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Zimbabwe finds a way to turn paper into gold long live Gushungo!!!
Money, the market, free enterprise, free trade, law, and justice, among others - existed in other forms before the colonialists introduced paper currency. The natives had their own functional institut...Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 16:58hrs | 3 | by Sam Wezhira
Shamva man jailed 19 years for killing friend over missing lager pint
A 24-year-old man who for the past years has been terrorising the Shamva community, stealing, raping and mugging residents was last week sentenced to near...Published: 10 Feb 2024 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa must face Gukurahundi victims for resolution to genocide!
About a year ago, a close cousin of mine committed suicide after repeated acts of adultery by her husband. This was a most terrible and traumatizing experience for the family as we felt deeply...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 15:03hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Tribalists advised not to perpetuate a stereotype that King Lobengula betrayed the struggle for sugar
Media lecturer at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Professor Mphathisi Ndlovu advised media houses that representation matters in their content. This follows the publi...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 15:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Regime change is perfectly legal
ONE of the most disingenuous things the Zanu-PF administration is notorious for is its persistent portrayal of "regime change" as some diabolical concept, to be viewed with utter disdain.Whene...Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Heath Streak, the Matabele Warrior
A sheepish, charming young man with a broad smile when he strode in the national cricket team many eons ago the departed Heath Streak was fondly remembered in Zimbabwe cricket circles, and greatly wor...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Peace isn't the only standard for free, fair and credible elections
No one in their right mind can begrudge the repeated calls for peace during this election season in Zimbabwe. In fact, the disturbingly high prevalence of violence, especially on the part of t...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 14:24hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
CCC supporters besiege murder site
MURDERED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporter Tinashe Chitsunge's 27-year-old wife Dzidzisai broke down in tears as reality struck, her husband was now just a memory, another statistic on Zim...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:52hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Man kills daughter (1), harvests body parts for rituals
IN a spine chilling ritual murder, a 38-year-old man killed his daughter (1) and chopped up the body to get parts for muti purposes.Thomas Muzenda, an artisinal miner (umakorokoza) from gokwe,...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 20:32hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Losers imposed as winners
In light of the dogged determination by Harare bigwigs to impose him, despite his crushing defeat in his bid to be CCC's local authority candidate for Ward 4 in Bulawayo, as their choice for the city'...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 13:05hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Of patriotism, Mahere and Zanu-PF's duplicity
NOW that the hubbub and furore over Fadzayi Mahere's submission at a recent UN summit in Geneva, Switzerland, has substantially died down, it is time for a sober, frank and honest reflection on whethe...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 06:35hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
I'm grateful to have been born and bred in Rhodesia!
Ever since I started writing current affairs and social justice newspaper articles in 1989, at the age of 16 years, this is probably the most painful, frank and heartfelt piece I have ever authored....Published: 19 May 2023 at 14:04hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide domination
The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide dominationAn African PerspectivePart 1South Africa will host the 15th BRICS Summit from 22nd-24th August 2023, with the theme;...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 18:50hrs | 5 | by Ian Beddowes
Vote candidates with solutions for Gukurahundi, says Chief Mathema
Mathema made the remarks last Thursday at Emkhonyeni village in Tsholotsho during the memorial of 22 villagers who were burnt alive on March 16, 1983 by government forces during the Gukurahundi era....Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 19:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man commits suicide after killing wife, sister
A 39-YEAR-OLD Mhondoro man who was believed to be on the run after axing his wife and her sister last week was found dead at his girlfriend's house on Saturday. Police had launched a manhunt f...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another ploy of rewriting history by the Zanu-PF regime
Greetings to all! FROM THEMTHWAKAZI LIBERATION FRONT PRESIDENTDR CHURCHILL MP...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 15:13hrs | 6 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
ZAPU savages Britain and EU
OPPOSITION ZAPU president, Sibangilizwe Nkomo has said his party will not take an active role in calling for an end to the sanctions regime as this was a fight between those who founded Zanu-PF, Brita...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why do Zimbabweans keep electing individuals who clearly lack leadership qualities?
