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Diaspora community form Funeral and repatriation service fund
Gwanda North community members based in South Africa have formed a funeral and bodies repatriation services group fund due to desperation of some colleagues whenever death strikes across the Limpopo....Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 12:54hrs | 603 | by Stephen Jakes
Ndebeles commemorate Mzilikazi Day
Ndebele people in Bulawayo, as well as those across Zimbabwe and abroad, are commemorating the 156th anniversary of the death of King Mzilikazi Khumalo, the founder of the Ndebele nation. The commemor...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 15:53hrs | 3319 | by Staff reporter
'Don't kill Chris Hani again' challenges ANC's modern path`
The T-shirt slogan, "Don't Kill Chris Hani Again", worn by Honourable Panyaza Lesufi, the newly appointed Gauteng provincial premier, represents a powerful critique of the political landscape in South...Published: 08 Jul 2024 at 13:41hrs | 95 | by Mbikwana
'Ideologically bankrupt' Ramaphosa's ANC in a governance tailspin
To suggest that the 2024 electoral outcome has fundamentally altered how parties relate to one another post-election would be an understatement.Never has the party with a majority of votes fou...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 13:56hrs | 4 | by Sipho Seepe
How Princess Zinkabi attempted a coup on King Lobhengula
Princess Zinkabi was King Mzilikazi's daughter. She was married to Mbiko the son of Madlenya Masuku. Mbiko was a powerful warrior who was respected in the northern Ndebele kingdom.Mbiko Masuku...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 16:24hrs | 12 | by Thomas Sibanda
Job Sikhala's New Year Message
CHIKURUBI MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONNEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM CHIKURUBI MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONDear Zimbabweans and my Worldwide friends.My dearest Zimbabweans and Worldwide friends, ...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 20:19hrs | 12 | by Job Wiwa Sikhala
Aaron Motsoaledi admitted to hospital
South African Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has been hospitalised.The ministry said Motsoaledi would undergo a routine medical procedure at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital....Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 07:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF CCC lock horns
The Vungu Rural District Council ward 14 by-election scheduled for November 11 will see the ruling Zanu-PF candidate, Aaron Muchemwa, competing against the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CC...Published: 21 Oct 2023 at 18:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Redi Thlabi: the black woman weaponized against South Africa
South Africa is under attack by Western countries led by the US due to its BRICS membership and non-aligned geopolitical policy. This isn't surprising, given the West's frustration with the country's ...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 12:46hrs | 3 | by Larmbert Ebitu
Zanu-PF MP threatens to evict settlers for supporting opposition
Concerns are growing over potential retaliatory actions by Zanu-PF against Chiwundura plot holders, who are facing possible eviction due to their alleged support for the Citizens' Coalition for Change...Published: 26 Sep 2023 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa, police joint operation nets transformer vandals
Police in Harare this week arrested four suspects in Epworth who are linked to a syndicate that vandalised a Zesa Holdings transformer at Wengi Farm, Zanadu in Concession, Mashonaland Central province...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 07:57hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
Pregnant immigrants turned away from Joburg clinics
Priscilla Tumira from Zimbabwe thinks she is eight months pregnant, but she has not had any prenatal health care. Without valid documents, Tumira says, staff at Jeppe and Hillbrow Clinics in Johannesb...Published: 10 May 2023 at 06:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Andrew Langa forced out of Zanu-PF's Insiza South rerun?
FORMER Minister of Youth, Sport and Culture Andrew Langa has withdrawn from the ZANU-PF Insiza South primary election rerun, leaving Spare Sithole as the ruling party's candidate in the forthcoming ha...Published: 17 Apr 2023 at 22:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF polls descend into chaos
Zanu-PF yesterday held chaotic primary elections marred by violence and vote rigging claims with some candidates' names missing from cell registers while ballots were not delivered in some areas....Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 10:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Where wildlife produces its own managers
When African wildlife 'sends' you to South Africa's Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) to study nature conservation, using international hunting revenue so that you can come back and manage it, yo...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 13:16hrs | 4 | by Emmanuel Koro
Sisulu tko Ronald Lamola in an open letter
I ask you, why are some so irritated with my opinion piece? Until all daggers, some agonizingly blunt, are drawn, and some have already assumed my head must go to the guillotine in the narrowness of m...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 17:52hrs | | by Lindiwe Sisulu.
