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Umdala Wethu: The Statesman who united a nation
In the story of Zimbabwe, there are names that echo. And then there is Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo - a man whose name is etched not merely in memory, but in the bedrock of the nation itself. As Zimb...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 10:30hrs | 355 | by Dereck Goto
'Chivayo should be celebrated'
Holy Spirit Ministries pastor Solomon Ndlovu has sparked fierce debate after publicly defending controversial businessman and tenderpreneur Wicknell Chivayo, insisting the flamboyant socialite has com...Published: 21 May 2025 at 19:58hrs | 739 | by Staff reporter
In memory of Sam Nujoma: A patriot who built Namibia while his fellow liberators turned into tyrants
It's another sad day for Africa! The death of Namibia's founding president, Sam Nujoma, at the age of 95 years, marks the passing of a man whose legacy transcends national borders. A r...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 23:02hrs | 341 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Prof. Welshman Ncube showers rare praises on Tendai Biti
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Acting President, Professor Welshman Ncube, has extended heartfelt congratulations to veteran opposition activist and lawyer Tendai Biti for being honored with the ...Published: 18 Dec 2024 at 16:03hrs | 3183 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa claims to be a constitutionalist
President Mnangagwa has reiterated his commitment to the Zimbabwean Constitution, affirming that he will not extend his presidential term beyond 2028. This declaration came during the 21st Zanu-PF Ann...Published: 27 Oct 2024 at 12:26hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter
Gospel artists pen tribute songs for late Mother General Mabhiza
Several gospel artists have penned songs in memory of late Saint John Apostolic Church of the Whole World's Mother General Mabhiza.The late Mother General was remembered for her marriage...Published: 17 Feb 2024 at 19:49hrs | 65 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
'No reason to celebrate Unity Day'
ZIMBABWE today celebrates the signing of the 1987 Unity Accord to end Gukurahundi, but critics are sceptical that traditional leaders are the best foot forward in finding closure to the massacres....Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 07:13hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
The Chamisa Dilemma: Zimbabwe's struggle with Truth-in-Leadership continues
Zimbabwe, a nation that has long grappled with the scourge of leadership embroiled in deceit, finds itself at yet another crossroads. President Mnangagwa, despite promises of ushering in a new era, co...Published: 13 Oct 2023 at 20:44hrs | 3 | by Sandra Mverera
Zanu-PF has destroyed Zimbabwe soccer, says Mucherahowa
United Kingdom-based former Zimbabwe national football team player and Dynamos captain Memory Mucherahowa says Zanu PF has destroyed soccer in the country and everything else - people's lives, familie...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 12:10hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo opens up after David Coltart 'insult'
Zimbabwean former minister and MP Jonathan Moyo has written a long open letter to main opposition CCC senior leader David Coltart over his remarks about his late father Melusi Job Mlevu who was ...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 08:03hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
David Coltart operated in Matabeleland where he did dastardly things
Dear David Coltart,WHY I CANNOT SUPPORT QUINTUPLE C: COLTART, CHAMISA AND CCCMy attention has been drawn to your fraudulent and disgusting tweet you posted on my Twitter TL yesterday D...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 18:58hrs | 14 | by Jonathan Moyo
Shingi Munyeza and wife ordered to repay US$100 000 with interest
Prominent Zimbabwean pastor, businessperson and political activist Shingi Munyeza and his wife Wilma have been ordered by the High Court to repay public relations strategist Marjorie Mutemererwa her U...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 19:38hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter
Bossolona still unbeaten at 16 games
Highlanders FC 1-0 Manica Diamonds FCIT took a really good run of play for Highlanders FC defender, Peter Muduhwa as he strode lengths yelling for a pass, and eventually he was there to score the ...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 18:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ibhetshu LikaZulu erects plaques in memory of Gukurahundi victims
Matebeleland-BASED human rights watchdog, Ibhetshu LikaZulu has erected a memorial plaque on a mass grave where six people were allegedly killed by the army in Salankomo village, Tsholotsho, in 1983....Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Shingi Munyeza 'ate' my US$85 000 severance package, says Mutemererwa
WHEN Marjorie Mutemererwa left Seed Co. Ltd last year after some years of dedicated and long service where she was public relations and special programmes manager, she was paid some cool US$85 000 sev...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 17:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: SADC artists release Robert Mugabe emotional song
Artists' from Zimbabwe, Zambia and Tanzania came together to release a sombre track in memory of the late founding father of the country Robert Mugabe on the 2023 edition of commemorating his birthday...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 06:49hrs | 27 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mpopoma's famous personalities
BULAWAYO city, just like other towns and cities in Zimbabwe, had residential areas allocated according to race before Independence. Europeans, Africans, referred to at that time as "natives," Indians ...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa salutes late ex-Chinese leader Jiang
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has sent a condolence message to China following the death of former leader Jiang Zemin describing him as an outstanding statesman who led his country into growth and progress...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters petition Mnangagwa?