What do we look for when we elect a leader? Is it their fearless stand against an incumbent oppressive government - whereby, they boldly confront injustice, and ready to die for the greater go...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 09:24hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What sort of leaders do Zimbabweans need?
What do we look for when we elect a leader?Is it their fearless stand against an incumbent oppressive government — whereby they boldly confront injustice, and are ready to die for the greate...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 05:57hrs | | by Tendai Mbofana
Bulawayo man nabbed for stock theft
A 50-year-old man from Bulawayo, Mandla Sibanda, has been arrested by police for stock theft after dozens of butchered cattle carcasses were reportedly discovered in a vehicle he was travelling in....Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 12:38hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Can we ever say what happened at Chimoio was a mere 'incident' - so why refer to Gukurahundi as simple 'disturbances'?
Insensitivity is as evil as witchcraft!At least, that is exactly how I feel.How else can anyone describe any indi...Published: 29 Aug 2022 at 21:30hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Man slaughters uncle, cooks and eats body
WEIRD! How else can one describe an incident where a 38-year-old Hwange man allegedly gruesomely murdered his 62-year-old uncle, dismembered his body, cooked and ate the remains while hanging the inte...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
As long as Zimbabweans are such unmitigated cowards - Chamisa will grow old, and go into the grave without ever tasting power!
I have written extensively on how our appalling cowardice as Zimbabweans is the greatest single most outstanding factor holding us back as a nation - preventing us from pushing for the change we despe...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 21:39hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Can ED tell Zimbabweans where to find this elusive 'independence' we are supposed to be enjoying and 'jealously guarding'!
I honestly feel like screaming and banging my head against the wall, each time I hear those in the country's ruling elitist privileged clique make noise about some 'independence' that we, the people o...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:57hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
We must prepare for the coming 'war'
From tomorrow until Wednesday, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will be mourning Patrice Lumumba - the country's first democratically elected prime minister - who was slain 61 years ago in the g...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:08hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
We Must all Condemn the Imprisonement of Mthwakazi Activists in Zimbabwe
Greetings to all! As I greet you all, I am saddened by the silence of all our people at the sentencing to long imprisonment of more than three (3) years recently of Mthwakazi activists by Zimb...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 14:17hrs | | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Mthwakazi says Joshua Nkomo was partly to blame for Gukurahundi genocide
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has said late Vice President Joshua Nkomo's decision to turn down an chance at splitting Zimbabwe into two, on tribal lines, is partly to blame for the murder of som...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
God removes wicked rulers
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, it has become common place for discredited and unloved failed national leaders in Zimbabwe to grasp at every straw to hold on to power, inclu...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:38hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mliswa tasked with finding a Ndebele puppet that will replace Kembo Mohadi?
The position of 2nd vice president that is imposed on Matabele people in Zimbabwe is a symbol of capture, oppression, mockery and an insult to Matabele nation. The children of the stars and the sons a...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 07:15hrs | 10 | by Israel Dube
If Zimbabwe ruling elite believes God appoints leaders then also know same God removes wicked rulers!
It has become common place for discredited and unloved failed national leaders in Zimbabwe to grasp at every straw to hold on to power, including the use ...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Southern African opposition parties need to form a shadow SADC to represent oppressed masses!
