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If Lord Mayor David Coltart dies, will his remains be sent to the UK for burial?
How many millions of white people are buried in Southern Rhodesia? It is indeed attention seeking to demand the removal of Cecil John Rhodes be repatriated to the UK. Following the logic carefully, ar...Published: 18 hrs ago | 701 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe's cycle of betrayal
Is it not a pity how the people of Zimbabwe have been duped not once, but twice? The first betrayal came from figures like Cecil Rhodes and his clansmen, who, under the guise of imperialism, promised ...Published: 19 Jan 2025 at 14:23hrs | 666 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
WATCH: King Lobengula museum restored in South Africa
The legacy of King Khumalo Lobengula, the final monarch of the Ndebele people in Zimbabwe, is slated for conservation in Makhanda, Eastern Cape. The Sarah Baartman District Municipality has al...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 11:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Colourful place names of Rhodesia and their origin
THE TRACING of place names in a country in Africa can be both fascinating and frustrating. One must know – or quickly learn – something about history, about geography and the origins of word...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 17:59hrs | 127 | by Phillippa Berlyn with some amendments by Tony Tanser
List of renamed places in Zimbabwe
Place names in Zimbabwe, including the name of the country itself, have been altered at various points in history. The name Zimbabwe was officially adopted concurrently with Britain's grant of indepen...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 16:46hrs | 59 | by Wikipedia
How hope dies with every election in Zimbabwe
"People died. The fear of being asked whether you wanted a short or long sleeve cut (cutting your hand or your arm) by soldiers made people vote in fear, not with their heads. We were voting with our ...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 13:10hrs | 4 | by Beauty Dhlamini
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 | 14 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Comedian probes Mugabe's life
BRITISH-ZIMBABWEAN comedian Munya Chawawa is preparing to launch a new documentary comedy titled How to Survive A Dictator with the production house Rumpus Media.Chawawa (29) is to meet the fr...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 19:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
British-Zimbabwean comedian makes Robert Mugabe film
Munya Chawawa is to meet the friends, family and foes of dictator Robert Mugabe for a Channel 4 documentary, Broadcast can reveal.Rumpus Media's hour-long single How to Survive A Dictator will...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 05:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's oligarchs: The heirs of Cecil Rhodes
As Zimbabwe's economy has spiralled down, with one million economic refugees in South Africa alone and ordinary people facing shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelter, there is a class of people ...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:29hrs | 20 | by Phillip van Niekerk and a Zim-based Research Team
Chamisa's MDC claims Fidelity 'parcelled out' to Tagwirei
The MDC Alliance is mulling a legal challenge to the disposal of the government's majority stake in Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR), which the party says has been "parcelled out" to controversial...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 18:45hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Some Zimbabweans irked by Nehanda statue
The Zimbabwean government unveiled a statue of the liberation heroine and anti-colonialism figurehead Mbuya Nehanda in the capital, Harare, on Tuesday amid controversy about its priorities while the e...Published: 26 May 2021 at 10:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
My heart is in Zimbabwe!
