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Chivayo donates $250,000 to John Nkomo Trust, gifts Jabulani a bakkie
Wicknell Chivayo, a businessman closely associated with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has made headlines with his recent philanthropic efforts, donating US$250,000 to the late Vice President John Land...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 08:37hrs | 1802 | by Staff reporter
John Mbedzi declared national hero posthumously
President Mnangagwa has posthumously honored Beitbridge liberation struggle icon and former Zanu-PF chairperson for Matabeleland South, John Mbedzi, with national hero status.Mbedzi passed awa...Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 12:02hrs | 210 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa unwittingly creating a future president in Sikhala through his persecution!
This morning, my eyes could not move from the image of opposition activist Job Sikhala as he disembarked from a prison truck. This was on his arrival for his conviction hearing two days ago, w...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 19:32hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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 | 1 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
10-year-old attacked with machete over father's infidelity
A 10-YEAR-OLD Zvishavane juvenile is battling for life at Gweru Provincial Hospital after a man who suspected the boy's father was bedding his wife, attacked him with a machete.Police in Midla...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 20:19hrs | | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF mourns heroine Jane Ngwenya
Zanu-PF has described the late veteran nationalist, Jane Ngwenya as an astute and unflinching revolutionary who played an integral role in the liberation of the country. Ngwenya, who is ...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff writer
Joshua Nkomo's ally dies
The late vice president Joshua Nkomo's ally Steady Kakora Mhindurwa has died.He was 90.Mhundurwa's son Edward confirmed the dea...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 19:03hrs | 15 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Kaunda supported Zapu, says Nkomo
SIBANGILIZWE, the son of the late for-mer Vice-President Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, yesterday paid tribute to the late Zambian founding President Kenneth Kaunda, describing his relationship with his father...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
A call for the condemnation of the violation of the human rights of prisoners by the Zimbabwe regime
Greetings to all! A few days ago, members of the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) were released on bail from incarceration at Zimbabwe's notorious Khami and Mlondolozi prisons. No sooner had the...Published: 18 May 2021 at 15:20hrs | 1 | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza - MLF President
Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu: A splendid traditional leader, cultural activist, nationalist
UGODLWAYO! Yithi! This is a familiar slogan in the Godlwayo Communal Land whenever people are gathered. Yesterday at around 01.00 hrs their Chief, Vezi Maduna Mafu passed away.Chief Maduna was...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:45hrs | 1 | by Pathisa Nyathi
An open letter to all former Zipra cadres - Response to comments from the president of the MLF
17 December, 2020 Comments on any presentation, debate and indeed on any other body of ideas put forward are one of the cornerstones of what makes us human. It is through such engagements that...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 21:40hrs | | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
All set for Mama Mafuyana gala
THE Joshua Nkomo Legacy Restoration Trust (JNLRT) says it is organising a memorial gala for the late Father Zimbabwe's wife, Johanna Fuyana also known as Mama MaFuyana, who died in June 2003.T...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:34hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
How Zanu-PF came into existence
The born-free generation, born after Zimbabwe gained its independence in 1980, has grown up knowing a political system run by the Zanu PF party.Unbeknown to many people, the ruling party, is a...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 19:17hrs | 2 | by Irvine Sibhona
Lest we forget: Women of the struggle
Tomorrow, Zimbabwe celebrates National Heroes Day, an important day on the national calendar to honour the gallant sons and daughters of the soil who made extraordinary sacrifices to liberate the coun...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF factions revealed
The Zimbabwe African Nationalists Union (Patriotic Front) ZANU PF is an interesting political and liberation movement which is currently the reigning and undisputed champion of Zimbabwean politics...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:10hrs | | by Nicholas Ncube
Mnangagwa says 'Let's dream, think Zimbabwe'
Address by His Excellency, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, E.D. Mnangagwa, at the burial of the late Mishack Ntundu Velaphi, National Heroes' Acre, May 9, 2019 ...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:46hrs | | by ED Mnangagwa
Pioneer guerilla Tshinga Dube speaks on first operations
