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'Ideological poverty provoked Joshua Nkomo'
"EMANCIPATE yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds . . ."The late reggae legend Bob Marley's Redemption Song could have been an inspiration to the iconic liberation st...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 06:56hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
Jane Ngwenya laid to rest
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has described the late national heroine Jane Lungile Ngwenya as a courageous woman who played a pivotal role in the liberation of the country and pioneered the discourse o...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 21:26hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Heroine Ngwenya burial set for Saturday
NATIONALIST and liberation stalwart Jane Ngwenya who was declared a national heroine, will be buried on Saturday at the National Heroes Acre in Harare. Ngwenya (86) died last night at Bulawayo's Mater...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 06:30hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Jane Ngwenya to be buried at Heroes Acre
NATIONALIST and liberation stalwart Jane Lungile Ngwenya has been declared a National Heroine. Ngwenya (86) died on Thursday night at Bulawayo's Mater Dei Hospital. Zanu-PF Secretary f...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 07:34hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF mourns heroine Jane Ngwenya
Zanu-PF has described the late veteran nationalist, Jane Ngwenya as an astute and unflinching revolutionary who played an integral role in the liberation of the country. Ngwenya, who is ...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 07:31hrs | 2 | by Staff writer
Jane Ngwenya declared national hero
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday declared liberation stalwart Jane Ngwenya a national hero.Ngwenya (86) died on Thursday at Mater dei Hospital in Bulawayo.The conferment message was ...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 22:05hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Jane Ngwenya the first black woman nationalist to join active politics in Rhodesia
Comrade Jane Ngwenya was the first woman who dared the men spaces, a domain of male occupation: politics. When my mother came to Zambia running away from the obvious incarceration at Chikurubi prison ...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 13:44hrs | 26 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chiwenga consoles Jane Ngwenya family
VICE PRESIDENT Dr Constantino Chiwenga has sent his condolences to the Ngwenya family following the death of Jane Lungile Ngwenya, a veteran of the liberation struggle.Ngwenya died on Thursday...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accords wife national honour
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has awarded his wife, First Lady Auxillia a gold medal for her "outstanding performance in her philanthropic activities among 99 other outstanding institutions, civilians ...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:14hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Jane Ngwenya
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday sent a condolence message to the Ngwenya family following the death of nationalist and freedom fighter Jane Lungile Ngwenya. Mnangagwa said he received the news of the pa...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:03hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa awards his wife with 'Order of the Great Zimbabwe Silver'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has created national awards to honour outstanding Zimbabweans - and one of the first recipients is his wife, Auxillia.Mrs Mnangagwa was awarded an Order of the...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 14:21hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Liberation fighter Jane Ngwenya dies
Former liberation heroine and nationalist Jane Lungile Ngwenya has died at the age of 86. According to sources, Ngwenya passed on at Mater Dei Hospital on Thursday evening where she was receiving trea...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 11:21hrs | 14 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Toponymic identity in Bulawayo and the need to recognise Black women
Histories of many states and nations in the world are generally histories of men and in some cases a few outstanding women, seemingly those whose absence in the historical narrative may discredit hist...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 14:42hrs | 4 | by Staff
Sithembiso Nyoni not fit for the Vice Presidency
Matebeleland North is a hive of activity as ZANU PF prepares for its Annual National People's Conference. There are people on the ground and rumours on the ground , as well as social media articles an...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 06:41hrs | 19 | by Terror Ngwenya
If Mbuya Nehanda is a Heroine, why is Comrade Thenjwe Lesabe not one?
Some corrections at national level must be done because what is happening in Zimbabwe does not add up to full total. There are discrepancies openly done to provoke tribalism. Who does Nehanda represen...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 21:48hrs | 23 | by Nomazulu Thata
Army boss sidelined over audio
The commander of One Presiential Guard Infantry Battalion at State House, Lieutenant-Colonel Samson Murombo, was sidelined from commanding the parade at the Defence Forces Day commemorations on Tuesda...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:28hrs | 2334 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, army rift exposed
AN explosive leaked audio recording allegedly of First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa (pictured) has exposed the simmering bad blood between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the military.This comes h...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 08:45hrs | 10878 | by Staff reporter
DD: The man, soldier, pacifier
The light of the armed liberation struggle icon has been extinguished. Dr Dumiso Dabengwa, affectionately known as DD, passed on 23 May 2019.There was grief and anguish when news about his dea...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:44hrs | 285 | by Phathisa Nyathi
Velaphi Ncube's unheralded journey
ON Thursday, Misheck Ntunduzakovelaphi Velaphi Ncube was laid to rest at the National Heroes Acre in Harare following his declaration as a national hero.Born on 25 July 1937 in Matobo District...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:36hrs | 616 | by Pathisa Nyathi
The Heroine of Matabeleland is fallen! Matabeleland has heroes and heroines too!
