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Residents demand development, not handouts
GURUVE North residents have rapped legislator Girovah Dzepasi (Zanu PF) for neglecting his constituency and only coming to dish out government food handouts instead of spearheading developmental proje...Published: 10 hrs ago | 468 | by Staff reporter
Canaan Banana an unsung hero, says Son
NATHAN Banana - the son of the late founding President of Zimbabwe, Canaan Sodindo Banana, has described his father as an unsung hero and lamented government's failure to honour him for the key ...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 10:41hrs | 1187 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai was a 'sell-out' says Mutodi
INFORMATION Deputy Minister Energy Mutodi has described the late MDC founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai as a ‘sell-out' who invited sanctions imposed by the West and the US against Zimbabwe....Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:06hrs | 1067 | by newzimbabwe
Black uMfolosi sends message of condolence to late Joseph Shabala's family
It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the death of Joseph Shabalala, a leading Isicathamiya musician and a greatest leader of our times, and who has greatly influenced the Isicathamiya music...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 18:24hrs | 802 | by Black uMfolosi
Mbuya Nehanda, Sekuru Kaguvi remains expected in April from UK
THE remains of Mbuya Nehanda and Sekuru Kaguvi are expected to be repatriated back to Zimbabwe in April from the United Kingdom, where they are being kept as souvenirs at London museums.Also e...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 05:58hrs | 853 | by newzimbabwe
Nyongolo Nkomo launches new book
HUMAN rights activist and Habakkuk Trust chief executive Dumisani Nyongolo Nkomo, launched his new book, No Holds Barred, on Friday night at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Museum.Nkomo shared his ex...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 07:48hrs | 746 | by Staff reporter
The people using Tsenengamu and Matutu exposed
The excitement caused by the press Statements issued by the former youth league leaders is short-lived and a none event. The behaviour of the youth was not only disgusting but indeed depressing and fl...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 10:03hrs | 4046 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mutambara's Zimsec prognosis will hurt the poor
Renowned and leading African scientist and scholar, Professor AGO Mutambara, ignited a storm with his recent piece alleging shameless and scandalous grade inflation by ZIMSEC citing a school where 79 ...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 06:56hrs | 1650 | by Munya Gwisai
Heroes and villains of the Land Reform
Karima is one of those who joined the 'land rush' and successfully secured an A2 Farm for himself and his young family. Wasting no time he went into horticulture and cattle farming. Tomatoes b...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 20:35hrs | 780 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Bulawayo strips Leopold Takawira of road honour, changed to King Mzilikazi Road
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has stripped Leopold Takawira of the honour of having one of its major roads named after him, after renaming it to King Mzilikazi Road.King Mzilikazi was the fo...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 11:49hrs | 12690 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Council ignore Cabinet suggestions on street name changes
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has renamed some of the city's major streets and buildings in a move the local authority says is meant to preserve the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial history ...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:02hrs | 454 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths demand arrest of tycoon Kudakwashe Tagwirei
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's adviser, Kudakwashe Tagwirei, is a name-dropping wealth accumulator who has amassed a fortune on the back of weak governance systems and buying the silence of politician...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 07:27hrs | 4769 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's properties exempted from paying rates
THE Bulawayo City Council has agreed that the late Father Zimbabwe, Joshua Nkomo's family be exempted from paying rentals and rates at their Pelandaba home and Matsheumhlope museum.However, th...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 07:06hrs | 1484 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa showed wisdom in transforming the party to become user friendly
At the start of the new dispensation comrade Emerson Mnangagwa promised that he would spend a lot of time listening. That's what he has done over the last three years, and that's what he has don...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 20:52hrs | 5415 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mucherahowa blasts Dembare
United Kingdom-based former Dynamos captain Memory Mucherahowa has made a scathing attack on the club for its current player-buying spree which he says is a consequence of the death of the club's juni...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:31hrs | 2528 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC councillors clash over street names
ZANU-PF and MDC Alliance councillors in Masvingo recently clashed over the renaming of city streets in honour of living and departed Zanu-PF luminaries, with the former walking out of a special counci...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:24hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda rallies the nation against illegal demonstrations
