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Britain tried to exile Zulu King to Zimbabwe
In a remarkable revelation, King Misuzulu KaZwelithini recently shared that the British-governed Natal Province of South Africa sought to exile Zulu King Dinuzulu to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - an area also ...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:26hrs | 1052 | 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 | 20 | by George Mkhwanazi
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 | 9 | by Eddie Cross
Zimbabwe politics: Lineaments of stock characters
What are stock characters?LET me be basic so I am accessible to many of my readers, whatever level of education, and from whichever discipline they hail.In literature we have what are ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 9 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
116-year old Inyathi Mission still exudes medieval charm
WITH walls of red-coloured rustic clay face bricks, the medieval 116-year-old Inyathi Mission, the country’s oldest Christian mission station and first to offer education to blacks in Zimbabwe still...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:31hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
116-year Inyathi Mission still looks charming
WITH walls of red-coloured rustic clay face bricks, the medieval 116-year-old Inyathi Mission, the country's oldest Christian mission station and first to offer education to blacks in Zimbabwe still l...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 06:49hrs | 17 | by Staff Reporter
Nyarota launches book tonight
VETERAN journalist Geoffrey Nyarota will this evening launch his latest book titled The Honourable Minister, An Anatomy of Endemic Corruption at Royal Harare Golf Club.Nyarota's book is presen...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:50hrs | | 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
How my pistol sold me out: Tshinga Dube
AS we continue to commemorate our Independence Day, we revisit an article published earlier in this section in which our Assistant Editor Mkhululi Sibanda (MS) spoke to one of the pioneer guerillas, R...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The Mthwakazi question: Who does or doesn't qualify to be Mthwakazian?
My intention is not to write on either the historical origins or the actual geographical boundaries of Mthwakazi State, highlighted in yellow on the above image, but I am more concerned with initiatin...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 08:26hrs | 3 | by Nkonzo Mathanda
'Matabeleland should be renamed Guruuswa'
President of The African Democrats (TAD) Marco F Machona has called for the compensation of Shona people by the Ndebele for what he Ndebele invasion under the leadership of King Mzilikazi. Mac...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 11:36hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
In the beginning there was Madinda, then Peter and Adam came along
SCOTTISH writer Stephen Walsh, who spent some years teaching in Zimbabwe in the early '80s, says the Ndlovu brothers - Madinda, Adam and Peter - had amazing football skills and belong to a special gro...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
How a pistol sold Tshinga Dube out
IN our last edition our Assistant Editor Mkhululi Sibanda (MS) spoke to one of the pioneer guerillas, Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube about the first operations. Retired Col Dube whose pseudo name was ca...Published: 05 May 2019 at 12:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lesotho group want its land back from SA
A group from Lesotho, which calls itself the 'Basotho Petitioners', has petitioned Britain's Queen Elizabeth to demand the return to land in South Africa.They claim the land is "rightfully" th...Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 21:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
The untold story of ZAPU and the late VP Nkomo
LAST week, Comrade Bulukani Masola (born 13/05/1959) ,whose Chimurenga name was Peter Scotch narrated how Rhodesian forces machine-gunned 226 ZIPRA comrades at Freedom Camp in Zambia during the libera...Published: 13 May 2018 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Freedom Camp massacre: I saw 226 cadres gunned down
COMRADE Bulukani Masola (born 13-05-1959) , whose Chimurenga name was Peter Scotch last week narrated how he joined the liberation struggle and the establishment of the ZIPRA communications department...Published: 06 May 2018 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Time to end Zanu-PF election rigging, Cdes
