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Mugabe's resting place and the making of national monuments
THE story, life and even death of late former President Robert Mugabe is a subject that continues to rekindle memories — good, bad and somewhat bizarre. His exhumation debacle exposes the certainty ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 325 | by Brighton Taruberekera
Zapu to hold elective congress next month
ZAPU is expected to hold its elective congress next month with six candidates jostling for the party's top post. The elective congress, which seeks to elect a new leadership following the death of the...Published: 12 hrs ago | 84 | by Staff reporter
MDC mayor bootlicks Mnangagwa
WHILE the MDC Alliance is blaming Zanu-PF for using Local government minister July Moyo to interfere into the operations of the councils under its ambit, MDC-T mayor for Mutare Blessing Tandi, last we...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:45hrs | 2928 | by Staff reporter
Nzuwah declared national hero
The former Public Service Commission chairman, Dr Mariyawanda Nzuwah, who died after a short illness on Tuesday, has been declared a national hero. Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister ...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:15hrs | 782 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns ex-PSC chair Nzuwah
President Mnangagwa has sent a condolence message to the Nzuwah family following the death of former Public Service Commission chairman Dr Mariyawanda Nzuwah yesterday. The cause of his death was not ...Published: 22 Sep 2021 at 06:01hrs | 1935 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe exhumation: Grace loses court case
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe suffered another blow as a Chinhoyi magistrate threw out her bid for judicial review of Chief Zvimba's ruling ordering the exhumation of the late former President Robert...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:38hrs | 4786 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa remembers Muzenda
On the 18th anniversary of the death of Vice President Simon Vengesai Muzenda yesterday, President Mnangagwa said the best that the country can do to honour him is to always remember the sacrifices th...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu declared national hero posthumously
THE Zanu-PF Politburo yesterday posthumously declared the late Cdes Rabelani Choeni, Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu, Elliot Ngwabi, Professor George Kahari and Professor Sheunesu Mpepereki as national heroes. Pr...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | 535 | by Staff reporter
Govt to correct Battle of Pupu story
GOVERNMENT has taken a bold step to correct a one-sided narrative of the famous Battle of Pupu, which for many years deliberately overlooked the African perspective. Under President Mnangagwa, the Sec...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:10hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter
'Dead' 14kg gold smuggler resurfaces, arrested
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested Jefat Chaganda, the chief suspect in the 14 kilogramme gold case that happened in Plumtree in 2018.The case also resulted in the arrest of nine other suspects ...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:16hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
President E D Mnangagwa @ 79 and overcoming the struggle in transition
The surfeit of one's proximity to a hero has a tendency of dissuading them from appreciating their rarely accorded access to greatness — such is the descriptive parable of the privilege I have to se...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:16hrs | 76 | by Dr Obert Moses Mpofu
Africa: A complex trajectory and legacy of military coups
FOR their spectacular nature, coups always appear like new phenomena when actually they are an old military and political issue that dates back to the genesis of humanity.It is like that in th...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 639 | by William Jethro Mpofu
Mugabe's contested legacy far from settled
TWO years after the death of former president Robert Mugabe, there remains no consensus regarding his legacy, with conflicting perceptions of the liberator-turned-despot dominating debate whenever his...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:40hrs | 793 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers in trouble as AK-47 rifles vanish
SOLDIERS deployed at the residence of the late Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander Vitalis Zvinavashe have landed themselves in soup after three AK-47 assault rifles and several rounds of ammunition wer...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:35hrs | 777 | by Staff reporter