After Chamisa declared 2020 a year of demonstrations ZANU PF National Political Commissair rallied they nation to stand behind ED and ignore any calls for a strike. He started by saying "The com...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 10:20hrs | 2127 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Nehanda's bones still displayed in a british museum
Those who are christians do understand the importance of repatriating bones of the loved ones. Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He had ...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 22:12hrs | 1683 | by Dr Maisimba Mavaza
Teacher flees after students protest
THE Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has thrown its weight behind Njube High School biology teacher, Brian Mutsiba, who has gone into hiding after police in Bulawayo launched a manhunt to...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 07:41hrs | 2963 | by Staff reporter
Changing labels of Empty Bottle - Zimbabwe
(This article was first published in Newsday in November 2014, titled There's Victory in Losing. This piece was centred on Pres R Mugabe and pointed on the point that...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 15:11hrs | 4494 | by Terence T Simbi
Witchcraft, power in Zimbabwe politics
CHIPINGE is some small district in the south east of Zimbabwe, on the edge of the Mozambican border, well known not for its scenic environment, cooler temperatures or the tropical rainforests of Mt Se...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:24hrs | 316 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
The name Mashurugwi irks the Shurugwi residents
The land of many heroes Shurugwi. The welcoming area and it does not deserve to be labelled as the mother land of these cold blooded criminals.Comrade Matemadanda the National Political Commis...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 08:20hrs | 1266 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
BCC grants ZRP, BACFOZ free use of city hall car park
Bulawayo City Council recently granted the police and the Business Against Crime Forum of Zimbabwe (BACFOZ) free use of the city hall car park for their event.This is revealed in the council's...Published: 14 Jan 2020 at 09:45hrs | 1601 | by Stephen Jakes
Who is Matemadanda to dare the Americans
Following the news that cde Matemadanda has issued a stern warning to America, many people held their mouths with two hands. Today we want to see who cde Matemadanda is. Comrade Victor Matemadanda is ...Published: 10 Jan 2020 at 21:24hrs | 14961 | by Masimba Mavaza
Open letter to Matemadanda
'No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.' Thomas Jeffer...Published: 06 Jan 2020 at 21:15hrs | 4901 | by Tendai Manika
Breaking: Zim Parks Rangers found dead after encounter with Zambian poachers
Two Zim Parks rangers that went missing after a fight with Zambian poachers they had apprehended at Lake Kariba have been found dead, a spokesperson has confirmed. Zim Parks spokesperson Tinas...Published: 06 Jan 2020 at 20:05hrs | 7192 | by Staff Reporter
Josiah Magama Tongogara 39 years On
A day after celebrating christmas swimming through the stiffed hard but good festive seasons on the 26th December 1979 duty called. In the call of duty the son of the soil breathed his last breath....Published: 27 Dec 2019 at 08:28hrs | 3088 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
New party formed
he Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has acknowledged the formation of a new political party called the Independence of Zimbabwe African Organisation of People's Power Pinda Panyanga United Front (I...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 15:42hrs | 1740 | by Staff reporter
Ministers hail Mnangagwa
PROVINCIAL Affairs Ministers have hailed the decision by President Mnangagwa to rotate the holding of the main programmes to commemorate national holidays like Independence Day and others across the c...Published: 19 Dec 2019 at 04:56hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF: We will rule through hook or crook
Mashonaland West Provincial Affairs minister Mary Mliswa at the Zanu-PF conference, which ended in Goromonzi yesterday.Zanu-PF has declared that it will not be removed from power and will depl...Published: 15 Dec 2019 at 12:14hrs | 2033 | by Staff reporter
Zozibini and decolonial aesthetics
THE saying that "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder" is an old English saying that has its roots in Ancient Greece. The roots of the saying are deeply philosophical as were its Greek geneal...Published: 15 Dec 2019 at 12:07hrs | 461 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Mphoko's pension case an example how Ndebeles are ill-treated in Zimbabwe
Former Zimbabwe Vice President, Phelekezela Mphoko, is another good example of how Matabeles in Zimbabwe are ill- treated and have to suffer to get what is rightfully theirs. For being an unwanted Nde...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 10:30hrs | 2508 | by Israel Dube
No one has monopoly of civilization
What the West can do for Zimbabwe is pay reparations for colonialism and human rights violations visited upon blacks during that dark era. Germany is paying for its excesses and injustice duri...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 14:23hrs | 378 | by Thomas Tondo
3 liberation war heroes buried