SA Constitution is not sacred, judges not demigods
SOUTH Africa's Tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu penned an opinion piece on January 7 2022 titled: Hi Mzansi, have we seen justice?It was quite a refreshing critique of the challenges confrontin...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:18hrs | | by Arthur GO Mutambara
Adv Sibanda declared national hero
THE Zanu-PF Politburo has posthumously declared the late former High Court Judge Advocate Siwanda Kennedy Mbuso Sibanda a national hero.Adv Sibanda, a legal icon of the liberation struggle, di...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 18:58hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Ngaapinde Hake Mukomana' is game-changer" - Yeah right, sun will rise in West
You can read through all the available Zimbabwe 2018 elections reports, none has ever attributed Zanu PF's landslide victory to slogan. NewsDay, is claiming MDC A's new slogan for the 2023 elections i...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 09:55hrs | 11 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Ngaapinde hake mukomana' slogan has caused panic in Zanu-PF
Those who may not be aware of this slogan, must be living under a rock somewhere out of Earth. Well, the phrase is ngaapinde hake mukomana (NHM), a slogan recently introduced by the MDC Alliance led b...Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 05:44hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
1893 MHRRM at 5: Birth of 1893 Insingo Regiment Arts
The 1893 Matebeleland Human Rights Restoration Movement also known as 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) is an organization that represents a proud Matebele Nation made up o...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:38hrs | 22 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Executive Director
'Mujuru killed in a ritual occultic sacrifice'
The former Zimbabwe Army General Solomon Mujuru was killed in a ritual sacrifice, political analyst Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana has sensationally claimed. Mujuru died in a fire in the ear...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 11:54hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Recovering drug addict Naomi Campbell lampooned over Jacob Zuma open letter
British supermodel, actress and businesswoman Naomi Campbell has received a blasting from die-hard Jacob Zuma supporters for her open letter criticising the former president for his defiance of the co...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 16:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Sending Jacob Zuma to jail was not a wise move'
EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu has accused the Constitutional Court of using apartheid tactics to imprison former president Jacob Zuma for 15 months for contempt of court.Shivambu also cr...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 19:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Apartheid leaders in SA must be prosecuted for 'crimes against humanity and genocide'
Former Apartheid regime President De Klerk and his Colleagues must also be prosecuted for Crimes against Humanity and Genocide. These crimes have no statutory limitation or they are not time-limited o...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 21:41hrs | | by Njabulo
Play to portray King Lobengula's disappearance
CO-FOUNDER and director at Centre for Talent Development (CTD) Thabani Moyo has developed a script for a play titled Bayethe Nkosi which will portray King Lobengula and his mysterious disappearance....Published: 13 May 2021 at 06:49hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe's liberation pilgrimage
In my previous instalment in this publication, I indicated that Zimbabwe's independence history is connected to that of all post-colonial African nations. Likewise, Africa's liberation is also grounde...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 08:58hrs | 1 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
The Liberation War in Nkayi, Matebeleland: The Agenda by Rhodesian Army & State to starve 'terrorists', a personal experience!