SOME eminent Zimbabweans, including businesspeople, former ministers, sports personalities, academics and civil society leaders, have written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, seeking restoration of th...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Two-faced Mnangagwa honours Rwanda genocide victims
President Emmerson Mnangagwa Wednesday toured the Kigali Memorial to pay tribute to over 600 000 victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide in a sharp contrast to his continued crackdown on Gukurahundi memo...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 17:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Don't muzzle Gukurahundi genocide survivors'
THE United Nations (UN) Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to stop restricting Gukurahundi survivors from mourning and holdin...Published: 05 Sep 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magaisa declared national hero
CIVIL Society Organisations Wednesday declared the late Morgan Tsvangirai's advisor, Alex Tawanda Magaisa, a national hero.Addressing journalists in Harare, the Secretary for the Constitutiona...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Muridzo, Ngwazi clash
Jeetaz band boss Andy Muridzo and Njanja Express boss Mark Ngwazi will be in for a musical showdown tomorrow in Buhera at the Guyo homestead in Buhera North Constituency.The two were sought af...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 20:30hrs | 16 | by Edson Mapani in Buhera
Joshua Maponga apologises to Ndebeles over Gukurahundi rant
Former Seventh Day Adventist Bishop Joshua Maponga has issued an apology to the people of Zimbabwe after he posted an article saying the people of Matabeleland should forgive the Shona people of the G...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 10:23hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police set tough conditions for Chamisa rally
POLICE in Harare have reportedly set tough conditions for Nelson Chamisa's Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) campaign rally, saying only party supporters from Highfield would be allowed to attend th...Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's top aide in Gukurahundi genocide storm
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba torched a storm yesterday after he declared that the erection of Gukurahundi memorial plaques was illegal.Bulawayo-based pressure group Ibhetshu LikaZ...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide apology without truth-telling won't work
A BULAWAYO based pressure group advocating for Gukurahundi reparation says has welcomed Matabeleland South Chiefs' demands on government to apologise publicly over the Gukurahundi atrocities but said ...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must apologise for gukurahundi genocide, - Chiefs
CHIEFS, once described by the late president Robert Mugabe as paragons of virtue, have called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to publicly apologise for the Gukurahundi massacres that ...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland Chiefs demand Gukurahundi genocide apology
TRADITIONAL leaders in Matebeleland South have repeated calls for government to publicly apologise for the Gukurahundi massacres that claimed an estimated 20 000 innocent lives in Matebeleland and Mid...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bombing of Gukurahundi memorial plague censured
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiCZ) has strongly condemned the recent bombing of a Gukurahundi memorial plaque at Bhalagwe in Maphisa, Matebeleland South, describing the act as barbaric.It add...Published: 13 Jan 2022 at 05:25hrs | 1 | 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 | 1 | by Sibusisiwe Tshuma
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 | | by Staff reporter
Pressure group vows to replace Gukurahundi plaques
BULAWAYO pressure group Ibhetshu LikaZulu has announced that it will replace the two Gukurahundi memorial plaques stolen from Bhalagwe and Silobela and would install five additional plaques at mass gr...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa arrives in Zambia for Dr Kaunda's funeral
President Mnangagwa has arrived in Lusaka for the official state funeral of the late former President and founding father of Zambia, Dr Kenneth Kaunda.On arrival, President Mnangagwa was welco...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 13:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Kenneth Kaunda obituary the last man standing
Kenneth David Kaunda was born on the 28 April 1924. He was affectionately known as KK was a Zambian politician who served as the first President of Zambia from 1964 to 1991. He was at the forefr...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 07:33hrs | 4 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Ibhetshu LikaZulu fundraises for Gukurahundi plaques