MIDLANDS Province yesterday laid to rest two liberation war heroes, days after another one was also buried at the provincial heroes' acre in Gweru. Those buried yesterday at the provincial shr...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 12:14hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's stadia crisis
Zimbabwe is facing a stadia crisis after the Confederation of African Football (Caf) condemned the National Sports Stadium and others, warning that national teams and clubs playing in continental comp...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:17hrs | 308 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF supporters invade Mugabe farm
Suspected Zanu-PF supporters yesterday invaded a farm belonging to former president Robert Mugabe on the outskirts of Harare.The rowdy invaders, including a man who was armed with a gun arrive...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:16hrs | 1485 | by Staff reporter
Council honours ZPRA veteran
THE late Zapu secretary for security Canaan Ncube has been honoured by the Bulawayo City Council and will be interred at the Lady Stanley Cemetery where the city's senior illustrious citizens are buri...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:12hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa peeps into immortality
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent decision to rename 10 streets in key cities in the country portrays him as a leader desperate to cleanse his tainted record, while immortalising his name in the a...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:52hrs | 844 | by Staff reporter
War veterans, minister clash over land
War veterans in Mashonaland Central province have accused Provincial Affairs minister Monica Mavhunga of allegedly grabbing land from stalwarts of the liberation struggle and re-allocating it to peopl...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:44hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
War veterans, minister clash over land
War veterans in Mashonaland Central province have accused Provincial Affairs minister Monica Mavhunga of allegedly grabbing land from stalwarts of the liberation struggle and re-allocating it to peopl...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 06:41hrs | 837 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lives in a bubble
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa being sworn in in Harare, 26 August 2018. Picture: Shepard Tozvireva / African News Agency (ANA)Emmerson Mnangagwa has not only disappointed those who h...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 22:07hrs | 5540 | by Staff reporter
Why do war veterans want preferential treatment?
AS much as we would want to always support our fellow country folk who sacrificed their life and limb fighting for the liberation of this country, we sometimes find it difficult to accept some of thei...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 06:58hrs | 686 | by NewsDay Comment
'Mnangagwa should clear name on Gukurahundi before grabbing Bulawayo roads'
OPPOSITION Zapu has scolded President Emmerson Mnangagwa for rushing to name a street in Bulawayo after himself before he has found time to come clean on his role in the 1980s Gukurahundi atrocities o...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 06:40hrs | 1142 | by newzimbabwe
Bulawayo residents bitter over selective renaming of roads
BULAWAYO residents and opposition political parties have criticised government's move to rename several roads in the city, leaving out some of the city's luminaries.Government on Thursday anno...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 17:24hrs | 2234 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe war vets now want own bank
WAR veterans now want government to establish a bank for them and build a specialised hospital to exclusively treat the over 25 000 remaining former liberation war fighters.The issue was revea...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:40hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
What is Decolonial Heroism?
EVERY living philosophy has its dilemmas and frustrations. Philosophies, if they are not sophistry and charlatanry, always arise from perplexity. The perplexity of decoloniality as a philosoph...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:15hrs | 98 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
'We had semi-liberated zones in Lupane, Nkayi'
We continue our interview with Tapson Ncube aka Makhula Thebe who during the armed struggle operated in Lupane and Nkayi districts. Below are excerpts of the interview with our Assistant Edito...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:14hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
Re-naming of streets above board
Cabinet's decision to re-name some roads in urban local authorities, places and Government buildings after national heroes and regional nationalists and beyond is in accordance with the country's laws...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 18:02hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
Uproar over Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa roads
Zimbabweans have reacted with disbelief to news that the government has approved plans to rename major roads and buildings after "national heroes" - including 10 streets named after President Emmerson...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 18:00hrs | 252 | by BBC
Mnangagwa named 10 roads after himself
With the haste of a man not certain of history's judgment of him, President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday renamed 10 roads in all provinces after himself.Enterprise Road in Harare, which lead...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 17:58hrs | 194 | by ZimLive
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