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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
Discovering Bulawayo: The heartbeat of Zimbabwe's cultural heritage
Nestled in the southwestern part of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo is a city that beautifully intertwines its rich historical tapestry with vibrant contemporary culture. As the country's second-largest city, Bula...Published: 09 Sep 2024 at 09:28hrs | 2364 | by Staff reporter
How Bangwato and Nswazwi of Botswana settled in Zimbabwe
The Bangwato-Tswana people of Mangwe in Zimbabwe are descendants of the followers of Raditladi and Mphoeng who broke away from the main group, following a dispute with Bangwato Regent Khama III in the...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 10:37hrs | 8 | by People and Culture
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 | 123 | 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 | 57 | 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
Cecil Rhodes's grave still haunts Zimbabweans
It's a sacred hill where for centuries Zimbabweans would go to consult their ancestors.It's also where the notorious British coloniser Cecil John Rhodes chose to be his final resting place....Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's name mired in underworld gold activities
FROM the Macmillan family and their gold-smuggling activities to the Kwekwe underworld mining adventures and Henrietta Rushwaya's sensational arrest three years ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's nam...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 14:00hrs | 67 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo attacks Chamisa's structureless party after Nigeria elections
EXILED former information minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has once again hit out at the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) over its lack of structures, describing the party as delinquent ...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 20:28hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
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
Chamisa tells his followers to 'faka pressure'
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa was Monday encouraged his supporters to 'faka pressure.'Chamisa sent the cryptic message on Twitter....Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 19:21hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo lashes at Chamisa's mazizi
EXILED former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo has lashed at Mazizi for insults targeted at him.Said Prof Moyo, "You can dot me, call me names, body shame me or lie about me for all you want; no...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 09:52hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo defends Mnangagwa
EXILED former information minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has again hit out at the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) over its allegations that Ian Smith's rule was better than that of Pr...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 19:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo exposes delinquent 'secret society'
EXILED former information minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has again hit out at the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) over its lack of structures, describing the party as delinquent and o...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 18:20hrs | 13 | 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
ED Pfeeee in UK hill Nehanda's head head home
The President of Zimbabweans His Excellence Cde Dr Emerson Dambudzo MNANGAGWA will be gracing the Queen's land in October 2021. There is great excitement amongst Zimbabweans who are hoping to catch a ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:46hrs | 12 | by Dr Maisimba Mavaza
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
As Rhodes falls Nehanda arises
WHILE Zimbabweans bemoan the little money spent to remember a mother of our liberation, the Black Lives Matter Movement engulfs the globe after the massacre of George Floyd. Resultantly, statues and m...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:39hrs | | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
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
Bona, hubby get 20ha prime land for a song
Then Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo reportedly facilitated a deal whereby the daughter of the late former President Robert Mugabe, Mrs Bona Nyepudzai Mutsahuni, and her husband, Mr Simbarashe Mutsah...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's cartels that are not the real cartels
I just read the report by Daily Maverick, that is purporting to expose cartels in Zimbabwe. The problem with the report is it does not include the obvious and leading cartels in Zimbabwe, such as Old ...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 09:38hrs | 5 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 5 | by Samantha Power
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
Zimbabwe's recolonization complete with Mnangagwa land giveaway to Europeans
The Zimbabwe Government has decided it will give back retaken stolen land--to the white Europeans who stole it in the first place during the colonial era.2020 is indeed a strange year....Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:03hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Being Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni
Chief Ndiweni from Ntabazinduna is easily one of the newsmakers for 2019.The traditional leader, who has on many occasions angered President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government with his sharp crit...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 15:05hrs | | by The Sunday Times
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 | 4 | by Stanley Khumalo
Zimbabwe: A land of squandered potential
I well remember sitting in the AFP bureau in Harare at dusk on November 21, 2017 and hearing the first whoop of delight in the street outside when Robert Mugabe was finally ousted, an extraordinary mo...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:56hrs | 9 | by Ben Shepherd
An inherited crisis of imagination: A Long Essay concerning the understanding of Zimbabwe - Pt2
Continuing from here...Truth be said, this is a great opportunity for Mnangagwa. And truth be repeated, the...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 19:03hrs | | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
Mugabe faces arrest
Ousted former president Robert Mugabe risks going to jail for continuing to ignore directives by Parliament to give evidence on the disappearance of $15 billion diamond revenue, with the august body y...Published: 29 May 2018 at 17:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
'Chihuri looted diamonds worth millions of dollars'
Former police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri allegedly seized a vault containing diamonds worth millions of dollars belonging to a company that was in partnership with the cops before he forci...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 14:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi faces grilling over diamonds
HARARE - Vice President Kembo Mohadi will on Monday lead a team of serving and retired Cabinet ministers and security chiefs, respectively, in giving evidence on how police and the military were award...Published: 07 Apr 2018 at 17:42hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Armed police loot diamonds
Parliament yesterday heard how heavily armed police officers numbering about 200, in mafia style, stormed the Mbada Diamond fields in Marange and looted gems worth millions of dollars before they brok...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pertinent questions about the Ndebele King
The following represents a litany of questions drawn from a diversity of people who genuinely seek to understand role and relevance of the institution of the King in their lives. I made an attempt to ...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 14:05hrs | 8 | by George Mkhwanazi
Obert Mpofu to be grilled like Chivayo on Monday
Parliament has summoned Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu and other high-ranking bureaucrats who served under former president Robert Mugabe's administration as the legislative assembly continues to s...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 15:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu to be hauled before Parliament over missing $15 billion
HARARE - Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu, who superintended over the Mining ministry during the heydays of harvesting diamonds from the gems-rich Chiadzwa fields is to be hauled before Parliament to...Published: 01 Jan 2018 at 13:33hrs | 14 | by Staff Reporter
Recipient of 2018 Zimbabwe Rhodes Scholarship announced
The Zimbabwe Rhodes Scholarship selection committee is pleased to announce the 2018 Zimbabwe Rhodes Scholar - Terrens Muradzikwa.The Rhodes Scholarships...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 19:05hrs | 1 | by Rhodes Trust
Zimbabweans and their strange choices - invites ridicule from onlookers
For some strange reason, Zimbabweans have become notorious for their paradoxical choices. They embrace and kiss the Devil and reject the Benign. At every crucial moment of truth in their history they ...Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 10:24hrs | | by George Mkhwanazi
Zimbabwe's 2018 Rhodes Scholar selected
As the Zimbabwe Rhodes Selection Committee, we have just finished two days of interviewing nine outstanding Zimbabwean finalists for the Rhodes Scholarship. These shortlisted candidates came from Univ...Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 16:33hrs | 9 | by Arthur Mutambara
Zimbabweans and their strange choices
For some strange reason, Zimbabweans have become notorious for their paradoxical choices. They embrace and kiss the Devil and reject the Benign. At every crucial moment of truth in their histo...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 07:27hrs | | by George Mkhwanazi
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
Rhodes estate should compensate white framers, not Mugabe
Compensation to white farmers for Zimbabwean land should be based on proper historic analysis that gives due credit when necessary but also brings the United Kingdom to the table as a responsible part...Published: 25 Aug 2017 at 16:04hrs | 1 | by Ken Sibanda
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 | 1 | 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
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