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King Mzilikazi and the MaKoni (Mabvakure) people
King Mzilikazi, in his long march North from Zululand, arrived in a territory between the Oliphants and Steelport Rivers in what became known as Transvaal. The year was 1822, exactly 2 years after a g...Published: 29 Mar 2025 at 09:49hrs | 1770 | by Chief Mayisa
Mnangagwa to commission Nust students' Complex
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is in Bulawayo today to preside over a series of significant events that underscore the Second Republic's commitment to infrastructural and educational development....Published: 15 Nov 2024 at 08:33hrs | 423 | by Staff reporter
Nust shifts graduation venue to ZITF
The National University of Science and Technology (Nust) has announced a venue change for its upcoming 30th graduation ceremony, moving the event from the university campus to the Zimbabwe Internation...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 09:46hrs | 639 | by Staff reporter
Construction of NUST library resumes after 20-year halt
Construction of the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) Central Library, stalled at 30 percent two decades ago, will resume next year following a Structural Integrity Assessment certi...Published: 09 Jun 2024 at 09:08hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to commission NUST Innovation Centre
President Mnangagwa will commission a new Technology Innovation Centre at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), which has saved US$200,000 by taking over its construction projects....Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 07:52hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Slow progress of Nust projects
THE Government has raised concern over the slow pace that the administration at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bulawayo is taking in completing key development projects, s...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:43hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimpapers makes editorial changes
State-controlled media organisation Zimpapers, publishers of The Herald, The Chronicle, The Sunday Mail, Sunday News, Manica Post, H-Metro, B-Metro, Business Weekly, Kwayedza and uMthunywa, has made e...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 19:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide brigade was deployed on this day 41 years ago
Today in history: On this day 41 years ago and three years after Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s Fifth Brigade was deployed in Matabeleland North on 2...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:40hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa installed GSU Chancellor, caps first graduands
GWANDA State University (GSU)witnessed the installation of President Mnangagwa as its first Chancellor and the capping of 15 pioneer students at the institution's inaugural graduation ceremony yesterd...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CIO training centre gutted in suspected arson attack
ZIMBABWE'S state security agency Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)'s training centre in Harare's Msasa suburb along St Patrick's Road across Chiremba Road from Hatfield has been burnt down by fi...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Manama's radio dream comes alive
THE long-cherished dream of the Babirwa people in Manama to have a local radio station broadcasting in SeSotho is finally coming to life as the Ntepe-Manama Community Radio is expected to go on air ne...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:41hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo says bye bye to Rtd Major General Bhebhe
THE late Major-General (Rtd) Sydney "Yengani" Bhebhe was among a crop of visionary leaders whose credentials are not questionable, going down the annals of history as people who served the nation dili...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:06hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Nust receives $125m for construction works
GOVERNMENT has released $125 million to the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) for construction works, a development that will positively impact on the construction industry in Bulaw...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 05:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Construction to resume at NUST
CONSTRUCTION work at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) that had stalled for almost two decades is set to resume after Government allocated $1 billion to the institution of highe...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Late Professor Phineas Makhurane's wife dies
LATE national hero and National University of Science and Technology (Nust) founding Vice Chancellor Professor Phineas Makhurane's wife Lydia has died. Mrs Makhurane died last Thursday at the United B...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 17:10hrs | 6 | 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 | 3 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
CIO big shot behind Malunga farm grab
A TOP Zimbabwean Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) director and senior ruling Zanu-PF officials in Matabeleland North province are behind the illegal seizure of a farm belonging to a local inter...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Reflections on the life of Dr Dumiso Dabengwa: highs and lows
Chief spies are not famous for mingling easily with the public: they tend to be aloof; secretive and in glamorised Western films have notoriety for keeping everyone guessing about everything in the wo...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:36hrs | 4 | by Dr Mandla Nyathi
Chamisa berates Mnangagwa over 'his intolerance'
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has berated President Emmerson Mnangagwa, saying the failure by the Zanu-PF leader to attend liberation war hero Dumiso Dabengwa's funeral showed his intolerance.Dabe...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 17:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bury heroes at National Shrine- surviving ZAPU members told
Bulawayo-based prominent independent political commentator, Zifiso Masiye, has warned that ZAPU/ZIPRA history risk being obliterated if National Heroes who are declared continue to reject being buried...Published: 28 May 2019 at 11:30hrs | 2 | by ViewFromMatopos
Dabengwa's body expected in Bulawayo today
LIBERATION war icon and former Cabinet Minister, Dr Dumiso Dabengwa, who died in Nairobi, Kenya, last Thursday has been declared a national hero. Dr Dabengwa was enroute to Zimbabwe from India...Published: 27 May 2019 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe heroes and heroines conferment process explained
THE presser is a sequel to inquiries on the critical matter of heroes and heroines conferment by the ruling Zanu-PF and matters inherently connected to that important phenomenon. The declarati...Published: 25 May 2019 at 21:40hrs | 1 | by Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo
Dabengwa's photo on wheelchair explained
The Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation has explained that the photo of the former ZIPRA Supremo Dumiso Dabengwa on a wheelchair was taken after Dabengwa complained of fatigue and it does not mean he is now un...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 13:35hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
When burying people becomes a lifestyle
Sporting a blue work suit and safety shoes, Margaret Nyakudya (50) is the centre of attraction at a funeral wake in Mt Darwin.The male villagers cannot help it, but are surprised by her braver...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa taken 'ill' to SA
ZAPU president Dr Dumiso Dabengwa is reportedly ill and is in South Africa where he is receiving specialist treatment, his party has revealed. In an interview on Wednesday, Zapu's secretary ge...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Peace and healing can only move us forward'
