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Removing Mukuru will open Pandora's box!
Whether we are in the Diaspora or in the homeland, events unfolding in Zimbabwe will affect us all. The story of Pandora comes from the Greek poem, Theogony by Hesiod circa 700 BC. Once a...Published: 23 Feb 2025 at 18:09hrs | 2774 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Bulawayo City Council moots 5 days water shedding schedule?
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is planning to introduce a new water-shedding schedule, which will see residents going for 120 hours without water with Government yesterday assuring residents that it ...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 05:28hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo ordered to name street after Uhuru Kunyatta
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has ordered the Bulawayo City council to rename one of the city's major roads after Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta.Kenyatta is set to visit Zimbabwe's...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 20:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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
BCC writes to Mnangagwa's govt over street name changes
THE Bulawayo City Council is waiting for Government approval on their own individual street name changes after the High Court ruled that they cannot adhere to the names that were effected through a St...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Rhodesia better than Zimbabwe?
I RECENTLY penned the most painful and heart-rending article, titled, Our elderly experienced life under both Rhodesia and Zimbabwe, so why arrest them when they say Ian Smith was better? I fo...Published: 20 May 2021 at 06:38hrs | 14 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mohadi: Tale of a brave man knocked down by ruinous sex
LIKE many of his contemporaries, Kembo Dugishi Campbell Mohadi - who hails from Mtetengwe area 40 kilometres west of Beitbridge border town along the Bulawayo highway - belongs to a generation which w...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:03hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
The other side of Rhodesia’s education system
One of, if not the only critical aspect of the Rhodesian educational system was that it was inspired with skills. Of course, there is tons of empirical evidence on the vices of institutionalised racia...Published: 24 May 2019 at 15:39hrs | 121 | by Rejoice Ngwenya
Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland
While I was going through my archives I came across the Election Manifesto below. Quite interesting.PATRIOTIC UNION OF MANDEBELELAND (PUMA)ELECTION MANIFES...Published: 21 May 2019 at 12:35hrs | 21 | by PUMA
It's most dangerous not to know where we are
It's self-evident that the situation in Zimbabwe is very much unsettled at the moment, but to go on to deconstruct it and reconstruct it to suit one's political narrative of the present is mendacious....Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Conway Tutani
Zimbabwe Struggle, The Delayed Revolution: an Autobiography
The need to account for multiple narratives in the history of the liberation struggle compelled Andrew Ndlovu's autobiography to proffer his narrative from the front. The book serves to demonstrate th...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 12:29hrs | 28 | by Brian Maregedze
Mugabe's former white minister pens biography 'Mugabe's White Hand Man'
FORMER Agriculture minister, Dennis Norman, flew into the country from his retirement base in England to launch his autobiography - The Odd Man In: Mugabe's White Hand Man - which traces his life in t...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Why evil greed in Government can NEVER live forever
The evil handling of fellow countrymen has one BALACING end -EVIL DOES NOT GET ANY TROPHY TO SHOW after two decades of it's reign. This, is best explained by the audit of The Law of Balance, which in ...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 17:02hrs | 5 | by Multiverse Dungani
Mutambara raped Judith Todd during Gukurahundi era?
Former Agriculture minister Rugare Gumbo yesterday said both Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) leader Retired Brigadier Agrippa Mutambara and the party's interim secretary-general Kudakwashe Bhasikiti sho...Published: 26 Oct 2017 at 09:04hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
US was warned about Gukurahundi
THIS is the fourth in a series of articles of a detailed research paper by British academic Hazel Cameron on the state-sponsored killings of civilians by Zimbabwean security forces between 1982 and 19...Published: 26 May 2017 at 07:05hrs | | by Hazel Cameron, British academic
In Zimbabwe Elections Will Never Be a Tool to Change Government for As Long As Zanu Is in Power
Introduction: Who Really Is Zanu? A political organization that timely took an opportunity to talk right language at the right time on the need to fight...Published: 31 Mar 2017 at 00:13hrs | 15 | by Andrew Manyevere
Umthontiso Festival (Inkonzo Yokuchinsa Lokubonga Izulu Ku Jehovah)
A speech presented by HRM King Mzilikazi II at the Service Yokuchinsa held in Bulawayo eGcekeni leNxwala (ezibayeni) on Saturday the 25th March, 2017. The ceremony was conducted by the King with the h...Published: 26 Mar 2017 at 09:24hrs | 29 | by G.Sibanda
