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Mudenda tells women to fight for positions
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda says women should campaign fearlessly and outcompete men for political positions to achieve gender equality.He said this while launching a handbo...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK can't find Nehanda's skull
London's Natural History Museum and Cambridge University have said that they are ready to co-operate with Zimbabwe to return human remains that were taken in the colonial era.The fresh stateme...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Staff rporter
Street mural exposes Zimbabwe's divided society
THE Shona and the Ndebele are Zimbabwe's two most dominant ethnic groups. Explaining the ever-present tension between them, historian Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni points to the abuse of the post-colonial st...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti
'Death penalty a remnant of colonial legacy'
GLOBAL human rights watchdog Amnesty International has urged Zimbabwe to take steps towards abolishing the death penalty in line with international standards.In a statement to commemorate the ...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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
COVID-19 public complacency spurred by ruling elite's scandalous disregard for preventative regulations, and inconsistent polici
So, when the ruling ZANU PF party was busy gathering hordes of youth for a campaign sports tournament yesterday, Saturday 12 June 2021, in the small town of Mazowe - with clearly almost none of them d...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 18:51hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Prison Officer wish Mnangagwa becomes mad
A CHINHOYI-based Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officer has appeared in court for allegedly making a disparaging comment over a picture in which President Emmerson Mnangagwa and tra...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Prisons officer in court for undermining Mnangagwa
A 29-year-old male officer with the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) was recently arrested for undermining authority or insulting the President.The accused, Kudzai Peter Mushon...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 18:23hrs | 1 | 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
Heroism can never be shoved down Zimbabweans' throats
The past week, after the official unveiling of Charwe Nyakasikana's (the spirit medium of Mbuya Nehanda) statue in the capital Harare, has reignited highly emotive, and long-standing divisions amongst...Published: 29 May 2021 at 17:22hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Nehanda not a national heroine'
A LOCAL historian has said government erected Mbuya Nehanda's statue for political expediency, distorting history since the heroine of the first war of resistance against colonial rule was not a natio...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:50hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Opposition mayor gives in to ZANU PF's demands
Bindura mayor Brian Kembo yesterday gave in to ZANU PF's demands of ordering every mayor to attend to the unveiling of the statue of Mbuya Nehanda Charwe ...Published: 26 May 2021 at 14:03hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
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
Mnangagwa's rivals slam twisted priorities
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday unveiled a towering bronze statue in the centre of Harare honouring a 19th-century anti-colonialist heroine who was hanged for leading a rebellion against white...Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:51hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa defies COVID-19 protocols
THOUSANDS of people, mostly Zanu-PF supporters, yesterday gathered in defiance of COVID-19 safety protocols in central Harare for the unveiling of the statue of Mbuya Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana....Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Erecting statues more important and should be applauded
Zimbabweans received the unveiling of the great statue of Mbuya Nehanda the first ever recorded Woman army commander after Deborah of the bible. Many were elated and praised His Excellence the p...Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe's national dress fabric triggers debate
THE country's national dress fabric meant to promote and preserve national identity launched by President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the State House at the weekend has been met with mixed reactions....Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:34hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mbuya Nehanda's remains must be repatriated first then erection of the statue
One of the greatest achievements of the President of Zimbabwe comrade Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is to honour the heroes. The president has shown that he does not forget those deserving to be honoured...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:40hrs | 8 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mbuya Nehanda statue ignites debate
ZIMBABWEANS have reacted with mixed feelings to the Mbuya Nehanda statue, which was recently exhibited for President Emmerson Mnangagwa during a tour of Nyati Gallery near Snake Park, where the sculpt...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 16:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa our own Mbuya Nehanda,' says Chinamasa
ZANU-PF acting spokes-person Patrick China-masa yesterday took praise-singing to a new level, describing President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the country's own Mbuya Nehanda, an ancient ancestral spirit fr...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 07:30hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Nehanda sculpture torches storm
WHILE sculpture is a celebrated art form in the country, it appears many have not been able to appreciate some of the artefacts, if the trending disapproval of the memorial statue for the country's la...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Remembering those who made it possible, our fallen heroes
As the blood of the heroes flows beneath our freedom, reminding us that every expression of joy and every fruit of freedom was watered by the blood of our heroes. It will become history if we do not r...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 19:31hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Dozens arrested over Nehanda artefacts
AT LEAST 65 people have been arrested in Mazowe for destroying artefacts belonging to Mbuya Nehanda, the police have said. Mbuya Nehanda, also known as Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana, was one of t...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 17:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Mbuya Nehanda is still displayed in a library
Those who are Christians they do understand the importance of repatriating bones of the loved ones. Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 10:05hrs | 2 | by Dr Maisimba Mavaza
This is Zimbabwe, We should back Strive Masiyiwa
Children of Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana and King Lobengula Khumalo can you hear the new Zimbabwe echo from rock to rock and shrub to shrub in the wet and weathered hills and ridges and slippery slopes ...Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 07:49hrs | 2 | by Tafi Mhaka
Grace Mugabe for president?
President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace on Wednesday received a major boost as chiefs and government ministers gave her a "blank cheque for higher office" in Zanu-PF.With her position as the Wom...Published: 11 Sep 2014 at 13:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
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