As we pass from the year 2020, let us establish some homegrown truths about ourselves as Zimbabweans.While I will challenge our readers to this debate, on penalty of paying a fine of a goat if...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Ken Mufuka
An open letter to all former ZIPRA cadres
Greetings to you all! 2020 has been a very challenging year. Many people lost their loved ones to the COVID-19 pandemic and others fell ill due to it. But probably the worst impact of the pand...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 16:47hrs | 10 | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
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
Bangwato in Zimbabwe seek repatriation
A short walk from Matsiloje village in north-eastern Botswana across the Ramokgwebana River into Zimbabwe leads to Mphoeng's Reserve. Though administratively in Zimbabwe the residents of the reserve a...Published: 06 May 2018 at 12:44hrs | 6 | by Mmegi
Flash back: Colonialists activities in Bulawayo re-emerge
Interesting photographs of scenes and activities of the colonialists in the 1890s to 1900 have resurfaced showing how the Cecil John Rhodes led contingent of over 4000 settlers invaded Bulawayo to for...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 16:17hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
Rex Nhongo book a thriller set in Zimbabwe
Title: The Death of Rex NhongoAuthor: C.B. GeorgePublisher: Brown & CompanyI was fascinated by this novel - by its supple, subtle, multi-stranded narrative, certainly, and by its a...Published: 16 Aug 2017 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Reviewed by Lee Child
1893 Mthwakazi Restoration Movement condemns harassment of Mzilikazi II by govt
The 1893 Mthwakazi Restoration Movement condemns any form of threats and harassment directed at Mzilikazi II, Stanley Raphael Khumalo by the Government of Zimbabwe (Mashonaland) through its Gukurahund...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 16:23hrs | 2 | by Thembani Dube, Secretary for Information and Publicity, 1893 MRM
Notice of demand for the restoration of Matebeleland State
Under the direction and authority of Matebeleland Liberation Organisation Supreme Council, The President of M.L.O. Paul Siwela served the British government under the leadership of David Cameron and Z...Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 10:50hrs | 13 | by Paul Siwela
Hero-worshipping at Mugabe's bash
President Robert Mugabe yesterday basked in reverence as his wife, Grace, heaped praises on the nonagenarian while he was feted with giant cakes at a colourful feast to mark his 93rd birthday....Published: 26 Feb 2017 at 17:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Notice of Demand for The Restoration of Matebeleland State
Under the direction and authority of Matebeleland Liberation Organisation Supreme Council, The President of M.L.O. Paul Siwela served the British government under the leadership of David Cameron and Z...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 15:17hrs | 5 | by Paul Siwela
Mugabe's mega delusions
Zimbabwe's Christmas holidays drew to a close on Friday with the fleeting return to Harare of President Mugabe after six weeks gallivanting around the world. The government can now turn its attention ...Published: 29 Jan 2017 at 15:21hrs | 1 | by ZimVigil
Bad governance keeps secessionist movements in Africa alive
In 1981 African leaders met in the Gambian capital,Banjul where they adopted the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights.But the so-called Banjul Charter has largely been ignored by Africa...Published: 26 Sep 2016 at 10:27hrs | 11 | by Thabo Kunene
Africa: It is the darkness now!
I have no difficulties with insults heaped upon our ancestors by the white world, both before and after colonisation. Much of it arose from overweening Victorian pride and racism anyway, a lot more fr...Published: 13 Aug 2016 at 08:47hrs | 53 | by Nathaniel Manheru
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 | 2 | by Khumbulani Moyo
Cecil Rhodes statue lies neglected in a Zimbabwe car park
A British landowner has called of Bishop’s Stortford’s most famous and controversial son Cecil John Rhodes which lies neglected in a car park in Zimbabwe to be erected in the Centre of his bir...Published: 08 Feb 2016 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Mugabe flushed Obama's speech in the Lavatory
Obama reminds me of the farmer in the "Parable of the Sower" in Matthew 13 who scattered seed "some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up." His recent trip to Africa remains as fresh a...Published: 24 Aug 2015 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Field Ruwe
Mugabe launches a wide-ranging attack on Western colonisation in Africa
President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday launched a wide-ranging attack on Western colonisation in Africa and recent intervention in the Arab world, as he made his first state visit to South Africa in 21 ...Published: 08 Apr 2015 at 20:02hrs | | by AFP
We have Rhodes's corpse, you can keep his statue, says Mugabe
Pretoria - Zimbabwe has the corpse of colonialist Cecil John Rhodes while South Africa has his statue, said President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday."We in Zimbabwe had forgotten about Cecil ...Published: 08 Apr 2015 at 16:59hrs | | by ANA
Mugabe, Carter and the African renaissance
Paying tribute to the Pan African giant Dr W.E.B. DuBois, Dr King eloquently stated: "He could have amassed riches and honour, lived in material splendour and applause from the most powerful and impor...Published: 27 Feb 2015 at 06:11hrs | 3 | by Obi Egbuna Jr Simunye
Mugabe's rudderless regime
It is becoming clear that there is no one in charge in Zimbabwe. There is a leadership vacuum. No sooner does one minister make a policy statement than another contradicts it.After Finance Min...Published: 11 Jan 2015 at 17:26hrs | 1 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Regrets of a 90 something-year-old man
At 92 years of age, Sekuru Moses Gwasira of Zuze Village in Rusape regrets never confronting the British to return the head of the executed Makoni chief, Chingaira.Chief Chingaira was decapita...Published: 16 Nov 2014 at 13:35hrs | | by Tendai Chara
Is Zimbabwe a nation of docile citizens?
