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Spirit of Morrison Nyati still lives
IF you are as old as Bishop Lazi, you probably would never be able to banish the irrepressible memories of those chicken bus rides from the village to the city, or vice versa.However forgettab...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:41hrs | 61 | by Staff reporter
If Simon khaya-Moyo was a hero he would have agreed to be buried at the 'heroes acre'
I wish Welshman Mabhena was alive, while I also was to be happy if Ndabaningi Sithole could have been still around.Without any doubt these two liberation stalwarts declared during their life t...Published: 25 Nov 2021 at 19:27hrs | 4383 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Mnangagwa rejects copies of stolen artefacts
Africa should insist that archives and museum objects of its heroes should be originals, not digital copies, with Zimbabwe one of the countries with the facilities ready to receive and protect this he...Published: 25 Nov 2021 at 09:34hrs | 3942 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF exposes thousands to Covid-19
THOUSANDS of Zanu-PF supporters yesterday thronged the National Heroes Acre in Harare to witness the burial of national hero and Zanu-PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo in defiance of COVID-19 protocols...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:59hrs | 819 | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo ran a good race
AS THE country hurtles towards next year's by-elections and the 2023 harmonised national elections, President Mnangagwa has called upon Zimbabweans to shun violence and embrace unity and love as was e...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:56hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF persecuted Khaya Moyo, says Mliswa
FORMER Zanu-PF Mashonaland West province chairperson and the current independent Norton MP Temba Mliswa says the late Simon Khaya Moyo was among senior Zapu leaders who were persecuted by the ruling Z...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:55hrs | 1170 | by Staff reporter
Huge send off for national hero Khaya Moyo
Zimbabweans from all walks thronged the National Heroes Acre yesterday to pay their last respects to the late liberation stalwart Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo who succumbed to cancer on Sunday, Novembe...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:54hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says no to violence, divisions
AS THE country hurtles towards next year's by-elections and the 2023 harmonised national elections, President Mnangagwa has called upon Zimbabweans to shun violence and embrace unity and love as was e...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:49hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pleads with Zimbabweans to get vaccinated
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged Zimbabweans who are yet to get vaccinated to do so now as the country has enough vaccines to reach herd immunity.He was speaking at the National Heroes A...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 18:07hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
'Khaya Moyo was politically correct'
MATEBELELAND-BASED political analysts have described the late Zanu-PF spokesperson and former minister Simon Khaya Moyo as a "politically correct" person who avoided aligning himself with factions in ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:14hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
All set for Khaya Moyo burial
A huge crowd is expected to converge at the National Heroes Acre to bid farewell to veteran politician and national hero Simon Khaya Moyo.Covid-19 regulations will be adhered to.Presid...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:53hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
Go well my friend, Cde SK
COMRADE Simon Khaya Moyo is no more. He has joined the pantheon of Zimbabwe's finest patriots throughout the ages. Of recent note are fellow heroines and heroes of Chimurenga II who sacrificed to bury...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 09:12hrs | 1893 | by Amb Chris Mutsvangwa
Not even ZANU PF late presidents are laid at the national heroes acre!
The first ZANU president, Ndabaningi Sithole, was deposed by Robert Gabriel Mugabe (who had been the party's secretary general) in 1975 - in an internal coup, whose constitutionality was questionable....Published: 18 Nov 2021 at 18:25hrs | 2477 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Khaya Moyo: Selfless freedom fighter
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has mourned nationalist and liberation struggle stalwart Simon Khaya Moyo, who has been declared a national hero, as a true patriot, courageous and selfless freedom fighter....Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
Simon Khaya Moyo is dead - he is NOT a national hero, not after 41 years of Zanu PF wickedness
Zanu-PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo (76) has reportedly died.Zanu and Zapu cadres made a monumental contribution in the liberation of Zimbabwe, that is a historic fact that no one will dispu...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 23:11hrs | 2943 | by Wilbert Mukori
ZANLA/ZANU did not liberate Matabeleland
To say that ZANU and it's razmataz armed wing, ZANLA, liberated Matabeleland and therefore are our leaders, comrades or heroes, is as good as claiming that the Rhodesian Army and government liberated ...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 00:20hrs | 979 | by Israel Dube
Zanla fighter's daughter now top medical officer in US
While a good number of gallant veterans of Zimbabwe's war of liberation brawled this week in Harare with the police, who charged them with seeking to incite public violence, a city in a distant land t...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:14hrs | 1092 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Chiwenga 'faction' targets Mnangagwa
A Zanu-PF faction said to be sympathetic to Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is alleged to be behind several manoeuvres seen as targeted at President Emmerson Mnangagwa amid revelations that war ve...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:12hrs | 963 | by Staff reporter
No to tribalism, says Mnangagwa
ZANU PF President and First Secretary Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged party members to abide by the party Constitution and ensure unity of purpose saying tribalism, regionalism, and corruption have no pl...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 12:59hrs | 575 | by Staff Reporter
Chiwenga 'faction' turns heat on Mnangagwa
A Zanu-PF faction said to be sympathetic to Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is alleged to be behind several manoeuvres seen as targeted at President Emmerson Mnangagwa amid revelations that war ve...Published: 24 Oct 2021 at 09:30hrs | 2945 | by Staff reporter
They have no answers for Nero's charisma
My Dear People,In politics there is a "baby-kissing" season, where politicians go out and hug and kiss babies whose parents they do not know.By doing this, politicians would be trying ...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:04hrs | 299 | by DOCTOR STOP IT
Mashonaland chiefs demand change of title to kings
CHIEFS are lobbying government to urgently change the nomenclature of traditional leaders' titles from chiefs to kings.Chief Zvimba, born Stanley Urayayi Mhondoro, is leading the lobby....Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:04hrs | 4222 | by Staff reporter
Democracy is not about generational entitlement
