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Bulawayo council now in hands of foreigners exposed to cholera- activist
Mthwakazi activist Hloniphani Ncube has said with the Bulawayo City Council now in the hands of foreigners the residents are now exposed to outbreak of cholera like is happening in Harare."Wit...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1947 | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo journalist summoned to Police law and order over Gukurahundi documentary
CITE journalist Zenzele Ndebele says he has been summoned to law and order for questioning over the Gukurahundi documentary.Ndebele tweeted, "Just got a call from CID Law and order Bulawayo as...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 13:13hrs | 1372 | by Stephen Jakes
Mpofu advises MDC-T on congress
FORMER MDC legislator for Bulilima East Norman Mpofu has warned MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to immediately call for MDC-T congress to legitimised his leadership.Chamisa and Elias Mudzur...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:53hrs | 1676 | by Stephen Jakes
Why Mnangagwa 'won', but lost the 2018 election
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa won the 2018 election on one hand, but lost it on the other. First, while the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and Mnangagwa celebrated their vindication by the Constitutional C...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 07:57hrs | 7117 | by Moses Tofa
International community should intervene in Zimbabwe Gukurahundi genocide
What do we think of when we hear of which such names as Rohingya, Ndebele, Tutsi, Kazakh, Armenia, and Jew - especially, when they are all in one sentence?...most likely genocide and the Holoc...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 15:11hrs | 557 | by Peace Chiwara Marangwanda
Dabengwa condemns gukurahundi commission
ZAPU president Dumiso Dabengwa has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to review his appointment of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) whose composition he said was improper r...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 14:56hrs | 1159 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt tampers with Gukurahundi mass graves
Political activists here have taken a swipe at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government for tampering with Gukurahundi mass graves at Bhalagwe Shrine, in Kezi, Matabeleland South Province.Thi...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 14:55hrs | 1584 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Shock developments at Bhalagwe Gukurahundi shrine
A visit by Mthwakazi Republic Party leaders to the Gukurahundi mass graves in Bhalagwe revealed some shocking developments. The delegation which was accompanied by victims and international journalist...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 08:31hrs | 5110 | by Khethani Ndlovu
Mthwakazi writes to Mnangagwa
Dear MnangagwaGood day Mr President. I would have loved to congratulate you for your presidency unfortunately my conscious will not allow me to do that considering the fact that the harmonized...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 08:24hrs | 2115 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Mnangagwa slammed for scrapping gukurahundi ministry
THE silence around the National Peace and Reconciliation portfolio in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new cabinet, speaks a lot on the Zanu-PF led government`s insincerity in addressing the country`s p...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 16:43hrs | 2897 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland has been captured
Mzukulu Chamisa, listen to this noble advise: pick up your toys, call all your friends and go back to Harare before tribal fires that you are stocking in Bulawayo consume you. Bulawayo is not a play g...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 15:13hrs | 4436 | by Israel Dube
MDC Schooled by ZANU PF
Mthwakazi Republic Party has expressed its disgust over the MDC's manipulative behaviour, meant to exploit the voice of the residents of Bulawayo. Party's President Mqondisi Moyo said the beha...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 09:30hrs | 2010 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe doomed as May, Merkel back Mnangagwa
On August 28, British Prime Minister Theresa May arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, for a one-day working visit. This visit was part of a three-nation tour of South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria designed...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | 1020 | by Tafi Mhaka
Who is worse between manipulating politician and gullible follower?
