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Chiwenga round-up Mnangagwa's MaShurugwis
This was originally a comment by one of our regular readers Thank you President Chiwenga for rounding up Mnangagwa's Karangas. If we are not caref...Published: 16 Jan 2020 at 06:46hrs | 16386 | by Duprecio Dzimir
PSI hands back Lobengula Clinic to BCC
Population Services International recently handed back the Lobengula Clinic to the Bulawayo City Council to renew the Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision (VMMC) services and other services needed by t...Published: 13 Jan 2020 at 11:59hrs | 1445 | by Stephen Jakes
Ndebele King Bulelani Khumalo explains his royal linage
Ndebele King Bulelani Colin Khumalo has taken to social media Facebook explaining his royal linage."I am King Bulelani Lobengula-Khumalo the son of Prince Humphrey Mcedisi ...Published: 05 Jan 2020 at 09:23hrs | 6363 | by Stephen Jakes
Cont Mhlanga gives Amakhosi reins to former students
AS Amakhosi Cultural Centre moves to its next phase of renovations, arts doyen Cont Mhlanga will get a chance to sit back and see two of his protégés, Pedzisai Sithole and Owen Maseko, put the final...Published: 29 Dec 2019 at 08:09hrs | 1912 | by Staff Reporter
Polad is a sleeping pill to ignore Zanu failures
After failing to fix the economy and to open space for political competitiveness, Zanu political Scientists invented a sleeping pill called Polad.Zanu Political Scientists have mastered the sc...Published: 22 Dec 2019 at 13:10hrs | 1430 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Jonathan Moyo to launch music album in 2020
Professor Jonathan Moyo has promised to launch a music album in 2020 with a single being released in February of the same year.Moyo is known for producing artists like Pax Afro who rocked Zimb...Published: 21 Dec 2019 at 12:06hrs | 5854 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Trio nabbed for stealing Telone Zim copper cables
A two Binga and one Bulawayo men have been taken to court for stealing copper cables belonging to the telecommunications company, TELONE Zimbabwe US$1 365.Prince Gumbo (22), Sabelo Dhlamini (1...Published: 16 Dec 2019 at 09:21hrs | 553 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa's grandfather served in King Lobengula's army: load of nonsense!
The blatant lie by President Mnangagwa's mouth piece, George Charamba that Mnangagwa's grandfather was recruited into King Lobengula's army must not be allowed to see light of day.There is no ...Published: 15 Dec 2019 at 08:26hrs | 4560 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa's Ndebele name revealed
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was born with a Ndebele name called Ihlupeko, Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba has revealed. Writing on Twitter using his moniker Jamwanda, Charamba said,...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 12:58hrs | 20753 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Cops hunt for rapist burglar
POLICE in Bulawayo have launched a manhunt for a man who broke into a house in Lobengula, raped a 17-year-old girl before stealing $3 and disappearing from the scene early Sunday morning.Bulaw...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 07:29hrs | 681 | by Staff reporter
'MRP not a tribal outfit'
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has insisted that it is not a tribal outfit following accusations that the Matabeleland based opposition party is not only pushing a tribal agenda but cultivating tr...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 12:10hrs | 989 | by Staff reporter
Nsingo declared Zanu-PF DCC chair
A BULAWAYO businessman, Mnothisi Nsingo, has been declared Zanu-PF Area 5 District Coordinating Committee (DCC) chairperson after a losing candidate was mistakenly announced as the winner in polls hel...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 12:15hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
More water woes for Bulawayo
The Bulawayo City Council has announced that residents in some suburbs will experience additional water shedding to the already running 96 hours per week due to a fault along a power line supplying el...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 18:41hrs | 1242 | by Staff Reporter
Prophet steals congregant's cellphone
A SELF-PROCLAIMED prophet from Bulawayo has been sentenced to a wholly suspended three months in prison after he stole a cell phone from a church member. Godfrey Mabhena (50) from Old Lob...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 06:32hrs | 634 | by Staff reporter
Canaan Ncube: Farewell to a gallant liberator (1939-2019)
Zimbabwe has lost yet another illustrious fighter for the country's independence and freedom. This is Canaan Ncube, born in Nkayi District of Matebeleland North in Zimbabwe on 19 October 1939 in Dolah...Published: 02 Dec 2019 at 12:17hrs | 1661 | by Dr. Strike Mkandla
Mambo king denies plot to oust Ndebele chiefs
Lozwi King, Mike Moyo, has refuted claims that his ‘government-backed' installation was meant to thwart the Ndebele monarch's influence and cause divisions among its chiefs.Moyo said their i...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:51hrs | 2198 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda warns Zanu-PF
ZANU-PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda yesterday warned party members against meddlesome behaviour in political processes happening in other provinces as this causes divisions. ...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 06:43hrs | 3650 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF elects Byo DCC members
ZANU-PF National Political Commissar Victor Matemadanda yesterday warned party members against meddling in political processes in other provinces as this causes divisions. Matemadanda made the...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 06:28hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
King Lobengula Royal Family Condolence Message: The Passing on of Ikumukani, His Majesty Zwelonke Sigcawu of the Xhosa Nation
King Lobengula Royal Family in Ebudlamnondo mourn with the Xhosa nation on the passing on of their mighty Monarch. We not only know His Majesty Ikumukani Zwelonke Sigcawu, but he had become part of us...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 21:02hrs | 726 | by Crown Prince Zwide Velezulwini Khumalo
OK supermarket brings in casual labourers from Harare?