The beautiful ones were born, but not acknowledged; these are women from Zapu - Matabeleland: Soneni Ngweny-Matiwaza is a nations' heroine: who cares today!The lyric from Bob Dylan goes like t...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 18:56hrs | 5452 | by Nomazulu Thata
Remembering Jason Ziyapapa Moyo
ON Tuesday marks 42 years since the death of Zapu Vice-President Jason Ziyapapa Moyo (JZ) in a parcel bomb in Lusaka, Zambia. JZ Moyo became the Secretary of the new ANC of Southern Rhodesia, which wa...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:23hrs | 615 | by Rtd Brig-General Mazinyane
Surviving Ian Smith's hit list
We continue chronicling the political life of Jane Ngwenya. This week Ngwenya narrates to our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati of her release from Gonakudzingwa Restriction Camp and fleeing Rhodesia u...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:01hrs | 940 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe industry must start functioning'
VETERAN nationalist Angeline Masuku has bounced back into Government having been appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the Minister of State for Provincial Affairs in Bulawayo taking over from ...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Zipra rose from the ashes
IN our previous instalments of our Column Lest We Forget we have been carrying out articles on former Zipra camp commander, instructor and a member of the High Command, Jack Mpofu. Mpofu, the late Rog...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 07:31hrs | 996 | by Staff reporter
Farewell to a visionary
I first came to know (Gogo Maria Msika) in the early 1960s when I was a student at Fletcher High School. I also knew her husband, who was a nationalist, the late Dr Joseph Msika.They owned a f...Published: 30 Sep 2017 at 23:59hrs | | by Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo
Jane Ngwenya dispels rumours she is dead
VETERAN freedom fighter Jane Lungile Ngwenya has revealed that there are some fraudsters who went around swindling people of their money claiming that she had died in a car crash.Ngwenya (82) ...Published: 29 Sep 2017 at 06:52hrs | 686 | by Staff reporter
'Joshua Nkomo mentored Mugabe'
OPPOSITION Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa has claimed that President Robert Mugabe would have remained an ordinary teacher and political nonentity had he not been recruited and catapulted into the limeli...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unity is key, says Moyo
THE Minister of State for Bulawayo Provincial Affairs, Nomthandazo Eunice Moyo, has reiterated the need for unity in the province saying this will foster development.She said this while ad...Published: 13 Nov 2016 at 09:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
In reponse to Cde Rutanhire's Sunday mail article 'Mujuru exposed'
Dear RutanhireIam a 30 year old Patriotic Zimbabwean. Since Iam so patriotic, let me start by reminding you sir that Sally H Mugabe was the first female to be buried at the national heroes shr...Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 16:00hrs | | by Mangosuthu Mbele
Power of Pink and the Zapu Woman - Why is there a history of women being sold short??
Women are always presented as the "weaker sex" but as my Granny used to say, the man may be regarded as the head of the family but the woman is the neck which controls and turns the head. All over the...Published: 10 Jun 2016 at 00:19hrs | 3126 | by Sipho Sibanda - ZAWU Provincial Chair-Europe
Guerilla training was no picnic, says Zipra man
In our Lest We Forget column this week we continue with former Zipra deputy chief of operations Stanley Nleya whose pseudo name was Elish Gagisa. Nleya who before his elevation to deputy chief of oper...Published: 20 Mar 2016 at 09:30hrs | 1782 | by Mkhululi Sibanda
Grace Mugabe's deputy is a novices in politics - Sen Masuku
Suspended Zanu PF Senator Angeline Masuku has said she has no hard feelings on First Lady Grace Mugabe's deputy in the Zanu PF women's league Eunice Sandi Moyo.Sandi Moyo accused Masuku ...Published: 20 Mar 2016 at 08:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF women's league boss attacks Angeline Masuku
Zanu-PF Women's League deputy secretary Eunice Nomthandazo Moyo has launched an attacked on Senator Angeline Masuku accusing her of claiming to be the most senior Zapu member in the region....Published: 14 Mar 2016 at 06:18hrs | 2659 | by Staff reporter
'Mutsvangwa has gone rogue'
EMBATTLED war veterans chairman Christopher Mutsvangwa has gone rogue and wants to turn former freedom fighters against Zanu-PF, Women's League deputy secretary Eunice Nomthandazo Moyo said yesterday....Published: 14 Mar 2016 at 05:42hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
Bomb attack survivor bemoans 'lost Zanu-PF values'
VETERAN freedom fighter, Jane Ngwenya, has said individualism has infiltrated Zanu-PF leading to infighting that was diverting the party from what it fought for. Ngwenya, who turns 81 in June,...Published: 08 Feb 2016 at 05:35hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