AFTER the unnecessarily contentious elections, Zimbabwe could be about to reset and, thus, reboot itself on its journey from dysfunctionality to functionality.I say unnecessarily contentious b...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:03hrs | 767 | by Conway Tutani
Full Text: Crisis in Zim expresses reservations on the commission of inquiry to look into August 1, violence and shootings
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition has noted the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry which has been tasked to investigate the shooting of civilians in the capital on August 1, 2018, by the military. The ...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 08:58hrs | 862 | by CiZC
In Zimbabwe commissions of inquiry will always fail
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's newly-established commission of inquiry into the politically-motivated violence of August 1 that led to the death of at least six civilians is bound to fail just like se...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 12:56hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Commission political grandstanding
Zapu spokesperson Iphithule Maphosa has said the recently appointed commission of inquiry into shooting on 1 August 2018 is nothing but an act of hypocrisy that lacks genuine intent.He said th...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 10:39hrs | 420 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa confirms National Healing and Reconciliation Commission is useless
Mthwakazi Republic Party has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has confirmed that the National Healing and reconciliation Commission is useless when he appointed another commission to pro...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 19:11hrs | 4319 | by Stephen Jakes
Believing ED will rebuild economy as good as believing devil and demons would convert to pastors
Mthwakazi activist Hloniphani Ncube has said having a belief that Mnangagwa will rebuild the economy is as good as believing that, the devil and demons would be converted to pastor and a Holy Spirit r...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 10:40hrs | 1093 | by Stephen Jakes
Reaping the fruits of Gukurahundi
The people of Mthwakazi has said the reality of a five year presidency of Emerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF has been their shock.Mthwakazi Republic Party said it is the reality that we have ...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 13:47hrs | 1137 | by Stephen Jakes
Mthwakazi must derive lessons from the recent political dispensation of political disaster
Mthwakazi activist Hloniphani Ncube has said Mthwakazi must derive lessons from the recent political dispensation of political disaster which some of us foresaw it. "The more we get involved i...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 09:20hrs | 1187 | by Stephen Jakes
Court influenced by thugs - Mthwakazi activist
Mthwakazi activist Hloniphani Ncube has claimed that the courts that are influenced by thugs to legitimise fraudulent systems of gukurahundist must not be tolerated. "I cannot support and welc...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 06:34hrs | 1009 | by Staff Reporter
Police arresting people expressing their displeasure on ConCourt ruling
Mthwakazi activist Hloniphani Ncube has expressed concerns over reports of police arresting people who are using social media to express displeasure over the ConCourt's ruling in an MDC Alliance petit...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 06:20hrs | 1571 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF war vets criminals or fighters for freedom?
Mthwakazi activist Hloniphani Ncube has said he has always asked himself on whether the sects of the ZANU PF war vets are really war vets or they were tribal criminals who took the advantage of the su...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 07:26hrs | 1788 | by Stephen Jakes
Book unpacks racial, tribal discrimination
YOUTHFUL author Rongarashe Masuku has penned a controversial book titled Deracialising the mind: Racism in the name of Patriotism, which seeks to unpack the source of racial and tribal discrimination ...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:45hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
US sanctions on Zimbabwe - truths, history and lies
A new regime of US sanctions has just been signed into law, opening a fresh front in the increasingly polarised political debate in Zimbabwe.Critics say they hurt the economy, while supporters...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 19:01hrs | 5587 | by newsZWire
Mnangagwa and Mugabe: A case of Siamese twins
Former Zimbabwe President, Mugabe, told the British Prime minister then Tony Blair, "Keep your England and l will keep my Zimbabwe ". A few months after assuming Presidency through the back door words...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 15:20hrs | 2342 | by AT Kadada
Gukurahundi commission engages Govt, MDC Alliance over post election violence
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has said it has engaged Government and the MDC Alliance to ensure that violent skirmishes that occurred in Harare at the beginning of this...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 07:58hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is Zanu PF Property
If you think that Philip Valerio Sibanda is the commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces you are living in your own dream land. The name 'commander' yes that's his title but functionally, zanu pf is i...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 23:48hrs | 2169 | by Clement Moyo
Army's remarks on Harare killings disappointing, says Nkomo
Habakkuk Trust director Dumisani Nkomo has said the response from the army and state concerning the Harare killings is indeed disappointing.This was after the military disowned the soldiers at...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 07:16hrs | 3394 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa should face justice for crimes against humanity
There is an Shona adage: 'mhosva hairovi', which loosely translated means, 'no one can evade the tentacles of justice'.We have witnessed around the world, numerous people being charged, tried ...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 07:13hrs | 2826 | by Kudakwashe Sheddy Marangwanda
Zimbabwe crisis needs political solutions not ConCourt
Focus has now shifted to the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) where the full bench of learned judges shall preside over an MDC Alliance petition, challenging the outcome of the July 30 presidential el...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 07:00hrs | 2097 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must take responsibility for shootings'
CIVIC society organisations (CSOs) and opposition political parties yesterday challenged President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa to take responsibility for the fatal shooting of seven civilians by soldiers...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:23hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Can you do Zanu and God together?
How can someone be Zanu and a Christian together? Or, can someone save Satan and God at the same time? Sometimes Zimbabweans exhibit cognitive dissonance when it comes to Faith and Politics. T...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 14:27hrs | 980 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Can Mnangagwa restore Zimbabwe?