BULAWAYO-BASED pressure group Ibhetshu LikaZulu yesterday said it had begun a programme to replace Gukurahundi memorial plaques that were stolen last month in Bhalagwe, Maphisa and Silobela.Th...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:40hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Another Gukurahundi genocide memorial plaque stolen
ANOTHER Gukurahundi memorial plaque has reportedly been stolen in Silobela, Midlands, barely a fortnight after unknown people removed a similar structure in Bhalagwe, Matabeleland South.The pl...Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
There is no reason to desecrate graves of Gukurahundi genocide victims
GUKURAHUNDI remains a sore and divisive topic in Zimbabwe, and recent developments are showing that there are those who wish to keep the ghosts buried and victims who need closure to move on.A...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
The desecretion of the memory of gukurahundi victims
Greeting to all! Just when the memory of victims of the Gukurahundi, was brought to the attention of all the people of Mthwakazi, by Ibhetshu Likazulu, through the erection of tombstones, it w...Published: 29 May 2021 at 17:27hrs | 1 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Police summon gukurahundi genocide activist over 2019 'violence'
POLICE in Bulawayo have issued court summons to Ibhetshu LikaZulu secretary general, Mbuso Fuzwayo over his alleged involvement in violent protests which rocked Bulawayo City Hall in October 2019 foll...Published: 29 May 2021 at 08:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bhalagwe Gukurahundi plaque 'stolen'
A Gukurahundi memorial plaque erected, Sunday, at Bhalagwe in Maphisa, Matabeleland South, in memory of the victims of the 1980s massacres has reportedly been stolen.Ibhetshu Likazulu, a local...Published: 26 May 2021 at 19:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Iyasa honours late member through concert
AWARD-WINNING group Inkululeko Yabatsha School of Arts (Iyasa) in partnership with Theatro Piccolo (Vienna, Austria) on Monday held a virtual show for the production of Elephant Moon in memory of its ...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ministers tasked to draw up 5-year plans
Cabinet ministers must before the end of March, draw up five-year action plans aligned to the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1), for consideration by Government with the offices of the Vice Presi...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 05:25hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Communist Party rededicates its struggle in honour of Dzamara
The ZCP deep its red flag in memory of Cde Patson Dzamara. Cde Dzamara dies at a time his family is still looking for answers on the disappearance of his brother Cde Itai Dzamara who is alleged to hav...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 16:25hrs | 1 | by ZCP
Mnangagwa hails Zion Church projects
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has hailed the Zion Christian Church led by Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi for undertaking projects designed to uplift the lives of communities in line with his vision 2030 agend...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
In memory of August 2018 victims
As you would be aware, today marks one year since the tragic gunning down of our citizens by the Military regime. On this day, what started off as an exercise of every Zimbabwean's right to freedom of...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 16:02hrs | 1 | by ZEFF
'Mnangagwa's govt failing to honour Joshua Nkomo'
ZAPU believes government has not honoured its late leader and father Zimbabwe, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, by failing todeclare the day he passed away a national holiday.Nkomo, who was born on June ...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Why should we remember Joshua Nkomo
IN this two-part series, the Zimbabwe Independent reproduces the 2019 Annual Joshua Nkomo Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni, organised by Joshua Nkomo Legacy Foundation ...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:52hrs | 2 | by Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Let us be selfless like Joshua Nkomo
HIGHER and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira last Friday urged Zimbabweans to emulate the late nationalist and Vice-President Joshua Nkomo, who he described as a selfless man who fought for the...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF stance on Dabengwa correct
The corruption riddled ZANU PF party MPs whose clueless Government has impoverished and pauperised the entire nation were after all correct in their childish pettiness. A cabal that has driven million...Published: 30 May 2019 at 15:38hrs | 1 | by Nkosenhle
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