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WATCH: Chiwenga says 'Shonas are cowards'
Popular street preacher Talent Chiwenga has ignited a political and ethnic firestorm following a sermon in which he accused the ruling ZANU PF party of deliberately marginalising Zimbabweans of Ndebel...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 14:49hrs | 1848 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi honoured with Induna Matshe Leadership Excellence Award
Vice President Kembo Mohadi was yesterday honoured with the prestigious Induna Matshe Leadership Excellence Award in recognition of his steadfast loyalty to Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, exceptional...Published: 26 Mar 2025 at 07:39hrs | 849 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe edgy over delayed return of Nehanda skull
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe has emphasized the need to conclude discussions on the repatriation of skulls of Zimbabwean heroes taken to Britain during the colonial era. ...Published: 21 Dec 2024 at 08:18hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
Zim concedes Parirenyatwa's plea for veterans decent burials
The government (through Parliament) is progressively conceding to pressure from the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA), after its membership successfully petitioned authori...Published: 20 Dec 2024 at 21:01hrs | 1310 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Kazembe focuses on graveyards, as National Heroes Acre nears full
Zimbabwe's national shrine (National Heroes Acre) is facing acute burial slots insufficiency and the government is rolling out extension programme to ensure more space is availed for heroes and heroin...Published: 19 Dec 2024 at 12:28hrs | 620 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa honours nephew Tongai and others
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has commended individuals and organizations for their pivotal roles in Zimbabwe's liberation struggle and ongoing national development efforts. These individuals included ...Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 06:47hrs | 987 | by Staff reporter
Since Mnangagwa is a mere Munhumutapa, is the way now open for Mthwakazi?
For some time now, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has proudly referred himself as Munhumutapa.This was the title of the kings of...Published: 13 Jul 2024 at 23:38hrs | 145 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe to open passport offices in US, UK and Zambia
The Cabinet recently approved the Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage's Integrated Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Systems Strategy, which aims to computerize government depa...Published: 09 Jun 2024 at 09:03hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to open Pupu National Monument
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is expected to officially commission the reconstructed Pupu National Monument in Lupane, Matebeleland North Province, this week as the country corrects distorted historical narrati...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 12:57hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
ZimDaily recycling a discredited historical myth
While most progressive Zimbabweans are genuinely outraged by renegade political activist Sengezo Tshabangu's calculated and determined assault on democracy at the behest of forces of darkness by disru...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 09:32hrs | 276 | by Dumisani Muleya
A sad Christmas present from clueless Mthuli Ncube
The just presented 2024 budget by Prof Mthuli Ncube has left Zimbabweans in shock. This is the worst budget ever produced by minister of Finance since independence and the colonial era.It has ...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 10:39hrs | 15 | by Leonard Koni
CCC: A political project, or just a weakling?
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has been plunged into chaos again following recent recalls that have culminated in by-elections this coming December. Most are wondering, with all the l...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 16:55hrs | 14 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Zimbabweans rejects Mbuya Nehanda note as inflation soars
Vendors and some retailers in Harare are now refusing to accept the ZW$50 banknote introduced in 2021 by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor John Mangudya. This refusal is unsurprising as the note...Published: 05 Oct 2023 at 19:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Heroes Day: Guns that silenced history's villains
Towards the end of the First Chimurenga in 1896, Cecil John Rhodes called for an indaba with Matabele chiefs, and among them was a young traditional leader, who asked a valid and pertinent question....Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 06:42hrs | 21 | by Elliot Ziwira
A vote to remain masters of our own destiny
Here we reproduce excerpts of President Mnangagwa's speech to Zanu-PF supporters at Nyele Primary School in Bulilima, Matebeleland South province, yesterday.SalutationsWhen Jesus was b...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:39hrs | 29 | by Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa
Judas Iscariot and the Gold Mafia
When we look at the character of Judas in the Bible we notice that one has to belong to a certain group of people in power or has to form his own group th...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 07:27hrs | | by Erick Matotoba
Zimbabwe was colonized through a 'mega deal', and happening again with the Chinese and Belarusians
When people talk of colonization, there are those with the misguided notion that this only occurs via military conquest - usually, by a more powerful nation over a far weaker one.Yet, this cou...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Does Zimbabwe need the Commonwealth?
ZIMBABWE joined the Commonwealth in 1980 after gaining independence from Britain - in what appeared to be a major victory for the Commonwealth. Twenty-three years down the road, Zimbabwe quit the Comm...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 2 | by Vusi Nyamazana
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
National Heroes Acre expansion approved
The National Heroes Acre will be expanded with 104 graves to be added to take its carrying capacity to 299.Cabinet yesterday approved the proposed architectural designs for the Phase 2 of the ...Published: 05 Oct 2022 at 06:31hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Which Western countries brainwashed Mbuya Nehanda into rebelling against oppression?
