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Sandi Moyo's hero status rebuff sparks outrage
The government's decision not to grant the late former Bulawayo Provincial Affairs Minister, Eunice Sandi Moyo, national heroine status has ignited outrage in Matabeleland, with accusations that the r...Published: 21 May 2024 at 08:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Insiza: The land of gold and glory
INSIZA is a district in Matabeleland South Province and its capital, Filabusi, is 100km south of Bulawayo, along the Mbalabala/Zvishavane Road. The district boasts of a diverse landscape, with gentle ...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 08:21hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dangles citizenship to Mzilikazi royal family
The Mthwakazi kaMzilikazi Royal Crown Family, which includes the Mzilikazi Royal House and the Khumalo Clan, claims the Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government has shown them generosity by promising to rest...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 20:55hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa snub irks war veterans
Zapu ex-combatants have expressed frustration after the state failed to recognise Zodwa Dabengwa nee-Khumalo, the widow to the late liberation war stalwart, Dumiso Dabengwa, as a national heroine....Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 10:36hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangangwa's full speech at yesterday's Bulilima rally
WHEN Jesus was born the three wise men came from the East, Zanu-PF has wise men, they are the chosen ones who were instructed by Jehovah to fight this war of liberating the country.You who are...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:42hrs | 12 | by Dambudzo Mnangagwa
Mnangangwa calls nation to honour legacy of liberation icons
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday invoked the spirit of the late Vice-President Dr Joshua Nkomo as he called for the nation to rally behind Zanu-PF in the August 23 elections to honour the contributions o...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:40hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
A vote to remain masters of our own destiny
Here we reproduce excerpts of President Mnangagwa's speech to Zanu-PF supporters at Nyele Primary School in Bulilima, Matebeleland South province, yesterday.SalutationsWhen Jesus was b...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:39hrs | 17 | by Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa
Zipra war vets fume over Moyo's hero status
ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) ex-combatants have lashed out at government for dragging its feet to confer hero status on one of the country's liberation war pioneers, David Moyo....Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Zapu's Nkomo
Knives are out against Zapu president Sibangilizwe Nkomo with some former top officials plotting his ouster for allegedly frustrating the growth of the opposition party.They also accuse Nkomo ...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Citizens were misled by unity accord
Zipra Veterans Association member Jethro Mkwananzi has accused late former President Robert Mugabe and late former Vice President Joshua Nkomo of misleading the nation in their signing of the unity ac...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 08:16hrs | 6 | by Stephen Jakes
Zapu honours own heroes
ZAPU, whose ZIPRA cadres have been denied national hero and heroine status by the Zanu-PF government on numerous occasions, has resolved to recognise and honour some of its departed cadres...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:07hrs | | 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 | | by Nomazulu Thata
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 | 2 | 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 | 1 | by Terror Ngwenya
Mnangagwa! Hands off Comrade Sydney Malunga's farm, Revenge of Zapu in graves is barbaric
We have been saying for a long time now that that the evil in Mnangagwa is unimaginable by common sense. We can speculate what Mnangagwa and Robert Mugabe were smoking while he lived. Hon. Kate Hoey, ...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 15:35hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
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 | 5 | by Nomazulu Thata
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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zapu celebrates Lesabe
ZAPU is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the death of firebrand politician Thenjiwe Lesabe, whom it described a leading light in Zimbabwe's fight for independence.Lesabe, who died aged 79 i...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU RSA provincial press statement on the province's roadmap to provincial conference and national congress
Zimbabwe African People's Union South Africa Provincial leadership Council sat on 04 October 2020 to take stock of the progress that has been made and the shortfalls that still need to be covered. ...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 13:20hrs | 1 | by Cde Godfrey Viki
Gukurahundi can only be resolved with the victims
The Gukurahundi sanitisation project fronted by Jenni Williams and her cabal is a dismal failure except for its obscenity and vulgarity of holding vile celebrations in Bhalagwe - a scene of heinous cr...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 23:04hrs | 1 | by Lizwelethu Dube
Dabengwa Foundation seeks hero status for Lesabe, Moyo
THE Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation, an organisation founded in honour of the late national hero and former Zipra intelligence supremo, has started making consultations with various stakeholders to lobby g...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu celebrates own heroes
ZAPU and ex-combatants of its Zipra military wing during the liberation struggle, celebrated the just-ended Heroes' Day by honouring their fallen and unsung heroes interred at Lady Stanley Cemetery in...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ndebele's speech at MRP SA meeting
I would like to honor and recognize the presence of our party president Cde Mqondisi Moyo, NEC members here present, South Africa MRP provincial leadership. All protocol observed.Good Afternoo...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 16:45hrs | | by Sehliselo Ndebele
Dumiso Dabengwa
Dabengwa: Please tell us how your mother died? This was a question Dumiso had to answer in a Zanu court when he was incarcerated by Mugabe regime in the early independent of 80s. He was holed up in pr...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 17:42hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
CIOs target Dabengwa's Director
Suspected state agents on Thursday launched a manhunt for Director General of the Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation Mthulisi Mduduzi Ncube Hanana for crimes including undermining the authority of the P...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 16:51hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | | by Nkosenhle
Unknown secrets about Dabengwa
It was in 2007 when l had four consecutive dreams about the same thing: l was talking to Dr Joshua Nkomo& he instructed me to go to Silobela&meet an old man from the Moyo clan& to deliver ...Published: 26 May 2019 at 01:04hrs | 2 | by Benard Conrad Magugu
Dr Dumiso Dabengwa - 6 December 1939 to 23 May 2019 - A Tribute
A giant has fallen. Zimbabwe mourns. Dr Dumiso Dabengwa personified the war of liberation. Affectionately known as ‘the Black Russian', in reference to the fact he was one of the few liberation war ...Published: 25 May 2019 at 16:13hrs | | by Lloyd Msipa
Dabengwa snubbed heroes acre
"Ngizafika ngithini kubo JZ, kumdala uNkomo, kuMsika, lakumama uLesabe, kunye labanye bami bonke esasisonke empini if I were to die today and leave Zimbabwe in this state? We need to get our country g...Published: 23 May 2019 at 20:41hrs | 6 | by Methuseli Moyo
President Mnangagwa a Tonga from Zambia?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is of Tonga ethnic group and hails from Zambia Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged.Prof Moyo was responding to a Daily News article where Mnangagwa was narrating h...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 07:53hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Who is a hero in Zimbabwe?