IN our past two editions we published the military and political exploits of renowned pioneer guerilla fighter, David Mongwa Moyo aka Sharpshoot. Moyo spoke about his deployment in a unit of 1...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Surviving Ian Smith's hit list
We continue chronicling the political life of Jane Ngwenya. This week Ngwenya narrates to our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati of her release from Gonakudzingwa Restriction Camp and fleeing Rhodesia u...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri plots to doorstep Mnangagwa
ZANU-PF national chairperson Oppah Muchinguri yesterday vowed that she would doorstep President Emmerson Mnangagwa on his return from China this week to protest the politburo's decision to deny nation...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 07:03hrs | | 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 | | by Dr Constantino Chiwenga
Masvingo to honour Mnangagwa
Government and the ruling Zanu-PF have started preparatory work to build a shrine at Masvingo Railway Station in memory of the historic bombing of a Rhodesian locomotive by President Mnangagwa in 1964...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
'Mnangagwa to soon roll out peace, reconciliation process'
Government will soon start engaging traditional and community leaders as part of processes that are meant to promote peace and reconciliation among Zimbabweans, Vice President Kembo Mohadi has said....Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 05:42hrs | | 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
Chiwenga and the Nyikadzino Prophecy
The day before Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga's grandfather died, he called the future general to his bedside and said: "What I wanted to achieve I could not achieve, but you are going...Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe fears Mnangagwa
The yesterday government reshuffle has nothing to do with the free-falling economy but mostly to do with the succession battles bedevilling the party Zanu PF. How will Mugabe get rid of Mnangagwa the ...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 16:18hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Liberation war hero Cde Tshaka laid to rest
Liberation hero, Mtate Jonathan Tshaka who died on the 13th of this month was buried at the Bulawayo provincial heroes' acre in Bulawayo.The late Tshaka was described as a soft spoken person w...Published: 20 Aug 2017 at 19:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Joseph Msika wouldn't trade principles'
THE late Vice President Joseph Msika was a rare breed of a nationalist - a fearless and strict disciplinarian and one person who would not trade principle for friendship. His character would not chang...Published: 15 Aug 2017 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Joshua Nkomo mentored Mugabe'
OPPOSITION Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa has claimed that President Robert Mugabe would have remained an ordinary teacher and political nonentity had he not been recruited and catapulted into the limeli...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
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Joshua Nkomo: selfless patriot in the truest sense of the word
The following is a lecture delivered by veteran journalist and war veteran Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu at the Joshua Nkomo Memorial Lecture at Wits University in South Africa yesterday on the occasion of cele...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:35hrs | 2 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
JZ Moyo's death: seeking the identity of interests behind the heinous act
When the Pearce Commission of 1972 was impending, nationalists realised the need to appoint people to rally opinion against the proposed constitutional package. For example, nationalists in Gonaku...Published: 05 Feb 2017 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZAPU mourns Landcart Gumpo
The nation and ZAPU in particular is plunged into yet another episode of mourning as we learnt of the sad passing on of Landcart Gumpo who died in Bulawayo after a long illness after he suffered strok...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 10:46hrs | | by Iphithule kaMaphosa
Alfred Nikita Mangena: Unique ZAPU Soldier
Lookout "Mafela" Masuku Memorial Lecture SeriesDelivered by ZAPU President Dr. Dumiso DabengwaIbhetshu likaZulu, Fidelity Towers, Bulawayo, 28 October, 2016Distinguished GuestsColl...Published: 31 Oct 2016 at 07:08hrs | 33 | by Dumiso Dabengwa
'Joshua Nkomo saved Zimbabwe from civil war'
This year on April 5, Ibhetshu likaZulu gave me the honour to deliver the inaugural Lookout "Mafela" Masuku memorial lecture. This year is the 20th anniversary of the untimely death of Lt General Look...Published: 30 Oct 2016 at 12:17hrs | | by Dumiso Dabengwa
Gen Chiwenga gives an overview of the challenges of rebellion
The Sunday Mail Editor Mabasa Sasa and Reporter Tinashe Farawo spoke to Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander, General Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga about he joined the liberation str...Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 13:12hrs | 1 | by Mabasa Sasa and Tinashe Farawo
Heroes' Day: Zapu remembers its heroes and heroines.
