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Patients share wards with dead bodies in Zimbabwe
The medical personnel industrial action in Zimbabwe is blamed on the country's crumbling healthcare service, poor governance and corruption.The lack of response of the international community ...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:29hrs | 2951 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Iron-age smelting sites discovered near Victoria Falls
Historical metal smelting sites have been discovered in Jafuta near Victoria Falls with calls for further exploration of the area which is believed to be rich in cultural heritage.Recent and p...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 12:59hrs | 2094 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: A timeline of an almost failed state
I. Stone Age; hunter-gatherer San (Twa) presence (20,000–15,000 BC) of modern homo sapiens.II. Iron Age; Niger-Congo Bantu pastoral migrations (2000–1500 BC).III. Ophir; alleged "p...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 10:01hrs | 2881 | by Sonny Jermain
Zanu-PF's tactics exposed
Africa is a young sleeping giant where Zimbabwe comes as the best educated country on the continent a vibrant young population which can compete at any global level.Zanu PF tactics of scuttlin...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 07:43hrs | 5473 | by Leonard Koni
How to pass O-Level History exams
History belongs to the Humanities in the updated curriculum and success in the subject at ''Á'' Level alongside other subjects will lead one to a career in Law or the Social Sciences. Thus, it is inc...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 09:24hrs | 3179 | by Freedom Mutanda
The Ncube Clan: a Tale of Kalanga Origins
THE REBIRTH OF BUKALANGA: A GREAT NATION Since the publication of my book, The Rebirth of BuKalanga, a lot of interest has been generated in Kalanga ide...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 17:15hrs | 20097 | by Ndzimu-Unami Emmanuel Moyo
117-year-old granny says she is tired of living
THE world's oldest granny Emma Morano from Italy is 117 years old this year yet, in Bulilima, a rural district in South-western Zimbabwe there is an unknown woman who has also lived the same number of...Published: 06 Jan 2017 at 10:08hrs | 6351 | by Divine Dube
Zimbabwe: New Year, Old Thinking
2016 arrived nine days ago. Or so we allege. As before, and before, on New Year the sun still rose from the east, still set in the west. The clock - not time - ticked as before, giving us an illusion ...Published: 09 Jan 2016 at 07:13hrs | 857 | by Nathaniel Manheru
'Gukurahundi is a festering sore'
Rising Bulawayo-born writer-cum-playwright Christopher Mlalazi (CM), who is currently a writer in residence in Germany, has gained respect in Zimbabwe's competitive writing community largely because o...Published: 27 Aug 2015 at 16:02hrs | 3404 | by Jeffrey Muvundusi
The Kalanga Origins of the Thembu and Nelson Mandela Revealed
Stories of our Great Achievements Must be Told Alan Dershowitz notes his feelings about his Jewish identity when he was a Yale law student: "When I ...Published: 06 Jan 2014 at 11:26hrs | 19040 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo
Who are the Kalanga?
Who are the Kalanga, or Bakalanga, BaNambya and Vhavenda?One day not many years ago whilst passing by the Plumtree District Hospital, I overheard two men arguing about the people bearing the surn...Published: 25 Nov 2013 at 12:20hrs | 32397 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo
Cecil John Rhodes was a bigoted buffoon
A Sequel to 'Zambian Intellectuals are LazyI told my son not to take after me; break tradition chains, remove old edicts, and create new rituals. T...Published: 23 Feb 2012 at 17:25hrs | 1149 | by Field Ruwe
ROHR Zimbabwe strongly condemns the arrests of its activists
Just days ago hooligans got away with stone age like beatings, muggings, theft as well as defilement of the August house while peaceful human rights activists are wantonly arrested ,beaten and detain...Published: 28 Jul 2011 at 06:23hrs | 824 | by ROHR
Sepp Blatter was presented with Bryn Taurai Mteki's sculpture
World-renowned sculptor/musician Bryn Taurai Mteki was introduced to FIFA president Sepp Blatter when Zimbabwe Football Association commissioned him to craft a special memento of the country when the...Published: 21 Jul 2011 at 08:15hrs | 2450 | by Moyo Roy
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