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Joshua Nkomo commemoration set for tomorrow
The Joshua Nkomo Restoration Project Trust, together with The Joshua Nkomo Foundation, will host a commemoration event tomorrow at the Matshamhlope Museum to mark the 26th anniversary of the death of ...Published: 30 Jun 2025 at 13:16hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga pays tribute to Matebeleland heroes
VICE President, Dr Constantino Chiwenga, yesterday paid tribute to the liberation struggle heroes from Matebeleland South Province and urged the electorate to vote in their numbers for the ruling part...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 06:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Voting opposition brought nothing to Matebeleland'
VOTERS in Matebeleland South Province have been urged to shutout all opposition parties in their multiplicity of names from power as they have dismally failed to develop the province during their 13 y...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:41hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangangwa calls nation to honour legacy of liberation icons
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday invoked the spirit of the late Vice-President Dr Joshua Nkomo as he called for the nation to rally behind Zanu-PF in the August 23 elections to honour the contributions o...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:40hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's Contribution to the struggle for freedom
When the iconic Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo died on the 1st of July 1999, the generality of Matabeleland felt demobilised, further isolated and wondering if it would ever achieve peace in Zimbabwe. Father...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 19:50hrs | 12 | by Freedom Alliance
Zanu-PF remembers Joshua Nkomo with Bulilima rally?
THE Zanu-PF rally to be addressed by President Mnangagwa at Nyele Primary School in Bulilima District, Matebeleland South Province today is a celebration as it is the rolling out of the ruling party's...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 08:01hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo named dogs after Ian Smith and his wife
WHAT Ian Smith and his Rhodesian Government had not anticipated was the resilience of the country's nationalists.They remained courageous and refused to regard the hardships and strenuous chal...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The enablers of Shona hegemony and enemies of Mthwakazi's peoples' emancipation from the MLF President
Greetings to all!, The compilation of this article identifies the enablers of Shona hegemony among others as the so-called "ZPRA Legacy Group". This group is comprised of charlatans who are in...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 09:37hrs | 26 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Another ploy of rewriting history by the Zanu-PF regime
Greetings to all! FROM THEMTHWAKAZI LIBERATION FRONT PRESIDENTDR CHURCHILL MP...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 15:13hrs | 13 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Mashonalanders and Mnangagwa takes over Gukurahundi genocide resolution
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has launched a manual on the Gukurahundi community engagement processes by chiefs including a report on their consultative meetings as the Second Republic takes a bold step towards...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chief Fuyana: The warrior who delivered the fatal blow on Major Allan Wilson
DEEP down in the hills of rural Matobo District sits Mbembeswana, a humble and unassuming village. But, humble as it may appear, it is where the remains of one of the greatest Ndebele warriors, Chief ...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter
Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo through the eyes of his bodyguard
THE late Vice-President Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo was an open -minded and friendly person who freely interacted with everyone throughout his entire political life regardless of social standing, one of h...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:31hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo was a strategist, says Tshinga Dube
THE late Vice-President, Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, was a shrewd military strategist who championed military training initiatives for several freedom fighters, which led to the country's independence in...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:34hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Joshua Nkomo fought for black empowerment'
AS Zimbabwe marks the 23rd anniversary of the death of Vice-President Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo, Zanu-PF Second Secretary Kembo Mohadi has urged the nation to cherish the values of unity, freed...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Joshua Nkomo's legacy lives on'