Ruth Chinamano Ruth Lottie Nomonde Chinamano (1925-2005) was born on 16/02/1925 in Cape town South Africa. A Xhosa by birth, she grew up in East Grinqualand now (Matatiele). Like any oth...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 22:48hrs | | by Fiso Hikwa
Norman Mabhena: The honour and price of principle in Zimbabwe
After more than three decades since we attained independence from colonial rule in 1980, there is a steady depletion of the ranks of those who stood up to be counted without counting the cost to thems...Published: 09 Jul 2016 at 06:31hrs | | by Dr. Strike Mkandla
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 | 2 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Let's celebrate liberation icon Joshua Nkomo's life
Tomorrow, it will be 17 years since one of Zimbabwe's founding fathers, former Vice-President Dr Joshua Nkomo died. He was there when the first black-led political parties were formed in the count...Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 08:51hrs | | by Staff write
Joshua Nkomo Trust upgrading Muzenda's home
THE Friends of Joshua Nkomo Trust has started upgrading the late Vice President Simon Muzenda's Mucheke home, known as kwaVaMuzenda in Masvingo, into a heritage site at an estimated cost of $200,000....Published: 20 May 2016 at 06:30hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
'Don't be too ambitious,' Mugabe tells youths
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has implored younger generations not to be too ambitious in their quest for leadership positions but instead first learn the ropes of leadership from their superiors.Th...Published: 14 Apr 2016 at 06:26hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Chitepo declared national heroine
The late Victoria Fikile Chitepo has been declared a national heroine.Zanu PF Secretary for Administration Dr Ignatius Chombo says the decision was unanimous.President Robert Mugab...Published: 09 Apr 2016 at 22:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dumiso Dabengwa's Lookout Masuku memorial lecture
ZIMBABWE AFRICAN PEOPLE'S UNION (ZAPU) 15 JMN Nkomo Street/Connaught Avenue, Bulawayo Lookout "Mafela" Masuku Memorial Lecture Presentation Notes by ZAPU President Dr. Dumiso Dab...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 08:18hrs | 4 | by Dr. Dumiso Dabengwa
Dabengwa sets Mphoko's war record straight
VICE President Phelekezela Mphoko did not abandon the liberation struggle to be with his wife, as claimed by the embattled War Veterans Association chairman Christopher Mutsvangwa, Zipra's former inte...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 06:41hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
'How I reunited Mugabe with his comrades'
Tears of joy were shed last week at the 21st February Movement celebrations in Masvingo to commemorate the President's birthday as President Mugabe was reunited with some of his fellow surviving inmat...Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe president can emerge from any tribe,' claims Mphoko
A president of Zimbabwe can emerge from any tribe in the country as leadership is a negotiated deal between Zanu and PF Zapu, Acting President Phelekezela Mphoko has said.Addressing hundreds o...Published: 31 Oct 2015 at 11:04hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Mphoko speaks against tribalism
Acting President Phelekezela Mphoko has challenged Zimbabweans to shun tribalism and work in unison to engender socio-economic development in the country. Addressing hundreds of Zanu-PF supporters at ...Published: 30 Oct 2015 at 05:37hrs | | by George Maponga
Acting President Mphoko visits Gonakudzingwa
The recreation of Gonakudzingwa Detention Camp has been cited as a key issue which needs urgent attention to ensure the history of the liberation struggle does not fade.Acting President Phelek...Published: 29 Oct 2015 at 17:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Army documents Zimbabwe war history
THE Zimbabwe Defence Forces is in the process of collecting and compiling data on the history of the Second Chimurenga in an effort to safeguard the country's cultural heritage.In an interview...Published: 07 Oct 2015 at 06:13hrs | | by Freeman Razemba
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