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It's up to Mnangagwa to turn around Zimbabwe
YESTERDAY, Zimbabwe held a subdued 40th commemoration of its National Heroes Day - to salute and celebrate the heroes and heroines who took up arms to emancipate the country from colonial rule....Published: 6 hrs ago | 588 | by Staff reporter
SA's Mbeki once claimed there was no crisis in Zimbabwe - then hundreds of people were butchered... Ramaphosa needs to show real
Saturday 12 April 2008, will forever be the day that most Zimbabweans would wish had never happened, and will forever be embedded in their minds as the day that a prominent and respectable statesman h...Published: 8 hrs ago | 335 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Nelson Chamisa special message to Zimbabwe Defence Forces
Today, the MDC Alliance joins the nation in commemorating our Defence Forces. It is 40 years since the Zimbabwe Defence Forces came into being through the integration of the ZIPRA and ZANLA liberation...Published: 11 hrs ago | 3543 | by MDC Alliance
Ian Khama calls on Zimbabweans to make personal sacrifices
Former Botswana President Seretse Ian Khama called on Zimbabweans to make personal sacrifices to free themselves from the repressive Zanu-PF-led government.Speaking on Botswana's Duma FM, Kham...Published: 20 hrs ago | 5247 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth leader fired over anti-Mnangagwa slur
THE Zanu-PF Bulawayo youth province has fired its district co-ordinating committee (DCC) secretary for youth affairs Munashe Mtutsa for allegedly criticising President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to...Published: 20 hrs ago | 2837 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean liberators have turned oppressors
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions yesterday castigated "a few rogue elements" in the security sectorwho were allegedly benefiting from the feeding trough and abusing Zimbabwean citizens whenev...Published: 20 hrs ago | 1592 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to immortalise Mtshana Khumalo, Queen Lozikeyi Dlodlo, Mgandani Dlodlo
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said the Government is engaged in a programme of erecting statues of eminent liberation icons from the First and Second Chimurenga/Umvukela to immortalise their supreme s...Published: 20 hrs ago | 855 | by Staff reporter
ZDF a formidable, disciplined force for the people: Gen Sibanda
Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Philip Valerio Sibanda shares his views on the significance of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Day, below are excerpts of the interview. Q: What is the si...Published: 20 hrs ago | 1323 | by Staff reporter
Illegal compensation of stolen Zimbabwe assets to white farmers
Good day Mr EditorI would like to publish my opinion /article concerning the above issue in your paper Bulawayo24 with your permission.The compensation deal that was signed between Zan...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:23hrs | 355 | by Mzilikazi Zwane
We remain a nation of heroes
Today, Zimbabweans celebrate Heroes Day; that day when national valour is honoured and cherished on our land.It is that day when we remember, salute and commemorate the huge sacrifice th...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:21hrs | 260 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Futility of wanting to reverse liberation rule in Southern Africa
Realising the futility of aligning with ephemeral and rootless MDC Alliance, the former G40 fugitives domiciled outside the country attempted to refashion themselves as true representatives of Zanu-PF...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 11:48hrs | 161 | by Ranga Mataire
ZANU PF and Wrong Priorities
United Nations is begging the world for US$250million to urgently feed starving Zimbabweans whilst the Zimbabwean government is looking for US$3.5billion to pay 4000 colonial white farmers. There has ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 18:23hrs | 2322 | by Ms Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
Zimbabwe heroes' shrine sends clear message to the world - the country and people are not yet free!
