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Mphoko refused to be buried alongside 'corrupt people, thieves, and murderers'?
A high-profile memorial service for the late former Vice President Phelekezela Report Mphoko is being held this morning at Charles Gumbo Barracks (formerly Cranborne Barracks) in Harare. Mphoko, who p...Published: 13 Dec 2024 at 12:47hrs | 998 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube to be buried at National Heroes Acre against his will
Former minister and liberation struggle stalwart Tshinga Dube, who passed away last week in Bulawayo, will be buried tomorrow at the National Heroes Acre in Harare, despite his expressed wish to be la...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 19:34hrs | 2408 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide brigade was deployed on this day 41 years ago
Today in history: On this day 41 years ago and three years after Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s Fifth Brigade was deployed in Matabeleland North on 2...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:40hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
President mourns MSU Vice Chancellor
The founding Vice Chancellor of Midlands State University (MSU) Professor Ngwabi Bhebhe passed on and President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared him a nati...Published: 18 Nov 2023 at 16:08hrs | 2 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Chiwenga calls on Zimbabweans to honour liberation war icons
People in Midlands should honour the liberation war icons hailing from the province who gallantly fought for the country's independence by voting resoundingly for President Mnangagwa and the revolutio...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prominent UK lawyer gives advice to Zimbabweans going to the UK on carer visas
Prominent UK-based Zimbabwean lawyer Lloyd Msipa who is also the late former Midlands governor and cabinet minister Cephas Msipa's nephew has advised Zimbabweans going to the UK on carer visas to take...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 13:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu, war vets square off over Zipra properties
ZIPRA veterans in Matabeleland North have demanded that Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu must visit the province to show them some Zipra properties, which he claims he bought in Nyaman...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Trevor Ncube's dalliances with Mnangagwa run much deeper
This article on the mysterious and controversial relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and local publisher Trevor Ncube is a summary based on an extract from...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:22hrs | 405 | by Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
Robert Gabriel Mugabe: The killer of our dreams
THIS week marks the second anniversary of the death of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the first prime minister of an independent Zimbabwe, on April 18, 1980.While we acknowledge the fact that there ar...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:59hrs | 13 | by Kenneth Mufuka
G40 resorts to voodoo conspiracies
When the weekly Standard newspaper published a story on 2 May 2021 to the effect that a Zvimba villager, Tinos Manovengere, was not happy with the burial of former President Robert Mugabe, G40 members...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mohadi: Tale of a brave man knocked down by ruinous sex
LIKE many of his contemporaries, Kembo Dugishi Campbell Mohadi - who hails from Mtetengwe area 40 kilometres west of Beitbridge border town along the Bulawayo highway - belongs to a generation which w...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:03hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Man collapses, dies giving graveside speech
The Msipa family in the Ziboza communal lands in Zvishavane was dealt a double blow after a friend to their late family member collapsed and died while giving a graveside eulogy. The incident ...Published: 25 Dec 2020 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga and the decolonisation of the field of political science
WHILE the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter Rodney, Archie Mafeje, Ali Mazrui, Thabo Mbeki, Asan...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 4 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Chiwenga triggers important political science debate
Black Epistemologies and the Non-Writing PoliticianWhile the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter R...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Richard Mahomva
Mnangagwa commissions MSU Industrial Park
AN industrial park established by Midlands State University (MSU) in Gweru was yesterday commissioned by President Mnangagwa, who reiterated the need for all institutions of higher and tertiary educat...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 04:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
How we started MSU: Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa together with the late Vice President and national hero Cde Simon Muzenda, national heroes Cdes Richard Hove and Cephas Msipa, were members of the first committee that resulted in ...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 09:23hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa caps 3500 at MSU
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday capped 3 507 graduates at Midlands State University (MSU)'s 21st graduation ceremony held at its main campus in Gweru.Due to Covid-19-induced restrictions, 3 397 ...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 08:58hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
US$1,4m debt haunts Msipa's son
THE late former Midlands governor Cephas Msipa's son, Cephas Mandlenkosi Msipa, has been hauled before the High Court by a local coal mining company, NR Barber (Pvt) Ltd, over a US$1,4 million debt ac...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 08:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Dumiso Dabengwa: A fad or paradox of the nationalist memory?