MY Comrades, I am pleased to finally announce to you that something is happening on the ground. As you are now all aware, a lot of work is underway to ensure that the New Patriotic Front (NPF), a gran...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 10:55hrs | | by CZ
Mnangagwa: The bloody end of crocodile politics
Concealed to many of us is that the real misfortunes of a true crocodile pursue Emmerson Mnangagwa and the politics that he represents. The crocodile tears over corruption and crime in Zimbabwe that h...Published: 19 Dec 2017 at 15:16hrs | 4 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
'Mugabe sitting on social time-bomb,' says Moyo
ZIMBABWEANS will find a way of confronting President Robert Mugabe's administration if elections do not work, presidential aspirant and former Cabinet minister Nkosana Moyo has said.Moyo, who ...Published: 04 Sep 2017 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rhodies learnt nothing, forgot nothing
First, an anecdote. Many black Zimbabweans, who have travelled across the world and come across white people formerly resident in Zimbabwe before and after Independence, will relate how a typical conv...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Treachery of African philosophy
One of the unseemly decorations of Western science and philosophy has been, in this century and its many forerunners, its vaunting and chest-beating arrogance.Without a single dot of shame, Fr...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:27hrs | | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Tsvangirai's democratisation
For (Mujuru) her new political party and her supporters, majority rule, African rule, has been a long nightmare after the paradise of Rhodesia! And Tsvangirai thinks he is adding liberation war creden...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 06:45hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
'War credentials no entitlement to lead,' says Mugabe
PRESIDENT Mugabe has urged some war veterans to dump ill-conceived thoughts of entitlement to lead based on their status as former liberation war fighters saying they should be satisfied with posi...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dear black people, forgive us as we march for white privilege
But instead of ridiculing our belated anger, come teach us how to march. Teach us how to have solidarity. Teach us how to be South Africans, writes Marius Oosthuizen.Some blacks are angry that...Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 17:48hrs | | by Marius Oosthuizen
Sipho Pityana is van Riebeck's puppet
Exactly 365 years ago, on 6 April 1652, Jan van Riebeck, a settler from Nederland, arrived in South Africa. This arrival was the beginning of a sustained process to steal our land, our minerals, and, ...Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 15:42hrs | | by Tiisetso Makhele
Playing to the gallery at Kathrada's funeral
One of South Africa's anti-apartheid luminaries, Ahmed Kathrada, is gone and he was laid to rest in Johannesburg yesterday.His death and burial occurred when so much is happening in South Africa's bod...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 06:37hrs | | by Hildegarde The Arena
You have become a demon I think
Dear Editor of Bulawayo24 Removal of pen names from forums is sinister and should be reversed whatever the excuseI am writing to register my view that you removed incognito discussion ...Published: 27 Feb 2017 at 06:28hrs | | by Jayaguru Nyati
'Stop seeking greener pastures abroad,' says Mugabe
PRESIDENT Mugabe has called on Zimbabweans to work towards developing their country's economy and shun the culture of seeking jobs in other countries where they are not wanted.Addressing d...Published: 27 Feb 2017 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Julius Malema
I wonder why people seem to be shocked by Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) leader Julius Malema's utterances and behavior towards Zimbabwe and its leaders. For the record, his love for President Mugabe ...Published: 25 Jan 2017 at 07:44hrs | 1 | by Tendai Guta
Jonathan Moyo stop dabbling in Zanu-PF succession politics
In history and to the outsider, Zimbabwe has always been a fabulous illusion. An Ophir. An El Dorado, a home to the Queen of Sheba. If the wishes of early European "pathfinders" were horses, Zimbabwe ...Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Letter To Dr Churchill Guduza: The Deputy of MLF in Relation Mafela Trust and Zipra.
This letter is fundermentally to oppose the views expressed in a news article published in your news platform Bulawayo 24.Without having to be specific on the dates it was published, the artic...Published: 22 Dec 2016 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Irvine J. Sibhona.