Following the United Parties for National Development's (UNPD) win in Zambia's August 12, 2021, general elections, the MDC Alliance faction leader Nelson Chamisa became unnecessarily excited.T...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:52hrs | 203 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa subtly launches 2023 election campaign
POLITICAL leaders gain power to retain it. The power of incumbency is fully exploited to make sure they succeed themselves. They will use subtle means, including dishing out State resources to the peo...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:32hrs | 447 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
'Law is tool for development'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday laid down the legislative agenda for the Fourth Session of the Ninth Parliament which will see a number of Bills which include the consideration of legislation relating t...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 84 | by Staff reporter
'It is my turn to lead' Nelson Chamisa says
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa says now is his turn to take the leadership of the country because the liberation heroes who led this country to Independence were around his age when they took over l...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 16:46hrs | 4223 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Grace Mugabe tells of 'intense mental torture'
Robert Mugabe's widow says her family has been subjected to "intense mental torture" over attempts to exhume and rebury the late former president against the family's wishes.Grace Mugabe, 56, ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:46hrs | 5239 | by Staff reporter
Grace approaches High Court over Mugabe exhumation
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday filed a High Court application seeking to challenge an order by a Chinhoyi magistrate to exhume the remains of her late husband, former President Robert Mugabe...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:43hrs | 557 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths mourn hero Sandiyani
The Zanu-PF youth league has joined the nation in mourning the late national hero Wereki Sandiyani, who was buried on Saturday at the National Heroes Acre.Sandiyani died on September 26 at the...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
Bizzare incidents engulf Mugabe's village as boy hangs self at father's funeral
BIZARRE incident are playing out in the late former President Robert Mugabe's rural Zvimba area after an 18-year-old high school pupil committed suicide by hanging near his newly buried father's grave...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 19:31hrs | 1609 | by Staff reporter
ED Pfeeee in UK hill Nehanda's head head home
The President of Zimbabweans His Excellence Cde Dr Emerson Dambudzo MNANGAGWA will be gracing the Queen's land in October 2021. There is great excitement amongst Zimbabweans who are hoping to catch a ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:46hrs | 3138 | by Dr Maisimba Mavaza
'Mugabe's bitter, vengeful spirit decimating foes'
THE late former president Robert Mugabe's family claims his spirit is causing the death of his tribesmen who are at the forefront of the exhumation of his remains.Mugabe's body was buried at h...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:22hrs | 4261 | by Staff reporter
Renaming roads fails to convince Zimbabweans
A BID to rename major roads in the country after President Emmerson Mnangagwa and some fallen heroes seems to have failed to resonate with Zimbabweans as they are still using old names, while in some ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:21hrs | 788 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appeals for patience
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pleaded with Zimbabweans not to give up hope in the face of a myriad of challenges as he warned alleged "treacherous" elements against sabotaging the economy....Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:17hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe burial saga in bizarre twist
Former president Robert Mugabe's family says his spirit is fighting back after "mysterious" deaths and illnesses hit families of some traditional leaders that were pushing for the exhumation of the la...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:16hrs | 577 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe won't sacrifice our economic gains
THE Second Republic is paying tribute to heroes of the liberation struggle by growing the economy and progress made on economic development should not be sacrificed on account of narrow interests, Pre...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:09hrs | 64 | by Staff reporter
Sandiyani described an outstanding family person
Hard working and honest, the late national hero Cde Wereki Sandiyani has been described as a phenomenal family person whose has left a void that will be difficult to fill.A pil...Published: 02 Oct 2021 at 15:09hrs | 1691 | by Staff Reporter
Address motives behind Mugabe exhumation
THE case by the now late Chief Zvimba to have the remains of the late former President Robert Mugabe exhumed from his rural graveyard in Kutama village in Zvimba and be interred at the National Heroes...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges mindset change in civil service
CIVIL servants should change their mindsets and be drivers of devolution and decentralisation to ensure that every citizen has access to basic services such as clean water and well-resourced schools, ...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:14hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
'Let's protect the gains of our independence'
ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ZIMBABWE DEFENCE FORCES HIS EXCELLENCY, CDE. ED MNANGAGWA AT THE BURIAL OF NATIONAL HERO DR MARIYO MARIYAWANDA NZUWAH ON SEPTEMBER 26, 2021, AT T...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe remains saga sparks debate
The controversy surrounding the late former president Robert Mugabe's final resting place continues to haunt the country as the battle now shifts to the courts.When Mugabe died, it took nearly...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:52hrs | 922 | by Staff reporter
Nzuwah's burial on today, Mnangagwa to preside
THE late former Public Service Commission (PSC) chairman and national hero, Dr Mariyawanda Nzuwah, will be buried today at the National Heroes Acre in Harare under Covid-19 protocols, with President M...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:35hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter
The wave of change is eminent on the southern region: Big homework for Zanu
The sudden change of political weather has given ZANU-PF a thorn in the flesh as it watches its friends and allies downfall and being dumped by masses through the ballot and political dustbin by voice...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 09:32hrs | 2508 | by Sibusisiwe Tshuma
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: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:23hrs | 592 | by Brighton Taruberekera
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 | 970 | 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 | 1996 | 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 | 4885 | 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 | 261 | 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 | 543 | 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 | 715 | by Staff reporter
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