On Thursday President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared the late music superstar, Oliver Mtukudzi, a national hero, making him the first artiste to receive such an honour.Mnangagwa told mourners tha...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa given Mzilikazi's knobkerrie during Gukurahundi?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was given Ndebele King Mzilikazi's knobkerrie so that there could be peace in the Khumalo family, a source from the Khumalo family has said."President Mnangagwa was ca...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:24hrs | 51 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Nothing defeats unity and oneness'
Problems and misunderstandings between Zanu and Zapu necessitated the Unity Accord of 22 December 1987.After the 1980 elections, the then-Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, incorporated members of...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 08:34hrs | | by Clifford Sileya
President Mnangagwa is a Ndebele?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has close links to the Ndebele people of Sibanda and Moyo surname, National Patriotic Front Spokesman Jealousy Mawarire has alleged.Writing on microblogging site T...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 13:04hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
What is meant by Dambudzo?
MLF will not accept the naming of the Cowdry Park Mall after Mnangagwa. Bulawayo is a capital of Mthwakazi who is home to many heroes and heroines who better deserve to be honoured by naming such site...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 19:24hrs | | by Ndabezinhle Fuyane, MLF information and publicity
Modi names Bulawayo shopping mall after Mnangagwa
South Member of Parliament Rajesh Kumar Modi - popularly known as Raj Modi, is probably one of the most loved parliamentarians in the city.This is largely because of the corporate social respo...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 20:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Modi scales up Mnangagwa bootlicking'
Mthwakazi Republic Party has accused Bulawayo South MP Raji Modi, the Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce, of bootlicking President Emmerson Mnangagwa to another dimension.Party Pre...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 14:17hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Nomazulu Thata, not all Mthwakazi women are scared of their freedom like you
As I put this piece together in response to your article that appeared on Bulawayo 24 news on 18 September 2018, I'm shocked as to why you tremble in fear of freedom to the point of inviting oth...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 22:19hrs | | by Khohliso Maqhoba
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga accused of tribalism and nepotism
THE opposition Zapu party reacted with fury this week after the government decided to vice president Constantino Chiwenga's late sister a State assisted funeral.According to NewZimbabwe.com, t...Published: 11 May 2018 at 15:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Politburo to decide on primaries
THE ruling Zanu-PF will on Wednesday hold a Politburo meeting where the issue of dates for its primary elections as well as modalities on the selection of candidates will be up for discussion....Published: 04 Mar 2018 at 17:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why I became a dissident
Independence in Zimbabwe was not a time for jubilation for most ex-combatants as some found homes they had left intact destroyed and families killed, leaving them with nowhere to go.For the ma...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 14:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Does Bulelani Khumalo qualify by descent?
I was troubled by the assertions/insinuations made by Peter Zwide Ka Langa Khumalo's spoke's person on this platformHe states that Mr Bulelani Khumalo is South African! which is factually true...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 07:46hrs | 9 | by George Mtshede
Mohadi sues Lesabe estate executor
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi has filed an $11,7 million litigation against the executor of the late Thenjiwe Lesabe's estate, together with one Reginald McGillivray Dawson, accusing the latter of fraud...Published: 08 Feb 2018 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
#TBT: Why I became a dissident - Thambolenyoka
This article was first publish by the Southern Eye on the 16th of September 2014. #TBTIndependence in Zimbabwe was not a time for jubilation for most e...Published: 04 Jan 2018 at 11:48hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's opposition links challenged
A former Central Intelligence Organisation operative who tried to spearhead a Zanu-PF splinter party over a decade ago claims Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa was not involved in the project....Published: 22 Oct 2017 at 13:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe leads race for VP
First Lady Grace Mugabe stands a good chance of becoming one of the country's vice presidents in the event that Zanu-PF succeeds in introducing a quota system in its presidium by amending the party's ...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 07:16hrs | | 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 | 1 | by Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo
Mugabe's grandfather served King Lobengula
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has Ndebele ancestry as his grandfather served King Lobengula, historian and Higher Education Minister Stan Mudenge claims.Speaking at the Lupane State University's ina...Published: 23 Sep 2017 at 23:59hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe juggling balls in the air
THE current situation in Zanu-PF is fragmented and fractious; it needs a unifier. There is serious factionalism, infighting and political hostilities. It's a dog-eat-dog affair.So President Ro...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 12:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is Bulelani Khumalo a Mthwakazi King?
The recent diamond jubillee celebrations of the British Queen's 60 year uninterupted reign undoubtedly raised nostalgic memories of the once mighty and respected Ndebele Kingdom of King Mzilikazi with...Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 12:32hrs | | by Mncumbatha
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