We are not secessionists, we are self-determinationists
Restorationist Drum Today It is indeed pleasing to note that the Restorationist Movement and or lobby is on fire with the Agenda for the Restoratio...Published: 24 May 2016 at 07:51hrs | | by Khumbulani Moyo
How Mthwakazi lost her identity and memory - Dr Guduza
Yesterday, on the 21st May 2016, Dr Churchill Mpiyezwe Guduza delivered a lecture to a group of Mthwakazians in London, Pimlico. In his lecture he delved on various issues affecting Mthwakazi, taking ...Published: 22 May 2016 at 11:37hrs | | by Thulani Nkala
For there is no authority except from God
On Thursday last week, the MDC faction, led by Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, launched its policy dialogue forums. In this supposedly interactive programme, the party intends to go to the people to explain its...Published: 27 Aug 2015 at 09:43hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
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
Rhodesians never die, for sure
IF that kid who shot black people in a church in the US did not have a connection to this land of ours, we would be forgiven for paying a cursory attention to it.White America has been killing...Published: 20 Jun 2015 at 17:39hrs | 2 | by Staff writer
'Mugabe is my boss,' says Kenneth Kaunda
Zambia's first Republican President Dr Kenneth Kaunda turns 91 years old on April 28, a week after Zimbabwe celebrated its 35th birthday. Dr Kaunda played a major role in Zimbabwe's Independence from ...Published: 26 Apr 2015 at 09:34hrs | | by Emilia Zindi
Rendering Mujuru superfluous
I AM reading a book under the Oppenheimer series, a book on Thomas Leask's diary entries covering his travels in Botswana and Zimbabwe, travels undertaken between 1865 and 1870.Like Livingston...Published: 07 Mar 2015 at 15:02hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
I feel vindicated, says Mugabe
PRESIDENT Mugabe turned 91-years-old on the 21st of February, and had his birthday celebrations in Victoria Falls over the weekend. As per tradition, the President granted an interview to ZBCtv Curren...Published: 03 Mar 2015 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Chris Chivinge
Dignity in resistance
"CAN we think Zimbabwe out of this? Yes. If we abandon bigotry and bigots as a nation we can study and think Zimbabwe out of her present conflictual political condition that is seeing heroes and heroi...Published: 25 Jan 2015 at 11:32hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
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
Zimbabweans contribute to economic development of SA
South Africa announced last week that it was going to recommence deporting illegal immigrants from Zimbabwe. The announcement was a real bombshell to millions of Zimbabweans who are working in the...Published: 07 Oct 2014 at 09:25hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Economic meltdown is real Mugabe must step down or he will take it over the edge
"THE High Court has placed three firms in key industries under judicial management and provisional liquidation as the economic slowdown continues to stalk companies grappling with reduced capacity and...Published: 23 Sep 2014 at 15:25hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabweans react to Freshlyground Facebook post
Zimbabweans support Government's decision to deport South African group Freshlyground that was billed to perform at the closing ceremony of the Harare International Festival of the Arts on Sunday....Published: 07 May 2014 at 07:52hrs | | by Innocent Ruwende
ANC should keep its policy of 'accommodating colonisers'
ZIMBABWE and South Africa's ruling parties have crossed swords over policy differences after African National Congress (ANC) secretary general Gwede Mantashe attacked the country's...Published: 22 Mar 2014 at 15:42hrs | | by Mail&Guardian
Zimbabwe, the numerate Nation that can't count
Matters are hurtling to a head in the MDC-T, are they not? But I must correct myself. I was rather hard on Biti and Mangoma last week. Or is it Mangoma and Biti? Just who is who? And what is the hiera...Published: 22 Mar 2014 at 08:14hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
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
Biography of President Michael Chilufya Sata
The "Africa Year Book and Who's Who" (1977) edition has President Michael Sata's date of birth as January 6, 1936. Aislinn Laing, the Telegraph reporter who interviewed Sata at State House in 2011...Published: 03 Feb 2014 at 05:20hrs | 2 | by Field Ruwe
Mandela, the African symbol of freedom and tolerance
The world is weeping. Nelson Mandela, the doyen of African resistance to the evil policy of apartheid and colonialism is dead; but not gone because his legacy will live forever.Zimbabweans joi...Published: 11 Dec 2013 at 17:03hrs | | by John Gambanga
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