Trump's 'America first' pledge has echoes of Rhodesia's racist white nationalists
Donald Trump's bleak inauguration speech has attracted a...Published: 31 Jan 2017 at 10:40hrs | 2 | by Brooks Marmon, PhD Student
Rhodesia was more democratic than an independent Zimbabwe
Ever since Zimbabwe gained her independence from Britain in 1980, the ZANU PF government has sought to portray the new dispensation as more democratic than the colonial Rhodesia era, but a closer look...Published: 20 Aug 2016 at 14:34hrs | 14 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo: His life, legacy
LAST Friday's celebrations of the 17th anniversary of the death of Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo were one of the national occasions where many Zimbabweans looked at their country's past with deep admi...Published: 07 Jul 2016 at 06:36hrs | 3 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Lt General Lookout Masuku's last 3 days and his last request
A very interesting thing happened on Lookout Masuku's last few days. Judith Todd went to see him and found him in a bad condition. He made one request before he died.He passionately wanted a w...Published: 26 May 2016 at 11:43hrs | 33 | by Cde Cakes 'Makhekhe' Sankara Vundla
Cephas Msipa presents fascinating read in auto-biography
Cephas George Msipa, one of Zimbabwe's living pioneer freedom-fighters, will officially launch his book, In Pursuit of Freedom and Justice, in Bulawayo this Friday.Msipa, 85, lives in Gweru in...Published: 16 Mar 2016 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Mugabe's Heroes Acre too exclusive
The hilltop has a commanding view of Harare, features a huge bronze statue of three guerilla fighters and boasts black marble and granite flourishes. It is quiet and is Zimbabwe's most exclusive neigh...Published: 26 Jan 2016 at 19:46hrs | | by AP
Sabina Mugabe's heroes status challenged in court
Two lawyers Tinomudaishe Chinyoka and Zengeza East MP Alexio Musundire (MDC-T) have approached the Constitutional Court seeking to have the National Heroes' Act declared unconstitutional and to bar Pr...Published: 20 Jan 2016 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T duo challenges Mugabe's powers to select and declare Zimbabwe heroes
Two MDC-T activists have approached the Constitutional Court challenging President Mugabe's powers to select and declare heroes and the involvement of the Zanu-PF Politburo in the process. A l...Published: 19 Jan 2016 at 05:11hrs | | by Daniel Nemukuyu
History of Labor in Zimbabwe before and after independence - Part one
If the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia; Ian Douglas Smith was alive today he would concur that the white regime lost the war because of the failure of the government to implement labor laws an...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 12:50hrs | 49 | by Nomazulu Thata
The raping of Judith Todd for exposing Gukurahundi atrocities in 1983
Judith "Judie" Todd, the daughter of Sir Garfield Todd was a political activist from the early 1960s opposing the minority government of Ian Smith, the same Judie who was responsible for protestin...Published: 06 Oct 2015 at 10:57hrs | 8 | by Cde Cakes Vundla Zapu Youth Front Leader - Facebook
The White Lion of Zimbabwe Sir Garfield Todd
Best known as a gentle and noble man, one who saw beyond colour and a man who lived amongst the people.Todd emigrated to Southern Rhodesia from New Zealand in 1934 as a Protestant missionary and r...Published: 17 Sep 2015 at 22:33hrs | 3 | by Cde Cakes Vundla Zapu Youth Front Leader
From Mugabe prisoner to Mugabe's deputy
PHELEKEZELA Mphoko's appointment as Vice-President-designate is a complete turn-around for the former Zipra combatant, who 30 years ago was arrested by President Robert Mugabe's government at the heig...Published: 13 Dec 2014 at 12:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe arrested Mphoko at the height of Gukurahundi
PHELEKEZELA Mphoko's appointment as Vice-President-designate is a complete turn-around for the former Zipra combatant, who 30 years ago was arrested by President Robert Mugabe's government at the hei...Published: 12 Dec 2014 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of Good Whites (Landless) and Bad Blacks (Landfull)
I was born in Shurugwi, Zimbabwe and know a lot about a bad Whiteman called Ian Smith who had land. However, there were three other good whitemen in the same province:Pastor Adams, an amaz...Published: 14 Jul 2014 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Rejoice Ngwenya
Parents urged to take their children's education seriously
FORMER Midlands Governor Dr Cephas Msipa yesterday challenged parents and teachers to prepare children for the world by educating them so that they will be able to go past a number of obstacles in lif...Published: 20 Oct 2013 at 03:08hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Dr Joshua Nkomo (1917-1999): Who exactly was He
Credit due to Diana Mitchell and Robert Cary for reproduction of historical material, from their book Who's Who: African Nationalist Leaders in Rho...Published: 29 Jun 2012 at 19:02hrs | 40 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo
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