I never understand Zimbabwe's political elite! Whenever I listen to President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, I am left dumbfounded as to why he fails to see that today's freedom fighters - some ...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 17:40hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
State of a Zimbabwean worker lamentable
AS the world celebrated Workers Day yesterday, my heart bled with sorrow about the current conditions of the majority of workers in Zimbabwe.One of the reasons that led to the liberation strug...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:01hrs | | by Linda T Masarira
Mtshana Khumalo: The general who outfoxed villain Allan Wilson
A MILITARY tactician, General Mtshana Khumalo, commanded an elite group of fighters tasked with safeguarding King Lobengula's life and dignity as he trekked north at the height of the Matabele War of ...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:27hrs | 19 | by Elliot Ziwira
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
Chamisa's futile attempt to steal Zanu-PF history
DURING his visit to Boston in 1921, Albert Einstein made a famous statement. "Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of minds to think," he said. This statement by one of the greates...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:25hrs | | by Major Action Mandingo (Retired)
Chamisa's supporters attempts to deface Nehanda statue
POLICE yesterday arrested a Citizens for Coalition Change (CCC) activist who was moving around town clad in the opposition party's colours chanting anti-Government slogans before attempting to deface ...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:34hrs | 1 | by Staf reporter
Unpacking Nyika Inovakwa Nevene Vayo Philosophy
During our War of Liberation, we had a huge rear base in Mozambique called Mudzingadzi.As with many of our rear bases, Mudzingadzi suffered repeated Rhodesian air raids.One such raid c...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:18hrs | 4 | by E.D. Mnangagwa
Chamisa embraces MUgabe's land reform programme?
POLITICAL analysts yesterday hailed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa for supporting the land reform programme saying that it showed that his new political outfit was different...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
UK can help solve mystery of Mbuya Nehanda's missing skull
FOR Zimbabweans have been calling on Britain to return the skulls of a former spiritual leader, Mbuya Nehanda, and several chiefs who were killed during the First Chimurenga, an Ndebele-Shona revolt a...Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 09:06hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military remains single decisive factor in politics
The opprobrium that characterised the rebuke of remarks made by Chief Murinye by the Vice President of Zimbabwe, Dr Constantino Chiwenga exemplifies the reality around the power matrix in Zimbabwe....Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 16:40hrs | 16 | by Sapien Sapien
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
Zimbabwe military displays hardware at park
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) yesterday launched its exhibition park at the Museum of African Liberation (MAL) premises in Harare. ZDF Commander General Phillip Sibanda, Zimbabwe National Army Com...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Peace isn't merely absence of violence - even Rhodesia was peaceful for nearly 80 years!
I still have school textbooks published in Rhodesia for the so-called "European education" - which I have kept dearly, due to the exceptionally high learning content, compared to the mediocre stuff in...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 09:17hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Is it hunger, or pure greed and amorality, that leads Zimbabweans to betray and abandon the suffering majority?
One image has been haunting me this morning - which got me thinking long and hard on the apparent extremely troubling propensity for Zimbabweans to betray and abandon their fellow suffering countrymen...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 13:46hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa awards his wife with 'Order of the Great Zimbabwe Silver'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has created national awards to honour outstanding Zimbabweans - and one of the first recipients is his wife, Auxillia.Mrs Mnangagwa was awarded an Order of the...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 14:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti says Mthuli Ncube is 'clueless and incompetent'
FORMER Finance Minister Tendai Biti says the current head of Treasury Mthuli Ncube is "clueless and incompetent" who hopes that God or the spirit of Mbuya Nehanda will keep the economy afloat....Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:48hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF goes digital
Zanu-PF Harare province yesterday launched its computer data capturing centre as part of the Revolutionary Party's goal of having a national database to account for its members as well as programmes. ...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC's Madzokere abandoned by wife
FREED MDC activist Tungamirai Madzokere carried a broken figure as he narrated how he only got to know his wife had abandoned their matrimonial home eight months ago.Dejected and seemingly out...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is a global museum, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday described Zimbabwe as the "museum capital" of the world as he called on local authorities to rename buildings and streets after the country's heroes and traditio...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Angry citizens to destroy Nehanda statue: Prophecy
POPULAR Prophet Blessing Chiza has once again courted controversy, and the ire of the government, after his weekend's prophecy predicting the newly-erected Mbuya Nehanda statue faces demolition by res...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 07:06hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe exhumation and the legend of Chief Zvimba
I will not enter the debate on where the late Robert Mugabe's body must be buried or reburied.Hearing the debate raging in the media reminded me of the legendary Chief Matthew or Matewu Zvimba...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:53hrs | 2 | by Tererai R. Mafukidze
Honouring Mbuya Nehanda was a coup for Mnangagwa
We, from the Zipra side of the Zimbabwe nationalist movement, do not agree with President Ammerson Mnangagwa on many issues, but on the issue of honouring Mbuya Nehanda, reclaiming our history and rew...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:50hrs | 3 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabwe team leaves for UK
THE National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ) is preparing to dispatch a team of experts to the United Kingdom to assess a catalogue of human remains believed to be of First Chimurenga war her...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mbuya Nehanda is a Zimbabwean heroine - Archivist
The erection of Mbuya Nehanda statue in Harare had created a lot of debate in Zimbabwe. Some people are of the view that the gesture was long overdue whil...Published: 30 May 2021 at 07:12hrs | 3 | by Etiwel Mutero
Britain denies having Nehanda's skull
THE Natural History Museum in London, which has an extensive collection of artefacts, says it does not have First Chimurenga heroine Ambuya Nehanda's skull as constantly alleged by the Zimbabwean gove...Published: 29 May 2021 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa decries lampooning of Zimbabwean culture
President Mnangagwa has described as unfortunate, the denigration of Zimbabwean culture and history by some citizens who celebrate foreign cultures.Speaking at the 37th graduation ceremony of ...Published: 29 May 2021 at 08:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'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
Britain keen to return Nehanda's skull
BRITAIN is committed to working with Zimbabwean authorities for the repatriation of the remains of Mbuya Nehanda and other First Chimurenga heroes.This comes as the Second Republic on Wednesda...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:37hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Britain pressured to return Nehanda skull
Pressure is mounting on the British to return the head of Mbuya Nehanda whose statue was unveiled by President Mnangagwa on Wednesday much to the delight of not only Zimbabweans, but the world at larg...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
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