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Kembo Mohadi betrayed Matabeleland: Mthwakazi MRP is spot on!
Before he dies, Kembo Mohadi must be told how much he betrayed Ndebele people. To say it post humus is too late. His home region constitutes Matabeleland. Kembo must be told now that he will not be mi...Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 16:05hrs | 607 | by Nomazulu Thata
The idea of Zimbabwe and Matabeleland question
I think the best way to understand the present day manifestations and character of Matebeleland politics is to situate them properly historically and politically within the broader terrain of the deve...Published: 29 Mar 2025 at 17:01hrs | 2187 | by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Blessed Geza should learn from Sam Geza and Simba Makoni
History has a strange way of repeating itself, often with bitter consequences for those who fail to learn from it. In 2008, Simba Makoni, once a high-ranking member of ZANU PF, boldly announced his ca...Published: 10 Mar 2025 at 14:14hrs | 2867 | by John Mbizvo
Chamisa in the shadows of political darkness
Justice Alfred Mavedzenge has done a very informative analysis on the behavior of Nelson Chamisa, and the radical change in his political personality since his ZINASU days of a firebrand student polit...Published: 06 Mar 2025 at 15:08hrs | 662 | by Reason Wafawarova
Phelekezela Mphoko aka Report Ndlovu: A pioneer freedom fighter
THE late former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko was one of the pioneer freedom fighters of our armed struggle. He joined the armed struggle soon after being released from prison and was immediately ...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:55hrs | 184 | by Brigadier-General (Rtd) Abel Mazinyane
Zapu's request to honour Dabengwa stalls at Coltart led council
A request by the Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu) to name a street in Bulawayo after the late liberation icon Dumiso Dabengwa remains unaddressed at the local council offices. The proposal, init...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:20hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wants two more years via backdoor
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his close political allies are now weighing the best constitutional and legal options to secure an additional two years in power outside an election when his second te...Published: 20 May 2024 at 16:41hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Has Chamisa been bought?
IN early 2008, Simba Makoni, with the covert but obvious backing of the late powerful ex-general, Solomon Mujuru, sprung up to the podium and made the brave announcement to stand against Robert Mugabe...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:28hrs | 6 | by Tawanda Majoni
Lookout Khalisabantu Masuku remembered
ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) ex-combatants yesterday held a memorial service in remembrance of their commander Lookout Masuku who died in 1986 shortly after his release from prison....Published: 06 Apr 2024 at 16:06hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU demands inclusion in Gukurahundi resolution process
ZAPU and its former military wing, ZIPRA, have declared that as the primary victims of the Gukurahundi genocide, they should be involved in finding a solution arguing that current efforts to resolve G...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 16:34hrs | 16 | 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 | 137 | by Staff reporter
Zapu celebrates 62 years
Zapu is today celebrating 62 years after its formation with the party spokesperson Mso Ndlovu saying they celebrate this milestone, as they continue on their journey to achieve the full emancipation o...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 11:50hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF's Masuku award courts controversy
HUMAN rights defenders and activists in Matebeleland have expressed outrage after Zanu-PF Matebeleland North provincial chairperson Richard Moyo was conferred with the Lookout Masuku Consistency Award...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 05:09hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa boasts of being Zimbabwe's 'CIO Godfather'
BY his own admission this week, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is the architect of Zimbabwe's brutal security system which has left a trail of human rights violations, abductions, forced disappearances ...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 06:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Joy as Zapu finally wins council seat
ZAPU finally won one council seat in Matebeleland South during the August 23 election for the first time in three decades.Zapu last won a seat in 1985 when the party was led by the late ...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 08:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zapu demands Gukurahundi resolution
OPPOSITION PF Zapu has appealed to all former members to rejoin the party to collectively demand a lasting solution to the emotive Gukurahundi issue.Following the December 1987 Unity Accord th...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 22:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CCC's fortunes in Bulawayo depend on court ruling
THE main opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) risks being blindsided in the 2023 general election campaign, should the High Court disqualify 15 of the party's parliamentary candidates who f...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 21:44hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa's late wife granted State-assisted funeral
IN a poignant display of honour, the late Mrs Zodwa Dabengwa nee Khumalo, the widow of National Hero Cde Dumiso Dabengwa, has been granted a Atate-assisted funeral by the Government. Today, she will b...Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 08:22hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Dumiso Dabengwa's widow dies
MRS Zodwa Dabengwa, the widow of the liberation stalwart and national hero Dumiso Dabengwa has died.Mrs Dabengwa succumbed to cancer yesterday in the United Kingdom.Chronicle could not...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 20:48hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Rethinking Bulawayo back to its roots, don't vote for donkeys
All addresses are local. Literally, everyone has a local address. No one has a national address. That's why politics is local. It's because everyone lives at or belongs to some local place. He...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 13:45hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Moyo
Joshua Nkomo's son says 'It will be a big mistake to vote for Zanu-PF'
ZAPU leader, Sibangilizwe Nkomo, has criticised how Africa is divided, allowing imperial interests to divide the continent while misgovernance and abuse of human rights by post-independent governments...Published: 26 May 2023 at 17:54hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala's case is exposing the opposition
In three months' time, Job Sikhala would have clocked a full year in jail for allegedly inciting public violence and attempting to defeat the course of justice.They say, among other things, he...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
The many political lives of Mohadi
WHEN the "Ides of March" devoured Kembo Mohadi as he stepped down as country Vice-President (VP) late February last year, many thought the epitaph on his political grave had been inscribed for eternit...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zapu to contest in 2023 polls
OPPOSITION Zapu leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo says his party is contesting the 2023 elections to debunk the myth that the party had long ceased to exist following the signing of the Unity Accord in 1987....Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 09:12hrs | | 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