Heroes are born out the willpower to reconstruct inequality to egalitarianism. True heroes define the course for the redemptive path to civilising and dignifying subjugated people. These are "men of t...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:44hrs | 2 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Mugabe implicated in land deals
FORMER Midlands Provincial Affairs minister, Jason Machaya, who is facing charges of criminal abuse of office over questionable allocation of stands, has accused the State of arresting and charging hi...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Hate and self determination
As the third window for national dialogue in Zimbabwe slowly closes due to the number of unmet preconditions and ideal settings for the proposed dialogue, I am reminded of my past works written five y...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 15:08hrs | 1 | by Terence Simbi
Mnangagwa needs a proper team
"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second-best time is now" - African proverb.It has just been six months since Zimbabwe held its general elections and, for the better part of...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 10:48hrs | | by Cephas Msipa
'Nothing defeats unity and oneness'
Problems and misunderstandings between Zanu and Zapu necessitated the Unity Accord of 22 December 1987.After the 1980 elections, the then-Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, incorporated members of...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 08:34hrs | 1 | by Clifford Sileya
Mugabe's former white minister pens biography 'Mugabe's White Hand Man'
FORMER Agriculture minister, Dennis Norman, flew into the country from his retirement base in England to launch his autobiography - The Odd Man In: Mugabe's White Hand Man - which traces his life in t...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
REWIND: Zipra fighters lost over 4,000 cattle to Mugabe
Ex-Zipra members have resolved to continue piling pressure on the government to return immovable properties that were seized at the height of the armed dissident crackdown in the 1980s. The ex...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 11:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe ruled 37 years, Mnangagwa's will not last 37 months
"Charova seichando kukwidza hamba mumuti!" (It will have to be a bitterly cold spell to force the tortoise to climb a tree!) goes the Shona adage. Well the "tortoise" in the Blue Roof has learned to c...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 07:09hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
MDC-T succession, heads and tails?
"There is only victory and defeat. The winner gets to take the moral high-ground, because they get to write the history books. The loser, well, he just loses." Samuel L Jackson (Unthinkable). ...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Analyst Johannesburg
Unity Accord haunts Mnangagwa
The Unity Accord of 1987 is posing serious headaches for President Emmerson Mnangagwa who gave himself two days to handpick his two deputies, the Daily News on Sunday can reported.This comes a...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 18:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zipra to confront Mnangagwa
ZIPRA has threatened to approach President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a fresh bid to force the Zanu-PF government to release former Zapu properties seized before the signing of the 1987 Unity Accord betwee...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa was part of Mugabe's gang of 26?
Full text of Enos Nkala statement on Mugabe running ‘ruthless dictatorship'In 2006 the late national hero Enos Nkala blasted President Robert Mugabe for running a ‘ruthless dictatorshi...Published: 21 Nov 2017 at 11:30hrs | 13 | by Enos Nkala
'Mugabe believes he alone brought about freedom of Zimbabwe' - late Nkala once said
In 2006 the late national hero Enos Nkala blasted President Robert Mugabe for running a ‘ruthless dictatorship'. He said "Mugabe talks, imagines and believes that he and he alone brought about the f...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 21:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chiwenga, Mugabe, Sekeramayi, Shiri and Zvobgo : The real gukurahundi culprits
THE Ndebele people of western Zimbabwe have a proverb, walutheza olule nkume, which, roughly translated, means "A person picked up firewood in which there was ...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 06:22hrs | 4 | by Stuart Doran
Mugabe, Mnangagwa fight, Zanu PF headed for split
Zanu-PF could be headed for a devastating split ahead of the tricky 2018 synchronised elections, laden with tribal rumblings among party faithfuls belonging to minority Shona tribes, the Daily News ca...Published: 03 Oct 2017 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe hammers G40, Mnangagwa camp
President Robert Mugabe has slammed factionalism in the ruling party, saying it emanates from tribalism, personal differences and ambitions.Addressing tens of thousands of youths and Zanu PF s...Published: 09 Sep 2017 at 21:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khutshwekhaya and the Zapu - Zanu Unity Accord legacy
Naison Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu who died on Monday and was declared a national hero yesterday will be remembered for many things from being the first black mayor of Bulawayo to being a selfless leader but...Published: 31 May 2017 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chidyausiku dies
Zimbabwe's retired Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku has died.He was 70.The former judiciary boss died today while admitted at a hospital in South Africa. He had been battling cancer....Published: 03 May 2017 at 16:15hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
Mnangagwa forced Chidyausiku into retiring early?
