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Chief Dingani-Nelukoba appeals for restoration of his area
Chief Dingani-Nelukoba of Mabale in Hwange District has called upon the government to reconsider the boundaries of his chiefdom, citing a significant reduction in its size due to encroachments by neig...Published: 26 Oct 2023 at 14:36hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Traditional leaders milking Zanu-PF candidates
Traditional leaders in Masvingo province mainly in Zaka district are making a killing from Zanu-PF candidates who are campaigning ahead of party primary elections set for Saturday March 25.Can...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 11:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to revive chieftainships abolished by colonisers
President Mnangagwa has said Government will continue resuscitating chieftainships that were abolished by the Rhodesian settler regime and implored chiefs to foster peace and unity as the country head...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa upgrades three new Chiredzi chieftainships
President Mnangagwa has created three new chieftainships in Chiredzi after upgrading some sub-chiefs in a move tailored to improve administration of local governance issues in area. The new th...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 17:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief Mahlathini heir apparent dies
The heir apparent to Chief Mahlathini chieftaincy in Tsholotsho, Jabulani Jiyane has succumbed to Covid-19.Jiyane, whose age could not be ascertained, was acting chief following the death of h...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 18:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mysterious fires terrorise families
A SERIES of mysterious fires have reportedly razed three homesteads belonging to three related families in Lupane, forcing them to flee and seek refuge in a bush. The bizarre incidents are tak...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutodi is a lunatic
When we said tribalism is institutionalised system in Zimbabwe you didn't understand now hopefully you get it that when a whole minister thinks that Matabeleland people are not Zimbabweans it actually...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 13:09hrs | | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Money grows on trees - don't uproot them
Jennifer Handondo, a small-scale farmer of Choma district in southern Zambia, plants food crops such as maize mostly for her family's needs.Because of uncharacteristically high temperatures an...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | | by IPS
Mambo dynasty appeals to Nguni chiefs
THE Mambo Dynasty Trust is appealing to Nguni chiefs in Matabeleland region to work with them and share areas of jurisdiction with King Mambo's former chiefs in a bid to restore their identity as Lozi...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govts urged to install female chiefs
WOMEN attending the 2018 Sadc People Summit in Windhoek Namibia have called on the region's governments to respect women's rights and to ensure that females are included in powerful institutions such ...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Zimbabwe should be split into two states
This is the prologue from the book Matabele Rising by David Hilton Barber, Footprint Press, R240Zimbabwe is not one country; to pretend otherwise is a dangerous hallucination. The country has ...Published: 29 May 2018 at 13:56hrs | | by Geoge Mkhwanazi
Chieftainship wrangles stall 13 installations
Government will over the next two months install 13 substantive chiefs across Masvingo Province, where several chieftainship wrangles are awaiting determination by the provincial chiefs' assembly....Published: 14 May 2018 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
A projection on a trajectory Jetson pathway: From here where to Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe future demands best of everything at its best and not worst of everything at its worst unfolding in packages least expected. I use two words advisedly: Trajectory and Jetson. Jetson because i...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 23:23hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Why Zimbabwe should be split into two states
'Matabeleland is bigger than Sierra Leone, Liberia, Malawi, Lesotho, Swaziland, Togo, Guinea Bissau, Rwanda, Burundi, Eritrea and Djibouti, all found in Africa' - ...Published: 28 Oct 2017 at 15:03hrs | 11 | by George Mkhwanazi
