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Injiva pour R40 million into Tsholotsho school project
TWO Zimbabwean entrepreneurs based in South Africa have joined hands to invest about R40 million towards the construction of a modern high school in Simanje Village, Ward 15 under Chief Gampu in Tshol...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 04:52hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
New boarding school for Tsholotsho
TSHOLOTSHO district in Matebeleland North is set to have a third boarding school following the setting up of Royal Avenues High School in Simanje Village, Ward 15 under Chief Gampu area.The pr...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 05:40hrs | 51 | by Staff reporter
Top Belarus official jets into Zimbabwe
BELARUSIAN Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Piotr Parkhomchik, arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday and is expected to hold bilateral meetings with various ministries as the two countries seek to deepen their long ...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:05hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda based war vet Nkomo awaits hero status
THE first commander of the ZPRA women camp in Zambia, Mkushi during the armed struggle, Highten Khuluma Nkomo commonly known as Billy Mzamo who died on Wednesday at his homestead in Gwanda District su...Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 16:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
BCC writes to Mnangagwa's govt over street name changes
THE Bulawayo City Council is waiting for Government approval on their own individual street name changes after the High Court ruled that they cannot adhere to the names that were effected through a St...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
John Nkomo Museum stalls due to funding challenges
FUNDING challenges have stalled the completion of the John Landa Nkomo Museum located in Bulawayo City Centre despite work having started in earnest in 2016.The museum, which is situated along...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 09:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Young lady based in UK gives back to her Zimbabwean community
A young lady called Amanda Ngcono Nkomo 20 years old who was born in Zimbabwe but has lived in the UK all her life recently came to Zimbabwe to give back to the community for her first charity school ...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 16:32hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko smuggled into Presidium by Mugabe
FORMER Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko was smuggled into the Presidium by former President Robert Mugabe without approval from the hierarchy of former PF-Zapu cadres, breaking a long standing promot...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mphoko, the Vice President that never was
FORMER Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko will be remembered for all the firsts, albeit all negative, in his brief but forgettable tenure punctuated by political blunders, useless projects and chaotic ...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 05:17hrs | 1 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Govt declares floods state of disaster
The government has declared a national state of disaster following heavy rains which pounded most parts of the country since the onset of the rain season.Speaking to ZBC News, after a cabi...Published: 01 Mar 2017 at 17:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho to benefit from psychiatric counselling
TSHOLOTSHO villagers will soon benefit from the expertise of psychiatric nurses and doctors, following a spate of horrific murders committed by mentally challenged people in the district.The l...Published: 06 Sep 2016 at 07:23hrs | | by Whinsley Masara
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Preps for Umdala Wethu gala on course
Preparations for the late Father Zimbabwe, Dr Joshua Nkomo's gala have begun, with the Zanu-PF Youth League Bulawayo chapter organising to host the gala set for the 1st of July, the day the nation...Published: 26 Jun 2016 at 16:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani dam: Mat North's elusive hope
IT was in 1991 when the government made a resolution to build a dam at the confluence of the Gwayi and Shangani Rivers in Matabeleland North province.The multi-million dollar project was to be...Published: 07 Jun 2016 at 08:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Prof Jonathan Moyo
The San populations in Tsholotsho North: they face extinction! Dear Honourable Professor Dr. Jonathan Nathaniel Moyo,I am writing on your capaci...Published: 10 Oct 2015 at 18:12hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Bulawayo to give huge send off to Sikhanyiso Ndlovu
NATIONAL hero Sikhanyiso Ndlovu is expected to be given a huge send off by the Bulawayo community this morning before his body is flown for burial at the National Heroes Acre in Harare tomorrow. The f...Published: 18 Sep 2015 at 06:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jabulani Sibanda a fellow combatant, says Mphoko
Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday revealed that former war veterans' leader Jabulani Sibanda was once arrested in Angola for allegedly sodomising a fellow combatant during the country's libe...Published: 25 May 2015 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Mashudu Netsianda
