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The idea of Zimbabwe and Matabeleland question
I think the best way to understand the present day manifestations and character of Matebeleland politics is to situate them properly historically and politically within the broader terrain of the deve...Published: 29 Mar 2025 at 17:01hrs | 2187 | by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
The unacknowledged legacy of Pathisa Nyathi
The late Pathisa Nyathi, a celebrated historian, educator, and cultural advocate, whose lifetime of work contributed greatly to the preservation and promotion of Zimbabwe's rich heritage, was overlook...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 10:56hrs | 80 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa trashes Constitution
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made a controversial move by appointing the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) commander, General Phillip Valerio Sibanda, as an ex-officio member of Zanu-PF's Politburo, t...Published: 29 Oct 2023 at 12:40hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints top general to Zanu-PF Politburo
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Phillip Valerio Sibanda as an ex-officio member of the Zanu-PF politburo.This is an unprecedented move as i...Published: 28 Oct 2023 at 17:07hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa stops Khupe, Welshman Ncube civic awards?
The decision to award civic honors to opposition party stalwarts, Professor Welshman Ncube and Dr. Thokozani Khupe, made by the previous Bulawayo councilors, has reportedly been put on hold. This acti...Published: 01 Oct 2023 at 07:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Disabled people of Zimbabwe arise...it's time to fight
Dear friends, persons with disabilities, disability activists, disability development workers and all who wish us well:Revolutionary greetings from Kenya. The situation has reached another lev...Published: 23 Sep 2023 at 19:18hrs | 13 | by Mukoma A
Malinga laid to rest
Today, Joshua Malinga, a late member of the Zanu-PF Politburo and a special adviser to President Mnangagwa's office, was laid to rest at the National Heroes Acre.Malinga, who had been declared...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 17:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Remembering Dr. Joshua Malinga
It is with great sorrow and heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Dr. Joshua Malinga, a true champion of the rights of persons with disabilities. Dr. Malinga, left this world after a vali...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 13:07hrs | 3 | by Gift Mabhaudhi
Malinga's body leaves for Harare
The remains of the national hero, Joshua Malinga, have departed from Bulawayo in preparation for his burial tomorrow at the National Heroes Acre in Harare.The departure occurred at 1:06 PM fro...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 12:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Malinga to be buried on Saturday
The tentative date for the burial of national hero Joshua Malinga has been set for Saturday at the National Heroes Acre in Harare, according to his family. Malinga, aged 79, passed away from p...Published: 12 Sep 2023 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Joshua Malinga dies
SPECIAL advisor to the President, former Mayor of the City of Bulawayo and Zanu-PF Politburo member Joshua Teke Malinga has died.He was 79.His son Mr Mpehlabayo Joshua Malinga confirme...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Malinga advises against begging
Presidential advisor on disabilities Joshua Malinga has urged people with disabilities (PWDs) to grab available opportunities than survive on begging."There is a 15% quota reserved for all the...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 12:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CCC's fortunes in Bulawayo depend on court ruling
THE main opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) risks being blindsided in the 2023 general election campaign, should the High Court disqualify 15 of the party's parliamentary candidates who f...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 21:44hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Malinga, Nyathi, Ngwenya nominated for civic honours
FORMER Bulawayo Mayor and Special Advisor to the President on National Disability, Alderman Joshua Malinga together with renowned historian Mr Pathisa Nyathi and Mpilo Central Hospital clinical direct...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 10:33hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
New ZANU PF Politburo announced, Mnangagwa promotes wife
President Emmerson Mnangagwa promotes his wife to a ministerial post In Zanu PF while announcing the new politburo. Mnangagwa has announced a full line-up of Politburo members, whose work...Published: 23 Dec 2022 at 14:14hrs | 2 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Mthuli Ncube transforms from technocrat to political player
IF ever there was any doubt, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has fully abandoned his posture as a neutral technocrat after being elected a Zanu-PF central committee member last weekend.The centr...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 18:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF old guard wins central committee elections in Matebeleland
Most of the senior Zanu-PF members in Matebeleland won in the party's central committee elections held on Saturday.The central committee is the party's highest decision-making body outside of ...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 19:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF stalwarts and ex-ministers troop back
Zanu-PF stalwarts and ex-ministers in the current administration and late former President Robert Mugabe's government are plotting a political comeback after they were cleared by the politburo to cont...Published: 08 Oct 2022 at 21:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt dangles land to PWDs
GOVERNMENT has dangled farming land to people with disabilities (PWDs) throughout the country, saying this would empower them to make a living through agriculture.This was disclosed yesterday ...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:35hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
City fathers or city dealers at council chambers?