Most people - both locally and globally - have always associated the National Heroes Acre in the Zimbabwe capital Harare, with largely being merely an impressive cemetery for those deemed outstanding ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 14:33hrs | 2055 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans' political consciousness now very high
MDC Alliance deputy chairman Job Wiwa Sikhala has said Zimbabweans' political consciousness as a people can now be taken for granted by those blinded with oppressive power but in the mind of every pai...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 13:56hrs | 1611 | by Stephen Jakes
Why US$3.5bn deal for farmers is problematic
PATRICK Chinamasa, acting spokesperson in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF government, has announced that, through the signing of the government's "Global Compensation Agreement" on July 29, 202...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:07hrs | 915 | by Ben Freeth
Zimbabwe: False narratives and false solutions
Donkey years ago I was preparing for a doctoral dissertation defence when my professor called me to say I had been "referred". That was a nice word for saying the dissertation was unacceptable to one ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:05hrs | 445 | by Kenneth Mufuka
#Blacklivesmatter: Slavery and the church
SLAVERY can be defined as a form humanto-human captivity to extract some servitude of one kind or another. A human thus becomes the property of another. Since time immemorial, slavery has existed for ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:04hrs | 426 | by Prosper Tingini
Chief Maduna and the liberation struggle
ONE of the country's longest serving traditional leaders, Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu, is recovering from a stroke he suffered in August last year, but when one mentions the Heroes Day, which the country w...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:48hrs | 596 | by Staff reporter
Beyonce won't vote in Zimbabwe
The Bishop laughed his lungs out last week when he saw the desperate efforts of some activists who were trying to foist their latest hashtag movement on US singer Beyonce.There was a lot of eu...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:43hrs | 382 | by Bishop Lazarus
Zanu-PF, ANC unite against renewed onslaught
African countries have once again become targets of a smear campaign to discredit former liberation war movements, with the continent erstwhile colonisers working with opposition parties to cause disc...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:29hrs | 362 | by Staff reporter
Region turns heat on Mnangagwa
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa has voiced his concern over the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe that has seen a spike in State-sponsored abductions, arrests and torture of opposition activ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:02hrs | 7926 | by Staff reporter
Dead Zanu-PF funder removed from US sanctions list
THE US government has removed from its targeted sanctions list, late Zimbabwe businessman and Zanu-PF benefactor, John Bredenkamp and 20 of his companies.Bredenkamp died 20 June this year aged...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:13hrs | 4960 | by newzimbabwe
Law on anti-Zimbabwe lobbying on cards
Political parties should be placed under a uniform code of conduct, hate speech should be banned and campaigning against Zimbabwe criminalised, the Cabinet Committee on National Peace and Reconciliati...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Zim signs US$3.5bn White Settler Farmer Deal! Betrayal of Chimurenga!
White Colonial Settlers are going to be compensated by Zimbabweans for land developments they made on the land prior to Land reform exercise. Poor peasants with no land rights to their own pieces of l...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:49hrs | 376 | by Ms Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
'Malema struggling for significance,' says ZANU-PF Youth League
THE ZANU-PF Youth League says the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema is struggling for significance in his native South Africa and he cannot authoritatively comment on Zimbabwe...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 18:34hrs | 2843 | by Staff reporter
Poverty fighting...our generational struggle
Every generation has its own unique Struggle to fight for without shame or apology. Born Free from Colonial rule we are chained by Poverty. We have no jobs and by 2030 when we are in our 50s, unable t...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 18:00hrs | 327 | by Lynnette Tendayi Mudehwe
Masvingo dumps colonial streets names
Masvingo City Council has completed renaming key streets in the ancient city after the country's living and departed heroes of the struggle against colonial rule that culminated with the attainment of...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF claims to respect constitutional provisions
THE Global Compensation Agreement (GCA) on payment of improvements on land acquired under the land reform redistribution programme is a milestone and a significant phase in the trajectory of the natio...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda jumps on Malema's throat
Comrade Victor Matemadanda lashes out at "idiot Malema" outspoken South African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema who has described President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a fool...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 00:40hrs | 8143 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa's Rhodesian-style terror tactics condemned
The Zimbabwe Communist Party has condemned President Emmerson Mnangagwa way of dealing with activists and journalists in the country labeling it a Rhodesian terror tactic style. The General Se...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 15:35hrs | 2123 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Land reform beneficiaries must compensate ex-farmers
GOVERNMENT'S US$3,5 billion compensation offer to former commercial farmers dispossessed of land during the land reform programme has raised a lot of anxiety within and outside the country's borders, ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:19hrs | 1167 | by Staff reporter
What happened to Zimbabwe - how could a principled Chimurenga/Umvukela produce such an uncaring rogue and brutal regime?
Last night (2 August 2020), I did something I had ceased doing in quite a long time - watched something on the state broadcaster, ZBC (Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation), other than the news and some ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 14:47hrs | 1410 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
West lacks moral high ground to lecture us on human rights
There were many lessons from the total failure of the Western instigated July 31 regime change planned demonstration. The first lesson that must have dawned on local opposition, including their Wester...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:48hrs | 138 | by Ranga Mataire
Mbuya Nehanda's remains are still in a London Museum as she is insulted by Ryton Dzimiri
I have written this article to respond to a number of Zimbabweans who are holier than thou and have declared Mbuya Nehanda Nyakasina a demon. Ryton Dzimiri a self-proclaimed holy man commented i...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 07:20hrs | 1360 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
1893 MHRRM on Perence Smallboy Chikerema Shiri's death
The most evil and barbaric man who led the Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide accompanied with mass beatings, mass rapes, mass disappearances and mass starvation of the Matebele through curfews in the ...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 08:52hrs | 10837 | by 1893 MHRRM Bayethe Board of Directors
White Compensation; How about ZAPU Properties?