Tsholotsho FC wants land to build a stadium
NEWLY promoted Tsholotsho FC sponsor, Mandla Manyathela has urged the Tsholotsho Rural District Council to provide his team with land to build a stadium at the business centre.Manyathela warn...Published: 02 Dec 2014 at 06:33hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Mudenda likely to battle Mutasa
ZANU-PF Politburo member Jacob Mudenda has been touted as one of the party's candidates for the party's national chairman's post. He, however, was coy about the issue yesterday saying it is up to n...Published: 08 Nov 2014 at 08:39hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Mugabe caps 1,986 NUST graduates
President Robert Mugabe, who is also the Chancellor of National University of Science and Technology (NUST) has capped 1 986 graduands at the institution.First to be honoured was the late...Published: 07 Nov 2014 at 19:53hrs | 4 | 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 | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
'Bulawayo leaders lack vision,' says Grace Mugabe
The First Lady, Dr Grace Mugabe says lack of vision and inefficiency of the political leadership in Bulawayo has cost the party and contributed to the decline in service delivery in the city.S...Published: 15 Oct 2014 at 16:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutinhiri confirms VP race entry
Former ZIPRA Commander and Marondera West member of parliament Retired Brigadier General Ambrose Mutinhiri has entered the race for the party's second vice presidency post left vacant following th...Published: 11 Oct 2014 at 20:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu reads the riot act
ZANU-PF members in Matabeleland North Province have been warned against electioneering and jostling for positions in the party but should instead wait for direction from the party leadership on the fo...Published: 28 Sep 2014 at 09:29hrs | 1 | by Vusumuzi Dube
Late John Nkomo Trust launched
A memorial trust in honour of the late Vice President Landa John Nkomo has been officially launched in Bulawayo with an 11-member board of trustees having been put in place.The board consists...Published: 25 Aug 2014 at 19:37hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
SK Moyo steps up VP campaign
Zanu PF national chairman Simon Khaya Moyo is stepping up his champaign for the party's vice presidency as he launches the John Landa Nkomo Memorial Trust this Friday.Khaya Moyo has remain...Published: 20 Aug 2014 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Ex-Zipra female politicians dig in on Vice Presidency post
EX-ZIPRA female cadres yesterday said the Zanu-PF December elective congress should not divert from the existing precedence of elevating party national chairman to the Vice Presidency post....Published: 05 Aug 2014 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Nqobile Tshili
Kembo Mohadi ready to be Vice President
ZANU-PF politburo member and Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi yesterday said he was ready to take up the Zanu-PF Vice Presidency if nominated by the people at the party's elective congress in Decem...Published: 29 Jul 2014 at 05:43hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Khaya Moyo gets Andrew Langa's backing
ZANU-PF Matabeleland South provincial chairman Andrew Langa yesterday defended Politburo member Abedinico Ncube's bold support for national chairman Simon Khaya Moyo to land the vice-presidency in th...Published: 28 Jul 2014 at 08:33hrs | 2 | by Marvelous Moyo
Debate on Zanu-PF VP takes a new twist
DEBATE on the Zanu-PF vice-presidency took a new twist yesterday with two politburo members from Matabeleland South accusing some ex-Zipra cadres of announcing their preferred candidates before proced...Published: 22 Jul 2014 at 06:32hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
Khaya Moyo's VP bid gets a boost
ZANU-PF'S Matabeleland South province has thrown its weight behind Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo's bid to take over the vacant vice-president post during the party's elective national congress schedule...Published: 20 Jul 2014 at 09:19hrs | 1 | by Lungile Tshuma
Mugabe to decide on VP post
JOSTLING for the vacant Vice Presidency post is a waste of time as President Mugabe will have the final say on the matter, Zanu-PF spokesman, Rugare Gumbo, said yesterday. The ruling party wi...Published: 18 Jul 2014 at 06:04hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
Ex-Zapu cadres urged not to jostle for vacant VP post
ZANU-PF politburo member Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube says ex-Zipra cadres should stop jostling for the vacant vice-presidency post as it is clear from the party's hierarchy who will land it.H...Published: 16 Jul 2014 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Nqobile Tshili
Nkomo farm murderer sentenced to death
A HIGH Court judge has described as cold, calculated and callous, the senseless killing of two workers at the late Vice President Landa John Nkomo's ranch as he sentenced the murderer to death....Published: 10 Jul 2014 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Ambros Mutinhiri keen on Zim VP position