It has now become an open secret that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is nothing more than a leaders' club, which seeks to serve and protect the interests of those in power, at the e...Published: 16 May 2022 at 08:51hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What Rwanda did to bring real reconciliation after brutal genocide is exactly what Zimbabwe refuses to do
The international community today, commemorates the beginning of one of the darkest, most horrific, and barbaric incidents in world history - the Rwanda genocide of April 7 to July 15, 1994, in which ...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 19:03hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Granny axed to death as family watches
RESIDENTS of Gwanda are in shock following the death of a 68-year-old woman who was killed by an axe wielding man who had a score to settle with the woman's daughter and grandson.The woman, Em...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must engage Ramaphosa on xenophobia'
A SOUTH African-based Zimbabwean human rights activist has petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa to engage his counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa to stem the rising tide of xenophobic attacks in that count...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 07:28hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa plotting second genocide'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's threats that those calling for a separate state will have their lives cut short is declaration of a second genocide synonymous with the Gukurahundi atrocities that saw o...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa speaks on xenophobia
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged companies in his country to employ local citizens and train them to the levels required by the industry instead of relying on cheap undocumented migra...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 05:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Did war veterans fight for a political party or the people of Zimbabwe?
The 1960s and 70s liberation struggle against colonial and White supremacist rule - where the majority Black population was largely subjugated and stripped of their dignity and humanity, by a minority...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 13:11hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Britain must compensate Zimbabwe for colonial rule losses'
GUTU South MP Pupurai Togarepi (Zanu-PF) has suggested that Zimbabwe must demand compensation for losses incurred while the country was under British rule.Togarepi said this last Thursday whil...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu laments continued repression
Opposition party Zapu says the Unity Day, commemorated annually on December 22, has lost significance because of continued repression of Zimbabweans by the government.In its Unity Day commemor...Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 05:38hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
The letter of deceit
Prodigious things always happen. Reading the letter which Emerson Mnangagwa wrote to Zimbabweans and published on the 9th of November 2017 after he had been dismissed from both government and party is...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 23:27hrs | 7 | by Phosiwe Ncube
'Gutu not welcome in Matabeleland'
HUMAN rights activists in Matabeleland have vowed to block National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) spokesperson Obert Gutu from visiting the region after his recent claims that Gukurahundi...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 05:39hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Gweru murderer dies in cells
A 38-YEAR-OLD Gweru man, who on Tuesday allegedly butchered his wife and two minor children in a bizarre incident, reportedly collapsed and died in holding cells at the magistrates court yesterday whi...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nehanda must be brought back but what about gukurahundi victims, post-2000 election victims?
I don't cope and usually don't quote fellow bloggers but on this one, I will quote Nomazulu, who said "I used to think bootlicking,hero-worshipping was for the uneducated but even the highly educated ...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 19:41hrs | 3 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Let's compile register of the dead in all our conflicts
January 1977 was the worst of the several months when I personally endured the ravages of the war for the emancipation of Zimbabwe from the toxic grip of rebel leader Ian Douglas Smith's Rhodesian Fro...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:15hrs | | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Zimbabwe anti-sanctions fight reaches UN HQ
SCORES of people, led by anti-imperialist group December 12 (D12) Movement yesterday picketed at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, United States of America, calling for the removal of illeg...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pretends to be a listening leader
SOON after President Emmerson Mnangagwa was inaugurated in 2018, he embarked on an offensive to meet various stakeholders in Zimbabwe such as chiefs, churches and many others.He also met with ...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by KK
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga, Sekeramayi cornered over Gukurahundi
CHIEFS in Matabeleland have been urged to invite President Emmerson Mnangagwa, VicePresident Constantino Chiwenga and former Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi, who were involved in the 1980s Gukurahu...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
So, in Zimbabwe one is more likely to get away with killing 20,000 people than murdering one person!
The much talked about meeting between president Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa and Matebeleland region chiefs - on the 1980s Gukurahundi genocide perpetrated by the Zimbabwe regime on innocent civilians ...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 09:10hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's fresh gukurahundi plan raises eyebrows
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's fresh plan to address the Gukurahundi atrocities has been questioned because it excludes chiefs from the Midlands province and is silent on reparations.Mnangagwa...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
We're now weary of complaining - Zimbabweans need to finally stand up for themselves
There are times I look back at my writing career - which started in 1989, whilst doing form three - and can not help being gripped by a painful sense disenchantment and disillusionment.Have I,...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 17:39hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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