Zimbabwe's Unity Day, which is celebrated on 22 December every year, lays background to the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC).After the political conflict which took place in...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 08:31hrs | 3 | by Retired Justice Selo Nare
Prof Makhurane hero declaration 'another first'
THE awarding of a national hero status to Professor Phinias Mogorosi Makhurane by the ruling party, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) on 5 November, 2018 was a very apt and...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 07:03hrs | 9 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Phinias Mogorosi Makhurane: A hero of many talents
Phinias Mogorosi Makhurane was a giant in terms of his contributions to society, and is very difficult to encapsulate in a mere obituary.He was simple and highly approachable while at the same...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Emeritus Professor Ngwabi M Bhebhe
Makhurane buried
The founding Vice Chancellor of the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Professor Phineas Makhurane has been laid to rest at his rural home in Gungwe, Gwanda South.Professor M...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 15:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Makhurane's body flown to Gungwe
The body of the late national hero Professor Phineas Makhurane has now been flown to his homestead in Gungwe, Gwanda South.Earlier on, the National University of Science and Technology (NUST),...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 15:03hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Makhurane will not be buried with crooks at Heores acre
The family of national hero Professor Phinias Makhurane has snubbed a National Heroes Acre burial, insisting instead on interring him at his rural home in the Gungwe area of Gwanda.Family spok...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 13:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
US hypocrisy on Zimbabwe exposed
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa took over the reins of power on 24 November 2017, he announced a paradigm shift in the manner in which things would be done politically and economically by the new ad...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 13:12hrs | 2 | by Elijah Chihota
Prof Phineas Makhurane declared National hero
ZANU PF Politiburo has declared the late academic Professor Phineas Makhurane a National Hero. This was announced by the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services on Thursday....Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 10:02hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo holds funeral service for Prof Makhurane
BULAWAYO will today hold a funeral service for the founding Vice Chancellor of the National University of Science and Technology (Nust), Professor Phineas Makhurane, an academic giant who pushed for t...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 05:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
National hero status requested for Makhurane
ZANU PF Matabeleland South province has requested national hero status for the late distinguished educationist and former National University of Science and Technology (Nust) vice-chancellor Phineas M...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 05:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa knew that Prof Makhurane had been unwell for quite some time
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the nation has been robbed of an outstanding scholar and educationist in Professor Phineas Makhurane, who died at Mater Dei Hospital in Bulawayo yesterday.Mna...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 18:59hrs | 1 | by Staf reporter
Zanu-PF mourns Professor Makhurane
Following the passing on of NUST founding Vice Chancellor, Professor Phinias Magorosi Makhurane yesterday, the Zanu-PF party in Bulawayo has sent a message of condolence to the family and the nation f...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 12:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Founding NUST Vice-Chancellor Prof Makhurane dies
FOUNDING National University of Science and Technology (Nust) Vice-Chancellor and distinguished academic Professor Phineas Mogorosi Makhurane has died.Prof Makhurane, one of the first Africans...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 07:55hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Nust student kills self
A SECOND-YEAR finance student at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) Atumisoe Makhurane, who was found hanging in his hostel room at the institution on Saturday was buried on Tues...Published: 04 Oct 2018 at 05:58hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mutambara moots political comeback
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister in the inclusive Government, Professor Arthur Mutambara, yesterday said he is considering bouncing back into politics.Prof Mutambara, who was MDC leader, withdrew ...Published: 07 Jul 2017 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe appoints varsity councils
PRESIDENT Mugabe has appointed councils for nine State universities including the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bulawayo as well as the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education ...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 06:05hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Kaukonde's $5 million litigation against Zimpapers commences
FORMER Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial chairperson Ray Kaukonde's $5 million defamation lawsuit against Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers) is set to commence between July 5 and 7 this year after lawy...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Government stalling NUST completion, ex-VC
The National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Bulawayo only has seven complete buildings a key sign of being over looked by government, former vice chancellor Phineas Makhurane...Published: 20 Dec 2016 at 04:52hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
NUST did not kill former Vice Chancelor
National University of Science and Technology (Nust) officials had no hand in the death of former Vice Chancellor Professor Lindela Ndlovu, his son has said.Ndlovu who died last year...Published: 20 Dec 2016 at 03:06hrs | | by Alice Dube
Former Hillside principal Wilson Bako dies
FORMER Hillside Teachers' College principal and businessman Mr Wilson Garikai Bako has died.(image)He was 67.Mr Bako collapsed and died at his home in Bulawayo's Fortunes Gate suburb o...Published: 20 Aug 2016 at 09:47hrs | 10 | by Nqobile Tshili
Prof Makhurane launches SeSotho books
FORMER National University of Science and Technology Vice-Chancellor Professor Phineas Makhurane on Friday launched six novels written by different writers in SeSotho as efforts to promote learning an...Published: 06 Mar 2016 at 07:02hrs | | by Lynnia Ndlovu
Prof Sibanda replaces Ndlovu as NUST Vice Chancellor
PROFESSOR Samson Sibanda has been appointed the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) acting Vice Chancellor following the expiry of Professor Lindela Rowland Ndlovu's contract....Published: 11 Nov 2015 at 05:22hrs | | by Whinsley Masara
Bulawayo born scientist lands top AU post
One of the country's top scientists, Gatsha Mazithulela, has been appointed vice-chairperson of the African Commission on Nuclear Energy (Afcone).Mazithulela will deputise George Ochilo Ayacko...Published: 28 May 2015 at 08:54hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Kaukonde sues Zimpapers over sex scandal allegations
ZANU-PF's former provincial chairperson for Mashonaland East, Ray Kaukonde, has filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against the Zimbabwe Newspapers Group (Zimpapers) over a series of newspaper artic...Published: 24 Jan 2015 at 09:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
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