MORE people could be eyeing the vacant post of Second Vice-President as some senior Zanu-PF cadres say they are consulting over the matter ahead of the party's elective congress in December....Published: 09 Jul 2014 at 06:57hrs | 8 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Mphoko could neither confirm nor deny his interest in VP post
FORMER Zimbabwe Ambassador to South Africa Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday cleared the air on his alleged ambitions to land the country's Vice-Presidency, saying he would only make a decision "when the g...Published: 05 Jul 2014 at 15:48hrs | 1 | by Pamela Shumba
Edgars Stores donate blankets to Tsholotsho flood victims
Edgars Stores has come to the aid of Tsholotsho villagers donating 400 blankets to those affected by floods.The blankets were handed over to minister of State for Matabeleland North Cain Mat...Published: 20 Mar 2014 at 16:25hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
John Nkomo aide faces arrest
THE Hwange Regional Court has issued a warrant of arrest for the late Vice-President Landa John Nkomo's security manager Eddie Sigoge after he failed to appear in court on Friday to face attempted mur...Published: 19 Feb 2014 at 09:38hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
New film dedicated to the late VP Landa John Nkomo
Two Villages Apart, a Zimbabwean film about political tolerance, peace and unity, was launched Monday night at the Harare International Conference Centre, with a moving message of forgiveness and embr...Published: 19 Nov 2013 at 07:55hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Late VP John Nkomo, Langton Masunda fight rages on
THE fight over a piece of land pitting businessman Langton Masunda and his brothers on one hand and the late Vice President Dr Landa John Nkomo continues with the case still pending in court....Published: 12 Nov 2013 at 15:30hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Bodies found at VP Nkomo's farm buried
THE two men who were recently found dead in a septic tank at the late Vice-President Landa John Nkomo's farm in Insuza have been buried.The bodies of Nhlanhla Dube (23) and Pilate Moyo (2...Published: 28 Oct 2013 at 04:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dr Joshua Nkomo remembered
Dr Joshua Nkomo's commemorations progressed well with business almost coming to a standstill in the city centre as hundreds of people joined the march to commemorate the life of the late Father Zimb...Published: 02 Jul 2013 at 04:25hrs | 2 | by Prosper Ndlovu
Chinotimba, Supa Mandiwanzira sails through Zanu-PF nomination process
Joseph Chinotimba, ZiFm radio proprietor Supa Mandiwanzira and Jonathan Moyo sailed through the Zanu-PF nomination process unchallenged in Buhera South, Nyanga South and Tsholotsho North costituencies...Published: 17 Jun 2013 at 16:22hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
'People rejected John Nkomo because of food,' says Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe has castigated the people of Matabeleland who did not vote for Zanu-PF saying they rejected Zanu-PF members like the late John Nkomo because they (people) voted for food....Published: 12 May 2013 at 17:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe arrives in Bulawayo for Nkomo's memorial service
President Robert Mugabe has arrived in Bulawayo ahead of the memorial service of the late Vice President Landa John Nkomo that will be held this Sunday at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF)...Published: 11 May 2013 at 21:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
John Nkomo's memorial set for Sunday
A memorial service for the late Vice President Landa John Nkomo will be held on Sunday the 12th of this month at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair Grounds Hall 4 in Bulawayo.In a statement...Published: 03 May 2013 at 14:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Two cops jailed for theft from late John Nkomo's house
THE two police officers who broke into the late Vice-President Dr Landa John Nkomo's Bulawayo house and stole property valued at about $7 000 have been sentenced to seven years in prison each....Published: 14 Mar 2013 at 04:42hrs | 2 | by Court Reporter
Zanu-PF top brass descend on Tsholotsho
A high-powered Zanu-PF delegation yesterday visited the late Vice-President Landa John Nkomo's rural home in Tsholotsho and spent the day with his family and mother, Gogo MaDube.Gogo MaDube (1...Published: 09 Mar 2013 at 09:30hrs | 2 | by Prosper Ndlovu in Tsholotsho
'My hair has grown grey because of fighting with MDC' says Chombo
ZANU-PF has urged people in Bulawayo to vote for them and completely wipe out the MDC factions in the forthcoming elections. Addressing more than 3 000 people at a rally at Stanley Square in ...Published: 27 Jan 2013 at 21:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man steals car at John Nkomo's burial
A HARARE man stole a vehicle at the National Heroes Acre while people were busy burying the late Vice President Landa John Nkomo on Monday. George Matongo (26) allegedly broke into a Nissan Ha...Published: 24 Jan 2013 at 21:27hrs | | by Court Reporter
Zanu-PF speak on John Nkomo replacement
PRESIDENT Mugabe may call for an emergency congress to elect a replacement for the late Vice President and national hero Dr Landa John Nkomo before the party's Sixth National People's Congress set fo...Published: 24 Jan 2013 at 04:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
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