Land rights in Zimbabwe, should farmers receive a symbolic $1
This article is part two of an article on current land rights in Zimbabwe. The first article was entitled: Rhodes' Estate ...Published: 27 Aug 2017 at 16:51hrs | 4 | by Ken Sibanda
Coalition anchored on shaky ground
The opposition political parties have failed in their attempt to form a 'formidable' force against ZANU PF. They have shown that they are clueless when it comes to issues of national interests a...Published: 16 May 2017 at 16:17hrs | | by Zivanai Dhewa
Land resettlement still unresolved 36 years later
A Zimbabwean parliamentary committee is currently touring the country sounding public opinion on the national land resettlement programme which was launched shortly after the attainment of independenc...Published: 17 Aug 2016 at 08:27hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Raw as chieftainship is created for Min Mombeshora's father
Five chiefs are clashing in Chikomba District as two new chieftainships including that to be presided over by the biological father of Lands and Rural Ressettlements Minister Dr Douglas Mombeshora hav...Published: 09 Jul 2016 at 06:40hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
'WE' Khumalos are sorry for the genocide presided by our forefathers
Our fore-father and one of the most illustrious leaders to ever evolve in Africa Mzilikazi created the problems for us from onset. I always wish if he had been loyal to king Shaka we could be a better...Published: 02 Dec 2015 at 16:00hrs | 3 | by Bhekifa Mtungwa Khumalo
UN honours Nehanda, Kaguvi
The original Rhodesia police dockets and court judgments that saw First Chimurenga heroes Mbuya Nehanda and Sekuru Kaguvi executed are now on the Memory of the World Register, recognising their roles ...Published: 08 Nov 2015 at 07:49hrs | | by Lincoln Towindo
Rain-making ceremonies for Lake Kariba
TRADITIONAL leaders on both sides of Lake Kariba have been conducting rain-making ceremonies in line with their Tonga tradition in a bid to stop further decline of water levels in the lake, which is c...Published: 28 Oct 2015 at 05:30hrs | | by Walter Nyamukondiwa
The Freedom House Report Needs Sober Reflection (2012)
August 26, 2012To: The Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Hon Morgan TsvangiraiCc: ...Published: 25 Sep 2014 at 09:40hrs | | by Zimbabwe Unemployed People's Association (ZUPA)
Are we better off working with someone ...or being on our own?
From the time the MDC was formed, Zimbabwe has witnessed the worst, docile forms of opposition and intra-party violence. Lives have been disturbed while many other citizens have been subjected to ...Published: 13 Sep 2014 at 07:09hrs | | by ZUPA The Presidium
Swaziland votes in first round of parliamentary elections
Mbabane - Thousands of Swazis voted Saturday in the first round of parliamentary elections that pro-democracy groups have dismissed as window dressing in Africa's last absolute monarchy.Aroun...Published: 24 Aug 2013 at 18:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The Origins of the baNambya People of the Present Day Hwange Area
It is of paramount importance for a person to know where he or she come from, the past and that is the reason why I was forced into this kind of research, to enlighten my fellow colleagues about ...Published: 20 Jun 2013 at 09:28hrs | 14 | by Kufakunesu Mawira
3 chiefs fight over Great Zimbabwe control
THREE traditional leaders here are reportedly feuding over the control and ownership of the Great Zimbabwe monument.The stone monument, 30km outside Masvingo town, is where the name Zimbabwe i...Published: 23 Jun 2012 at 10:25hrs | | by Masvingo Bureau
Chiefs and ZUPA Should Lead Community Trusts
Bulawayo - In 2007, a balanced MDC and ZANU PF house of parliament in Zimbabwe passed the Indigenisation and Empowerment Bill that later became law. AT the time, the empowerment programme appeared to ...Published: 27 Feb 2012 at 12:51hrs | | by Innocent Ndibali
Zanu-PF redrawing Zimbabwe's chiefdoms
Government is redrawing boundaries to demarcate Zimbabwe's chiefdoms following raging wars between and among different chiefs, a Cabinet Minister has disclosed.Work to complete the redrawing ...Published: 13 Jul 2011 at 05:48hrs | | by .
The Tonga people from Binga
The day Binga people will be asked to choose, alphos chuma Binga the land of hard working, and loyal people. Very patient people, look for t...Published: 08 May 2011 at 03:05hrs | | by chief pashu
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