CHIEF Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku was a few months ago forced by the Ministry of Justice - overseen by Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa - to go on early retirement ahead of his departure next mon...Published: 20 Jan 2017 at 12:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe rebukes bickering in Zanu PF
The First Secretary of Zanu PF, President Robert Mugabe has once again rebuked bickering over party positions, saying in the revolutionary party leaders are elected by the people on the basis of their...Published: 14 Dec 2016 at 20:20hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Mugabe knows what happened to Solomon Mujuru'
FORMER Vice-President Joice Mujuru has claimed President Robert Mugabe is aware of the circumstances leading to the death of her husband, Solomon, in an inferno that continues to confound the nation f...Published: 08 Dec 2016 at 05:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa thinks he and Mugabe owe us a life - Job Sikhala
MDC-T Secretary for Mobilization and Recruitment Job Wiwa Sikhala has accused Vice President Emmerson Mnagagwa for allegedly thinking that he and President Robert Mugabe owes the people of Zimbabwe a ...Published: 05 Nov 2016 at 09:07hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Corruption, motivates Zanu-PF grip on power
I have said it before, again and again that corruption in Zimbabwe is state sanctioned. Here we have the Minister of Higher education and Technology abusing the ZIMDEF fund. Some of the money was used...Published: 26 Oct 2016 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Zanda Shumba
Mugabe skirts retirement talk at Msika's burial
President Robert Mugabe on Saturday avoided the controversial subject of his future as he buried a senior political colleague and friend who had been pressing him to retire.Mugabe, 92 and ...Published: 22 Oct 2016 at 20:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Violence worries mar Msipa burial
Friends and relatives of late nationalist Cephas Msipa, who are opposed to President Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF, say they fear attending the much-loved former Midlands governor's burial at Heroes A...Published: 22 Oct 2016 at 14:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Msipa compensated white farmer'
The late national hero and former Midlands governor, Cephas Msipa lived a modest life and believed in fairness such that he paid compensation to the white farmer, whose land he occupied during the...Published: 22 Oct 2016 at 10:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Iron fist in a velvet glove: Dr. Cephas Msipa leaves unique record - Dabengwa
Gweru, 21 October 2016 For a period of over fifty years Dr. Cephas Msipa took an active interest in the affairs of Zimbabwe. This period covered popular ferment against minority rule, armed st...Published: 22 Oct 2016 at 10:38hrs | 1 | by Dr. Dumiso Dabengwa, ZAPU President
Msipa cannot be buried in a cave - Mugabe declared
President Robert Mugabe reportedly arm-twisted the family of the late Cephas Msipa to have him buried at the National Heroes Acre.Msipa's family had initially resolved to bury him in Gweru on ...Published: 21 Oct 2016 at 06:34hrs | | by Mary Charamba
Tsvangirai, Mugabe come face to face
Former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is making arrangements to attend the late Cephas Msipa's burial on Saturday.Msipa is now expected to be buried at the National Heros Arce despite his wi...Published: 21 Oct 2016 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Cephas Msipa's body arrives in Zvishavane
The body of the late national hero, Cephas Msipa has arrived in Siboza Village, his rural home in Zvishavane, where body viewing and tributes to the late liberator will take place on Thursday afternoo...Published: 20 Oct 2016 at 10:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cephas Msipa: One of Zimbabwe's greatest patriots
CEPHAS Msipa's death this week has robbed Zimbabwe of one of her greatest statesmen and patriots. Although I first only got to meet him in 1994, he became a valued friend, a wise counsellor and an ins...Published: 20 Oct 2016 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by David Coltart
Mugabe convince the Msipa family
President Robert Mugabe has convinced the Msipa family that the late national hero, Cephas Msipa be buried at the National Heroes Acre where other members of his league are interred.Mugabe...Published: 19 Oct 2016 at 21:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
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