Members of Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) staged a protest outside OK supermarket along 6th Avenue and Lobengula Street, popularly known as Egodini on Wednesday, alleging the company's management recr...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 19:52hrs | 7098 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: AmaXhosa King Zwelonke Sigcawu dies
King of the AmaXhosa in South Africa Mpendulo Calvin Zwelonke Sigcawu has died. South African media reported that the King died during the early hours of Thursday after a short illness. ...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 09:25hrs | 3234 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Child abuse couple spared jail
A MAN and his wife from Bulawayo who ill-treated their four-year-old son by beating him everyday, denying him food and making him wash his own clothes, were lucky to escape jail when they were sentenc...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:31hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi threat to take down Nehanda statue from Bulawayo arts centre
A showdown is looming between the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) and the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) following the secessionist party's threats to remove First Chimurenga heroine Mbuya Nehanda's statu...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 06:48hrs | 3319 | by newzimbabwe
BCC extends water shedding period to 72-hours
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has expanded its weekly water shedding programme from 48 to 72 hours as water levels continue to decline in the city's supply dams. Addressing the media yesterd...Published: 24 Oct 2019 at 07:49hrs | 1009 | by Staff Reporter
O, A-Level exams to go ahead as nation marks anti-Sanctions day
GOVERNMENT has said public examinations set for Friday will proceed on the day as scheduled. In a statement yesterday, the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Professor Paul Mavima, s...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 06:01hrs | 753 | by Staff reporter
Big shots to lose Bulawayo properties
FORMER Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko's wife Laurinda is among bigwigs that include former ministers, business people and sport personalities who stand to lose their properties if they do not pay B...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 04:02hrs | 532 | by Staff reporter
The curious case of Peter Lobengula, the Prince of Salford
On a Wednesday morning in the spring on 1899 the Union Ocean liner called Goth sailing from Cape Town South Africa, docked in Southampton United Kingdom carrying the entire cast of a show called â€...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 19:50hrs | 68 | by Joseph Qobo Mayisa
Man steals drunk friend's car
A MAN from Bulawayo has been sentenced to six years in prison for stealing his drunk friend's car and selling his belongings without his consent. Ntandoyenkosi Moyo (28) of Pumula South suburb...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:49hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Friendly fire' leaves one dead as misdirected stone kills friend after beer tiff
A New Lobengula man, with the intention of hitting a drinking mate that he had been arguing with, missed the target and instead struck his best friend with a stone who died on the spot, before fleeing...Published: 12 Oct 2019 at 10:21hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
Teen stabs 'hubby-snatching' sister
A TEENAGER from Bulawayo has been sentenced to six months in prison for her sister thrice with a knife after she found her in her husband's car. Nkosinothabo Moyo (18) of Mzilikazi suburb stab...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 06:41hrs | 633 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed for violating court order
A MAN has been sentenced to three years in prison for violating a court order which prohibited him from using a family car which had been bought by his late brother. Sylivan Nkhoma (38) of Pel...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 09:20hrs | 606 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers 'get away with over $17K USD'
EIGHT armed robbers allegedly raided a family in Bulawayo's Kumalo suburb and got away with more than US$17 000 among other valuables using their victim's car which they later abandoned. The i...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 05:54hrs | 2448 | by Staff Reporter
Cont Mhlanga's search for Lobengula's lost city
While most people that reside in Bulawayo take pride in the title of the City of Kings, legendary arts practitioner Cont Mhlanga says the name does not bring out the city's true cultural identity and ...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:16hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
Busting the myth of an 'upper middle income' Utopia in Zimbabwe
Ever since the November 2017 military coup, in which then iron-fisted late Zimbabwe leader Robert Gabriel Mugabe was toppled, his predecessor Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has ridden on the mantra of ta...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 18:16hrs | 321 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
24 suburbs on 48hr water shutdown
