi existed before Rhodesia- MRP
Mthwakazi Republic Party President Mqondisi Moyo has dismissed the claims that his party was fight for the cessation of Mthwakazi from Zimbabwe saying the Mthwakazi State existed even before Rhodesia....Published: 24 Apr 2016 at 07:05hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zim Independence day, a day for Mthwakazi to fight for their own freedom
Mthwakazi Republic Party has advised people of Mthwakazi that 18 April and independence day for Zimbabwe is just another day in Mthwakazi Calendar to fight on for the Restoration of our State....Published: 17 Apr 2016 at 09:05hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
The link between Zezuru and Zulus
Adopted from the book titled ...Published: 26 Mar 2016 at 08:46hrs | 107 | by Staff writer
ZRP investigated for human rights 'abuses'
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission is investigating the Zimbabwe Republic Police for at least 20 violations, chief among them unlawful arrests and detentions, and torturing suspects.At least...Published: 22 Nov 2015 at 07:55hrs | | by Lincoln Towindo
Jonathan Moyo in another social media war, calls Coltart a 'Rhodie idiot'
Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo has again been caught up in a social media war with lawyer David Coltart on his Zanu PF membership decades ago and Gukurahundi.Moyo, known for hi...Published: 20 Jul 2015 at 09:33hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Jonathan Moyo blasts Coltart
INFORMATION, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo yesterday dug into former education minister and MDC senator David Coltart for his attempt to belittle the country's 35th ...Published: 19 Apr 2015 at 09:30hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Didymus Mutasa a Rhodesian spy?
Former Zanu-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa was an agent of the colonial British South Africa Police (BSAP) Special Branch, it has emerged.Disclosing details of Mutasa's links ...Published: 18 Jan 2015 at 08:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
State media turns on Gumbo as Mugabe blasts him for being a traitor
The state media reports that President Mugabe has expressed reservations about Rugare Gumbo's loyalty, while making reference to the fact that the ruling party's spokesperson has previously sought t...Published: 09 Nov 2014 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Serial armed robber gets 84 year jail term
A SERIAL armed robber-cum-carjacker from Shurugwi has learnt that crime does not pay when he was slapped with a cumulative 84-year jail sentence after he was convicted of 22 counts of armed robber...Published: 07 May 2014 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
'It's game over for Zanu-PF,' says Roy 'Pachedu' Bennett
MDC-T treasurer, Roy Bennett (RB) has been living in exile in South Africa since 2010, after fleeing what he called persecution by President Robert Mugabe's faction in the government of national unity...Published: 28 Jul 2013 at 19:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Coltart's directive racist, illegal, barbaric
David Coltart, the Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, wrongly deployed to that key role by Welshman Ncube's MDC, just does not get it. His not-so-cleverly-hidden commitment to the Rhodes...Published: 27 Jan 2013 at 06:41hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Mugabe: The history we have
One stubborn day in April, the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twelve, President Mugabe stolidly walked back to Harare, clearly defying Press and prophecy.The week before had been abuzz with...Published: 28 Apr 2012 at 08:54hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zuma is coming on a rescue mission
Russia's Putin has won a new term into Presidential Office. With that victory comes a new ogre for Europe and America, both of which are already talking of discovering Putin's vulnerabilities for a co...Published: 12 Mar 2012 at 07:24hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
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