Sikhala says they want to jail him until 2023
ZENGEZA West MP Job Sikhala says there is a sinister political plot by the authorities to keep him in detention beyond the 2023 general elections, The NewsHawks reported.Sikhala, who celebrate...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa feels Sikhala, Sithole's prison torture
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has claimed that the State is maliciously exposing incarcerated legislators Job Sikhala (Zengeza West) and Godfrey Sithole (Chitungwiza North)...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 04:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
Sikhala turns 50 behind bars
DETAINED Citizens Coalition for Change legislator, Job Sikhala, was defiant Sunday as he turned 50-years-old, marking the milestone at the notorious Chikurubi Maximum Prison in Harare where he has bee...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 12:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Report Mphoko never deserted Zapu to join Zanu
The former members of the Rhodesian special branch are the ones who claimed that I deserted the struggle in 1976, to join ZANU.They forget that ZANU was banned in Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambi...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 19:54hrs | 16 | by Phelekezela Mphoko
Joshua Nkomo aide Wolfenden dies
FORMER aide to the late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo, Stanley John Wolfenden has died.He was 75.In a notice yesterday, his family said Wolfenden passed away on Saturday morning at his h...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accused of capturing judiciary
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party (MRP) leader, Mqondisi Moyo, has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of capturing the judiciary and imprisoning his supporters Gukurahundi-style.In a strongly worded ...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi petitions over State brutality
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa over State brutality on its members following incarceration of nine members for violence.Last week, Bulawayo magi...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 08:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu guided by the Joshua Nkomo ethos on Gukurahundi
Gukurahundi is definitely a painful subject to those who witnessed it and those who participated in the military operation. Everyone who is or was involved in the operation agrees that it was a pa...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 14:23hrs | | by Thabo Nkiwane
ZAPU to honour Dabengwa's life in poem
The Zimbabwe African People's Union ( ZAPU) has invited children below the age of 16 to write essays or poems about the life of the party's late president, Dumiso Dabengwa.Msongelwa Ndlovu, th...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:44hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidate defies the odds to win Epworth seat
WHEN she became a member of Parliament following the 2015 by-elections, many people thought she was a chancer. Little did they know that Zalerah Makari's journey to becoming one of the most competitiv...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 07:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Pressure group holds Gukurahundi memorial, frowns at Mugabe Day
MATABELELAND pressure group, Ibhetshu LikaZulu on Monday conducted a Gukurahundi memorial service at Bhalagwe mass graves in Kezi district at a time the State was commemorating Mugabe Day.Guku...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:20hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF cults, national myths, hegemony
THE British are renowned for their liking of leaders, particularly those who took them through tough periods like the Second World War and the Cold War-era. Most notable are army commander Winston Chu...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:23hrs | 3 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
A true leader doesn't create separation, but brings people together!
I love Bluetooth! I fondly remember the first time using it - when we discovered that could actually send SMS texts to each other with my beloved wife Tinta (who was still my fiancée all thos...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 19:42hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zapu mulls recalling ex-members in Zanu-PF
OPPOSITION party Zapu has announced that it was considering recalling its former members who remained in Zanu-PF after the party allegedly pulled out of the Unity Accord signed in 2008.The par...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:11hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mthulisi Hanana takes over a interim ZAPU spokesperson
OPPOSITION party ZAPU has appointed its secretary general Mthulisi Hanana as interim national spokesperson until its new leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo makes substantive appointments.Nkomo, son to ...Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sibangilizwe Nkomo elected new Zapu President
THE son of the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo, Sibangilizwe was Saturday elected new Zapu new president during a drama-filled elective congress held in Bulawayo.Nkomo polled 793 votes to lan...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 18:10hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Sibangilizwe Nkomo loses Zapu Harare nominations
THE late former Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's son, Sibangilizwe, has lost in nominations for Zapu presidency in Harare province after initially being announced as winner in nominations that were later...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
10 Zapu provinces endorse Nkomo presidency
OPPOSITION Zapu's 10 provinces have nominated the late party founder and Vice-President Joshua Mqabuko's son, Sibangilizwe for the party presidency.The nominations began a fortnight ago and Nk...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli's Mnangagwa bootlicking remarks spark outrage
BULAWAYO rights groups have reacted angrily over utterances on Wednesday by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to the effect that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was the best boss ever, saying Ncube was exhib...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zapu in vote buying allegations
THE jockeying for Zapu's presidency ahead of the party's congress set for next month has intensified amid vote buying allegations by some aspiring candidates.Zapu is set to finally hold its el...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 20:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mbeki: The Zimbabwe regime change agenda
SEPTEMBER 2008 became a watershed date in Zimbabwe's post-independence political history. Zanu-PF signed a political agreement, Global Political Agreement (GPA) with the opposition MDCs to protect its...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 20:20hrs | 3 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Who needs two VPs, anyway?
TODAY is six months and 11 days since former vice-president Kembo Mohadi resigned from his post following two weeks of juicy revelations of his bedroom commissions with two married women, one of who w...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:59hrs | 12 | by Tawanda Majon
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
Unity accord died with his father and Mugabe
A SPIRING Zapu president Sibangilizwe Nkomo, son to the late VicePresident Joshua Nkomo, has described the unity accord which his father and the late former President Robert Mugabe signed to end hosti...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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