Zuma will never win a court case in South Africa
The Constitutional Court on Friday dismissed former president Jacob Zuma's application to rescind the court's earlier judgment, which sentenced him to 15 months' imprisonment for contempt of court....Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 19:48hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
Row over Shiri estate
THE family of late national hero and Cabinet minister Perrance Shiri has questioned the authenticity of documents used by the Master of the High Court Eldard Mutasa to handle his vast empire.A...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:29hrs | 2533 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe: A nationalist hero and authoritarian dictator
A group of Robert Gabriel Mugabe admirers, linked to Zanu-PF, has published a profile of Robert Mugabe. They are trying to provide a profile of the late president, combining both the positive and nega...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | 335 | by Fay Chung
Mnangagwa's Prison cell at Khami Prison should be a national heritage site
WHILE there is a clarion call to refurbish and transform liberation icon and founder of the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) Cde Jason Ziyaphapha Moyo's house in Bulawayo's Makokoba suburb ...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Professor Arthur Mutambara, Dr Nkosana Moyo and Advocate Nelson Chamisa are speaking
I have dwelt a lot regarding Chamisa's infantile approach to politics and his policies that do not make too much sense. However, I wish to commend Chamisa's visit to Matabeleland South two days ago. T...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 17:20hrs | 4606 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mugabe exhumation fight rages
Lawyers representing the family of the late former President Robert Mugabe have filed an appeal against a ruling by a magistrate that they could not challenge an order issued by a traditional chief to...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 06:06hrs | 3414 | by Staff reporter
'The number of real war vets dwindling fast'
THE Zanu-PF congress slated for October this year has exposed the falling number of the heroes of the liberation war fought in the 1970s.The party has introduced a war veterans wing in its str...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 06:00hrs | 642 | by Staff reporter
Grace challenges Mugabe reburial order
THE case of the reburial of the late former President Robert Mugabe's remains has taken yet another twist after his family filed an appeal against last week's ruling by a Chinhoyi magistrate dismissin...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:19hrs | 3549 | by Staff reporter
Come 2023, Zimbabweans shall claim liberty
THE so-called new dispensation under President Emmerson Mnangagwa's hope of transforming the lives of Zimbabweans remains a pie in the sky. People's wishes have been dashed. Democracy remains a pipe d...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 06:01hrs | 383 | by Tofara Shandu
Mnangagwa told to stop Mugabe remains fiasco
PreSident Emmerson Mnangagwa must intervene to stop spirited attempts to exhume former president robert Mugabe's remains for reburial at the Heroes Acre, the late strongman's family has said.A...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 09:04hrs | 5330 | by Staff reporter
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 | 755 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Court okays Mugabe exhumation
A CHINHOYI magistrate yesterday gave the nod for the exhumation of former President Robert Mugabe's remains from his rural home in Zvimba after dismissing an appeal filed by the late Statesman's famil...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:43hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Remembering Mugabe
HISTORY has many lessons. Looking back with the benefit of hindsight, many a time people regret decisions they would have made. People sometimes fall into nostalgia.Zimbabweans are no differen...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:42hrs | 185 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Matabeles to disown 'gukurahundi' sellout Chiefs, blood on your hands!
Confidential information on our hands confirming that some Matabele traditional chiefs have accepted bribes from the genocidal Zimbabwe government to assist it to impose its suspicious Matabeleland ge...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 11:07hrs | 538 | by Israel Dube
Mugabe's body to be exhumed?