Mnangagwa visits liberation stalwarts
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa last Friday visited two of the country's liberation war stalwarts, former Senate Deputy President Naison Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu and former Deputy Minister Jane Ngwenya ...Published: 01 Feb 2016 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa visits liberation war stalwarts in Bulawayo
VICE President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday visited two of the country's liberation war stalwarts, former Senate Deputy President Naison Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu and former Deputy Minister Jane Ngwenya in...Published: 30 Jan 2016 at 21:45hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
Zapu is gender insensitive
With all due respect I have for the party Zapu, (I was born inside this party, both my mother and step father: Mr. Zephaniah Sihwa and Mrs. Louisa Sihwa were founder members of Zapu and they died unsh...Published: 21 Jan 2016 at 20:12hrs | 1524 | by Nomazulu Thata
How JZ Moyo got the name 'Ziyapapa'
JASON Ziyapapa Moyo, son of Tamuhla, hailed from Matobo District's Donkwe-Donkwe area. His mother was a MaNyathi of the Babirwa people. Both Mdongo and Tafi Zibuya were Tamuhla's brothers, all...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 09:03hrs | 2355 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Fistfights break out at war vets meeting
FISTFIGHTS broke out at the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association meeting at the ex-fighters' Bulawayo headquarters in Entumbane after a group allegedly hired by the association's Coun...Published: 25 Oct 2015 at 08:13hrs | 2029 | by Richard Muponde and Vusumuzi Dube
Joshua Nkomo was against secession
THE late Vice President Joshua Nkomo was very much against tribalism and disunity that at one time he reprimanded some people who were advocating for the division of the country on tribal grounds....Published: 01 Jul 2015 at 12:16hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
'Kalangas are not educated they do crime in SA,' says Mugabe - Video
President Robert Mugabe says the from the Kalanga tribe are not educated enough to assume good paying jobs and are well known for engaging in criminal activities in South Africa.Addressing...Published: 30 Apr 2015 at 05:45hrs | 11571 | by Ndou Paul
Mugabe rebukes Kalangas
President Robert Mugabe says foreigners in South Africa should leave the country as some of them, including some members of Zimbabwe’s Kalanga tribe, are engaged in criminal activities, VOA r...Published: 29 Apr 2015 at 20:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Do women know what they want?
Last year I wrote about what various group players in our sad politics can do improve their performance. I particularly looked at the extent to which the youths, the Church and political parties can p...Published: 09 Jan 2015 at 07:46hrs | 4233 | by Chris Dube, Political Commentator
Understanding Zapu History - Part 3
This is the final part of the series, however, we intend to continue engaging Dr Taurai Njekete on many different ZAPU historical issues, some will be published here and some will not, but will be pub...Published: 24 Dec 2014 at 17:35hrs | 3750 | by Taurai Njekete
Understanding ZAPU - The Early Days- pt 2
The Zimbabwe African People's Union - commonly referred to as ZAPU - was then formed in 1961, to replace the banned National Democratic Party. ZAPU is the first and authentic liberation movement o...Published: 23 Dec 2014 at 09:06hrs | 3284 | by Taurai Njekete
Mugabe's address to War Veterans - Fulltext (Shona)
President Mugabe's address to War Veterans and Youths at the Zanu-PF National Headquarters, Harare, October 30, 2014. PAMBERI nokubatana mu Zanu-PF!, neWomen's League muZanu-PF! neYouth Leagu...Published: 30 Oct 2014 at 22:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Khaya Moyo's bid for the second VP suffers a blow
ZANU-PF national chairman Simon Khaya Moyo's bid for the second vice presidency has suffered a blow with two senior party members distancing themselves from last year's meeting that "unanimously" ...Published: 28 Oct 2014 at 08:49hrs | 5865 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Khutshwekhaya's statement go unchallenged
Mr. Naison Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu issued a statement that he was the most senior surviving member from former ZAPU, followed by Mrs. Angelina Masuku. This article cannot be allowed to just pass unchalle...Published: 04 Oct 2014 at 08:18hrs | | by John Songo
Bulawayo to decide on VP, chairperson
The Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial coordinating committee is likely to meet on Saturday to thrash out the contentious issue of nominating party vice-president (VP) and national chairperson amid reports ...Published: 16 Sep 2014 at 12:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
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