THERE is a wide and telling difference, just like the North and South Poles, in stature and charisma, between city councillors of old and the current generation of men and women in the council chamber...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:06hrs | 11 | by Limukani Ncube
List of Zimbabwean celebrities who became politicians
Sports and Showbiz fraternities has become a springboard for most celebrities who later became politicians either due to their own desires or by being asked by different audiences to participate in po...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:33hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Joshua Malinga fundraises for Disability Expo
Presidential Advisor on Disability Dr Joshua Malinga has held a meeting with members of the business community to encourage them to partner in the 2019 Edition of the Disability Expo. In a sta...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
International Disability Day Message: Dr Joshua T. Malinga
The 3rd of December is the official United Nations day for Disabled People. I therefore invite you all to think of the different challenges, areas of support needed by Disabled People and po...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 13:29hrs | 1 | by Joshua Malinga
National Disability Expo reveals government and CSOs' short comings
Addressing the NANGO Eastern Region disability sector that attended the 6th edition of the National Disability Expo, Special Advisor to the President on Disability Issues, Joshua Malinga called on civ...Published: 08 Jul 2018 at 10:55hrs | | by Nango
Joshua Malinga relives horror of White City attack
AS the world reeled from the aftershock of an unprecedented assassination attempt on a sitting President in Zimbabwe, a video that exposed how physically challenged people are not catered for in infra...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parties scale up campaign against frog-marching children to rallies
OPPOSITION political parties and civic groups have scaled up the campaign against frog-marching of schoolchildren to political rallies, thus exposing them to attacks.This follows a suspected g...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 07:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns bomb blast security aides
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday sent condolence messages to the families of his two security aides, who succumbed to injuries sustained during a bomb explosion that occurred at a Zanu-PF campai...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 07:01hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to resume issuance of grants
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says government will resume issuance of grants to institutions that cater for the disabled once the economy improves.The President was speaking during an interface...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 15:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa engages women
President Mnangagwa yesterday met women from all walks of life and engaged them on issues affecting their lives.Unlike his predecessor Mr Robert Mugabe, President Mnangagwa is a listening lead...Published: 19 May 2018 at 14:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa arrives in Bulawayo
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has arrived in Bulawayo for the official opening of this year's edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) slated for tomorrow.Cde Mnangagwa who is al...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 15:46hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
3 Bulawayo MPs booted out of Zanu-PF primaries
THREE sitting Members of Parliament from Bulawayo have been disqualified from contesting in the Zanu-PF primary elections which will be held on Sunday.Pumula representative in the National Ass...Published: 25 Apr 2018 at 06:56hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu PF aspiring candidates for primaries in Bulawayo
ZANU (PF) members to battle it out in the primary elections in Bulawayo Province to select candidates to represent the party in the 2018 elections;...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 15:04hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF candidates list
THE ruling Zanu-PF yesterday released the full list of its candidates who have been given the green light to battle it out in the primary elections, with some party bigwigs and businessmen from Bulawa...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:10hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs, business people square off
BULAWAYO businessmen Mr Raj Modi and Mr Mathew Smith are among 65 aspiring candidates who have submitted their CVs to contest in the ruling party Zanu-PF's primary elections to choose candidates to re...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Malinga drags Perrence Shiri to court
THE Minister of Agriculture and Rural Resettlement, Chief Air Marshal (Retired) Perrance Shiri, has been taken to court by a brother to Special Advisor in the Office of the President on Disability Iss...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
$10 million for youth projects
GOVERNMENT has availed $10 million to fund youths and people living with disability empowerment projects countrywide.National Disability Board deputy chairperson Mr Edward Mundanga said this d...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 05:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi talks unity
A party was recently held in Gwanda to celebrate the appointment of Kembo Mohadi as Vice-President of the ruling party, Zanu-PF and the Republic of Zimbabwe.Mohadi is also responsible for the ...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mohadi speaks reconciliation
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi yesterday said the nation cannot go forward if people remain divided with high levels of mistrust calling for the need to establish a legacy of peace, love and unity....Published: 21 Jan 2018 at 11:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Challenges that have faced dialogue around Gukurahundi genocide
"The creation, arming and dispatching of Gukurahundi to this part of the country was not my role. It was the role of the security committee chaired by Mugabe whose members were Emmarson Munangwagwa, S...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 13:35hrs | 3 | by Dumisani Mpofu
Confusion hits Mnangagwa's new govt
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made a sudden U-turn on some of his Cabinet appointments to avoid falling afoul of the supreme law of the land.In terms of section 104(3) of the national chart...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 12:31hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wanted Tsvangirai's ministers, says Mutsvangwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa picked War Veterans leader Christopher Mutsvangwa as Information minister before hastily dropping his name after realising that the law only allowed him to appoint five no...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Command cabinet - 22 ministers, 6 deputies
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appointed a 22-member Cabinet in a move that saw some line ministries with functional duplications being merged.He also brought in some new faces into Go...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 05:07hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF Extraordinary Congress
ZANU PF heads to a much anticipated extraordinary congress, many expect fireworks, yet the people expect good news that will change their lives and the economy.Unity, peace and development are...Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 07:46hrs | | by Fidelis Fengu
Mnangagwa, wife denied Gushungo ice-cream
THE stand-off between President Robert Mugabe and Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa over alleged food poisoning, took a new twist on Saturday when the under-fire Vice-President and his wife, Auxilia, ...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 05:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe invades Gwanda
A carnival atmosphere engulfed Gwanda yesterday as thousands of youths arrived at the mining town for the Presidential Youth Interface rally scheduled for today.Ecstatic youths flooded the str...Published: 12 Aug 2017 at 11:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ecstatic Zanu-PF youths flood the streets of Gwanda
A carnival atmosphere engulfed Gwanda yesterday as thousands of youths arrived at the mining town for the Presidential Youth Interface rally scheduled for today.Ecstatic youths flooded the str...Published: 12 Aug 2017 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Grand coalition can reclaim Bulawayo seats'
The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC's resolution to boycott by-elections in protest of electoral reforms may backfire as it would be a huge task to reclaim the seats it lost in Bulawayo.After its sh...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 12:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Bulawayo province meets
ZANU-PF Politburo member Joshua Malinga has urged members of the Bulawayo Provincial Co-ordinating Committee to attend a meeting set for Davies Hall today.Malinga, who was tasked by the party'...Published: 29 Jul 2017 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chombo slams leaders fanning factionalism
ZANU-PF Secretary for Administration Ignatius Chombo has slammed leaders who fan factionalism within the ruling party.He also challenged the ruling party's Bulawayo provincial leadership to un...Published: 24 Jul 2017 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chombo read riot act to Zanu-PF Bulawayo
Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial internal problems could soon be over after the party's Secretary for Administration, Dr Ignatious Chombo read a riot act and ordered for sanity with Politburo member ...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 20:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
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