The European colonialists dispossessed our forefather of their land through a bloody and barbaric grab which left them poverty stricken and marginalised. It beggars belief that the formerly dispossess...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 16:14hrs | 1202 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Opposition party distances self from its leader's utterances
NEWLY-FORMED opposition party, The Patriotic Front (TPF) has distanced itself from utterances made by its leader, Darryl Collet last week where he urged the country to forget both colonialism and Guku...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:40hrs | 1040 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to pay US$3.5 billion compensation to white farmers
Zimbabwe agreed on Wednesday to pay US$3.5 billion in compensation to white farmers whose land was expropriated by the government to resettle black families, moving a step closer to resolving one the ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:10hrs | 688 | by Reuters
Nehanda statue erection challenged
A HARARE man wants the High Court to stop the erection of the statue of Zimbabwe's late heroine, Mbuya Nehanda, in the capital, arguing the government had bypassed traditional rites by not engaging he...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:07hrs | 1793 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa signs deal to pay white farmers US$3.5 billion
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed a historic agreement with the Commercial Farmers Union of Zimbabwe and the Southern African Commercial Farmers Alliance which mandates Zimabbwe to pay white com...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 14:40hrs | 1422 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mr Mnangagwa: Are you not kicking the can down the road?
DEAR President ED Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, I hope I find you well. The political script playing out in Zimbabwe is quite familiar not only to me, but many other citizens now fed up with the ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:07hrs | 3714 | by Rashweat Mukundu
Mnangagwa's regime should not insult Zimbabweans' intelligence
On 25 July 2020, I penned an article to the effect that, most of us who are bravery and nrelentingly standing up, and speaking up (in the process, placing our own lives in grave danger, but for a very...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 11:21hrs | 2163 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
To hell with selfish behaviour: Freedom for all is a calling
MDC Alliance deputy chairman Job Wiwa Sikhala has said he will never venture into selfish actions by allowing money he earns through law practice to silence his calling for freedom for all."TO...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 10:00hrs | 4338 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF to beat up protesters?
ZANU PF yesterday urged its supporters to beat up protesters who will take to the street on July 31 and threatened to kick out United States ambassador to Zimbabwe, Brian Nichols for allegedly support...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:40hrs | 2006 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF labels Chamisa's MDC a 'terrorist organisation'
Zanu-PF on Monday urged its supporters to use "any means at your disposal" to disrupt anti-government protests planned for July 31, as a spokesman labelled the main opposition MDC Alliance party a ter...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 19:32hrs | 1643 | by Staff reporter
A selfish proliteriate, a voracious educated elite and a rapacious ruling class - The opiate numbing Zimbabwe
Wrote in 1943, Karl Marx's celebrated dictum, "religion is the opium of the people," entered popular lexicon and according to Rosie Blau ,still resonates with 4,5 billion people the world over who ide...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 23:10hrs | 1767 | by Evangelist Sendekai W.T
Mnangagwa's lockdown is clumsy, weird
ONE thing that the "new dispensation" of President Emmerson Mnangagwa will always be remembered for with frustration and contempt is its clumsy articulation of policy.You would have thought th...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:15hrs | 5394 | by Tawanda Majoni
Thomas Mapfumo raps Mnangagwa govt
Chimurenga musician Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo on Friday took another dig at the Zanu-PF government accusing it of failing to uphold the constitution thereby giving a wrong reflection of the essence of ...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:08hrs | 10589 | by Staff reporter
NGO plans Africa's self-determination, sovereign development programmes to fight Covid-19
A non-governmental organisation - International Coalition Against Coronavirus (ICAC) is planning to conduct programmes that are meant to enable Africa to have self-determination, sovereign devel...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:05hrs | 132 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa's govt warns US against interference?
THE arrest of political activists Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume last week, was a pre-emptive move by authorities to quell a potentially violent foreign-funded insurrection meant to destabilis...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:56hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
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