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) yesterday effected a 48-hour water shutdown affecting 24 suburbs mostly in the western areas to stabilise water supply at one of its reservoirs that has fallen to critical ...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 05:52hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland Chiefs turn heat on govt
Chiefs in Matebeleland have vowed to defy a government ban on the coronation of a South African Bulelani Collins Khumalo as Ndebele king revealing that plans are afoot to hold the ceremony in October....Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 07:33hrs | 2612 | by Staff reporter
Man 'mistakenly kills' friend
POLICE in Bulawayo are appealing for information that could lead to the arrest of a 32-year-old man from Lobengula who mistakenly killed his friend during a dispute with another unidentified man at a ...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:42hrs | 4232 | by Staff reporter
Man found hanging in suspected murder case
A MAN believed to be in his 30s was found hanging on a shrub in Bulawayo, amid suspicion that he could have been murdered and hanged.Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednego Ncube yeste...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 08:03hrs | 1487 | by Staff reporter
BCC cuts water supplies in western suburbs
THE Bulawayo City Council will today cut water supply to 18 western suburbs that feed off the Magwegwe Resevoir for 48 hours until Sunday morning before the normal two day rotational water shedding sc...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 07:17hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
Storm over Mambo dynasty
A group of chiefs from Matebeleland has accused Local Government minister,July Moyo of double standard after he allowed the installation of the Lozwi king, a year after blocking the revival of the Nde...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 16:06hrs | 4781 | by Staff reporter
Mbeki's praise for Mugabe deeper than what meets the eye
The research by Mthwakazi Institute of Research (MIOR) has shown that people of the same philosophy tend to support each other. This becomes more pronounced if the people under scrutiny once have a ch...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 15:03hrs | 3252 | by Mthwakazi Research Institute
African Religion and Governance in a changing world. Where thou goest native Africa!
It is my humble intention to speak to this paper in response to my learned brother Kenyan Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba's presentation to The All-Africa Religious Liberty 3rd Congress in...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 15:00hrs | 705 | by Reginald Nyathi
Moving on from Mugabe era
BEING in Harare in the past two weeks has been quite an experience. The Robert Mugabe era has finally closed after his death in Singapore on September 6, even through he is yet to be buried.Bu...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:32hrs | 308 | by Eddie Cross
Lobby for 24-hr clinics taken to Parliament
PARLIAMENT has referred a petition by Bulawayo activist Khumbulani Maphosa requesting that council clinics operate 24 hours daily to the Portfolio Committee on Health and Child Care for deliberations,...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 23:49hrs | 79 | by Staff reporter
Join me in condemning Gushungo Clan & Mnangagwa over Mugabe's Mausoleum (Blue Roof)
The decision by president ED's government to construct a Mausoleum for our dictator RG Mugabe should be condemned by right thinking Zimbabweans. The hospitals have no medicine, parents are struggling ...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 20:41hrs | 4177 | by Don Chigumba
The installation of the Lozwi King at Emawabeni
FROM a high up vantage point along the highway leading from Bulawayo to Beitbridge one's attention is drawn to an expansive area down below that is covered by white tents. From here you see lots of pr...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 06:53hrs | 1064 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Why Mugabe is a martyr
ONE cannot fully capture the greatness of pan-Africanist and liberator the late former President Robert Mugabe without celebrating his role in the Land Reform Programme.His mantra: "Land is th...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 20:23hrs | 621 | by Patience Rusare
Mike Moyo installed as Lozwi king Mambo
THE Lozwi people on Saturday celebrated the Mambo Dynasty day at Mawabeni in Matabeleland South province.The colourful event, held at the Godonga homestead, was attended by chiefs drawn from a...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 20:50hrs | 1296 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe: A product of a vicious system
The death of former President Robert Mugabe at a hospital in Singapore on Thursday September 6, 2019 rang memory bells about the hush-hush, but spirited conversations that Zanu-PF comrades used to hav...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 07:14hrs | 1291 | by Jonathan N. Moyo
Mthwakazi Restoration Movement on Mugabe death - 'Let the people seethe'
There goes a man who has the answers for the gukurahundi genocide. Some say that he was a giant, yes he was- a giant of human slaughter, a man who never respected civil liberties. A man who deformed o...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 21:18hrs | 1520 | by Magugu Benard
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