In today's Africa, we often ascribe the violation of African rights to only African governments and easily forget a long-standing history of wanton violation of African rights by gun-ho racialist geno...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 22:38hrs | 15 | by Thembani Dube
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
Tsholotsho boys drown during fishing expedition
THREE boys from Tategulu Village under chief Magama in Tsholotsho drowned in Gwayi River while fishing on Wednesday and their bodies were retrieved by the police sub aqua unit the following day. ...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Plans to transform King Lobengula's Inxwala venue
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is in the process of engaging stakeholders towards turning the large expanse of land at corner Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Street and Masotsha Ndlovu Avenue where King Lobengu...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's intellectual prostitutes and the national question
My Ghanaian broth er, Dr George Ayiteyi, was the first to connect fraudulent claims to the title of professor to Professor Jonathan Moyo as the quintessential intellectual prostitute. I scolded Ayitey...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:41hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Church says 'it's time for Zimbabwe to come together'
WITH the country and its two major political parties - Zanu-PF and the MDC - continuing to contend with serious challenges, the church has renewed its calls for all Zimbabweans to come together in the...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 19:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Churches rubbish ANC meditation efforts in Zimbabwe
THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) has rubbished ANC meditation efforts saying the South African delegation only offered solidarity to the Zanu-PF party and the people of Zimbabwe need to liberate...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 13:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is in a mess, says ANC
SOUTH AFRICAN President Cyril Ramaphosa's special six-member delegation, which left Harare on Wednesday after a closed-door meeting with top Zanu-PF officials, has painted a gloomy picture of the situ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
1893 MHRRM brands its structures into Matebele Regiment Names
The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) has this week, through its Bayethe Board of Directors, its Chapters and its members branded its Chapters or structures into its Matebe...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 16:35hrs | 1 | by 1893 Bayethe Board of Directors
A history of abductions, assassinations in Zimbabwe
October 15, 1975: Edson Sithole and his secretary Miriam Mhlanga were grabbed by unknown assailants, bundled into a car and were never seen again. A few weeks earlier, Sithole had fallen out with othe...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 15:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ndebele villages or regiments: Organisational units within the state
FOR about 25 weeks now we have been investigating the phenomenon of naming, initially starting off at the cosmic level but later getting down to the terrestrial plane. Our interest has been to investi...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:56hrs | 2 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Nomazulu Thata Misinformed
Nomazulu Thata who regards herself as the custodian of all Mathebeleland issues has a tendency to twist facts to suit her agenda. It is very curious that she refers to Bulawayo as the City of Kings an...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 10:15hrs | | by Lizwe Dube
Ramaphosa was a double agent during apartheid?
Cope president Mosiua Lekota has stopped just short of calling President Cyril Ramaphosa a sellout during today's state of the nation address (Sona) debate.Lekota used day two of the debate to...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 14:47hrs | | by City Press
Ndebele kingship takes another twist - umbiko esizweni sika Mthwakazi
Sanibona sizwe sikamthwakazi kwaBulawayo, nina benkanyamba emakhandakhanda uMzilikazi kaMashobane Khumalo nomdabuli wesizwe sonke. Sicela ukwazisa isizwe samahlabezulu ukuthi kunendlu endala endlini y...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 11:26hrs | 1 | by Lucky Khumalo
Thabo Mbeki's attempt to torpedo a people's agenda
"I am of a nation that would not allow that fear of death, torture, imprisonment, exile or persecution should result in the perpetuation of injustice. "I owe my being to the Khoi and the San w...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Mnangagwa's new political order
South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko and black consciousness icon once said, "It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die". President Mnangagwa o...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Keith Guzah
The Church as seen by a Young Layman: Unmasking the darker side of modernity in Christianity
It is now forty one years since Steve Biko, the doyen of South African Black Consciousness Movement passed on. A part of this piece title is developed from Steve Biko's, I Write What I Like. Although ...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 17:03hrs | 11 | by Brian Maregedze and Tedious Ncube
Former Ms Zimbabwe hopes to conquer Califonia
AFTER bagging two titles at the provincial stage of the National Amateur Body Builders Association (Nabba) Championships in Gauteng, South Africa, last week, former Ms Zimbabwe champion Regina Jonga i...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 18:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Letter to Comrade Julius Malema
Dear Mr. Malema, Firstly, I would like to apologize to you personally because when you started your political path, I am one of those you did not take you seriously. I was deeply concerned abo...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
78 Victoria Falls female protesters arrested
SEVENTY-EIGHT Victoria Falls female protesters were yesterday arrested after they defied a police ban and stormed council offices demanding accountability for the money they contributed over the past ...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man burns wife's bedroom
A 28-year-old man was slapped with a twelve months jail term yesterday by Concession resident magistrate for setting his wife's bedroom hut ablaze.Andrew Ngondoma pleaded guilty to the charge ...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 20:20hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa ropes in Mandela's lawyer
A top South African advocate has been drafted into MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's legal team to fight the opposition party's Constitutional Court (Con-Court) challenge to be heard on Wednesday....Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 15:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's tactics exposed
Africa is a young sleeping giant where Zimbabwe comes as the best educated country on the continent a vibrant young population which can compete at any global level.Zanu PF tactics of scuttlin...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 07:43hrs | | by Leonard Koni
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