TODAY marks 23 years since the late veteran nationalist and Vice President, Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo died, and the nation still cherishes his lifetime legacy of selfless sacrifice, peace, unit...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
116-year old Inyathi Mission still exudes medieval charm
WITH walls of red-coloured rustic clay face bricks, the medieval 116-year-old Inyathi Mission, the country’s oldest Christian mission station and first to offer education to blacks in Zimbabwe still...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:31hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
116-year Inyathi Mission still looks charming
WITH walls of red-coloured rustic clay face bricks, the medieval 116-year-old Inyathi Mission, the country's oldest Christian mission station and first to offer education to blacks in Zimbabwe still l...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 06:49hrs | 26 | by Staff Reporter
Khaya Moyo: Selfless freedom fighter
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has mourned nationalist and liberation struggle stalwart Simon Khaya Moyo, who has been declared a national hero, as a true patriot, courageous and selfless freedom fighter....Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo's journey over the years
Zanu-PF secretary for Information and Publicity Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo, who died yesterday at the age of 76, was born in Plumtree, Matabeleland South on October 1 1945 to Mr Robert Khaya Ngulani ...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:24hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zapu to hold elective congress next month
ZAPU is expected to hold its elective congress next month with six candidates jostling for the party's top post. The elective congress, which seeks to elect a new leadership following the death of the...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
National hero Nkiwane gets befitting send-off
A SOMBRE atmosphere engulfed Joyful Farm in Umguza District yesterday as people from all walks of life gathered at the farm to give the late national hero Abraham Dumezweni Nkiwane a befitting send-of...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nkiwane burial date set
THE late national hero, Abraham Nkiwane, will be buried tomorrow at his farm on the outskirts of Umguza District while burial arrangements for two other national heroes, Commander of the Zimbabwe Nati...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nkiwane snubs Heroes Acre burial
THE family of the national hero Abraham Nkiwane has said it is yet to come up with the burial date of the veteran nationalist. They agreed that the liberation stalwart will be buried at his farm in Um...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 10:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wades into Zapu properties decades later
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, whose father is believed to have been a general in the Zimbabwe army, yesterday waded into the long-drawn Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zpra) pro...Published: 06 Jul 2021 at 10:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Intelligence tactics, not juju saved Big Josh, says ex-aide
The late Father Zimbabwe Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo is known to have evaded many assassination attempts by his enemies during the liberation struggle, hence the name Chibwe Chitedza.As the countr...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 17:29hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa remembers Joshua Nkomo
THE late Vice President Joshua Nkomo who died on July 1, 1999 was a great man whose legacy of love, unity and peace shall always be followed, President Mnangagwa said.Posting on micro-blogging...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 17:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nkomo family hailed for preserving Father Zimbabwe legacy
Government has paid tribute to the family of the late former Vice President of Zimbabwe, Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo for the work they have done in preserving the legacy of Father Zimbabwe.Speakin...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:08hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The desecretion of the memory of gukurahundi victims
Greeting to all! Just when the memory of victims of the Gukurahundi, was brought to the attention of all the people of Mthwakazi, by Ibhetshu Likazulu, through the erection of tombstones, it w...Published: 29 May 2021 at 17:27hrs | 2 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Crisis Coalition blasts Mnangagwa's spin doctor
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has vowed to continue with its pursuit for a democratic society in the wake of continued intimidation by some top government officials irked by the NGO grouping's w...Published: 12 May 2021 at 10:33hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Father Zimbabwe's son to take over ZAPU presidential post?