Elections in Zimbabwe appear to have been free and fair, according to observers, but the vote counting has not been satisfactory to the opposition parties.Nelson Chamisa and Tendai Biti, leade...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 16:00hrs | 6267 | by Omry Makgoale
Ibhetshu, MLF officials in trouble over Gukurahundi
IBHETSHU likaZulu secretary-general Mbulo Fuzwayo and Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF) deputy chief security officer, Charles Thomas have claimed that they received anonymous phone calls threatening t...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:41hrs | 950 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa has always been at the centre of atrocities'
The recent re-emergence of violence by Zimbabwe's brutal regime, soon after the announcement of the 30 July 2018 harmonized elections, should never come as a surprise to anyone, as President Emmerson ...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 10:29hrs | 5374 | by Kudakwashe Sheddy Marangwanda
'AU, Sadc toothless bulldogs'
THE presence of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and the African Union (UN) observer missions during the just-ended elections has only served to rubber-stamp the political status quo ...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 06:49hrs | 528 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 'new dispensation' that never was!
As the violence, persecution, and repression of Zimbabwean opposition figures - most recently, Tendai Biti of the MDC Alliance, who had to flee to neighbouring Zambia - continue unbated, people from a...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 13:48hrs | 4388 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ED promises 'probe shooting of protestors' - promised free elections but never delivered
When the spokesman of the military coup of 15 November 2017 announced to the world that they had taken over all the country's key institutions of government and had the then President Robert Mugabe un...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 07:55hrs | 2003 | by Nomusa Garikai
Dynamics of the rural vote
Recent developments in the Zimbabwean electoral cycles have once again demonstrated the important role that peasants play in determining the country's future.Zimbabwe has a total of 63 distric...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 06:42hrs | 1133 | by Dumisani Ncube
Mthwakazi engages police over aborted meeting
SECESSIONIST Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF) leaders yesterday said they would re-engage police in Bulawayo to seek clearance for their prayer meeting which was blocked in the run-up to last week's g...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:21hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
ZBC coverage inciting, inappropriate, insensitive
The people's party of Excellence, MDC, dismisses with contempt the attempt by the public broadcaster, ZBC and Zanu PF to justify the killing of innocent civilians by apportioning blame on the MDC Alli...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 11:03hrs | 2609 | by MDC Communications
Mnangagwa an ideologically weak leader and a passionate heartless villain
Mthwakazi activist Hloniphani Ncube has said Emmerson Mnangagwa is an ideological weak leader while he is passionate heartless."Ever since the capture of the government by the callous and ideo...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 07:52hrs | 2512 | by Stephen Jakes
The rise and fall of Robert Mugabe
Book Review Life and Times of Robert Mugabe (1980-2017): Dream Betrayed Kenneth Mufuka and Cyril Zenda, 2018, Afro-media Publishers, South Carolina, ISBN 9-781513-625959 Reviewed by Brian Maregedze Th...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 07:13hrs | 926 | by Staff reporter
Its clear we are in a military state - Mbonisi Gumbo
Mthwakazi Republic Party spokespersonm Mbonisi Gumbo has said he thinks its now clear to everyone that Zimbabwe is a military state, even to those who were saying Pfee. "The problem did not st...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:28hrs | 368 | by Stephen Jakes
Another gukurahundi in the making
If these bloody thirsty soldiers are not stopped, we are going to loose more civilian lives in Harare, Chitungwiza and Bulawayo where Zimbabweans have voted for the opposition. Zimbabwe is wel...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 20:22hrs | 3107 | by Isaac Nkomah
1893 MHRRM steps up its preparations for Matebeleland Genocide Conference
The 1893 MHRRM is stepping up and kick-starting its preparations for its UK International Matebeleland "Gukurahundi" Genocide Conference that is now rescheduled for early October 2018. The actual date...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 16:31hrs | 1573 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM's Secretary for Information and Publicity
Mnangagwa's Pyrrhic victory
AFTER the coup that catapulted President Emmerson Mnangagwa to power last year, his Holy Grail in the election held on Monday this week was the quest for legitimacy: but it did not go according to pla...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 12:25hrs | 1457 | by Kudzai Kuwaza
ZNA is weak - Mthwakazi activist
Mthwakai activist Hloniphani Ncube has said what happened recent when the soldiers shot at civilian in Harare exposed how weak the Zimbabwe National Armyu is."Zimbabwe National Army is weak. S...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 11:54hrs | 859 | by Stephen Jakes
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