A magistrate in Zimbabwe has said that the body of former President Robert Mugabe can be exhumed after a traditional leader said that his burial had violated cultural practices.Mugabe, who die...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:59hrs | 3343 | by Staff reporter
Another lie exposed in Mnangagwa biography?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's biography by his newfound ally, Eddie Cross, has yet another major distortion which borders on lies on what happened after the former vice-president had been fired by hi...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:54hrs | 2889 | by Staff reporter
If church leaders don't speak truth to power then they don't represent God or Christians
I am a bondservant of Christ Jesus, and faithfully abide by the Holy Bible in what it commands us to do.One of those things is that, a ...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 06:51hrs | 446 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Return to normal hours excites business
Businesses and traders have returned to their normal working hours following the extension of operating hours under the new Level Two lockdown measures announced by President Mnangagwa on Tuesday. ...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:05hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Bulelani's speech on King Mzilikazi Day 2021
Mahlabezulu ,Mthwakazi omuhle, zingane zobaba.Mthwakazi omuhle , namhlanje sihlangane lapha ngosuku olukhulu kakhulu esizweni sethu, ngilethemba elikhulu ukuthi iningi laMahlabezulu lihlangane...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 07:59hrs | 1805 | by King Bulelani Lobengula kaMzilikazi
Mnangagwa says Mugabe was 'principled’
Former president Robert Mugabe distinguished himself as a principled man who did not deviate from what he believed to be right, President Mnangagwa said yesterday. The President said this in a...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | 1099 | by Staff reporter
War vets savage Mnangagwa again
UNAPOLOGETIC war veterans have launched a fresh attack on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, accusing it of failing to expedite the exhumation and reburial of victims who are still interre...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 19:42hrs | 1664 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces fresh war vets onslaught
VETERANS of the liberation war have launched a fresh attack on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, accusing it of failing to expedite the exhumation and reburial of victims who are still in...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:59hrs | 2750 | by Staff reporter
Masuka defends Malunga farm grab
LANDS and Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka has said the High Court has no authority to reverse the acquisition of farmland by the State.He was responding to an application by Osisa director...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:48hrs | 658 | by Staff reporter
1978 war victims wallow in poverty
Tens of people injured during the infamous Kamungoma massacre on May 14 1978 in Dewende, Gutu including some who are living with bullets lodged in their bodies are wallowing in poverty because of lack...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 12:02hrs | 1091 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe true liberation heroes need to finally unshackle themselves from those who hijacked the struggle
This past week has been a most painful one for all of us who respect and honour the history of our beloved country, its legacy, and the struggle that brought about its liberation.Firstly, ther...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 17:55hrs | 316 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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 | 2598 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's heroics myth explodes after 56 years
THE now hackneyed phrase that "the first casualty of war is truth" has been attributed to many prominent people – from the father of Greek tragedy Aeschylus to United States senator Hiram Warren Joh...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 21:28hrs | 1550 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T province wants party to recall more Chamisa MPs, councilors
THE MDC-T's Matabeleland North province has written to the party's national leadership recommending the recalling of MDC Alliance legislators, councilors as well as some members of the party's p...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 21:12hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt moots military cemeteries
GOVERNMENT is establishing provincial cemeteries for the military and consultations have been conducted with provincial leaders on how the programme will be implemented. Military cemeteries are a comm...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 05:52hrs | 522 | by Staff reporter
ICAC-AD congratulates Zambia's new president Hichilema
International Coalition against Coronavirus-for African Development-(ICAC-AD) South African Chapter Chairman Chanda Chose has on behalf of the organisation congratulated the newly elected Zambian Pres...Published: 27 Aug 2021 at 09:03hrs | 663 | by Stephen Jakes
Top war hero sends SOS
VETERAN freedom fighter and former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) deputy chief of personnel and training, Jack Mpofu is appealing for US$2 300 to enable him to undergo a hip replace...Published: 27 Aug 2021 at 06:31hrs | 802 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Hichilema in 30 minutes meeting
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema got down to serious business yesterday soon after taking his oath of office in Lusaka with a 30-minute diplomatic meeting with President Mnangagwa where they agree...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1444 | by Staff reporter
Dembare seek hero status for Shaya
Dynamos has written to Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) seeking facilitation of conferment of national hero status on the late George "Mastermind" Shaya who passed on yesterday.Five time S...Published: 24 Aug 2021 at 18:21hrs | 735 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tells Zimbabweans to take a leaf from Zambia
President Mnangagwa and Zambian president-elect Hakainde Hichilema, who will be sworn-in today, held a long telephone call on Sunday during which they agreed to work together in the development of the...Published: 24 Aug 2021 at 06:27hrs | 1507 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa leaves for Hichilema inauguration
President Mnangagwa has left Harare for Lusaka, Zambia where he is expected to attend the inauguration of Zambian President-elect Hakainde Hichilema at the National Heroes Stadium tomorrow. Pr...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 17:13hrs | 693 | by Staff reporter
Matiza's son rattles Zanu-PF
THE emergence of e late Transport and Infrastructure Development minister Joel Matiza's son, Batsirai, on the political arena in Mashonaland East Province has unsettled some leaders from the youth lea...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 07:46hrs | 786 | by Staff reporter
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