The late former Vice President Joshua Nkomo's son, Sibangilizwe Nkomo, is set to take up a senior position in Zapu following his resignation from Joshua Nkomo Legacy Restoration Project Tr...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 09:14hrs | | by Shelton Muchena
The Unity Accord & Gukurahundi
The 1987 unity accord meant nothing then to the people of Mathebeleland and the Midlands and it means nothing to them today. We said it then and we are saying it today. It actually made the leader of ...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 09:30hrs | 3 | by Clemen Moyo
ZAPU RSA provincial press statement on the province's roadmap to provincial conference and national congress
Zimbabwe African People's Union South Africa Provincial leadership Council sat on 04 October 2020 to take stock of the progress that has been made and the shortfalls that still need to be covered. ...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 13:20hrs | 1 | by Cde Godfrey Viki
Stay loyal to Dr Nkomo, vote Zanu-PF, says Khaya Moyo
ZANU-PF Secretary for Information and Publicity, Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo has said that the people of Mangwe in Matabeleland South need to stay loyal to the ruling party as doing so meant they woul...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 09:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must say why UMthwakwzi must not opt out - MLF
If Zimbabwe is a Unitary State why mention it time and again? This is a big question Mnangagwa must answer. All unitary States the world over do not mention it. Mnangagwa is doing so to try and force ...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 17:45hrs | 3 | by MLF
Nkomo remembered in South Africa
ZIMBABWEANS in South Africa this past weekend held a belated Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo commemoration where a number of local artists provided entertainment. Hundreds of the country's citizens...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Work on Bulawayo-Kezi road to honour Joshua Nkomo'
MATOBO North Member of Parliament Edgar Moyo has called on the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development to work on the Bulawayo-Kezi Road as a way of honouring the late Vice-President Dr ...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo to be honoured
SOUTH Africa-based Matabeleland Entertainment News (M.E.N) is set to stage this year's edition of the annual Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Celebration through arts at the Berea Charles Gorchel Park (Mtshang...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Joshua Nkomo deserves sainthood'
ZIMBABWEANS should lobby the Catholic Church to declare Father Zimbabwe and former Vice President, Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, a saint in honour of his contribution to humanity, an official said yesterda...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo pays tribute to Father Zimbabwe
Late Vice President and founding nationalist Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo was a national leader who played a leading role in fostering unity in the country. This was said by Zanu-PF spokesperson Si...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
The death of Dr Dumiso Dabengwa - A fiting tribute to an enigma
1. Paying tribute to an enigma I was on a bus on Thursday morning, the 24th May 2019, travelling through Botswana from Kwa Bulawayo, Mthwakazi when news abo...Published: 30 May 2019 at 15:45hrs | 7 | by Dr Mpiyesizwe Churchill Guduza
Galen House Medical Centre founder dies
PROMINENT medical practitioner and former Bulawayo City Council councillor, Dr Garry Ferguson, who founded Galen House and Medical Centre in the city, has died. He was 89. Dr Ferguson ...Published: 22 May 2019 at 00:22hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Valerio Sibanda's war time exploits
LET me congratulate General Philip Valerio Sibanda for his new post as the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) commander.I met Comrade Ananias Gwenzi (General PV Sibanda), in Zambia in March 1974 at...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 09:01hrs | 11 | by Dr Milton, Chemhuru
New hospital set for Bulawayo
BULAWAYO is set to have another hospital to ease pressure on Mpilo Central and United Bulawayo Hospitals which are heavily burdened with patients. The two referral hospitals cater for emergenc...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 22:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
JZ Moyo dared Joshua Nkomo
The article gives an insight into the life of Moyo and also projects him as a fearless individual who did not hesitate to challenge his leader, the late Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo when he felt things wer...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:28hrs | 2 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Aide shares memory of Joshua Nkomo
One of the founding fathers of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle and late Vice President Dr Joshua Nkomo, a larger than life character is still alive in the hearts of many, for he was and still is an ico...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:35hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
How Nelson Chamisa lost the elections
If you were looking for the perfect candidate to run in an elections after over three decades of undemocratic rule to replace a dictator who is 94 years, you would probably assume that someone young, ...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 07:37hrs | | by Jealousy Dutiro
Joshua Mqabuko Day celebrations in SA
MATABELELAND Entertainment News (MEN) based in South Africa will present the annual Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Celebration Through Arts at the Aleck Gorshel Park, Berea in Johannesburg, South Africa, on ...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga unpacks military's role in peace-building
I feel honoured to speak on "The role of the military in peac-building and national reconciliation" itself a topic under the broad theme "A Reflection on Ethical Leadership. The theme honours the 100t...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Dr Constantino Chiwenga
Ekusileni to open before year end
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has made a spirited commitment to open Ekusileni Medical Centre in Bulawayo before year end saying he is going to make sure nothing will stand on the way of his efforts to bring fr...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 16:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ekusileni Medical Centre to open before year end
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has made a spirited commitment to open Ekusileni Medical Centre in Bulawayo before year end saying he is going to make sure nothing will stand on the way of his efforts to bring fr...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 11:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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