One of my favourite books, A Hitchhiker's guide to a Failed State, describes Zimbabwe as '…a nation of docile citizens, they are not imbeciles by any stretch of imagination'. 'On a fair day, an ...Published: 04 Nov 2014 at 17:34hrs | 1 | by Tendai Kwari
Barack Obama: White terror, Black tears
IT has always been a hard fact of life that in America as elsewhere in Europe, a black man only has condemned colour and a sorry history, nothing else. But the asce...Published: 24 Aug 2014 at 20:57hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
The Hedge Fund and Robert Mugabe
This article was taken from businessweek.com...Published: 23 Aug 2014 at 18:05hrs | 5 | by Cam Simpson and Jesse Westbrook
Zambia's vice president is proof intelligence in humans is same
Vice President Guy Scott has proved wrong all white racists who in their sick effort to preserve White dominance claim that Africans have the lowest IQ (Intelligence Quotient). Over the years Sc...Published: 02 Apr 2014 at 12:15hrs | 4 | by Field Ruwe
Who killed King Lobengula?
Since the death of King Lobengula in 1894, historians have been battling to unravel the truth regarding the death of this second and last King of the Ndebele. It has been reported that Lobengula died ...Published: 15 Dec 2013 at 02:58hrs | 2 | by SundayMail
Let us promote our mother languages
Shona and Ndebele are the two languages spoken by the black majority in Zimbabwe - from the Limpopo to the Zambezi, with a few pockets here and there of minority languages.These two langua...Published: 02 Apr 2013 at 12:06hrs | 2 | by John Gambanga
The case for the re-introduction of the Lozwi - Rozwi Monarchy
The Lozwi/Rozvi Monarchy should be revived. It is the true uniting factor that transcends tribal barriers. It is representative of all Zimbabweans in every region be it Matabeleland, Mashonaland, Masv...Published: 10 Jan 2013 at 12:09hrs | 10 | by Julius Sai Mutyambizi-Dewa
Zimbabwe: Beware of Chinese Dragons
Has anyone noticed the looming beautiful artistic scenery of the Chinese dragons put up around the Heroes Acre/National Sports stadium area and at some spots around the city of Har...Published: 24 Dec 2012 at 05:04hrs | 2 | by Chris Tongogara
Lesotho PM Thabane tours Victoria Falls
LESOTHO Prime Minister Mr Tom Motsoahae Thabane yesterday visited Victoria Falls where he toured the famous rainforest and the crocodile farm.PM Thabane who is in the co...Published: 24 Aug 2012 at 04:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
We, the Zambinese
"Nǐhǎo, nǐhǎo ma? wǒ hěnhǎo" translates "...Published: 14 Jun 2012 at 13:30hrs | 2 | by Field Ruwe
Nigerian writer in defence of Robert Mugabe
Nigerian writer Adamu Adamu, in an article for Daily Trust argues that Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is right in pursuing policies that empower the majority of citizens. We publish excerpts of&n...Published: 21 Mar 2012 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cont Mhlanga pens a new historical play entitled 'Inyelane'
RENOWED playwright and artist Continueloving Mhlanga of Amakhosi Township Square in Bulawayo has penned a new historical play entitled Inyelane.Mhlanga told reporters that the play focuses on ...Published: 16 Jan 2012 at 20:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Enemy-sponsored organisations threaten nation
Pan African thinkers may wish to ask themselves this question: "If South Africa were at war with Canadaand in the process of bombing Canadian cities back to the Stone Age, would US President ...Published: 16 Jul 2011 at 18:15hrs | 14 | by Tafataona Mahoso
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